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Hi! I have the problem that when I try to boot with any Kernel other than 4.4.x, U-boot gives me the "Bad ARM64 Image Magic" Error and stops booting. I can build my own 4.4 Kernels without any problem, those will boot fine. But If I try any newer kernel, for example a NEXT Kernel (package linux-image-next-rockchip), or a DEV Kernel (package linux-image-dev-rockchip), or even if I compile my own 5.3 Kernel, a boot attempt always results in the Bad Magic error. I also have this problem when I install a whole 5.3 Armbian Image (for example https://dl.armbian.com/rockpro64/Buster_current_desktop) I have three RK3399-…

Hello, is it possible to install WiringPi on Rock Pi 4? I tried to install WiringX using the instructions on https://github.com/wiringX/wiringX , but after installing it the command "gpio" is not present. Any hint on how to get "gpio" command on Rock Pi 4? Thanks

Hello, ttyS2 is used for console output by default. In my application I need this port for custom communication. Is there any way to disable the console on it? Thanks

Greetings! Is there a way to permanently increase USBFS size in Armbian?

Greetings, Can I install and boot ubuntu from an ssd was the only storage device installed (no emmc, no microsd)> iomari

Hi, Tested the current build (Armbian_19.11.3_Rockpi-4b_buster_current_5.3.11_desktop.7z) on a Rock Pi 4 v1.3. Working well so far the past couple of hours. Its an amazing feeling to be able to run the mainline kernel with so little issues. Some minor things: The Red Led keeps on blinking with this build. Earlier it only blinked if there was error while booting. New to this board, so this maybe incorrect. I booted up Radxa image and there also red light was blinking. Sound via 3.5 mm jack not working. Inserted earphone, no output. Sound via HDMI works. Thanks for your work. Edit- System info: aaditya…

VPU hardware encode/decode appears to not work on the NanoPC-T4. I know it's a WIP. If there is a Post Installation Procedure I could do that would work for me.

Hi all, I'm a bit out of date with regards to a working image for the NanoPi M4 v2 board. I have @pask image which works great but having to boot from the sd card and flash a bootloader patch to eMMC card whenever you reinstall ( I constantly break installs by over experimenting with stuff I don't know enough about ) is a bit of a pain. Anyone know of an image I can just download and flash ?

Hi all, has anyone managed to get wifi working on the Buster image for M4 v 1 ? Works perfectly with Bionic but I couln't connect at all on the Buster image ( eth0 on physical cable was fine ), using armbian-config lists available networks but is unable to connect ( which is what the error message is )

Hi, I want to use the I2S GPIO output pins on Nanopi m4 to connect to multi channel DAC. Unfortunately I can not see it as a playback device: user@nanopim4:/home$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: realtekrt5651co [realtek,rt5651-codec], device 0: ff890000.i2s-rt5651-aif1 rt5651-aif1-0 [] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: rockchiphdmi [rockchip,hdmi], device 0: ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0 [] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Is there a way to enable I2S output on GPIO? 36 | I2S0_SDO0(1.8V) 37 | I2S0_SDI1SDO3(1.8V) 38 | I2S0_SDI2SDO2(1.8V) 39 | …

I saw there was a download of Buster minimal with 5.3 kernel on the nanopi neo4 page. But it just disappeared. So what happened to it? Is it still a nightly build (I see the Buster desktop with 5.3 kernel is supported)? Where can I download it now? Will it be available for downloading again? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I just bought a Rock Pi4B v1.4 recently. I tried to boot it with https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-4b/Debian_buster_default_desktop.7z and https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-4b/Ubuntu_bionic_default_desktop.7z However it was all in vain. I also had tried SDCard and emmc but none of them worked. Any suggestion? Thanks

Hi all, I'm using the @pask build for the M4 v2 and all seems good except I am not getting any sound from the 3.5 Jack ( can't try the HDMI as I don't have anything to plug in ) any ideas chaps ? Edit - this is the output from mplayer MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-8 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team do_connect: could not connect to socket connect: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing 16. Tush.flac. libavformat version 58.20.100 (external) Mismatching header version 58.12.100 Audio only file format detected. Load subtitles in ./ ========================…

Hi I am trying to get my neo4 to boot vmlinuz-5.3.0-rc4-rk3399 I am getting lots of; mmc1: card never left busy state mmc1: error -110 whilst initializing SD card Boots fine with legacy kernel, is there something I can do?

Hello, i'm experiencing random reboots on my RockPi 4b. I firstly recognoized this when my Squid Proxy Server was not working anymore because it had no permissions to its var/log/squid directory. What i saw (lsblk) that /var/log/ is only of a size of 50mb. Will that be the cause for the reboots? Does the system crash when the logs are full? My System is a Rock Pi 4b with 32gb emmc storage. Debian Stretch with Armbian Linux 4.4.192-rockchip64 Armbian Release 5.90 (i dont know how to change to the next version as armbian-config does not provide the switch to next button) Output or Armbianmonitor -u http://ix.io/22oZ

Hi all, I installed the desktop using armbian-config Install Browser and other but It still boots into a shell - what else do I need to do ?

Hi, i really tried to get SPI as spidev to work on my RockPI 4A (Rev. 1.4), using armbianEnv.txt and DT overlays however nothing works as it seems it is just ignored. So does anybody have an idea of how to get SPI working in spidev mode? Because I have board which I want to connect via SPI.

Hi all, is it ok to run apt update and apt upgrade on @pask M4 v2 image - just thinking something might alter the bootloader

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/11/19/orange-pi-4-4b-sbc-rockchip-rk3399-soc-gyrfalcon-2801s-npu/

Greetings, I have installed your wiringpi-python on our Nano Pi M4 as instructed on http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/WiringPi-Python_for_RK3399. All went well with the installation. However, when trying to execute wpi.wiringPiSetup(), I get the following error: Oops: Unable to determine board revision from /proc/cpuinfo -> No "Hardware" line -> You'd best google the error to find out why. This is strange because there is no "Hardware" line in proc/cpuinfo on any Linux system in our organization. Can you please explain what is the way forward. Or is there a python 3 alternative to wiringpi…

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…

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 …

I have a FriendlyElec 1080P HDR camera(MACM400). It only works on some FriendlyElec Release with 4.4 kernel. So how could this camera work on Armbian with Mainline kernel?

As the other thread is getting a bit cluttered I thought I'd start a new one. Thanks to the good work of @pask and others we now have a working image for the M4 v2. However, despite following instructions to the letter. I can't get the board to boot from the eMMC card, in fact I don't think the board even recognizes the card ( I've tried different ones ) Also not being able to connect via a serial cable is hampering my attempts at debugging the boot process. Cany anyone put up a Muppets guide on the steps required to achieve this ?

serial terminal this unit was booting fine one day and then not the next. it will boot to the serial terminal but not far enough for ssh or even a functional ethernet. this is running on a rock64 w/16GB eMMC. nothing else is really unique about it.

I tried this image : Armbian_5.89.190626_Nanopim4_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_5.1.0.7z, but the MAC address changes on every reboot, and so the IP address changes (auto IP).

Hi all, any recommendations for a ~ 5" monitor for the M4 ?

Hi, I have armbian image with kernel 4.4.184-rockchip64. Now I want to connect with Wifi using commands but I dont know how to connect using commands. I am able to connect with WiFi using Graphical tool. Below are my observations: a) Instead of wlan0, p2p0 interface is used to connect with wireless network. b) I am able to scan with wlan0 using below command: iw dev wlan0 scan c) iw dev p2p0 scan gives output associated interface( the one connected using Graphical Tool). d) I created wpa_supplicant.conf file and executing below command shows wpa_supplicant initialized but does not get IP address. wpa_supp…

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. …

Hi guys, can anyone give me a link as to where I can download a working image for the new Nanopim4 v2 - the friendly arm download section is very confusing - it states there is an eMMC image but when I downloaded it it didn't contain a *.img file that I could flash but a lot of other *.gz *.img files e.g. boot.img etc etc

I'm trying to build a linux from source on a RK3399 nanopi-m4. I did the below steps: ### Download and compile ARM-TF ### $ git clone https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.git $ make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=rk3399 bl31 ### Download and complie U-Boot ### $ cd .. $ git clone https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git $ cd u-boot/ $ git checkout v2019.10 $ make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- nanopi-m4-rk3399_defconfig $ cp ../arm-trusted-firmware/build/rk3399/release/bl31/bl31.elf . $ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- $ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- u-boot.itb $ ./to…

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

How to modify kernel command line (cmdline) in nanoPC-T4 Lubuntu image ? I am using "rk3399-sd-lubuntu-desktop-xenial-4.4-armhf-20190926" image. I couldn't find u-boot config under /boot/ ! Can someone please suggest how to change the kernel command line without rebuilding the full image ?

Hi, I'm wondering if the NanoPi M4 can be made to work with a PiTFT 320x240 screen? When I set up the /dev/fb0 device and write to it, the display simply stays black/white (each time I write to the display only the shades change). NanoPi M4 has a different GPIO set-up from Raspberry Pi 3b+ (which PiTFT works with). Is there a possibility that the NanoPi M4's GPIO could be rewired in a way that it would support the PiTFT? E.g. Tinkerboard runs under RK3288 (vs M4's RK3399) and has the same GPIO layout as the RPi 3B+, so it could maybe be made possible?

Hello, I have a Rock64 V2 which I am using as a Tvheadend server, among other stuff. For some months I put the kernel/dtb packages on hold, because I discovered that linux-image-rockchip64 after version 5.75 did not include the kernel module for th USB DVB-T stick I need (an EyeTV DVB-T device, i.e. a clone of Hauppauge), that is dvb-usb-dib0700 or the like (I am trying to remember). I have recently unhold the Linux packages and let apt to update them. Now at version 5.90, I see that the kernel module is still not included, and my USB device cannot be used. Going back to Linux image 5.75 makes the stick to work again, but I'd like to have the lates…

I am now working on Bionic Desktop for Orange Pi rk3399. I want to do something similar to what have been done on Raspberry. i.e to use hdmi ddc as i2c (i2c over hmdi) http://blog.koalo.de/2013/11/i2c-over-hdmi.html I could run i2cdump, ic2get and i2cwrite without any problem but I can't find the i2c device for hdmi ddc of my OrangePi rk3399. My wild guess is that I need to enable hdmi ddc by modifying the uboot folder. However, I don't know how to start with. Can anyone give me some pointers? Thanks in advance Eli

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…

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…

Hi, I'm running Armbian Bionic 4.4 (Linux nanopim4 4.4.190-rk3399 #5 SMP Sun Sep 1 23:12:43 CEST 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux) on a NanoPI M4 and I'm trying to enable HDCP on the HDMI output. I can't figure out how to do this (or if it is even possible). dmesg shows that the driver/hardware knows about HDCP to some extent pi@nanopim4:~$ dmesg | grep -i hdcp [ 3.307777] dwhdmi-rockchip ff940000.hdmi: Detected HDMI TX controller v2.11a with HDCP (DWC HDMI 2.0 TX PHY) xrandr lists no content_protection property pi@nanopim4:~$ xrandr --prop Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192 HDMI-1 conne…

Hi Folks, I'm testing the M4 board with Armbian Buster, I'm having the following problems with the GPIO: How can I use gpio without root? I've checked and there isn't a /dev/gpiomem device so I can give permissions to other users. Only a few of the GPIO pins can be set. Most of them don't show up as configurable through gpio readall. A few of them show as ALT and although I can change their mode (input / output), I cannot change/read their value, it seems those are shared with i2c-3, so this can be the problem, but I don't know how to disable i2c-3 and use them. Also, can all the 6 cores work at the same time? Or the BIG.little architecture…

Hi. I'm new here and have a small issue. Situation is: I'm using the T4 board for an amateur radio repeater controller. The repeater works in an unmanned relay station 10 kilometers from the my home. To have access by remote even if the boot hangs for some reasons (maintenance mode), I have connected the debug uart (ttyS2) to a serial-to-IP adapter to have access anyway. Because the IP adapter cannot set up to 1.5 MBps, I have reduced the speed down to 115 kbps by changing the kernel argument in the boot.cmd from console=ttyS2,1500000 to console=ttyS2,115200. That worked well with the Armbian 5.69 stretch 4.4.167 kernel. Now I have made…

Hi, at first thank your for your great work! I've successfully created an wifi hotspot on nanopiM4 using "Armbian_5.95_Nanopim4_Debian_buster_default_4.4.190" with armbian-config utitlity. After the tool is finished I can connect to the hotspot and it shares the internet connection.. However - when I reboot the system the hotspot still works and I can connect but I have no connection to the internet anymore. The nonopi itself has connection to internet, I checked that. Do you have any sugestions? Thank you in andvance! Christian

Hello, I'm using Nanopi M4 installed Armbian Buster. It works like charm but I found a strange behavior of the system. In htop all cores are displayed as little core. but when I checked actual clocks in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq big cores are doing well (up to 1.8GHz). htop result: lscpu results: Architecture: aarch64 Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 6 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-5 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 3 Socket(s): 2 Vendor ID: ARM Model: 4 Model name: Cortex-A53 Stepping: r0p4 CPU max MHz: 1800…

I used both buster and ubuntu images (Armbian_5.91_Nanopineo4_Debian_buster_default_4.4.179_desktop.img and Armbian_5.90_Nanopineo4_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.179_desktop.img), both have no wifi, only show "device not ready". So I extracted firmware from official friendly desktop image and unzip to /lib/firmware/rkwifi/ and wifi works. I'm a newbie and hope this could be fixed properly soon. For those new to linux like me, download the attachment, extract everything to /lib/firmware/rkwifi/, reboot and wifi should be there. ap6212.zip

I just bought a FriendlyElec NanoPi Neo4 having had loads of experience with Armbian on Allwinner (OrangePi) boards. My preferred method for getting boards "up and running" is simply to connect a serial terminal to the debug port and power on. I tried this with several Armbian Buster images and found that I couldn't log in as root on any of them. Checking the SD card on my laptop, the debug port (ttyFIQ0) was missing from /etc/securetty. Editing /etc/securetty and adding ttyFIQ0 on a new line at the bottom of the file and all is well and I now have Buster up and running on the Neo4 :-) root@nanopineo4:/etc# diff securetty~ s…

Hi, I need to use callback function in Python3 on my NanoPi M4 but I can't, so it is very nice if anyone can help me with this issue. So far I've tried the function with wiringpi as shown command bellow but this doesn't work at all, that generates some errors and after that my command in /usr/bin/ doesn't work .... I can use other functions in wirignpi so guess something is wrong with only this function... Is there any way to use callback function with NanoPi M4, for example using other modules or something Thank you,

My board is rockpi4b After starting, unplug or restart the display, the display will display armbian desktop directly, indicating that armbian is started normally, but there is no normal signal to the display.After restarting, you must switch the monitor power or unplug the hdmi cable to display. This is not a problem if you use the official debian of rock and the armbian5.67 downloaded from rock's official website. And i want to use gpio lib in armbian such as libmraa ,how should i do?

I have Armbian running on my NanoPi M4 Everything is fine but.............. I have massive problems with pulseaudio Im not able to get the sound working So i tried to deinstall pulseaudio and install Alsa After that i dont see anything regarding sound in settings menu or on the taskbar For unknown reasons the wallpaper has resettet Anyone who has a solution ?

Trying to sync latest beta release of Geth Ethereum client and it's filling ram till process crashes. Apparently setting a swap file helps - but sudo swapon -show says /dev/zram1/ 1gb partition already set up... I was going to set up a 4gb swap file on the nvme - what to do? Thanks for any advice.

I uses my NanoPi M4 as a cheap ARM64 kvm host, and I need a newer kernel since the legacy one is kind of broken in terms of KVM. But Wi-Fi is not working in dev kernel for quite some time, I found a temporary fix for that: # cd /lib/firmware/brcm # mv brcmfmac4356-sdio.bin brcmfmac4356-sdio-orig.bin # ln -s ../rkwifi/fw_bcm4356a2_ag.bin brcmfmac4356-sdio.bin # ln -s ../rkwifi/nvram_ap6356s.txt brcmfmac4356-sdio.friendlyelec,nanopi-m4.txt Then reboot, Wi-Fi will be back.

steps to reproduce: 1. download official stable images and extract 2. write either image (both fail in same way) to sdcard: Armbian_5.91_Nanopct4_Debian_buster_default_4.4.179.img Armbian_5.90_Nanopct4_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.179.img 3. boot sdcard -> works fine 4. run armbian-config -> firmware update 5. (also tried "apt update && apt full-upgrade", same result) 6. reboot -> boot loop happens every time, either the ubuntu or debian versions of armbian. no changes made after booting beyond just doing the update. reliably boot loops (it makes it to booting the kernel, then the board restarts after a while of no output) …

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…

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'm trying to install wiringpi by following the instruction given here https://github.com/Pavelectric/WiringPi_M4. Most of the steps that I followed worked fine but when I do the very last command below, I get a following error, I googled how to deal with this kind of error, and some people tell that 'ContextualZipFile' in archive_util.py doesn't have to be installed so I just need to comment that out. Although, I couldn't find '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/setuptools-33.1.1-py3.6.egg/setuptools/archive_util.py', I did that comment out solution to the all files below, which I got by doing find-command-research Now I d…

With the stable images for NanoPi M4 I see CPU speed is limited to 1.8Mhz, whereas with nightly builds I get up to 2GHz for the fast cores. I would rather like to stay with stable image, also because boot time is much longer with nightly builds. What is the easiest way to enable up to 2GHz CPU speeds with stable build? JB

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

Recently I've been trying to build Armbian for Firefly RK3399, since I've purchased this board last year, and it has been lacking proper software support for a long time. Here is my fork https://github.com/hjc4869/build/tree/development Basically, It is a copy & paste of what's already done to support Odroid N1, by replacing the Hardkernel's kernel to what Firefly provides (an older 4.4.77 kernel), and replacing the Hardkernel u-boot with rockchip u-boot. I created a new 'firefly' board family for convenience. Also tried to build the image with some other kernel variants (Rockchip 4.4 bsp and mainline 4.17-rc6) without success, still investigati…

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

Hi all, I have motion installed and a FriendlyElec camera connected to my board, my problem is, the camera is not detected by motion - what do I need to do to configure the camera / motion ?

Hello, I have an Orange Pi RK3399 and I'm very interested to install an armbian linux using the usb c instead of the usual method with the sd card. I have looked around but I was able to do it. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you very much for your help

The buster image boots up, and has both Ethernet and Wifi devices enabled. But no IP packets leave or reach the board, trying both dhcp or static setup, on ipv4 and ipv6. Ping shows destination unreachable msgs. Eth0 interface shows up in desktop GUI as well as armbian-config tool and with ip interface command Switching to an eMMC with bionic image works fine.

I just purchased a 4GB Rock64. I've tried both the Ubuntu (Armbian Bionic Desktop 4.4.y) and Debian (Armbian Stretch Desktop 4.4.y) distros. I'm finding that the Debian distro is very sluggish compared to the Ubuntu distro. The desktop is sluggish in responding to mouse clicks and in Chromium, a basic web page takes about 3 seconds to display compared to about 1 second with Ubuntu. Is this the same performance difference that other people are finding with these distros on the Rock64? Is there some configuration tweak I need to make to improve Debian performance? Is there another distro that I should check out that would give me better performance?

Hi folks! Some problems later I just build my ethereum-node using the FriendlyARM NanoPC T4 (Reddit project Ethereum on NanoPC T4). Using it indoor the temperature climbs to 80° celsius with the passive cpu-heatspreader. So I decided to install a fan and found the specs for the 'Cooling Fan interface'. The connector is named BM03B-GHS-TBT. Where can I buy a fan (40x40mm)? I only find fans with 3-pole-molex-adapter. All I know is the name of the male connector (in german): "JST Buchsengehäuse-Kabel GH Polzahl Gesamt 3 Rastermaß: 1.25 mm GHR-03V-S".

How do you control which PHY the Rock64 is going to use? Android 9 is available for Rock64 now, https://github.com/a9rock64/manifests But it is configured to use the internal PHY and I need to change it over to the external one. Is this controlled in the DTS or someplace else? It is running on this kernel: https://github.com/rockchip-linux/kernel

Hi, my rock64 (rev2) with the latest build of Armbian randomly looses its network connection. I couldn't use the armbianmonitor -u as it had no network connection, but when i use ifconfig, I can see it's still got it's settings and is the NIC lights are on. ifconfig showed 6 TX errors. My NIC is set to DHCP with static reserved IP address to an ASUS router. I leave it on 24/7 and check it once a while as it pretty much is used as a NAS with a single USB 3 drive. This morning I connected up via HDMI and a USB keyboard and logged in successfully. I don't have much Linux experience so wasn't sure how to capture the logs to SD card so i could co…

My armbian-config went missing. I know it was there before, but apparently somehow I deleted it. "find / -mount -type f -name armbian-config" gets no hits. Is there a package I can refresh to get it back? Thanks.

Hi, I'm currently facing strange problems... I'm using NanoPi and operate some USB devices with it. Since I wanted to know the total power consumption of the system, I measured current which flows into NanoPi from the outlet. The current during while the camera working was very nice (about 1A) so I shut the pi down. Then, I found that the total current value gradually rose up from about 1A to 1.5A. This seems to be so strange because when it gets shutdown, the power should be off as well, and the pi only needs small amount of power just to light the red LED. I tried a few times but the result was always same... …

Hi all, I have a Friendlyarm nanopi M4 running armbian, I have tried to install dotnet core without success - anyone here managed it ? I followed a tutorial but when I get to the apt-get install part I see this error Couldn't find any package by glob 'dotnet-sdk-2.2'

When can I expect a final Armbian image for the Nanopi M4 ? I'm eagerly awaiting it and many others will surely be too The image of friendlyarm is simply an imposition You have the feeling of being on the road with the handbrake on.

I just installed Armbian 5.88 for Rock Pi 4B and bluetooth is not working. I'm using ARMBIAN 5.88 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.4.180-rockchip64 Do you need further information? Got it working without compiling the new kernel. i manually ran the last steps of https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/sources/rockchip64.conf and copied rk3399-bluetooth.service and brcm_patchram_plus_rk3399 onto the device and set up the service... after a reboot Bluetooth is working fine. Thats great!

Hi all! I'm having strange issue with Rock64. I downloaded latest Armbian 5.88 with 4.4.180 kernel. Installation and boot are ok, but when I try to do apt-get install lvm2 Package installs, configures and... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.180-rockchip64 update-initramfs: Converting to u-boot format Then I do root@rock64:~# sudo reboot And I'm getting a boot loop... Same effect, if I move system to SSD. At first I thought it was issue with ssd transferred system... But it clearly reproduced on freshly written with uSD only boot. I've dumped armbianmonitor output (ju…

l used armbian-config to activate Bluetooth but get this message when I check the status root@nanopim4:~# /etc/init.d/bluetooth status ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) Condition: start condition failed at Thu 2019-06-06 07:17:58 BST; 11s ago └─ ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth was not met Docs: man:bluetoothd(8) any ideas chaps ?

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 …

I have some bose speakers plugged into the A/V and i am getting no sound. does this feature work on the POCK 64? or is audio only through HDMI. my monitor has no audio support.

Hi all, does anyone know of a good reliable way to flash an image to a FriendlyElec type eMMC card, originally I used their microsd adapter but for some reason my PC / Transcend adapter doesn't recognise them anymore.

Hey guys, I heard that the USB3 port of the Rock64 outputs up to 950mA. I have this external HD (WD My Passport), one of those 2,5'' external HDDs that are powered solely by the USB3 port. From what I've gathered, this should need no more than 650mA. But it doesn't work on the Rock64. After mounting the thing, if I try to write and read, it just disconnects with a bunch of dmesg errors. It makes a little click sound after the spinning builds up. Looks like there's not enough energy (it works fine on my desktop). How can I check and monitor the voltage and current delivered by the USB3.0 on the Rock64? My power supply is …

I was wondering if there is a solution to boot from a USB thumb drive and flash the OS to an eMMC. Currently I´m running ARMbian on a Rock64 with an eMMC module installed. Since I´m still trying to figure out how to set up the device I keep reinstalling the OS. So it would be nice to have a way without opening the case, take out the eMMC, hook it up to the PC to flash and reinserting. Thanks in advance.

From the media script thread: Chromium is unusable right now. I'm having to use Firefox. EDIT1: I ran the media-script .sh and it auto installed the default selection and I also ticked "streaming" which I know is Chromium... EDIT2: I'm on the latest Chromium for Ubuntu bionic... 73.x EDIT3: This is what Chromium says under "chrome://gpu": What am I doing wrong? es2_info: and glxgears:

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

Hey all! Finally got my Rock64 booted up and running. I set up a Samba server and a Plex share so I can access an attached USB3 RAID array as a media server. Initially I was getting speeds of ~3 MB/s write and attributed it to transferring over wifi with an ancient Airport Express Draft-N router. Upgraded to a Netgear R7000P and the issue still persists so I figured it would be worth it to post here. I would've attributed it to the USB3 to eSata converter going to the RAID array but doing some disk speed tests on the Rock64 shows it getting about 130 MB/s read/write speed over the connection so I doubt it's that. Samba setup is stock and my share described bel…

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.

Hello, yesterday i see that the SATA Hat for the Nanopi is available now is it possible to install Armbian on a SSD when i use the Sata Hat ? Or is the EMMC or SD Card required for the OS ?

Hi all, I'm trying to get Bluetooth working with the M4 ( installed it via armbian-config ) but on checking the status I see this

We are evaluating many boards for Industrial purpose, often fails to pick the right one, form Raspberry PI to other boards, including Tinkerboard. We aim to bring the cost of the SBC to 60 to 100 USD, mainly used for Industrial, within 0-70 Deg C. In fact, I have posted similar questions to find out answers, including Rock64, Olimex etc. Olimex seems to be supporting Industrial temperature, but their A64 seems to have less USB ports. Many SBCs vendor advertise their board for Education, Hobby purpose, I see Nano PC boards, they advertise for robotics, Industrial purpose http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_M4 with WIKI stating worki…

I'm setting up a NanoPC T4 as a network server running OpenMediaVault. I wasn't sure where to post this and I thought I'd start here. I'm replacing an existing BananaPi and I have it and the T4 up at the same time. I've used the BananaPi to stream video files to Raspberry Pi clients running Kodi. The BananaPi has been working well with an older version of Linux and OpenMediaVault. What's happening is video served from the T4 starts playing well but then stops shortly after playback has started. The same video file works well on the BananaPi. I've tried placing the file on an NVMe M.2 drive as well as USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 connected hard disks. I've tried …

Hi all, has anyone here got a camera to work on the M4 running Linux - I know they work with Android but what a waste of a board putting Android on it

I am amazed My NanoPi M4 2gb plays Assaultcube and Torcs so well for a $85 computer it is a great achievement. But I have some questions. If I have more than 2 Bots/ enemies in Assaultcube 1024 X 768 graphics setting good, it seems to slow down game play, Is this because the bots are limited to a single CPU thread? and would therefore work better on larger Intel single or dual chips? Is any one else playing Assaultcube what settings are you finding optimize the RK3399? Seasalt.

Board: NanoPC-T4(rk3399) OS: Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.69 stable Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.4.167-rk3399 In VLC preferences, i have set video output to OPENGL ES(and here OPENGL ES is soft link to libMali.so). In short hardware accelerated Rendering. Problem Statement: When a video file is played in fullscreen mode it works perfect. But as soon as other x-window(for eg: small sized terminal window) comes in front of this fullscreen window, tearing effect starts. Now i don't understand why this happen. Whether it happens due to libMali and X-server Glamor compositing or something else. i don't have full understanding of linux graphics stack. …

Hi, i bought a nanopc t4, then i installed armbian on it's eMmc , after starting os, i plug in a usb flash to it's usb2.0 ports(both usb 2.0 ports) but not working but when i plug in the usb flash to it's usb port 3.0 it will be work, i tried this issue with mouse and keyboard usb and some another usb flashes that has usb 2.0 compatibility, can anyone help me to setup my nanopc t4 usb 2.0 ports?

Hi all, just fitted one of these Nanopi M4 SATA Hat and can't see how I can connect 4 drives as there is only one Molex connector - I'm probably being dumb - any help appreciated

I have the following hat http://wiki.seeedstudio.com/Raspberry_Pi_Relay_Board_v1.0 my image detects the i2c interfaces and mounts them in /dev as i2c-0 i2c-1 i2c-3 i2c-4, I can scan the different i2c interfaces as folloging interface i2cdetect -y 1 root@rockpi:~# i2cdetect -y 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: UU 11 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 6…

Hello, I'm trying to activate the uart interface Gpio 8 + 10 on the rock pi4. I have currently installed the image of radxa. --> ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.4.154-rk3399rockpi4b My Linux knowledge is still in the beginning. Who can help me to activate the upart interface Gpio 8 + 10 on the rock pi4. Thank you

Here's some photos of my M4 with SATA hat and 4 SSD's in a drive case - all working beautifully

I am attempting to use an arduino uno on a rockpi4 using armbian. The device is connecting but not bringing up /dev/ttyusb0. uname -a Linux rockpi4b 4.4.154-rk3399rockpi4b #26 SMP Mon Dec 10 09:26:20 CST 2018 aarch64 GNU/Linux dmesg [ 98.230808] usb 7-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci-hcd [ 98.346089] usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, idProduct=7523 [ 98.346115] usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 98.346130] usb 7-1: Product: USB2.0-Serial lsusb -t /: Bus 08.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 5000M /: Bus 07.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_h…

Hi, I've built the Ubuntu 18.04 image with legacy kernel (4.4) and tried to install wireguard. The problem was the kernel module which seems to be build by dkms. I've installed kernel headers from the linux-headers-rk3328_5.44_arm64.deb (built by armbian's build procedure) and tried to install wireguard-dkms package. It fails: Unpacking wireguard-dkms (0.0.20180513-wg1~bionic) over (0.0.20180513-wg1~bionic) ... Setting up wireguard-dkms (0.0.20180513-wg1~bionic) ... Loading new wireguard-0.0.20180513 DKMS files... Building for 4.4.131-rk3328 Building initial module for 4.4.131-rk3328 Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.4.1…

I received one of these https://www.servercase.co.uk/shop/server-cases/rackmount-case-accessories/accessories-spare-parts/supermicro-cse-m14tqc-cse-m14tqc/ today to go with the Nanopi M4 SATa hat, it has a male Molex for input power, the SATA hat has a male Molex power outlet so I need a female to female Molex connector which I can't find anywhere - any ideas guys ?

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've successfully installed Armbian Bionic(kernel 4.20, automated build) image on NanoPC-T4, but gpu drivers not provided. Here output of http://ix.io/1FBI And /dev/mali0 didn't exist. The question is: how to build and install open-source drivers(I didn't find any complete instructions), I actually not so experienced on it.

Trying to use a nrf905 wireless transciver at the nanopc t4. For compiling the firmware against the kernel I need a kernel with exported symbols. Tryed to build an own kernel, but it don't works sudo modprobe nrf905 modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nrf905': Exec format error

Hi all, thanks to you guys on here I now have a fully functioning 4 * SSD drive NanoPiM4 using the SATA hat. What I'd like to do now, is, place the drives in some sort of drive enclosure that would have 4 SATA data inputs and be powered by the molex on the hat. Is it possible and is there such an animal ?