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New user of a Rock64 board, I've tinkered with a RaspberryPi and BeagleBone before but wanted something to set up as a home media server. I flashed the SD card with an "Armbian_5.42_Rock64_Ubuntu_xenial_default_4.4.124" image and it worked perfectly fine at home, connecting to my network, etc. However, I took it to a new location and it straight up refuses to boot. I've tried it on several displays and with several HDMI cables. It hangs for a solid 30-45 seconds after initiating boot with a black HDMI screen, and then turns off and back on dumping a log citing either spinup shutdown errors or a temperature shutdown on Core 0. I've flash…

Thank's for supporting Rock64! Is there a chance for a debian server image (beta) within the near future? All my boards are running a armbian debian OS and I would like to stay consistent here... Best regards Martin

After the next (last) update, the system does not boot, there is no ssh access, and the monitor does not turn on. I just didn't install updates for three weeks and decided to update yesterday What should I do, re-install the system ? The loader is located on the sd card, and the system is on the hdd, using the 4.4.x kernel

I have two Rock64 single-board computers running Focal Fossa. One is stable and the other gets segmentation faults when compiling and sometimes a kernel oops. After some searching, my understanding is this can be fixed by slowing down the memory speed by installing rk3328_ddr_333MHz_v1.13.bin from the ayufan-rock64 GitHub repository into uboot along with possibly rk3328_miniloader_v2.46.bin as well. Unfortunately, I'm clueless how to do this. I'm running the latest Armbian Focal Fossa Server from August 19 with the 5.7.17 kernel. Do I need to build a new image or can I patch an existing SD card? I'm sorry if I there is already a thread on this.…

L.S. After installing Armbian_20.02.1_Rock64_buster_current_5.4.20.7z on my 4GB rock64 running on SD card - I could run for days 2 processes with "openssl speed" resulting in 2 CPU's 100% busy. - But when I added a third "openssl speed" it only takes minutes to freeze the board. - Further the "ondemand" scaling_governor is active (default setting) I noticed that distributed /etc/default/cpufrequtils contains line: ==> MAX_SPEED=1390000 This value is not in the list with valid values for this CPU : ==> 408000 600000 816000 1008000 1200000 1296000 1512000 After updating this to valid value and restart service …

Current issues with Armbian board support: -U-Boot problems (various) Solutions so far: - fix the method of generating idbloader.bin. <--- update: the "release" and "mainline-master" behave significantly differently. Mainline-master behaves as it should as far as writing the bootloader. Release does not.

I'm trying to run the example.cpp that comes with Pine64-CPP but I am throwing segmentation faults. The man-setup() call initialzes the board with the following if statement in the setup() function in gpio.cpp if((uint64_t)gpio_mem % PAGE_SIZE) and the this->gpioMap = statement that uses SUNXI_GPIO_BASE In the example code, I initialize the pin with man->pinMode (PI_GPIO_24, OUTPUT); The pinMode function in gpio.cpp, launches _setPullupdn with gpio=78 and pud = 1. As expected Inside _setPullupdn, the following is set bank= 2 index = 0 offset = 28 The s…

Hello everyone, i was thinking about running a jellyfin server on the Rock64, is there any chance for hardware encoding? Thank you in advance Regards

After shelving my Rock 64 I dusted it off and downloaded the latest desktop image with Ubuntu Focal. The latest OS has video artifacts that the older OS did not. I can only describe the issue as "scan lines," but they are random black bars that appear through out the entire screen (as if WiFi is interrupting the signal only there's no WiFi on the device). I would like to know the best way to bisect the issue as I'm fully capable of cloning the repo, building the image, loading the image and testing it out but if there are pointers to simplify the process I'd love to hear. Hoping to give back since this is a community supported board. Thanks.

Hi all. In download section i do see "large heatsink required" for Rock64. Can anyone post any links to eamples of good heatsink with proper size ? I will be migrating "home server" from Cubieboard2 to Rock64 and chasing long-term stable operation. When board just booted and "does nothing", cpu remains pretty cool. However i'd better be prepared. thanks in advance for tips.

I have a ROCK64 4GB Rev. 2. When I flash armbian to a SD card the board will boot fine and I can do basically anything for example apt-get update / upgrade. The board runs fine and stable for several hours. But as soon as I reboot the board, the board will stop booting. There is no HDMI output and no ping response. Even after disconnecting power for several hours. Right now there is no way for me to get it to boot again except for flashing the fresh image to the SD-card. I‘ve tried several SD-cards. I am using the original 5 V 3 A PSU. There is nothing connected to the board except for ethernet and power. Anyone got an …

The xenial img from dl.armbian.com works fine, but doesn't have SCTP support, so I wanted to compile my own image. Did a "show kernel config" and built an img. When I boot: In LPDDR3 786MHz Bus Width=32 Col=11 Bank=8 Row=15/15 CS=2 Die Bus-Width=32 Size=4096MB ddrconfig:7 OUT Boot1 Release Time: 2017-05-18, version: 2.43 ChipType = 0x11, 128 SdmmcInit=2 0 BootCapSize=2000 UserCapSize=29820MB FwPartOffset=2000 , 2000 SdmmcInit=0 2 StorageInit ok = 267624 Raw SecureMode = 0 SecureInit read PBA: 0x4 SecureInit read PBA: 0x404 SecureInit read PBA: 0x804 SecureInit read PBA: 0xc04 SecureInit read PBA: 0x1004 SecureInit ret = 0, SecureMode = 0 LoadTrustBL No find bl3…

Hi, do you plan to add Desktop images for Rock64 ? Anyway thanks for your great job. Armbian is wonderful!

Hi, I just ordered a Rock64 with 4GB and wanted to hear your recommendations on what image and os I should run it with. I want to use it as my home server with Docker, Samba, Pi-hole, Tvheadend and Tinyproxy. 100 Mbit/s ethernet is enough. What do you recommend?

I have a C++ app that wants to indicate its activity by blinking an LED on the Rock64. How can the LEDs be controlled? The sysfs leds do not appear to be present. I'm okay with libgpiod or sysfs gpios, but I don't know what gpio numbers represent the LEDs. Anyone know? Thanks. Linux rocky64 5.0.0-rockchip64 #5.85 SMP Wed May 8 19:38:28 CEST 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic

Hey guys. I'm totally new to this, used to fiddle with the PI when it came out but not any real serious projects. Just recently I've gotten annoyed on how I play back media and where I have my storage solution so I figured it was time for an upgrade. I've been reading this thread a lot, much respect goes to tkaiser for making such an amount of info available to us newbies. I actually ordered the Banana PI M3 until I read the wikis and this post which lead me to believe that the BPI M3 would make for a fantastically shitty NAS. I had actually ordered it but canceled the order before it was shipped. From those numbers I interpret that th…

My question to the developer: Is there any probability that the native ethernet (gigabit) connection will be working in the future? I think that's the main advantage of the rock64 board (gigabit ethernet AND usb 3.0). Otherwise many other boards will work as well as NAS as the rock64. Thanks in advance for answers!

Your build Armbian 5.65 kernel 4.4 and my build 5.65 the same kernel - system has sound only via HDMI monitor. Is it possible to enabled audio via 3.5 jack or external USB sound card?

Hello everybody, bought a Rock64 4 GB recently and I´m not able to boot it with any provided armbian Debian/Ubuntu image. With the Ubuntu Image ethernet doesnt seem to be initialized and with Debian there is activity on the eth port, but no connection, neither of the images show any output on the screen. Also i tried various SD-Cards and different image burning programs. Openmediavault works flawlessly, so I can exclude Hardware issues.

Hey guys, I installed Armbian some months ago in my Rock64 and I had never updated the packages. Yesterday I decided to do an apt update + apt upgrade to update one of the applications I use. I noticed that meanwhile apt updated Armbian itself, and began to ask for a reboot. A few hours later I rebooted the board. At first I couldn't connect due to connection refusal, so I went plugged a keyboard and hdmi on the board to see what was happening. It looks like while doing this I unplugged the power source suddenly, and now the board won't boot the system in this OS. No image or response in the USB keyboard. …

I have installed open media vault on my rock64 and I have a sata3 disc drive connected to the usb3 port. I have tried both armbian and ayufan firmwares and the speed of the samba shares is 30 MB/sec. I know that the system can do more as with FTP I get 100MB/sec. I have tried many samba tweaks but nothing changes, is this the max I can expect?

I'm trying to switch the upper USB port to peripheral mode so I can use the ethernet gadget on it. Has anyone done anything like that before? I've got an issue here https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/issues/117 with some of the things I've tried already.

Hi everybody, I recently set up a small server with the Rock64 booting armbian stretch 5.59 stable directly from a 120 GB SSD attached via USB3. Booting is handled with U-Boot from ayufan on the SPI flash. The Rock64 is board revision 2.0, the power supply is the original Pine64 one for the Rock. Besides the SSD, there are no other peripherals connected. The board often (3 out of 4 times) hangs when booting. In this case, all LEDs are lit, the orange network LED will flash and the board is not reachable by SSH and not pingable. My impression is, that it is stuck because the SSD either powered up too late or the USB connection is delayed. However, I…

The newest revision does not boot from current SD images. I'm working to debug why. If anyone else has a board and can test it out, let me know. The eMMC will boot, no problem, so it's just the SD itself. Model: Pine64 Rock64 DRAM: 1022 MiB MMC: rksdmmc@ff520000: 0, rksdmmc@ff500000: 1 SF: Detected w25q128bv with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 16 MiB *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial@ff130000 Out: serial@ff130000 Err: serial@ff130000 Model: Pine64 Rock64 misc_init_r cpuid=55524b50303930343200000000051f1a serial=f55c6806c317581 Net: eth0: ethernet@ff540000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Card did not respo…

/usr/lib/dri/rockchip_dri.so just doesn't exist but not really sure if the xorg package is the xenial one or rockchip one. If it is the rockchip one then for some reason rockchip_dri.so isn't being built. On a startx it gives it a good go but always drops out to software rendering because its missing the above.

I installed tvheadend on Armbian 22.08 Jammy and Bullseye using the 5.15 kernel. Tvheadend runs fine for a while and then freezes and disconnects filling the log file with the following message: rock64 kernel : au0828: recv_control_msg() Failed receiving control message, error -71. At first I thought it was a problem with Jammy, but I still had the same problem on Bullseye. So I switched to the legacy kernel 4.4.213-rockchip64 and I do not have the problem. I am using a Rock64 Ver. 2 with usb dvb tuner for tvheadend and it is stable running Bullseye with kernel 4.4.213. I am not sure what changed between these kernel ve…

The strangest thing happened today. I switched of my rok64 rev.2 and connected to my PC to move the files of my USB HDD. My plan was to change the disk format from NTFS to EXT4. Then when i plugged it back in the rock64 wouldn't boot properly. Turns out my USB 3 port isn't working anymore with the USB HDD or any other USB drive. The light comes on for my SSD but fdisk -l doesn't see it. Could one of the firmware updates broken it? UPDATE... I downloaded the latest Ayufun arm64 bionic build and booted from this. My USB 3 HDD was picked up fine. I've gone back to the new Armbian Bionic build and it doesn't wo…

I do have a setup: 2.5" disks connected to the powered USB 3.0 hub. The power adapter is 10A. If I do start rsync copy from one disk to another after a while I'm getting the error: rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(393) [receiver=3.1.2] All disks disappired. There is no way to return them back, only reboot helps. In dmesg I could find that device jsut stopped and disappired: [ 2342.927583] usb 5-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 3 [ 2342.931057] usb 4-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 [ 2342.931975] usb 5-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 [ 2345.629932] usb 5-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 4 [ 2345.663838] usb 5-1.4: …

Can anyone recommend a usb adapter that works with Armbian on Rock64 wifi access point/hotspot. I tried a few I had but none work as access point. Thanks

I have successfully gotten Armbian to boot from a USB flash drive on the Rock64 board. Followed ayufan's instructions on how to update SPI Flash with his boot code and then wrote the Armbian Rock64 image to a USB flash drive. All worked as expected. Thanks to everyone at Armbian for all the great work!

I have seen many problems with the Rock64 v3 in the last few days. Many customers have told me that existing Rock64 images suddenly no longer boot in v3. We have verified this and found that apparently v3 can not cope with many SD cards. The booting of eMMC goes without problems. If a customer has bought a new v3 and nothing works, contact us, we will send you an emmc card for the purchase price without any profit. markus@humberg.de

I am running last stable armbian with kernel 4.4.192-rockchip64 on emmc - really everything works nice (only thunderbird is very slow) - thx a lot for your work. The only thing I could not figure out, how I can wake up from suspend by keyboard or mouse. The armbian image uses org.freedesktop.login1.suspend to suspend - normally I am used to upower or pm-utils and there it was until now all the time possible to wake up with keyboard. Its quite uncomfortable to wake up the Rock64 with the power button - hidden, very small hole, I just use now a wooden chopstick for wakeup. Does anybody know, how to configure wakeup-hooks / wakeup-events for systemd …

Hello: To compare all available use of this so great card, we could share our uses. For me i se it with : -OpenMediaVault for the NAS function; as file copy save and Torrent -Transmission for the torrent sharing -2 HDDs to save files on USB 3 and 2. And you ? I have a Rock64 1Gb with external power station 5A power

Hi all, I try to use a SATA/SSD connected via USB instead of a SD Card or eMMC, but it doesnt boot at all. I tried to use U-Boot for Rock64 on SPI: Release 2017.09-rockchip-ayufan-1065-g95f6152134 · ayufan-rock64/linux-u-boot · GitHub (flashed to SD Card and successfully booted on Rock64), but without success. I flashed the same Image to SD Card, eMMC and SSD. Booting from SD Card and eMMC works without problems, SSD is visible from Rock64, correct UUID is written in "armbianEnv.txt" on SSD. But nevertheless - it doesn´t boot. I use the Rock64 for my Home Automation and want to use the SSD because it should be more …

Today I flashed the latest version CLI Jammy img instead of my old OS.First system boot,I can get the IP from my router DHCP and I can ping the Board's IP,but SSH connection refused.Now the Latest System won't start SSH service in first boot?I haven't a monitor,so I cant check the system booted or not.

I have the Rock64 4G Version with emmc module Since the latest Kernel Update two weeks ago on friday the board does not boot up anymore. (I was on Stretch initially and updated regularly since.) Even with a newly flashed sd card and without emmc module the board will not but into armbian. I managed to boot into raspbian buster 5.91 once, but after rebooting it, it failed again and stayed that way. until now I have tried the latest 3 images. The Kernel is now 4.4182 and is unchanged whatever I do. with any armbian on an sd card i am getting: Failed to start armbian zram config - failed to start journal service Failed to flush Journal to Persi…

Hello, While upgrading my rock64 today, my Linux kernel was upgraded from 6.6.32 to 6.12.9. After rebooting, the board refused to boot: Boot script loaded from usb 0 | 166 bytes read in 407 ms (0 Bytes/s) | 26129699 bytes read in 1634 ms (15.3 MiB/s) | 36473344 bytes read in 48420 ms (735.4 KiB/s) | 54333 bytes read in 826 ms (63.5 KiB/s) | 2825 bytes read in 1653 ms (1000 Bytes/s) | Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (rockchip-fixup…

Hey fellow tinkerers, I'm pretty happy with my Rock64 boards so far, however, when I recently upgraded the kernel on the oldest one and rebooted, I couldn't ssh back in. So I hooked it up to a monitor and was blown away from all the error-like text that kept flowing on my screen. Since I have if this is logged anywhere (I looked but couldn't find anything after mounting the sdcard in my laptop), I had to film it. See attached video. It basically consists of lots of errors formatted like this: [<ffffffxxxxxxxxxx>] and a lot of errors looking like this: dma-pl330 ff1f0000.dmac: pl330_update:1783 Unexpected! Is there any way to s…

I got the Rock64 specifically for router-like functionality. In addition to the native ethernet port, I've added two USB3 RTL8153 Gigabit adapters: http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/productsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=56&Level=5&Conn=4&ProdID=326 I've tried multiple 0.5.x and 0.6.x Ayufan images, and also Stretch armbian here (which also uses the Ayufan kernel). I've tried both the 4.4 kernel all these distros come with, and up to 4.17 as well. In all cases I see terrible and unreliable USB3/USB2 and ethernet performance. In the Armbian Sketch image I see 'eth1' go up and down contstantly: …

Hi, I need some guide and steps required (and if possible) to enable hardware acceleration using FFmpeg. Is the only thing I need since the idea is to use this SBC as Surveillance platform (for example, with Motion+Motioneye or Shinobi). Currencly without hardware accel, using 3 rtsp cams uses each 100% of a core (which translate to 300%). I've searching a lot, but I saw hwaccel with others apps, but not in particular with ffmpeg. I already managed to compile it with --enable-rkmpp (h264_rkmpp hevc_rkmpp vp8_rkmpp vp9_rkmpp) and available hwaccels: vdpau cuda vaapi drm opencl. Any help will be much appreciated. Currently fresh inst…

Good evening, I have a Rock64/4G board and just downloaded and installed the Armbian_5.42_Rock64_Debian_stretch_default_4.4.124_desktop.7z to the SD card. After the reboot I saw X11 login interface and everything was great. After that I installed the latest packages with an apt update and then apt upgrade and restarted. Now I only see "rock64 login:" on the screen. The Xorg.0.log I have attached looks actually quite good. Xorg.0.log

The initial installation went fine from the flashed image on SD card, and still works fine. However, after using armbian-config to attempt to transfer the OS and bootloader to the eMMC card, nothing actually changes. It says it formats the card and then goes through the process of transferring the files, or at least it looks like it does. But when I reboot it it's still running on the SD card and no files appear to have been transferred to the eMMC. fstab lists the UUID of the SD card and not the eMMC at all; this is also true of the bootenv section of armbian-config. One thing I did notice is that there are some new directories under /mnt : '/mnt/nand-sata-in…

Hello, I was able to overclock the CPU to 1.488Ghz by editing rk3328-rock64.dtb file. But I can not figure out how to set the RAM-clock-speed. Is there any chance to ramp up the RAM clock?

I have a recovery issue. I have successfully flashed an image on to my RK3399 SOM, but I made a mistake on the USB, so am trying to correct the error, but I have no USB communication when I boot into recovery mode. When I boot into recovery mode, it reports: "'recovery' does not seem to be a partition nor an address Unable to boot:recovery". It also tries to find a backup partition: "'backup' does not seem to be a partition nor an address Unable to boot:backup" then suggests I start rockusb: "try to start rockusb", but I have no USB. I have tried with several different computers and USB cables, but there is no USB! I assume that the boot file for recovery mode are no…

Can I run a YOLOv8 model in RKNN format, developed for Rockchip 3588, on a Rockchip 3588S without any issues?

Can someone explain the purpose of the different kernels available in the Armbian repos and Armbian Github? linux-image-legacy-media/bookworm 24.5.1 arm64 Armbian Linux legacy kernel image 5.10.110-legacy-media linux-image-current-media/bookworm 24.5.1 arm64 Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.1.92-current-media linux-image-current-rockchip64/bookworm 25.2.3 arm64 Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.12.19-current-rockchip64 The linux-image-legacy-media and linux-image-current-media kernels are on BSP kernel versions 5.10 and 6.1. But aren't suffixed with the vendor name, which is typically done for BSP kernels. The linux-image-current…

I was working with OpenHD when it was taken down by GitHub. There's something we should be concerned about here in the rockchip section of armbian? Original Post: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/12/2025-12-18-ffmpeg.md Identify only the specific file URLs within the repository that is infringing: https://github.com/rockchip-linux/mpp/blob/develop/mpp/codec/dec/av1/av1d_codec.h https://github.com/rockchip-linux/mpp/blob/develop/mpp/codec/dec/av1/av1d_cbs.c https://github.com/rockchip-linux/mpp/blob/develop/mpp/codec/dec/av1/av1d_cbs.h https://github.com/rockchip-linux/mpp/blob/develop/mpp/codec/dec/av1/av1d_parser2_syntax.c https…

hi rk3399 is being very popular chip. Firefly 3399 was launched on August last year. Now Orange pi RK 3399 is launching. Pine now are preparing Pine RK3399. the same also is doing HanrdKernel - Odroid N is expected on august this year. Short Question. Are you preparing Armbian for RK3399? Are you interested in this chip. best regards

While a friend of mine was developing my Rockchip rv 1126 device, we lost access as a result of a wrong operation. The device is powered on. the red light on the back is on, but we cannot access the device we have previously identified from the ip's. When I try the usb port on the device, I get a device not recognized warning in ubuntu 22.04 and windows10. Can anyone help me to reinstall the operating system or access the device? Thank you.

This is a work-in-progress resource for bare-metal bringup for Rockchip devices. Source code: https://github.com/petabyt/rk https://danielc.dev/rk/

I'm working on a project using the nanopim4v2-current image. I noticed an issue with the available HDMI output resolutions. Only a select few resolutions are available, despite the connected screen advertising support for additional ones. I was also unable to output a custom resolution (for example 1920x538) by adding the proper modeline in manually through xrandr. I've been looking into this for a bit and managed to find a partial solution in Miouyouyou's recent pull request "[RFC] RK3288 : Add HDMI resolutions". Adding the patches to my build enabled support for my monitor's native resolution (1920x1200) and allowed me the ability to output custom resol…

Hi, I am doing some overlay for fbtft LCD driver - SSD1322. I did compile an add my patch, now I would like to load the LCD driver with DT overlay. This is what I have done: /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatible = "rockchip,rk3399"; fragment@0 { target = <&spi1>; __overlay__ { status = "okay"; }; }; fragment@1 { target = <&spi1>; __overlay__ { /* needed to avoid dtc warning */ #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; status = "okay"; mytft@0{ compatible = "solomon,ssd1322"; …

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…

Hello together, I have a RockPI 4B board with the extension for M.2 SSD applications. I wanted to install a 120 GB SSD disk, but unfortunately I cannot find it under "fdisk -l". Can anyone help me here with what I can do? Are there any tricks or the like to make this work? Kind regards Z. Matthias

I have a Nebra hotspot with a Rockpi 4 plus v1.73 card. I can't find the Armbian image file to install Crankk mining. I only have 4A, 4B, 4C, and 4C+ img but no 4 plus. Help me! Is there a solution?

I changed this in the dt and got more than double the speeds from my Samsung U3 SD card: However I have no idea what the process of getting this into the kernel source looks like. --- rk3399-rock-pi-4b.dts 2023-10-04 15:36:05.031221270 +0200 +++ rk3399-rock-pi-4b-mod.dts 2023-10-04 00:34:15.773888431 +0200 @@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ disable-wp; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <0x26 0x27 0x28 0x29>; + sd-uhs-sdr104; phandle = <0xce>; };

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…

I know that not all features of legacy vendor kernels can be supported in mainline kernels. However, has anyone considered and/or attempted to get the OTG capability working in a current/mainline kernel? I have a couple different projects where I need to have OTG working so I can have the RockPi 4 be a USB device (e.g. mass storage, ethernet, etc.). For the time being this means I can only use the legacy kernels, but I am hoping that might change in the future. There are a number of different RK3399 boards with DWC3 controllers that could benefit from such a feature being available, right? Since I don't understand the kernel/driver/platform glue…

Good day, I'm looking for help adding touchscreen support to the ROCKPI 4 Legacy Kernel and correct screen configuration settings. Im new to SBC development so I'm still learning the build system. I have taken the time to track down, what I believe, are the commits to add basic support for the "Raspberry Pi 7" Touchscreen" to the kernel. I believe their will be changes needed to rootfs so that the display manager recognizes it and sets it up properly. ARMBIAN_BUILD_BRANCH: Legacy Kernel --> https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-kernel/tree/release-4.4.202 RADXA_BUILD_BRANCH: Kernel --> https://github.com/radxa/kernel/releases/tag/4.4.154-110-rock…

Hello, I just apt upgrade-ed my Armbian 25.5 from mid-August to 25.8.1 and it doesn't start after software reboot. It is usually headless, I plugged it into a monitor and all I get is a uboot logo in the top left corner. No message, nothing. The board is the Rockpi 4A. The system is on eMMC 😩 What do I do now to at least roll back ? At worst make a browsable copy of the eMMC ? Thanks! Antoine

Hello! On newer kernel (5.10.63+) gpio behaves strangely. Led connected to gpio pin blinking opposide status led. Also it break spi work. armbianmonitor logs https://paste.armbian.com/faqorefumi VID202304051140011.mp4

Hello all, not sure if this is the right place for bug reporting. I'm getting a kernel panic during early boot (no hdmi initialized at this stage) since october 2024 when doing kernel updates. Mitigated the issue with holding back apt kernel updates. today i found time to finally connect a serial console to collect a boot log. The issue only happens if the SATA Penta Hat is connected via the flex cable, upon disconnecting the system/image boots to login prompt. To produce a clean boot log i got the latest image and booted via sd card : Armbian_community_25.8.0-trunk.375_Rockpi-4a_bookworm_current_6.12.38_minimal.img (Edit: Not sure…

This thread summarizes the efforts done to get armbian support for the new RockPi 4b. Boardspecs (from: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/getting_started): Rockchip RK3399 64bit dual channel LPDDR4@3200Mb/s, 1GB/2GB/4GB optioal storage: eMMC module (optional) uSD card M.2 SSD (M.2 connector supports up to 2T M2 NVME SSD) display: HDMI 2.0 up to 4k@60 MIPI DSI 2 lanes via FPC connector other features: 3.5mm jack with mic MIPI CSI 2 lanes via FPC connector, support up to 800 MP camera. 802.11 ac wifi Bluetooth 5.0 USB 3.0 OTG X1, hardware switch for host/device sw…

Hello all, After some time without touching it, I came back to my Rockpi 4B. I installed the latest armbian bionic image on a samsung 64Go card. All seems to work fine for the first boot. But when I try to restart the system I don't get any display on screen. To get it back I need to unplug HDMI plug and re-plug it. Didn't found any conversation about that trouble? Is it a bug or is there something I can do to fix it ? Thanks for your answers. Pat

Hello all, I have a RockPi 4B in use and wanted to connect my 7" display from Raspberry via the display port. According to these instructions, it should also work. https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/hardware/display#Raspberry_Pi_7_inch_Touch_Display But unfortunately I can't find this file under "boot" because I'm using an ARMBIAN image. How can I address this 7" display? Can anyone help me here? Best regards from Berlin Z. Matthias

Hello, how to get I2C-2 device support in overlay? I have checked /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay/README.rockchip-overlays and only i2c-7 and i2c-8 seems to be there. GPIO pins are here GPIO2_A0 and GPIO2_A1 https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/hardware/gpio#Rock_Pi_4A_.2F_4A_Plus_.2F_4B_.2F_4B_Plus_.2F_4C_.2F_4C_Plus.28.3E.3DV1.2.29_general_purpose_input-output_.28GPIO.29_connector Thank you!

Hello, I would like to build my own Image. I have successfully build my img file and could flash it to my SDCard. When I boot the Image I have no Output on the HDMI port so I cannot even say if the Image is booting or not. There is also no IP address taken from my DHCP Server. How do i correct this two issues?

Hi, I am posting this here to notify you about the serious networking performance issue on my Rockpi 4B board. Ever since I installed the Trixie release, the networking on the board has been poor/not working at all. I cannot even run an apt update If I try to connect via SSH, I get: root@rockpi:~# apt update 0% [Connected to github.armbian.com (185.199.110.153)] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]client_loop: send disconnect: Connection reset >ssh root@192.168.0.200 ssh_dispatch_run_fatal: Connection to 192.168.0.206 port 22: Connection timed out I don't know where to start / what to check here. When I turn on the board, it wo…

Hi there, I'd like to point out that the armbian buster (Armbian_5.90_Rockpi-4b_Debian_buster_default_4.4.182_desktop) and armbian bionic images are not booting on the rockpi 4b at this time. I've tried both etcher and win32disk imager. The armbian stretch image is booting just fine (ruling out SD and usb-C power issues i guess ?) I've searched the forum and have not found a mention of his, therefore I'd like to do this now. I unfortunatly don't know how to record boot messages at this time. If anyone is able to provide a quide to this I'd be happy to record the messages. The guides I've found so far are unfortu…

I followed all online guides. I tried to flsh the SPI. I arrived to the point where the maskroom is well recognized by the computer (Linuxmint). After that I tried to flash it and the error code is that the write operation is impossible. Please do you have any suggestions? Thanks.

Hi. I am going to be crazy with this bad SBC (it is not the RsbPi killer!!). Armbian recognize Bluetooth and the PCIe M.2 drive but not the mDP, that I want because the HDMI one is not well soldered. I need the NVME disk too. But I am writing because in the Radxa forum they said that there is a patch to solve this mDP issue. They told me that it is simple to solve!!! But I did not understand what I can do with these codes. I send the link that they gave to me. Thanks for the help. Patch_github

Hi - I'm running on a Rockpi 4c on Armbian 21.02.3 Buster and it the pcie-gen2 overlay doesn't seem to do anything - I have edited the /boot/armbianEnv.txt user_overlays=rockpi-penta overlays=pcie-gen2 It makes no difference if I include the pci-gen2 overlay. lspci -vv LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x2, ASPM not supported, Exit Latency L0s <256ns, L1 <8us ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp+ LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk- ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 5GT/…

The link to nightly builds for the Rockpi 4C+ WIP on https://www.armbian.com/rockpi4/ is broken. (Perhaps it should link directly to https://github.com/armbian/community ?)

The most resent build 24.5.0-trunk.93 does not have comedi drivers included. I tried to build them with the armbian build system, but it is exclude there. How I can change that so that I can include these drivers. I have a bunch of data aquisition system relying on this drivers that I ran with a rockpi 4c+ Any hint appreciate, Thomas

Hi Community, i was upgrading from kernel 5.10.160 to the new 6.8.2-edge for Rock Pi 5b / rk3588. Now i missing many DTB overlays 😞 which where aviable in 5.10.160 I need UART3_M1, UART7_M1 What is with Kernel 6.8.2 the right way to export GPIOs and set there direction ? This does not work longer cd /sys/class/gpio echo 157 > export Thanks a lot for your help 🙂

Hello. I'm trying to get the PWM2 and 3 to work on RockPi E. I made a custom dts to enable PWM2, loaded using armbian-add-overlay: /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatible = "rockchip,rk3328"; fragment@0 { target = <0xffffffff>; __overlay__ { status = "okay"; }; }; __fixups__ { pwm2 = "/fragment@0:target:0"; }; }; But the kernel doesn't boot: Any idea? I already tried to enable uart1 using custom dtbo and it works without problem. I'm testing on Ubuntu Noble Minimal/IoT v24.8.3 for Rockpi E running Armbian Linux 6.6.51-current-rockchip64 …

Hi all Been playing with this rockpi s bluetooth . I noticed debian kernel 5.x and bluetoothctl, just hangs. No issues with debian kernel 4.x. Anyone else had this, and able to get it to work?

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…

I noticed today that there are no 23.02 images for the rockpi-4c. The images exist for the 4a, 4b and 4cplus variants but not the 4c. The 22.11 images are the latest for the 4c. The reason I noticed is that on the downloads page for the rockpi4 it is still showing 22.11 as the current images because that page is showing the 4c info, with links provided to the other variants. The fact that it still showed 22.11 caught my eye.

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…

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 am running " Linux server 5.1.0-rockchip64 #5.89 SMP Fri Jun 21 13:42:34 CEST 2019 aarch64 GNU/Linux " and trying to switch off the green light somewhere at " /sys/class/leds/power ", but was unable to find the proper setting to switch it off. Anyone can give me a hand please? cheers

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 would like to enable SPI on RockPi4, but I don't know how. Further I did a list of I2C devices, also I can't figure out where those I2C devices are suppposed to be: pi@rockpi:~$ sudo sudo i2cdetect -l i2c-0 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-1 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-2 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-4 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-7 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-9 i2c DesignWare HDMI I2C adapt…

Hi I’m running now armbian 19.11.7 buster with kernel 5.4.8, and using a using a HP EX900 250GB NVMe. I used to have transfer nvme speeds around 400-500 MBps with radxa stretch linux 4.4 (and 700ish on pcie gen 2) In armbian it seems that the transfer rate is around half: raleonardo@rockpi:~$ sudo hdparm -t --direct /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme0n1: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 590 MB in 3.01 seconds = 196.11 MB/sec with overlays=pcie-gen2: raleonardo@rockpi:~$ sudo hdparm -t --direct /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme0n1: HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing O_DIRECT …

I plan to upgrade my NVMe memory. I currently boot off it - I set this up using the Armbian installer. Before doing the upgrade I'd like to know that I can boot off my SD card, should anything go wrong with the upgrade. But I'm unsure how to disable the NVMe boot sequence (which I think is SPI flash --> eMMC/mmcboot --> NVMe). If I insert my Armbian SD card, the system doesn't start. I've tried shorting pins 23/25 to disable the SPI flash but this has no effect. I am assuming that I can complete the upgrade by amending armbianEnv.txt to make the 'rootdev=UUID' line point to the new NVMe's UID? Is there a known solution to my que…

U-boot defaults to "In: serial" and also listens for packets (its assumed that its a keyboard/terminal) so that a keypress can stop autoboot. I am successfully using /dev/ttyS2 after modifying /boot/armbianEnv.txt (Console=Display) and masking the gettyS2 service. The device/system I have connected to UART2 (/dev/ttyS2) periodically sends bytes. Thus, if a remote restart or a cold boot is performed (power glitch or power reset) while that system is connected to UART2, it triggers the abort of Autoboot. Requiring the other system/device to be disconnected from UART2, a cold boot of the RockPi4 and then reconnection of the system/device to UART2. I…

Hi, Just noticed image " Linux rockpi-4a 5.9.14-rockchip64 #20.11.4 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 15 08:52:20 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux " my rockpi4a runs at 2Ghz. To radxa overclocking is possible so that 2GHz is not a real surprise ... Though checked " armbianEnv.txt " but did not find any "overlays" option present overlocking this board, neither any other files in /boot ( or /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay ). However building a custom image ( kernel 5.10 ) it is running at 1,8GHz again, how can I set this to 2GHz ? ( as a side note - tehre is no need to enable panfrost BTW as I run this as a headless server ) Thanks

Hello Each time I try to upgrade to kernel 6.6.39 on a rockpi-4a the system become unbootable: ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01f00000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1f00000 Loading Ramdisk to f01f6000, end f1f0Ad94 ... OK Loading Device Tree tn 00000000f0179000, end 0000 000f01f5fff ... OK Starting kernel ... efi_free_pool: illegal free 0x00000000f0f0d04 efi_free_pool: hllegal free 0x00000000f0f0a040 I have another rockpi-4a but with a rockpi4b image (installed by mistake) I was able to copy the file 6.6.32 from this system to my other one (creating the older symlink on /boot) , and I have be able to boo…

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 ?

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…

Hi! Unless mistaken, I believe audio is missing from 3.5mm jack on the RockPi4b. To enable it, I had: - To update the dts by adding definitions close to the RockPro64 (some available starting in mainline 5.6) - Change them to use I2S0 instead of I2S1 - Enable audio-graph-card in kernel config (I also removed some audio modules which issued warnings/errors during boot) - Patch es8316.c to prevent a kernel panic during boot (found in Ayufan's latest mainline kernel for RockPro64) yannick@rockpi-4b:~$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: rockchiprk3399 [rockchip,rk3399], device 0: ff880000.i2s-ES8316 HiFi ES8…

Hello all, I am trying to interface with the MCP2515 on SPI2 of the RockPi4B on Armbian 22.08.6 Bullseye with Linux 5.15.74-rockchip64 and encountering some issues. The rockpi4B pins that I am using to connect to the MCP2515 INT - GPIO2_A7 MOSI - GPIO2_B2 MISO - GPIO2_B1 CLK - GPIO2_B3 CS - GPIO2_B4 When using the overlay file that I have shown below, the output for "dmesg | grep mcp": [ 6.662536] rockchip-pinctrl pinctrl: unable to find group for node mcp2515_int_pin I have been able to get the MCP2515 to initialize successfully, but only if I comment out the pinctrl-0 reference to the mc…

Having some issues here. I wrote the newest Ubuntu CLI to my SD card. I booted into the device and used Armbian-Install to move the root to the NVME. I fixed the UUID on the fstab file. I was able to boot up from the SD + NVME. I did an apt update + upgrade, that seemed to go well. I rebooted the device and it won't boot. I get this on the screen: 1.436035] Initranfs unpacking failed: broken padding 2.1982061 Kernel panic- not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance. 2.2177021 CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.15.93-rockchip6…

I'm trying to get this rockpro64 board to boot off of pxe/nfs. I'm able to get it to boot into armbian and to the point where it asks for the new root password. But something happens on the device where the network gets disabled which stops the NFS connectivity and the rest of the system with it. All traffic stops on the device and it becomes unreachable. NFS traffic stops, it no longer responds to pings, etc. It's not entirely frozen, for example it prints kernel messages to console if the ethernet is pulled. And after a few minutes the nfs connection times out and it starts printing this over and over. It always happens about 75 seconds…

Hi all, I've just booted my NanoPi M4 V2 after not using it for a year or so and when I log in via ssh I'm told the / usage is at 100% - I've deleted all logs and the usual suspects but to no avail uname gives Linux M4V203 5.10.63-rockchip64 #21.08.2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 8 10:57:23 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux I'm using a 32gb SD card df -h gives Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 387M 41M 346M 11% /run /dev/mmcblk1p1 29G 29G 0 100% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs …

Leapo has started porting RPi.GPIO to Rock64 as R64.GPIO, you can find her work in progress at https://github.com/Leapo/Rock64-R64.GPIO Original thread with instructions/updates is here: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5902 She also made a more simple tool to work with GPIO: https://github.com/Leapo/Rock64-BashGPIO

I use Armbian_23.8.1_Rockpi-4cplus_bookworm_current_6.1.50_xfce_desktop and need the current headers but could not find them sudo apt search linux-headers do not show them. I need them for the procedure described here https://github.com/glasgowneuro/comedi_raspberry_pi_bullseye/tree/main in order to install missing kernel drivers (comedi usbdux-sigma) Can anyone help please!

Hello, i like to activate / use more RS232 UARTS. What is the best way to do this ? Thanks a lot, René

Board: Nanopi M4 with 4GB OS: Armbian_5.65_Nanopim4_Debian_stretch_default_4.4.162 Boot from SD, rootfs on an external HDD 8TB (WD MyBook). I attached another external HDD (Toshiba 2TB). I have been trying rsync -avh from the Toshiba one to the main MyBook one. It ran for under a minute before reporting files were vanished and exited with errors. It appeared the / is gone. nothing return from ls. Hard-reboot, fsck ran, everything's back to normal. I've been trying rsync with nice -n 20 as well as --bwlimit 10, 1MB. Nothing helped. stress test the board for 10 minutes, (stress -c 4 -m 4 -d 4 -i 4). All looks good. Any help's…