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

I need to turn off the pwr_led light under the armbian system, thank!

Hello all, I get the message "qemu kvm_arm_vcpu_init failed: Invalid argument" which I refer to the source file code "https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=cpus.c;hb=refs/ heads / stable-2.11 # l1122" and "https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c " Row 444. I don't know which vCPU feature is expected ... #cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 BogoMIPS : 48.00 Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 8 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xd03 CPU revision : 4 .... is it currently or later even p…

Hi everybody, I running Helios64 with kernel 6.12.58 since a long time and the prahal dtb file rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb-6.12.xx-L2-hs400-opp and my helios64 work well. Today, Armbian upgrade to 6.18.10 kernel. Is this update use the same change or patch like in rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb-6.12.xx-L2-hs400-opp ? Is rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb-6.12.xx-L2-hs400-opp work with 6..18.10 kernel ? Is I must to downgrade to 6.12.58 kernel with rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb-6.12.xx-L2-hs400-opp and freeze at this kernel version ? Thanks for answer.

Hi all, currently i'm working on upcoming Helios64 board. For RK3399 board there are 2 families, what are the differences between them? I've been following discussion on github and this forum for few months but still unsure which family i should use.

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

Hello, i am pretty new to arm embedded. I have a Rock64 V3.0 2019-0626 So I downloaded Armbian 22.08 Jammy XFCE from https://www.armbian.com/rock64/ and copied it on a 265GB SanDisk Extreme microsd XC 1 V30 A2 using Balena Etcher. Boot process did work, but startxfc4 did not work. The system just went on a blackscreen, but i could still switch to another terminal with alt+f1 ... Best regards, Bo

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…

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?

My Radxa Rock 4SE does not boot since community-build 25.8.0-trunk.228. Current local builds based on the "main" branch are also affected. The bootloader log gives the following error: Checking hash(es) for config config-1 ... OK Checking hash(es) for Image atf-1 ... sha256+ OK Checking hash(es) for Image u-boot ... sha256+ OK Checking hash(es) for Image fdt-1 ... sha256+ OK Checking hash(es) for Image atf-2 ... sha256+ OK Checking hash(es) for Image atf-3 ... sha256+ OK ERROR: not expected type found -4001165690437497392 This source suggests, that it might be a problem with the ATF. However, my knowledge about details of the boot process are…

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

Hi all, I'd just like to share a problem I experienced and what solved after a bit of Googling. Basically, I have Nextcloud installed on my Nanopi M4 (v1) with Armbian: $ uname -a Linux nanopim4 4.4.192-rk3399 When I sync files from my Android phone via local wifi, often the transfers were just failed. Not always but usually, it's when a directory contains lot of large files. After a bit of Googling and came across this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/494290/nanopi-m4-rk3399-apache2-ssl-large-download-hangs/495378#495378 It works. The problem's solved after: ethtool -K eth0 rx off tx off and put the com…

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

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

I've found a problem with Armbian on the NanoPi Neo 4 with USB 3.0. I have a RAID6 via four USB 3.0 external hard disks (I know, not optimum but it's been working fine for years off an older ARM box using USB 2.0). While the RAID works fine on the USB 2.0 port (established this was true afterward), when connected to the USB 3.0 port, the USB 3.0 hub I'm using disconnects after only a few seconds, disconnecting all the drives (of course). I initially used an unpowered USB 3.0 hub (I forget the manufacturer; I can check). I figured at first, this might be a power issue (even though the external drives are all self-powered). I found a 10-port power…

On my NanoPi-R6C I have been doing several U-boot updates (writes with dd to areas in 1st 32k) and so far so good. But behavior has changed w.r.t. eMMC v.s. SD-card. I want to do some U-boot build config changes, so the risk it that something might go wrong and I would need USB MASKROM mode to do writes to eMMC I think. The NanoPi-R6C wiki is not very clear with 'connect USB', but it turn out that this should be a connection via type-A to type-A and it does not work in the USB2 port. I have a USB2-only type-A to type-A cable and used that. The NanoPi-R6C appears in the USB device list ('lsusb') and also the tool is seeing the device: /tmp/up…

I wanted to upgrade from the previous release to the current one. apt update & apt upgrade and reboot worked fine but I noticed it was still on the 5.10 kernel so I used the config utility to switch to 6.7 and now I can't get a display output on HDMI 1 or 2 and its not getting an IP address either. I'm booting from M.2 NVME. Is there any way to fix my setup?

Hello, Armbian 25.8.1 on Helios64 BookWorm with Linux 6.12.42-current-rockchip64. I have my system booting from SD with OMV7 installed and several docker containers running. Everything is OK. Now I want to boot from emmc. Used armbian-install selecting option boot from emmc - system on emmc. Formatting and copying goes Ok, but when I reboot from emmc (extracting th SD card), OMV7 presents the web frontend, but can't log in. journalctl reports errors accessing the drives, and looking on /etc/fstab, there's only the / partition mounted. Inserting and mounting the SD card in /mnt/sdcard I can see that in /mnt/sdcard/etc/fstab there's…

Yesterday I flashed a new sd card (more space) for my rockpi-4b but after switching to the stable channel `armbian-config --cmd STABLE` the update keeps failing: $ sudo apt update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Hit:2 http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB] Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease Hit:5 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Get:6 http://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/apt trixie InRelease [39.4 kB] Get:7 http://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/apt trixie/trixie-utils arm64 …

I can't access the download links on the Armbian website; they appear blank and no downloads are available. Please help.

Hi all, I have found a weird condition. I have a home built image running off sd card with no probs. my EMMC has friendly distro on it. I ran nand-sata-install to install armbian to EMMC. then I ran growpart and resize2fs against the EMMC and rebooted. afterwards, host failed to boot from emmc. so I thought "no probs, boot of sd". But SD failed to boot also. I tried same SD card in 1st gen nanopim4. boot happened fine. retried boot in nanopim4v2 and failed to boot. re-wrote arbian image and still failed to boot from SD. wrote friendly image to sd card and boot happened fine. ran dd against emmc and re-wr…

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

Hi Team, I hope you're all keeping well. I'm into my first foray into armbian, and I'm having trouble just getting it to boot on my Nanopi R6S. Feeling a bit thick, like I'm missing something obvious. I can get FriendlyELEC's rk3588-sd-debian-bookworm-core-6.1-arm64-20240511 to boot without any trouble, but not armbian images. My procedure: Format microSD card with the SD Card Formatter from the SD Association Burn image to SD card with balena etcher Eject microSD reader from my PC Pop microSD into the device and apply power When it boots into the FriendlyELEC image: the SYS lig…

We have been stuck on version 6.1 for almost half a year ever since the initial attempt to migrate to 6.12 caused some issues with HDMI if I remember correctly. Anyone knows if 6.12 or 6.14 are still in the works for this SBC? Thank you!

Hi, I would like to make backup(s) of my system. The system (debian) is installed on sata SSD @ slot 1. I would like to have the backup of the system written to zfs pool on the other slots as an image. Which in case of system SSD failure, I could write back to a new SSD installed on the same slot 1, by booting to a rescue system from micro sd card. Have this kind of functionality already been implemented? Or parts of it? Linux has a bunch of backup solutions, but I suspect they might not work with the helios64 box (sd card, internal ssd). And my only helios64 box is in "production" use, so "trial and error" method is not the first option in my min…

Hey, posting this in hopes that someone might have an ideas as to why this is happening. I've been dealing with an issue with my ZFS pool for a while now where the pool gets suspended but there are no other error indicators. WARNING: Pool 'rpool' has encountered an uncorrectable I/O failure and has been suspended. I'm using ZFS on top of LUKS and used to have problems with my drives resetting due to SATA errors, but I haven't really seen that issue since I started using my own SATA cables and limiting SATA speed to 3 Gbps. My working theory for last week has been that it's a problem with the CPU, perhaps some handover between big.LITTLE. So I've t…

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

With Linux rock-5b 5.10.72-rockchip-rk3588 #trunk.0102 SMP Sat Nov 5 07:56:18 UTC 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux I see only one PWM controller pi@rock-5b:~$ ls /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip1/ device export npwm power subsystem uevent unexport pi@rock-5b:~$ cat /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip1/npwm 1 How do I figure out its header pin assignment? Is there a device tree overlay to expose all 4 PWM controllers?

[ 184.130515] Internal error: Oops - Undefined instruction: 0000000002000000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 184.131281] Modules linked in: rfkill lz4hc lz4 snd_soc_hdmi_codec snd_soc_rockchip_i2s rockchip_vdec(C) hantro_vpu v4l2_vp9 leds_pwm gpio_charger videobuf2_dma_contig pwm_fan rockchip_rga panfrost videobuf2_dma_sg v4l2_h264 gpu_sched v4l2_mem2mem snd_soc_core drm_shmem_helper snd_compress rockchip_rng rng_core snd_pcm_dmaengine videobuf2_memops snd_pcm videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common snd_timer videodev snd soundcore mc zram binfmt_misc gpio_beeper cpufreq_dt ledtrig_netdev lm75 dm_mod ip_tables x_tables autofs4 raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor…

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

Hi. My helios64 always crashes with this method : [environment] 1TB m.2 sata ssd for system 16TB seagate exos on data drive 18TB WD Ultrastar DC550 on data drive Linux helios64 5.9.14-rockchip64 #20.11.4 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 15 08:52:20 CET 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux about 620,000 files on data drive. [method1] #sync #sysctl -w vm.drop.caches = 3 #ls -CFR [datadir] > [tmp dir] #ls -1lFR [datadir] > [tmp dir] #zip -j [tmpdir] filelist.zip #sync >>>>>>> Crash (blinking Red LED) [method2] (First step) via…

Hi there, My Rock5B worked well with Armbian until I tried to migrate to an NVMe. Here is a boot log without any SDCard: Spoiler DDR Version V1.08 20220617 LPDDR4X, 2112MHz channel[0] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS1 Row=16 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB channel[1] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS1 Row=16 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB channel[2] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS1 Row=16 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB channel[3] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS1 Row=16 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB Manufacturer ID:0x6 CH0 RX Vref:31.7%, TX Vref:21.8%,21.8% CH1 RX Vref:30.7%, TX Vref:21.8%,20.8% CH2 RX Vref:31.7%, TX Vref:21.8%,21.8% CH3 RX Vref:30.7%, TX Vref:22.8%,21.…

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

Hi, My Nanopi M4V2 often gets unresponsive. I cannot reach the nginx server when that happens. SSH also stops working. The red led is on, and the green led stops blinking when it happens. Any tips on what I can try? Running: Armbian buster with Linux 5.4.49-rockchip64 with heatsink from EMMC. http://ix.io/2u4O

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

Hi I`m trying to set NAS server (OMV) on nanopi M4v2 with sata HAT and eMMC. I have instaled OMV but it is working realy slow and I want to make another clean install. I`m using Armbian Buster from here https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-m4-v2/ I`m tryng now for 4 hours to boot from fresh made SD card but I always end up on eMMC module. If I unplug module I can boot from SD card. I was trying Recovery key and PWR key combination but with no luck What can I try next. Thank you for help!

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

I have Armbian running on a NanoPi R6C 8GB with 32GB eMMC. I made a new Armbian image with the build framework that uses newest linux-u-boot-nanopi-r6s-legacy 23.8.0-trunk linux-dtb-legacy-rk35xx 23.8.0-trunk linux-image-legacy-rk35xx 23.8.0-trunk Booted from microSD this system has an idle power consumption of 0,92w. I can access both the eMMC and microSD storage. When i transfer this system from microSD to eMMC with "nand-sata-install" to boot & OS on eMMC and cold boot without the microSD, the idle power consumption increases to 1,21w. After a shutdown and booting from the microSD again the idle…

I saw some initial work on supporting uugear's vivid unit (rk3399 based). I was wondering in what state that is, what is required to complete that work and if there are plans to add that support to the mainline? Thanks in advance, Markus

Become a sponsor, help to add other boards in armbian standart, you don't need to be a programmer to help the community, just need a copy of the ARM BOARD and a x86 computer to compile new versions. If you like what you see here and want to help: Donate Armbian the like button only costs a few dollars. Here will be published all the tweaks for the Embedfire RK3576 board to enter the mainline with armbian. MiniLoaderAll.bin https://drive.google.com/file/d/15q19LOv_XuXbvwdlVjEWuhQtNEceOXwc Documentation: https://doc.embedfire.com/linux/rk3576/quick_start/zh/latest/index.html Unnoficial Firmware: https://drive.google.com/file/d/…

Hi guys, I have been using my Helios64 for more than a year now. I have it connected with the 1Gbps NIC. I have been reading about network bonding and getting both NICs up and running. The main purpose would be to have it running in mode "Adaptive Transmit Load Balancing" (mode 5). First I've discovered the issue with the 2.5Gbps not being able to keep a consistent (and performant) speed. So I've soldered the missing pin from the capacitor to the NIC (more on this later). I've checked the speed and now it is up to specs, getting very close to 1000Mbps (960-980Mbps). But here it comes the problem that I'm facing, if I enable both independently …

Hello everybody, im experiencing a similar problem. Sometimes my WD RED 12 TB HDD is not recognized in that slot its in, when i change it to any other it works again. Nevertheless it seems this problem doesnt only apply to one specific slot, but is changing from time to time. EDIT: The LED of that slot doesnt turn on, yet the drive starts and runs Do anybody experience the same problem, or know any help? Thank you in advance. Best Regards.

Hello, I just received my SeedStudio Recomputer RK3576 and I have a well working machine thanks to the armbian team using the debian Forky image. I try to understand why i cannot connect a (usb) minipcie modem (already testing 1 year use with Radxa zero 3 W), all usb ports not working anymore! There is a strange note on schematic pdf : If the PCIe1 or SATA1 function of Combo PHY1 is selected, the USB3 OTG1 function cannot be used, and even the USB2 PHY1 function cannot be used But they also notice the support of usb link on this minipcie : LTE LoRa Module: Module:EC20/EC25 WM1302 SPI/USB Version Zigbee: USB Version The miniPCIe…

Hello. Good day. I managed to installed Android on the OrangePi RK3399 using the Linux_Upgrade_tool (v 1.49), but, I'm struggling to get the board to boot back to Linux. I created an sdcard from the debian image from the OragenPi website, but, when I try to boot is with the sdcard insert, I get the messages below on the serial terminal. Removing the sdcard boots normally on Android (installed on emmc). Pressing spacebard doesn't do anything during boot. Also, trying to flash the Linux image via the Linux_Upgrade_tool doesn't work (always return a fail). Any ideas how to make this board boot back on Linux? Thank you. DDR Version 1.07 2…

Hi, Have the r2s for some time and it worked well in the beginning. But then it started to freeze randomly. The logs do not have any error in it. Initially I thought it could be the interface drive problem, changed the interface and still freezes. When the r2s is frozen, serial port won't respond. Keeping serial connection and restarting the r2s, boot messages show normally. When I keep the serial connected, r2s do not freeze (tried for more than a week). Found this other post, not sure if this is the same problem as it does boot, but seems related. mUSB serial connection rarely works. Have to boot some times until it works. Although I am an exp…

Hi all! I have Armbian installed on a rock 4SE (Tagged as 4B as it uses the same image i believe) as the base for an OpenMediaVault. Yesterday i installed the latest version of Bookworm, as i am running OMV7 and that, as far as i can tell, does not work on Trixie. I am not ready to upgrade to Trixie/OMV8, as im not sure there is support for my Penta sata hat yet. My issue is that if i install the updates, either through OMV interface, or apt, the device does not boot after applying the updates. As far as i can tell from logs etc. something is either wrong with loading the kernel image on boot, or with the image itself. If i install Armbian, and then OMV, ev…

Hello, I wanted to install Linux on my TV box but I'm having problems First I tried to put an Android rom that said it was stock But it doesn't boot and the system doesn't start, it was in loader mode and after I did that it went into maskrom mode and it doesn't come out, everything I try to do gives me the download boot fail I don't know what to do to get out of this mode and install something, all the loader files don't work and the ones that say they work, the links are down

Hi, is is possible to port the kahdas-edge2 changes (https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6335) to the OrangePi 5b device tree?

Hi, I have one FriendlyARM NanoPi R2S. It should have 1G DDR4 memory. Everything works fine with latest Armbian 20.02.08 except only 512M memory shows up. Both Buster and Bionic have the same issue: Armbian_20.02.8_Nanopi-r2s_buster_current_5.4.28 Armbian_20.02.8_Nanopi-r2s_bionic_current_5.4.28 I tried FriendlyARM official FriendlyCore. I can see all 1G memory, /proc/meminfo on FriendlyCore is as follows: MemTotal: 971052 kB MemFree: 842880 kB MemAvailable: 844352 kB Buffers: 8012 kB Cached: 48272 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 45904 kB Inactive: 31580 kB …

I have a serious problem as I mentioned in a title Currently I'm using Armbian on my NanoPi M4 and very satisfied its functionality But when I try to use usb3 device (especially camera from ZWO campany, ZWO ASI 178) with it, it doesn't recognize it as USB3 device but USB2 by checking the data transfer speed with "lsusb -t" Then, once I unplug the cable and plug it to the pi again, that device is recognized as USB3 and the data transfer speed becomes much higher. I need to get USB3's fast data transfer as soon as the board gets booted, without unplugging cables since now it's not that easy to access to the board and cable. I tried usb r…

Hi all, https://paste.armbian.com/koqimivaro vendor kernel boots, detects ethernet, wifi & nvme (booting from SD card) and seem to be working well. Also attached are the UART gathered first boot/install logs. I think the SBC accidentally skipped over the root password by resting on the enter key 😁 uart-logs.txt

hello everyone I have this board orange pi 4 V 1.3 Armbian Focal desktop mainline based kernel 5.4.y . I haven't audio through HDMI. what can I do ? I ran the media script for hw acceleration and i have good video result but not audio. Thx!

Hi all, I am used to update my systems every day, but this time.... Yesterday, all of a sudden, after an "apt update" command showed to me there was 222 updates available. Wow, there was many updates on KDE, I left it for later, but after finishing my tasks I made the upgrade. After reboot, at login screen, password was accepted but login screen reappears. I tryed many times. I noticed that login was set to "KDE Wayland"... I changed to "KDE X11" and Bingo... Login ok. But Task bar is shown everything to the left and without the apps. All apps used before last logout were reopened, but all of them were located o…

What am I missing ? Just flashed Armbian_20.11.7_Nanopim4v2_buster_legacy_4.4.213_desktop on a SD card and the NanoPi does not boot. I get a steady red led and no flashing green and nothing on the HDMI. I don't get that problem when Flashing the eMMC...the problem is that I don't have that eMMC anymore and I am looking for a way to install Armbian on my NanoPi's NVMe SSD drive from the SD card. Any hints would be appreciated.

Hi, i'm currently trying to disable the serial console on port 2 on my Rockchip based Rockpi 4B (based on rk3399). I already found the following forum thread, that describes in brief, that i basically have to recompile my own armbian image. But still I'm missing some information. I have read the docs in docs.armbian.com and watched the YouTube video on how to build an armbian image. So far, i was able to setup a VM for building an image on my workstation. I also had a successful compile run yesterday, that created some output in my output folder. Now, I'd like to apply a patch, that changes the serial debugging console during boot from port 2 to port 4. …

I bought a NanoPC-T4 development board designed by friendlyelec and installed the Armbian operating system. But the heat generated by the Rk3399 main control chip is too high. I bought an official PWM fan. According to the official wiki, the fan can work normally. However, under the same configuration under Armbian, the fan can’t work normally, so I What work needs to be done? Thanks.

I have a Rock64 v2. For my project I wish to connect the board to an MCP3008 ADC chip via SPI so I can read some analog sensors. Pretty straightforward. But when I look at /lib/modules/4.4.178-rockchip64/kernel/drivers I see there are modules for i2c, usb, one wire, GPIO ... everything but SPI. Am I out of luck? ARMBIAN 5.75 stable Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 4.4.178-rockchip64

Hi Folks, I have a NanoPiM4 and loaded Ambian 5.75 onto an SD card, it boots great (Thanks Armbian!). How I've added the FriendlyElec 2.8 TFT module (240x320) and want to configure it. So I used the handy `armbian-config` to pick up the kernel headers and sources, and went to go an add fbtft and select the ST7789V driver. Only when I went to run `make menuconfig` I got: root@nanopim4:/usr/src/linux-source-4.4.174-rk3399# make menuconfig scripts/kconfig/mconf Kconfig net/Kconfig:83: can't open file "net/wireguard/Kconfig" scripts/kconfig/Makefile:28: recipe for target 'menuconfig' failed I've updated the armbian monitor stuf…

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 …

HI I just bought 2 neo3 and started with Armbian and the MAC address is the same. But using the official image is a different MAC address.How can I use Armbian so that neo3 has the correct unique MAC address? I use cmd xxd / sys / bus / nvmem / devices / rockchip-efuse0 / nvmem I get the same value.

I built a version of Buster with the legacy kernel (4.4). when I try to install the media-buster-legacy-rk3328 package on the system, I get an error - unsatisfied dependencies on the kodi-rk package. I tried installing the Kodi-rk package manually, but it has an unsatisfied dependency on kodi-rk-bin. The kodi-rk-bin package is available and installed, but its version does not correspond to the links with Kodi-rk. Perhaps packages were updated in the repository, but dependencies do not work because of a complex package name (the alphabetical comparison condition is not met) ?

Happy New Year for all, My old Samsung Monitor stopped working some days ago, and I dont know if it will be fixed, so I decided to buy a new LG 27'' Monitor. My Zorin OS and Windows on X64, Raspbian and Ubuntu On Raspberry PIs are working properly. But booting Armbian - Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) on "Orange PI 5" and "Orange PI 5 Plus" My New monitor refuses to show any image (only black screen). "Orange PI OS XFCE" on "Orange PI 5" is OK on my new monitor. I took a litle look at boot files but I didn't find anything to fix this problem. Any idea to solve this problem??? Thanks, C…

Hi! In the Kobol wiki, there are 2 supported kernels : 4.4 and 5.10 In the armbian-build GIT repo, I see also patches for 5.13. What is the status of the 5.13 patches for the Helios64? Kind regards, Xavier Miller

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

Since Linux 5.15, the USB3 port on ROCK64 does not work anymore with Armbian. The following kernel errors are shown: usb 5-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 [...] usb usb5-port1: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad? This has been reported by multiple users with multiple drives and cables, also disabling UAS does not help. lsusb shows the drive/device, but lsblk does not. I know the ROCK64 is not currently supported by Armbian/has no maintainer, so I'm not expecting anything, just posting this as information and probably someone with more insights into the rockchip64 kernel build has an idea or workaround.

Hi I have spent couple of days to enable the SPI3 (the only SPI that has been routed to the 40-pin header) on Rock3A, but no success. I am trying to enable SPI3M1C0 with following pins on my Rock 3A GPIO4_C2 (CLK), GPIO4_C3 (MOSI), GPIO4_C5 (MISO), and GPIO4_C6 (CS0). I am out of idea, try different overlays but still not able to enable them. I used this overlay from this repo https://github.com/radxa/overlays/blob/main/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/overlays/rk3568-spi3-m1-cs0-spidev.dts I expect to see “/dev/spidev3.0” but nothing appeared. I have already added 2 overlays, 1 for 1-wire, and the other for I2C, and they are worki…

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

So I got my Helios64 today, built it with 2 drives, a Adata SSD on the M.2 and 2 Seagates on SATA 1 and 2. But whenever I want to boot it up, the internal blue system LED lights up + System Rail power (UPS installed) with all activity LEDs and HDD error 3 instantly with no delay. There is no Console output and nothing is to be heard spinning up. When building I noticed the cable harness having the same length for connectors 2 and 3 where 3 is too short for zip tie-ing. Help is greatly appreciated.

Hi all, today I used rsync to copy some music files from an attached USB drive to my NVME M2 SSD drive and noticed the Nanopi was getting very hot. I have it housed in an official metal case with a fan. The fan didn't come on despite the temperature of 80 + , the case was very hot to the touch. I turned it off in the end in case it got damaged. Any suggestions appreciated. The board is running the latest Buster from here.

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…

Hi folks, I am puzzled. When I am away for a few days I usually shut down my nas. It does indeed shut down but over night comes up again. Now I would like to know what triggers that unwanted restart here... I am currently on 21.08.3 Buster with Linux rockchip64 5.10.63 and do have OMV running... I could unplug the battery next time but I'd rather solve the issue the correct way. It's strange to me because I did not change any system parameters in OMV or via SSH. I do believe that an update to the latest kernel did mess things up. Where do I have to have a look?

Hi, I want to ask, if there's a way how to turn off Helios64 without the 100% fan spin. It only takes 1 second but it's very annoying when I want to turn it off during the night. Looking https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/helios64/fancontrol.conf and https://wiki.kobol.io/helios64/pwm/ No luck :Z

Just getting around to trying to setup my Helios 64 and I am unable to get it to appear under either Windows or OSX. I have removed the back panel and ensured the USB cable and micro SD are fully seated. Nothing appears so I can't flash the image to the internal eMMC. I tried MaskRom mode but RKDevTools fails. It does the following steps: Download Boot Start Download Boot Success Wait for Maskrom Start Wait for Maskrom Success Test Device Start Test Device Fail Not sure where to go now as I can't get anything to work on it. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

The image is coped on SD using: sudo dd if=Armbian_23.8.2_Orangepi3b_bookworm_edge_6.5.2.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M status=progress The initial startup is fine (booting, setting of root password, user name/password, wifi setup as well as locales/tzdata). We obtain a system with working internet connection, it can be upgraded using apt etc. However, after reboot wifi fails (the first impression was that we installed something wrong during upgrade phase. However, the sequence: fresh sdcard boot, armbian initialization, reboot (through the reboot command, not a button)) still results in the following: 1708 [ 6.944457] WCN_ERR: read marlin3E chip id fail, r…

Hi. I testing out different images for my DIY NAS project. My plan is to use the Orangepi3b board with armbian bookworm and OMV. I have built images from armbian github, (main,trunk) the edge 6.7.10 kernel is working great. But I do get some Iperf3 retries when sending from Opi3b. From Opi3b 60-70MB/s To Opi3b 110MB/s. With Orangepi own bookworm image I have 110/110 and no retries. The same with Joshua Riek's Ubuntu server image, no retries and 110/110. Orangepi3b armbian with 6.7.10 kernel orangepi@orangepi3b:~$ iperf3 -c 192.168.10.197 -f M Connecting to host 192.168.10.197, port 5201 [ 5] local 192.168.10.155 port 56514 connected to 192.…

Hi, I have deployed a NanoPi Neo 4 and for the most part, I'm happy with it, but am having a peculiar problem. I am using the manufacturer-supplied serial console cable and USB adapter (via screen /dev/ttyUSBx 115200). Once the machine is properly booted, if I hit enter, I get a serial console as normal. However, I get garbage from u-boot (and presumably from the kernel boot messages). It looks just as if I have a speed mismatch. I have tried many other speeds (1500000, 230400, 57600, 38400, 19200, 9600) and none of these seem to work. What am I doing wrong? Or is the state of the box right now that u-boot sends garbage …

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

Hi all, I have been using a Rock64 with hostapd and a usb adapter that uses realtek drivers for a couple of months now. Recently, like a week or two, after what i believe was a kernel update i started getting random freezes in the board. As i use it "headless", when it happens the only way to get it back working is by power cycling it. This means that until today i had no logs of what was happening. Today although, i left my laptop on for a couple hours, with tail -f on kernel.log, messages and syslog. Attached in the file called logs.txt is what i managed to obtain from a terminated ssh session to the board. Im running Linux NetMa…

I not see in Helios64 assembling guide, how should be set coolers. Where should be directed airflow? Inside or outside the case?

RockPi4a. Installed busster current 5.8.6 armbian onto eMMC. Works fine. Now i figure out i need swap space (app needs more than the 1G mem i have). So i boot another image from SD an use gparted to shrink the first partition from the end to create 4GByte and create a swap partition in there. Now the board won't boot anymore (see attached file). Erased SPI, no difference. Partition table shows GPT and "MBR protective" (before and after resizing). so, whats the magic to create a bootable armbian disk if one needs different partitioning than just the "full disk one partition" layout ? Is this "uboot" hidden behind the only partition, there was a bun…

I just buy the orange pi 3b powered by the Rockchip RK3566. Is there any plan to support this new SBC.

Hi, I've installed Armbian 23.02 Jammy Gnome (Release date: Feb 18, 2023). Mostly it works well, including the instructions on the download page to enable 3D acceleration. However, my video is output to a TV through HDMI, and there is no audio. There are four "Analog Output - Built In Audio" options in the sound settings, I have tried all four and none of them make any sound. I have also tried to change all five options in the configuration tab of PulseAudio volume control. All are labelled "Built-in Audio" and there are no options in any of them other than "Stereo Output", "Stereo Input", "Stereo Output + Stereo Input" and "Off". I don't know if this is related, but…

Thank you Armbian guys for providing and supporting a working 5.10 image for the Rock Pi 4C board. Has anyone been successful in configuring and using a matched CSI camera with a 5.x kernel for this board? If so, can you share the required conf steps here? Radxa's website (https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/MIPI_Camera) claims that their provided Debian image supports both RPi ov5647 and RPi imx219 based cameras so that confirms hardware compatibility but so far I haven't been able to capture images/video with neither on Armbian when attached to a Rock Pi 4C. $ ls -l /dev/video* crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Apr 3 07:30 /dev/video0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, …

Good morning: I've got a ROCK64 and it does't boot from few days. White; Red and Green led stand with light. nothing change even after minutes. I've tried rock64-debian-mrfixit-190531.img.xz, , freedombox-bookworm_all-arm64.img.xz, debian-12.11.0-arm64-netinst.iso, But never go further. Do you have an idea ? I've got a 5A power so should not be a problem.

Hi there, now I have pure bug report: done apt update + apt ugprade, GUI frozen, even no SSH, about an hour later (I was outside my house) (probably) restarted but up to multiuser, no GUI at all. Howeve I CAN log over SSH, sthe issue "startx", but ONLY as ROOT. (much indesired, as ex web browser should never be started as root). I can enable remote X in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc , then start remote X session. Also "init 5" attempts to start X, but crashes. How to diagnose and repair? Laurent

I am unable to play files over SMB, but I can't seem to figure out what the problem is exactly. From what I can tell it *seems* ffmpeg is compiled without networking support, at least this is what smplayer was complaining about: [ffmpeg] Protocol not found. Make sure ffmpeg/Libav is compiled with networking support. Failed to open smb://192.168.1.1/transmission/myfile.mkv. Exiting... (Errors when loading file) But when I look at the ffmpeg switches it was compiled with: --enable-libsmbclient and seems to be present. Now I'm a complete linux n00b, does anyone have an idea ?

I connect the rockpi 4 to a Samsung display whose normal resolution is 1680x1050 via a hdmi to dvi line, but the maxium resolution I can choose is 1280x1024. And when I connect it to a 4K tv via hdmi, the maxium resolution is 1920x1080, not 3840x2160. The legacy kernel (4.4.210) works perfectly in both cases.

Hi, I'm trying to setup CM3588Plus NAS 3 x 4tb vp4300 nvme drives OpenMediaVault updated. Drives are setup to RAID5 with ext4. the OS is reporting that ssd temps getting to 63-68C while idling, and likes to creep up to 75C where if I'm correct thermal throttling starts to kick in. the SBC is in open air, no case/enclosure. room temp 21C. How to find the cause and solve it? Amy recommendations setup (change the fs) etc. Thanks a mill.

Hi, I'm new to Linux and Armbian, I need your help. My Nanopi M4 V2 freezes periodically and I can’t understand the reason. I am using Armbian Buster with Kernel 5.4.2. On board also used 4x SATA HAT for NanoPi M4. I still can’t show the system log before it froze again. But now in the system log more than 2 hours the same thing is repeated: Mar 13 14:34:50 AsProDent-NAS brcm_patchram_plus_rk3399[1238]: 01 03 0c 00 Mar 13 14:34:54 AsProDent-NAS brcm_patchram_plus_rk3399[1238]: writing Mar 13 14:34:54 AsProDent-NAS brcm_patchram_plus_rk3399[1238]: 01 03 0c 00 Mar 13 14:34:58 AsProDent-NAS brcm_patchram_plus_rk3399[1238]: writing Mar 13 14:34:58 …

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

After a recent kernel upgrade on a nanopi-r5s, the NVME device files /dev/nvme0* are no longer present. The relevant part of /var/log/syslog shows: 2025-07-05T20:55:35.716376+02:00 nanopi-r5s kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 6.12.35-current-rockchip64 (build@armbian) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 13.2.0-23ubuntu4) 13.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.42) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 27 10:11:46 UTC 2025 ... 2025-07-05T20:55:35.719736+02:00 nanopi-r5s kernel: [ 4.491538] nvme nvme0: pci function 0002:01:00.0 2025-07-05T20:55:35.719739+02:00 nanopi-r5s kernel: [ 4.491584] nvme 0002:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) There is a single …

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

I'm trying to understand the role of zram and having some difficulties with it. I've looked in several places and my understanding is this: - It's a block device in RAM that uses compression - It functions similar to swap I notice that mine is set to about 2 Gb: wurmfood@helios64:~$ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/zram0 partition 1945084 0 5 My questions: 1. Does that mean 2 Gb of the device RAM is used for the zram swap device? 2. I can understand this on devices with slower storage, b…

Not recognizing network adapter.

hello, i was trying to set up a 2 pin fan on my orangepi 5b and i connected it to pin 25 and 26 (GND and PWM1). When i first started this task, the output from gpio readall would show me all 26 pins on the board. As i was digging through some forums to try and get the PWM pin to operate as on/off, i came across wiringOP and when i installed it, the output of `gpio readall` changed to only show 8pins. I am unsure of what went wrong and why it only shows 8 pins. I tried removing wiringOP and it still has not made a difference. Thanks

Hi all, I'm trying to build a NAS using the Penta SATA Hat (https://wiki.radxa.com/Penta_SATA_HAT). I'd like to use ZFS as file system. I got the "supported" Armbian Jammy image from here: https://www.armbian.com/rockpi4/ I installed the kernel headers through armbian-config. However, attempting to install the zfs-dkms package gives me Building for 6.1.30-rockchip64 Module build for kernel 6.1.30-rockchip64 was skipped since the kernel headers for this kernel does not seem to be installed. As you can see, my kernel version is 6.1.30-rockchip64: $ uname -r 6.1.30-rockchip64 However, the installed kernel he…

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

Is there an accepted procedure for moving from using ramlog to logging to disk? I've looked but everything I can find is about setting up ramlog. I assume it's more complicated than just creating a partition (or ZFS dataset) and mounting it /var/log, disabling ramlog, and rebooting.

Hey all. Running the Dec 9th build of Armbian 22.11.2 Debian Bullseye CLI, and I've been running in to issues with consistently remotely connecting to the board. While ssh and other direct connections (IP:Port for services like Nextcloud, etc) work for a bit after a recent reboot, after some unknown amount of uptime I'm unable to connect to the board through any new remote connections. Attempting an SSH session provides me the error ssh: connect to host 192.168.50.5 port 22: No route to host When connected via the serial console, I am able to verify that the board has internet access while it is refusing these remote connections on the local netwo…

Armbian 22.11.2 Cinnamon desktop was successfully installed onto eMMc storage from a microSD card. However, after installing the 3D accelleration following the official Armbian instructions, the Rock 5b failed to load the desktop. Instead, after the display of the Armbian splash screen, the screen turns black with a flashing white cursor. This problem started on 25 February. Before that day, 22.11.2 Cinnamon desktop successfully operated with 3D accelleration for two months. The following was used to install the 3D accelleration: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia …