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Been hearing some news lately about some pretty big ARM Mali GPU vulnerabilities. Old boards could be affected, including ones that are not maintained. https://hothardware.com/news/arm-warns-of-mali-gpu-vulnerabilities https://developer.arm.com/Arm Security Center/Mali GPU Driver Vulnerabilities https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/vulnerable-arm-gpu-drivers-under-active-exploitation-patches-may-not-be-available/ I have a Rockchip RK3399 that may also be affected by this. Can Armbian do anything to help mitigate this problem? A handful of boards use these GPUs.

Hi, I just got 2 of these. Everything is fine but you need to order power adapter 12V 2A with 3.5mm x 1.35mm connector. Unfortunately due to earlier version of BIOS compare to same looking GeoBook 1E but with dualcore Celeron N4020 it cannot boot from microSD card. Speakers are rubbish but it could be good for some low powered machine projects. And one advice. Do not change "Quick boot" option in BIOS setting or it will not boot and you will need to unplug battery to reset BIOS. It work with both Windows 11 or Linux with no extra drivers mods needed. 5Ghz wifi and bluetooth also included. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166222480445

i want to dive into the creating of file-systems on Linux. so i have some ideas: can you give me some hints on these steps. can i break all down and say so: - in order to do the very first steps in creating a file system ... basically, I'm trying to do the following steps: - create a disk image of about 500MB; - create a GPT; - create a FAT32 partition in the first 300MB(I'll call it UEFI); - create a FAT32 partition in the remaining bytes(I'll call it SYSTEM); - create the following subdirectory in the UEFI partition: /EFI/BOOT/; that said we have the following things: Layouting a disk image and copyin…

I am writing this as i am searching to find some info. Why i ended here you may ask? I was searching google for pointers and i ended in topic here about Android TV boxes that can have Emmc reflashed with Armbian or dual boot. Yes you can say, "why you not post to xda-developers forum then?" Most of stuff there regarding to this device are fixing buggy fake android and unbrick topics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Device i have is using old Android 6 and is rooted. I also have full dump of device ROM if something happen. SoC is based on Mediatek AC8227L CPU is 4x Armv7L running at 1.1ghz …

In various fields of modern technology and life, we often hear the word "LED". Whether it is lighting, display, or communication, LED has become an irreplaceable technology. So, what is an LED light-emitting diode, and how does it work?

How to mirror only single distro, single platform on some device itself or local LAN? Lets say some device / network needs to be self sufficient. I have found that minimal requirements are Space needs: 500Gb (images), 100Gb (packages) and (optional) 3TB for archives for https://github.com/armbian/mirror This is done with: rsync -av rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org/armbian-dl rsync -av rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org/armbian-apt Is it possible to make cleaner sync and download only Ubuntu Lunar / arm64?? To be honest I have no clue about mirror structure, are files shared between platforms / releases and other relevant knowledge so I'm just guessing. Wil…

I've had this going for quite some time now regarding Rockchip RK3588 boards, specifically for me, the somewhat PC-alike Firefly ITX-3588J, and trying to see if it is possible to create or refine the various software out there so that it could be made to work like a PC, e.g. with EFI booting off USB sticks, GRUB, etc. for loading an OS without needing an external computer. This has been tried on and off over the past year, without much luck owing to how incomplete the software for this board type is. However, it seems that in the most recent versions of mainline U-Boot (i.e. U-Boot 2023) at least, there's enough RK3588 support to get it up and running, and I have my machi…

Hi, I am trying to run armclang on Ubuntu (running in WSL2 on Windows 11). I have downloaded and installed Arm Dev Studio 2022.1 for Linux, by following the instructions in the Getting Started Guide: getting_started_101469_2021.2_00_en.pdf I ran: $ armds-2022.1.sh followed by: $ run_post_install_for_Arm_Development_Studio_2022.1.sh The install appears to have completed ok, but I don't know how to add the license. One would normally use the IDE to do so but I can't get the GUI to work in WSL2 (theoretically WSL2 on Windows 11 supports graphical apps). Is it possible to configure the license from the command line? A long shot: has a…

Sorry to ask, does anyone have a howto make a h6 board (orange pi 3 lts) work with 264 hw DECODE? All howtos i can find uses old mainline not available to the LTS version Im trying to use VLC and MPV but no hwdec is working.. there is a custom launch parameter? Thank you in advance

Hello. There is HTTP 404 Error for SHA hashes on https://www.armbian.com/bananapi/ https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/dl/bananapi/Bullseye_current.sha https://mirror-eu-de1.armbian.airframes.io/dl/bananapi/Bullseye_current_xfce.sha https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/dl/bananapi/Bullseye_current_minimal.sha https://mirror-eu-de1.armbian.airframes.io/dl/bananapi/Jammy_current_minimal.sha https://imola.armbian.com/dl/bananapi/Jammy_current_xfce.sha Thanks.

Dear community, I'm trying to build Armbian for radxa E25. I'm using the repository provided in this merge request: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4718 So I pulled https://github.com/krachlatte/radxa-e25 and launched compilation using ./compile.sh BOARD=radxa-e25 RELEASE=jammy BRANCH=edge KERNEL_ONLY=yes But compilation failed with: OBJCOPY u-boot-nodtb.bin start=$(ccache aarch64-none-linux-gnu-nm u-boot | grep __rel_dyn_start | cut -f 1 -d ' '); end=$(ccache aarch64-none-linux-gnu-nm u-boot | grep __rel_dyn_end | cut -f 1 -d ' '); tools/relocate-rela u-boot-nodtb.bin 0x00a00000 $start $end ./"arch/arm/mach-rockc…

Not sure if you guys are partnering with Orange Pi to produce the Orange Pi 800 OS...but just got mine in...fired it up and EVERYTHING was Armbian just re-branded as "Orange Pi" And uggh...all the apt sources were out of China...so trying to upgrade was CRAZY slow!

Spotted this "Orange pi robot" board inside a commercial R2 D2 DIY kit. Start around 20:00 The guy made a pervious video here showing what the toy does:

Hi dear friends I have some nanopi neo core pies I downloaded the following operating system on them and installed it via SD card "h3_eflasher_friendlycore-xenial_4.14_armhf_20210618.img" Some of them do not recognize the eth0 network interface after a few days of operation and give the following error when booting: [FAILED] Failed to start Raise network interfaces. See 'systemctl status networking.service' for details. I checked the status of the networking service, which is as follows: Apr 02 02:52:00 NanoPi-M1-Plus systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces... …

Hi All, I'm a bit of a Debian newbie, I haven't had much experience troubleshooting linux installations, so please bear with me. I was able to follow Martin Michlmayr's instructions for installing Debian 10 on my TS-212. The TS-212 uses a Marvell ARM CPU, 256MB of ram, 16MB of SPI NOR flash. I also followed the instructions to resize the MTD blocks to make room for the Debian 11 kernel, although i never updated the kernel. Everything was working fine until I booted one day and I got flashing red lights on the front of the NAS. I hooked up to the debug serial port, and I find that the hard drive has all kinds of non-recoverable errors, and Debian …

Wouldn't it be easier to simply ask for it? I mean I would not tell but hey...

As Caution-Information: Today I updated a NanoPi Neo 2 v1.1 with armbian bullseye bleeding edge-kernel-setting via apt update/upgrade from Kernel 5.19.16 to 6.0.10 (also from armbian 22.08 to armbian 22.11.1) and had a no-boot after restart serial-TTL-Log after reboot: Spoiler U-Boot 2021.10-armbian (Aug 04 2022 - 13:33:04 +0300) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H5 (SUN50I) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO 2 DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial Out: serial Err: serial NanoPi NEO2 v1.1 detected Net: phy inter…

Hi I have an RK3566 board with a Unisoc UWE5621DS wifi/BT chip on it. I have had a number of kernels running on this board (4.19.209 BSP, 6.0 mainline, 6.1-rc1 mainline) but the wifi is a problem. I noticed that there is an Orange Pi 5.17 kernel that includes a driver for UWE5622. I'm not sure how close 5621DS is to 5622 Also I think that this kernel is meant for the Orange Pi 4 which has an RK3399, whereas I have RK3566. Anyone any thoughts on what is most likely to work?

Hello everyone. I have a REMIX MINI with 2GB Ram and 16 Rom. I am trying to boot with microSD with Armbian_22.08.1_Pine64_jammy_current_5.15.63_xfce_desktop.img.xz image. I paste it with Balena and then paste TOC0 wget https://github.com/ssvb/sunxi-tools/raw/toc0/bin/fel-sdboot.toc0 dd if=fel-sdboot.toc0 of=/dev/sdX bs=1024 seek=8 But I can't. Any idea? I managed to connect the device in fastboot mode to the PC, this is what I see? Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1f3a:1010 Allwinner Technology Android Device in fastboot mode. Can I do some backup from console with sunxi-tools or enter the device? Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator…

So, I'm working on the new armbian-config and I need to test cpufreq on a real board as VMs don't support this. I was surprised a lot of my older boards are not supported. C1, Duo, M1, etc. They all seemed to get killed off. I don't mind building my own Jammy, but does anyone know why these were killed off? I'm going to use my Neo Plus2 which is supported.

Grabbed the latest Jammy download for NanoPi Neo 2 - https://redirect.armbian.com/nanopineo2/Jammy_current Have to ask - why servers preinstalled and default configured? I found NFS/rpcbind and OpenVPN preinstalled on the image - this is a security risk that can be easily avoided.

Hola, tenia mi tv box como consola arcade con una microsd externa, despues me deshice dela memoria y utilice el tv box normal, pero a la semana se quedaba congelado en el logo de tx3 mini, despues intente instalarle un firmware por medio de una microsd, pero solo se quedo en pantalla verde, retiro la microsd y lo enchufo a la corriente electrica y no da imagen, solo enciende una luz roja en el aparato, ayuda porfavor. CS_905W_TX_2C_N_V1.6 2GB Y 16GB

Hi, I decided to sell my Helios64 full bundle: - Helios64 box (case, board, UPS) - 5 3.5" HDD trays (+ screws) - 2 PSU (the original one and an additional compatible Synology one I bought because I saw some posts where people reported a broken PSU) It served me well during 2 years, however the lack of official support and missing features are showstoppers for me, and I recently replaced it with a custom x86 build. I am sure people here would be interested in it. The Helios64 works perfectly and is in very good shape, it was off the most of the time, I only started it when I needed to make a backup. The board is untouched (I di…

On the main armbian.com page are three boards depicted as "Popular downloads". I was just wondering, what are the most popular downloads, perhaps the top five downloads over the past month? Might be interesting to someone looking for a popular and well supported board. Besides Raspberry Pi, that is...

What do you think about SBCs as the preferred platform to handle encrypted/sensitive/classified data? The threat model would be for frequent travelers, against things like evil maid attacks on laptops left in a hotel room or while the laptop is separated from you during travel. The sensitive data would be kept on an encrypted portable hard drive. It would be decrypted and mounted by the SBC, which only allows login via SSH from your laptop's public key. SBCs have a number of benefits over desktops and laptops, namely: Its hardware is plainly inspectable and difficult to tamper with. Unlike desktops or laptops which are vulnerable to evil ma…

I was searching for certain hard-to-find chip (TDA1022 BBD) and found this site ( www.chimicron.com ) mentioned as a source. They have it in stock and at a pretty decent price. Most of their stuff I’ve seen seems reasonably priced, but I couldn’t find mentions/opinions of the site here or in a few other diy communities. I’m not sure the location of the company (either Hong Kong or China?), but everything is listed in dollars (but then again so is Tayda). Has anyone purchase through this site? Any issues with quality of the productions such as questionable authenticity? Are shipping/handling times reasonable? Thank you!

Hi all. Werner has made a video where he presents himself and talks about how he got into using Linux, SBCs and Armbian. A very interesting video. This is a serie of video's. Igor and Lanefu also have made a video like that. You can find the other video's here. https://www.armbian.com/authors/ If you're willing to make a video like this. I am willing to edit and help out. Greetings, NicoD

Hi I am trying to connect AWS with MQTT server in teraterm using AT commands , I have entered certificates and checked the certificates after entering and after that , i have given my client ID and respected MQTT url after entering am getting this error "Open Session failed "log.txt. what am i missing this please give suggestions

I’m an iOS user but only for cellphones and tablets, I’ve never used a Macbook. So yea, I'm getting used to working on Windows. I've been stuck with HP for a while so now I wanna have a change. Please give me some advice. Your help is greatly appreciated.

I've been doing some armbian graphics work and tried to track down a brand guide. If I remember correctly, I found some information at Github (fonts, logo, colors?), that was going in that direction. I documented what I found while doing some youtube graphics (see attached). I'm interested in making sure I've got the correct color values and other versions of penguins that people have done (Miike & NicoD penguins featured in attachment). _brand_guide_202206_abridged.pdf

Hi folks, this is my first thread here, I just recently came aboard since I found that Armbian is the better solution for my Odroi-HC4 therefore I won't insist on checking for info and solution on the Odroid Forum. I am not very satisfied with Hardkernel, they produce excellent board with very poor OS support, looks like such critical aspect is left on the shoulder of a couple of great dudes but is not same as having a community behind; also board as the RPI demonstrated that a great OS support is better than having the most powerful hardware, is the same lesson learned by Rock64 even though I won't user Manjaro not even under torture... 😜 …

Hi all, I'm trying to download the multitool for write flash images in rk3229 tv box, but the links is down: https://users.armbian.com/jock/rk322x/multitool.img.xz Anyone have the file saved, could please send to me? Thanks.

Hi Scrolling through the forum I realized how old this SBC is that I purchased but I had no choice since basically all other options are out of stock in my country with lead-times past this year... I am looking for someone that can assist me. I replaced a failed Raspberry Pi 4 with this Banana Pi bpi-m4 board thinking that it would perform and work as a like-for-like replacement. Unfortunately, it is not the case but I am stuck with it. Is there anyone that can assist me to build a 64bit Armbian image? I enjoy Armbian on an Odroid XU4 but the generic and existing Banana Pi images does not work on the bpi-m4. Sadly my software engineering skill…

What do you think? Yah or nah?

Hi. I use Armbian 22.05 Jammy Kernel 5.17 on my rock 3a. The blinking blue is very annoying. How can i stop this LED?

After boot up on the main tty ARMBIAN runs a script that prints out the current temp in centigrade. Where can I change this to use F instead of C? I did not see it in the armbian-config program.

TinkerBoard Asus: RockPro64:

For @Igor and/or @Werner. What's the difference between the current user ./compile.sh built kernel and a pre-compiled current built kernel on hosted on https://imola.armbian.com/beta/pool/main/l/ ?

Hi, I have a Rock Pi 4B and trying to enable Monitor Mode on the onboard WiFi. According to this article it should work - RockPi4-Monitor-Mode The file download link is broken so was advised to use this one - https://github.com/radxa/rkwifibt/blob/master/brcm_tools/dhd_priv.c However when running the command - gcc dhd_priv.c -o dhd_priv I just get loads of errors. Has anyone managed to use monitor mode with the built in WiFi, or could possibly help to resolve all the error messages you get

Hi , As i am trying to customize the Root File System for A64 core board. While in process, we are installing the packages like NodeJS and MySQL-server in the RFS. But we are unable to install it, it gives us core dump error. It demolishing RFS. Whereas we can do install all other packages. Let me know, what can be done for these packages to install. Regards Mohan Krishna

need a case for the Opi? 3D printer case. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5361375

Hi, i need a gpio to trigger a key stroke. I had an raspberry pi zero and this worked for setting up an gpio to trigger a key stroke. For some reason I am not able to port this to my orangepi 3 lts H6 board. I think there is some confusion because there are two pin-controller? Do I have to set the right one anywhere? I thought the setting will be listed here like the raspberry did root@orangepi3-lts:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio gpiochip1: GPIOs 0-255, parent: platform/300b000.pinctrl, 300b000.pinctrl: gpio-79 ( |usb0_id_det ) in hi gpio-102 ( |gmac-3v3 ) o…

Hello, can anybody know how to disable wifi module in armbian?

Was looking through Twitter and saw that a message can appear stating that Jammy LTS may be unsupported userspace? I'm presently (with preset kernel build options used and no customisations) Armbian 22.05.0-trunk Focal with Linux 5.15.32-sunxi Apparently my build is on 20.04 LTS? ~$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS" What would be any advantages and/consequences if someone invokes do-release-upgrade on or after the 21st of April on their SoC board? Reference to article: https://web.archive.org/web/20220406214352/https://www.techrepublic.com…

For this question the assumption is that a board actually has a maintainer and I think the answer given will be useful for anyone else with the same or similar question. May end up being a candidate for some FAQ list. Question is.... If a board has a maintainer and the user builds the image themselves using the recommended default kernel/compilation option, why is there no support for the built image? Rationale behind the question is if the user decides to change the kernel build options then there would bo no doubt that the user will be on their own with no support, but if the kernel is built with the default hard built options then there ha…

so 22.04 will come out soon-ish so I have a few questions: is it known when there will be an armbian release for it? can users of focal armbian upgrade to that directly, or is it kinda needed to nuke everything? I have a rockpro64 btw

I started this journey with DietPi on a nanopi r4s. I asked about it on the DietPi forum, and they basically said "Our distro is a bunch of scripts on top of Armbian. We can't really help you with a kernel problem." So I reimaged with Armbian and I'm here now. Background with DietPi: When I first boot the DietPi image, the LAN port works. This is on kernel 5.10.63. Then as soon as I log into it via ssh on the IP address acquired by the LAN port, it proceeds to auto-upgrade software, including the kernel, which goes to 5.15.25. During the upgrade, I got messages saying a bunch of firmware for the r8169 driver was not there. Installing armbian-firmware-full…

Congratulations. Armbian is adedd to the distrowatch list. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=armbian Already 2 years ago I submitted you to the list but then they refused to listen to me, despite the fact that RaspbianOS was placed a long time ago. I think that this will further influence the popularity of the venture.

We have community member in France who needed an RPI3 for $dayjob. They found one and dont need one. But it turns out @NicoDhas some RPIs for sale and more. Help support Nicod and channel by purchasing all the crap in his office so he can clean up his camera angles ! 😂😂😂

I have docker running on a OrangePi Zero2, but it seems portainer is having problems. Here is the error I get:

Hello everybody. I'm a newcomer here. I tried several times (6 or 7) to use the "Search" function, typing either "OBS" or "OBS Studio", but the page crashed everytime, prompting me to wait 30 seconds (in vain). So I'm considering buying an Odroid N2+ and installing Armbian on it. As said in the title, I'd like to use OBS Studio on it, but would like to know if someone already installed it - and could use it of course -, just to spare time. Maybe it's already been discussed somewhere here, but as I said, the "Search" function doesn't work for me. Thanks in advance.

I am looking for an affordable SBC card that will work as a solid NAS system that I can also run alongside either TrueNas/FreeNAS/OMV such as Grafana, VPN, Docker. Anything above $100 USD is unfeasible for me right now.

Hello. Since NanoPI Air is no longer in the list of supported boards, I'm trying to build the image myself. Kernel compilation problem. I am using current version 5.15, compilation.log: drivers/net/wireless/rtl8822bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c:2095:11: error: implicit declaration of function ‘get_fs’; did you mean ‘get_sa’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] oldfs = get_fs(); ^~~~~~ get_sa drivers/net/wireless/rtl8822bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c:2095:9: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘mm_segment_t’ {aka ‘struct <anonymous>’} from type ‘int’ oldfs = get_fs(); ^ drivers/net/wireless/rtl8822bs/os_dep/os…

This looks very interesting, kswapd is essentially a cpu hungry process in nearly most common tasks that move memory around, glad to hear there is interesting work on to bring down cpu usage and make page swapping better. I would like to bring the patches in for some kernel and see if things would improve for light/medium desktop workloads. Anyone has some experience about?

Hello all, I'm doing a project which is essentially a lighted cube, that communicates status through different colors, where I get this ides from Basic Projects with Arduino (link removed). So when the light goes below a certain level it turns a certain color, when temp goes above a certain level it turns another color, etc. I'm figuring I'll probably need anywhere from 2 to 4 LEDs per color to get a nice intensity, and the colors would breathe, which is pretty easy with PWM on the arduino. What I'm thinking is that I'm going to leave all the colors in phase. So that the intensity ramp on red is the same as yellow, is the same as green, etc. That would requi…

Dear all, I stumbled upon this piece of news some days ago: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-with-rockchip-rk3588-development-kit-with-8g-ram-and-32g-emmc-flash/13123 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-alternative-banana-pi-golden-sodimm 8 cores + 8 GB of RAM: exactly what I'm looking for at the moment Opinions ? Feel free to move this thread elsewhere if it doesn't belong in off-topic. Best regards, Magic Sam

I came across these recently and found several interesting things within, so thought I would share them. I debated posting this in Development, but wanted anyone to be able to see and reply to the thread. Anyway some parts I felt were important enough that I actually took down some notes and quotations, which I will include. Open drivers for Arm GPUs This looks like it was presentation LVC21-318 at Linaro Connect '21 on 2021-03-25. Video is available at above page, and also on ThemTube here. I found this a fascinating presentation. Alyssa contrasts the (proprietary) 'before times' with current situation whi…

Hi there, Yesterday, I asked this question on Twitter, but did not get lots of answers. I know I could get an aarch64 workstation, run a 64 bits kernel on it and a 32 bits userspace on top of it, but where is the fun? One year ago or so, I built an armv7 Docker image for me, and I realized only this week that it had been downloaded more than 2 million times. What a pleasant surprise. I launched the build once again to get everything updated, but I discovered the armv7 CI/CD services I used to run my builds on were ... gone. I then switched back to my Orange Pi Zero "farm" to get the images built, but it takes ages, and you know how reliable the SDCar…

Hello Everyone, I'm currently doing an assignment for one of my classes, and in it, I have to give examples, using Java syntax, of *static* and *dynamic binding*. I am lost while understanding the work process. I understand the basic concept, that static binding happens at compile time and dynamic binding happens at runtime, but I can't figure out how they actually work specifically. I found an example of static binding online that gives this example and running the program on interviewbit. public static void callEat(Animal animal) { System.out.println("Animal is eating"); } public static void callEat(Dog dog) { System.out.println("Dog is eating")…

Hello! I wish to make my OrangePi 'failsafe' in regards of spontaneous power losses and such, so I need to have it running write protected, with writes going to a special partition or just RAM. My searches yielded an 'ancient' way to freeze the root filesystem using overlayroot, which isn't supoprted anymore (https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Features/) As I think that this kind of 'headless embedded usage' is an usual scenario for SBC running Armbian and having seen there was a method for doing so before, I assume there probably is a popular modern method for doing so, but I couldn' find it. How would I do this with the…

Hello! I have Ambian Bullseye running on an Orange Pi Pus 2E. On my Linux-Notebook with Manjaro I can easily complete hostnames using TAB. This does not work on Armbian. Is there a package I need to install? Or a configuration I need to change? Thank you!

After being frustrated with the lack of accurate information regarding how to overclock Armbian systems I have decided to create a YouTube tutorial so I can provide a more comprehensive guide to what I consider to be the correct process to overclock a processor in a more universal way so that it won’t matter which processor your using or kernel your running. link to video will follow.

Did anything happen to the discord server? I can no longer access it nor does this join server link work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have wanted 'multi-room networked audio' since years. Sort of like Sonos, except I don't use proprietary stuff. So recently, I finally got it working, and even using strictly F/LOSS tools, which I was pretty happy about! I will mention that I am using Mopidy as source, piping that in to snapserver (snapcast), which synchronize the audio to various devices across the network (each running snapclient) so you have a picture of how it works. Maybe I make separate thread / blog post about that, but here I mention it only as criteria for selecting hardware (as these tools must be supported). Currently I have one old RPi 3 [0] with a HifiBerry AMP2…

Dear Armbians I have an Odroid C4 in use in a DC with 100 MBits synchronous network connection. As I use it as dedicated networking device, bound to the internet over ethernet connection, I would like to disable the drivers for Wifi, HDMI and Bluetooth permanently. They are not necessary in my case. What would be the safest way to do this?

Hello, Apologies if this posted in wrong section. I'm running Armbian buster with Linux 5.4.20-sunxi on an Orange Pi 0 (512) and recently I decided to install openmediavault. So I added a 32G USB flash memory and both lsblk and lsusb failed to display the device. So I followed instructions at with no avail. Now I know that USB ports used to work a couple of months earlier and I have cleaned the dusty ports and tried many different UDB flash memories and no result. Appreciate any help and thank you.

Dear all, As said elsewhere, I'm interested in distributed scientific computing, namely BOINC, and more specifically the Einstein@Home project: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ https://einsteinathome.org/fr/home ARM platforms seem to be a good choice for that purpose IMHO. Even though they lack the raw power of x86_64, at least they don't use a lot of energy and don't need active cooling most of the time (I can't stand the noise of a fan ). At the moment I'm running BOINC on two ARM nodes: a Raspberry PI 3 (Raspbian) and a NanoPi M1 (Armbian). Both are quite dated now and don't allow me to contribute much to this project. …

Dear all, First post here I just wanted to thank you for the up-to-date image you made for the pcDuino4 Nano (a.k.a the NanoPI M1): https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/nanopim1/archive/ It's much better than the stock image provided my LinkSprite, based upon Debian 8 "Jessie": https://www.linksprite.com/pcduino4-nano/ I only had one issue so far with your image, certainly related to the default overclocking at 1368 MHz, which didn't play well with the CPU intensive, NEON optimized tasks I threw at it (BOINC) I lowered the frequency to 1296 MHz and it's been running stable for a couple …

Hi: I am using armbian build on Debian 10(buster). I wonder how long I can get update if I don't upgrade to Debian 11(bulleye). I am satisfied with the current OS. if possible I want to continue use buster until Debian 12 comes out, but I don't know how long will armbian support old debian releases. thanks a lot for the hint!

Suppose that you have a bunch of dtb/dts files that are known good (like from Linux kernel source). Suppose that you have a dtb file that you ripped out of some new device and probably no source code. This tool will allow to dump all of the parameters (nodes) out of the dtb file and compare it with all of the other ones that you have in a spreadsheet so that you can visualise the differences. See https://github.com/dieselnutjob/dts2tsv

I updated to new vivaldi and it opens with a blank white screen. I found the solution. Go to setting>webpage uncheck use Hardware Acceleration when available.

Hi, I'm part of a nonprofit working on improving access to digital education in the developing world. I'm looking for a fairly cheap SBC (<$20) that has a HDMI port so that it can be connected to a TV monitor (including old TVs like CRTs). The microSD card will be preloaded with static webpages from educational websites so that students can surf these websites at home. It should also have bluetooth or a USB port so it can be connected to a keyboard ($10) or mouse ($1). I don't strictly need wifi (the microSD cards can be updated on a different device), but it would be a plus. Another nice-to-have would be compatibility with Android apps, since…

Hello! I have old Banana Pi M2 board, and it's freezes sometime. I trying change sd cards, power adapter, but this actions helps for month, maybe two. I use it as http-server ( apache2 ) and want more stable work. I use Armbian as OS: Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.69 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.19.13-sunxi $ uname -a Linux bananapim2 4.19.13-sunxi #5.69 SMP Wed Jan 9 16:26:48 CET 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux Can anybody help me ?

we have a few Nanopi core 2 which all of them are installed. the person in charged has left the company, Now we want to SSH to them and they reject it. I used to the nmap command to view the status of port 22 , they show that port 22 are filtered. how can we access the nanopi?

@JMCC I'm trying to recreate some of this setup for the Rock Pi 4B running Balena OS (based on Debian Buster) and not getting very far. All I need is for Chromium to recognize the GPU for acceleration. I downloaded the .deb files and tried them, but I killed the OS. I'm willing to hire you to do it. Or anyone else if they understand what to do.

I have playing with compile.sh CREATE_PATCHES=yes There is a guide here https://zuckerbude.org/armbian-using-create-patches/ I also read this before https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/#user-provided-patches So if someone is a profession developer and understands how to use diff and patch commands, then please understand that I am not, so please help but keep it as newbie as you can. So when I came across this CREATE_PATCHES option I though, ooh that's clever. I can make changes to u-boot or kernel source and it will create the patch files for me, and then I can put those patch files on my github fork of build, o…

hello, i need help with configuring BIND9. I want to set up local DNS for LAN. forwarding works, but adding a zone doesn't work. BIND9 with the first zone starts but does not translate the name to an ip address. With the second zone, BIND9 does not get up at all. What am I doing wrong? /etc/bind/named.conf.local // // Do any local configuration here // // Consider adding the 1918 zones here, if they are not used in your // organization //include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918"; zone "example.loc" { type master; file "/etc/bind/zones/example.loc.db"; }; zone “0.10.10.in-addr.arpa” { type master; file “/etc/bind/zones/10.1…

Hi. Around a month ago, my Rock 3A arrived and I got to playing with it. I noticed that there was a community build configuration for it, so I set up an Armbian build environment and got to building it. The image built without error and before I knew it my device had booted. However, since then, a few changes have been made to the Rock 3A (including receiving a proper Armbian maintainer), and now it seems to be completely broken. This issue seems to be reproducible, with people both being able to boot the board with old images as well as not being able to boot with fresh images. There seems to be some work happening towards fixing u-boot (which seems to be …

It look like we have first glimpse on rk3588 performance https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16426661 Additionally on radxa forum there is some news from one of product manager that more news about this chip and/or boards should be out on 16th of December - on/after RockChip Developer Conference

Anyone can sell me one or more NanoPi M4 4GB?

Which Device should i go for ? My use case :- 1. 24x7 Torrent Downloader. 2. Jackett , Sonarr & Radarr. 3. Use is as headless server. 4. Plex - Stream on Fire 4K. 5. Must provide max Samba speed with windows around 90 Mb transfer rate. 6. Must Support Direct Play 4K HDR , I'm not too fussy about audio and can switch to AAC if there is any transcoding. But would like to know whether it can play TrueHD. 7. I already have C2 which i use for same purpose but it clearly goes into transcoding whenever i play any 4K HDR movie which is more than 25 Mb Bit rate. 8. Should be easily available in my country India The options I could think …

Good day dear Armbian-experts, hello everyone hope that youre all right and all goes well at your side. i want to simulate a tree command using Shell Script that displays all the directories recursively in this format: . . |-- Lorem |-- Lorem |-- Lorem |-- Lorem |-- Lorem |-- Lorem `-- Lorem how can this be achived? note: i want to do this on a MX-Linux system - well i can do this with Tree - but wait. I guess that tree has to be installed first..

I am using STM32F103CBT7 for my design with HAL functions at a 72MHz system clock. SPI 1 is configurated as Master, 16-bit data width at 18 MBits/s. When sending data out, there is a data bit on the MOSI pin, but there is no Clock pulse on the SCK pin. I can't figure out what is wrong. Any suggestion?

Hello everybody, I´m appareantly not capable of changing the datadir of the mariadb installation. I googled it and followed several tutorial, yet I cant make it work. Example https://www.tecmint.com/change-default-mysql-mariadb-data-directory-in-linux/ I change the settings in this file /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf and i added under following sections the new datadirs/sockets [mysqld] datadir=/srv/dev-disk-by-id-ata-SanDisk_SDSSDH3_2T00_210837801141-part2/Medien/Programme/MariaDB socket=/srv/dev-disk-by-id-ata-SanDisk_SDSSDH3_2T00_210837801141-part2/Medien/Programme/MariaDB/mysql.sock …

Hi, is possible to setup overlayf on Amrbian? I'm using Orange Pi Zero. I found only this https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Features/#how-to-freeze-your-filesystem-outdated and docs is outdated. On Rapsbian I can enable overlayfs directly from raspi-config. Is there any way how to do the same on Armbian? Thanks for help.

Hi there. Is there someone who can guide me with linux driver porting? I have old LCD panel for my bananapi like described here: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/lcd-module-dsi-rgb-with-touch-and-s070swv20hg-dc16-lcd-panel-mainline-kernel/11172 but i can not make it work with linux. Old bananian has this driver and it is working. I would like to try to port it to mainline but i don't know how to start. I'm skilled user of linux, for few past years i've been using gentoo so i know what is kernel and how to tweak or compile it. I know C on decent level so i think i could made it but i have no clue how to track working driver down and how to port it from 3.4 k…

Hi. Firstly, is anyone working on building Armbian for the Quartz64? If no one else is I would love to give it a try. What I already have:- A Quartz64 running slarm64 (or the default manjaro) Kernel source for above and a dtb file. A build environment that seems to work (I just built an image for Rock 3a on it). Can anyone give me some ideas on how I clone an existing device in the build environment and start modifying it so that it can build something new? I notice that the legacy kernel that it produced for the Rock 3a is version 4.19.193 which looks good for the Quartz64 as well. The advantage of this older …

So in armbian-config I can enable /dev/i2c-0 /dev/i2c-1 /dev/i2c-2 but there is only one hardware I2C onboard. Are the other two software driven? If so what pins do you use for SCL and SDA?

good evening, on orange pzero+ with debian10 i tried to install docker with the procedure of the armbian manual, but the installation fails. do you know how to solve? apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | apt-key add - add-apt-repository "deb [arch=arm64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian $(lsb_release -cs) stable" apt update apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io result: ● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/syst…

no files can be sent or gotten as root. Neither via ftp, sftp, nor shell without prepararing any other machne without recompiling programs. And midnightcommander doesn`t work with IPv6.

I would like to drive a 240x180 led strip panel with SPI. I have zero experience with SPI and LEDs. I have chosen a WS2813 IC (four wires) for the LED. The seller has a spi controller, and it drives a max of 2048 LEDs. Does anyone have any experience driving as much as 2048 LEDs in SPI? Please, share your experience and/or projects with LED and SPI in this post. The question is how many LEDs i can drive with SPI and how to calculate it.

I'm running Armbian from a emmc 16GB card. When I use the web browser the mouse constantly flickers, is there any way to get this to stop? Is there a graphics driver I should have enabled? When I select Additional Hardware Drivers none show up, so maybe there isnt a GPU accelerated driver available. Also switching between desktops feels sluggish. Maybe Im expecting too much performance from a $50 SBC. Thanks for your help & time in making this distribution. Im just looking to make the best user experience possible.

I can clearly see the point for the maintainers, but there is an issue with the old boards. For example, I have a cubietruck which I would definitely like it to keep being supported, and I could probably help to maintain it within Armbian. Though I do have only one board which works 24/7. To my understanding, I can not be a maintainer, as I can't test new releases on a productive board. So If no one has two pieces, then the board can not be supported. In this case, I expect that current owners have to freeze kernel updates and keep the board for some more months - years, or try to test and use plain Debian or other distros. Is there any other alternative?

Hello, I migrated my dashboard project from a BananaPro under "Buster" to a BananaPI under "Bullseye", image took from the website, verified and up to date as per Armbian-config. The source code of my project is exactly the same as well a the compilation procedure, and the used Makefile is : cc=cc opts=-Wall -fPIC $(shell pkg-config --cflags lua5.1 ) $(shell pkg-config --libs lua5.1 ) -DDRMC_WITH_FB -DUSE_DRMCAIRO $(shell pkg-config --cflags libdrm cairo freetype2 ) -DKMS_MISSING $(shell pkg-config --libs libdrm cairo freetype2 ) -DPLUGIN_DIR='"/home/laurent/Projets/Selene"' -L/home/laurent/Projets/Selene -L/home/laurent/Projets/…

Hi all. How many years people can count on support of 32 bit mini PC? (OS + repository ) For example Orange Pi: Allwinner H2+ Quad-core Cortex-A7 Is it worth to buy 64 bit ARM ? I wanna use 1 device more than 10 years. I know about 2038 year. And I dont want to buy devices which support stops after 2 or 3 years. Please give me a link if this has been discussed. Thanks in advance.

Hi all. After making a video about the gear Igor uses, I now made a video about the gear I use. Here the video. Is there anything special you are using? What do you use your SBCs for? Greetings, NicoD

Java U8g2 is a high performance library based on U8g2: Library for monochrome displays, version 2. Rather than try to code the JNI by hand I used HawtJNI to generate the JNI wrappers. I also used some custom code to generate the setup methods and font constants. final var u8g2 = U8g2.initU8g2(); // Change this to your actual display U8g2.setupSsd1306I2c128x64NonameF(u8g2, U8G2_R0, u8x8_byte_arm_linux_hw_i2c, u8x8_arm_linux_gpio_and_delay); U8g2.initDisplay(u8g2); logger.debug(String.format("Size %d x %d, draw color %d", U8g2.getDisplayWidth(u8g2), U8g2.getDisplayHeight(u8g2), U8g2. getDrawColor(u8g2))); U8g2.setPowerSave(u8g2, 0); U8g2.clearBuffer(u8g2);…

If you have time and a spare Allwinner H3-CPU system (like the Orange Pi One or PC (not PC2 because of H3 CPU) you could try the BASIC Engine NG for H3-PiComputers/Boards. The - bare metall - BASIC seems to have very powerful commands - see the Online-Manual A forum in BETA state is at this URL I downloaded and booted the SDCard-Image from the 14.10.2021 (compressed size 5.4MB) from this directory Image was written with Balena Etcher to the SDCard Have fun and write new BASIC-programms!

Which section on this forum is for Lemaker Banana Pro SBCs? I think it's the Allwinner A20 forum, but right now I'm not sure as the Banana Pro is not in the list for this section?