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Since the specific USB hardware support is now in place, I thought it would be good to discuss pitfalls and remedies for transitioning to a modern kernel. I have now tested the 6.8.5 based Armbian. None of the latest packages (.408 - .411) come up with HDMI output. You have to have a serial console connected, and then correct the problems. 1) This is what you are greeted with: [ 6.828040] panthor fb000000.gpu: [drm] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware image 'mali_csffw.bin' To fix this do apt install armbian-firmware-full and reboot 2) The 8821cu driver has performance problems. Also, the stupid "windows" adapter comes up …

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…

I recently plugged in a 4TB Seagate Expansion hard drive and it worked fine. After rebooting the Rockpi4B via 'sudo reboot' the drive is not recognised - dmesg shows: [ 3.877060] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Unit Not Ready [ 3.877082] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x4 [current] [ 3.877094] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x44 <<vendor>>ASCQ=0x81 Any ideas?

Has anyone been able to build ZFS/SPL?: checking linux distribution... ubuntu checking default package type... deb checking whether rpm is available... yes (4.12.0.1) checking whether rpmbuild is available... yes (4.12.0.1) checking whether spec files are available... yes (rpm/generic/*.spec.in) checking whether dpkg is available... yes (1.18.4) checking whether dpkg-buildpackage is available... yes (1.18.4.) checking whether alien is available... yes (8.95) checking spl config... all checking kernel source directory... /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.115-rk3328 checking kernel build directory... /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.115-rk3328 checking kernel …

Hello, I have read some threats with the same issue, armbian images are not booting, there is not HDMI signal when turn on rockpi4. General solution is trying armbian image stored on radxa server https://dl.radxa.com/rockpi/images/third-party/Armbian_5.67_Rockpi4b_Debian_stretch_default_4.4.154_desktop_20181210-gpt.img.gz this armbian version works fine but it's too old, also i'm interested to use latest armbian-ubuntu-bionic My case: I have a new rockpi4b 1.4v, not eMMC module, I have flashed several armbian versions on sdCard : https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-4b/Bionic_legacy_desktop https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-4b/Buster_legacy htt…

Hello, Recently the HDD Cable Harness for my Helios64 malfunctioned. SATA Ports 1 and 2 are both no longer getting power/HDDs are not spinning up. I confirmed that it was power by plugging the SATA cable into ports 3, 4, and 5 on the motherboard which all function. I also iterated through the system by removing all the HDD's and testing each HDD slot one at a time. All 5 HDDs fucntion individually in a USB drive enclosure, and all 5 function in my server system and I can mount the RAID array. My question is, does anyone know how to contact the Helios/Kobol team so I can purchase a replacement HDD Harness Cable? …

The Radxa bullseye image looks to boot fine, but Armbian forky does not boot at all.

The NanoPi R4SE is similar to the NanoPi R5S. Would love to have an Armbian image for it.

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…

Hello, I've got my Helios64 since a few week now and enjoying it a lot. I've installed k3s on it with various applications. The next step is to install home assistant to control my home. Previously, I've already had a setup with a RaspberryPi with a Arduino Mega connected, that is running the rflink firmware. That way I, can control cheap 433Mhz power switches. The problem is, when I connect the Arduino (acting as a serial input device) to my Helios64, the system does not startup anymore. The following error message is printed on the serial console: WARN halted endpoint, queueing URB anyway. Unexpected XHCI event TRB, skipping... (f5f5deb…

Hello, I have installed the currently provided image "Armbian_24.11.1_Nanopct6_bookworm_current_6.12.0_minimal.img.xz" on my NanoPC-T6 (not LTS). Unfortuantely the only one USB3 port is not working. So no local access is possible and no external USB storage device can be used. I wonder if no one else has such problem reported yet since 3 weeks now (released 2024-11-21). The USB3 port is working with the FriendlyELEC image (rk3588-sd-debian-bookworm-core-6.1-arm64-20241112.img.gz), so maybe there is a small problem with a kernel module or the device tree. If someone can guide me to a starting point for investigation, I can do some debugging. I have little…

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

I see from photos of the FriendlyElec metal case (without display) for the NanoPi M6 that there appear to be two holes for wifi antennas. Does anyone know if the optional wifi card sold by FriendlyElec comes with antennas? If not, are they a standard size which I can buy somewhere else?

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. …

Hey guys, bunch of thanks for your great work. Was wondering what's up with the latest buster images (20.05.2-5.4.43) for the 1Gig A versions. Worked great up to 20.02.11-5.4.32. The boot gets up to changing the freq, then nothing : > change freq to 416MHz 0,1 Channel 0: LPDDR4,416MHz Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=14 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=512MB Channel 1: LPDDR4,416MHz Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=14 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=512MB 256B stride channel 0 CS = 0 MR0=0x19 MR4=0x3 MR5=0x6 MR8=0x0 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 M…

Hello Everyone, Unfortunately my helios64 is not glowing any power LED. As soon as I connect the power supply it only shows a blinking orange LED light, that is basically for the battery status. My power supply is perfectly fine and even I have tried using with the ATX power supply same result. Does anyone face this issue and please help me to get my board working again. Thanks!

When there is a kernel panic the fans stop which causes the HDD and CPU temperatures to rise unchecked. I've just come back to find my board has crashed again and the HDD temperatures had risen above 60c which is not good. Is there a watchdog or boot setting to automatically reset the processor after a kernel panic ?

Bigtreetech CB2 and Pi 2 released somewhat recently (April 20th). They use RK3566 and have a lot of nice features. The board and module are intended for 3d printer use but can be used just like any other pi. There is an official linux image on bigtreetech github, and it seems it's a slightly customized armbian. I propose copying that configuration and adding it as a supported board. This is a bit of a personal tangent, but I was also thinking of how I can submit the device tree files to the mainline linux kernel, would that be a good idea? I'm planning to use or at least try Alpine on the board and it would be nice to have the needed files in the linux package…

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, so we use Kobol 64 with OMV since 4 months, and no problem at all. Just yesterday, want to change Ethernet cable, correctly shutdown the Helios64 NAS, and impossible to start it again. Just have the right system light, but left LED no blinking, no information in the USBC terminal. For the "recovery", press the recovery button, and then press the power button, and the LED System don't light up. What can we do, format the system, and reinstall OMV with all parameters... Not really serious, ins't it ? Thank you for any help. Regard.

Hi, please provide me with link where can I download OS - armbian or ubuntu built for the board OrangePi 3B with RK3566 CPU. http://www.orangepi.org/…tml Thank you very much.

Hi, I'm using a RockPi 4 B as a wifi access point. Everything is working fine with good performances until the Wifi stop working, usually after 3-4 days. When that happens, dmesg is flooded with these logs : [221057.075187] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_proto_bcdc_query_dcmd: brcmf_proto_bcdc_msg failed w/status -110 [221057.075202] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_get_station: GET STA INFO failed, -110 [221124.657840] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_proto_bcdc_query_dcmd: brcmf_proto_bcdc_msg failed w/status -110 [221127.217786] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_proto_bcdc_query_dcmd: brcmf_proto_bcdc_msg failed w/status -110 [221127.217806] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_get_stat…

I have tried the Debian image for ROCK5B and the Gnome GUI works fine there. But when booting the Armbian image (running from emmc) the screen does not notice any signal from the ROCK5B regardless of which HDMI port I try. I am using a quite old HDMI monitor (connected though a DVI-HDMI adapter). How do I debug this?

I have installed OMV via armbian-config (software). After that I tried to install Nextcloud the same way. In the process I noticed that Apache2 does not start due to a port mismatch (port 80). I was able to determine that obviously the web server nginx is already installed and used for OMV. Can someone please explain to me if this is intentional or if I made a mistake during the installation? Is it possible not to install OMV and Nextcloud in parallel? How can I solve this?

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

So I did the upgrade to OMV6 (and associated kernel update Linux 5.15.93-rockchip64). Now in the mornings or after long periods of no interaction, the Helios enters an unresponsive state where none of the docker containers respond and I can no longer ssh in. There is still some sporadic noise comming from hard drives doing things and lights on the front are showing it's not completely frozen. I suspect it's attempting to enter some kind of suspend / hibernate state that is not appropriate for this system. Which would be the appropriate log file to go hunting for answers for sleep/hibernate issues on Armbian? And what w…

My Helios64 setup has been running stable for months now (except for one MOSFET that failed and had to be replaced), however after recent updates using the OMV5 package manager I am unable to transfer files to my computer (SMB shares). When trying to transfer to a Windows computer the transfer speed immediately plummets to 0, stays there forever or File Explorer crashes/stops responding. When transferring to an Ubuntu system the transfer time outs. I can browse the files on the SMB share, I can play them (movies, music, etc) or run them directly with no issues. I can transfer files using scp with no problem (just at much reduced speed/bandw…

Started to test Armbian_19.11.5_Rockpi-4b_buster_current_5.4.6.img and I could not boot off of the eMMC. So I put Armbian_19.11.5_Rockpi-4b_buster_current_5.4.6.img on an SD card and formatted my eMMC. I was then able to get the Rock Pi 4 to boot successfully. It looks like the kernel can not initialize the eMMC. Here are some messages from dmesg on boot: [ 53.338988] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: IDMAC supports 32-bit address mode. [ 53.339028] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: Using internal DMA controller. [ 53.339048] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: Version ID is 270a [ 53.339126] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: DW MMC controller at irq 28,32 bit host …

Problem: No usb power on all ports except for OTG port on Rock Pi 4C. Images: Ubuntu Bionic Legacy Desktop, Ubuntu Focal Legacy, Ubuntu Focal Current Desktop Monitoring information: Ubuntu Bionic Legacy Desktop - http://ix.io/2wlL Ubuntu Focal Current Desktop: http://ix.io/2wlZ

I installed the latest Armbian image and used a 1080P portable monitor to finish the install process. But when I use my bigger monitor with 2560x1440 resolution, it cannot output signal via HDMI. I searched about it, but most of them are about windows/x86 contents. Any idea about that?

Hi all, I am running armbian bookworm on a nanopi r6c (rk3588). At boot, wireguard does not resolve the endpoint (strange, because it runs after network-online.target) and instead of keep trying, it gives up. If I manually restart it, all is good. Attached screenshots show the different behaviour in a raspberry pi (rpi4 as hostname) running raspios, where it keeps trying to resolve the endpoint, and nanopi r6c not retrying. I will recompile kernel to enable wireguard debug (or is there a quicker way?)

After bootup I get # systemd-analyze Bootup is not yet finished. Please try again later. # systemctl list-jobs JOB UNIT TYPE STATE 142 systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service start waiting 114 rk3399-bluetooth.service start running 1 multi-user.target start waiting If I stop rk3399-bluetooth.service everything completes and list-jobs is clean, but then bluetooth stops working. I've tried a few things in the rk3399-bluetooth unit file but so far I've not been able to find a way to make systemd happy and finish cleanly. By the way, in the service file i…

I'm using Armbian 20.11.1 Focal (5.9.11-rockchip64) on my Helios64. When there's heavier load via ethernet (SFTP to a SATA Ultrastar 12TB disk) for something like more than an hour, the entire system will freeze. Not sure if it actually does freeze but I lose all SSH connections and cannot connect anymore via SSH unless I restart the Helios64. Happened today 4 times and it's totally reproducible. Haven't tested another drive yet. What makes this difficult to debug is that under /var/log/syslog or kern.log or faillog nothing relevant is being written as to in what state the device is. Is this a known issue? How can I find out what the problem i…

I know that WOL is currently not supported from the thread in kernel 5.x However, the specs of Helios64 showed and still shows that the interfaces have WOL support: * https://wiki.kobol.io/helios64/intro/#board * https://kobol.io under Multi-Gigabit Ethernet section What is missing ? How can we help ?

I've been trying to get OMV setup on the Helios prior to adding my hard drives and I keep getting errors and communication failures when I try to do pretty much anything. I like OMV for it's GUI, but honestly, I've never been a fan of it functionally. Is there anything comparable to it that works with the Helios64? Anyone have any suggestions how to fix it? I have logs but I don't see a place to attach them.

I've been trying to connect a USB hdd for a while now, and depending on the SATA disk and the USB<->Sata adapter I've had different behaviours : * 700mA hdd * Adapter A works, can mount and copy * Adapter B is detected, the SATA device too in dmesg, but does not appear in lsblk. * 1A hdd (Seagate Barracuda 2To 2.5'') * Adapter A seems to be detected, the disk tries to start (sde is showing in dmesg) but usb device disappears, reappears etc ("usb disk bootloop") * Adapter B is not even detected in dmesg or lsusb ! Obviously, the 4 configurations perfectly work on a x86 host. What could be going on ? I'm pr…

I think I found a regression: It seems the USB 3.0 port is not working with kernel 5.10.160. It was working with kernel 5.10.110. So I have two questions: 1. How do I file a bug-report ? 2. Linux 6.3 officially supports the rockchip-rk3588 (6.4 is out). When can we expect a kernel update and which kernel version would that be? Thank you

I've been hopelessly trying to get Armbian(Buster) and OMV to work together properly. But alas no luck. I decided to start over using a fresh and latest image on the SD card. I believe I may have unwittingly screwed up the eMMC boot process because I added an M.2 SATA drive in yesterday and have since removed it. Hence my quest to simply get the SBC up and running from the SD card. I have tried everything this morning, I cannot get an image to load at all. One of my questions is; do the hard drives need to be installed just to get the SBC working? I have tried with them in and out to no avail. Are there some lingering config files residing on the HDs th…

The instructions at the P2 page cannot be followed. The image at the link does not contain the p2-station-update-uboot script. I have tried using the Station OS multi-boot thing but that didn't work either. What is the correct way to do it now?

Hello, I've bought 3 new identical drives and put 2 of them in the Helios64 and 1 onto my desktop. I ran smartctl longtest+shortest on both drives simultanously but all of them were aborted/interupted by host. `# /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sda` Output: http://ix.io/2OLt On my desktop the longtest from smartctl succeeds without error and all 3 drives received the same care, I just bough them and installed them, so unlikely the drives are physically damaged. The complete diagnostic log: http://ix.io/2OBr So anyone got an idea why are my SMART extended tests being canceled? Note: I've tried ev…

It’s been 3 months since we posted on our blog. While we have been pretty active on Armbian/Kobol forum for support and still working at improving the software support and stability, we have been developing in parallel the new iteration of Helios64 around the latest Rockchip SoC RK3568. However things haven’t been progressing as fast as we would have wished. Looking back, 2020 has been a very challenging year to deliver a new product and it took quite a toll on the small team we are. Our energy level is a bit low and we still haven’t really recovered. Now with electronic part prices surge and crazy lead time, it’s even harder to have business visibility in an …

Hi, My NanoPi M4 V2 Won't Boot via SD ... the emmc is not installed on the board The RED light is ON but the GREEN stay OFF I cannot reached to read correctly the data coming from the serial port debug (I tested with many bauderate, also with 1500000, same result ... a lot of weird characters) Tested Versions Won't boot: Armbian_22.08.1_Nanopim4v2_jammy_current_5.15.63.img.xz Armbian_22.08.1_Nanopim4v2_bullseye_current_5.15.63.img.xz Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Nanopim4v2_sid_edge_6.0.3.img.xz Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Nanopim4v2_kinetic_edge_6.0.3.img.xz Tested Version Boot properly: Armbian_21.02.1_Na…

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…

Hello, Recently I tried to make pwm control on my Nanopi M4. Beside the PWM pin on the 24 pin connector (the one which actually controls the voltage output on 12V 2 pin connector for fan), I wonder if it is possible to use GPIO pins on the 40 pin connector as pwm pins to control fans. I tried to set pwmchip0 and literally checked every pin by connecting the wire to each one of them but I couldn't find that any othe these GPIO react on any settings I made on pwmchip0 pwm0. Does anyone know how to do this? Best Regards.

Hi! I am trying the vanilla 5.15 kernel which has support for helios64. The system is booting, disks, MMC and network are working. But fancontrol fails. It seems the /sys entries have changed and the udev rules are not working. I've tried to understand the wiki page in order to adapt the udev rules and fancontrol config file but I am a little bit lost. Is there updated versions of those config files? Kind regards, Xavier Miller.

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

I have some questions about the Linux images that Ayufan built for the Rock64 board. Not really technical issues so I did not think they should go on the Github page. If this is not the appropriate place for these, let me now and I'll remove this post. Also, if this is not the place, where should I be asking these types of questions? I just downloaded the new PRE-RELEASE version of Debian Stretch from the Github page (Yes, I know it's bleeding edge, but just experimenting for now). Specifically the stretch-minimal-rock64-0.6.5-152-arm64 image. I just burned it to my eMMC board. Will boot and see how it all works tomorrow. There are a number of…

After recent kernel update, USB3.0 ports no longer work, There is an error printed in kernel log. [ 2.826383] phy phy-ff800000.phy.6: phy poweron failed --> -110 [ 2.827119] dwc3 fe900000.usb: error -ETIMEDOUT: failed to initialize core [ 2.827881] dwc3: probe of fe900000.usb failed with error -110 I found this issue in NanoPC T4, but it might also appear in other RK3399 boards. lsusb didn't show any USB3.0 controller. Confirmed this isn't my hardware's problem, another board have this issue too. dwc3.txt

As I reported here (https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/1230), I'm seeing frequent reboots and Kernel Panics on a RK3399 board while running ElasticSearch, a kinda heavy application that runs on Java. I currently run a Kubernetes cluster on two RK3399 boards (NanoPC-T4). One of them I has a version of DietPi with a Kernel 4.4.138 compiled by myself. and runs perfectly. The other had a newer version of a Kernel (4.4.154) also compiled by me and that's where I started seeing the reboots. After this, I installed Armbian thinking it might be something with my DietPi distro. I installed 5.69 with Kernel 4.4.167 and saw the same problems. I did a ful…

I found my Helis64 unresponsive after about a week or so. Even heartbeat LED is not blinking (permanently on). I see this repeating on the serial console [495778.879711] rcu: rcu_preempt kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 5324533 jiffies! g9706925 f0x2 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x200 [495778.880747] rcu: Possible timer handling issue on cpu=3 timer-softirq=2513452 [495778.881383] rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 5324534 jiffies! g9706925 f0x2 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x200 ->cpu=3 [495778.882336] rcu: Unless rcu_preempt kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior. [495778.883137] rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump: [495778…

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?

Focal / root on eMMC / ZFS on hdd / LXD / Docker I received my Helios64 yesterday, installed the system, and decided to write down my steps before I forget them. Maybe someone will be interested. :-) Preparation: Assembly your box as described here. Download Armbian Focal image from here and flash it to SD card. You may use Ether. Insert the SD card to your Helios64 and boot. After 15-20s the box should be accessible via ssh. (Of course you have to find out it's IP address somehow. For example check your router logs or use this.) First login: ssh root@IP Password: 1234 After prompt - change passw…

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…

When using my (intel) laptop I get when I check my nvme (as root): # lspci -vvvs 01:00|grep -E "ASPM|L1" DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <1us, L1 unlimited LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 16GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L1 <8us ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp+ LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ Capabilities: [900 v1] L1 PM Substates L1SubCap: PCI-PM_L1.2+ PCI-PM_L1.1+ ASPM_L1.2+ ASPM_L1.1- L1_PM_Substates+ L1SubCtl1: PCI-PM_L1.2- PCI-PM_L1.1- ASPM_L1.2- ASPM_L1.1- L1SubCtl2: T_PwrOn=500us With the 6.1-…

Thought I'd download the latest image in the hope that it might be more stable ... kernel panic on reboot, booted second time and then whlst trying to update kernel panic again. This board seems to be so unstable it's bascially unuseable

Hi, I would like to know if any support for VAMRS ROCK960 is planned. Thanks

Hi, i just received my Rock 4 Se and a 32GB eMMC module today, and i'm currently not sure if the Image is incompatible, or if my storage modules are broken. I tried emmc standalone and SD for boot with nvme (from an dell notebook) for rootfs When i use the emmc, the filesystem goes into read only as soon as i do some apt upgrade. On reboot i often end up in initramfs nd have to fsck. I could gether some dmesg output: After this trace i get a lot of I/O Errors: Im not sure if this is an os or an emmc module issue. Any guess whats going wrong here? after that i coppied the current…

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!

I suggest adding a small patch for all u-boot for rk33xx. It allows to enable direct booting from USB media and significantly facilitates the use of RK33xx models for users. Allows you to easily launch any system from USB without the need for complex settings and manipulations with existing (main) systems on devices on SD or eMMC. The entire path fits in two lines. https://github.com/150balbes/Build-Armbian/blob/master/patch/u-boot/u-boot-arm-64/u-boot-0010-rk-usb-start.patch#L18

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, Just received this unit yesterday with my surprise and lack of reading, the unit does not include eMMC or SPI so I am unable to boot directly into nvme drive. Are there instructions somewhere on how to setup the device to boot from MicroSD but use nvme as main drive? Thank you.

I'm using a Rock 5 ITX and noticed after installing the latest rk35xx kernel image (6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx) that my system wasn't booting. So I connected to the debug console and observed a kernel oops being emitted. It dumps out a few pages of data, but the initial messages and call trace are: I have all the hex data if someone would use it but it doesn't seem worth including here. The boot flounders around in systemd for a bit but never gets to a login prompt - and I'm not that savvy with uboot to enter single user mode or otherwise dig in more. So I reinstalled from nothing, upgraded all my packages (including the vendor-rk35xx kernel), …

Was looking at the build repo and noticed there is already support for Orange pi 5 max (add support for orangepi5 max · armbian/build@b38e4b2). Any specific reason there are no "official" community builds, or did I miss it?

I can't get HDMI output in RK3399 board Nano PC T4, what I have tried https://dl.armbian.com/nanopct4/Noble_current_gnome-kisak https://dl.armbian.com/nanopct4/Bookworm_current_minimal the SSH is working I can only get a black screen on HDMI Kernel 5.x (Armbian 22) works

Hello, I have tried the procedure described on this topic (https://forum.armbian.com/topic/15431-helios64-support/page/9/) but it doesn't work for me. armbian is installed on an SSD, I have no micro SD card in my Helios64. Today, i can no longer start armbian :/ This is what the serial console shows me: Spoiler DDR Version 1.24 20191016 In channel 0 CS = 0 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x2 MR5=0x1 MR8=0x10 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 MR24=0x8 MR25=0x0 channel 1 CS = 0 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x2 MR5=0x1 MR8=0x10 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 …

Hi all, For the past few days, I've been trying to SSH into my NanoPi Neo3, but I keep getting the "Incorrect password" error. My set up: Load a supported Armbian image onto a 16GB, class 10 micro SD card using balenaEtcher. https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/nanopineo3/archive/Armbian_21.08.1_Nanopineo3_focal_current_5.10.60.img.xz Connect the NanoPi to my laptop, with a shared internet connection (Please note: It connects just fine. I've tried with a manual and automatic DHCP connection, and in both cases, been able to obtain the IP address). Insert the micro SD card. Plug in the power cord, and wait for th…

I have been trying to run the bookworm minimal image for the Radxa Rock 2F with poor results. Wifi stops working after an "armbian-upgrade" and after apt upgrade. Doing an nmcli -p r results in WIFI-HW missing response. It seems to me that after the upgrade, something is wrong with the aic8800 driver module. Unfortunately I am too ignorant to be of much help, but any suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you.

Hello community, I am running Armbian taken from here on Radxa Rock 4c+. Everything I need seems to be in order (including wifi) but there appears to be no bluetooth device present (it is there using Radxa's images which have old kernels though). I tried to find out what could be the reason and noticed that dtb coming with Radxa has this: wireless-bluetooth { uart0-gpios { rockchip,pins = <0x02 0x13 0x00 0xd0>; phandle = <0xf1>; }; }; in pincntrl section and few other bluetooth/uart related bits while one coming with Armbian does not. I am not sure if this is the root cause and what the easiest way …

I tried for hours last night and I couldn't get a single emulator to work, and most of them simply don't exist for this version of Debian Has anyone had any luck and with what OS

If anyone is interested, I've created a shell script that can be run with cron to check A/C and battery status, and do a graceful shutdown when a battery threshold is met. It also logs power outages, battery drain when off A/C, and when it posts a shutdown (if any). This is a simple script, nothing fancy, but works for me. It has a granularity of one minute (cron is limited to one minute intervals), but I've been able to keep the system up on heavy load for 4-5 minutes before the script generates a shutdown on low battery. The script is generous -- it waits for 916mV or less before a shut-down. This value was provided by the KOBOL team on their Wiki as the…

Hello everyone, I want to use uart4 port for zigbee2mqtt,but I don't know how to activates it.

Hello everyone, I’m starting this message by apologizing for my poor English (I am French) and also by informing you that I am a newbie with Linux. I have a big problem with my NAS Helios64. At first, I thought this problem was caused by OMV. So I went to the OMV forum to explain my situation. I created the following topic: https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread/40252-many-problems-after-an-update/&pageNo=1 . There, a kind moderator (macom) asked me to enter some instructions to try to pinpoint the root of the problem. After giving him some outputs, he told me: "For me it looks like your SD card is dead." My i…

I tried hackning the rock-5A.wip file to allow me to build the collabora version, and it worked quite nicely! The board boots into linux and the ethernet port and usb seem to work! so should i try to send up a pull request to the armbian GitHub to include this change, an if so How should i do this? otherwise someone else with experience is wecome to do it too! / Kenneth

Armbian Jammy Gnome desktop and following those commands to enable 3D acceleration : then the mpv can not play any .avi files , Terminal output “segment error” . but .mp4 files can be played normally . and I tried running mpv using root or sudo to play .avi files , it can played normally . I am very troubled by this issue, please provide assistance.

DDR 2d653b3476 typ 24/01/20-15:04:19,fwver: v1.21 In LP4/4x derate en, other dram:1x trefi ddrconfig:0 LPDDR4X, 324MHz BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB tdqss: cs0 dqs0: -48ps, dqs1: -96ps, dqs2: -96ps, dqs3: -192ps, change to: 324MHz PHY drv:clk:36,ca:36,DQ:29,odt:0 vrefinner:24%, vrefout:41% dram drv:40,odt:0 clk skew:0x64 rx vref: 26.4% tx vref: 36.0% change to: 528MHz PHY drv:clk:36,ca:36,DQ:29,odt:0 vrefinner:24%, vrefout:41% dram drv:40,odt:0 clk skew:0x58 rx vref: 28.4% tx vref: 36.0% change to: 780MHz PHY drv:clk:36,ca:36,DQ:29,odt:60 vrefinner:16%, vrefout:41% dram drv:40,odt:0 clk skew:0x58 rx vref: 16.6% tx vref: 32.0% change to: 1560…

Hi Armbians :) Armbian's discontinued support of the NanoPi Neo3 board, hit me very hard. I have operated multiple of these SBCs with Armbian very stable, in different DCs for a long time. Because of the defunctional kernel under Armbian, I was forced to look around for alternatives and only came across Manjaro, DietPi and Friendlyarm published by FriendlyElec themself. Unfortunately I was not happy with Manjaro and Friendlyarm. Dietpi, on the other hand, seems to be doing quite well till now. And most importantly, it doesn't seem to have the kernel/ reboot problem that affected Armbian. But how can that be if it's based on Armbi…

To continue discussion from Helios64 Support Currently there is no plan to support to disable the power but it's interesting to know such use case. If we implemented this feature, you would need to go u-boot prompt to enable and disable the power. would this acceptable for you? Under Linux device tree, the power rail declared as regulator node with regulator-always-on property. This prevent kernel (and user) to turn off the regulator. Unless we are able to create device node for the SATA port, to act as consumer of the regulator, we can't remove the regulator-always-on property.

Had anyone tested DAS mode performance with Capture One? Or could someone explain to me how it works? Also, would C1 show the DAS mode and NAS mode as seperate volumes or is it smart enough to show up as the same one? Background: Capture One doesn't work well with network drives. Editing images, moving raw files, even saving catalog backups is dramatically slower on a NAS than a DAS or internal drive. It doesn't matter how fast the drive or network is. Its a long standing bug they're always quick to say they aren't prioritizing fixing. I've looked at other NAS's that do a DAS mode by running a 10GBE connection over thunderbolt and that's a great solution in ev…

Hi there, as the Chinese market is missing "in stock" OPi4 (not B), RockPi 4B (for more than a month) I am looking for alternative. Found "Asus Tinker Board 2", same RK3399, 4GB RAM, 4xUSB3 as plus (OPi4 has 2x3.0 + 2x2.0, AFAIK). https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005002304966362.html Is it compatible with Armbian or have I to wait until OPi4 / Rock Pi 4B will be available? (as it is not listed in subforum header). Laurent.

Let's divide it into parts - Bluetooth Bluetooth isn't working. I've tried activating UART7 and GPIO pins 19 and 22, but to no avail. I installed the drivers, but to no avail. Bluetooth isn't communicating! - Audio ES8388 For some unknown reason, the ES8388 has audio disabled by default on the ASA. To fix this, simply go to the terminal and run the command user@user alsamixer Then use the buttons to move around until you find OUT1. Out1 above it says MM (mute), so click M to make it 00 with a green background. Audio problem solved - Language I can't set the language to Portuguese in the Gnom…

Have an OPi 4B with installed Armbian (Armbian_21.05.1_Orangepi4_buster_legacy_4.4.213_xfce_desktop.img from here) which is working perfectly. HUGE thanks for that. So i wanted to try images with mainline kernel and found that none of XFCE desktop images from the archive can correctly output HDMI signal for my screen, maximum i could achive was compressed and flickering image using method from docs (editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-monitor.conf). by default there are no modes in /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/modes in mainline images and in legacy one there are two: 1280x800p60 and 1280x800p57. EDID is there in both images. And if i set resolution via /…

While I like having the helios-ups.timer in case of power failure, I don't like that my logs get three lines written to them every 20 seconds. Apr 09 07:43:26 helios64 systemd[1]: Starting Helios64 UPS Action... Apr 09 07:43:26 helios64 systemd[1]: helios64-ups.service: Succeeded. Apr 09 07:43:26 helios64 systemd[1]: Finished Helios64 UPS Action. Does anyone know if there is a way to keep the timer on but not fill the logs this way? Everything I've found about silencing systemd messages is about the output of the command, not the systemd activity itself.

Hi All, My helios64 died the other day - well failing to boot. It had been solid for quite some time, then I might have made the mistake of updating it.... This is from putty on booting: DDR Version 1.24 20191016 In channel 0 CS = 0 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x1 MR5=0x1 MR8=0x10 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 MR24=0x8 MR25=0x0 channel 1 CS = 0 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x1 MR5=0x1 MR8=0x10 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 MR24=0x8 MR25=0x0 channel 0 training pass! channel 1 training pass! change freq to 416MHz 0,1 Channel 0: LPDDR4,416MHz Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=16 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Siz…

For anyone looking to build an iSCSI target on their new Helios64, I can confirm that it's working correctly under the test builds for Armbian 20.11. Thanks to @aprayoga for his comment on the pull request, the kernels modules related to LinuxIO have been added to all boards in the Armbian project.

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 have Rock Pi4B and printer 3D Sapphire Pro from Two Trees. In the Armbian I want use print server OctoPrint. Instalation OctoPrint was easly and server works but don't connect to my printer. When I use lsusb i see Bus 004 Device 003: ID 1a86:7523 QinHeng Electronics HL-340 USB-Serial adapter. In the list dev/tty* don't shows me mounting port to this device. I try defined udev rules: SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1a86", ATTRS{idProduct}=="7523", SYMLINK+="sapphire" or SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1a86", ATTRS{idProduct}=="7523", ATTRS{devpath}=="1.2", SYMLINK+="sapphire" but without fine result. I'm rookie in linux and armbian and don't h…

Hi there, I have a rockpi 4b running armbian bionic desktop legacy kernel 4.4y on a 128 GB emmc module, I’d like to use this machine as a server. I was just tinkering around with Plex, .bashrc and crontab while all of a sudden the keyboard mapping over RDP changed (e.g. > became ;, ~ became @ etc) (indication of the problem?). I tried to fix this by changing the system keyboard layout and running dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration, this all didnt work. I decided to reboot the machine to see if that would work. After the reboot I could not connect to either RDP or SSH so I decided to connect the machine to a HDMI monitor. This resulted in the following o…

Hi all, built an image for the nanopi m4v2 today using this command line from the build folder ./compile.sh BOARD=nanopim4v2 BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=jammy the build completed successfuly so I flashed it to an sdcard, the problem is is won't boot, I used my newly found skill ( thanks @Werner ) and connected my UART serial TTL cable. The output is rather verbose so apologies up front - does this mean anything to anyone here. The build is the same as I normally do and it's worked fine until today.

Can you guys share your experience with disk sleep on the Helios64 + Armbian. In my case I haven't seen the disks sleep - they are always spinning (or so they seem) and never on standby. I have a standalone /dev/sda and a RAID5 array with disks /dev/sd[b-e] (created with mdadm) - and XFS formatted logical volumes on top of these. 'iotop' says that nothing is accessing the disks: 'hdparm -B /dev/sd[a-z]' after each reboot is always: sudo hdparm -B /dev/sd[a-e] /dev/sda: APM_level = 254 /dev/sdb: APM_level = off /dev/sdc: APM_level = off /dev/sdd: APM_level = off /dev/sde: APM_level = off 'hdparm -C /dev/sd[a-z]' …

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 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?

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

Hello everyone, I somehow managed to brick my OrangePi 4 LTS. I had the Armbian running on it and decided to try the newest install in a minimal format so no desktop. Installed it, made all the setup and restarted. Since then no other image works, neither the official orangepi images nor any other armbian image. I tried booting off without the SD Card, trying to flash another OS with the SD card and read out the TTL and this is what I get: DDR Version 1.25 20210517 In channel 0 CS = 0 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x2 MR5=0x1 MR8=0x10 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 MR24=0x8 MR25=0x0 channel 1 CS = 0 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x2 MR5=0x1 MR8=0x10 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x…

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

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.

Hi, when I used rsync to copy several GB of data from the NMV3 to a USB SSD, the SSHD crashed. [96500.101926] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [96500.102376] kernel BUG at arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:405! [96500.102858] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#2] PREEMPT SMP [96500.103343] Modules linked in: sg uas hci_uart bluetooth cpufreq_userspace zstd zram dw_hdmi_i2s_audio rockchip_rga v4l2_mem2mem videobuf2_dma_sg panfrost fusb302 tcpm videobuf2_memops gpu_sched typec videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common videodev mc brcmfmac brcmutil cfg80211 rfkill rockchipdrm analogix_dp dw_mipi_dsi dw_hdmi ip_tables ipv6 crc_ccitt phy_rockchip_typec phy_rockc…

Hi, I use Helios64 from the begin and this board is very unstable according to my experience and many posts here... After many dialogue here and settings shared about Frequency and Governor Kernel... maybe i find the problem and i ask anyone return of experiences about the procedure and setting belong: - Connect USB Wireless Dongle or USB(-c) Ethernet Plug - Configure it - Disconnect all ethernet cable to the board - Use with last time crash configuration and do a endurance test your helios64 board Have a good day

Helios64 for sale. Works well. With battery. 2.5 lan mod haven't been done. Based in Germany.

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.

Hello, I think this is my first post here. I am trying to operate an Epson L4150 on-board Rock pi4 b multifunction printer. I was successful in running the printer. But the scanner is another story. Xsane does not recognize it. I have been trying to install the driver which is downloaded from the Epson page, but it is for armhf. I tried a dpkg --add-architecture armhf, then update, but when I try to run install.sh from the Epson driver, it throws error: E: Failed to locate package libboost-filesystem1.58.0 Somebody could help me? Thank you