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Hello everybody ! I'm a newbie RK3288 and Miqi board. When using this board I'm get a idea "Why bring all firmware on SD card into eMMC", because Miqi board will run faster than using SD Card. But, I haven't found any guide to solve this. So, I hope you can help me. Thank for your reading TonyHCM.

Here I found a bug in Nanopi M4. When I download BitTorrent file through ipv6(use Transmission,qbittorent...),the network will crashed. And I even can't ping it successful. When I connect it in local.I don't see any log in the network service. And when I replace the network card(1000Mb) with a usb network card. The network work very good.And didn't appear any problem. I have try all the linux system include the office system. the problem happen again. So I only can use the usb network card or wifi. Does anyone who know how to solve the problem??? I would be very grateful for it. I noticed a same problem in firely boar…

THE MEDIA SCRIPT IS NOW DEPRECATED, IN FAVOR OF THE OFFICIAL MULTIMEDIA FRAMEWORK. PLEASE REFER TO THIS TOPIC: And, for last, the first version of: The UN-official, UN-supported, UN-expected RK3328 MEDIA TESTING SCRIPT This is the first release of the RK3328 media testing script. The script provides a functionality similar to its RK3288/3399 equivalents, except for the OpenCL related stuff, which is not supported by the SoC. So it includes: Installing all the libraries and system configurations necessary for GPU accelerated X desktop, Chromium WebGL, full VPU video play acceleration up to 4k@60 10-bit HEVC (the maximum su…

I have Firefly RK3399 board. I ran armbian from SD card successfully the first time. After full init, I ran nand-sata-flash.sh install script, also successfully. But then I can't boot from the same SD card anymore. I always boot from the eMMC memory. I expected that boot sequence would be set on SD card first, then check eMMC.

I see the latest images for the Rock64 are marked as desktop. I am looking for a lightweight server only version. I still have an older server version that I downloaded a while ago, specifically 5.59. If I install 5.59, can I do and apt-get update/apt-get upgrade to get to the latest version? Any issues with that approach? Thanks!

Hello, I have using "rock64" board. I have installed gstreamer and mpp for rockchip. Can you provide me exact pipeline for gstreamer in which we can use mpp-hardware codec? Thanks and Regards, Kishan Patel.

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…

Hey I'am searching the Linux kernel headers for 4.4.162-rockchip64 only have found the 4.4.152 can any one help me? thanks

I built up a NanoPC-T4 with a 240GB NVMe. I am using the supplied heat sink and the black metal case that FriendlyArm sells. While I was copying an image over I got a board failure. A reset and power cycle didn't work. The stat light no longer shows activity. Just power.. that is all. Amazon was great and replaced the board. I am in the process of backing up my NVMe. After the backup I will run an OS install and restore the image. Has anyone else ran into this ? The black metal case isn't hot enough to burn my hands.. it's just very warm to the touch,. Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.67 user-built Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.4.166-rk3399 …

Hi everyone, Big fan of debian based distro's. Have six Rock64's and looking for a newer kernel (4.9+) with default Ubuntu modules list. 3 have eMMC cards and 3 using the Pine64 USB->SATA adapter with SSD drives. I have powered usb hub, y cables, etc but am using USB2 without powered hub because it's reliable as is and USB3 boot with any distro power injection seems unreliable. Not too concerned about throughput. Ayufan's release bionic-minimal-rock64-0.7.11-1075-arm64.img.xz with 4.4 is very stable on these. However Ayufan's mainline kernels after 4.4 are stripped right back. I spent a couple days compiling kernels with Ayufa…

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to disable both LEDs on this board or, at least, the green (stat) one. Also I was trying to remove wifi completely and I can do: iwconfig wlan0 txpower off ifconfig wlan0 down systemctl disable wpa_supplicant But not sure if it's possible to remove the driver from the OS and what other unnecessary software I can remove. Thank you in advance.

Hi, I'm currently woking on transmitting image data by UART connection with the NanoPi M4, but I couldn't send data from '/dev/ttyS4', which is offered as for UART connection. I used pyserial in python to use UART but no change has been detected the pin #19 by the oscilloscope. Do I have to enable the UART somehow? If I can use UART with NanoPi M4, I would say this machine is so fantastic.

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".

When you do gdisk -l /dev/mmcblk1 or fdisk -l you can se that the partition table that armbian is using is MBR (dos). Is any particular reason for this? When you go to the new and improved firefly rk3399 manual page you can see it is making problem when flashing through USB-C cable and upgrade_tool v. 1.24 and v. 1.34 (GBT friendly) http://wiki.t-firefly.com/en/Firefly-RK3399/flashing-notes.html .

Hi All, Below command works well on my other boards(Intel with Fedora and Ubuntu) $ compton -b --backend xrender This command make windows background transparent so it doesn't hide lower window completely. But same command doesn't work on RK3288/RK3399 board. Any idea what should be done to achieve same. Does anyone have idea if anything customized in x-server related to this?

I'd like to build a portable LimeSDR Transceiver. I would like to use a USBC 1080p IPS touchscreen. Has anyone had any experience with USBC touchscreens with the RK3399 SBC ?

Here's a video of GQRX receiving NOAA Weather Radio on my NanoPC-T4 armbian-nanopc-t4-gqrx-gnuradio.mp4

I had backup all emmc of m4. after i restore the emmc. the two device have same mac address. eth0 and wlan0 all is same. how to change the mac address of wlan0? i try many way to change it. all don't work. i need some help i had try direct setting the Networking manager, to let it have random mac address. but don't work. i had try use /sbin/ifconfig to setting it, still don't work...

I made a custom Plex Media Player build that leverages the decent performance we get with the fbdev/dri driver. I tested Rockchip MPP gstreamer plugin. The Rockchip Hardware VPU is very basic, it breaks with mkv playback, so I decided to use ffmpeg software decoding since it's extremely robust. Also 1080p playback through DRI isn't too shabby!. If you want 4k video then you need to contact Rockchip. They seem to be overwhelmed or not interested in bringing 4k support to Linux. I built a .deb package that will install plexmediaplayer to /usr/local. No worries about installing to somewhere and clobbering an official library or package. Official Armbian depen…

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.

Hello everyone, I have an issue in here. I'm very new to these things so have little knowledge and thus, forgive me if i ask something stupid but i have a problem. I have installed armbian debian verson to my NanoPC T4 and installed i3wm and did a lot of configuration and filled it with junk but i almost achieved what i'm trying to. Yet as i mentioned, i also filled with a lot of junk while trying to achieve my setup for my project. Anyway, from what i know is that what i'm asking is not the linux way but while trying, i found a problem on my case. I wanted to make a clean installation and fill the things i found out worked with the se…

Related to It looks like the problem's related to the USB autosuspend. Googling "xHCI host not responding to stop endpoint command." seems to say so. I've been trying to disable the USB autosuspend but no success. I followed all possible ways described in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/91027/how-to-disable-usb-autosuspend-on-kernel-3-7-10-or-above and https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt but $ cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend always returns 2 Board: NanoPi M4, 4GB with Armbian_5.65_Nanopim4_Debian_stretch_default_4.4.162.7z

Hi, I'm making a Media Box. I've got MVP compiled and optimized for gstreamer vaapi support. I was wondering how far off is DRI2 support for the mali fbdev armsoc kernel driver ? I haven't found all the source to build it. Rockchip doesn't list the NanoPC-T4. Is the FireFly a close fascimile ? The only reason whysk is I noticed the Firefly dtb is included in my nanopc-t4 install. The RockChip's Github repository for x86-video-armsock didn't list the NanoPC-T4 in their source. I found SunXi, Allwinner, and Firefly Also would using the rev04 dtb fix some issues (bluetooth) Sometimes bluetooth initializes.. for several rebo…

On Rock64, I use youtube-dl CLI app.to download the video (720p) during my off-peak bandwidth time, and watch with MPV or VLC later in fullscreen (1920x1080). It plays OK, but this drives the temperature up to 89-92 ! This is a monitor of the results: http://davekimble.net/problem.video.replay.txt . I think the dropped frames are because of 25 fps v 60 fps of the monitor. I know it is a lot of work, but any ideas for reducing the workload welcome. Anybody else get this?

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/a-panfrostian-october.html The dev machine they used seems to be a rk3399 based chromebook. Looks like they will get a working panfrost after all!

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.

I've got bluetooth working flawlessly. OpenGL works fine, Plex Media Server works , SONICC, RADARR all performed well, I built the latest and greatest Plex Media Player. A attempted to get VDPAU acceleration working. I'm running the nightly build with the nanopc-t4 overlay. Just about everything works. video playback works with GL accelleration but VDPAU is needed for mkv files. I installed the vdpau mesa support, and tried the libvdpau-sunxi1 driver. Is there anyone else working on something similar ? vdpauinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 Error creating VDPAU device: 25

I just bought one NanoPi M4 on FriendlyArm Black friday, I was wondering if the Raspberry Pi Oficial 7" display works with the DSI connect on NanoPi M4?

I tried building the mainline kernel (ayufan) for NanoPC T4. My aim is to bring up bluetooth. No quite familiar with device tree, just googling and reading the kernel doc, and now I had some luck. According to this post (https://discuss.96boards.org/t/updated-preliminary-support-for-bluetooth-in-debian-rock960/5588/7) in 96boards forum, in recent kernel, there is a serial bus support for bcm blutooth. ---- firmware. I used firmware from the repo mentioned in the post: https://github.com/openwetek/wlan-firmware-aml/blob/master/bcm_ampak/config/4356/bcm4356a2.hcd according to hci_bcm.c code, this file should be renamed to BCM4…

Hi armbian community, Does someone know, if it is possible to boot armbian from external ssd via usb using a NanoPi M4. If yes, is there somewhere a how-to? - I did not find anything so far about this topic. with best regards, newAB

Hi, the rockchip64 missing the gre modules for ipv4 and ipv6. they had been existing in 4.4.156-rockchip64 /lib/modules/4.4.156-rockchip64/kernel/net/ipv4/gre.ko /lib/modules/4.4.156-rockchip64/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_proto_gre.ko /lib/modules/4.4.156-rockchip64/kernel/net/ipv4/ip_gre.ko /lib/modules/4.4.156-rockchip64/kernel/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_gre.ko /lib/modules/4.4.156-rockchip64/kernel/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.ko is it possible to add these? thx in advance meno

Gentlemen, I have a rock64 board, and I would like to use an external RTC module with DS1307 chip. Unfortunately the armbian kernel does not provide DS1307 driver by default: root@rock64:~# cat /boot/config-4.4.162-rockchip64 | grep DS1307 # CONFIG_RTC_DRV_DS1307 is not set I don't have the programming skills for sending a pull request to enable this module. Could you please enable this module for ROCK64? I believe other ROCK64 owners may also benefit from this driver, as the board does not expose a working RTC, and DS1307 is a very common RTC chip. Thanks in advance.

So now I am playing with Rock64 4GB. I installed the Armbian_5.65 server edition OS and then installed xorg, lxde, and lxdm., then rebooted into a working system. Final stage of setting up was to test rhythmbox_3.4.2 and there was no sound. pavucontrol > playback shows the app is running and the worm is leaping about, but absolutely no sound. Same playing a .wav file with mpv, or indeed any player. Is there something unusual about the audio socket, or some other limitation. armbianmonitor -u = http://ix.io/ltt0

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…

Hi guys, just wanted to let you know that I have no a Nanopi Neo4 and NanoPC T4 here on my desk. So if you need help in testing, please let me know. If the Neo4 just had a little more RAM - it's a real cute board size, but hot without cooling unit Michael

Can someone please help me understand how Armbian for Rock64 is developed? In the past, there was an image for the Rock64 that was a server image, not a desktop image. Now, I see Ubuntu and a Debian Stretch desktop images, no server image. Is there a plan to build a server image going forward? Also, will a newer kernel be built at some point? Not trying to stir the pot or cause trouble, just trying to understand where the Rock64 support is going in the future. Thank you for all the spectacular work the Armbian team does.

I have a Rock64 powered by Armbian version 5.60 kernel 4.4.162-rockchip64 Ubuntu Bionic How can I activate i2c0 and i2s0 ports for connecting a 16x2 characters LCD display like 1602LCD and a PCM5102 DAC ? I'm trying armbian-config and I'm reading https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Allwinner_overlays/ but I'm getting no help. Thanks for advance.

I'm about to install active cooling fan on my recently delivered nanoPI T4. However, I cannot get what is a type of the soldered 3-pin fan connector on this board? What I see there is visually too small as for standard connector size. Is it something special I have no clue about yet, or it is for future proprietary Friendlyarm's fan designed specially for the board? Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks

Hello all! I have a NanoPC-T4 and I'm currently using Android 8.1. I suppose I could flash Ubuntu to try this, but before that, here goes. I'm trying to use a USB 4G dongle with it. I get no recognition of the device. No RNDIS or any notification at all. Fresh install. Any ideas? Also, has anyone tried to come up with a method of root for android on this device? It's a super cool sbc! Thanks!

Hi everybody, I am currently facing some struggles with the nanoPC-T4 recently bought to run armbian. When I got the board, I was able to run android default installed OS, but also armbian from a SD card. But along the way, I decided to install armbian on an NVMe SSD memory to prevent running the OS from the SD card, anyway ... That when I started playing to with the kernel build, u-boot, flashing the emmc etc .. I tried couple of times using the rockchip tool : developtool in MASKROM to play with the EMMC because I couldn't boot from the SD card, and wanted to start with a clean emmc, but every time the tool had to execute a libusb_bulk_transfer, …

Trying to get sound working on my t4. Looks like pulseaudio detects the realtek rt5651-codec but I can't get any sound out of it. The software mixer seems to be showing audio, I just can't hear anything nanopct4 4.4.161-rk3399 SMP aplay-l shoulws realtekrt5651co as device0. Any help debugging this would be great. Regards, Cam

Hi all, a new RK3399 board appeared, it is called RockPi4 I have two of these beasts here already, and they works nicely - I like the small details about it (nice eMMC fixture, all heat plates on the bottom side for simple cooling, and an M.2 PICe slot for my second network card Do you see any chance to get Armbian working on that beast, and if so, what can *I* do (with my limited experience in kernel programming)? Debian is working on it already, in case you need more specific information please let me know. Any help is appreciated. So far, Michael

Hello. I bought a Rock64 and I have a lot of errors. Im using a eMMC 32GB Storage with Armbian 5.65 stretch 4.4.162 Desktop, Ethernet connection with TP-Link switch, a Wireless Keyboard with touch pad and the original 5V 3A Power Supply. HDMI is connect to a HDMI Splitter/Switch. The Rock64 is placed in the Aluminum casing. Full-Log: http://ix.io/1rce The system is reboot very often before i see the Desktop. Sometimes only after several resets. Can someone help me?

Hello, I've followed the steps on the Rock64 Armbian download page to enable overclock on my Rock64 running Armbian Xenial 5.60 (rock64 4.4.124-rk3328), yet I can't seem to increase the CPU clock frequency. I've also checked the Documentation-> Fine Tuning page where the same steps are listed. Steps: sed -i "s/MAX_SPEED=.*/MAX_SPEED=1510000/" /etc/default/cpufrequtils systemctl restart cpufrequtils I've checked the CPU frequency now and it looks like it's stuck at the default value. Shouldn't the new CPU frequency now be listed as 1.51GHz by the below commands ? rock64:~$ cpufreq-info -c 0 cpufrequt…

Nanopi Neo4 armbian5.65 Mac address is no fixed。 Every times setup my Neo4 the MAC address is diffenence。 Who can help me. forgive my pool English. Thanks

Hello! I've recently installed NextCloudPi, which ships Linux 4.4 by default (linux-image-rockchip64 - Linux kernel, version 4.4.159-rockchip64). Is it OK to update to linux-image-arm64? As far as I understood, mainline Linux supports RK3328 chip since version 4.14. Thanks a lot!

Armbian version: Armbian_5.65_Rock64_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.162 the stuck prompt message: rock64 login: [OK] Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel changes. I MUST press enter key to continue the startup progress, please help me to fix the bug. Thanks very much

Greetings, i have installed armbian to my new nanopct4 (4.4.162 with full armbian firmware), There is no hci device showing up so no usable adapter. I have no idea what to do, i have problems with 2.4 ghz wireless networks, 5ghz works fine. any help or hints?

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…

Working on the rockchip64 family dev images, since 4.19 is an LTS and the RK3328 support is somewhat workable. With a reminder of something I failed to read by @JMCC, I got this today: ____ _ | _ \ ___ _ __ ___ __ _ __ _ __| | ___ | |_) / _ \ '_ \ / _ \/ _` |/ _` |/ _` |/ _ \ | _ < __/ | | | __/ (_| | (_| | (_| | __/ |_| \_\___|_| |_|\___|\__, |\__,_|\__,_|\___| |___/ Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.65 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.19.0-rockchip6 …

Hi, community. I have set up this device from which I'm writing this, installed Armbian from SD card, by sweeping out original FriendlyElec images from the FriendlyElec's partition, so I wiped off the Android and Ubuntu, and copied on it the Armbian image, which appeared with the title "RAW". Booted and installed fine. It works. From armbian-config I managed to boot from an USB Toshiba 1Tb disk. To this part, I have a little but efficient linuxPC, ¡¡¡THANK YOU!!!. I'm trying to compile binaries of STM32, or Arduino devices, comment this to tell details only. Every 5 to 8 bootups, it didn't recognize the USB drive, and dumps a series of Hex data, divided in bunches. S…

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?

I'm considering buying a Rock64 4GB to use a Docker server running media apps (plex,sonarr,radarr,jackett,smb,etc). I already have a 64GB SD card available for this system, probably overkill, but I have it. I noticed another post saying the SD card performance is not what it could be. I'd like to hear from other have a similar setup to what I'm thinking about. Does it perform well enough for what you're using it for? What are you using it for? What kind of samba through put do you get on the USB2 and USB3 (perhaps with the USB3->SATA adapter) Thanks.

Hello everyone, I'm trying to build a kernel so that OTG USB interface with Type-C connector could be accessed as usb0 network interface . If someone managed to solve this - please, share your experience .

/proc/sys/crypto doesn't exist, so anything checking the status of /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled fails terribly. (Specifically trying to bring up a FreeIPA server which includes tomcat-based Dogtag CA, it checks for FIPS during setup, dies). I see there is an rk_crypto kernel module available, so I don't know why /proc/sys/crypto itself is missing. I tried 'modprobe rk_crypto' and it loaded (appears in output of 'lsmod'), but /proc/sys/crypto still doesn't exist.

Hi there, I'm trying to made a dts file to handle a pican2 hat on ROCK64 armbian, but now I'm stuck. I'm a noob in writing dts files, I've tried to take as exemple dts from RPI and Thinker. edit: I've rebuild the kernel, and build the mcp251x.ko module, it load like a charm. But I assume I've to write a correct .dts file to link it to my devices tree. here is my loaded modules list: Module Size Used by can_bcm 24576 0 can_raw 20480 0 can 53248 2 can_bcm,can_raw mali 262144 0 rt2800usb 28672 0 rt2800lib 81920 1 rt2800usb rt2x00usb …

Dear all, i have been using Armbian bionic currently running kernel 4.4.156-rockchip64, for sharing files over the internet, i am currently using sshfs. Openssl benchmark ls as followed OpenSSL 1.1.0g 2 Nov 2017 built on: reproducible build, date unspecified options:bn(64,64) rc4(char) des(int) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr) compiler: gcc -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DNDEBUG -DOPENSSL_THREADS -DOPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM -DPOLY1305_ASM -DOPENSSLDIR="\"/usr/lib/ssl\"" -DENGINESDIR="\"/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/engines-1.1\"" The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per…

Luks encrypted devices need this cipher: aes-xts-plain64 I get these error messages: > Check that kernel supports aes-xts-plain64 cipher > device-mapper: table: 254:0: crypt: Error allocating crypto tfm It seems that at least the following modules are needed: xts, aes-x86_64 They are misising in all armbian debian kernals for rockchip. Could you please add them?

Hi, I received my new rock64 today and I downloaded this image https://dl.armbian.com/rock64/Debian_stretch_default_desktop.7z I used Etcher as recommended to create the SD card and booted off of it with just power and network connected as I assumed it would boot, assign a dhcp address and bring up sshd so I could remote onto it. I scanned my network to see if any new devices had been added with dhcp, but couldn't see anything new so I connected the rock64 up to a TV and then booted it up, connected up a keyboard and noticed it ran through an install process on first local login. I followed all the directions and a desktop appeared on s…

Trying to choose between an eMMC module or a USB Flash drive for the boot volume on a Rock64. I have a few Rock64's that I'm building as various services (Nextcloud, Pi-Hole, VPN, OMV, and/or Netatalk Backup). None of these devices will need large boot volumes as the data will be in secondary (Hard or SSD) Drives or will require VERY little data storage. On the RPi's that the Rock64's are replacing, I've been using USB Flash drives for booting. I get the feeling that an eMMC module is a better choice, but do have any real knowledge. Are the eMMC modules more reliable and less prone to corruption that USB Flash Drives? I do have some 32GB and 64…

I'm building a portable battery powered NAS because syncing and having everything multiple times on all my Android devices sucks. I took my old Banana Pi connected a SSD to the SATA port and made it a access point (no Samba yet installed). Booting from the 16GB SanDisk Ultra A1 is 27 seconds. Moving everything to the SSD in armbian config is also 27 seconds (no difference?) I know the Banana has not the fastest SATA and NIC and that USB 3 on the Rock64 is faster. But i don't copy tons of gigabyte to the device everyday and for streaming over the WiFi stick it's fast enough. I'm interested on the boot time of the Rock64 (e…

Hi! I'm trying to create a vpn access point with a Rock64. I'm receving a low speeds with openvpn but the openssl tests show that there is crypto acceleration. I'm new to all of this. I assume the vpn speeds would be much higher since crypto extensions are enabled in armbian, that's why I choose the Rock64 and Armbian. This is the openssl test: openssl speed -evp aes-256-cbc Doing aes-256-cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 14416568 aes-256-cbc's in 3.00s Doing aes-256-cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 10625804 aes-256-cbc's in 3.00s Doing aes-256-cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 4907054 aes-256-cbc's in 3.00s Doing aes-256-cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 1594735 aes-256-cbc's i…

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…

Hello, Each time I'm booting the Rock64, it starts on Jan, 21 of 2016 but the filesystem has a superblock on Jan,28 of 2018, so in the future. It's inconsistant and the filesystem is checking each time and I'm waiting a few seconds. How can I avoid this trouble ? Here is the screen shot of logs through the tty/usb console. I'm booting from the spi flash and a sd-card with Ubuntu 18.04.1.

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.

Hello I recently set up NextCloudPlus/NextCloudPi on a Rock64. I used the image that can be downloaded from the ownyourbits website, cat /etc/*-release resulted in the following output: BOARD=rock64 BOARD_NAME="ROCK64" BOARDFAMILY=rk3328 VERSION=5.44 LINUXFAMILY=rk3328 BRANCH=default ARCH=arm64 IMAGE_TYPE=user-built BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm64 KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image 03af3b07-6131-4b1c-8cc2-7f716caf75e1 # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=rock64 BOARD_NAME="ROCK64" BOARDFAMILY=rk3328 VERSION=5.44 LINUXFAMILY=rk3328 BRANCH=default ARCH=arm64 IMAGE_TYPE=user-built BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm64 KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch…

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.

Hello All, I recently bought Orange Pi RK3399 and had some problems with it. At this moment I've solved most of them, but still no luck with such an old OS like Ubuntu Server 16.04 or Debian 9 which were provided by the manufacturer (images to flash). What I am thinking now is to move this board to Armbian. Will it work? How should I in this case organize the partitions on eMMC and where to load kernel and rootfs? I don't see this board in supported ones.

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

Not the final version. Update(8/24/2018): It's time to deal with NEO4, this picture is not the final version. NEO4 will have PCIe x2 and eMMC connector too, and a MIPI-CSI. But the dual-layer USB connector will share USB 3.0 & USB 2.0, Type-C take another USB 3.0.

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: …

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…

Hi, I'm looking for the headless version of stretch and xenial for the rock 64. I only see the gui versions of strtech and xenial on the website. I got a special download from Igor a couple days ago but it has some strange issues so I was hoping to find a release version to try. Thanks! Mark

I'm trying to use it with a TV that has HDMI input but it's 1360x766. xrandr says it's running at 1920x1080. It's very small, like keep a magnifying glass handy, and I don't have the bottom of the screen where LXDE puts the pager and buttons. I thought from my Raspberry Pi experience that I'd just change the mode in my config.txt https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md but apparently the Rock64 isn't that evolved. Can I set an HDMI mode in my armbianEnv.txt? Can it use CVT modes? The standard 1360x768 mode isn't quite right. I've been around this stuff since you had to work out an xfree86.conf file on paper and take ti…

Is there a guide somewhere how to enable 1wire support on a rock64 using stretch or xenial. Im trying to read a dallas DS18b20 sensor. I see some examples for other boards but cant figure out how to apply them to the Rock64. Thanks

Hi, I'm unable to get my Rock64 to boot either the Xenial or Stretch Armbian images from SD or Emmc. I can get all of the other OS's to boot fine off of either media. Ive tried with multiple Emmc chips, SD cards and Rock64's with the same results so its not the hardware. Seems like it cant find the boot loader. Ive used win32diskimager, Etcher and the Rock64 instakk software. I've formatted the SD card completely, used new SD cards... I'm stuck! Any suggestions Thanks!

Has anyone here tested the Rock64 successfully with an u-boot version which is not the one from ayufan? I did not have much luck with the rk3328 default config and mainline u-boot when I tried it a while back. The same is true when I tried to use the board config from ayufan with mainline u-boot. The version by ayufan is working in principle but also is rather dated as far as I know and therefore does not support some newer features. Anyone knows if the version from ayufan will be bumped or has a working config for a more recent u-boot version?

Hello......could anybody tell me at least which image i have to use if i want to build armbian for the FriendlyArm NanoPC-T4? Couldnt find anything...... Thanks

NanoPi-M4 will be cheaper and same form factor as RPI 3.

Hello, I need some help to find an U-Boot image to flash on rock64 so that armbian boots directly from USB3. Where can I find it. If your answer is to build my own U-Boot image, please give me step by step instructions. Thanks a lot

This is something hopefully suitable to become a 'Board Bring up' thread. The NanoPC T4 was the smallest RK3399 board around featuring full set of interfaces (Rock960 was smaller but there you can't use GbE without a proprietary expander) but in the meantime he got two smaller siblings: NanoPi M4 and the cute NEO4. Pros: Another RK3399 board so software support is already pretty mature Rich set of interfaces (2 x USB2 without shared bandwidth, 2 x USB3, triple display output and so on) No powering hassles due to 12V (2A) PSU requirement 16GB superfast eMMC 5.1 Usable and performant Wi-Fi (dual band and dual antenna so…

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: …

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'm running Armbian on a 4 GB Rock64, downloaded and installed yesterday. I've been using Debian/Raspbian/Armbian for about 10 years and I've really come to rely on Synaptic for searching and being able to make download scripts. Not every day but about once a week especially if I'm setting up something (like this Rock64). This Synaptic's access to the package database seems incredibly slow. A single search may take 20 minutes. After installing something it reloads the list and shows it on the screen, that can be another 20 minutes. During this time it's got 1 thread using 100% of one CPU. Typing is sometimes impaired, window repainting usually. …

Hi, I've burn "Armbian Stretch desktop legacy kernel 4.4.y" on sd card on use nand-sata-install on emmc but when I remove sd card it's no boot. I read on Pine forum we must put a jumper on "emmc pin" then remove 3/4s after power on. So I've try but no success. I can see emmc when I boot from sd card but no more.

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…

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…

Hello. Please could someone help me to solve this issue? I have a wifi dongle recognized as: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 148f:5572 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5572 Wireless Adapter I am trying to use it on my Rock64 and ARMBIAN 5.42 testing Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.4.124-rk3328 uname -a: Linux rock64 4.4.124-rk3328 #24 SMP Wed Mar 28 17:15:52 CEST 2018 aarch64 GNU/Linux It seems it is recognized correctly: Spoiler lsmod: rt2800usb 28672 0 rt2800lib 81920 1 rt2800usb rt2x00usb 20480 1 rt2800usb rt2x00lib 49152 3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt28…

Hi, Is it possible to boot from SSD? How it should be partitioned? Can I use any arbitrary partition for rootfs? Should I follow the procedure from this thread ? It assumes I should write the armbian image to a whole drive instead of partition, right? Well, I actually tried some way... First, I've tried to just run some utility from ambian-config that transfers rootfs to a partition. Device did not boot after this (with SD card ejected). Then I've flashed the ayufan's u-boot-flash-spi-rock64.img.xz. This also fails (boot log is attached) but the log looks promising. BTW, I'm experimenting with Ubuntu 18.04 image built by myself …

I tried the stable Arabian image for rock 64 and found out that full HD video is played with strong brakes, when playing HEVC image is missing How to force video to be reproduced normally, maybe I don't understand something ?

Debian Stretch and Nextcloud 13.0.2 Image available for testing at https://ownyourbits.com/downloads Initial testing shows no problems other that some small adjustments that need to be made for all armbian images: static IP and mDNS. More testing is welcome and feedback appreciated! Cheers, Nacho

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…

Hello, I want to try out Armbian OS as opposed to Ubuntu Artful 17.10 on my Rock64, mainly to see how it compares(I am aware Armbian minimal for Rock64 is derived from Ubuntu Xenial, but I understand it's optimized for ARM CPUs) Long story short, I have a 32GB eMMC and a eMMC to USB adapter from Pine64 and would like to run Rock64 Armbian off it, but I was unable to simply flash Armbian to it using 'dd' or Etcher as with ayufan's Ubuntu images. I am aware it's possible to boot from an microSD card and use the "nand-sata-install" bash script to achieve this as described in the Armbian documentation, so I am inquiring if I can bypass usin…

The wireless interfaces are not coming up [ 16.959456] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database [ 16.969238] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7' [ 16.971635] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2 [ 16.971650] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db [ 41.751941] rk_gmac-dwmac ff540000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control off [ 41.751976] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

This is info from your www page download section.: "to boot from SD card you need to press and hold a button on the back side of the board and power on. This erases bootloader on eMMC and now you can boot from SD. In case of troubles use this tool to restore stock bootloader." I have downloaded Armbians image. Program Linux upgrade_tool cant flash it.... Loading firmware failed... of course i press recovery button from the bottom of hardware. RK_Android_Tool also not recognize img file. What is wrong with your firmware? Then I flashing micro-sd cart via dd command and did this from your page.: "to boot from SD card you need to press and hold a button on the back side…

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?

Hello all. I've made a video about the Rock64. I've tried different distro's, but Armbian was the best for me. The only problems I've found was that Synaptic Package Manager didn't work. It crashes when I press the search button. And sometimes surfing was extremely slow. Otherwise it did fix all the problems I've had with the other distro's I've tried. Thank you for all the great work. Now I've started my research with the Orange Pi +2, and again Armbian is the best choice. Greetings, NicoD Here is my video.

Hello everybody! I write on this topic because i'm searching for few weeks a solution with dd command to make a disk image backup, but I don't find a conclusive solution, so... Firstly I send dd command. Disque /dev/mmcblk0 : 29,7 GiB, 31914983424 octets, 62333952 secteurs Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets Type d'étiquette de disque : dos Identifiant de disque : 0x53d4dbd7 Périphérique Amorçage Début Fin Secteurs Taille Id Type /dev/mmcblk0p1 32768 10504191 10471424 5G 83 Linux Disque /dev/s…

I have been trying to compile some packages that do work on the x86 platform and versions of Ubuntu and Debian but it seems like this define is missing so the program in question cannot compile a specific syscall in the file. Is SYS_getdents defined in the standard location unistd.h? I looked at the header but had some difficulties working through some of the defines. Thanks, Carter.

Hello. I use a Rock64 and installed the latest night build (https://dl.armbian.com/rock64/nightly/Armbian_5.42.180328_Rock64_Debian_stretch_dev_4.16.0-rc3.7z) and installed it to my SD card. After booting there was no "/dev/spidevX.X" file. I tried to enable the spidev module (modprobe spidev) and also tried to add it to /etc/rc.local but there was still no spidev device file. Is there a problem with the module? Do I have to enable something else?