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I have Armbian 4.5 Jessy Legacy 3.4.109 running in the internal NAND and tried to do apt-get update+upgrade what bricked the device. As precaution I setup an identical system on a CubieBoard 2, where the upgrade went fine. After two days of testing on this test board, I tried it the same way on my real server but it failed. The board is not completely bricked, but network is not working anymore which limits my access dramatically. This is what I did and the output during upgrade: root@Cube# uname -a Linux Cube 3.4.109-sun7i #5 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 14 20:33:00 CEST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux root@Cube# apt-get update Get:1 http://security.debian.orgjessie/updates InRele…

Hi, I have installed the phoenix suite on a windows seven 64 bits. I start the phoenix suite et make the cubietruck in the mode to flash the nand. Phoenix Suite detect not the cubieboard. It's normal ? How transform your raw file in .img because the phoenix suite accept only the img file ? Is there another method to flash the nand ? Thanks François

Hello i am running armbian wheezy with the legacy kernel on an olimex a20 lime. I have atached an audio jack to the gpio pins. But cant get any sound on the output using speaker test. Do i need to do some configuration to get this to work ?

Hi all, I have on the board the AP6181 Wirelesss (brcmfmac_sdio). I try use like AP and works, but isnt work Karma, mana and monitoring.... Somebody know some patch or driver to make this work? Or i need to find an ARM board with atheros or ralink?? Because i never find one!! Thanks

Hi everyone, after getting Igor's image for Jessie with kernel 3.4.109 on January 10th, I did an upgrade and now I get: uname -a Linux cubieVDR 3.4.110-sun7i #10 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 28 11:48:43 CET 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux However, unfortunately I also get modprobe bcmdhd modprobe: FATAL: Module bcmdhd not found. According to http://www.armbian.com/documentation/, it does not say anything about having to do something special to obtain the module in the section called "How to set wireless access point?". Also, on another machine running kernel 3.4.108, everything is working fine (see my post in this forum). What do I need to do to get the AP working? Cheers…

Hi friends! Here is the situation. Trying the armbian jessie 3.4.109 and 4.2.3. When installing a new soft it takes to much time. For example, when running apt-get upgrade after fresh image install, it takes about 17 minutes. Of course it contain the core update. But that upgrade part on jessie takes about 7min, on wheezy about 3min. The same thing when just install some software, like apache2 or mc. It takes to much time (for mc it takes about 1 min on jessie, about 30sec on wheezy). The same with reloading. It takes about 1min. Situation is the same on both jessie 3.4.109 and 4.2.3 Tried the same with Banana PI. The same thing. I use the fastest SD card. …

Dear all, I have been install the cubietruck using "Armbian_4.5_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_trusty_3.4.109_desktop" image. It looks working, but i can't see desktop display. Everytime the cubie boot, the monitor will showing "change resolution to 1440x900" How to change the cubie resolution to the lower one? or should i use monitor with higher resolution then i can change it? please advise.

Hi, I'm trying to get pygame working on Banana Pi / Banana Pro (with LVDS display) using the armbian 4.5 CLI images, but I'm unable to succeed (I think I'm missing fbturbo). I tried to install the basic desktop following armbian guide, but pygame still is not working. A little help on this one would be very appreciated, thanks !

Hallo, I have armbian 3.4.109 (Jessie) on a cubietruck. It is connected to a Motorola Lapdock. I have the problem, I could not change the resolution (xfce 4) from 1920x1080. Tried following steps: xrandr output: Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1080, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080 default connected 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1920x1080 60.00* error Message: Failed to get size of gamma for output default cvt 1280 800 output: # 1280x800 59.81 Hz (CVT 1.02MA) hsync: 49.70 kHz; pclk: 83.50 MHz Modeline "1280x800_60.00" 83.50 1280 1352 1480 1680 800 803 809 831 -hsync +vsync When I try to add new entry with xrandr, I always get error messages. Once th…

Update: checking download file, it seems that I downloaded Armbian_4.5_Cubieboard2_Debian_jessie_4.2.3.zip so it's not 4.81 no matter what the download pages said. I'm trying to install upstream kernel on Cubieboard 2 and kernel never starts. Attached is output from boot (I'm getting same on serial port). I did try different sdcard (to rule out problems with it) but I'm worried about ext4fs_devread read error and partition error. Is there something more that I can try? Legacy kernel works well, but I wasn't able to just upgrade kernel and u-boot on it, but that resulted in unbootable system -- which packages I have to install to migrate from legacy to upst…

As tkaiser would say, Lamobo-r1 has terrible design but the concept is good (multiple usage possible: network, misc services) But let's be honest, perfection is when you are dead. Like sleeping & coffee some weeks ago, I was wondering (right or wrong) if a DMA config for the lamobo-r1 GMAC would help the bandwidth issues. One CPU core is 100% with all the gazillions of interruptions to handle. Now the DMA for A20 is in the mainline kernel but I am missing some tech glue. I have read an example in the kernel 4.3 doc with DMA config (DTS) for DWMAC (*if* applicable, not only for STMMAC, but also for A20-GMAC ???) links: stmmac kernel 4.3 documentation d…

Last night I was digging through the logs, and i found an error msg that said that I was over clocking the board without without heat protection. Couple of Questions: 1 I don't have a heat sink on the CPU, do I need one? 2 I haven't done anything to the CPU speed, and running Wheezy and Jessie off of different SD's. Is overclocking turned on in the release? It is really cold here in the high Desert, right around freezing for 4 to 12 hours every night. Not as cold as northern EU, but cold. The room temp is probably 60-65 degrees F. I have the Micro in the Micro case from Olimex. Does the processor need a heat sink? thanks in advance Mike

You know in Waynes World when the boys went to the Alice Cooper concert and got to meet Alice Cooper (they were his biggest fans)..... All they could say was "We're not Worthy.... We're not Worthy". That is the way I feel after downloading and installing the Jessie version of Armbian for my Olimex Micro. My hat is off to you.... Great Job!!!! It blows that awful SD I got from Olimex away..... I really want to see your desktop now.....

Hi, I have the following problem when a extern USB disk is connected the Banana Pi won’t boot., if I unplug the USB disk the Banana PI boots from the SATA disk fine. I’m using debian jessie and use the nand-sata-install to boot from SATA disk Kind regards,

Hi every body, Tanks igor for your great job with your linux versions for cubietruck. I installed jessie with kernel 3.4. I'm trying to make a media server with minidlna. Cubietruck is connected to the router with ethernet when i'm at home and minidlna stream fine. I sucessfully installed hostapd with your interfaces.hostapd file. Ethernet plugged, i can connect to wlan0 and access to minidlna. My problem is when ethernet is unplugged and i reboot the cubietruck. I cannot access to minidlna via wlan0. I set network_interface=br0 in minidlna configuration. Do i need to manually configure dhcp or something like that?

Hi, I read about the Allwinner Security System Cryptographic Accelerator. Is somebody actually using it with cryptsetup or OpenVPN? Is it powerful like Intel AES-NI? Thank you! Kind regards, matt

hi! I update kernel for cubie a10, bud do not know how tu update boot loader. As i know boot loader used uboot. In 1st part of microsd i have files drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 18 2015 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 12 2014 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Jun 18 2015 .uEnv.txt.swp drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Nov 17 2014 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44240 Nov 17 2014 script.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215 Jun 18 2015 uEnv.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6544616 Nov 17 2014 uImage As i understand i need change uImage file. Ok. I goint in /boot And export VERSION=4.3.3 mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -…

Hi all, A week ago I started using the latest Armbian image (Legacy Desktop) for my Olinuxino A20L2. Since the switch from the Olinuxino A20 original image back to Armbian I noticed a lot of performance loss. Especially when surfing the web through Firefox on even simple pages is sometimes terribly slow. Anyone have an idea how to solve this?

Hi, my installed version is about a year old at least...so I'd like to upgrade without loosing settings and data. Is this possible? If yes, how? In doc. there is only decribte how to update the kernel, nothing else... Thanks, Astro System says: root@cubie:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux CT Debian 2.7 wheezy root@cubie:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 3.4.104-sunxi (root@cubie) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.2-16ubuntu4) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 26 18:30:39 CEST 2014

Hi, yesterday I moved my root partition to a 128GB SSD by running "nand-sata-install" Everything works fine. Now I got a SD-Card in my Banana Pi with one big partition: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes 30 heads, 63 sectors/track, 132312 cylinders, total 250069680 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x93d6d043 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 250069679 125033816 83 Linux Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes 46 heads, 9 sectors/track, 18706 …

Hello , I have setup a banana pi with armbian: Linux bananapi 4.3.3-sunxi #3 SMP Mon Dec 28 11:27:16 CET 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux I wuld like to setup a wifi access point from a rtl wifi dongle. Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192CU 802.11n WLAN Adapter First, I have tried with bananian and it was working perfectly. But I have also a tv adapter not working with bananian, kernel 3.4 seems not support it. With armbian vanilla, the tv adapter is supported but it seems to have an issue with the wifi dongle driver. When I start hostapd-rt, I have the following errors: drv->ifindex=5 l2_sock_recv==l2_sock_xmit=0x0x766b0 ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Invalid argument Co…

Hello community, Kernel 4.3.x should have support for DMA engine on A20 boards, see: http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Merged_into_4.3 Does / should this also improve the SATA write performance? After update to kernel 4.3.3 from apt.armbian.com I cannot see any big write Performance increase... thanks for comments... best regards and a happy new year... holsteiner

Hi (and happy new year everyone!), I recently put a SSD in my Cubietruck and installed the Cubietruck Vanilla Image (with Kernel 4.x) on it. This is working fine, but what bugs me is the fact that I still need to have a microSD-card installed. As far as I understood, the bootloader cannot directly boot to SATA (missing drivers). How does the bare Image on the microSD-card achieve this? And even more important: How can I move the 'important' part (which does the bootloading and SATA drivers) to NAND so I can boot without a microSD-card installed? Thanks in advance!

Hello guys, I tried to install the title flavor on my Cubietruck and it seems that it does not see the nand at all in the /dev/ side, if i try any other flavour i can see the nand and do the install but not on those versions . Any ideas ? Thanks

Dear all, I copied Armbian 4.5 (on cubietruck with kernel 4.3.3) from SD to SSD using the script "nand-sata-install.sh". The resulting system with /boot from SD and rootfs on SSD works fine. However, the "Welcome to Armbian" message generated upon login contains the error message "df: cannot access ‘/dev/sda1’: over-mounted by another device" (see below). It seems to be related to mounting /boot from SD. Do you have any suggestions how to get rid of the "df: cannot access" message ? ____ _ _ _ _ / ___| _| |__ (_) ___| |_ _ __ _ _ ___| | __ | | | | | | '_ \| |/ _ \ __| '__| | | |/ __| |/ / | |__| |_| | |_) | …

Hello world !, I am running bananapi and cubietruck boards on Ubuntu Thrusty and legacy kernel 3.4.109. I am using these board for remote servers but before critical upgrades like upgrade of kernel which can cause unusable system I need powerdown these boards and do backup of entire sdcards. But commands "poweroff" or "init 0" with battery connected everytime causes reboot on both of them while without battery connected these command shutdown boards properly. Any ideas ?

Is there any documentation related to patch integration in building process ? i see a folder userpatches but no doc associated with it. I need to build the aufs kernel module for docker on my olimex A20 lime2 and have no idea of the process. What i curently do is: > force 4.2.6 kernel version in next (same as my curent armbian image for my lime2) > start the building process > checkout aufs standalone for 4.2 in kernel sources folder > patch the kernel with aufs support > manualy reconfigure kernel with the arm toolchain to enable aufs integration as module > manualy build module with the arm toolchain > put the module on my lime2 and config…

Hi! Happy new year! Recently, I experienced a strange date problem on my Cubitruck. After a reboot or a powerdown/powerup the date is set to Jan, 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC (aka epoch). As far as I can see the RTC is working. ntpd is enabled on my Cubitruck. (Since it runs its own nameserver with DNSSEC, DNS resolving isn't working if the date is set to epoch. So ntpd can't reach any NTP server.) I'm running a vanila kernel with Debian Jessy (8.2): Linux vaili 4.3.3-sunxi #3 SMP Mon Dec 28 11:27:16 CET 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux Setting the date after a reboot and powerdown/powerup was working some time ago. After a few updates of the system image it wasn't an…

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…

Hi, I try to run Armbian 4.5 (Bananapi Ubuntu trusty 3.4.109 desktop) on my Banana Pi M1+, but after the "Starting kernel..." prompt the monitor show only the "No signal" warning. (I connect the Banana Pi to my monitor with HDMI - DVI converter, I will be able to try it with single HDMI cable a few days later.) However, it boots. I have a lot of tries to change the boot.cmd and the banana.bin, but I didn't achieve satisfying result. The result of dmesg: [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0 [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.4.110-sun7i (root@production) (gcc v…

I live in the desert in California and the only Internet access I have is using PDANet on my phone. Is there a way to build an SD Card using rufus (which is a great app by the way) that I can use to load LXDE on my Olimex Micro? Once I get the desktop loaded I will get PDANet working on Olimex, but this seems like the lessor of two evils. I have both Jessie and Wheezy working and I'm still running off of the SDCard's. I have SSH working in both versions if that helps. thanks in advance. Mike

I know that the ILI9341 lcd are supported natively by armbian... But, now that i have received the lcd ordered some time ago: http://www.ebay.com/itm/311058563993 I'm trying to guess how i'm supposed to wire it to the cubietruck headers. Which are the pin numbers originally assigned to work with this lcd? Which are the correct options to load fbtft? I have digged around a little bit, but i can't find any working example.

On a Banana PRO with Debian Jessie I installed the lightweight desktop and all is more or less usable except the web browsing. I been using Iceweasel and Epiphany Browser (I can find Midori on the included repositories) but are completely unusable. I suppose that images are using the philosophy of "Disabled all memory reservations for GPU" Is a problem about the dedicated RAM to the graphics engine? How I can change this memory split? Thanks in advance.

Hi There, I hope I posted this in the correct forum. We run a lot of distros on a given "disk" or "sdcard" (or whatever). We call our system "Boot-Crazy". Here goes: The partition starts with a small boot partition containing the initial boot parameters, configuration, and a pointer to the partition holding the root file system we want to boot. The boot partition is followed by some number of other partitions, like this: [bOOT]-[sWAP]-[COMMON]-[COPYOF-DISTO-1-BOOT]-[DISTO-1-ROOT-FILE-SYSTEM]-[COPYOF-DISTO-2-BOOT]-[DISTO-2-ROOT-FILE-SYSTEM]... Armbian (as downloaded for the BananaPi-M2) is simply one large partition, like this: [armbia…

Good morning, I am trying to compile the lastest sources for the olinuxino-a20-micro and it fails on building libvdpau. VM guest is Ubuntu Mate 14.04 Here is what the actual error is (I left out the rest of the console log since it was fine): Cloning into '/home/deskwizard/A20-armbian/output/cache/sdcard/tmp/libvdpau-sunxi'... remote: Counting objects: 609, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (26/26), done. remote: Total 609 (delta 15), reused 1 (delta 1), pack-reused 582 Receiving objects: 100% (609/609), 299.91 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (407/407), done. Checking connectivity... done. cc -MD -MP -MQ device.o -fpic -fvisibility=hidde…

Hello, I download Ubuntu Trusty for my orangepi PC. It's working fine. But the pointer for the mouse on the desktop is missing. And with command line (Alt-F1), the last line is under the screen. How to fix these two poins ? Regards

Hello On my Banana PI infrared receiver is not detected at bootup. I'm running armbian 4.7 jessie. The only /dev/input device is that of axp20x-pekj, which I undestand to be a power controller. My issue is similar as found in this thread: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/475-bananapi-r1-no-infrared-device/ Except ofcourse the board is different From the other thread I gather I need to change something in regards to dtb-s, but I guess as the boards are different using the same one as mentioned is not a good idea.

Hi Igor, while playing with your Armbian and kernel to squeeze even more juice from my cubietruck, i would ask you if you think it would be possible to add to your kernel and u-boot build the support for KVM. Here one experiment with KVM: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/kvm-working-on-the-cubietruck/ Then, partially related with this, it would be nice to have the watchdog enabled to fight the occasional low level hang that happens sometimes (all freezed with 4 led on).

I've got a new problem with my Olimex A20 Lime2 board. The board doesn't freeze anymore (http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/295-freezing-problem-with-olimex-a20-lime-2/) but after a week I've got a very slow speed using samba: about 300 kbps. I've tried to restart the smbd service but it doesn't work. The smbd process don't use cpu: < 5 %. If I restart completely the board, samba start to works again very fast and use the cpu: > 50%. How can I discover where is the problem and how to fix it? I'm using Debian jessie 4.2.6-sunxi, and there are no more updates.

hi all, i have a doubt about cubieboard3 and cubietruck 3.4.104-sunxi. Tipically use this board with network and SSH , but sometimes i need attach monitor VGA and sometimes monitor HDMI. Now work only VGA, HDMI never works. my /boot/cubietruck.fex is: [disp_init] disp_init_enable = 1 disp_mode = 0 screen0_output_type = 4 screen0_output_mode = 4 screen1_output_type = 0 screen1_output_mode = 4 fb0_width = 1024 fb0_height = 768 I can setup output cubietruck autosense? regards

Hi, First of all: Thanks for the great work. I have installed the Armbian_4.5_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_trusty_3.4.109_desktop image and it runs smooth so far. After a while beeing idle the monitor goes black as it should, but the cubie doesn't wake up on mouse or keyboard entry. The only thing working is a reboot. Also I'd like to know, how I can deactivate the Micro-USB port. If I remember it right, this is responsable for the low volume high pitch noise. Thanks for all your responses. kauppi

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!

So continuing from this thread since i dont wanna threadjack im facing a simular issue using this image used rufus instead of suse imagewriter since its defunkt on windows 10, have tested the sdcard with 0 errors took about 3 hours to do so since im using a 32gb card for my server. Warning: Only 30418 of 30419 MByte tested. Test finished without errors. You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again. Writing speed: 5.57 MByte/s Reading speed: 8.19 MByte/s H2testw v1.4 So same scenario as the ubuntu distro Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr [ bytes read info ] ## Executing script at 43100000 ** File not found /boot/.next ** ** Unrecognized filesystem type…

SND_USB_AUDIO seems now disabled in Vanilla Kernel. Probably after this commit: - https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/commit/70231cf8ae641650ec8601124db33b5b186a285b This should be why my USB dac doesn't work anymore after an update of the system. Is there any reason or it's only an error? I must thank you Igor for your work.

Hi @Igor you should consider changing imagetool when you ship your image files since the Suse image tool is quite broken on Windows platforms 8 or higher since its often just gives a blank non function interface that crashes upon pressing buttons. Perhaps Rufus would be a better alternative

hi there, i was setup linux-wheezy-root-cubietruck 4.2 on cubietruck nand.these days i upgrade system it show me a error message: Unpacking replacement linux-wheezy-root-cubietruck ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wheezy-root-cubietruck_4.70_armhf.deb (--install): unable to make backup link of `./boot/bin/lime.bin' before installing new version: Operation not permitted Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wheezy-root-cubietruck_4.70_armhf.deb i thik this is a bug because dear developer don't think about when system install to nand later some problem. how to fix? thanks!! 估计用CT的很多是…

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

Hi. I'm a new user. I have a Banana PI M1+, that is connected to a monitor with maximum resolution of 1280x1024 and with only DVI port. I'm using Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Debian_jessie_3.4.109, and I installed XFCE using tasksel. If I leave it without any user interaction, the monitor goes to sleep, and I'm not able to wake it up anymore. But it works, because I'm able to connect to it using putty from another computer. So I tried to install Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Debian_jessie_3.4.109, but I have the same problem. I tried also to disable "Switch Off After" in the Display section of power management without success. Can someone help me please?

Hello, with 3.4. kernel I could use my csi-cam on my R1: #5.0 Mega Pixel Banana PI Camera Module for Android #and Linux. OV5640 chipset, CSI connector #Price: US $24.00 / piece from aliexpress sudo modprobe ov5640 sudo modprobe sun4i_csi0 #video stream #mplayer tv:// #snapshot mplayer tv:// -vo png -frames 1 Now I switched to armbian 4.7 with 4.2.6 to use new wifi-usb-drivers but I saw that those modules are not supported in the new kernel. :-( Source of drivers: https://github.com/LeMaker/linux-sunxi/tree/lemaker-3.4/drivers/media/video/sun4i_csi https://github.com/LeMaker/linux-sunxi/blob/lemaker-3.4/drivers/media/video/sun4i_csi/device/ov5640.c Did a…

Hy, I use Cubietruck / Armbian I have a problem with I2C connecting to an Arduino. my Python program returns me an error when I use the SMBus module : read_byte_data the function (address, reg) bug while writing functions work well. here is my Arduino code : #include <Wire.h> #include <LiquidCrystal.h> #include <string.h> #include <ctype.h> const int RS = 12; const int E = 11; const int D4 = 5; const int D5 = 4; const int D6 = 3; const int D7 = 2; LiquidCrystal lcd(RS,E,D4,D5,D6,D7); #define SLAVE_ADDRESS 0x12 byte regs[3]; int regIndex=0; byte lastExecReq = 0x00; char message[20]; void setup (void){ regs[0] = 0x00; regs[1] = 0x00; …

Hi, I used Armbian_4.5_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_trusty_4.2.3 as sd card image. Later I moved it to a sata connected ssd and upgraded to 4.2.6 kernel. As I needed a second drive I bought a : StarTech.com USB 3.0 to 2.5†SATA III Hard Drive Adapter Cable w/ UASP – SATA to USB 3.0 Converter for SSD / HDD This usb to sata works fine with the ssd. The second drive is a 5v 2.5†SATA and the usb current is not enough so it is connected to the sata on cubietruck. On the second usb i have connected a usb to ethernet adapter. Trying to boot results to kernel panic (& something about no init) and cubietruck reboots. I am wondering if I need to change anything e…

Hello everyone, I have a10 board and i'm trying to plug 7' LCD wich touchscreen (http://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_HDMI_LCD_(B)). Chinese manufactorer changed usb pid/vid, and in fact this touchscreen is eGalaxTouch. And when i'm trying to build driver - it requires uinput module, which is missing. Is it possible somehow to get it? On my desktop debian /dev/uinput is preseted by default. Sorry for my bad english. Regards.

hi! I'm running vanilla cli-version of armbian v4-2 on my olimex lime2. However, decided to run it from a sata-attached hdd to improve speed and durability. the procedure i used is descibed here (and got a lot of help from the creator of the website, thanks!): http://papermint-designs.com/dmo-blog/blog.php?id=3, but i will shortly sum up what i did. flashed the sd with armbian cli image 4-2 let it reboot for it to use the whole card created a 10gb partition for rootfs and swap on the sata drive changed fstab to mount the rootfs on the sata (removed everything but defaults and noatime because system booted in ro-mode otherwise while running from hdd) : #/dev/…

Hi to All! Currently i am using 3.4.107-cubietruck #14 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 29 11:57:42 CEST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux including a WLAN USB Adapter AWUS036AC from ALFA. First question: Does anybody got this adapter to work with a cubietruck as a WLAN-AP? Second question: If yes, what driver did you use for the successful implementation? Third: How to disable the onboard WLAN? I want to use it as a 5GHZ (AC-standard) WLAN-AP! Many thanks in advance. Regards, Ireng

I have root partition on SATA drive (/dev/sda1). I tried to use vanilla kernel, but it doesn't boot and even doesn't show HDMI output (I set root=/dev/sda1 in boot.cmd and recompiled boot.scr of course). But the legacy kernel with the same configuration works. Any suggestions why?

Display 4 * 20 i2s. It will be used to display information from mpd. How to do?

hello I am new to the forum My problem: how to change the screen resolution when I'm on the output vga? the only proposed resolution is 1920X1080 board : cubietruck linux : Armbian_4.5_Cubietruck_Debian_jessie_3.4.109-legacy screen : VGA output, 1280X1024 Desktop environment : XFCE 4.10 Thanks for your help

just curious if there's a quick way to manipulate an existing Armbian build to have separate /boot and / partitions on my SD card, without needing to setup an Ubuntu build environment to compile everything myself. It's really the only thing I'd want to change about the pre-built image, and would like to avoid setting up the Ubuntu build box if I can. Thanks!

Hello, I am new to armbian and am quite impressed of the ease of installation and use. I copied the vanilla headless Debian jessy to a spare SD and the board booted right away. So first of all, many thanks to the developers! I rely on GPIO for my application of the board, so I first tested the export of a GPIO. Normally, the kernel from Olimex gives me something like "gpio64_pg0", which is not very compatible to the programs out in the internet (e.g. OpenHAB.org which I use), so – with this kernel – I was happy to get a standard "gpio1" when echoing "1" to "export". But as soon as I tried to change the direction echo out > gpio1/direction the whole board…

All, Who is using kernel 4.3.0 with Debian Jessie on a cubietruck and what kernel config do you use ? I'm thinking to upgrade my Debian Jessie installation with kernel 4.3.0 but i can't make up my mind what to select to be compiled into the kernel. Thanks in advance, Kl@@s

Are the old releases of Armbian available anywhere? I can't find them.

Hi, i'm using Armbian on my Cubieboard 1, i've done the kernel upgrade with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. I haven't understood how to make a full system update, including the security updates. Thanks and wonderful work!

My board: Banana Pi, 1Ghz Dual Core, 1GB DDR3, SATA The os base: image http://www.bananapi.com/index.php/forum/others/1372-bpi-m1-bpi-m1-plus-new-image-ubuntu15-04-was-released#3306 Which is apt-get dist-upgraded to wily. I am trying to install self compiled kernel packages from: http://www.armbian.com/github/ I have succesfully used the compile.sh script and output for that is: total 19M -rw-r--r-- 1 petria petria 45K Nov 23 10:03 linux-dtb-next-sunxi_4.6_armhf.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 petria petria 52K Nov 23 10:03 linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi_4.6_armhf.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 petria petria 6.7M Nov 23 10:04 linux-headers-next-sunxi_4.6_armhf.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 …

Hi, i recently switched from an old Cubietruck Image (1.XX) to the latest available. Everything works fine but i cant find the trigger disk-activity anymore. Is it an bug or an feature? P.S.: i downloaded legacy_jessie_4.5 best regards Martin

Is someone tried to instal Kodi and is it work?

I just installed Ubuntu on A20 Cubieboard2. I have two situations. First boot stops if no ethernet connection present. Because of location issues need to use wifi by default. I need to have startx run without me having to login first and manually issue startx command. Other than this two issues all seems fine. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Dears, I have done the last update. I lost dkms, and when trying to recompile/reinstall it, I started get strange errors. It seems binaries in linux-headers are compiled for Intel. I would even the kernel is configure for Intel. Was not able to compile the module actually. Was there some mishap? Rui

Cubieboard2 Mali400 driver is able to compile, but no fps advance\ I'm using Armbian 4.2 the compile process is based on http://blog.eldajani.net/banana-pi-arch-linux-accelerated-mali-gpu/

Hello, I'm running armbian on the cubieboard 2 and have noticed something that might be an unexpected behavior: when running on NAND, the nand2 partition is mounted with ordered data mode (despite the fstab configuration)! It looks like the system tries to remount the partition in writeback data mode, but it is not allowed to, according to the following messages: root@siamserver:~# dmesg | grep EXT4 [ 12.504386] EXT4-fs (nand2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 17.557900] EXT4-fs (nand2): Cannot change data mode on remount [ 17.604119] EXT4-fs (nand2): Cannot change data mode on remount As the official cubieboard 2 download page st…

Hi .. I am triying to use your new images of Debian wheezy and Ubuntu ones with my Cubietruck and vga output ... But i am not lucky !!! All starts ok , but suddenly no screen output , green ligth it is flashing but no monitor output (Black Screen ).. What is it the problem ? Thanks a lot ...

Dear all, I'm missing ttyS1 from the devicelist on my cubietruck with mainline uboot and debian Jessie kernel 3.18. Now i can not use my bluetooth module because it is not reachable. I've searched on the internet and the defenition of one (or more) uart port seems to be missing in the devicetree dtb file. Like in: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/382-armbian-on-pcduino3/ Has anyone fixed this for the cubietruck?

Hello, I look for the instructions for use to install the new Kernel 3.4.108 for Debian Jessie on Olimex Lime 2 please. He was posted here: http://www.armbian.com/olimex-lime-2/ But he(it) disappeared. He explained us the lines of commands(orders) to create both files : "boot.scr" and "boot.cmd". Could you tell me where are these instructions for use please? Thank you very much... (sorry for bad english, i'm a froggy)

I have a Banana PI M1+ with latest Armbian Jessie with 3.4.109 kernel. The dmesg contains many rows like this ones ... [ 1468.309084] Loading kernel module for a network device with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev- instead. ... ... [ 2779.128724] Loading kernel module for a network device with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev- instead. ... I tried to search on Google without success. Can someone help me please? Thanks.

Hi, First time user here. I'm using the legacy Jessie build with kernel 3.4.109 Kernel. OTG is enabled and generally working. However, with some USB devices we are getting the following message with dmesg: WRN:L2705(drivers/usb/sunxi_usb/hcd/core/sw_hcd_host.c):ERR: sw_hcd_schedule, best_end [ 663.633167] WRN:L2951(drivers/usb/sunxi_usb/hcd/core/sw_hcd_host.c):ERR: sw_hcd_schedule failed [ 663.641968] cannot submit datapipe for urb 0, error -28: not enough bandwidth This only happens with some USB devices. My USB headphones work fine but a USB DAC for music does not. I remember reading somewhere the OTG on the BananaPi seemed limited in terms of actual conne…

Hello I want enable smb 2.1 on cubi plese help step by step and make error: root@cubietruck:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.3-sunxi# make scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig CHK include/config/kernel.release CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/arm/tools/gen-mach-types', needed by 'include/generated/mach-types.h'. Stop. arch/arm/Makefile:305: recipe for target 'archprepare' failed make: *** [archprepare] Error 2 please help with step by step. Gabor Sneff

Before installing this Armbian legacy kernel (3.4.109), I was using a Bananian-based image with OpenMediaVault (the so called BanaNAS image) and was getting regular 30MB/s transfer rates to my Samba shared hard drives (USB and SATA). My PC and Banana are connected through a gigabit switch, and working at 1Gbps. After installing and configuring the new Armbian image, I notice my transfer rates were now around ~23MB/s which was odd. After trying to change some smb.conf parameters and getting nowhere, I decided to test just the network performance by setting up a simple web server on my PC and doing a wget -O /dev/null http://<my PC-IP>/test.zip of 3Gb. The values …

Hello, I have been looking for days without finding an answer, so here goes. I want to know if there is a way of turning on the banana pi, without using the onboard switch. Because the Banana pi r1 doesn't power on automatically when powered by the battery connector. And i don't want to solder wires on the pwr button, but i would also like to avoid using the usb connections because of the lower power throughput. Thank you in advance for the information.

I just installed 4.2.3-sunxi on my Banana Pi (original model.) Everything seems to work nicely except the console mouse (gpm.) I run keyboard and mouse on a "GreenAsia Inc. USB to PS/2 Adapter" and have never had a problem with that setup, including Raspberry Pi and Bananian on the BPi. Both keyboard and mouse work under X but on the console only the keyboard works. This is logged when I plug in USB: Nov 13 06:21:25 bpi kernel: [ 1963.223307] usb 3-1: new low-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-platform Nov 13 06:21:25 bpi kernel: [ 1963.446399] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8f, idProduct=0020 Nov 13 06:21:25 bpi kernel: [ 1963.446427] usb 3-1: New USB d…

Hello, How I make to use usb printer in cubie2 with Armbian 4.3 jessie? I make the POS system and now i need the enable use printer usb. Regards, Marco Aurelio

HI, On my cubietruck I can boot form sd card my filesysteme on SATA. But y can't boot form nand. I must use kernel 3.4.108 because alsa spdif pass trought do not work on 3.4.109. I can't use nand install script because it formating sata drive. here /boot : drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 ./drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Sep 6 09:46 ../drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 11 15:33 bin/-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118912 Nov 18 2014 boot.axf*-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1745 Nov 11 15:30 boot.cmd*-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 106 Nov 18 2014 boot.ini*-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1817 Nov 11 15:30 boot.scr*-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97046 Oct 14 20:33 config-3.4.1…

Hi, back a again for a question. Got an 7" LCD Display connected to my pcDuino with Armbian (Kernel 4.x) and it displays nearly fine on HDMI. First i altered display resolution in /boot(boot.cmd) but i still got "cutted sides" of the display... On my Raspberry with Raspbian i had to alter /boot/config.txt with the foloowing content: # Pollin 7 Zoll Display hdmi_force_hotplug=1 framebuffer_width=1024 framebuffer_height=600 framebuffer_depth=24 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=87 hdmi_cvt=1024 600 60 3 0 0 0 # Pollin Display Ende Where can i do that similar with armbian, think i have to change hdmi_group and hdmi_mode like i did with the raspberry, so that the LCD …

Igor P. please help me what to do and what is missing? Step0.(run) ./compile.sh Step1. Choose a board (cubietrack) Step2. Choose a distribution (trusty) Step3. Install desktop with HW accel… (No) Step4. Choose a branch (default) And I get the message in console error: [ o.k. ] Dependencies check [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Building [ Armbian 4.6 Cubietrack Ubuntu trusty default ] [ error ] Installation of package failed The core is not collected how to fix the situation??? And another question: Why different values have BogoMIPS on Cubieboard (proc/cpuinfo) in distributions desktop (956.10) and CLI (27.14)? Cubie operates in CLI mode on a lot slower? This …

After upgrading my Cubietruck with the latest armbian image (Vanilla Debian Jessie) I noticed that command line access is restricted to two parallel consoles (via ALT+F1, ALT+F2, -) only. Is there a way to overcome this limitation? Any remedial hint would be greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance. By the way, SSH terminal access seems to be possible almost inititely in number.

Hi, Does anyone here is familiar using verified boot? Any one who already implemented in in any A20 boards? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I just received a replacement unit of my Lamobo-R1 board and I'd like to test it with an SD card I've currently running on a BananaPro with the latest Armbian release. Is there a way to use it on the Lamobo-R1 without having to reinstall & reconfigure everything? Thanks, V.

Hi all, Igor: I wanted to say many thank you and congratulate for the awesome job you made with armbian! I have a little big problem: I'm using the BPI-R1 (a.k.a. Lamobo R1 Linux version 4.2.0-sunxi (root@kitchen) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.2-16ubuntu4)) but out of the blue I got the well known problem of the RCP reset to the 1970. I followed the instructions reported here https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/issues/111#issuecomment-145634651 but I got some strange issues 1) If I plug my USB keyboard I cannot interrupt the boot process to get a shell before the kernel loads. 2) If I change my boot.cmd and update the boot.scr settings with verbosity=9 an…

hi all, I use cubietruck Linux 3.4.104-sunxi I would like to understand partition ramlog-tmpfs on /var/log type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=524288k) in fstab is not present. I have the problem that it is always full, more than 90% My cubietruck it is install on nand, I would like to mount the partition of sd, how can I do? regards

Cubieboard2 How to create the armbian image with capability of booting with gps connected to the uart port ? The armbian can't start if gps connected to the uart port and vice versa - It starts with unpluged gps. After system is started up, I do connect the gps and can easily get the gps data from /dev/ttyS0 As I understand - it's happened because of ttyS0 can be using as keyboard, so bootload is interrupting. Also it's can be a problem while initial password changing.

Hello! I am tired of system freezing once in 1-2 days, and think the reason is heating (Board 49 degrees right now) so I decided to revert system back to SD and not use HDD at all, making system more stable by power and temperature. Please help me to do it - is there any revert script that I can run to move all data from HDD back to SD?

I recently created some new images using the most recent armbian scripts. For some reason my Jessie image is not coming up (see my other thread regarding network not coming up), but I did managed to get a wheezy image up and running on my BananaPi using latest / next. The problem I am having is the partition size is extremely small (about 500-600MB) and does not appear to be resize to fully utilize the SD card. It's been a long while since I created an image, but I vaguely remember the image resizing to maximize the SD card space. I basically had to manually resize the image by deleting and recreating the partition. Is there some way to specify the image size …

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…

Hello, How to enable the TouchScreen from olimex on olinuxino micro ? The display work fine, but the TS version do not control the mouse. the original distro from olimex works with TS, but how to enable TS on armbian ? (really better than olimex distro) Thanks.

I am on Debian 7.9, kernel 4.1.6-sunxi. Since a couple of days I get an error message when I want to open a LUKS container (e.g. cryptsetup luksOpen ...). /dev/mapper/control: open failed: Kein passendes Gerät gefunden --> no device found Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel. Kann die Gerätezuordnung nicht initialisieren. Ist das Kernelmodul dm_mod geladen? --> is dm_mod really loaded? I tried to manually load dm_mod and get another error message: > modprobe dm_modlibkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod.c:554 kmod_search_moddep: could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/4.1.6-sunxi/modules.dep…

I use Armbian_4.3_wheezy on SD video with 1280x720p resolution. When I transfer to NAND, only with the resolution of 1028x1024p and can not adjust the resolution to 1280x720p. Already changed the script.bin file (via fex2bin), the uEnv.txt file (disp.screen0_output_mode = EDID: 1280x720p60) and not worked. How can I change the resolution to 1280x720p? Best Regards Marco Aurelio

Hello, here is a list of the interrupts of my BPi: root@bananapi:~# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 17: 0 0 GIC 29 Edge arch_timer 18: 1240001 514159 GIC 30 Edge arch_timer 21: 0 0 GIC 54 Level sun4i_timer0 22: 0 0 GIC 113 Level sun5i_timer0 26: 0 0 GIC 42 Level sun4i-spi 27: 14635330 0 GIC 64 Level sunxi-mmc 28: 0 0 GIC 71 Level ehci_hcd:usb1 29: 0 0 GIC 96 Level ohci_hcd:usb3 30: 755 0 GIC 88 Level 1c1…

Hello again, since I use the NAND-Flash to boot and I want to use the new kernel, which doesnt support NAND yet, I'm curious if its possible to use both: 1. Can I boot the new kernel from NAND? Since the new kernel is started after uboot, it should be possible? 2. Afterwards I have no possibility to update the kernel again. Or do I have? (Without SD-Card) a.) the nand-tools requires the nand-driver??? Or is there a possibility to writea prebuild image to nand without kernel-nand-support? b.) is it possible to start an old kernel from the new for upgrading? Tried "kexec uImage", but it doesnt work. Maybe I need the zImage instead of uImage? best regards

hi all, is possible convert cubietruck on cubiebord to virtual machine?

Hello, in Armbian TCP buffers are already set. I can change them by putting new values to /etc/sysctl.conf. But, is this elegant? Or would it be better to change directly the values from armbian? In which file configures Armbian the TCP buffers? Thanks a lot and best regards, Michael

Hi, Recently while I was using the banana pro, it locked itself up and I had to manually pull out the power. And after that, it cannot boot anymore with armbian or bananian, the red light turned on and thats it, no more activities. :-( But with lemaker's oficial image it can boot up normally. What could be the problem? Do I have a faulty hardware? Thanks!

Hello, I am setting up a filserver, using a BPi and a WD Red 3TB connected to the sata port of the BPi. The BPi runs armbian v4.5 with vanilla kernel. For the first tuning I used the recommandations from tkaiser (thanks a lot for that). The only difference is, that I use ondemand as govenor and the frequency values out of the armbian image (thanks a lot to igore for the great work). root@bananapi:~# sysctl -a | grep mem net.core.optmem_max = 65535 net.core.rmem_default = 163840 net.core.rmem_max = 8738000 net.core.wmem_default = 163840 net.core.wmem_max = 6553600 net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships = 20 net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 8874 11832 17748 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 8192 …