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I need to make custom intro on my bigtreetech cb1 when i try plymouth some time give me error and sometimes the system startup normally as normal Plymouth without pics only 3dots in middle of screen i want examples or guidelines to make it and when i make update to initremfs files it’s give me error such as error to create hard link what I should i do

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?

Managed to get RaspAP working on my OrangePi Zero 3 (OPZ3). At the time of writing, the RaspAP quick installer script did not support Ubuntu 24.04 on my OPZ3. So, I decided to try and install RaspAP manually, based on the manual installation step on the site. It mostly went smoothly, with some hiccups along the way. Some tweaks needed were around disabling wpa_supplicant and a missing library for isoquery. Some configuration details: OrangePi Zero 3 with 1GB ram Ubuntu 24.04 (6.12.23) server image downloaded from the Armbian site After all the apt upgrades and updates, the kernal was updated to 6.12.35 Attached below is the…

Hello, One of my BananaPI is used to display a graphical dashboard. But after a system upgrade (apt update / apt upgrade), the HDMI output seems disabled after reboot : - the boot process is displayed, but it seems it's disabled as soon as the DRM driver is loaded. Any tips, help ? Thanks # uname -a Linux TdB 6.12.30-current-sunxi #1 SMP Thu May 22 12:29:54 UTC 2025 armv7l GNU/Linux # cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=bananapi BOARD_NAME="Banana Pi" BOARDFAMILY=sun7i BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=1a8daf0 VERSION=23.…

Don't know where to report this as Armbian bug reporting form refused to accept community supported board, but it may not necessarily be board-specific. When logging the first time there is a message: sed: -e expression #1, char 0: no previous regular expression Generating locales: en_US.UTF-8 _ _ _ _ _ /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ __ ___ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ (_) |_ _ _ / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \ / _/ _ \ ' \| ' \ || | ' \| | _| || | /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_|_\__\___/_|_|_|_|_|_\_,_|_||_|_|\__|\_, | |___| …

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 [...] …

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

Two days ago I upgraded the kernel to 25.5.1 (6.12.30-current-sunxi) from 25.2.3 (6.12.20-current-sunxi). Since then I have no longer been able to play a certain title (FLAC file) in mocp. In case it's relevant, the title is: "Malukah - Awake (The Dragonborn Comes)". Symptoms: dmesg starts showing kernel trace output at 1:43 of the song mocp finally stalls at 1:52 and it's impossible to interact with it from that point on Is there anyone here who would be able to provide pointers on how to debug this? I am a developer and I have done some work with Yocto/OE before and wouldn't be afraid to get at this with a debugger. Since it's nice…

I've noticed some other threads about Banana Pi builds not booting. I tried the 6.12v built on Jun 19 and that's when my device stopped booting. It won't even power on. I suspect the firmware update is corrupting the MicroSD card. I originally had an older build running and ran an update/upgrade and my system wouldn't boot (won't power on) after that. I purchased a new MicroSD card, and my system booted with an older build. Not realizing my MicroSD would get corrupted, I tried updating/upgrading again and I'm back to not booting. I don't have enough MicroSD cards to pinpoint the exact package. My working build is from 6.6.17, 24.5.0-trunk.58. It appear…

Hi, yesterday i see a "armbian-update" message after login per ssh. I run this command and than my banana pi M1 won't boot. How can i repair it without formatting the SSD? Regards Christian

I downloaded and wrote the image to the SD card. I can see the U-Boot messages at the very beginning, but after a few moments, nothing is displayed anymore. I believe the OS is still booting because the activity LED on the board keeps blinking. Any idea what might be happening ? Thanks in advance for any help !

does orange pi zero2W support the headsets with built in microphone or not? I do not see any MICINN in the 24 pin connector?

Hi everyone, I have wrong color in screen MPI3501 , when i test to output buffer to color red,green, blue, it seem like Red. —> blue Green —> red Blue. —> green Here is how i test (i need to stop lightdm service before this) Spoiler python3 -c 'open("red.raw", "wb").write(b"\xF8\x00" * 153600)' sudo dd if=red.raw of=/dev/fb0 bs=1 python3 -c 'open("green.raw", "wb").write(b"\x07\xE0" * 153600)' sudo dd if=green.raw of=/dev/fb0 bs=1 python3 -c 'open("blue.raw", "wb").write(b"\x00\x1F" * 153600)' sudo dd if=blue.raw of=/dev/fb0 bs=1 (when boot the image should be orange not gre…

I have an issue with the latest releases since Yammy on a Orange Pi Zero LTS. Reboot is not working (system shuts, but not starting again)

Hello everyone, I’m looking for an old Armbian image: Armbian 5.73 stable for NanoPi NEO Air, specifically the one based on Debian 10 (Buster) with the 4.19.20-sunxi kernel. Unfortunately, it’s no longer available in the Armbian archives. If anyone still has a copy of this image (e.g., Armbian_5.73_NanoPiNeoAir_Debian_buster_next_4.19.20.img.xz), I would be very grateful if you could share it or point me to a working download link. Thanks in advance for your help!

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…

I tried to set the I2C interface with the armbian-config option but it doesn't work because it writes to the file: armbianEnv.txt .... overlays=sun50i-h6-i2c0 sun50i-h6-i2c1 sun50i-h6-i2c2 and it didn't work on my OrangePi3LTS and it doesn't start the i2C service on startup? but when I enter it manually: overlays=i2c0 i2c1 i2c2 then the i2c service works with my 40x2 LCD 🙂 ...is this a bug and if so can it be fixed? is the option: armbian-config still compatible with my OrangePi3 LTS?

Hi guys, I updated my Orange Pi Lite some time ago and it caused it to stop booting. The boot log is below. Can someone please help me recover this? I'm not sure where to start. I've loaded the SD card into an Ubuntu VM and it reads perfectly fine. U-Boot SPL 2022.07-armbian (Feb 17 2023 - 22:31:53 +0000) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2022.07-armbian (Feb 17 2023 - 22:31:53 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Lite DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 61 devices, 16 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0 MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c10000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT…

Hi! I have an old Allwinner A10 based tablet that runs on Android. I want to install some other OS on it. I tried the instructions on linux-sunxi.org and created a page for the tablet: https://linux-sunxi.org/Softwinners_crane I extracted the FEX file from an image I got from the manufacturers a long time ago: http://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-boards/pull/72/files The linux-sunxi mailing list pointed out that my tablet is similar to Topwise A721, so I used that dts file to compile u-boot and the kernel, and tried to boot it through an SD card. Trying to boot that, u-boot starts, and then gets stuck at "Starting kernel..." Then I found…

Hello. I'm trying to communicate with i2c ( i've connected ADS1115 on it if this maters ), but even without anything connected on it - it shows 0x30 on it, and I am not sure how to make it works. Please help ! 😐

Kernel crash on freshly installed image for LonganPi 3H. Image downloaded from: https://www.armbian.com/longanpi-3h/ Ubuntu 24.04 Noble. Sometimes it will crash few seconds after boot, before logging or doing anything. Didn't install or do anything, just apt-get update and upgrade. logs: https://paste.next.armbian.com/ocofepenup [ 1511.118664] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000044 [#1] SMP [ 1511.124251] Modules linked in: sunrpc rtl8xxxu mac80211 cfg80211 sunxi_cedrus(C) rfkill libarc4 v4l2_mem2mem videobuf2_dma_contig videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 videodev videobuf2_common polyval_ce sun50i_h6_prcm_ppu mc polyval_generic dump_reg cpufreq_dt zra…

When I change the country and keyboard settings with armbian-config, the keyboard change from qwerty to azerty but after a reboot, the keyboard is qwerty again. The country code stay correct as set in the config.

When using armbian-config to select an overlay ("DTO001")e.g. for uart2, one is offered the full names w/ overlay prefix, e.g. sun7i-a20-uart2. The system adds this to armbianEnv.txt: overlays=sun7i-a20-uart2 But it has also the line overlay_prefix=sun7i-a20 In the end, uart2 is not activated (no output from /dev/ttyS1) - after changing the overlay line to overlays=uart2, I can read from /dev/ttyS1. System is Armbian 25.2.2 stable (bookeworm), Armbian Linux 6.12.20-current-sunxi.

Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.538_Orangepizero2w_bookworm_current_6.12.23_minimal.img When try to boot. It get stuck trying to boot from emmc. It does not have emmc. After several power restart sometimes it boots form microsd. also it ask for tags which has only one option "Solved". I had to tag this topic as solved in order to be able to submit it.

I hope the topic is on the right place ? It should only be a hint ! Kernel 6.12.20 for the banana Pi M2 zero doesn't support USB. I fixed this by reinstalling kernel v6.6.75. Regards Bernd

Hello, I'm trying to connect an PCF8574 I2C adapter to my Orange Pi, but it doesn't show up in i2cdetect, only something at 0x30 on i2c0 and 0x36 on i2c1 that is labeled UU. I tried to connect it to arduino, and it found it on address 0x27 Connected on pins 3 and 5 root@orangepizero2w:~# sudo i2cdetect -y 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 30: 30 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -…

I'm having a problem installing a driver. Once compiled correctly, the system gives me an error. Note that I performed the same procedure with : RaspiOS on an arm64 board (RPi4B) with the same kernel version, and it worked. Debian 12 on a PC, and it worked. Armbian on an arm64 board (RPi4B) with the same kernel version, and it worked. Armbian on an armhf board (nanopineocore) with the same kernel version, and it worked. But does not work with Armbian Bookworm on a nanopineocore2 board: epsilonrt@nanopineocore2:~/src/tty0tty/module$ sudo modprobe tty0tty modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tty0tty': Exec format error …

So.. this neat board has mainline kernel but with no video output and it has a mali panfrost GPU. My question to all you dev pros of the kodi tv boxes is... Is there anyone capable to fix video output on this wee board that has it on radxa 5.15 default debian kernel?

I am getting a thermal zone failure message during boot, which has always happened with kernels after 6.6, at least as far as I know. Is this error actually harmful? HardWare:NanoPi NEO2 Armbian Version: Packages: Debian stable (bookworm) v25.2.3 for NanoPi Neo 2 running Armbian Linux 6.12.20-current-sunxi64 Support: DIY (community maintained) Kernel: Linux nanopineo2 6.12.20-current-sunxi64 #1 SMP Sat Mar 22 19:54:28 UTC 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux dmesg output [ 7.018086] core: _opp_supported_by_regulators: OPP minuV: 1320000 maxuV: 1320000, not supported by regulator [ 7.018125] cpu cpu0: _opp_a…

Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.444_Radxa-cubie-a5e_bookworm_dev_6.14.0-rc1_minimal.img use to flash android phone echerdroid apk use for flash but not flashing proper not boot

Board: NanoPi NEO Air SoC: Allwinner H3 (sun8i platform) Armbian Release: Bookworm (Debian 12 base) - Tested with both beta and stable repositories. Problem Description: The SPI device node (/dev/spidev0.0) does not get created on Armbian Bookworm for the NanoPi NEO Air, preventing the use of SPI peripherals. This issue occurs despite correctly enabling the sun8i-h3-spi-spidev overlay in /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Diagnosis / Root Cause: Through troubleshooting, it was determined that the essential kernel module required for the Allwinner SPI controller, spi-sunxi.ko, is missing from the standard kernel image packages provided by Armbian for Boo…

Hi, I'm running fine my Orange Pi PC+ with an external HDD since many years and decided to switch to an 1Tb SSD recently. SSD enclosure has it's own power supply. After few hours/days my OPi is not responding using SSH, and ethernet adapter is like frozen. Unpluging the ethernet cable generaly resolve the problem. What could it be related to ?

The eth0 device does not work when using 6.1.47-current-sunxi64 and 6.12.20-current-sunxi64 kernels. There will be the following errors in the kernel log. pi@orangepi3:~$ dmesg | grep eth0 [ 16.997431] dwmac-sun8i 5020000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-0 [ 16.998219] dwmac-sun8i 5020000.ethernet eth0: __stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19) [ 19.284111] dwmac-sun8i 5020000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-0 [ 19.284754] dwmac-sun8i 5020000.ethernet eth0: __stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19) [ 19.308140] dwmac-sun8i 5020000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-0 [ 19.308738] dwmac…

I have a big problem with the latest Armbian images, the problem not only persists with the latest versions, with the previous one the same thing happened to me with the old Ubuntu images, it works without problems with the old kernel, I have a video published with the problem since it works but at certain times the device turns off and does not turn on a single LED light until I reconnect it, I thought it was a problem with the power supply but not with the old Ubuntu images it works and even with the game emulators of the lakka-tv image, so I came to the conclusion that the hardware is in good condition, therefore check what the fault could be because the computer usual…

I have an Orange Pi Plus 2 that has worked with Android installed for a long time. But now I needed to install Linux on it. I needed to find a Linux image to install on it, and I've already got several, but all the ones that worked, and that were on the login screen, didn't go beyond that, since in none of the 4 USB ports the keyboard worked and I imagine the mouse. I read somewhere that the image Armbian_5.38_Orangepiplus_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop.7z or Armbian_5.20_Orangepiplus_Debian_jessie_3.4.112_desktop.7z, but I don't know where to get it, hoping to solve all the problems. Can someone give a helping hand, please?

Hello! I’m using Armbian 25.2 image. It seems there is a bug in the device tree. I have enabled ethernet@5030000. But ethernet doesn’t work. Does anyone know where to find the tree with the correct description of the ethernet@5030000 node for use with internal phy?

Hello, I have problems with the armbian distributions on my orange pi zero 3 because I can't even use chatgpt to activate the sound card on the expansion board that comes as an accessory for the orange pi zero 3. I'm referring to the board that has two USB outputs and an audio jack port that I think is also a video port, but I can't get sound out of that port, only sound comes out of the HDMI port. It's a real mystery since there's no problem with the other distributions, but with armbian I can't get that audio output port to work. If you can help me please, I've tried a number of things and I can't get it to work.

Hi, sorry, I searched the forum but couldn't get any definitve answer to my questeion.... Is Video Decoding Hardware acceleration, CEC control and HDMI Audio Pass Through working on the OrangePiZero3 device? Thanks to its gigabit ethernet it would be the perfect replacement for my cheap amlogic Box which does only 4K25P due to hardware limitations..... Thanks for your input regarding this topic! Cheers Ford

I installed the image https://dl.armbian.com/orangepizero2w/Bookworm_current_minimal on my Orange Pi Zero 2W board. But when I tied to check sound from the headphone interface on the expansion board I have a problem: user@orangepizero2w:~$ aplay -l aplay: device_list:274: no soundcards found... There is no chance to turn it on even through DTB overlay in armbian-config because there is no sound card in there. How to make sound work in this board with Armbian?

Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.334_Orangepizero3_noble_current_6.6.75_gnome_desktop.img I downloaded above image with assumption that it would open desktop on first powerup. However, it kept on opening command prompt on first power up. I also tried installating gnome desktop from armbian config and rebooting. Still it did not open desktop. Please guide. Thanks in advance.

Hi, i have an orangepi zero 2w and tried noble gnome image with the "current" kernel (v6.6.x). I activated the gpu via armbian-config and reboot. Then it stucks somewhere in the booting process. It shows nothing on the screen. If i use the orange pi image instead, i can activate the gpu with orangepi-config, which is a similar tool like armbian-config. The gpu works fine then and has great performance. So it's theoretically possible. Can someone explain to me what the problem is here. If it was a simple port, it would surely have already been done. I tried also the dtb from the orange pi image, but then it also didnt boot up. Th…

Hi to everyone. I've installed community build Armbian on a Nanopi R1S-H5 and all ok but i see two differents Wlan (Wlan0 and Wlan1). If the board has only one wifi nic, how is this possible? Is there an error in any configuration file or in other place? Thanks in advance.

Hello! PWM seems to work without any configuration on the factory images with the gpio command, but I cant seem to get it to work on armbian. There doesn't seem to be any dtbs related to pwm, and /sys/class/pwm is empty on armbian. Anyone got this to work? EDIT: Forgot to add, doesnt seem to be any pwm overlays present on armbian install

Hi there, after upgrade Armbian today the Device (banana-pi) doesnt come up again telling that the root fs couldnt be mount because mmcblk0p1 is not available. After checking SD Card everything seems ok, filesystem is there and doesnt have any error. But still no boot. Then after applying a backup things are fine again. Started the upgrade again and same error like before. When applying those two updates there is repeatedly a dead system afterwards. Tested on different devices now. root@gluster01:~# apt list --upgradable Listing... Done armbian-config/unknown 25.5.0-trunk.330.0402.205255 all [upgradable from: 25.5.0-trunk.286.0324.065110] linux-ima…

Hi, I just got my BPI-M4 Zero running, however I do not know how to get HDMI Audio output working (if it's possible at all) I installed: - Armbian_25.2.0-trunk.414_Bananapim4zero_trixie_current_6.6.72_minimal.img # uname -r 6.6.72-current-sunxi64 # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Armbian 25.2.0-trunk.414 trixie Release: n/a Codename: trixie # aplay -l aplay: device_list:279: no soundcards found... # aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) pipewire PipeWire Sound Server default Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server) # pacmd list…

I've updated all Armbian packages on my Ubuntu 24.04 system running on the Cubietruck a few days ago, updating the release to Armbian 25.2.3 with kernel linux-image-current-sunxi (i.e. I'm using the current flavor of the system). This got me the current kernel version 6.6.75. Unfortunately, since that I couldn't get the system to boot anymore, because it immediately throws a kernel panic on boot. The HDMI output doesn't show anything, so I had to attach a serial console to see what's going on. I've already followed the Recovery guide, extracting again all .deb packages and reinstalling u-boot on the SD card, and even compared the contents of /boot with t…

It seems there are no any on-board wifi nodes (vcc33-wifi, vcc-wifi-io, wifi-pwrseq ) in sun50i-h618-orangepi-zero2w.dtb , and exists in Zero 3 dts . zero2w.dts: type_addr_wifi = <0x02>; zero3.dts: type_addr_wifi = <0x02>; zero3.dts: vcc33-wifi { zero3.dts: regulator-name = "vcc33-wifi"; zero3.dts: vcc-wifi-io { zero3.dts: regulator-name = "vcc-wifi-io"; zero3.dts: wifi-pwrseq { zero3.dts: reg_vcc33_wifi = "/vcc33-wifi"; zero3.dts: reg_vcc_wifi_io = "/vcc-wifi-io"; zero3.dts: wifi_pwrseq = "/wifi-pwrseq";

I am running a old buster image and ran apt-get upgrade, now it won't boot. Armbian 21.02.3 Buster with Linux 5.15.93-sunxi64 Get:8 http://netcup.armbian.com/apt buster/main arm64 linux-u-boot-orangepipc2-current arm64 25.2.3 [336 kB] ... Unpacking armbian-firmware (25.2.3) over (23.08.0-trunk--1-SA1251-B226d) ... dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-RjldFI/034-armbian-firmware_25.2.3_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/board-2.bin', which is also in package firmware-atheros 20190114+really20220913-0+deb10u2 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) ... Preparing…

I made this simple dts file for my GPS NTP server running on Zero2/3 and Zero2w On Zero2, use PC9 as PPS in , and on Zero2W use PI5 . It should be configured in /boot/armbianEnv.txt, but I unsuccess on zero2w, so you must comment out two lines and compile it by yourself. Maybe help someone. sun50i-h616-pps-gpio.dtso

Hello! I am trying to get the cedar_ve device working for OPIZ2W. I am currently running this image: Orangepizero2w_1.0.4_ubuntu_noble_server_linux6.1.31 My uname -a: Linux orangepizero2w 6.1.31-sun50iw9 #1.0.4 SMP Wed Oct 9 13:39:53 CST 2024 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux To do this I am trying to follow these steps: 1. Modify a dts for OPIZ2W to include cedar_ve. 2. Donwloan cedrus driver and build it. 3. Compile modified ffmpeg with x264cedrus support Have anyone tried this? I have only found builds for recent kernel for the H3 CPU, none for the H618. I am looking for a DTS that su…

Hello, Do you guys have some tips on reducing power consumption to an absolute minimum? I've made some progress and reduced it to about 500mW on idle. with some CPUs shut off. I would like to get it lower for battery saving. I'm currently building a custom image with as much of the functions I don't need (SPI, i2c, bluetooth etc) turned off hoping that I will get some more power savings. Not sure if this will make a difference yet. Ideas would be appreciated!

I have a NanoPi Neo. I am trying to get a gps module setup on it. Just at typical neo6m, serial gps module. I would like to start out at the basics. I am not new to linux, or micro controllers, but I am new to the nanopi. How can I confirm that something is talking on the serial ports? Is there a way to route the serial port traffic to the terminal when I am logged in through ssh? I am not sure the uart1 is enabled, but even if it is enabled, I really wouldnt know how to confirm it. Does anyone know where I can look to find some info? I would like to find out how to enable the serial ports for communication with another device &amp…

boot and stopped on mount something.

Hello, I am curious to hear how accurate the measurement of temperature is from the onboard sensors, particularly in my case for the Banana Pi M2+. While I do understand that the BPi M2+ suffered from poor choices for thermal management from the manufacturer both in hardware and software, I believe that thankfully Armbian has worked out the kinks on the software side, hasn't it? I am running the latest noble image, here's what I noticed. The temperature as shown by the sensors and armbianmonitor commands never really goes below 60° even on idle with ambient temperatures of around 25 to 30 degrees. My SBC already came with a small heatsink attach…

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…

I need some help with this LCD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMD7Y55M?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share, i bought it since i verified whith the always unreliable AI GPT if it would work with my Orange Pi since i want to use the screen in my klipper 3d printer. Now im stuck since the available driver from the manufacturer are only for the Arduino and RP2040. I verified evrywhere and could only find one github but that one did not work for me and there are no tutorials of how to work with this. Does some one have any idea of how to make this run or work?. Just in case my wiring is as follows:

I have a question, does anyone know a method to start in the Opi Lite system the I2S audio interface and in particular I mean the module: PCM5102 / PCM5102a On my old OrangePi Lite board, sound and audio in the configuration as mentioned above really work great ... but unfortunately the Armbian system that I use is no longer supported. This is the Ubuntu version (xenial) and kernel: 3.4.113-sun8i, I managed to update some programs important to me, e.g. mpd / mpc but not to the latest versions. I also have another version of OrangePI 3 LTS and I know that on this model it is rather impossible to start I2S + PCM5102 so I used a good sound card under USB and it is OK. Ho…

Hello Community! I am struggling with assigning numbers to I2C buses in my BPi, doing the same(?) thing in two different ways i am getting two different results. By default, there is only /dev/i2c-0 node available, AFAIK because HDMI uses this bus. 1. Using build-in overlay for i2c0 bus (overlays=i2c0 in /boot/armbianEnv.txt) enables another i2c bus. In this case, /dev/i2c-0 is the bus connected to pins 3 and 5 at 40-pin header. The other bus (enabled by default) becomes /dev/i2c-1. It doesn't matter how many times i reset my board, assignment doesn't change. 2. The second way is to create my own overlay by cloning this code and …

Good morning, I have a NanoPi Neo Core that I want to use to generate a PWM wave. As far as I understand, the pin for this is PA5, which is shared with UART. However, by using the corresponding overlay, the UART would be disabled, and PWM would be enabled. Is that correct? What would be the next steps to verify that this is correct and to generate the PWM wave? Is there a specific command to do this? Thanks for your help, and best regards!

Hardware: Board: Orange Pi Zero 2W (Allwinner H618) Audio Module: MAX98357A (I2S) Connections: BCLK → PI13 (Pin 7) LRC/WS → PI14 (Pin 16) DIN → PI15 (Pin 31) 5V/GND → Properly connected Software: Armbian Version: 25.5.0-trunk.147 (nightly) Kernel: 6.6.75-current-sunxi64 Configuration: /boot/armbianEnv.txt: overlay_prefix=sun50i-h618 overlays=i2s param_i2s=on Problem: No sound output via MAX98357A. aplay -l returns "no soundcards found". dmesg | grep i2s shows no output, indicating the I2S driver is not loaded. Missing I2S overlay: Checke…

Hi there. First time posting. I already installed the latest version of the desktop version for my M1 and I was gratefully surprised how an old device is still working thanks to the armbian community. Thanks all of you. I am on a retro project trying to make my M1 working on an old crt TV through the pal/ntsc video output. New compiled kernel doesn’t seem to have the necessary driver/module. Any workarounds/ideas to achieve that? thanks

Good evening! Thats my first post, I have for a year a Orangepi 3 LTS that I used for my kid, he looks that never switch off the unit by software and use the switch all the time, so suddenly the unit dont boot anymore, the SD card partition table was corrupt, so I mounted a new OS in another SD but does not boot, the green light is not coming anymore. So I connected a TTL to USB Serial device for debugging and it shows the following information: U-Boot SPL 2021,10-orangepi (Sep 06 2022 - 18:22:23 +0800) PMU: AXP806 DRAM: 2048 MiB Trying to boot from MMC2 NOTICE: NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE: INFOS NOTICE NOTICE: INFO: INFO: INFO? BL31: BL31: BL3…

Im using Orange Pi PC+ with Debian 12 minimal image. I tryed to install/compile ovpn-dco-v2 as of standard deb (openvpn-dco-dkms) as well as of git (https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-dco). In bouth cases compilation prcess itself was finished successfully but resulting driver ovpn-dco-v2.ko didn't work. In the first case, the driver caused a kernel error. In the second case, after "modprobe ovpn-dco-v2" , openvpn stuck somewhere in the middle and lsmod has hung down, blocking the console. Before installing the driver package i did: apt install build-essential kmod debhelper devscripts linux-headers-current-sunxi And as i thought everything went fine. …

One of the Bananapi-m1+ GPIO pins is connected to an LED that I need to illuminate as quickly as possible after power-on. Using an older Fedora Linux release, it turns on in 3 seconds. Using a recent Armbian build, it takes 45 seconds. I've tried many ways using services with early "After=" targets, to access /sys/class/gpio/* interfaces more quickly, and this improved it by 5 seconds, but it's still too long. So I tried adding a device tree overlay to set the default value in the pin controller. I am confident the DT overlay is getting read and parsed properly, based on seeing artifacts in debugging streams, but still, no LED illumination. Anybody got any ideas on …

Hi, anyone have already connected a speaker to gpio of lcpi h3 v8 (like orange pi pc). I have tried but im not sure if i2s is enabled on armbian

In case anyone wondering, AW859A / 20U5622 Wi-Fi modules (uwe5622 driver) do not support WPA3. GCMP-128/GCMP-256 are not listed as supported in iw output, SAE or WPA-PSK-SHA256 wpa_supplicant key methods are not recognized as valid. # iw phy Wiphy phy0 wiphy index: 0 max # scan SSIDs: 12 max scan IEs length: 2304 bytes max # sched scan SSIDs: 9 max # match sets: 9 RTS threshold: 2353 Retry short limit: 10 Retry long limit: 9 Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m) Device supports RSN-IBSS. Supported Ciphers: * WEP40 (00-0f-ac:1) * WEP104 (00-0f-ac:5…

I am attempting to boot my BPI-M2U. It will start the boot, but it does not get to the login prompt. Instead, it resets and starts the boot process over. I am using a 3A Power Supply rated for Pi's. I've tested with other power supplies. One of the BPI images does boot and run. The SD card is untested but works for the other OS. In case it was the SD card, I flashed the Armbian image to the eMMC and attempted to boot off that. I am using the Armbian_23.05.0-trunk_Bananapim2ultra_bookworm_current_6.1.24 image. While the exact spot it dies might change by a few lines, the following is about where it gets. I can build Armbian images f…

Hi, I see in the /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstrun script that it runs the command: update-rc.d ap6212-bluetooth defaults for nanopi neo air (and some other boards) However if I try to run this script sudo /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstrun start The result is: update-rc.d: error: unable to read /etc/init.d/ap6212-bluetooth setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:183 put_font_kdfontop: Unable to load such font with such kernel version setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:183 put_font_kdfontop: Unable to load such font with such kernel version setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:183 put_font_kdfontop: Unable to load such font with such kernel versio…

Hi all, I try to work with Pine64 7" inch LCD on Pine64 A64 board but not working I just modify /boot/armbianEnv.txt for add pine64_lcd=on and add the module how is described on the installation iso, but nothing happens. In the boot file I have found dispmode directive because when installed I used hdmi port to see first boot. Please Help me!

Hello, since the build for OrangePi Plus 2 is only community maintained (and there is a warning during installation that this build is not suitable for production), I though of using some generic image or a image for a similar board with standard support. Is it a good Idea? Which image should I choose? Thanks for help, Skalistan P.S. there is no tag for "OrangePi Plus 2", so I used the tag for "OrangePi Plus 2E" since it is required to add a tag.

I'm on 'cat /etc/os-release|grep ARMBIAN_PRETTY_NAME' = ARMBIAN_PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 24.11.1 bullseye"

Hi everyone, I'm new to Orange Pi Zero 2w and Armbian. I'm trying to use the image on the zero2w. Installing on the SD fits and works so far. Unfortunately, there is no image on the screen via the HDMI port. Could it be due to the image? The old OrangePi image with the 5.x kernel works so far. Do you have an idea? Best regards

I see the device tree file here: ``` /boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-h616-uart5-ph.dtbo ``` But after adding `overlays=uart5-ph` to `armbianEnv.txt` and rebooting, I'm not getting any new serial device created. Any idea what I need to do?

How do i enable UART 3 in an orange pi 3-LTS. i checked the /boot/armbianEnv.txt file and it has overlay_prefix=sun50i-h6. i then did a sudo armbian-config > System > Kernel > SYS210 Manage device tree overlays > enabled sun50i-h6-uart3 > reboot. after all that i am still only seeing ttys0 when i do a dmesg | grep tty

I switched armbian repo to stable via armbian-config 24.11.2. The first thing it did, judging by /var/log/apt/history.log, was purging linux-image*: Start-Date: 2025-01-04 22:47:25 Commandline: apt-get -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -y purge linux-image* Requested-By: user (1000) Purge: linux-image-current-sunxi64:arm64 (24.11.1) End-Date: 2025-01-04 22:47:27 Then it proceeded to purge and reinstall dtb and armbian-firmware, but not linux-image: Start-Date: 2025-01-04 22:48:34 Commandline: apt-get -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -y purge linux-dtb* Requested-By: user (1000) Purge: linux-dtb-cu…

Hello First, sorry for my English Second, the problem... I have an Orange PI Zero 3, 4gb I install the OS without any problem, the image I use is the following: "Armbian_23.08.0-trunk_Orangepizero3_bookworm_current_6.1.31-1GB-2GB.img" I configure the network with the program "nmtui", everything is fine. I enter through ssh since the screen is not detected through HDMI, I do an apt update and then apt upgrade... everything seems correct, until I do a reboot... my Orange Pi does not start anymore. I am interested in installing openmediavault, that is why I resort to a debian image. What is the problem? I am not using the correct image? I need your help

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

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…

I have Armbian running on Banana Pi R1 without networking access. Is this board suppported at all or it is just a waste of time?

Hello, On Orangepilite2, USB3 is recognised as USB2. I have connected multiple usb3 devices and results are same. I tried armbian, orangepi Debian, orangepi Ubuntu! results are same same too. For some reason all OS have same issue. In picture mass storage is USB3 device.

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…

Look at the description https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian_overlays/ when I set UART I2C in armbianEnv.txt it should be overlay_prefix=sun50i-h616 overlays=i2c3-ph uart5-ph as described on the given page But when I use armbian-config and go to Manage Overlays my settings are not seen and I have to set them but the names of all overlays are preceded by the prefix. After selecting and saving the settings in armbinEnv.txt it is overlay_prefix=sun50i-h616 overlays=sun50i-h616-i2c3-ph sun50i-h616-uart5-ph as a result the defined overlays are not loaded Is it supposed to be like t…

Hi, I'm trying to get Bluetooth working on a Cubietruck running 6.6 kernels including the latest Armbian release. What I'm finding is that a Cubietruck can discover other Cubietrucks but nothing else. Other devices (e.g. Raspberry Pi, Nvidia, Rockpi, and various phones) can discover each other but not the Cubietrucks. I have three Cubietrucks here and testing with the old 4.99 Bluetooth software or the current 5.55 release shows no difference. But if I run a Cubietruck with the ancient 3.4 kernel it can detect other devices but not the Cubietrucks running the 6.6 kernels. I'm using the same Wi-Fi firmware and BT .hcd file in all cases. So it's like the Cubietru…

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?

I built Armbian Edge from source (bookworm, server, no gui) and have no video via HDMI. Being a new build, networking is not set up and so I cannot SSH in to troubleshoot. I reverted to a stable Armbian build on another SD, upgraded that kernel to Edge, and lost video output. This one already has networking set up, I can SSH in, but I don't know what to look for in order to get my monitor working. Goal being, figure out what needs changed, and change it in the build process for a new image. I appreciate any pointers.

Hi, I got my OPiZ3 2GB model last week, but it seems to detect as 4GB sometimes. At first, I thought I got lucky and the seller shipped the 4GB model, but I realized it crashes under load when it do. and I have to restart multiple times to get it right. The issue shows up in htop and free, where it reports double the memory and swap. I’m using the Minimal/IOT image with Armbian Linux v6.6. Here's the output from armbianmonitor -u: https://paste.next.armbian.com/iguzunaved The MemTotal value switches between 4GB and 2GB. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!

Is it a way to reduce the amount of reserved memory on sunxi64 devices? Trying to remove all useless for my case features (video/audio/wireless) to free up memory/resources for other tasks. The amount of total (413M) vs real (512M) memory is quite low: # grep -e Mem -e Cma /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 422416 kB MemFree: 49620 kB MemAvailable: 314396 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB CmaFree: 0 kB # dmesg | grep Memory: [ 0.000000] Memory: 407924K/524288K available (14144K kernel code, 1456K rwdata, 8700K rodata, 3072K init, 521K bss, 116364K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) # grep extraargs /boot/armbianEnv.txt extraar…

I just booted the NanoPi Neo2 with the latest "Server images with Armbian Linux v6.6" running Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble). After logging in via SSH, I saw a message stating that this image is for development use only and not for production. Based on your experience, how stable is the development image? Am I correct in understanding that there is no stable image for NanoPi Neo 2 ?

Good day! I'm using latest armbian build for orange pi lite (Armbian_community 25.2.0-trunk.86 Bookworm). Tried to connect anything to OTG USB port (mouse, flash drive), but it didn't work. DMesg was silent. Had 4 USB devices: [ 1.683435] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller [ 1.699369] usb usb2: Product: EHCI Host Controller [ 1.727339] usb usb4: Product: Generic Platform OHCI controller [ 1.729832] usb usb3: Product: Generic Platform OHCI controller Then I followed this guide https://github.com/carl1961/Orange-PI-Lite-Usb-OTG-to-Host And I had 5th one after this: […

Hi. I'm running Armbian Distro Debian 12 Minimal/IOT with Gnome GUI on an Orange Pi Zero3 2gb and 4gb models. I installed XRDP Xorg to be able to access from Windows 10. I can access the systems remotely, but both machines turn off after a short period of activity, somewhere between 5-10 minutes, whether they're idle or performing some activity. I've already looked for some hibernation/suspend option, but I only found something related to turning off the screen, which didn't solve the problem after being disabled. The Orange Pi Zero3 2gb machine ran for a few months using another version of Armbian recommended by the manufacturer's website without this…

Current community builds(Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04 as well) doesn't support audio codec. Even after enabling codecs with armbian-config ls /dev/snd command displays: seq timer when expectation is to have by-path controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p seq timer Have anybody face with the same issue? any advises how to solve it?

Hello everyone, asking your help as i'm getting a little bit crazy with my pi02w. I'm not able to understand why my board is not able to connect to wifi without the external antenna. I'll explain better, it seems that is able to find it, connect to but not able to work. I cant post the armbianmonitor log as no internet connection. Thanks armbianmonitor.txt

The distributions for this SBC don't boot due to errors to thermal device. I saw some messages in the forum where has be told that disabling thermal check the distribution works. Can you blacklist or disable thermal sensors check?

I’ve been running Armbian from an SSD for a while using this guide: https://jamesachambers.com/orange-pi-zero-2-usb-ssd-boot-guide/ Recently, after running apt update && apt full-upgrade, the following issues have occurred: 1. Wi-Fi adapter is no longer detected. 2. CPU utilization exceeds 80% when accessing the Gnome launcher or starting GUI apps (e.g., a web browser, even without opening a webpage). 3. The system becomes laggy and nearly unusable, noticeable when moving the mouse. Are there recent changes to Armbian that affect SSD booting? Is there a workaround for these issues?

I'm trying to configure the CS (Chip Select) pin on my Orange Pi Zero 3. I added overlays=spi-spidev to the /boot/armbianEnv.txt file, created my own dtbo file, and tried all possible methods suggested by ChatGPT. I've been struggling for two weeks with no success. I haven't been able to switch the CE1 pin to alt4 state; it only stays off, nothing else. Is it even possible to work with SPI on this board?

I am running a headless Bananapipro server that acts as an AP. Recently I found that its WiFi net was gone. In the log I found a crash of brcm: Dec 19 02:40:14 localhost kernel: [3919907.052132] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_fw_crashed: Firmware has halted or crashed Dec 19 02:40:15 localhost kernel: [3919908.004319] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_fil_cmd_data: bus is down. we have nothing to do. Dec 19 02:40:15 localhost kernel: [3919908.004360] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_fil_cmd_data: bus is down. we have nothing to do. Dec 19 02:40:15 localhost kernel: [3919908.004372] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_stop_ap: SET SSID error (-5) Dec 19 02:40:15 localhost kernel: [3919908…

I know I need to find out which drivers to use... I just don't know where to start, I know I've seen some people having success with these displays - ili9488, and a couple others - I just don't know if this fits one of those overlays or not. (nothing I've tried so far has worked). Any help identifying and pointing in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate. Trying to get this to work on my Orange Pi Zero 3 4gb. (uploading images has failed.... so I guess I'll link them?) https://imgur.com/a/NORYCj7 *edit 12/21 - renamed topic since I've Identified the display, going to track my (our?) progress with trying to get it to work…

Hello, I'm new with armbian and I want to generate an image with a specific kernel version. Is it possible? I found the LIB_TAG but it's now deprecated, is there a replacement parameter? Thank you, Guillaume

Has anyone had any success with running a current/semi current OS and the NAS/RTC Enclosure/Hat from FriendlyElec. I was never impressed with the NAS/OpenMediaVault image that shipped with the board/hat. I have attempted to strip OMV out of the device and move the device forward with some success. The the Kernel is stuck at v4.14.52. But I would prefer to load a clean current OS and potentially use the correct overlays to enable the extra USB Ports, USB to SATA Bridge and RTC features. Question is does anyone have any information/guide to use a current version of Armbian/Community and the correct overlay file(s) to allow the the JMicron USB to SATA interface and …

I want to understand the feasibility of installing Armbain on a board that is currently Tina Linux. The board has an Allwinner R528 processor and an emmc . The R528 is not a well known Allwinner processor but it is essentially a D1 with two Arm-a7 processors instead of a RISCV processor. It also is a essentially the same processor as a T113-s3 but in a different physical package. I see the mangopi-mq and the nehza have the D1, but I'm not sure it helps. I have a full dts file (3000+ lines) for this board. But what I am failing to get a grasp of is: Given that I that I have a complete dts file, what is the work flow to get Armbian…