Allwinner sunxi

Symptoms: Board does not boot Armbian from inserted SD card, but may boot other distributions (based on old/legacy u-boot). Following or similar output can be grabbed from the serial console: U-Boot SPL 2017.01-armbian (Feb 02 2017 - 03:04:04) DRAM: 2048 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1MMC: no card present spl: mmc init failed with error: -123 SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ### The key message here is "MMC: no card present" Most likely cause: Malfunctioning microSD slot card detect switch. It can be verified either visually (with a magnifying glass) or electronically (with a multimeter) - a…

After installing Armbian_community_26.11.0-trunk.62_Orangepiplus_trixie_current_6.18.54_minimal.img.xz on the Orange Pi PC Plus, the USB keyboard does not work.

The system v26.11 rolling for Orange Pi PC Plus running Armbian Linux 6.18.53-current-sunxi cannot boot from eMMC on the Orange Pi PC Plus. The bootloader is looking for an old partition on /dev/mmcblk0p1, whereas the current partition of emmc is identified differently - as /dev/mmcblk2p1. Therefore, it is necessary to use a bootloader from an SD card, which specifies the path to the eMMC partition for subsequent operation.

Sometimes if your monitor is off and olimex start first and after that just monitor is on you will get "default" resolution : ~> cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/virtual_size 1024,768 I've created a script that fix that with recompiling initramfs, adding necessary /lib/firmware/edid/1920x1080.bin file directly into it. Feel free to use, suggestions are welcome. P.S. Please add tags A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 and T2-OLinuXino-LIME2 fix_hdmi_resolution.sh

While doing some testing of multiple things I decided to build 2 images, fresh/new for my nanopineo's also trying to have the resulting image as close as possible to what I have running on the nanopineo's for years since 2022 or so. That was originally Armbian Buster and I have been tweaking the installations to match other computer installations. Main thing is split the root partitions into a rootfs (Btrfs) and a bootfs (Ext4). More recently, I did more changes, such that I can run the whole image as KVM and/or systemd-nspawn container. The 1st image was adding extension 'u-boot-menu'; build ended in success, but have not tested it on HW. I saw in extlinux.c…

For those with a Radxa Cubie A7A/A7Z, I made a custom Armbian Build using the BSP kernel. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/Radxa-A7A https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases To build your own image: git clone https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build.git --branch Radxa-A7A ./compile.sh "do not change the kernel configuration" "show csc/wip/eos/tvb" "I understand and agree" "radxa-cubie-a7a" or "radxa-cubie-a7z" rest is up to you... Should you choose to run Armbian, ensure the CPU has adequate cooling by installing the Radxa Heatsink. https://radxa.com/products/accessories/heatsink-6…

Back in March I ran into problems with the community builds for the NanoPi Neo, for Debian Bookworm. It would boot up initially, but within 30 minutes or so, it would crash. So I did a fresh install from the last official build I had saved from June 2023: Armbian_23.5.2_Nanopineo_bookworm_current_6.1.30 And then I froze these packages to keep the working firmware and kernel: armbian-firmware/bookworm,bookworm 24.2.1 all [upgradable from: 23.05.1--1-SAfece-B6ae3] linux-dtb-current-sunxi/bookworm 24.2.1 armhf [upgradable from: 23.05.1--6.1.30-Sa343-D8bc9-P73a0-C162eHfe66-HK01ba-V014b-B9c18] linux-image-current-sunxi/bookworm 24.2.1 armhf [upgra…

Is there any armbian image that we can try with the Orange pi 4A ? Many thanks

has anyone ordered and/or played with this https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/07/03/orange-pi-zero-3-allwinner-h618-sbc-ships-with-up-to-4gb-ram/ https://liliputing.com/orange-pi-zero-3-is-a-cheap-tiny-single-board-pc-with-up-to-4gb-ram-gigabit-ethernet-and-allwinner-h618/ http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-Zero-3.html even the linux images is very 'fresh' as in that they are just released *yesterday* 😄

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/25/35-orange-pi-4-pro-an-allwinner-a733-edge-ai-sbc-with-up-to-16gb-lpddr5-wifi-6/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/07/allwinner-a527-t527-and-a733-datasheets-user-manuals-and-linux-sdk-released/ http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-4-Pro.html Another Allwinner board dropped figuring out the wifi chip is always hard, seem to be https://www.taobao.com/list/item/931793873067.htm https://pine64.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/doc/datasheet/oz64/AIC8800DC Datasheet v1.0.pdf as usual, it is uncertain if drivers and firmware is after all avail…

My Banana Pi M2+ is running quite fine on noble but something is amiss with bluetooth. bluetoothctl never shows any devices even when scanning for them and there are plenty of devices within arm's length. I am hoping for your help in diagnosing and ultimately fixing the issue. Logs: Spoiler $ uname -a Linux banana 6.12.20-current-sunxi #1 SMP Sat Mar 22 19:54:28 UTC 2025 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux $ bluetoothctl list Controller B0:F1:EC:FD:65:CE banana [default] [ the second line below at 14:20:17 is certainly odd ] $ sudo journalctl -u bluetooth [...] …

Subject: Fix for eMMC Internal State Deadlock / Power-Loss Recovery Failure on Allwinner (sunxi) platforms (Banana Pi P2 Zero) Hi Armbian and sunxi developers, I would like to share an industrial-grade diagnostic report and a 100% verified solution regarding a severe, reproducible boot deadlock on Allwinner H2+/H3 platforms (specifically tested on Banana Pi P2 Zero) utilizing onboard eMMC. === 1. SYMPTOM === During rigorous power-cycling stress tests (hard power-off during random kernel init/write phases), the system randomly bricks on subsequent boots, showing a "dropping to shell" (initramfs / BusyBox prompt) or failing completely during the U-Boot phas…

I have an H618 Android TV Box with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Any build option results in an error. I would be immensely grateful for any help. Thank you. armbianarm_errors.txt

Hi, is there currently support for NVMe storage in Armbian trunk? I tried to flash the latest build, added nvme ssd storage - but it is not seen in the system. What to check?

hello guys, tried to flash the latest debian trixie os from armbain on nanopi neo using armbian-install, but it would never boot up again. any clue?

hello i have a new sbc board cubie a5e 1GB Ram starting via sdcard 32GB and tried to boot it with armbian cli image. Very early while the boards stuck with: RADXA Cubie A5E 1GB RAM Armbian CLI stuck while uboot via sdcard seems to be an issue with the uboot which hangs very early. With original debian image from radxa the board is b ooting and running. But i intend to use the armbian version with newer debian and kernel. What can i do? Regards Rolf

Hi everyone, I am experiencing a persistent boot issue with my Orange Pi Win Plus running Armbian, used as a headless server. The Problem: Whenever the board suffers a power loss (unplugged) or I issue a system reboot, it fails to start automatically. The power LED stays on, but the system/network never comes up. To get it to boot, I have to go through a frustrating manual routine: manually holding/pressing the power button, sometimes plugging/unplugging the HDMI cable, and repeating this process a couple of times before it finally kicks in. What I have already checked/ruled out: Power supply is NOT the issue: I have tested multiple different power ada…

I installed Armbian on my Orange Pi Zero 2W—my first time doing this—but the keyboard doesn't work when I connect it via the USB-C adapter I'm using. I considered an SSH connection as an alternative, but I don't know how to set it up without a keyboard, nor do I know how to configure Wi-Fi and SSH settings via the SD card. Please help.

I have an orange pi zero3 with 2gb of ram. Ive installed the current 6.18.43 armbian debian build. It booted fine from SD and I then flashed the boot rom to the eeprom so I could boot from USB (sudo flashcp /usr/lib/linux-u-boot-current-orangepizero3/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin /dev/mtd0) I was able to boot from USB0 fine but not from the USB ports USB1 and 2 on the 13 pin header. With the help of google and some ai I found that if I run the following my sd card is recognised when plugged into usb1 fdt addr bbf107b0 fdt set /soc/usb@5310000 status "okay" bind /soc/usb@5310000 ehci_generic usb reset usb storage That produced: Bus usb…

I want to buy the orange pi zero 3w.Can i have hardware acceleration with the images provided from armbian developers?Thank you,in advance.

hello guys, sorry i had to tag orangepione, only because i could not find nanopi neo in allwinner h3 category. anw, my question is where can i find the older releases of the armbian os, i visited archive but i could not find the image i downloaded like one year earlier which is armbian v25.11 linux kernel 6.12.51 sunxi, there used to be a legacy option in the page related to nanopi neo where i could find all the older releases but looks like it is gone.

I'm running Armbian off NVMe, and flashed the U-Boot SPI firmware (u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin → /dev/mtdblock0) so I no longer need an SD card inserted just to get it booting. That part works great. But now I'd like to be able to pop in an SD card occasionally to try other distros/images without disturbing my NVMe install — and it seems that's not currently possible: with an SD card inserted, the board still boots straight from NVMe and ignores the card entirely. Dug into it a bit over serial console: The default boot_targets is fel nvme0 mmc_auto usb0 pxe dhcp — NVMe is checked before the SD/eMMC. Radxa hit the same issue on the RK3588 boards and fixed it upstre…

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After watching a video tutorial on youtube I have attempted to use the build scripts to create a newer image for my Pcduino V2. I had been initially using an image that I found on the archives which uses kernel 4.14, this worked fine for the most part apart from shutting down which would fail 9/10 to shutdown normally. the only way I could ensure that it would shutdown was to do poweroff -f otherwise it just went into a state where most things such as the wifi and usbs would no longer be detected and i was greeted with the message failed to reach target.poweroff. from what I could find out about the issue suggested that it was some kind of issue with systemd, but I could …

Anyone knows how enable usb 3.0 with Radxa cubie a5e? I found cubie-a5e-enable-usb3.dts from radxa's git but could apply it. Currently I am running 26.2.0-trunk.22.

I am trtying to keep my pcduino 3 nano alive. It has been working perfectly under a debian bullseye distro from Johan Gunarsson for 4 years and now I can't get the OTG to work under any release (bullseye, bookworm or trixie) I have explored many avenues, but even a plain manual setup of g_mass_storage doesn't work in a workable way. The drive appears in Windows Explorer after several minutes, and any copy or delete to that gadget drive takes ages (3+ minutes for a 12kb file) before it fails or succeeds silently. I am looking for a forum where pcduino users can help each other. Thank you, Gaetano.

Hi all, recently my Banana Pi Pro running Armbian 26.5.1 with Debian Trixie received a kernel update from 6.16.8 (which it has been running on for quite a while without issues) to 7.0.12. Since then, it randomly freezes shortly after booting, sometimes I also can see a kernel panic (see attached pictures). Has anyone else run into this issue? What can I do to fix this? The old kernel no longer appears to be present in /boot, which makes it difficult to return to another kernel (trying to run something like apt-get typically quickly results in the aforementioned freeze).

@ag123, @c0rnelius, and anyone else that has interest in sound on these devices. I have been able to put together a patch that enables audio for H161/H618 devices. So far only audio on HDMI works. Analog audio is still generating an error on startup. The patches were taken from a git repository by warpme: https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/tree/master/script/kernel/linux-6.6/files , and probably came from the Zunlong SDK. A lot of the code was written by Allwinner. @pixdrift generated a version of the patches for Armbian and I continued to work on them. I have a git repository if anyone would like to test, partic…

I managed to start de A5E from nvme, but upgrading the packages fails. Installing armbian-firmware_26.8.0-trunk.125_all.deb failed With: data.tar lzma error.... Several months ago I got the same error but ignored it. Now everything is almost working, I tried to find out what went wrong. I can extract package with dpkg-deb -x on another system. MD5sum is the same on A5E and other system. This problem occurs on sdcard and nvme card. Btw: it is the 4G version of the A5E. Any idea how I can solve this?

Looks like there is a problem with this image. A brand new banana pi m4 berry would not boot from SD. I then tried Bananapi-Armbian_24.8.2_Bpi-m4berry_jammy_legacy_5.4.125_xfce_desktop it boots normally. Kindly review this. Ron

I just discovered that /usr/bin/su in my Armbian: v26.2.1 for Orange Pi PC running Armbian Linux 6.12.58-current-sunxi is a x86_64 binary: $ ls -l /usr/bin/su -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 50800 Mar 6 13:10 /usr/bin/su $ file /usr/bin/su /usr/bin/su: setuid ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, no section header I installed the rust version, su-rs, but I thought it would be useful to warn about this. I checked /usr/bin and /usr/sbin and this is the only x86-64 executable.

Hello fellow Sunxi forum members, Some may know me from previous Armbian adventures, primarily Orange Pi Zero 3... but I have jumped brands for a change of scenery (but not SoC). When researching H61X based boards for the Zero 2 and Zero 3 development we were doing in another thread, I found the Sipeed LonganPi 3H, which is a relatively new board that took a while to find. My first impressions are that is really well made, and packs a lot in to the Raspberry Pi Zero style profile (although it also has a daughter board). It was shipped quickly in a nice quality hard plastic storage case and.. best of all.. it has two hardware buttons.. so I can rese…

After nearly one year of kernel crashes, I finally found the stable configuration for Orange Pi Zero 3 as a 24/7 SDR server. The critical discovery: legacy kernel 6.6.75-sunxi64 is the only stable option. The current kernel crashes within hours under SDR load. Additional fixes: - Blacklist aw859a WiFi driver (causes kernel instability) - Blacklist DVB modules for RTL-SDR - Lock libairspyhfSupport.so with chattr +i (SpyServer/SoapySDR conflict) - Mask systemd-networkd-wait-online - CPU governor: schedutil - usbcore.autosuspend=-1 for USB SDR dongles Running 3 SDRs simultaneously: RTL-SDR Blog V4, …

I recently got an Orange Pi Zero 3W, and I noticed that the official Ubuntu image is still based on the sunxi BSP stack, using the sun60iw2-6.6.98 kernel, while the bootloader is also using an older version of U-Boot. Right now, I’m wondering whether it would be feasible to use AI agents to help compile an Armbian image for the Orange Pi Zero 3W with a mainline kernel, while still keeping the old vendor U-Boot for compatibility. Has anyone here experimented with a similar approach or have any good suggestions or ideas? I also really hope the official team can eventually provide a proper Armbian image for the Orange Pi Zero 3W, because I’ve run into quite a few i…

https://github.com/sicXnull/armbian-build/releases MXQ-PRO H313 https://github.com/sicXnull/armbian-build/archive/refs/tags/mxqpro.zip Summary: compile from source halts with error. Traceback (most recent call last): [🔨] File "/home/e***o/Downloads/armbian-build-mxqpro/lib/tools/patching.py", line 491, in <module> [🔨] raise exit_with_exception [🔨] Exception: Failed to apply 2 patches. Log uploaded and available at https://paste.armbian.com/dimokofipe Thanks in advance

I have Debian and installed Mate. I happen to install sv_SE.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8 but I cannot change languish on desktop from sv_SE.UTF-8 to en_US.UTF-8. First I just remove "sv_SE.UTF-8, but then the Terminal complain it did not find sv_SE, so install again. I generate the 2 locales, And thied to when I marked the local I want en_US, but it say sv_SE are active in Mate. I tried to run: sudo localectl set-locale en_US.UTF-8 Failed to issue method call: Access denied I don't find any "Languish controll" at all in Mate desktop It is right languish in terminal. Cheers Joni

Hello everyone. I'm kind of new in this SBC bussiness. I'm looking for a way to enable the ethernet port of the expansion board on this device. Hardware wise the port works on Dietpi, but the GPU works better on this version of armbian (Armbian Linux 6.19.9-edge-sunxi64). Anyone who could tell me o point me to the right direction? Thanks.

Today I noticed that last Sunday a community version of Armbian was released with Orange Pi 4A support. I tried to flash it in different ways just in case, but it just wouldn't boot. I used BalenaEtcher, Rufus and Armbian Imager and neither of them worked. Im new in this stuff, so I wanted to know if someone could tell me if it is something I'm doing wrong.

My armbian system is installed from Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.160_Orangepipc_bookworm_current_6.6.62_minimal.img.xz. All updates applied. I wanted to make it run with overlayroot. So, I installed the package and added "extraargs=overlayroot=tmpfs" to armbianEnv.txt. After reboot nothing changed. In /run/initramfs/overlayroot.log I found this: builtin set cfgdisk='disabled' [warning]: loaded 'overlay' module but no 'overlay' in /proc/filesystems Unable to find driver/module. searched: overlay overlayfs [failure]: Unable to find a driver. searched: overlay overlayfs I looked into scripts/init-bottom/overlayroot inside the initrd, and f…

https://github.com/MaverickLong/MLIR-TIM-VX This is an MLIR-based lowering path from the TOSA v1 dialect to TIM-VX, VeriSilicon's OpenVX-based GPU/NPU ML Framework. It includes the lowering from TOSA v1 to a custom timvx dialect (mirrors the TIM-VX C++ semantics) and a full lowering to C++ source. It is currently on par in inference speed with the vendor ACUITY compiler pipeline while still giving you full control on the graph level. In my own testing, on a Radxa Cubie A7Z \w Allwinner A733, ResNet-50 takes 8.0ms to inference, while the ACUITY-compiled baseline takes 7.3ms according to Radxa. It all starts with Radxa/VeriSilicon's fa…

I have a OpiZ2w with Armbian. I flashed a SD-card, and then I copy the system and boot to a usb- hdd (sda) and the system boot to sda Want hdd because It write much data and USB 2 don't take mush more speed. But I get a warning about a file-error or something so I run fsck on sda(hdd) was a systemdisk, but run read-only, but anyway it does not boot any more I think I can take the usb-hdd and run fsck from another computer? I have one system with Ubuntu on a Intel 6 gen, and Raspberry pi 500 and 5. The Pi-machine have raspberry-pi OS and the other Ubuntu 24.04.Does the machin or system have any singificans? Or is there another fix to…

I have a Orange Pi Zero2W with Armbian. I flashed a SD-card, and then I copy the system and boot to a usb- hdd (sda) and the system boot to sda Want hdd because It write much data and USB 2 don't take mush more speed. But I get a warning about a file-error or something so I run fsck on sda(hdd) that was a systemdisk, but when I run I choose to do it read-only, but anyway it does not boot any more. I think I can take the usb-hdd and run fsck from another computer? I have one system with Ubuntu on a Intel 6 gen, and Raspberry pi 500 and 5. The Pi-machine have raspberry-pi OS and the other Ubuntu 24.04.Does the machine or system have any significa…

How to disable HDMI and CODEC in system where is ne kernel 6.18.25 cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Codec ]: sun4i-codec - H616 Audio Codec h616-audio-codec 1 [HDMI ]: HDMI - HDMI HDMI 2 [Device ]: USB-Audio - USB PnP Sound Device C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Sound Device at usb-5200400.usb-1, full speed I need an always USB sound card with the number of 0

I installed pihole and unbound with Armbian's ready-made config installation, but I can't access the interface of the pihole.

Hi All, I have a couple of H3 based boards (Orange Pi Zero and FriendlyArm NanoPi Duo 2). With all of them I have the same issue: command like "reboot" turn the board off instead of rebooting. The workaround is to add following line in /boot/armbianEnv.txt extraargs=reboot=warm Running latest image on all of the boards.

The 1-bay NAS kit v1.2 has an RTC with option to add CR2032 button cell to keep HW time when system is shut down. But running `timedatectl` when device is booted in offline mode shows RTC is set to 1970-01-01 00:00:00 which defeats the purpose of having the option of CR2032. And yes, the button cell have juice; I've bought it a week ago and tested it before putting it in the kit.

Hey Installed Armbian (Ubuntu-noble) with XFCE desktop on an HDD(sda) from SD-card, so I need to have an SD-card in my orange pi zero 2w. I wonder if I can move /boot to an another smaller SD-card? Or do I also need an "mbr" or someting also there u-boot are? /Cheers

I seem to remember at one point thinking that U-Boot could be installed into the SPI on the a5e and then I could choose the boot order. Is that possible or did I just dream it? If it is, how do I install U-Boot into the SPI? Is there one specifically for the a5e?

For some reason, the CPU frequency in Ubuntu is set to 1416000 while the hardware can reach 1512000, which is an improvement of about 6 and a half in CPU performance. I would appreciate a change or explanation. Thank you very much for everything.

I want to put a banana Pi M1 plus a 2.5" SATA drive in a plastic box with only the ethernet and USB ports exposed. This means the onboard power button is not accessible to boot the board. Are you able to power on the board using the GPIO pins? If so please could someone advise which pins to connect to? I also aim to put a 5.5 x 2.1mm barrel connection on the box (with a latching press button switch for isolation) for the +5v supply and connect a short micro USB connector from the barrel socket to the board and also attach the SATA power leads directly rather than powering from the board 2 pin connector to take the load off the micro USB input.

I have a 512 MB RAM, 4GB Toshiba NAND PocketCHIP with a custome u-boot supporting USB Booting and decided to test the latest armbian community image for the PocketCHIP (https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.668/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.668_Pocketchip-sd_trixie_current_6.18.20_minimal.img.xz) Boot seems to start fine with all kernel files load confirmed by u-boot output (vmlinuz, ramdisk dtb, etc) but then it goes mute while starting the kernel @TheSnowfield, you are listed as the pocketchip board maintainer (thanks a lot for your contribution! 🙏), any ideas of what am I missing? Do you have a suggestion for a w…

Since U-Boot v2025.04 works very well on Orange Pi Zero v3 and has a shorter boot process time, if there was a possibility to switch to U-Boot v2504 for Orange Pi Zero V1, I would be grateful, as would probably other users of this SBC Regards

Hi! Yesterday I upgraded my NanoPi Neo Plus2, during that the kernel version went from 6.12.74 (package version 26.2.0-trunk.478) to 6.18.19 (package version 26.2.0-trunk.626). This morning I noticed, that this kernel is missing the dm-snapshot.ko module. I searched the forum if anyone else is having this problem, but it appears I am the only one using this feature. I use snapshots to create consistent backups of the system. Is there a reason why it was removed and more importantly is there a way to get it back without having to compile the kernel myself? Greetings PS: I should note, that I want the module back in newer kernel versions in the fu…

Wi-Fi works → so the problem is only in GPIO / DTB initialization for Bluetooth It worked on the older kernel, but now it doesn't 😞.... Supposedly this is the cause, but is it really? armbianmonitor -u https://paste.armbian.com/uzudezufit

Hello, I have a new LCD which I believe is an ili4988 (although the vendor says ili9486 and st7796) https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803856059047.html I have read somewhere, that I can use an ili9341 spi driver, only by changing the resolution and changing the initialization script. I looked in the waveshare website and github, they don't have anything for the ili9488 Then, I found some arduino code in http://www.lcdwiki.com/3.5inch_SPI_Module_ILI9488_SKU%3AMSP3520 (look for the "3.5 inch SPI Module Package(ILI9488)" link, then find the LCDWIKI_SPI.cpp The initialization sequence is in line 1697: Spoiler…

Hello, i tried "Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.606_Radxa-cubie-a5e_trixie_edge_6.19.8_minimal.img" and wlan didn't work, i think the device tree is broken Radxa-cubie-a5e kernel 6.19.x as a quick fix, I copy the kernel 6.18.x "sun55i-a527-cubie-a5e.dtb" file to the /boot/dtb/allwinner directory to get wlan working.

Hello, I am trying to run Armbian on my Orange Pi 3 LTS. The official Orange Pi image works normally: Orangepi3-lts_3.0.8_debian_bullseye_server_linux5.16.17 However, when I flash the Armbian image: Armbian 26.2.1 Minimal / IoT I get several boot errors during startup: [FAILED] Failed to start Apply Kernel Variables. [FAILED] Failed to start Dispatcher daemon for systemd-networkd. [FAILED] Failed to start Helper to synchronize boot up for ifupdown. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Raise network interfaces. The system continues booting, but these errors appear every time. Hardware: Board: Orange Pi 3 LTS Image: Armbian 26.2.1 Minimal /…

Hi, i could control the OTG micro USB port power on my NanoPi Neo (H3) by exporting and writing to GPIO 354 (line 2 of GPIO chip with base 352) I'm using Kernel V6.6.62 and I created a tiny device tree overlay defining. Excerpt below: usb@1c19000 { dr_mode = "host" } usb0-vbus { status = "okay" } This works fine! For test purposes, I switched to a NanoPi Neo2 (H5) with Kernel 6.6.62 (64 bit). Here, the OTG port is powered on and is usable by default without any overlay. But the on/off control does not work anymore. All attempts to export GPIO 354 give "write error: Device or resource busy". Schematics show no circ…

I have this screen here ili9486 : https://pt.aliexpress.com/item/32805704334.html?src=google&pdp_npi=4%40dis!BRL!43.31!38.51!!!!!%40!12000019014148570!ppc!!!&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=768-202-3196&isdl=y&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&aff_platform=google&aff_short_key=UneMJZVf&gclsrc=aw.ds&&albagn=888888&&ds_e_adid=&ds_e_matchtype=&ds_e_device=c&ds_e_network=x&ds_e_product_group_id=&ds_e_product_id=pt32805704334&ds_e_product_merchant_id=107713925&ds_e_product_country=BR&ds_e_product_language=pt&ds_e_product_channel=online&ds_e_product_store_id=&ds_u…

I noticed that the Cubie a5e would reboot when anything that draws moderate power (>100mA) was connected to the USB3 port. Thought it was my power supply or USB cable, but after changing that out and doing some testing, I have determined that the reboot problem doesn't happen with the Radxa Bullseye image, only with the Armbian Trixie. I haven't had a chance to test older Armbian builds to see if it broke somewhere along the way, but that's what I'll do next. Armbian boot (26.2.0 trunk 385): U-Boot SPL 2026.01_armbian-2026.01-S127a-P96c6-H560c-Va7f1-B2eb2-R448a (Feb 03 2026 - 12:13:55 +0000) DRAM: 2048 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 NOTICE: BL31: v2.13.0(debu…

I’m running Armbian debian minimal image on my Orange Pi Zero 3, using the onboard WiFi (wlan0) with the unisoc_wifi driver. The WiFi consistently drops with logs like these: [ 11.048517] unisoc_wifi wlan0: mixed HW and IP checksum settings. [259241.515808] unisoc_wifi wlan0: sprdwl_report_connection Asus failed status code:30! [345665.483530] unisoc_wifi wlan0: sprdwl_report_connection sm_state (5), status: (2)! [345665.483567] unisoc_wifi wlan0: sprdwl_report_connection Asus failed status code:1! NetworkManager also reports: link timed out. Activation failed for connection 'Asus' After the crash, restarting NetworkManager doesn’t reso…

the tft is working well on stock orangepi image but when I try the prebuilt armbian images or build it myself it look like this my dts file: 35Lcd.dts

Hello. After burning Efuse to the Nanopi Neo Core, I can't boot from emmc. It works from the SD card, so I try loading everything into emmc: spl, uboot. But spl doesn't find u-boot, as far as I understand. I'm using the u-boot and dts config from the Nanopi Neo, with some edits to mmc2, since it's not available in the Neo. U-Boot SPL 2024.07 (Feb 25 2026 - 15:51:42 +0300) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 CMD_SEND:0 ARG 0x00000000 MMC_RSP_NONE CMD_SEND:8 ARG 0x000001aa RET -110 CMD_SEND:55 ARG …

Nanopi neo air stucks on "Starting kernel..." after some random power losses (2-50) during loading I think it's because of corruption of armbianEnv.txt. Normal UART logs: UART Logs with stucking on "Starting kernel" U-Boot SPL 2024.01_armbian-202ns16550_serial serial@1c28000: p024.01-S866c-P7738-Hadc5-Vefe9-B2eb2-R448a (Feb 06 2026 - 03:49:45 +0000) Allwinner Technology 0) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEent from FAT... Unable to use mmc 1:1... ial Err: serial Net: No ethernet found. starting USB... No working controllers found 1(part 0) is current device Scacr 5475 bytes read in 2 ms (2.6 MiB/s) ## Executing script at 43100000 U-boot loaded from eMMC or s…

After many days spent wondering why is my OPI Zero2w 1.5GB not booting some Armbian images (xfce desktop version for example), I have found there is a "bug" or difference in uboot models 1.5GB + 4GB vs 1GB+2GB. Fix that might work for Zero2w is here https://forum.armbian.com/topic/31654-orange-pi-zero-2w/ (planning to test it soon) Can somebody confirm Opi Zero2W 1.5GB has still this issue with some Armbian images ? Armbian minimal boots without aby issues. Not sure why it works and desktop doesnt.

Tried installing Armbian_23.11.1_Nanopineoplus2_jammy_current_6.1.63.img and it is super slow during first boot process regardless of SD type. Localization craps out with "Failed to set time zone: Transport endpoint is not connected". I boot with wired Ethernet and when I get to a prompt I can ping outside locations. apt update produces "Hash Sum mismatch" Anyways, doing my part testing legacy boards, hahahaha

I'm experiencing something unusual. A device of mine, running Armbian, cannot communicate with an Android device in my LAN. Otherwise everything else works. My Orange Pi Zero 2w running Armbian can ping all of my LAN IPs (and access theyre net services also) , but fails at pinging an Android device (which is connected through WiFi): "Destination Host Unreachable". Same goes the other way around where Termux runs on the above mentioned Android 15 device but cannot ping ("Destination Host Unreachable") the host running Armbian or access it via ssh (it simply stalls). Everything else works just fine, all of my devices connect w…

Please help. Hello everyone, please help me out. I urgently need to enable secure boot on my Allwinner H3 Nanopi neo core. I tried following the instructions from the forum https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3033-h3-soc-boot-rom-security-e-fuse/#findComment-84051 . But I couldn't burn the E-Fuse. At stage 5, when loading ./sunxi-fel -v -p write 0x2000 of the compiled code and checking whether the changes were applied, sunxi-fel sid/list/version doesn't work. I have to reboot the board, and then I see no result. Please help me solve this problem and burn it so that the bootloader signature is present and it is impossible to boot from the SD card using third-party means. Pleas…

Hello, my Cubitruck with Armbian 23.8.1 Bullseye has the false Time and i can't change this. i don't know who is the problem. "date" says me "Mo 9. Feb 19:24:06 CET 2026" but now we have 05:26, when i set date with "sudo date -s "2026-02-09 05:26:00", it looks like it will be override in the next moment, then "date" says sudo date -s "2026-02-09 05:26:00" Mo 9. Feb 05:26:00 CET 2026 root@cubietruck ~ > date Mo 9. Feb 19:26:27 CET 2026 dmesg | grep -i rtc [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=19cf2f1d-1a31-4890-bc04-a2f1c4e4e021 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=1…

Originally I tried to use DietPi and opened a bugreport there: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7715 But DietPies support for the ZeroPi is based on armbian, so I tried this directly: oldest image not working: Armbian_community_25.8.0-trunk.338_Zeropi_bookworm_current_6.12.35_minimal.img.xz bootlog12.txt newest image working: Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.256_Zeropi_bookworm_legacy_6.1.104_minimal.img.xz bootlog13.txt Does anybody have an idea what it could be?

**1. Summary:** The text console (`tty1`) is permanently stuck at 30 rows by 90 columns after boot, despite the DRM/KMS framebuffer being correctly set to 1920x1080 resolution. All attempts to change the console size via boot parameters, sysfs, or runtime tools fail. This breaks the basic CLI experience on displays larger than VGA. **2. Environment:** * **Hardware:** Orange Pi PC (Allwinner H3) * **Image/Distribution:** "Forky" (appears to be an Armbian-based rolling Debian fork) * **Kernel:** `6.12.68-current-sunxi` (build@armbian) #1 SMP Fri Jan 30 09:28:49 UTC 2026 * **Graphics Stack:** Modern DRM/KMS (`sun4i-drm`). The legacy `fb` driver is not …

What happened? Orange Pi 3 LTS rarely recognize ethernet connection. How to reproduce? Flash Orange Pi 3 LTS with an image of the latest version of Armbian. Extra Info The latest images tested which worked flawlessly was: Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.437_Orangepi3-lts_trixie_current_6.12.47_minimal.img Armbian_23.8.3_Orangepi3-lts_jammy_current_6.1.53_minimal.img Images tested which didn't worked: Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Orangepi3-lts_trixie_current_6.12.63_minimal.img Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.100_Orangepi3-lts_trixie_current_…

Pinecube fails to boot with Armbian_23.5.0-trunk.140_Pinecube_bookworm_edge_6.2.13.img . In the boot log is this line: So I tried to modify `fdt_addr_r` env variable and were able to succesfully boot with theese commands executed in u-boot console: So adding following line to /boot/armbianEnv.txt on sdcard can fix booting permanently: Complete boot log:

Initially I attempted upgrading the kernel from 6.1.26 to 6.1.33 using the build scripts to generate the newer kernel and headers. After rebooting I found that the system just appeared to hang around starting kernel. I did wait 10 minutes at first, thinking that perhaps their maybe some stuff going on in the background but after that conclude that it had most certainly crashed. The frustrating thing being that I did not appear to get any errors come through the debug port. At this point I assumed that perhaps something may have broke during the upgrade. My second attempt was using a completely fresh compiled image but unfortunately the result was still the same. …

It boots but does not recognize USB keyboard input. Not possible to login.

Hi, this is my first post, my apologies, I could not find a matching topic category for this PCduino3 nano question/issue (no built-in wifi, I use a Roccar wifi dongle) I have successfully built the image using the armbian configuration script (bookworm current), the board boots and runs teslausb, however, I am unable to install the driver for my wifi dongle. The error when starting the install-driver.sh script is "your kernel headers are not properly installed". I tried apt install linux-headers-current-sunxi and kernel-headers-armmp, they install successfully but I still get the same error about the kernet headers not being properly installed. Th…

I am experimenting with a cheap ILI9341 screen and mi OrangePi Zero LTS https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832431328471.html I found these recent instructions to be able to display graphics here: https://ryjelsum.me/homelab/xpt2046-ili9341-opi-zero/ with a reference to a previous experience (without mentioning success) https://hackaday.io/project/190371-g-edm/log/217902-first-success-with-armbian-nanopi-and-ili9341-touch and independently, I found these instructions and experiences here: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Allwinner_overlays/ https://forum.armbian.com/topic/27457-connecting-banana-pi-m2-zero-with-ili9341-disp…

Yesterday, I tried to use the digital IO in my opi zero3, with the Python GPIO package from https://opi-gpio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ by Richard Hull It depends on having sysfs files in /sys/class/gpio/ My original opi zero has these files and it works, but my opi zero3 doesn’t have these files I learned that /sys/class/gpio is created if the linux kernel is configured with a specific option ON, as suggested in the documentation: https://github.com/rm-hull/OPi.GPIO https://linux-sunxi.org/GPIO Also, a developer has made a change on the opi.GPIO project to support opi zero3 https://github.com/rm-hull/OPi.GPIO…

Hi! With latest edge 6.15.4 the board boots fine, shutdown also clean and complete but on reboot it does not again start up. Need to powercycle😒 I gets stuck et end of shutdown. Same for latest bookworm image (I think it's 6.12x). Earlier ones did work. => Any other board also affected? => Is for reboot the watchdog involved? T.

During installation new Image show on screen following problems: Failed to retrieve unit state: Transport endpoint is not connected _ _ _ _ _ /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ __ ___ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ (_) |_ _ _ / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \ / _/ _ \ ' \| ' \ || | ' \| | _| || | /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_|_\__\___/_|_|_|_|_|_\_,_|_||_|_|\__|\_, | |___| |__/ v26.2 rolling for Orange Pi Zero running Armbian Linux 6.12.63-current-sunxi Packages: Debian stable (trixie) Support: …

I built the latest Nobel build and ended up with Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_Nanopiduo_noble_current_6.12.63.img. Even at idle it runs 70C. If you try to do upgrades it will do thermal shutdown. The temp reporting is real because it's hot enough to burn your finger if you hold the heat sink long enough. I used a PS2 usb fan (I call it the ghetto cooler 5000) long enough to downgrade kernel to 6.1.x. Now it idles around 50C. I know there's been heating issues with H3 (Duo uses H2+). I compared DTBs, voltages and cannot find the smoking gun. I played around controlling the voltages, etc. Anyways, I'm OK with 6.1.x kernel since this board was out in 2017. I still have a…

PSA - trunk 130 is not a bootable image. trunk 100 works fine.

Hi all. I have a board nanopi neo air with armbian linux on it. We with my colleague try to setting up ffmpeg with cedrus264 for hardware accelerated capturing video from ov5640-like camera device. There is my armbianmonitor. There are my v4l2-ctl -d /dev/videox -D out: Spoiler Driver Info: Driver name : cedrus Card type : cedrus Bus info : platform:cedrus Driver version : 5.4.51 Capabilities : 0x84208000 Video Memory-to-Memory Streaming Extended Pix Format Device Capabilities Device Caps : 0x042080…

If anyone in interested in a lightweight wayland desktop, inspired by openbox, you should try labwc. In orange pi zero 3, we need to stay in bookworm to get video acceleration, so this guide helps build labwc in bookworm As a greeter, I chose pi-greeter, because it is the lightest login manager I could setup, without any X11 https://github.com/robertojguerra/opiz3-labwc-setup I am open to read any improvements, or show me how I could make deb packages. In the near future, I will make a step-by-step video tutorial in Youtube.

Hello everyone! *sorry for my bad English. I found the page https://www.armbian.com/longanpi-3h/ Sipeed LonganPi 3H but no OS images to download. Can anyone help me and give me links to ISOs or there are none yet?

Hello! I've built my own sbc using the Allwinner H3 chip, and I'm looking to get a custom armbian image running on it. I've already successfully compiled an image by adding a new config to u-boot and armbian-build, and a device tree to the linux kernel. Now I'm looking to get the WiFi working, but I can't seem to find where I can change its pin definitions. I'm using the AP6212: the SDIO pins are connected to SDC1 (aka mmc1) like every other board, but the WL_REG_ON (aka WL-PMU-EN) and WL_HOST_WAKE (aka WL-WAKE-AP) pins are connected to GPIO pins different from all other boards, so I'll need to change their pin assignments in the kernel manually. B…

Using a clean install of Armbian 22.02.1 with Linux 5.15.25-sunxi on a NanoPi NEO the green & blue LEDs no longer work. Previously they have worked with both Armbian and DietPi. # uname -a Linux nanopineo 5.15.25-sunxi #22.02.1 SMP Sun Feb 27 09:23:25 UTC 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux # cat /sys/devices/platform/leds/leds/nanopi:green:status/trigger cat: '/sys/devices/platform/leds/leds/nanopi:green:status/trigger': No such file or directory # cat /sys/class/leds/led{0,1}/trigger cat: /sys/class/leds/led0/trigger: No such file or directory cat: /sys/class/leds/led1/trigger: No such file or directory # ls -lha /sys/class/leds/ total 0 drwxr-x…

on a Sunvell R69 (H2) and a NanoPi Neo (H3) I got these "old known" eth0 Link Up/Down syndrom, but couldnt find a solution in the forum while using the search-engine armbianmonitor -u System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to Sunvell R69 - Linux sunvell-r69 5.4.0-rc8-sunxi #19.11.3 SMP Wed Nov 27 17:01:29 CET 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux : http://ix.io/232T NanoPi Neo - Linux npi-neo 5.3.3-sunxi #5.98 SMP Sat Oct 5 18:34:15 +03 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux : http://ix.io/232U in dmesg it looks like [10536.264427] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx [10568.008…

See build log https://paste.armbian.de/lesoquheja The kernel works, but installing the .deb failed because my extlinux script could not copy: /usr/lib/linux-image-6.18.1-edge-sunxi/overlay/sun8i-h3-analog-codec.dtbo The whole overlay folder does not exist. It does exist for 6.12.58-current-sunxi and last time I compiled kernel for the nanopineo was 6.16.8, the overlays were created. I remember it was also once the case with edge kernel for other SBC ( .deb package from the Armbian beta repo). That time own local build did create overlays. I am not sure where to look or what could be wrong.

Hello Respected Supporters, After upgrading to Armbian 26 (kernel version 6.12.58), the onboard network card (end0) experienced a severe degradation in transmission performance (reduced to approximately 1/10 of previous levels). Upon investigation, it was discovered that the kernel driver (dwmac-sun8i) has locked all hardware offload features (TSO/GSO/Checksum), forcing the CPU to handle all processing in software. root@orangepi3:~# uname -r 6.12.58-current-sunxi64 root@orangepi3:~# dpkg --list | grep linux-image ii linux-image-current-sunxi64 26.2.0-trunk.48 arm64 Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.1…

Hello, electronics enthusiasts, I can't figure out how to activate the i2s bus and enable audio input and output, for example pcm5102(DAC) and pcm1808(ADC) My board Nano pi neo2

Hello, I have been trying to get sound working on my Orange Pi Zero 3, and I am facing persistent issues. I installed every operating system listed on Armbian’s Orange Pi Zero 3 page and followed all the standard setup procedures. Despite updating all packages and even performing kernel updates, I have never been able to get any sound output from the device. I have checked multiple configurations, tried different OS images, and ensured that all drivers are up to date, but nothing works. The device otherwise functions normally, but audio simply does not come through under any circumstances. Could you please provide guidance or a solution? Any help would be g…

Armbian 24.2 is broken on Orange PI PC2 (Debian Bookworm CLI) Latest stable community release: https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/24.5.0-trunk.123/Armbian_community_24.5.0-trunk.123_Orangepipc2_bookworm_current_6.6.20_minimal.img.xz With update 23.11 -> 24.2 the orange pi pc2 no longer starts. I tried a new sd installation and it too does not appear on the network. Right now I don't have a serial cable to check but it is possible that the network driver is missing or not working. SD, SBC and PSU are 100% working: a revert to 23.11.2 makes it work perfectly.

I think I messed something up in the system, maybe with the repositories, but I get this message when updating... apt update Stary:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Stary:2 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease Stary:3 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bookworm InRelease Stary:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease Stary:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease Stary:6 http…

https://www.armbian.com/olimex-lime-2/ Does the image come with and install non free software on the computer? If so is there documentation showing how to do a fully free software installation of the Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.546_Lime2_trixie_current_6.12.58_minimal.img image? Free software is software you can use, share, modify and redistribute. Thank you.

Hello I wrote aind compile little module only for tests: #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/sched.h> static int errval = 0; //module_param(errval,int,S_IRWXU); module_param(errval,int,S_IWUSR|S_IRUSR|S_IWGRP|S_IRGRP); MODULE_PARM_DESC(errval,"Value to return from init function"); int my_init_module(void) { printk("errval=%d\n",errval); return errval; } void my_cleanup_module(void) { printk("The module is now unloaded\n"); } module_init(my_init_module); module_exit(my_cleanup_module); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); compile by: make -C /lib/modules/6.6.75-current-sunxi64/build M=$(PWD) modules And it cause segmentation fault only…

Radxa-cubie-a5e second Ethernet port not work after update Armbian 25.11.0-trunk.259.

From time to time I see a message like this in my log files: 2025-06-05T11:29:33.367636+02:00 bananapipro2 kernel: [934985.549250] sysrq: HELP : loglevel(0-9) reboot(b) crash(c) terminate-all-tasks(e) memory-full-oom-kill(f) kill-all-tasks(i) thaw-filesystems(j) sak(k) show-backtrace-all-active-cpus(l) show-memory-usage(m) nice-all-RT-tasks(n) poweroff(o) show-registers(p) show-all-timers(q) unraw(r) sync(s) show-task-states(t) unmount(u) show-blocked-tasks(w) dump-ftrace-buffer(z) replay-kernel-logs(R) The system continues to work (although I remember that it stooped at this point in older releases). Is there any action required? I am afra…

Has anyone managed to get video encoder working with the latest mainline kernel? I'm getting stuck trying to compile the cedar_ve kernel driver from https://github.com/uboborov/sunxi-cedar-mainline I have downloaded the kernel source using armbian-config and then built the sunxi-cedar-mainline kernel driver. However, I fail to load the driver due to version magic: When trying to force the load: But no dmesg message about magic check failure.

Alright so I am trying to use this OLED display: https://www.amazon.com/AITRIP-Display-SSD1306-3-3V-5V-Arduino/dp/B08JPYJ35Y?th=1 with Armbian(minimal) on my orange pi zero 2w, but I just cant get the i2c1 bus to detect it. Here's some more details: uname -r returns: 6.12.23-current-sunxi64 cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt returns: verbosity=1 bootlogo=false console=both disp_mode=1920x1080p60 overlay_prefix=sun50i-h616 rootdev=UUID=adb61282-df86-4116-9688-e94c56913687 rootfstype=ext4 overlays=i2c0-pi i2c1-pi param_i2c1_pin_sda=3 param_i2c1_pin_scl=5 user_overlays= usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u sudo i…