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Hi folks, I got my helios64, assembled it during the weekend and can’t seem to actually install it. Here are some of the things I tried (I'm on windows 10 btw, I don’t have hdd drives yet, I assume this would not be an issue): · 2 sd cards (one of which is a Samsung as recommended in the wiki), two computers (with correct com ports as visible in the device manager, driver is installed), tried both on usb2 and usb3 · USB cable has been trimmed to fit the case properly - also tried with the back panel off and directly connected to the board · the devices starts up as soon as I plug in the power cord - I then use…

Still experiencing random kernel panic with latest build. Sometimes it boots, sometimes it doesn't , when operating from a remote location this is very frustrating. Spoiler DDR Version 1.24 20191016 In channel 0 CS = 0 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x1 MR5=0x1 MR8=0x10 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 MR24=0x8 MR25=0x0 channel 1 CS = 0 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x1 MR5=0x1 MR8=0x10 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 MR24=0x8 MR25=0x0 channel 0 training pass! channel 1 training pass! change freq to 416MHz 0,1 Channel 0: LPDDR4,416MHz Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=16 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=2048MB Channel 1: LPDDR4,416MHz Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=16 CS=1 Die Bus…

Hi, How can I catch the reset button pressed. In other words, how can I change the behavior of the reset button on RK3399?

So I got my Helios64 today, built it with 2 drives, a Adata SSD on the M.2 and 2 Seagates on SATA 1 and 2. But whenever I want to boot it up, the internal blue system LED lights up + System Rail power (UPS installed) with all activity LEDs and HDD error 3 instantly with no delay. There is no Console output and nothing is to be heard spinning up. When building I noticed the cable harness having the same length for connectors 2 and 3 where 3 is too short for zip tie-ing. Help is greatly appreciated.

Just got the notification to update After the reboot all seems good - iSCSI is now supported out of the box. Will wait for the official images to be pushed to the downloads page to try and setup a clean install + overlay FS to document my customizations.

Continuing the discussion from here On a clean install of 20.08.21 im able to crash the box within a few hours of it being under load. It appears as if the optimisations are being applied root@helios64:~# cat /proc/sys/net/core/rps_sock_flow_entries 32768 The suggestion @ShadowDance made to switch to the performance governor hasn't helped. Anecdotally, I think I remember the crashes always mentioning page faults, and early on there was some discussion about memory timing. Is it possible this continues to be that issue?

I just received my Helios64 system and built it today. The build included 3 drives, a SSD in port 1 and two HHD's on port 2 and 3. After the build, I installed Debian Kernel: 5.8 on an micro SD card. The system booted but only showed the drives in port 2 and 3. I have moved the drive in port 1 to port 4, rebooted and the SSD drive shows up. Also, a HDD in port 1 does not show up: no blue Light on the front panel and not visible in "fdisk -l" . The output from ' dmesg | grep "ata" ' results in: Spoiler [ 0.000000] Memory: 3742212K/4061184K available (14460K kernel code, 2114K rwdata, 5920K rodata, 4160K init, 572K bss, 187900K reserved, 131072K …

Linux Hell64 5.8.17-rockchip64 #20.08.21 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 31 08:22:59 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux I've been testing the performance and comparing to another NAS I have (WD PR4100) and the Helios64 performance has not been fairing well. Setup are almost identical on the same switch connected gig ethernet. Using SAMBA ,NO Raid. Testing with SATA drives HD's previously formatted for NTFS. and UAS USB 8 Bay DAS. Reading from Helios64 to Windows 10 PC I achieve expected 113MB/s and from USB attached to Helios 110MB/s. Writing speeds are very poor and as can be expected worse on the directly attached USB DAS. WIN10 -&gt…

Hi, I noticed that on my board I didn't have notification with MOTD when updates were available and I think that I've found the culprit: In the file /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-apt-updates of the package linux-buster-root-legacy-nanopim4_20.08.17_arm64.deb, this line stop the script to go further : # give up if packages are broken [[ ! $(dpkg -l | grep ^..r) ]] && exit 0 If I remove the ! then it works (because the script, in fact, gives up if packages are not broken )

Hello, Since few days, my PSU makes a high-pitched noise. As my NAS is installed in my living-room, it is annoying. I have changed my PSU three weeks ago, it was good during these three weeks, but it comes suddenly noisy... Does anyone else has the same issue ? And any ideas on how to fix this ? Thanks

I once had openmediavault (nas software) and citadel-server (groupware software) running together on an x86 computer with Debian operating system. When I try this on Helios64 running armbian (Debian 10 Buster) and kernel 5.8, then the package manager does not allow it. That means, when I start with an installed openmediavault and want then to install citadel-server as well the package manager removes openmediavault first. Does anybody have an idea or a solution to the problem?

I just received my Helios64, I immediately checked it for the Magjack center point to ground concern, and mine tests that it is connected. Is there a revision number on the board which can be used to identify the clean point between the pre and post fix boards?

Hi everybody! I have been working for days to ensure that the MIPI-DSI output works with the Raspberry PI compatible display panel (Product OSOYOO which has a Toshiba TC358762 DSI/DP bridge chip and a I2C backlight controller as Focal FT5406). The following overlay works perfectly with the Radxa kernel 4.4.153 and unfortunately not with the Armbian kernel: Linux rockpi-4c 5.8.13-rockchip64. So far so good. Now if you look at the DTS source files of the two kernels, they have a similar structure but are very different in content. I wonder why you now get the idea to reinvent the wheel. The Radxa kernel contains everything that is needed. What is particularly ann…

Getting system crashes and instability, including a loss of HD I/O, during very large file transfers. This happens over the network, whether using SCP, FTP, or SMB. I'm a hobbyist, and am no coder or developer, so other than Googling, I have no practical knowledge to pull on. When the problem started occuring, I opened two PuTTY SSH interfaces as root - one with htop, and another with "dmesg --follow" to see what was going on with the system, and this is what happened: dmesg readout at file transfer crash (using SMB this time): Spoiler [238803.445307] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [238803.445321] kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:1709…

Hello, Is there a way (maybe using sysfs) in Linux to manage the brightness of the LED in the front of the NAS ? I found no information about this in the wiki: https://wiki.kobol.io/helios64/led/ or https://wiki.kobol.io/helios64/front-panel/ Thanks.

Is it possible to boot from USB-Stick instead of micro-sd-card? I have the apprehension that the micro-sd-card-slot could break if I use it to often. If it’s possible, how can I do this? Thanks, Jaques-Ludwig

Hello, How can I get a effective shutdown with the battery with legacy 4.4 (it always restarts) (2.5 Gbps OK) or How can the 2,5 Gbps performance issue be solved in 5.8 ? (that can shutdown OK) Which one is the easiest to address and solve for a beginner like me using OMV? Thank You! David

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I have zero room on the root of my helios64? I literally just installed OMV made a raid 5 and setup my shares. Afterwards I setup Transmission and suspect that might be my problem. Any thoughts to locate exactly what is killing my flash memory. I tried df -h and du -sh /. this didn't point me to anything specific.

This main thread has been locked. Thanks to the Armbian team, we now have our own Kobol club (kinda sub forum) dedicated to our products (Helios64 & Helios4). So now you are encourage to create individual threads for new issue, discuss feature, share setup, etc... This will help to improve overall readability. Note : Before asking a question please insure the information is not already available on Helios64 Wiki or addressed in a previous post in this forum. Latest Build : Check : https://dl.armbian.com/helios64/ Archived Build : Check : https://archive.armbian.com/helios64/archive/ …

RockPi4a. Installed busster current 5.8.6 armbian onto eMMC. Works fine. Now i figure out i need swap space (app needs more than the 1G mem i have). So i boot another image from SD an use gparted to shrink the first partition from the end to create 4GByte and create a swap partition in there. Now the board won't boot anymore (see attached file). Erased SPI, no difference. Partition table shows GPT and "MBR protective" (before and after resizing). so, whats the magic to create a bootable armbian disk if one needs different partitioning than just the "full disk one partition" layout ? Is this "uboot" hidden behind the only partition, there was a bun…

I'm trying to get a Rock64 board working with a wifi USB dongle, sold as RTL8188 and which is in fact a 8188eu. I use the latest armbian-buster as downloaded a few days ago. The dongle appears in dmesg when plugged in, but no module is loaded. I can manually load the 8188eu module and get no errors, but no wifi interface appears. Ifconfig, iwconfig and nmtui don't see anything they could use for wlan. I have installed the firmware-realtek package as well, it made no difference. I can get the module 8188eu autoloaded at boot, but that doesn't change the non-availability of a wlan interface. Any help appreciated. I have posted the armbianmonitor -u output in the…

I have Rockpi 4b v1.4 and Armbian 20.05, kernel 5.4.49, installed and booted from NVME drive. For last months survived all minor Armbian updates, but after upgrading to 20.08 ( to kernel 5.8.10) board doesn't want boot. Steps to reproduce: 1.1 get Armbian_20.05.3_Rockpi-4b_buster_current_5.4.45.img.xz and write it to EMMC. 1.2 Boot board from EMMC, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. Kernel upgrades from 5.4.49 to 5.8.12 1.3 Reboot. Board reboots fine. 2.1 get Armbian_20.05.3_Rockpi-4b_buster_current_5.4.45.img.xz and write it to NVME drive. Add fdtfile=rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4.dtb and overlays=pcie-gen2 to armbianEnv.txt. …

I tried the first start at my brandnew Helios 64. U-Boot 2020.07-armbian (Oct 13 2020 - 16:49:59 +0200) SoC: Rockchip rk3399 Reset cause: POR DRAM: 3.9 GiB PMIC: RK808 SF: Detected w25q128 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 16 MiB MMC: mmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0 Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Model: Helios64 Revision: 1.2 - 4GB non ECC Net: eth0: ethernet@fe300000 scanning bus for devices... Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1 is current device Scanning mmc 1:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3185 bytes…

Hello My Helios64 arrived two weeks ago, after a loooong trip through the Silk Road all the way down to South Europe. First thing I want to give a GREAT THANK YOU to the people at kobol shop support, as they have helped me with my transport/forwarded/ carrier nightmare loop: the address is in Chinese-no address specified-contact the sender-won’t give you your parcel-please call again- no address specified.... So. After reading a good slice of the wiki I couldn’t find a comprehensive manual/article about the simplest usage of the front panel. Glad if you can point me to such information. The principal source of confusion for me are the comments section of …

Hi. I've just bought a Rock Pi 4a board, I plan to use it as home server, running stuff like Owncloud, Postfix/Dovecot, Apache, pihole, OpenHab, Emby server etc. I'm thinking of running Armbian on it, but I have absolutely no experience of this dist (I've been managing Debian/Ubuntu servers for many years though). It's going to run headless. I'm wondering what would be the best way to set up disks from an Armbian point of view. My main reason for buying Rock Pi is for the M.2 port, I'm going to put my data on a M.2 disk. Booting from M.2 seems to be tricky though so I'm thinking about booting from micro SD card. I don't want to put any important data or a…

Hi, I am trying to setup NVME boot on RockPI 4 c. I have tried different things, but no success. First I have installed Redxa SPI last u-boot image over OTG. Download last Armbian for Rock pi 4 c. ( Own building last Armbian for Rock P4 C trunk from 10/28 5.8.16 , I had tried too ) Install image on SD Card. ( dd ) Boot from SD card. Copy Image over scp to SD Card. Copy image with dd to NVME. Shutdown and remove SD Card. Boot from NVME ( Works on ever try ). Login and change password. Add one user. Shutdown and try to reboot. The System never reboot. The serial console shows. 64.495100 nvme nvme0…

Hi guys! I would like to know why this is happening. I guess the script doesnt identify my sd card as the sd card and it erase it just like it does with emmc before clonning the sd card to the emmc. I use latest armbian focal.

I have a serious problem as I mentioned in a title Currently I'm using Armbian on my NanoPi M4 and very satisfied its functionality But when I try to use usb3 device (especially camera from ZWO campany, ZWO ASI 178) with it, it doesn't recognize it as USB3 device but USB2 by checking the data transfer speed with "lsusb -t" Then, once I unplug the cable and plug it to the pi again, that device is recognized as USB3 and the data transfer speed becomes much higher. I need to get USB3's fast data transfer as soon as the board gets booted, without unplugging cables since now it's not that easy to access to the board and cable. I tried usb r…

I'm trying to make boot a NanoPi Neo3 from SSD connected through USB. - I installed armbian Buster 5.8.6 downloaded from armbian.com - Next, I tried with and without apt update - connected an external SSD through the USB port and and a USB 3.0->SATA box - Executed nand-sata-install and selected the option to boot from external SSD - The system prepared the SSD, copied filesystem, modified boot (and I verified that in armbianExt.txt it set the UUID of the external disk) - rebooted ... And nothing I've observed that the system not always detects the external SSD. I must unplug and plug it to be recognized (as /dev/sda …

After installing Arbian on Rock pi 4 c the sound on the Jack does not work because the sound card driver is. 8316 is not supported The sound goes out anyway on the HDMI of my television Would there be a solution

I have installed Armbian distrubution focal i am running with boot from sd and system on nvme I installed gnome disks and i did a benchmark. drive/ model number Transcend 512GB NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 MTE220S M.2 TS512GMTE220S advertised speeds 3100 read/2100 write The results where as followed: 750 mbs read >>>inline with epectations 150 mbs >>> way below expectations for the drive is there a atch availeble?

I've got a Rock64 1GB (rk3328) running Focal with the legacy 4.4 kernel. I've compiled and installed from source various things like libmali, libdrm, mpp, ffmpeg, and gstreamer, and have successfully gotten ffmpeg and gstreamer to do hardware decoding and gstreamer doing hardware video encoding. I also managed to compile and install xserver 1.20 from the rockchip-linux Github and have it running a barebones LXDE installation. I am now setting my sights on Kodi. I have stock LibreELEC installed and working on another sdcard, but my TV only supports 50Hz, 59.96Hz, and 60Hz refresh rates, meaning that 23.976fps content does not play smoothly. I've read enough to …

Hello everyone, I have an OrangePi 4 that will serve as an interface for the electric car chargers that are produced in my company. We currently use Raspberry 3 and we want to upgrade to the OrangePi 4, mainly because it has eMMc. The problem is that the interface we have was designed to work on Raspberry. I put the SD card with the image in the OrangePi but it starts with the system that has been installed on eMMc (Armbian). Can you tell me if it will be very difficult for the image we use in Rpi to be possible to install on OrangePi? Another thing I want to do is move from the Armbian that I have currently installed on eMMc to Debian, h…

I have previously successfully been using the USB serial gadget as terminal on the Nanopi R2S. The last working release I have tried was: Linux 5.4.45-rockchip64 #20.05.3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 10 11:47:27 CEST 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Now I am running the following version (Also tried 20.08.08) and the gadget mode does not work after boot. Linux 5.8.14-rockchip64 #20.08.10 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 13 16:58:01 CEST 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux I have seen no warnings or error messages when running dmesg. After boot on the failing versions the log contains the following section, which I assume means that the driver …

Title pretty much summs it up! I had a few problems getting my RockPi 4 to boot anything from SSD, but I did mangage too by compiling the current buster branch as a minimal image. I also created a thread on the radxa forum: https://forum.radxa.com/t/trouble-booting-armbian-from-nvme-ssd/4362 With the current image on the website (buster - server - 5.8.y) my bootlog looks like this: Spoiler DDR Version 1.20 20190314 In channel 0 CS = 0 MR0=0x98 MR4=0x2 MR5=0xFF MR8=0x8 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 MR24=0x8 MR25=0x0 CS = 1 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x3 MR5=0xFF MR8…

My system has: $uname -a Linux rkpi 5.8.11-rockchip64 #20.08.4 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 23 17:51:13 CEST 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Sound stack seems to be loaded, but alsa/pulseaudio sees only hdmi-output device (aplay log below). How to enable analog ouput on 3.5 mm jack? $sudo aplay -lL default Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) samplerate Rate Converter Plugin Using Samplerate Library speexrate Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler jack JACK Audio Connection Kit oss Open So…

Using Armbian bionic (Ubuntu 18.04) on a Orange PI4, hostapd does not run as service. Neither at startup, nor when stopped and restarted manually. However, starting it from command line works fine? Logfiles (syslog, journalctl) do not show anything helpful. root@IA216:~# service hostapd status ● hostapd.service - LSB: Advanced IEEE 802.11 management daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/hostapd; generated) Active: active (exited) since Sun 2020-10-18 12:54:28 CEST; 8h ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 31481 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/hostapd stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 31542 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/ho…

Hi All! I've recently moved to Armbian (Debian buster server) on my Rock Pi 4B - from Ubuntu provided by Radxa (some way failed upgrade). However system is booting from eMMC which has Radxa kernel and then directly to Armbian file system on SSD connected via USB 3.0. Great is that Armbian is working with Radxa kernel, which I want to change to 5.8.14-rockchip64. My question is how should I prepare /boot folder on eMMC (which is FAT file system) to boot Armbian kernel? Is there any other way (reformat eMMC for ext4@32768 sector for /boot folder) to achieve this? Thanks.

I am observing huge difference in samba speed (both ways to/from PC on Gigabit Ethernet) with Rock Pi 4B. Earlier I had Debian and Ubuntu provided by Radxa and recently speed has gone from 115 MB/s to ~12 MB/s. I moved to Armbian which is currently available for download. Before any updates I had 115 MB/s transfer speed. When I updated to Armbian 20.08.11 Focal with Linux 5.8.15-rockchip64 the speed has go down to ~15 MB/s. The bigger change that happened was kernel upgrade. I exclude problems like: PSU (it is over enough), home network (nothing has changed) and SSD speed (checked - 330 MB/s). Has anyone else also observed limited speed rec…

Hello! I wrote the wrong bootloader to the emms, now the download does not happen with either emmc or micro-sd. U-Boot TPL 2020.10-00676-g9885313b9a (Oct 13 2020 - 06:24:16) sdram_init: LPDDR3 - 933MHz failed! rk3399_dmc_init DRAM init failed -22 Missing DTB Now I can't use the board in any way, how can I clear the emmc memory?

hey, this change https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/2010/files made my rockpi-4b (with 4GB ram) finally stable some time ago DDR_BLOB='rk33/rk3399_ddr_933MHz_v1.20.bin' #instead of 1.24 After messing with rx/tx offloading, this was the solution, no more failed apt and download errors, great! It seems that this change got lost in the transition to the new u-boot / different logical structure or is not needed anymore for the 1GB models it was mentioned originally, see here: https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/f2db96252530d2f5585755b518e7fd020b5f0392#diff-18c1f509b638f24dc14854e6af5173bb Any chance to get it back for rockpi-4…

Hi, I'm using NanoPi M4 $ uname -a Linux nanopim4 4.4.213-rk3399 #3 SMP Mon Oct 5 15:53:54 CEST 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux and wondering if I can upgrade the linux kernel to 5.8.x without reinstalling other things. I tried armbian-config -> System -> Other All available options are those 4.4.213-rk3399 with different Armbian versions 20.08.x. I'm currently on 20.08.9 Appreciated any step, pointer Thank you

Hi. I am trying to use bluetooth with my rock pis but I can't with armbian but debian. With debian I just followed this page and it works. https://wiki.radxa.com/RockpiS/Debian#Bluetooth But I want to work it in armbian. I turn bluetooth on in armbian-config. But "hciconfig" have no result and when I power on bluetooth, it say "No default controller available". So I searched and found it. Is it mean that I need to build a kernel to use bluetooth??

Hello, I have a problem with my OrangePi 4, if I connect it with the operating system already installed at the factory (Android 8), I can get my USB keyboard and mouse connected to work normally. However, whenever I try a new image, be it Debian, Armbian or another version of Ubuntu, I can only get the mouse to work, the keyboard never works and I get stuck in the login screen where I can't write even the username and password. Can someone help me?

I am testing a Nano-Pi M4 with 4GB of RAM, with the heat sink and fans installed ARMBIAN 5.65 stable Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.4.162-rk3399, docker CE and BOINC / seti@home, installed. I am using 7 Raspberry-Pi 3B+ boards as nodes. I would like to implement and test boinc-client-docker, (https://github.com/BOINC/boinc-client-docker). I am new at this and running into overheating issues, (temps over 70C as reported by htop), when all 6 cores are maxed out at 100%. I can keep the board slightly below 70C if I add multiple fans pointed at the heat sink, however I would like a better solution. I was wondering if setting the max frequency of the co…

There are several questions on the topic: Between the moment of transfer of control to the kernel from the u-boot and the moment of start of the kernel operation it takes 1.5 -2 minutes. I assume that during this period of time there is decompression of the code and placement in memory. But why so long? The 4.4.x kernel starts instantly. When I first turned on a nanopc-t4 with a 5.x.x (4.20) kernel, I already thought the kernel was corrupted. And quite accidentally waited for the green LED to blink. Why is there still no sound in fdt for nanopc-t4? I corrected fdt, but I can 't put it in kernel.org. It is possible that my patch goes against the established str…

Installed the image Armbian_20.08.1_Rockpi-4b_buster_current_5.8.6.img.xz . Then, in armbian-config -> Software, I had installed linux headers + source. I got two new directories: linux-headers-5.7.15-rockchip64 linux-source-5.7.15-rockchip64 If I execute: uname - r I get: root@pi:~# uname -r 5.8.6-rockchip64 The kernel version and installed source/headers are not the same, so they are useless. How to get the correct source/headers? EDIT: When first boot, the OS asked for locale/timezone settings, I did hit ENTER as default and it set the locale language to Slovene. When doing apt-get up…

Hello everyone! I have an issue with rebooting my orangepi 4. when i use tf card, reboot is working. but when i using system in emmc, the board can't reboot. the output from debug ttl is like this: [ 41.329350] watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop! [ 42.148627] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.5.auto: Host halt failed, -110 [ 42.170221] gpiod_set_value: invalid GPIO (errorpointer) [ 42.188751] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.5.auto: Host halt failed, -110 [ 42.189252] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.5.auto: Host controller not halted, aborting reset. [ 42.190309] reboot: Restarting syste

Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to switch from the current branch to the legacy one as I've read that the board will be much more stable with the older kernel ? I've installed my NanopiM4 last march, and I've experienced some random freezes of my board after some time (can take weeks). It seems that one of my solutions would be to use the legacy kernel as it is much more stable - information I got by reading the forums (something I haven't done before because I'm stupid and was in a hurry...). Is it possible to downgrade only the kernel at all ? Here are the packages that (I think) I have to replace : linux-bu…

HI. I burned the latest official Rockpi4 focal kernel 5.8.x on both rockpi 4 B and C. The problem is only present on the C model. Both USB 2.0 aren't working at all.

I'm a complete noob to compiling kernels and have been struggling (and failing) for the past week to get an RT kernel compiled using Armbian build and reading various threads in the forum. Is it even possible? If so, what config options need to be set to get the correct kernel version matching the available rt patches? Thanks!

Hi, Around the forums, I've seen that some people have been successful in running the lima driver on Amlogic or Allwinner hardware: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/14180-bananapro-lima-driver-problems/ https://forum.armbian.com/topic/11424-playing-with-limamesa-mali-drivers/ However, I couldn't seem to find any posts with Rockchip hardware, specifically the ROCK64. I tried to enable it myself by doing the following, but was unsuccessful so far. enable kernel module lima via "sudo modprobe lima" update /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-armbian-defaults.conf as below per the lima wiki instructions (also tried w/o the "Device" secti…

Hi, I want to know if there is another way to power the Nanopc-t4 besides the 12V input power jack. As far as I know the 12V power input is the only way but If someone have another idea or way to do power the board, it could be very helpful for me. Thanks.

Hi, I owe a rockpi4a which I like to reflash with a custom build dev image: ./compile.sh BRANCH=dev RELEASE=buster BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BOARD=rockpi4a Can I flash this image directly to emmc, so it boots from it ?

First time user here. I got a Rock64 board and flashed Armbian_20.08.1_Rock64_focal_current_5.8.6_desktop.img using Etcher to an SD card. When I try to boot, nothing happens. If I examine the SD card on my Linux PC, there is only one partition on it and it appears to be a kernel image. I assumed that the .img file would have the U-Boot partition as well. Is there a different type of image file I should be using that would contain everything that I need to boot? If not, how do I create such an image?

i2cdetect -l i2c-1 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter The i2c-1 device works fine and there is a working sensor attached. Trying to get the i2c-0 device up and running. Added overlays=i2c0 to /boot/armbianEnv.txt but it didn't work. There doesn't appear to be a file with that name so I'm not sure if this doesn't exist or if there is a package that needs to be installed. find / -name '*.dtbo' 2> /dev/null | grep 3308 /boot/overlays/rk3308-uart2.dtbo /boot/overlays/rk3308-uart1.dtbo /boot/overlays/rk3308-uart0.dtbo armbian-config flashes this in the system->hardware menu …

There seems to be some issue with the very early bootup on the rockpi-S using the dev or current target (not the 4.4 kernel) It hangs and requires a reboot, something like every 4th bootup works. I have a bunch of logs with various errors like: Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: add_uevent_var+0x12c/0x130 [ccff800010110d58] address between user and kernel address ranges Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: vsnprintf+0x724/0x728 This usually happens about 2.7 - 2.8 seconds into bootup. I have been building from source with a custom config and this (or something similar) and I believe 5.4 w…

Hi. I was testing pwm with a motor, then my rock pis stopped. After boot, I couldn't see wlan0 in nmtui-connect. So I reinstall fresh armbian, I can see wlan0 again. I do wifi setting with nmtui-connect but after rebooting I can't connect wifi. I have to redo wifi setting with nmtui-connect, put password again and it adds another wifi. It seems like it can't connect to previous wifi. When I do "nmcli con show", I can see the previous wifi but it is deactive. I searched about it and found wifi mac address randomization issue. So I checked "10-override-random-mac-disable.conf". [connection] wifi.mac-address-rando…

Hi. I have been playing with relay and gpio and having a lot of fun. Now I want to use pwm to control a fan. So I edit "/boot/hw_intfc.conf". ..... intfc:pwm2=on intfc:pwm3=on .... And I reboot it. But I can't see "/sys/class/pwm/pwmchip2" and "/sys/class/pwm/pwmchip3" What else should I do??

I have a new nanopi m4v2 and I downloaded the latest focal version today Armbian_20.08.1_Nanopim4v2_focal_current_5.8.6_desktop.img.xz Boots with uboot successfully, but after showing the message "Starting kernel ...", serial is blank. Green SYS LED glows couple of times and then both LEDs are off. I assume the system has powered off as there are no more signs of being up. I am using the usbttl from friendly elec and a samsung EVO 32G microsd. I am attaching the last uboot logs until "start kernel ..." msg Any clue as to why the board is not booting? m4v2_uboot_log.txt

Have anyone tried to use USB connected monitor with NanoPi? I'm thinking about buying one but not sure it can work with it or, if some change has to be done to NanoPi , I would like to know about it.

Hi , I downloaded "Armbian_20.08_Orangepi4_bionic_legacy_4.4.213_desktop" from Chinese mirror ... flashed into a 16 GB sd card using Etcher ...and now on first start/boot getting these messages (messages pictures attached )...what may be the problem ? * SBC > Opi4 (with 16 GB on board EMMC) . * Power supply > Original Orange Pi supplied 5v/3 amps . * Os version > Armbian_20.08_Orangepi4_bionic_legacy_4.4.213_desktop. * SD card > 16 GB . EDIT/UPDATE : I just carried on punching the requested information which Armbian usually ask at fresh install/boot..with my every key pressed console kept on emitting errors BUT ultimately it f…

I always received beacons with Country "US", until I created the file "brcmfmac43456-sdio.xunlong,orangepi-4.txt". It is a copy of brcmfmac43456-sdio.txt and I added the line: ccode=DE With this modification, I see the expected beacon. (Country: "DE", correct tx-power, ...) I think this is not the intended way to configure it. What I checked before: My hostapd.conf contains; ... country_code=DE ieee80211d=1 ... iw reg get global country DE: DFS-ETSI (2400 - 2483 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A) (5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW (5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), NO-OUTDOOR, DFS, AUTO…

Hi, I'm currently working to enable SPI on NanoPi M4 but it is not working... I have edited main DT to the following one and now /dev/spidev0.0 appears. But when I checked spi with this tool:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/spi/spidev_test.c I only got the result below and no matrix appears... spi mode: 0x0 bits per word: 8 max speed: 500000 Hz (500 KHz) Here is what dmesg | grep spi returns I have checked the output from the proper GPIO with oscilloscope but found nothing. almost spent couple weeks on this Anyone had the same issue or knows what to do here?

Hello. Good day. I managed to installed Android on the OrangePi RK3399 using the Linux_Upgrade_tool (v 1.49), but, I'm struggling to get the board to boot back to Linux. I created an sdcard from the debian image from the OragenPi website, but, when I try to boot is with the sdcard insert, I get the messages below on the serial terminal. Removing the sdcard boots normally on Android (installed on emmc). Pressing spacebard doesn't do anything during boot. Also, trying to flash the Linux image via the Linux_Upgrade_tool doesn't work (always return a fail). Any ideas how to make this board boot back on Linux? Thank you. DDR Version 1.07 2…

Hello Folks, good day. I have a project where I need to use a OrangePi 4B and couple of hardware pieces connected to it. I'm having trouble putting together a Linux image where I have, at least the minimum functions required for the project working. I need an image where these items below are enable/working: - SPI - I2C - GPIO - PWM - 10.1 MIPI DSI LCD + TOUCH (available here) - MIPI CSI Webcam (OV13850) - 3D Acceleration (WebGL / OpenGl) using the Mali t860 - Bluetooth - Wifi Ideally, I would like to use the most recent Focal mainline kernel, but a legacy image will also be fine. I've b…

Hello, I have a rockpi4 whit armbian 20.08.0-trunk.68 nightly (based on debian buster), I have managed to configure all the system whit out problems and I will admit it's of my liking, but there is a problem I cannot solve whit the headphones. So, the headphone port is detected by pulseaudio, once the hdmi audio is turned off in the configuration the software indicates that the sound is being outputted through the headphones, but it is not, not even garbage sound comes out. I have also tried vanilla debian in the board and the headphones worked perfectly, but whit debian some garbage sound came out even when there was nothing reproducing, witch makes me suspect the headph…

Is there any way/plans to support the FrindlyArm RK3399 SOM in Armbian? Does anyone know the hardware well enough to know if another firmware could be loaded on it? It seems to be a very nice module, and the dev board has just about everything one might want on it. On a side note, possibly derailing my own topic, is there any plans to add any of the VPU patches for the RK3399 and associated software? It seems like support for that is getting pretty close, and it would be great if some of the patches that are floating around could get include in the official distro. I'm about to dive in an try getting at least accelerated ffmpeg working on my M4V2 and/or neo4, …

I am thinking to buy NanoPi M4v2 and i want to use with nvme SSD. RockPi 4 support Gen 2.0. What about NanoPi? NanoPi only support Gen1? And what is the maximum theoretical speed for nvme SSD on NanoPi M4v2 ? I am between NanoPi M4v2 vs RockPi 4 and NanoPc T4. I like NanoPi M4 design and box, I don't like rock pi ssd hat and box, and NanoPc price is expensive, not compact like NanoPi, ram is LPDDR3 others LPDDR4, but x4 lane and support Gen 2.1 is good. I am so confused..

RockPi 4 Model C support will come in the near future?

Hi, I try use image http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3844 this only one image works HDMI input for HDMI output PC ffmpeg -f v4l2 -list_formats all -i /dev/video0 [video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0xab89b120] Raw : yuyv422 : YUYV 4:2:2 : [video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0xab89b120] Raw : yuyv422 : YUYV 4:2:2 : [video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0xab89b120] Raw : uyvy422 : UYVY 4:2:2 : [video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0xab89b120] Raw : yuv422p : Planar YVU 4:2:2 : [video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0xab89b120] Raw : Unsupported : Y/CbCr 4:2:2 : [video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0xab89b120] Raw : yuv4…

Hi all, today I used rsync to copy some music files from an attached USB drive to my NVME M2 SSD drive and noticed the Nanopi was getting very hot. I have it housed in an official metal case with a fan. The fan didn't come on despite the temperature of 80 + , the case was very hot to the touch. I turned it off in the end in case it got damaged. Any suggestions appreciated. The board is running the latest Buster from here.

Hi there, is the RK3399 (OrangePi4) already supported by Armbian? The manufacturer claims support "Debian 9" but current Armbian is Debian Buster 10 - based. Anyone tried this board with success?

Any guesses whats wrong? The bootup stucks at [ 311.991668] random: crng init done for such a long time with 5.4.49... That happend on two different ROCK PI 4B 4GB v1.3 with SPI and NVME SSD boot without SD/eMMC. (fdtfile=rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4.dtb). It is only happening if I disconnect power and boot up. It seems working fine if I just restart the board. No problems with 4.4.213 Kernel (fdtfile=rockchip/rk3399-rockpi4b.dtb). It was also working fine with an older version of 5.4.xxx... channel 0 CS = 0 MR0=0x98 MR4=0x2 MR5=0xFF MR8=0x8 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 MR24=0x8 MR25=0x0 CS = 1 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x2 MR5=0xFF MR8=0x8 MR12=0x72 MR…

I have recently started working with a NanoPi R2S. I have it booting from the built-in microSD. However, I would like to be able to boot off of USB. When I interrupt u-boot and start USB on the board, it finds the hub but does not seem to find *any* device. I have tried various USB sticks of different sizes and brands, and a few ordinary devices such as a mouse. Nothing. Is this a known problem? Should it be able to work? Thanks

Hi all, anyone here ever used a Khadas Tone Board on a Nanopi M4 ? I've just bought one but can't get any sound out of it. What I'm trying to achieve is run Logitech media server in conjunction with squeezelite using the Khadas as my DAC. LMS and Squeezelite both installed and run without errors BUT ! there is no sound. How can I make the Khadas the default output device ? Edit I have it working now you have to edit /etc/defaults/squeezelite and tell it what card to use SL_SOUNDCARD="hw:CARD=Control,DEV=0"

Hi i have a orangepi 4 , i try install armbian mainline based kernel 5.4.y having issue with hdmi, no display, the os cant sense any hdmi connection. But when i try kernel 4.4 the hdmi work with? anyone having the sane issue?

I have a problem with Focal on Nanopi-M4V2 is that when it is overloaded and runs out of memory, instead of getting slow it kills the process causing the problem and in the last few cases, logs out out of Ubuntu Mate ;-) [Sun Jul 26 17:12:54 2020] Out of memory: Killed process 12888 (Web Content) total-vm:3097484kB, anon-rss:455520kB, file-rss:1600kB, shmem-rss:16636kB, UID:1000 pgtables:2752kB oom_score_adj:0 [Sun Jul 26 17:12:54 2020] oom_reaper: reaped process 12888 (Web Content), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:16220kB [Sun Jul 26 17:13:22 2020] panfrost_gem_shrinker_scan: 60 callbacks suppressed [Sun Jul 26 17:13:22 2020] Purging 4595712 …

Is there an issues page relating to the M4V2 and Armbian Focal. I'm testing it and I have a few strange things happening with NFS and network but I was wondering if there as a known issues or a general topic regarding this board and this Ambian build because searching for nanopi-M4V2 Focal... is not a good idea. Thanks

/usr/bin/brcm_patchram_plus/rk3399 hogs 100% CPU until rk3399-bluetooth.service is stopped and disabled. The NanoPi Neo3 does not have bluetooth.

I connect the rockpi 4 to a Samsung display whose normal resolution is 1680x1050 via a hdmi to dvi line, but the maxium resolution I can choose is 1280x1024. And when I connect it to a 4K tv via hdmi, the maxium resolution is 1920x1080, not 3840x2160. The legacy kernel (4.4.210) works perfectly in both cases.

I think I have somehow managed to remove my wlan0 interface. I've done a lot of testing on this M4V2 and am happy with my latest configuration and then I noticed my wlan0 interface is gone. I know it was there because I had tested it all (this box is going to my work office I'm not very good with the very low level stuff but this is what I have found sudo nmcli dev status DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION eth0 ethernet connected Nano2Home lo loopback unmanaged -- jerry@nano2:~ $ sudo nmcli con show NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE Nano2Home bfe624a0-6c47-34c7-b947-350dd18b2059 ethernet eth0 Wi-Fi connection 1 62eadfc0-4456-4dc6-8624-771996a69834 w…

Like the title says, when I open armbian-config on my brand new NanoPi M4N2 I don't see a "Hardware" entry in the menu... is this expected? Only reason I wanted to access is to ensure I disable WiFi as I am only using Ethernet. For the record, I'm powering it with a 5V 4A PoE adapter, using a Samsung SD-card flashed with Armbian_20.05.7_Nanopim4v2_buster_current_5.4.49.img. I'm using a 256GB Sabrent M.2 NVME SSD as the main disk (configured via armbian-config), so the SSD card is for initial booting only.

Hello, (i opened a new thread because the other one had another topic...) At the moment im stuck in updating my linux image... When i run apt-get install linux-image-current-rockchip64 Then i get: The following packages will be upgraded: linux-image-current-rockchip64 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 38.2 MB of archives. After this operation, 97.2 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 https://apt.armbian.com buster/main arm64 linux-image-current-rockchip64 arm64 20.05.7 [38.2 MB] Fetched 38.2 MB in 3s (14.4 MB/s) (Reading database ... 128592 files and directories …

Hello i made a mistake when i was selecting an other kernel via armbian-config. I was powering off the board after the kernel change (which normally worked fine when i switched between dev and current) and this time something wrong happened i dont know what exactly but the VMLinuz and uinitram is missing in boot. How can i chroot my Armbian system so re-run armbian-config and install the kernel properly? I tried several other things,,.. copying the boot folder from a working install of armbian but i dont really know which kernel he wants. The easiest thing might be chrooting... but i dont know how to chroot my emmc. I plugged it into the emmc adap…

First a short introduction I am a Linux Noodle i recently bought my first sbc nanopi m4 v2 arm powerd board idialy i would use linux fx to transit from windows envirement to linux.However most information (youtube Nico D) about using my new sbc uses Armbian as os.So i decidit to use Armbian to start with this topic will be a collection of noodle questions 1)Armbian and gui...i find the default desktop plain ugly... can i instal a other like cinnamon if not what other options do i have?(i dont care that mutch about resource use). 2) I know Armbian overclocks bye default to 2ghz/1.5... however can i go higher with armbian if s…

I've downloaded this but there are a few issues. The verification procedures: Verify GPG signature: gpg --verify Armbian_20.05.2_Nanopi-r2s_buster_current_5.4.43.img.asc Verify image file integrity: sha256sum --check Armbian_20.05.2_Nanopi-r2s_buster_current_5.4.43.img.sha should include the .xz Verify GPG signature: gpg --verify Armbian_20.05.2_Nanopi-r2s_buster_current_5.4.43.img.xz.asc Verify image file integrity: sha256sum --check Armbian_20.05.2_Nanopi-r2s_buster_current_5.4.43.img.xz.sha However with the gpg gpg --verify Armbian_20.05.2_Nanopi-r2s_buster_current_5.4.43.img.xz.asc gpg: assuming signed data in 'Armbian_20.…

People, help install the system on eMMC Rock Pi 4 Bv 1.3. Installed the system "Arabian_20. 05.4_Rocky-4b_focal_current_5. 4. 46_desktop" on SD, installed eMMC on the Board, started the system and updated it. Then I tried two options for transferring the system to emc: 1) (https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/) sudo nano-sata-install - dd if= / dev/zero of= / dev/mmcblk2 bs=1024 seek=8 count=1; 2) armbian-config - boot from SD, system on SATA / USB. But both options failed. I read here two branches with a discussion of this problem, but I did not succeed. But this is because I am not a very experienced Linux user. Please give me a n…

I use Armbian_20.05.3_Rockpi-4a_buster_legacy_4.4.213 The armbian kernel version uses 4.4-213 Follow the radxa official installation script： curl -sL https://rock.sh/get-rockpi-penta | sudo -E bash - The output is as follows： I don’t know where the problem is after execution, I still can’t drive it.... It feels like a failure caused by the kernel, it seems that it only supports linux-image-4.4.154-110-rockchip-gcef30e88a9f5 I executed the command to install the kernel： sudo apt-get install linux-4.4-latest Something went wrong. I just started contacting SBC System and hope I …

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get 4k output from my NanoPi M4. I have tried (using a Steamlink HDMI cable) directly connected to my TV (to eliminate my receiver as a point of failure/bugs) to get something to output to the screen in 4k. I haven't succeeded. What information I've gathered so far: There are two "vops" a big and little, and the little one is not designed to, and cannot output 4k (there was a patch hacking that into vopl but I never dared test it and can't find it now). There was this change setting the maximum resolution to 4k in a file/subdirectory I cannot find in recent kernels anymore: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org…

Hallo, I've been using Armbian on the NanoPi M4 V2 for a while and now I'm thinking about switchen from the legacy kernel to the current kernel. Unfortunately that's not so easy to do when using armbian-config. You could think you can just select the current-kernel in the list but you won't find it there. The reason is simple: the legacy kernel belongs to the rk3399-family and the current kernel is rockchip64. Which is basically the same, but from an organisational point of view it is not (please forgive me if I do not show an adequate technical precision here, the details and the plan to clean that up are explained here). What I would be intereste…

Hi all, I'd just like to share a problem I experienced and what solved after a bit of Googling. Basically, I have Nextcloud installed on my Nanopi M4 (v1) with Armbian: $ uname -a Linux nanopim4 4.4.192-rk3399 When I sync files from my Android phone via local wifi, often the transfers were just failed. Not always but usually, it's when a directory contains lot of large files. After a bit of Googling and came across this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/494290/nanopi-m4-rk3399-apache2-ssl-large-download-hangs/495378#495378 It works. The problem's solved after: ethtool -K eth0 rx off tx off and put the com…

Hi, I was struggling in the Wifi connectivity with following syndromes: 1. Having trouble connecting to 5GHz network by default unless specifying BSSID 2. Will disconnect after a day or so 3. Cannot parse RX packet header properly (and will spamming errors in dmesg) After putting in some efforts, I've found a newer firmware version on GitHub: New Firmware: BCM4356/2 wl0: Apr 18 2017 13:54:43 version 7.35.184.1.r5 (A2 Station/P2P) FWID 01-efd4ca0d Original Firmware: BCM4356/2 wl0: May 14 2014 19:51:52 version 7.35.17 (r477908) FWID 01-2ed3ee81 The NVRAM text file is identical to `brcmfmac4356-sdio-nanopi-m4v2.txt…

Has anybody successfully used the USB type-c displayport of the nanopc-t4? How do you configure it? It works on the images provided by friendlyelec, so, I guess it is just a config/install issue ?

One of my boards gave up today - I was just connecting the SATA power cable to the hat and no leds came on - no sound or smoke just nothing - I tried several times to re power it and all I saw on a couple of occasions was a very faint flicker of the leds -so I guess it's dead.

I have been testing the latest Buster Server builds - kernels 4.4 and 5.3 versions on my rock64 board In both cases I see a number of syslog entries relating to device ttyFIQ0 not starting. Does anyone else have this issue? Any ideas how to remove stop it from trying to start? thanks

Hi, the latest Bionic Legacy Desktop images for NanoPi M4 V2 (Armbian_20.05.2_Nanopim4v2_bionic_legacy_4.4.213_desktop.img.xz and Armbian_20.05.1_Nanopim4v2_bionic_legacy_4.4.213_desktop.img.xz) do not boot on the board. No green LED. No video output at all. I haven't checked UART. The latest working image is Armbian_20.02.7_Nanopim4v2_bionic_legacy_4.4.213_desktop.7z I have a good power supply (12V 2A, also tried with USB 5V 3A), and a good MicroSD card (high endurance). I did not forget to unXZ the new image file and write it with dd, just as 20.02.7 7z. I've checked the checksum of written data on the MicroSD card, and it equals to the checksu…

Hey folks, So here's the setup I have: I have an Orange Pi 4B running the Orange Pi 4 image and kernel 5.6.17-rockchip64. I have an Orange Pi 4 running the Orange Pi RK3399 image and kernel 5.4.26-rockchip64 (cause when I got it, the Orange Pi 4 images weren't out yet). The OPi4 is running just fine. I imagine that I'm running the wrong DTB and that not all the hardware is working properly -- but the hardware I need is working just fine. The OPi4B is another story. It'll boot just fine, and it'll run just fine for days/weeks on end -- as long as I don't put it under any sort of heavy CPU load. But if I start running anythi…

Hey! I recently accidentally made my eMMC unbootable. I ordered this adapter, but the eMMC isn't getting picked up by any of my microSD adapters. Is there a way to hotplug the eMMC chip while booting from SD, like with the Pinebook Pro (which is also RK3399 based)? I'd really like to either repair or clear the eMMC so i could continue using it. Thanks!