Allwinner sunxi

So, the Linux Kernel 4.6 is out. Supposedly it comes with a lot of new ARM processor support. I'm excited about this. I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to kernel development, especially with ARM devices. I guess the question is, what's it going to take to move the devices that use these supposedly newly supported chips up to 4.6? I'm somewhat keen on updating to a kernel that isn't approaching EOL.

Hello, with the update to the new kernel (4.6.3-sunxi) I get some problems on my banana pro. First, while the system starts I get sometimes a kernel panic. In the most cases the kernel will boot on the second or third try. But the second one will be contantly and can't be avoided by a system reboot. The network interfaces don't be worked. The will be initialized during the system start process, get there IPv4 addresses from the router per DHCP and ifconfig shown them with the state "up". Everything looks ok. But if I try to connect another system, the connection will be failed. Any ping, as exsample to the router (default gateway), fails. The ping t…

Hello It is funny that new kernels going out and kill what developers have made working on older kernels.. For example I have had no issues with GPIOs pull up in 5.1.15-sunxi64 kernel. On Kernel 5.1.15-sunxi64 I do not get those errors; Python: GPIO.add_event_detect(31, GPIO.RISING, callback=count1) RuntimeError: Failed to add edge detection I didnt have any issues with Kernel 5.1.15 but I cannot recreate it anymore. Maybe this will help to give a clue of what is happening: at 5.1.15 kernel: In ArmbianEnv.text I have enabled the w1-gpio: param_w1_pin=PC7 (PC7 Is GPIO-71) …

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

I have a question regarding the configuration of the /etc/asound.conf file... are there any changes in the new kernel that prevent this from happening? I've noticed that my USB audio card no longer loses its settings and its position doesn't change. However, to be sure, I tried editing the /etc/asound.conf file... but it turns out to be impossible 🙂 That is, after saving the settings in /etc/asound.conf... ALSA doesn't work! 🙂 Moreover, the blocking for certain selected devices doesn't work either. In my case, the blocking is: HDMI Audio... in the file: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf blacklist sun9i_hdmi_audio blacklist snd_soc_simple_card Are these changes rel…

Hi. I have Cubieboard 1 with Armbian Jessie installed on NAND. I've tried to disable output during boot as described here: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/#how-to-toggle-boot-output, but there are no existing boot.cmd and boot.scr in boot partition. I've found out that uEnv.txt have same purpose but it seems that editing this file doesn't affects arguments, /proc/cmdline remains the same.

I tried to create my own image using the build script for Orange Pi Zero. But starting this crashes immediately. Any suggestions? U-Boot 2017.09-1 (Oct 13 2017 - 11:04:53 +0200) CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3382 bytes read in 125 ms (26.4 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 43100000 U-boot loaded from SD Boot script loaded f…

Hi, admin. I installed Mainline 4.9.12-sunxi on my cubieboard 2. Since the Mainline kernel doesn't have Mail driver and hardware accelerated video decoding, I want to downgrade the kernel to Legacy 3.4.113. If I don't want to reinstall the whole system, is there anyway to replace the kernel with the old version? Many thks!

Hello, I've downgrade Olimex Lime2 armbian from 5.31 to 5.25 with following commands: sudo dpkg -i linux-u-boot-next-lime2_5.25_armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.25_armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-image-next-sunxi_5.25_armhf.deb and then reboot -f Unfortunately Olimex lime2 cannot re-start !! How can I recover my board ? Thank you

Hi, I compiled the newest version of u-boot. Then I updated it at my sd card via: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1k count=1023 seek=1 dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 seek=8 dd if=u-boot.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 seek=40 Now u-boot starts and I'll get to the message "Starting kernel ..." and nothing happens. Do I have to recompile the Kernel or did I something wrong? Edit: I did it on my NanoPi Neo2

Hi everyone! Follow instructuions https://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-Cedrus to setup hw decoding everyone need kernel with flags: CONFIG_MEDIA_SUPPORT CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER_REQUEST_API CONFIG_V4L_MEM2MEM_DRIVERS CONFIG_VIDEO_SUNXI_CEDRUS Images from armbian repo is without one of them - CONFIG_V4L_MEM2MEM_DRIVERS So my proposal is to make kernel for desktop prebuilds with this flag, if its possible ofcourse. Im understand that is opensourse project, so my help can be like that - i have really much space on Y.Drive and i can share folder to minimize download usage of armbian repo.

hi all i'm trying to boot my orange pi over the network. i have written u-boot into SPI-Flash memory. i modified boot.cmd script to download the kernel, init ram and script.bin from TFTP server. after downloading them all the kernel tries to start but it dose not proceed. I've attached the screenshot of the console. My boot.cmd Spoiler # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # Please edit /boot/armbianEnv.txt to set supported parameters # setenv serverip 172.20.20.200 setenv load_addr "0x44000000" setenv overlay_error "false" # default values setenv rootdev "/dev/nfs" setenv verbosity "1" setenv console "both" setenv disp_mem_reser…

Out of curiosity, and according to several articles/posts including this one http://forum.lemaker.org/thread-1847-1-1.html the A20 has support for hardware watchdogs. Has some successfully configured and used the watchdog kernel module sunxi_wdt.ko in a banana / lamobo R1?

Hello there I am looking to prepare kernel headers on orange pi plus to install mali drivers kernel version 4.14.68-sunxi Release Bionic Command : cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.68-sunxi && sudo make scripts -j4 Result: scripts/Makefile.build:155: recipe for target 'scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s' failed make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s] Error 1 scripts/Makefile.build:587: recipe for target 'scripts/mod' failed make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2 Makefile:569: recipe for target 'scripts' failed make: *** [scripts] Error 2 I have tried everything here is the det…

Hi all, I just downloaded the Armbian(5.36 xenial-next)-based image for BPI M2 Zero, that comes with kernel 4.14.3-sunxi. I'm looking for kernel headers for this kernel, but I can't find it in armbian's repo. Could you help me to retrive them? Thank you!

Hi there, while trying to solve the issue with OPi PC and rtl8188 (thread link) I managed to get console on the UART interface, nice feature considering my networking issues, btw is there a way to output the kernel messages (dmesg like) to the UART console in real time? I'm asking cos the issue that I'm trying to fix involves system freeze + automatic reboot and I would like to see the logs during the event. I already tried to mess with printk, but it's very likely I've done something wrong.

Hello, First of all, I'm new on Armbian I got some a stack dump on the console and can see following messages on kernel.log : --- Oct 24 14:27:28 localhost kernel: [183195.142242] 8<--- cut here --- Oct 24 14:27:28 localhost kernel: [183195.152222] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 2f68f25c Oct 24 14:27:28 localhost kernel: [183195.167942] pgd = 36f6b267 Oct 24 14:27:28 localhost kernel: [183195.179169] [2f68f25c] *pgd=00000000 Oct 24 14:27:28 localhost kernel: [183195.191263] Internal error: Oops: 805 [#1] SMP THUMB2 Oct 24 14:27:29 localhost kernel: [183195.204864] Modules linked in: brcmfmac brcmut…

Hi again, I've a strange problem again. I've several Lime2 and tested them with USB-Sticks, works fine. Now I got a Fan-Tec case (USB 3.0 DB-ALU3-6G) containing a 4TB-SATA from a customer. As soon as I plug the disk into one of the USB-Plugs of a lime2, I got a kernel panic: Message from syslogd@localhost at Oct 19 17:49:20 ... kernel:[ 460.550693] Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM Message from syslogd@localhost at Oct 19 17:49:20 ... kernel:[ 461.304238] Process kworker/u:1 (pid: 55, stack limit = 0xee9702f0) Message from syslogd@localhost at Oct 19 17:49:20 ... kernel:[ 461.314387] Stack: (0xee971d78 to 0xee972000) .... Some facts…

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…

Hi, I try to install Armbian Bulleye on my Nanopi Neo Plus 2. Well it completed the install, but when it reboot, I keep getting kernel panic. I try installing with the official Friendly Arm image (kernel 4.14 though) and it was fine (both on SD card and EMMC). Below is the serial console dump, also it seems to crash in random places too. Any help will be greatly appreciated. =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2022.12.09 21:53:09 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= U-Boot SPL 2022.07-armbian (Nov 30 2022 - 10:43:13 +0000) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 NOTICE: BL31: v2.6(debug):af220ebb-dirty NOTICE: BL31: Built : 10:4…

Hi, I have tested this issue : https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/issues/244 apparently it is not resolved. kernel panic log : [18109.785618] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [18109.790613] kernel BUG at arch/arm/mach-sun7i/dma/dma_core.c:32! [18109.795412] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM [18109.797259] Modules linked in: disp_ump mali_drm drm mali ump cpufreq_userspace ap6210 sunxi_ir hidp rfcomm hci_uart bluetooth sg [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] [18109.813725] CPU: 0 Tainted: G W (3.4.112-sun7i #2) [18109.816542] PC is at __dma_start+0x7c/0x80 [18109.819171] LR is at dma_ctrl+0x90/0x1dc [18109.828043] pc : [] lr : …

hi there, Recently there was an update for all Olimex boards with A20. Now we have one image for all the boards and it includes mainline kernel which is cool. I checked here and took the image from here. Now after a while I got strange error and wanted to check with you if you can share an opinion what this could be: [32673.051479] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000 [32673.060027] pgd = 9d6652ac [32673.062884] [00000000] *pgd=00000000 [32673.066666] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP THUMB2 [32673.071795] Modules linked in: joydev input_leds ipt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 xt_addrt…

Hi. I'm looking for your kernel sources 3.4.113 with Mali400Mp driver. Is there a repo where I can download it or I have to patch myself the sunxi-v3.4.104-r0 kernel. In case there is no repo and I have to do this myself could you please tell me if my approach is correct for cubieboard2 and cubietruck3. 1) Download the sunxi kernel 3.4.104-r0 2) Download the armbian sources 5.24 3) Patch the kernel 3.4.104-r0 using lib/patch/kernel/sun7i-default files Did I forget something ? It would be so much better if I could download your full patched kernel 3.4.113 with Mali400MP driver. I am far from being an expert in this work. Thx

hello Igor, I get some error information after updating the new kernel v4.1 root@cubie:~/3.4.108# dpkg -i linux-image*.deb (Reading database ... 70156 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-image-cubietruck (from linux-image-cubietruck_4.1_armhf.deb) ... dpkg: error processing linux-image-cubietruck_4.1_armhf.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/lib/modules/3.4.108-cubietruck/modules.builtin.bin', which is also in package linux-image-3.4.108-cubietruck 4.0 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-cubietruck_4.1_armhf.deb how to solve this. Best regards Fla…

Hi, i use Debian Stretch 9.3 on a Cubitruck, it run‘s with a 3.14-Sunix Kernel, i wan‘t to Upgrade to a newer Kernel like 4.X, how ca i do that? Thank you? Gesendet von iPhone mit Tapatalk

Hello to all, how can I upgrade the kernel to 4.6.2 from 4.5.2. I have a lamobo r1? Thank you Paul

I have simple Banana Pi. I have Armbian on it installed on Feb this year. I can see in Changelog that there were no kernel updates for this (A20) board. Will there be any kernel updates? And when?

Hello, We have our A20 machine with a sdio wifi device Realtek 8723bs which is not included in the current kernel's modules, then when we try to cross-compile them in a PC it fail requiring kernel version 3.19 or later, i think mainline kernel could be a way to go or upgrade 3.4.x to 3.19.x, but some text claim unsupported nand in mainline which is required by the project and don't know the correct way to make it go to 3.19 in sunxi allwinner scenario. What do you think is the best way to make it work better, any clue please? Thank's in advance Daniel

Hi, I've got a quick question regarding the kernel upgrade instructions on a Cubietruck that runs on Igor's Debian image. Let me mention first that the system boots from my Cubietruck's NAND. However, the root partition and the /home partition are both installed on some SSD. I've followed the instructions about the kernel upgrade (3.4.106-cubieboard to 3.19.6-cubietruck) in order to be able to use the proper shutdown feature - as detailed on http://www.igorpecovnik.com/2013/12/24/cubietruck-debian-wheezy-sd-card-image/. I.e. I installed the various *.deb packages which were contained in the *.tar archive via `dpkg -i`. Then I ran the steps as desc…

Hi, when I try to update my core the apt-get install operation fails. This is because the post-installation script creates a symbolic link as the boot partition does not support because she is fat. Also the boot is only possible with a uImage not zImage I think. To compensate I am forced to make a copy instead of the link.

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I'm willing to dusto off my H3-based Orange PI+ 2, because of all the great work that has being done recently on kernel 4.20, 5.0, 5.1 etc to support both H3 and Mali 400/450. However, for some reason, it seems that my board (even though it's officially supported) hasn't been updated past 4.19 kernel, so all the cool things are missing. On the other hand there are some WIP/no-yet-supported Orange Pi boards that DO support 5.1 kernel, so I'm a little bit confused. Is there any roadmap for newer kernels on H3 boards?

Is there a kernel package with PREEMPT-RT for OrangePi PC Plus? I'm trying to get linuxcnc running - which works, but without USB. I used this guide: https://orangecnc.gitlab.io/quick-start.html. Kernel there is 5.4.18, which has the USB-not-working-bug for Orange Pi Plus.

it seems that the kernel-header version is not updated to the actual kernel version: $ uname -a Linux cubietruck 4.14.65-sunxi #11 SMP Tue Aug 21 10:02:12 CEST 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux install header using armbian-config tool doesn't work - no error message thereafter: installed header manually: linux-headers-next-sunxi dpkg: warning: version '4.14.18-sunxi 4.14.65' has bad syntax: invalid character in revision number Building for 4.14.65-sunxi Module build for kernel 4.14.65-sunxi was skipped since the kernel headers for this kernel does not seem to be installed.

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…

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.

Hi Igor, is there a reason why the "killall" binary is missing in /usr/bin? Some of our applications use this file to kill servers... Can you add it in the next version? Thanks. Steffen

Anyone done kivy pip on Zero? Have problem with pip install kivy. Stuck on : /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Is someone tried to instal Kodi and is it work?

Hello,I have a bananapi m2+ I would like to install kodi version 17 to the standard repositories is the only version of 15 which doesn't suit me. tell me how to install the 17 version? I'm new to Linux and don't understand much,if there is a possibility lay out the user manual which would have helped with the installation. I want to install on server version armbian and that would be after the launch of the banana pi automatically instead of a desktop was loaded kodi interface, so it is possible to do?

When I start kodi it writes to stdout and I see in dmesg My setup Board: Lamobo R1 Kernel: 3.4.113 (default) Xorg DDX: fbturbo GLES: mali r3p0 VDPAU: cedrus This error occurs with various memory reservation settings in kernel arguments including default (no reservation settings at all in kernel cmdline)

Hello, I use the desktop version of Legacy with my Cubietruck. My problem is that I can’t launch Kodi. I installed it with 'sudo apt-get install kodi' but If I start the program I have a black screen and then kodi is closed. I reinstalled Kodi and updated the system. But the problem was not solve. Have anyone an idea how I can solve this problem?

that steps must be followed to install kodi in armbian? thnks I have added 'deb http://http.debian.net/debianjessie-backports main' in sources.list and sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install kodi but when you start kodi the screen goes black

Hello I try to install Kodi on a Orange Pi Win plus, but it stops with errors http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux this commands are working apt-get install software-properties-common add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa apt-get update at this poit i have Troubles apt-get install kodi i didnot find a soulution on google i know the builds are not ready, but is ther a soulution or what can i to. sry for my bad english

I looks like there are more as one way to setup kodi on orange pipc. The latest version 17.1 of kodi with hardware exsaleration would be preferable. I wanted a setup where i could use the on board ir and some Remote i already own. Then an usb Keyboard. And i did not want that kodi starts at system start. I also wanted VNC be usable to do a login via VNC to be able to remote control from my Leptop. I did get Kodi 15.2 working but with drawbacks: Video is not smooth, not relay nice to view. VNC and IR did work and i could go back to the desktop to start internet browser or something else, all rather slow. Colors of the HDMI TV look …

Hi, I am running Armbian on my Pinebook and want to install Kodi version 17. In official repository only version 15 is available. Is it possible to install version 17 and if yes, please tell me some instructions. Thank you in advance.

Hello! How are you? I have OPI PC PLUS running ubuntu xenial desktop. I want to use it how pc / thin client. Is it possible OPI runs youtube videos? I tried run youtube from Firefox and Chromium but without good quality. After reads some opi foruns, seem possible run videos with Kodi or Openelec. I did install kodi: sudo apt-get install kodi The instalation is ok, but when I try run Kodi, it does not works, give me only errors. I read too that Openelec can be good than Kodi in OPI. I need to install some media player service that runs together ubuntu xenial and not only how OPI station media player because I want work OPI how pc station. I can not …

Hello, Im using a Orange Pi Zero, running nginx with Nextcloud. Im noticing 99.99% usage on the IO reported by iotop, but disk read and disk write show 0%. Even a refresh on the homepage bumps it up to the top of the IO list. As far as I am informed... isn't kswapd0 supposed to deal with swap memory and go wild when I am about to run out of RAM? I have disabled (hopefully), my swap partition, but I am still getting this. I have commented out the swap line in fstab... htop reports 0KB SWAP. It doesn't seem that I am running out of memory. About 50% of it appears to be free all the time. I am really new to dev boards and such, but this didn't appea…

Hi, I'd like to use kvm on the Orange Pi PC2, but the Armbian 4.14.12-sunxi64 kernel doesn't seem to enable it (or possibly the boot loader doesn't put the CPU in the right mode?). If I google: allwinner h5 kvm then the first hit shows a kernel boot log which shows kvm enabled on an Orange Pi PC2, so it looks like it's possible. I'm happy to recompile the kernel myself, but wanted to know if there were any gotchas that might mean this is disabled by default on purpose? Cheers, Tim.

Hi Thank you in advance for the help and the magnificent work ??Has "(BananaPi M1)" KVM kernel supports in Ubuntu Mate 16. I would like to virtualize Windows XP or Windows 7 in "(BananaPi M1)" a social project for non-profit. I'm about to go crazy is this compatible with this board (BananaPi M1) Thank you

I have a problem with my wireguard implementation. When connected through it I get lag spikes every few seconds. What might be the cause and solution to this? It is not the internet connection/cable/etc because a raspberry pi running wireguard works fine on the same exact cable, port etc.

Hi, to resume the problem I encounter please let me introduce the network I use. 1) a main modem/router called BBox2 which is a Sagem F@st 3464 connected in LAN-WAN to a 2) a secondary router called Lamobo R1 (also named Banana Pi R1 = BPi R1) 3) a laptop connected to the BPi-R1 4) I think to connect IP camera to the BBox2 then need to stay in the same network range (so I presume I need to change the conneciton used in 1) from LAN-WAN to LAN-LAN isn't it ?) Here is the connections and IP Addresses : BBox2 is connected in LAN-WAN to the BPi-R1 ISP -> BBox2 (LAN) -> (WAN) BPi-R1 (LAN) -> (LAN) Laptop 192.168.1.1 (DHCP->) 19…

Hi, I just saw ARMBian has been upgraded to 5.00 version. Then I though to check if my initial problem (for my first ARMBian test with the previous 4.5 version) could be solved with this new version : http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/616-lamobo-bpi-r1-network-issue-sudden-reboot-quick-usb-uart-how-to/?hl=miguipda What I encounter now with the 5.0 is a Lamobo R1 seems stable because no blinking green led. Just keep the red led switched on and wan with lan usable (I may contact website like you now ;-) ). Even with the connected harddrive. But... As my modem has the IP 192.168.1.1 and says that two IP are distributed with DHCP I saw the 192.168.1.4 …

Hi all, I'm writing this post because I had an issue upgrading my lamobo-r1 from the previous version to the current one (Armbian_5.20_Lamobo-r1_Ubuntu_xenial_4.7.3). On reboot hwclock doesn't start so I get my clock set to epoch, wan doesn't go UP, postfix says "time stamp 2015-11-25 01:40:22 is 1448411826.350146139 s in the future", random says "uninitialized urandom read"... a total mess. As pointed out on some sites, looks like "/etc/init/hwclock.conf" has "start on starting mountall" so failing to mount could cause a failing in hwclock initialization. I also found on bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu that in recent versions with systemd, mountall became fussy about fi…

I have installed armbian (4.9.7-sunxi) on my Lamobo R1 but i have a problem: It's possible to use the module ap6210 (like in bananian) for setting wlan0 acting in access point mode ? I don't find the way to do it using rtl8192cu Sorry for my bad english and thank you in advance Luca

Hi all, I've one minor issue with my Lamobo R1. I've to set the coherent_pool to > 256KiB to get my USB DVB device working. But every time I set the coherent_pool to e.g. 2M and regenerate the boot.scr the device gets in an endless boot loop (starting uboot - starting kernel - changes resolution and starts to load drivers - but then crashes with graphic errors and starts all over again). Is there something I can do against this? I've compiled the v3.0 with Jessie 3.4.107 with following kernel paramters configured (and sunxi uboot v2015.04): MEDIA_SUPPORT=m VIDEO_DEV=m SOUND=m GMAC_FOR_BANANAPI=y CMA=y CMA_SIZE_MBYTES=16 Greetings, Oliver

Hello, I am using for the first time a cable Neuftech PL2303HX I was looking @ lamobo-r1.fex file and cannot figure out which pins are the default uart for boot-up (not skilled enough yet) both links mention P13 as default, but I cannot get any messages from USB-uart cable (double checked UART RX & TX + ground) http://linux-sunxi.org/Lamobo_R1 http://www.bananapi.com/index.php/component/content/article?layout=edit&id=59 Thanks!

Hello and thanks for the good work and support with these images. First, excuse my bad english, it's not my native. And i am a little rookie and a little noob, so sorry if i write crap and don't understand basics some time. Recently i've try to install desktop on this board and hardware accelerated driver with partial result. I had Armbian_4.5_Lamobo-r1_Debian_wheezy_3.4.109 with installed Gnome. I install Gnome following this site: https://www.namhuy.net/1085/install-gui-on-debian-7-wheezy.html Then i started to install and configure stuff based on sunxi site. First libUMP tnen this: http://linux-sunxi.org/Mali_binary_driver "make test" didn't do anything - can't cr…

First i have to say - if i knew what i am gonna go through, i would never buy this troubled hardware. So don't buy it too. But if you are already strayed like me, i decided to share my modifications, to make this inconsiderate piece of hardware useful. With this mods the device finally work as i need it to and i am fully happy with hardware part. Not so happy with software though, but that's another story. The main reason for me, to buy this router, except pc like capabilities, was SATA+SATA power connector. I used my old router with usb HDD, so it sounded good to have it in box and on native sata interface. Silly me, who would thought this will be the most troubled …

Hello, i recently installed armbian on my newly bought Lamobo R1. Everything is working fine so far but for the onboard ethernet LEDs, they're not working as expected. The green LED on port 3 of the internal switch (also known as wan port) ist constantly on, no matter if there is a cable plugged in or not. The orange LED is always off. After some trial and error if figured out that on the other 4 ports the green LED, for the specific port, shows the current network traffic (is blinking) if the established connection is 10Base-T. If the connection is 1000Base-T, the orange LED shows the current network traffic and if the connection is 100Base-T no led is on or sh…

Hi, Finally SinoVoip /Foxconn released the schematic for the Lamobo R1 (R1-V3_SD July 18, 2014). First page a blockdiagramm and 13 pages of schematics as PDF. May be because the next Version of the R1 is soon ready?? Cheers Tido

Good day all. Anyone having issues of not able to see anything after "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel." via serial console on Lamobo R1 ? Tried to experiment a bit, it seems that U-Boot works correctly, but in Linux kernel, sent data from USB-serial to ttyS0 arriving correctly, but anything written to ttyS0 is not visible on connected USB-serial adapter.

Gentlemen, which ports are confirmed to be working with 4.x kernels on Lamobo R1 ? I'm using Ubuntu image 5.10, with installed updates: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS 4.5.5-sunxi. So far, seen only working UART3 (/dev/ttyS1) on pins 8/10 of CON3. U-boot seen on UART0 (J13), but under Linux, don't see anything on either UART0 or UART2. Anyone seen better results ?

First of all: my compliments to the staff of armbian for the important work done. I bought some lamobo r1 boards to use in a production environment such as (open)vpn router to realize a tele-service with PLC. I installed bananian (the first distro that I found on internet) but after a week I switched to armbian trying to create my own image from scratch. Very well, I like to have control over things. The question is: I should connect a lipo battery to the board so that when the main power goes off a daemon script syncs sd and then shutdown, but when the main power is reconnected the board must do a reboot automatically. It is possible to do this? Where should my daemon sc…

Please, help me how to config Lamobo-R1 with Lan USB QF9700. I need eth0, eth1 with command ifconfig. a) Plug USB QF9700 and reboot : ifconfig show only eth0 with mac address as Lan USB QF9700 Remove USB QF9700 and reboot : ifconfig show only eth0 with mac address as WAN I need two interface eth0 and eth1 for ( WAN and USB QF9700 ) work in command ifconfig. Best regards, CVH

I know Lamobo-r1 has many problems and that the support ended, but it works fine for me. Everything works fine with kernel 4.14.84-sunxi, however, when I update the kernel, the b53 switch does not work anymore. I need to update the kernel to add another wifi usb dongle that seems to work only with newer kernels (https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au/issues/272#issuecomment-467983704). Anybody experiencing the same problem? Any ideas for a workaround?

Hi, I have Orange Pi Zero based on H2+ which is failed to boot Armbian_5.34_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.13.8.img Symptoms: Green power light is always on, red led next to it does not flash at all. Ethernet lights are off. I am using proper power supply and Sandisk A1 16Gb Class 10 micro sd-card. Connecting UART-USB adapter based on CP2102x to UART port next to Ethernet ports shows nothing. Exactly same setup, same hardware, no changes on connections/setup boots "Armbian_5.30_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113.img" image without any problems. UART works fine. Any ideas how I can help to test newer image?

https://redirect.armbian.com/nanopiduo/Focal_current Tried to flash a couple of times, but it never makes it to the heartbeat led. Will try other releases. This one boots https://armbian.systemonachip.net/archive/nanopiduo/archive/Armbian_21.05.1_Nanopiduo_focal_current_5.10.34.img.xz

Armbian_21.05.1_Nanopiduo_focal_current_5.10.34.img boots (updating via apt upgrade also causes it not to boot any more) Armbian_21.08.1_Nanopiduo_focal_current_5.10.60.img does not When I examine the SD card it hasn't expended from image (makes sense since the heartbeat never starts).

Hello guys and gals Can anyone help me what information to add in boot.cmd file to make it bootable from SSD on SATA port? I found some examples but they are from 2014 and the information in my boot.cmd file looks slightly different from what is posted in the past. I'm using the latest Buster Server image with 4.19 kernel. By the way is it a good idea to enable TRIM for the SSD? I saw some options in YouTube how to enable TRIM, but just want to ask for opinion of people with SSD drives, who already managed to boot from SATA with SSD. setenv load_addr "0x44000000" setenv overlay_error "false" # default values setenv verbosity "1"…

I had working Banana Pi -> I compiled latest kernel (all config were default) and installed it -> Banana Pi did not boot, it was stucked on "Raising network interfaces" -> I downloaded latest image (Debian Jessie) and flashed it on SD card -> Banana Pi still stucked on "Raising network interfaces". Banana Pi is connected via normal cable directly to the router with DHCP. I have also tested cable and router and tried to use different cable. I have not changed anything else.

Hi, today I want to tell you, that I am very much upset about the result of the latest ARMBIAN Update! After updating I figured out, that the latest update erased my bash.bashrc.custom, which took me a long time to set it right! Unfortunate I did not have a backup! I am very much upset, that an armbian update erases configuration files WITHOUT any further notices!!! Regards, Ireng

I've been using a Beelink X2 with Armbian for some time now booting from eMMC. I ran an "apt update; apt upgrade" on the box early on 01/14/2018 and a reboot was suggested at the end. The system did not successfully reboot after this update and it appears that it doesn't recognize uboot on the eMMC. At the time I had other pressing matters so I set it aside to work on today. Today I downloaded the latest image Armbian_5.34.171121_BeelinkX2_Debian_stretch_next_4.13.14_desktop.img, verified it and successfully wrote the image to a 16GB microSD card. This successfully booted the X2, I then did an "apt update; apt upgrade" on the microSD card and rebooted. This then …

hi I am grateful for the help that will be given to me. Please help me with the launch of the cam500a by Nano Air. I tried to use http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Air#Connect_to_DVP_Camera_CAM500B guides and go along with it. but I did not succeed . I am very beginner and need help. This is all that I get by following the guide http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Air#Connect_to_DVP_Camera_CAM500B. root@NanoPi-NEO-Air:~# cd /root/mjpg-streamer root@NanoPi-NEO-Air:~/mjpg-streamer# make make: svnversion: Command not found make: Warning: File 'Makefile' has modification time 427105 …

hey guys, Using legacy kernel I have trouble having dual output on LCD and HDMI. I tried to have a cloned dual output (same framebuffer for both) : [disp_init] disp_init_enable = 1 disp_mode = 4 screen0_output_type = 1 screen0_output_mode = 6 screen1_output_type = 3 screen1_output_mode = 4 fb0_width = 0 fb0_height = 0 fb0_framebuffer_num = 2 fb0_format = 10 fb0_pixel_sequence = 0 fb0_scaler_mode_enable = 0 fb1_width = 1024 fb1_height = 600 fb1_framebuffer_num = 2 fb1_format = 10 fb1_pixel_sequence = 0 fb1_scaler_mode_enable = 0 ... Also tried with 2 framebuffers : [disp_init] disp_init_enable = 1 disp_mode = 2 screen0_output_type = 1 s…

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, First of all thanks for your very good job on armbian !!! I cannot adapt screen resolution on olimex A20 micro + 10 inch LCD (connected on board). normal resolution is 1024x600. I tried some varions in boot.cmd, as : setenv bootargs "console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=1024x600@60 panic=10 consoleblank=0 enforcing=0 loglevel=1" many variation as -1024x600 -1024x600 @25 @50 @60 MR-16, or other thinks found on net... The screen never correctly configured. Boot text is bad, graphical work, but not at right resolution visible area is cutted/bad placed...) Did you have advice ? Thanks ! I al…

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

Hi. Can I set small lcd screen, connected by i2c as standart output? It can be useful for console apps, which output status as text.

Hi everyone, Recently I have installed armbian Bookworm on my orangepi pc and i noticed that the LEDs were not working. The system is booting with no issue and I have connected to wifi and did an initial software update and bootloader update and still the issue is persisting. So I clean installed jammy on the pi to check it again and still the led was not working. Please help me out on this issue, and if anything more is required please do let me know.

Dear all, I discovered that the leds section is missing in the devicetree of orangepizeroplus2 H5 (at least upto kernel 4.14.39), and had to write an overlay to get them to work. The overlay has been attached. I've added this overlay file to /boot/overlay-user/ and added the overlay in /boot/armbianEnv.txt as follows: Kind regards, Dennis sun50i-h5-orangepi-zeroplus-leds.dts

Any chance of getting a legacy image for the A10-lime so that the 4 GB NAND will show up and the /root/nand-sata-install script will work? In the meantime, I'll try the image for Lime2, but I'm pretty sure that one is based on the A20 chip. Thanks,

Hello everybody, I would like to know what needs to be done to make this work. I simply copied over the sources of the r3p2 mali module into the 3.4.113 Armbian kernel source and the module wos built without error. Then I recompiled libump, libmali and fbturbu. But when I tried to put the gpu to work I got an error message: eglgetdisplay() returned no display. Since there was nothing helpful in the logs I coudn't investigate further where the problem lies. Has anybody had success with the newer mali drivers? Any hints are very welcome...THANKS! Paul

I've got a LeMaker Banana Pi Pro board, with LeMaker Banana Pi Pro Camera V1.0 which is a ov5640 module. I think there are some on-line manuals from official LeMaker, for instance: http://wiki.lemaker.org/BananaPro/Pi:Camera_Module . However, it seems Armbian_5.59_Bananapipro_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.14.65 hasn't provided such a ov5640 driver module for me to load? Where can I find the ov5640 driver module ? Cheers Pei

I have updated the armbian kernel from version 20.11.3 to version 20.11.6 and eth0 only works by forcing the switch to 100FD. If I leave it on automatic, the port negotiates at 1000FD but loses most packets. Any suggestion?

Hi, Thanks for the excellent distribution I noticed that in the hardwareinfo script there is no bananapipro result and when I boot new vanilla 4.5 Kernel the banana.dtb file is used instead of the bananapro.dtb As a result, no wifi, see also last two replies here for similar issue with M1: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/340-banana-pi-m1plus-no-wifi/?p=2138 Dirty Solution: hardcode loading bananapipro.dtb in boot.cmd. Wifi works This is result of "cat /proc/cpuinfo"

Hi, I've installed armbian for Orange Pi 3 (Buster) Everything works great, and the system boots, I even copied to the EMMC for booting from the Flash. The only problem is that the status LED stays "RED" and doesn't turn "GREEN" right after booting, like it does in the orangePi official debian. How can I make it GREEN? Thanks Leon

Greetings All, I'm trying to get my old Lexmark X1190 printer to work on my OrangePI PC without succes. I'm using the Xenial OS from armbian. Is there anyway I can get this printer to work on my OPI PC ? Thanks in advance Darren

I have an Olinuxino A20. Armbian has no HDMI sound and the video playback is a bit painful. This doesn't happen on Libreelec and, from my understanding, it's partly due to some kernel patches that they applied. Is it possible to use Libreeleec's kernel on armbian? If so, can someone guide me a little on how to do it? Thank you very much.

Board NEO2 with Armbian Stretch mainline kernel 4.19.y many errors: info:xxxxx[3087]::2019-01-30T10:19:10.607956+00:00: /usr/sbin/xxxxx: error while loading shared libraries: libsystemd.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory info:xxxxx[3093]::2019-01-30T10:19:20.857869+00:00: /usr/sbin/xxxxx: error while loading shared libraries: libsystemd.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory info:xxxxx[3097]::2019-01-30T10:19:31.114980+00:00: /usr/sbin/xxxxx: error while loading shared libraries: libsystemd.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory info:xxxxx[3106]::2019-01-30T10:19:41.3579…

Hi everybody, I have an OPI+ and gc2035 camera module, i try camera with "motion" according to this tutorial and getting one picture on localhost:8081, after this page display "problem loading page". however, This is not the main issue. i try to get picture with gstreamer and i see following errors: libv4l2: error setting pixformat: operation not permitted ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src: Device '/dev/video0' cannot capture at 1600x1200 Call to S_FMT failed for YU12 @ 1600x1200: Operation not permitted. My gstreamer pipeline is: gst-launch v4l2src always-copy=false ! 'video/x-raw-yuv, format=(fourcc)I4…

Is there any way I can make use of the VDPAU implementation for A20 with the mainline kernel? Or will I have to use the old 3.4 kernel? Thanks Paul

Hello, I am just trying to set up a pcduino3 nano with Debian Jessie. I downloaded 4.9.7 and put it onto SD card, booted, logged into my sudo account, and then apt-get install lightdm followed by apt-get update apt-get upgrade as per "Getting Started" guide. I now have 4.9.12 LIghtdm fails to start with following message: systemctl status lightdm.service -l ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Tue 2017-03-07 21:41:18 CET; 17min ago Docs: man:lightdm(1) Process: 1460 ExecStart=/usr/s…

I downloaded the most fresh image Armbian_21.02.3_Orangepipc_focal_current_5.10.12_desktop.img.xz from armbian.com for my board OrangePi PC. I installed it and had a problem with a process lightdm-gtk-greeter which eats 100% of CPU all time after first board reboot. Updating via apt-get update/upgrade didn't solve the problem. First of all i tried to find the solution in the internet and in this site, but all solutions which i found didn't help me. The most close topic for other board is here. Also i tried to run archived versions: Armbian_21.02.1_Orangepipc_focal_current_5.10.12_desktop.img.xz - had same issue. Armbian_20.08.1_Orangepipc_focal_curre…

The lighttpd fails when installed on following two distros: (1) Armbian_5.25_Orangepipc_Debian_jessie_default_3.4.113 (2) Armbian_5.25_Orangepipc_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop How to solve this problem? The code below gives the details. Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.25 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i pi@orangepipc:~$ uname -a Linux orangepipc 3.4.113-sun8i #10 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 23 19:55:00 CET 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux pi@orangepipc:~$ sudo apt-get update pi@orangepipc:~$ sudo apt-get install lighttpd pi@orangepipc:~$ sudo systemctl restart lighttpd pi@orangepipc:~$ sudo systemctl status lighttpd -l ● lighttpd.service …

This topic has been discussed earlier but there is not concrete mechanism explained to achieve this. Ideally I would like to display a boot logo or boot splash during startup. The device is Orange Pi Plus 2e. As per experience and as mentioned on this forum earlier plymouth was not useful in this case. I tried to set logo="enabled" in /boot/armbianEnv.txt but this doesn't help. When Armbian loads for first time on the device from the image downloaded from this site, it displays 'Initializing Boot Loader' logo image. Pretty cool!!! Can we have something like this for a custom image displayed each time on reboot. I under…

I am using Armbian_20.05.4_Lime-a64_focal_current_5.4.45_desktop.img.xz and I try run glxgears on Olinuxino-A64 with Lima. When I running glxgears I see 117 frames in 5.0 second = 23.313FPS. Also mouse response so slow on desktop. It is understood from here Olinuxino-A64 doing software render. Please correct me if I am wrong. I am new at this job and I have difficulty in fully understanding the problem. Is there a way I can get high FPS in glxgears using Lima? What exactly is problem here? Sorry if I ask silly question. Thanks. Below are some outputs for the board I use. dmesg | grep "lima" output: [ 8.579828] lima 1c40000.gpu: IRQ ppmmu2 not found [ …

Hi All, @tkaiser mentions in this thread http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1193-orange-pi-plus-2e-now-available/ the lima-memtester utility, requesting tests for the Orange Pi Plus 2E. Unfortunately I do not have a Orange Pi Plus 2E, I have however just received 10x Orange Pi Lite's and 2x Orange Pi PC+'s. Would it be useful to the project if I run this utility on all / some of my devices? Assuming yes and noting the comment: Do I need to run a desktop image with the HDMI plugged into a monitor? Also do I need provide some extra information to uniquely identify each board or will this happen automatically? Dave.

Hello ! In my project I need use 2 spi bus : /dev/spidev1.0 and /dev/spi2.0 /dev/spidev1.0 for 3.5inch rpi display and /dev/spidev2.0 for 8x8 led matrices, such as MAX7219-8x32-MCU-Drive-LED If I am use legacy kernel (3.4.113-sun7i) both spi buses work well But if use mainline kernel (4.14.18-sunxi), I can use only 1 spi bus This is my armbianEnv.txt: overlays=spi-spidev spi1 spi2 param_spidev_spi_bus=1 In this case I can use /dev/spidev1.0 If I set param_spidev_spi_bus=2 I can use /dev/spidev2.0 How to enable 2 spi buses at the same time ?

Hi there Have purchased a Lime 2 device, as it offered GigE-which my Pi's dont :-) Loaded up both the vanilla and the normal distro's but both have this annoying habit of the device just goes to sleep-sometimes after a few hours. When I say sleep, I can still see the Ethernet LED's blinking away-but it wont respond to PING's, and it wont respond to SSH. Plugging in a monitor and keyboard doesn't bring it back to life either. If I power recycle it (2.5A unit being used-have tried the OTG and the 5vdc but no difference), up she comes. Fully updated in terms of packages. I have even set up a continuous ping to my home router from the Lime 2 (its on my internal LAN) to see …