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Hi, I have installed the latest image "Minimal/IOT images with Armbian Linux v6.12" with the mainline Kernel. Many thanks @ColorfulRhino , @amazingfate and many others for their hard work. I have a board with 32GB RAM and 4x NVMe and it is working with HDMI, USB and network. I have installed XFCE on top by my own. Some parts currently not working (what I have seen so far): * second HDMI * HDMI audio * sensor controlled fan speed This seems to be on the roadmap for 2025 for the upstream Kernel. For the fan control I currently use my own overlay and want to share it. /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { /* ou…

Hello, I'm new to Armbian and SoC/ARM devices but I've installed Armbian on the device before, however after tinkering around with RKDevTool and installing FriendlyELEC images on it through USB I'm now unable to boot from SD Card. I've done the "EraseAll" procedure under unbricking method https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/CM3588#Windows_Users however it didn't help. I've tried two SD Cards and I have no idea what else I can do. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find anything useful on google. The error is: "Gave up waiting for root file system device." "ALERT! UUID=602525b7-ed9f-43f7-91b0-1dc4e67b44bf does not exist. Dropping to a shell!" When…

The armbian edge image for the FriendlyElec CM3588-NAS is currently on kernel 6.17 but has no HDMI audio despite it having been added in 6.15 (I think). This is simply because it has not been enabled in the device tree for this board. You can enable it with this user overlay: /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { fragment@0 { target-path = "/hdmi0-sound"; __overlay__ { status = "okay"; }; }; fragment@1 { target-path = "/hdmi1-sound"; __overlay__ { status = "okay"; }; }; };

Can someone tell me the major/minor device numbers for the /dev/rknpu device? It wasn't created in the image that I'm using. I'm trying to determine if the built-in npu has enough functionality to test a llm: # cat /sys/kernel/debug/rknpu/version RKNPU driver: v0.9.8 # I'm running the latest of the linux-image-vendor-rk35xx=25.5.1 v6.1.115 $ uname -a Linux cm3588-nas 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx #1 SMP Wed Aug 13 03:55:09 UTC 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux $ # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu python3 server.py Loaded RKLLM library from '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/librkllmrt.so' RKLLM_LOG_LEVEL: 1 Initializing model with parameters: Pa…

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…

[🌱] artifact [ armbian-desktop :: armbian-desktop() ] [💖] artifact [ present in local cache: armbian-bullseye-desktop-gnome 23.05.0-trunk--1-V5999-B8177 ] [🌱] artifact [ armbian-bsp-desktop :: armbian-bsp-desktop() ] [🌱] Getting ORAS manifest [ ORAS manifest from ghcr.io/armbian/cache-packages/armbian-bsp-desktop-orangepi5-legacy:23.05.0-trunk--1-B0996 ] Error: GET "https://ghcr.io/v2/armbian/cache-packages/armbian-bsp-desktop-orangepi5-legacy/manifests/23.05.0-trunk--1-B0996": GET "https://ghcr.io/token?scope=repository%3Aarmbian%2Fcache-packages%2Farmbian-bsp-desktop-orangepi5-legacy%3Apull&service=ghcr.io": response status code 403: denied: requested access…

Having successfuly built and installed an Armbian image I would like to configure the WiFi connection as part of the process. Currently on first boot I have to connect a network cable to the SBC and run armbian-config to configure the WiFi manually which is a bit of a drag when I'm updating 5 boards. Is this doable ?

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.

I have just put my Helios64 into operation. I have 5 HDD with 10TB each. Three HDD I mounted with ZFS (0.86) to a raidz1. the other two disks I mounted individually, formatting one disk with XFS and the last disk already had NTFS as filesystem. On this disk (NTFS) I have some very large *.vhdx files which I only use for copy tests. I use the console with the Mitnight Commander for this. The copying from the NTFS disk to the XFS disk reached a speed of about 130 MB/s. Copying from the XFS disk to the ZFS raid reached a speed of about 100 - 110 MB/s. I cannot do anything with these values alone. Can someone please tell me if these speeds fi…

I can't get my 5B to recognise the Coral USB Accelerator. lsusb doesn't show anything but does when I attach a USB storage device. I've installed libedgetpu1-std with a validated gpg key but nothing happens - the led on the device doesn't even turn on. Do I need to install a special USB driver or something into the kernel ?

Hi all, I have a nanopi m4 with following installation - Armbian_22.05.4_Nanopim4v2_jammy_current_5.15.48_xfce_desktop. I am looking for someone who has retroarch installed on armbian and fully working, and what the key steps are. Im asking because: 1) I tried installing by command line, which installs retroarch to a location with no cores. An issue with rk3399 cores is that there are none to download and must be built seperately (Is there a way to update a file so that cores can be downloaded through the application?) 2) In an attempt to build retroarch + cores, i downloaded and built libretro, which took probab…

Hi there, I love my Helios64 to death. I'm running MooseFS CE and MooseFS PRO. The problem is I'm absolutely hammering it with I/O and it's consistently hard crashing, and no fix I've tried helps. Should I revert to the older kernel version or something? Or is this a useful test case...

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?

Hello Everyone I have added Armbian for the Heltec HT-M2808 Helium Miner https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6989#event-13647037453 https://heltec.org/project/ht-m2808/ To Compile ./compile.sh build BOARD=rk3328-heltec BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes KERNEL_GIT=shallow RELEASE=bookworm You can obviously decide to go with a desktop environment (board has no HDMI) or use a different release. How to Flash 1) Install Rockchip Flash Tools 2) Download bootloader (rk3328_loader_ddr333_v1.16.250.bin) attached here. 3) Boot device into LOADER mode. Plug USB Cable in to back …

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

Hey, Was able to bring up a pretty smooth armbian installation for a lightweight desktop. Tips for others: Underclock Memory for stability cat /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh echo 1560000000 > /sys/devices/platform/dmc/devfreq/dmc/max_freq For bluetooth blacklist the following modules: blacklist pgdrv blacklist btusb blacklist btrtl blacklist btbcm blacklist btintel NVME boot, use armbian-installer, but I had to manually change the firmware to this one: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/install/spi#Simple_method to get NVME boot to work For GPU acceleration install panfrost. (See rock5b ambian page) To get my wid…

Hi Guys, I just did a new custom Armbian build ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5-plus BRANCH=vendor RELEASE=noble KERNEL_ONLY=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no. The image is Armbian-unofficial_25.11.0-trunk_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_cinnamon_desktop and when I installed it on orangepi I see it is not supporting Panfrost/Mail: glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL renderer|OpenGL version" OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.2, 128 bits) OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 but for older image Old_Armbian-unofficial_25.08.0-trunk_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_cinnamon_desktop All was well glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL rend…

Hi Gents, I would like to ask for your help or tips and tricks in the following problem... Basically to keep the long story short, I have a custom board with RK3566 and 2 GB of RAM, 32 GB Samsung emmc on it ... basically if you are familliar it is a Linxdot Helium miner which has some problems with the onboard Lora module. I had tried to flash using RKDevTool a few Debian version that I found for Rk3566 but not all of them worked properly. All the time I was able to reflash it by using RKDevTool by pressing the button while I powered up the board but after flashing the Armbian minnimal for Orange Pi3B I can't use the RKDevTool anymore, it is simply n…

Hello guys, does anyone activated CVBS output on Rock64 board? After a short look into datasheet Rock64 should support 480i and 576i. Many thanks.

Hello I just installed armbian (Gnome) on my NVME and all seems to work great (without SD card). So, the first issue I have is the resolution of the screen. I add 2560x1440 (1920x1080 was the maximum before) but the test in this mode not working. I think the cause is than I copy/paste the mode from a post on internet. In fact, cvt is not installed and impossible to calculate mysel the vesa CVT modline. How can I install CVT ? bash: cvt: command not found Thanks a lot Anakin

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

Howdy, Just wanted folks to know that debian bullseye is generally getting what I need done. Specially Welcome to Armbian 22.11.1 Bullseye with Linux 5.10.72-rockchip-rk3588 is working. It is working headless just fine. Now what is not working for me. The HDMI is not showing up at all. Between my KVM and ultra wide monitor it may not be an OS issue. SD-card boot is the way I am going. Manual partitioning of the NVME was needed to install. It felt like I needed to reboot a few times to get the NVME to boot. Overall it was a better experience than the experience on the Firefly station P2 competing with Station OS. Thanks…

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

By pure accident, I discovered that Ctrl-Alt-F1 while the P2 is booting brings up more options on mine that allows the deletion of firmware and clearing of emmc. I have not done it but the menus are there.

I installed the new image Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.12 (Build Date: Mar 6, 2025) on the Orange Pi 5 Max. It can boot up (button light is red and there is feedback in keyboard), but no output on hdmi. As nothing can be seen on screen, cannot proceed anymore. I would like someone try this build and see if they can success. Thank you.

I am starting Rock64 again after a long layoff. I'm a bit rusty, please forgive any forgetfulness. I tried downloading the Rock64 desktop image, but it was 404. I downloaded Armbian_19.11.6_Rock64_bionic_legacy_4.4.207_desktop.7z Unzipped it, and used etcher to write it to the micro-SD card. Booted up, but didn't get to a graphical desktop. Created a new user OK. I did # apt update, # apt upgrade, # reboot now. Still no graphical desktop. I did # apt install lxde lxdm. (this used to work OK). As expected, the installer asked if i wanted to use lxdm as the display manager. Yes. $ sudo armbian-config Updated the t…

Has anyone been able to install a remote desktop on the R2S? If so I would be very interested in how that was achieved?

As you can see the WAN-port/NIC registers fine with a label from the nanopi-r6c device tree $ grep fe1c0000 /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3588s-nanopi-r6c.dtb grep: /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3588s-nanopi-r6c.dtb: binary file matches dmesg: dmesg | grep fe1c0000 [ 7.287277] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: init for RGMII_RXID [ 7.287373] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: User ID: 0x30, Synopsys ID: 0x51 [ 7.287377] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: DWMAC4/5 [ 7.287381] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: DMA HW capability register supported [ 7.287385] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: RX Checksum Offload Engine supported [ 7.287388] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1…

I was cleaning storage room of customer and found this device in sealed box. Owner of the box say it was rarely used and i can keep it. Only thing broken was the battery. I replaced it temporarily with unused smartphone one. The device boots and is almost new condition. SoC RK3066 = (ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-Core @ 1.6Ghz + ARM Mali400MP4) RAM 1GB = (Four Chips on image are Hynix [H5TQ2G83CFR-H9C] -2gb) Storage 16GB = (Toshiba TH58TEG7DCJTA20 - Nand Flash MLC 16GB) Uart RX/TX pads on board I make this topic as i want to ask more experienced people here if this SoC can run "some" version of Armbian. Thank you in advance

I have a Dev term a06 and have been having problems with the newer releases based on kernel 6.x. After booting one of these, the display does not have backlight or any text/image displayed. On the last 5.x it boots and works fine. I have not yet tried the HDMI output on the 6.x versions, need to get an adapter, but I'm guessing that the built in display is not discovered. The Dev term does not normally have a serial port, I'd need to solder up an adapter, or I would have looked at it to see if anything was happening. Any suggestions for a very basic Linux user to try? Especially something I can maybe edit after flashing (before first boot). I should be able t…

OS: Armbian_22.11.0 (5.15.71) for RockPi-4C HW: RockPi-4C I would like shared my eth0 connection via integrated wlan0 adapter. I have do all steps stated here: https://linuxhint.com/create-wifi-hotspot-linux-mint/ but when I try to connect my notebook to the hotspot wlan, notebook does not get proper IP address and so a internet sharing does not work . Any ideas to solve this problem?

Hi everyone! I bought a while a go few Rock Pi 4's for as a testing purpose and today while doing some laaarge malloc's it failed in really interesting manner; run out of memory. I did some stumbling with the code and did not find any bugs, so i looked for htop and was a very much suprised to see that my 2GB model has only 1GB total, /proc/meminfo reports same! Is this somekind of arm-specific thing that i do not just know? Memory chips (there is two of them) on the board is: NCLD4C1MA256M32 https://dl.vamrs.com/products/rock960/docs/hw/datasheets/FORESEE_LPDDR4_200ball_NCLD4CXMAXXXM32_10x14.5_VFBGA_Spec_B1_20170802.pdf 256Mb…

It seems like the Radxa Rock5B has been downgraded from standard support to community support for the image downloads but not (yet) for the forum. Are the vendor images for the RK3588 and the 6.8.x images the same except for the kernel? (Can I expect to just replace the kernel to switch from the vendor image to the edge image.)

Could anyone point me in a good direction if I wanted to start learning how to get the Rock 5B HDMI driver running for the 6.x kernel? I'm looking for where it's located in the Linux file structure, but also documents and possible support files / repositories from Rockchip. /Kenneth

Hello team Hoping I can get some advice here We have a custom device running rockchip3588 It boot up into android 12 This device has no SD card option We installed RKdevtool on a laptop connected to the back of the device via usb C installed Ubuntu 20.04 desktop using firefly by partitioning the free space We simply dragged and dropped the image over to the space using firefly However it failed with no free space to even run a standard update We are trying to wipe it out and install Ambian directly onto it removing android We should then have enough space not having to boot up with android Does anyone have a…

Good morning gentlemen, I have just discovered that one of the cores on my RockPi4B is faulty and often causes segfaults and crashes, I can disable the suspect core by issuing the following command $ sudo echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online However, this is fine if the machine has booted, but i want to disable the faulty core as early on in the boot process as possible. Is it possible to disable the core in the uboot environment, or could someone offer me some advice as to the best time to disable the core? Thanks, Leon.

Hello I want to disable console on /dev/ttyS2 on a Radxa ROCK 4C+ running rock@rockpi-4cplus:/boot$ cat /etc/os-release | grep -v URL PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 25.5.0-trunk.40 noble" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION_ID="24.04" VERSION="24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)" VERSION_CODENAME=noble ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble LOGO="armbian-logo" ARMBIAN_PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 25.5.0-trunk.40 noble" There are posts and other information out there. For instance: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/#how-to-toggle-boot-output which leads to http://redsymbol.net/linux-kernel-boot-parameters/ rock@rockpi-4cplus:/boot$ grep console armbianEnv.txt cons…

Happy new year everyone, So I really do not like the stub-resolver in Debian/Armbian , and I do not like forwarding any DNS request to any 3rd party in general. After some searching I found this: https://www.turek.dev/posts/disable-systemd-resolved-cleanly/ . Since we are on Armbian we need also remove the 00-armbian-default-dns.conf which points to cloudflare's 1.0.0.1 . 1. We probably do not need this, but just in case someone does not have it. sudo mkdir -p /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/ 2. We set the DNS Stub Listener to no and remove the comment from the line if applicable: sudo sed -i '/DNSStubListener=/s/^#//;s/=.*/=no/' /etc/…

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 installed Armbian Jammy on Mekotronics R58, but at startup the system does not use all the space available on my emmc (64go). How is it possible ? How to correct this? Command: df /dev/mmcblk0p1 306580 142884 163696 47% /boot /dev/mmcblk0p2 15016152 13122848 1714556 89% / Thank you

Hi there ... Not sure if anyone has an idea here, but I have the following topic: I have a helios64, equipped with 3 2.5" disk drives, running Debian 10 with Kernel 5.10.43. Usually the system runs stable ... even for days (24/7). But every now and then the disks "fail" - which means, during normal operation suddenly the disk turn of, linux reports "sata link down" ... and the disks are off. As if they were removed. If I reboot I usually here only some "klicks" ... I assume the disks try to spin up, but fail due to not enough power (?). To recover from that situation, I usually disconnect power (incl. the internal UPS) ... try a few times, and …

In both Buster and Focal 20.11.1 on helios64 commands directed to a disk increment fields in /proc/diskstats This is incorrect and does not occur in the x86 version of xubuntu Focal. Specifically (see https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/iostats.txt for field descriptions.): Check Power Mode increments "number of reads completed" Smart Return Status, Smart Read Data, and Smart Read Log increment "number of reads completed" and "number of sectors read" The smartd disk monitor uses these commands which makes the disk appear to be active to programs like hd-idle. I hope this is the correct place to report this bug. …

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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 checked for any available updates yesterday, and this (linux-u-boot-helios64-current 21.08.1) was applied. Can't find what was new or if it was only a version bump. By the way, nothing broke after the update.

Like many others, I get constant reboots with my Helios. I'm not sure it's worth me posting logs as a number of people already seem to be doing that. My question is, does anyone have a stable system? If so what OS and kernel are you using? I don't care about latest and greatest features, I just want it to stop hard rebooting.

Hello, i have trouble with my Helios64 (possibly bricked), so I am interested to by a new one. And if i can fix mine, the second one could allow me to participate to armbian support for it. Anyone have one for sale ? Preferably in Europe. Thank you.

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 want to directly create an armbian root file system called rootfs.img and then adapt it to the RK kernel configuration to run compilation scripts/ Build.sh updateimg directly generates image burning I don't know if this method is feasible

my rock64 sometimes hangs with unknow reason. Enabling/testing watchdog did not help. Does hardware watchdog is working at all ? some outputs: # dmesg | grep -i watchd [ 0.838922] dw_wdt ff1a0000.watchdog: No valid TOPs array specified [ 0.928770] rk_gmac-dwmac ff540000.ethernet: Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer [ 3.920201] systemd[1]: Using hardware watchdog 'Synopsys DesignWare Watchdog', version 0, device /dev/watchdog0 [ 3.921218] systemd[1]: Watchdog running with a hardware timeout of 28s. # wdctl Device: /dev/watchdog0 Identity: Synopsys DesignWare Watchdog [version 0] Timeout: 28 seconds Timeleft: 18 seconds Pre…

I saw the official document of NEO4 that FriendlyDesktop had full hardware acceleration support, including video decoder, opengl, built-in Chromium browser, etc. So does this ARMBIAN NEO4 have the same complete hardware acceleration support?

Hey guys, I figured it was time to ask again... Does doing an `apt full-upgrade` from Buster to Bullseye break anything like before a year ago? I kind of want to do it, but not if the eMMC issues are still around. I really prefer not using the slower SD card method. And i also want to ask about stability for people that still use a Kobol with Armbian on Bullseye. Any pertinent issues with anything? A few people on here have claimed that they have gotten the vanilla Debian kernel to run on the Helios64, but I'm not sure how... Sure would be great if the vanilla Debian distro worked on this board, but I doubt that'll ever happen... I love…

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

Hello, good morning from Spain. My sincere congratulations to the Kobol and Helios64 team. A really good and well designed product. I have a question about the compatibility of a hard drive with the Helios64 NAS. My hard drive is ---> https://www.senetic.es/product/0F38459 <--- ( Wd Ultrastar 18TB) With a capacity of 18TB, my question is: Is that hard drive (18TB) compatible with the Nas Helios64? I think that in the Nas Helios64 technical description, it only accepts a maximum capacity of 16 Tb hard drives Thank you very much for the information and help.

I am downloading three different builds from 6.12 for orange pi 5. I have an orange pi 5 pro but since there is not dtb entry in 6.12 for that sbc in the Armbian 25.8.1 6.12.28 dtb file I used the orange pi 5b.dtb entry which works with the Armbian 25.8.1 6.1.115 images. The result is that the initramfs cant find a root disk - and when checking for drives in initramfs - there are none ls /dev/disks/by-uuid. So the initramfs file isn't running correctly as its not finding drives. I went back and loaded Armbian_24.8.1_Rock-5c-trixid_current_6.12.42_minimal.image and that boots up to root login. However if I change the card type to orangepi-5b. I cann…

Hello I need to change a drive in the Helios64, and so I bought a new WD 2TB drive. Using a WD My Book 111D USB enclosure, I have partitioned, formatted and copied the data from the old drive. But when I change the drives to put the new one in the Helios64, the drive appears unformatted. See below. I can't understand what's happening, when I plug it back through USB everything is back to normal. Does the partitioning through USB differ somehow??? It appears as if the partition table "stays in the USB enclosure", which doesn't make sense for me. Is there something to try? Do I have to start again the process in the NAS enclosure? I…

Hello, ARMBIAN Ubuntu image looks not driving drive FAN_CTL_H pin ( GPIO3_D1) that control GND of fan connector, even if lm-senors report FAN PWM to with changin PWM value PWM9_M2 ( GPIO3_D1) alternate function is not visible into kernel overlays. Any hints ? Regards

Hi just a quick question What package is dt-bindings normally located in, i would assume kernel headers but i tried installation via armbian-config and couldn't see them. Can anyone confirm what package it normally is in or was i blind thanks. Was just working on adding support Waveshare Dual RS232 on SPI2, uploaded DTS to https://github.com/radxa/overlays/blob/main/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/overlays/rk3399-spi2-sc16is752.dts Atm i hardcoded the defines on machine but not ideal if it changes in the future Thanks

I have a nanopi neo3 rk3328. I would like to modify the i2s(1) at start. I tried to modify /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3328-nanopi-neo3-rev02.dtb but nothing change. Which is the right dtb file its load at start? Thank you.

Hello, I have installed the "Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.124_Tinkerboard-2_bookworm_current_6.6.63_minimal.img.xz" image on my tinkerboard-2 to develop a library for one wire devices. There is a problem with the usage of armbian-config on activating overlays. The entry in armbianEnv.txt includes the prefix in the overlay name. This can be workarounded manually, e.g. for w1-gpio the correct entry needs to be: overlays=rk3399-w1-gpio2 If anyone can point me to the source code I maybe can provide a PR to fix it. Another problem is the content of the overlay of this w1-gpio. After activating the dmesg give an error (the first w…

Hello. I am trying to have the 1-wire working on Rockpi4B+ on pin GPIO4_D6 (= number 158). I have this /boot/armbianEnv.txt: verbosity=1 bootlogo=true overlay_prefix=rockchip fdtfile=rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4b.dtb rootdev=UUID=aa1f4e9a-bad9-4760-87c5-511247ef7227 rootfstype=ext4 overlays=w1-gpio param_w1_pin=GPIO4_D6 param_w1_pin_int_pullup=1 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u but when I check on my board: sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio GPIOs 0-31, platform/pinctrl, gpio0: gpio-4 ( |bt_default_wake_host) in lo gpio-9 ( |bt_default_reset ) out hi gpio-10 ( |reset …

Has anyone been able to get both of the HDMI output to work with newer kernels than 6.1.115? I have my TV connected to the second output and it works with the vendor kernel but not with 6.18.x. There's no output at all.

Dear all My nanopi M4 V2 does not start My configuration is a sd card for booting + a NVME for the system. I have installed a lot of applications : OMV Docker with portainer history : I would change version from nightlight to stable with a bug during the pre-configuration of OMV. I need to perform a CTRL + C to stop this frozen action. After that I reboot my device with the same issue from post 1 Could you please help me to recover my device ? I would like tried to comeback to the previous version But I do not find the process. Tha…

Got this error this morning doing apt upgrade! Not sure what the issue is, there seems to be plenty of space. _ _ ____ _ __ __ _ ___ ______ | \ | | _ \(_) | \/ | || \ \ / /___ \ | \| | |_) | | | |\/| | || |\ \ / / __) | | |\ | __/| | | | | |__ _\ V / / __/ |_| \_|_| |_| |_| |_| |_| \_/ |_____| Welcome to Armbian 21.08.5 Focal with Linux 5.10.63-rockchip64 Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: armbian-bsp-cli-nanopim4v2 armbian-config armbian-firmware linux-libc-dev 4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 9,657 k…

Hey there, so I was curious is there an easier way to make microSD take precedence in the boot order then having to futz with jumpers? Wanting to try out a new distro on microSD before deciding to make the switch and flash it to eMMC. If I do futz with jumpers I'll still be able to mount and write to the eMMC correct?

Hi, I'm testing the latest Armbian 23.08 Bookworm on a Rock3A board. I have installed the Armbian base system on both SD-CARD and eMMC. For my application I need to use an Intel WiFi M.2 board, precisely an Intel AX210 NGW with both Bluetooth and WiFi enabled at the same time. Currently I have found this situation: boot from the SD-CARD (eMMC removed from its socket) Intel AX210 M2 card plugged-in the OS boots corectly installed the firmware-iwlwifi package and bluetooth+wifi works without problems boot from the eMMC memory (SD-CARD removed from its socket) Intel AX210 M2 card plugged-…

My Helios has been running well for the most part stable for the past few weeks however last night i noticed when looking at my file systems in omv that my 14 GiB eMMC drive which houses my ambian install is at 13.13GiB and looks to be growing. Normally this sits around the 5 GiB. I have checked my docker install for anything suspicious but my plex docker is only taking up about 400mb. looking at my system logs i am getting a repeated this error which is new and might be related however i am not really sure what program is casing it. Jun 10 17:32:27 localhost rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.1901.0" x-pid="1322" x-info="https://www.r…

I haven't been able to find any specs on the eMMC module in the helios64. I've found some posts online indicating that it is a samsung KLMAG1JETD-B041, but I haven't been able to find any info on the write endurance of this module (not sure if it is standard for eMMC vendors to provide that information like SSD vendors). I have been able to run `mmc extcsd read /dev/mmcblk1`, which shows that the emmc life time estimation is between 0 and 10%, but since this value is in 10% increments, its not very helpful. I've had issues with the default ramlog-based /var/log, so I had to turn it off. I've increased the size to 250MB but it regularly fills up b…

Hi, I got write errors on the eMMC, and the filesystem becomes read-only. Dmesg shows that: [ 304.982737] mmc2: running CQE recovery [ 304.987677] mmc2: running CQE recovery [ 304.989762] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk2, sector 26826008 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x4000 phys_seg 127 prio class 0 [ 304.989791] EXT4-fs warning (device mmcblk2p1): ext4_end_bio:345: I/O error 10 writing to inode 789645 starting block 3353569) [ 305.021383] mmc2: running CQE recovery [ 305.026213] mmc2: running CQE recovery [ 305.030808] mmc2: running CQE recovery [ 305.032702] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk2, sector 26265544 op 0x1:(WRITE) fl…

Hi, Ever since updating to kernel version 5.10.60 (#21.08.1), I have been getting these weird kernel error messages. Such error messages pop up constantly when doing certain operations, like: mmc2: running CQE recovery And also some of these: EXT4-fs warning (device mmcblk2p1): ext4_end_bio:349: I/O error 10 writing to inode 256 starting block 968704) As well as these: kernel: print_req_error: 47 callbacks suppressed kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk2, sector 7716864 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x4000 phys_seg 8 prio class 0 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk2p1, logical block 954373 A…

The mainline 5.11 patch "phy: rockchip: set pulldown for strobe line in dts" https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8b5c2b45b8f0a11c9072da0f7baf9ee986d3151e (not backported to 5.10.y) seems to have broken most if not all rockchip board EMMC HS400 enhanced strobe support. This probably affects supported rockchip boards (at least rk3399 ones, but probably most). That is boards exhibit: [ 18.985162] mmc1: running CQE recovery [ 18.988056] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 18.988500] mmc1: cqhci: spurious TCN for tag 12 and the filesystem ends up corrupted on write attempt. Note that another bug about regulator core DEFER…

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

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…

Dear maintainers, thank you very much for your fantastic job! I di know how difficult to support different Chinese dev. motherboards. But I would like to ask you for a help: I use TinkerBoard S Rel.2.0 with latest armbian available for the board. It works perfect with HDMI 7inch screen from BigTreeTech company (BTT). However, I would like to use it with BTT 4.3inch DSI Display, which is developed for Raspberry Pi. BTT provided a 43DPI driver guidance for Raspbian which is here: bigtreetech/TFT43-DIP: DPI Driver, but it might work for kernel > 4.5 or 5.x. Moreover, in your distro there is no config.txt but there is the armbianEnv.txt. So, it is obvious,…

Hello everyone, I'm running the image from NanoPi R2S on a NanoPi R2C Plus (that has 8 GB eMMC). Is well working, but I would like to install the OS on the eMMC. Is it possible? Thanks.

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

Hi everyone, i am using NanoPi R6C which is + integrated with a Rockchip RK3588S + running Armbian_23.2.7_Nanopi-r6s_jammy_legacy_5.10.110 image I need to use 3 UARTs (UART1, UART4, UART5) on this board but don't know how to do, can anyone give me some guides please, i have tried armbian-config but in "Hardware" there is no NanoPi R6C option

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

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

I'm trying to enable i2c3 on my orange pi 5b, according to the user manual, i2c is disabled on the 26 header pins by default, and to enable them, you need to edit the /boot/orangepiEnv.txt file, however, my orange pi doesn't have that file. I tried creating a new file and copying the required instructions, then restarted linux, but it still didn't work. Has anyone encountered a similar issue or does anyone know how to resolve this?

I have installed Armbian 21.02 Ubuntu 20.04 Focal with Linux kernel 5.10.16 and OpenZFS 2.0.1-1 on my Helios64. Created a three-disk encrypted RAIDZ pool with the following command: sudo zpool create -f -o ashift=12 -O compression=lz4 -O atime=off -O acltype=posixacl -O xattr=sa -O encryption=aes-256-gcm -O keylocation=prompt -O keyformat=passphrase tank raidz1 /dev/disk/by-id/foobar1 /dev/disk/by-id/foobar2 /dev/disk/by-id/foobar3 Then I did a single sequential read benchmark with fio on /tank: cd /tank sudo fio --name=single-sequential-read --ioengine=posixaio --rw=read --bs=1m --size=16g --numjobs=1 --iodepth=1 --runtime=60 --time_based …

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…

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

I am trying to update my Banana Pi M64: missinglink% cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=bananapim64 BOARD_NAME="Banana Pi M64" BOARDFAMILY=sun50iw1 BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=869a89d6-dirty DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=focal DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported VERSION=20.05.4 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi64 BRANCH=current ARCH=arm64 IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm64 KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image but when I run this command: missinglink% sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y I get these errors: W: An error occurred durin…

Hello, I have an ARMBIAN image 08.21.6 kernel 5.10.16 it works very well on rockpi 4B + rev 1.6 I tested the last Kernel but without more success. when we fix the ip address and we up (several times) the eth0 network this one puts to work at a time. Do you have an idea ? Regards.

After upgrade to Armbian 20.11.3 Buster with Linux 5.9.14-rockchip64 eth1 has vanished. ❯ sudo ip link show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 64:62:66:d0:06:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Any ideas? http://ix.io/2I2U

I ran the 5.8/5.9 kernel for weeks without any issues (no RAM unstability, no crash, no ethernet issue). Now I reinstalled the thing and came back to a 4.4 kernel to have USB-C support. The thing is… Once every hours, the 1GBps Ethernet disconnects. Once connected through serial port, I can check the port status and it's shown as `Unknown`. I can `ip link set down eth0; ip link set up eth0` to set it back up. Am I the only one with this issue ? Is it well known on 4.4 and solved on 5.9 ?

I’m using an Orange Pi 3B running Armbian Trixie Minimal as a headless SBC. It has been working fine for a couple of months, but after a recent reboot, it failed to connect to the network. After connecting an HDMI cable to troubleshoot, I realized the system is no longer auto logging in; it gets stuck at the login screen. Once I log in manually, I found that the wired network (Ethernet) isn't working at all, though wireless is functioning fine. I even tried flashing the latest image from the website, but the issues persist. To summarize, I have two main problems: - Wired connection (Ethernet) is not working. - The system no longer auto-logs in after bo…

I have a Rock64, purchased in 2019, that has been running happily for 4 years. I was recently experimenting with hooking it up to a relay board and now I am unable to connect to the internet. I am unsure whether something is fried on the board itself or if this is a software problem I can fix, and unsure how to figure that out. Details I have learned more about relay boards now, so I'll do a few things differently and more carefully next attempt, but I had the 5v pin powering the relay board and the 3v pin, GPIO3_A4, and GPIO3_A5 connected to the control side to control two of the board's relays. When connected the Rock's power leds were still on, but eit…

Edit: This is a duplicate already reported and a pull request in place. mods please delete The solution is to revert a patch related to power management. Symptoms are that ethernet link comes up, but no ip, dhcp, cannot assign ip address. the following patch resolves the issue on my system. I did not raise this in bug tracker since its not allowed to put things in there that are not supported. Unsure what else to do with info, hopefully it will help someone else. From ad63cb5d37f9634fc097249ddda4240c10f041d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Johansen <strit@manjaro.org> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 16:26:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "net: stmmac…

Hi. Every few days I've been noticing that my monitor just goes blank. The machine keeps running but nothing I do will restore the display. Even if I try to visit another virtual terminal, nothing, still blank. I can ssh to the machine but no command will allow me to restore the display. The only way I get the display back is to reboot the machine. This can't be normal. I'd love it for someone to help get to the heart of this problem. Thank you.

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

qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu host -enable-kvm ... only works reliably when 1 CPU core ( -smp 1). When a VM has 2 cores, it randomly worked I experienced. If virt-manager pick 2 equal cores, VM UEFI/BIOS/kernel runs OK, but if a Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55, all sorts of exceptions are shown or just lockup 2x or 1x 100% usage. In order to still be able to use KVM, start qemu-system-aarch64 as follows: taskset --cpu-list 4-7 qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu host -enable-kvm -smp 4 ... or taskset --cpu-list 0-3 qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu host -enable-kvm -smp 4 ... Mainline kernel 6.8.x or later does not have this problem. I…

Hey guys. I have helios64 with 5x WD14tb red pro.... and ZFS fs. but currently im out of free space I want to extend somehow my storage pool. I'm wonder if it's possible to buy additional storage enclosure like from QNAP ( TL-D800C) - JBOD 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 type C and put additional 8x HDD I wanted to create additional ZFS pool raidz1 Do You think it will work?

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

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…

Hey there, I'm running Armbian 23.8.1 Bookworm with Linux 5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx on a Rock 5B and am trying to get zfs via dkms to work, but it won't compile. ... configure: error: *** None of the expected "file_fallocate" interfaces were detected. *** This may be because your kernel version is newer than what is *** supported, or you are using a patched custom kernel with *** incompatible modifications. *** *** ZFS Version: zfs-2.1.11-1 *** Compatible Kernels: 3.10 - 6.2 Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx (aarch64) I'm attaching the full build log,…

Hello, i did an update of the system (apt dist-upgrade), and after the system doesn't start anymore. I use internal MMC, so I tryed to use last Armbian buster (Armbian_21.02.3_Helios64_buster_current_5.10.21.img) from sd card and it works. I mounted the MMC, fsck and finally chrooted into it and did an apt update and dist-upgrade, I atach the console log, the system hangs on Starting Kernel. helios64_20210514.txt

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…