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Hey there, had anyone any success enabling PWM to control a PoE hat [1]? I tried a few overlays but no luck. ``` rock-3a-worker-1:overlay:# cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 bootlogo=false overlay_prefix=rk35xx fdtfile=rockchip/rk3568-rock-3a.dtb rootdev=UUID=f0751d3c-c5c2-4ced-a989-772c2ad130a4 rootfstype=ext4 overlays=w1-gpio i2c7 i2c8 extraboardargs=nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u ``` I also built mraa with the following: ``` IMRAA=ON FTDI4222=OFF BUILDCPP=ON BUILDTESTS=ON BUILDSWIG=ON USBPLAT=ON ONEWIRE=ON INSTALLTOOLS=ON BUILDSWIGPYTHON=…

Hello fellow geeks/nerds, Here still using a Rock Pi 4c on 26.2.0-trunk.44. After upgrading to 26.2.0-trunk.62 the Rockpi just does not come back. No display no network. Wish I could provide more details beside the versions. I've went ahead and froze the kernel updates. If there's a way to maybe pull a log of sorts please let me know and I'll post it.

Hi, I'm using a bananaPI m5 pro SBC with a rk3576 CPU and built-in emmc and linaro OS. I'd like to install minimal/IOT images using Armbian Linux v6.1. I went through all of the banana PI docs, but none of them contained any useful information about installing the OS and booting from SD cards. Can someone help me with this?

Picked up a P1 Pro the other day. Used the P1 installer, and it boots fine. However WiFi and m.2 dont work ( no m.2 makes it useless for me.. WiFi, i can use a dongle ) so i assume the device tree needs changed. Still a newbie at this, so unsure how i can find or extract the tree from somewhere else. They do have a couple of official builds of other OS, but not real sure how to get it from there, if you even can. Lots of googling for a tree has come up empty.

Hi guys, I have recently bought a Rock64 to improve the performance of my VPN gateway. First tests look very promising as you can see here: root@rock64:~# openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc -elapsed You have chosen to measure elapsed time instead of user CPU time. Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 15394610 aes-128-cbc's in 2.99s Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 64 size blocks: 12591175 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 256 size blocks: 6719021 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 2448108 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 352617 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s Doing aes-128-c…

Hi, For some reason my Helios64 took a nose dive today, so I hit the reset button and it wouldn't boot up. Plugged in to the serial console and this came out: Spoiler Terminal ready 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=0x2 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 Size=2048MB Channel 1: LPDDR4,416MHz Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=…

Hi, i just want to inform that onboard wifi (AP6275P) on Orange Pi 5b doesn't support at this moment. Is there any plan to support it in the future?

Just stumbled over another chromium fork: https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium Forum search did not show any entries, so I thought I might share. The arm64 builds (for raspberry though) works great, it even has googly sync, widevine etc, check describtion for more info. It works out-of-the-box on legacy rock-5b jammy gnome images with liujianfeng1994 ppa enabled. For installation/updates one could also use: wget https://dl.thorium.rocks/debian/dists/stable/thorium.list sudo mv thorium.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ sudo apt update sudo apt install thorium-browser I usually like to test https://paveldogreat.github.…

I'm getting burst "VOP vblank IRQ stuck for 10 ms" error messages in dmesg and wondering what it means and if anything to improve/fix. I'm using Nanopi m4 $ uname -a Linux nanopim4 5.10.21-rockchip64 #21.02.3 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 8 01:05:08 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux kern :err : [Sat Mar 13 22:20:13 2021] rockchip-vop ff8f0000.vop: [drm:vop_crtc_atomic_flush [rockchipdrm]] *ERROR* VOP vblank IRQ stuck for 10 ms kern :err : [Sat Mar 13 22:21:04 2021] rockchip-vop ff8f0000.vop: [drm:vop_crtc_atomic_flush [rockchipdrm]] *ERROR* VOP vblank IRQ stuck for 10 ms kern :err : [Sat Mar 13 22:21:04 2021] rockchip-vop ff8f0000.vop: [drm:vo…

Hello Folks, good day. I have a project where I need to use a OrangePi 4B and couple of hardware pieces connected to it. I'm having trouble putting together a Linux image where I have, at least the minimum functions required for the project working. I need an image where these items below are enable/working: - SPI - I2C - GPIO - PWM - 10.1 MIPI DSI LCD + TOUCH (available here) - MIPI CSI Webcam (OV13850) - 3D Acceleration (WebGL / OpenGl) using the Mali t860 - Bluetooth - Wifi Ideally, I would like to use the most recent Focal mainline kernel, but a legacy image will also be fine. I've b…

hello, while i am copy files on my server and start 1 or 2 torrent i see that my memory gett less. Yes thats only buffer and caches but he eat faster then he get free so that he starts swapping (what cost cpu and speed) a litte search and i see that cat > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness is 100 and look on my other systems it is set to 60 now woth change this value he dont start swapping and free up faster the memory. can someone explane me why this here is set to 100? thank you

Hi Armbians I have a problem with one of my NanoPi Neo 3 boards and dropped RX packages on eth0. From multiple Neo 3`s I have running, this is the only one having this issue. But its also the only one with 1GB of RAM. All other boards have 2GB of RAM. But this should not matter I think. Output ifconfig: eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet XXXXXXXXXX netmask 255.XXXXXXX broadcast XXXXXXXXXX ether XXXXXXXXXXX txqueuelen 20000 (Ethernet) RX packets 140166777 bytes 110091299296 (102.5 GiB) RX errors 0 dropped 3686 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 12724…

https://github.com/sigmaris/u-boot First I tried the mainline uboot v2022.04 version and the sigmaris uboot, in the uboot command line I executed the nvme info command and found no nvme devices available. https://github.com/radxa/u-boot Since the radxa version does not have the relevant configuration files for nanopc-t4, the compilation and testing of the radxa version is abandoned. Is the patch in this thread for the mainline v2020.04 release? @piter75 @Hover

Anyone cares, have some helpful tips or time & knowledge to fix this ? Problem: No audio on either sink (board or HDMI) with the latest built made available for download (Armbian 23.02 Jammy XFCE Kernel 5.15.y, Size: 1313Mb, Release date: Feb 27, 2023) Tried so far: Switching the default server to nanopmi4v2 and toggling the default sink; Hints: Both sinks work fine on a previous 'dirty nightly built' that I have used for a while. "armbianmonitor" on both built attached for anyone who can help. Thanks Older-Nightly-Dirty-Built.txt Lates-Official-Built.txt

Any guesses whats wrong? The bootup stucks at [ 311.991668] random: crng init done for such a long time with 5.4.49... That happend on two different ROCK PI 4B 4GB v1.3 with SPI and NVME SSD boot without SD/eMMC. (fdtfile=rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4.dtb). It is only happening if I disconnect power and boot up. It seems working fine if I just restart the board. No problems with 4.4.213 Kernel (fdtfile=rockchip/rk3399-rockpi4b.dtb). It was also working fine with an older version of 5.4.xxx... channel 0 CS = 0 MR0=0x98 MR4=0x2 MR5=0xFF MR8=0x8 MR12=0x72 MR14=0x72 MR18=0x0 MR19=0x0 MR24=0x8 MR25=0x0 CS = 1 MR0=0x18 MR4=0x2 MR5=0xFF MR8=0x8 MR12=0x72 MR…

Hello, I am trying to enable Panfrost GPU acceleration on a new Armsom Sige5 board running the latest edge kernel (6.1.115), but glxinfo -B still shows llvmpipe. I have been troubleshooting this for some time and have discovered that the kernel module (panfrost.ko) loads correctly with modprobe, but it is not binding to the GPU hardware on boot. I believe I have found the reason why. A recent commit to the Armbian build system (https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/836def3d11699537e6289dedfbc766c2050d422d) changes the method for enabling Panfrost. It removes the panfrost overlay and adds KERNEL_TARGET_CONFIG="panfrost-all" instead. It…

Hello all, I am trying to host the rtsp server using gstreamer on armbian. everything is latest and updated. I found, bare rtsp server is taking 3-4% of cpu usage. when I add timestamp and text overlay, cpu goes 23-25%. I was checking if I can enable GPU support, here is output. My system is on NVME, and its working so not sure why error popped. I am connected to wifi, so again not sure why wifi drivers are having issues. however my board never shows it has gpu. can some one guide me ? I have 2 mp camera, not a huge load. again memory is 8GB but never used beyond 1GB, but CPU is most of the time on above 70% dmesg | grep -i error …

Hi All! I've recently moved to Armbian (Debian buster server) on my Rock Pi 4B - from Ubuntu provided by Radxa (some way failed upgrade). However system is booting from eMMC which has Radxa kernel and then directly to Armbian file system on SSD connected via USB 3.0. Great is that Armbian is working with Radxa kernel, which I want to change to 5.8.14-rockchip64. My question is how should I prepare /boot folder on eMMC (which is FAT file system) to boot Armbian kernel? Is there any other way (reformat eMMC for ext4@32768 sector for /boot folder) to achieve this? Thanks.

I have a recovery issue. I have successfully flashed an image on to my RK3399 SOM, but I made a mistake on the USB, so am trying to correct the error, but I have no USB communication when I boot into recovery mode. When I boot into recovery mode, it reports: "'recovery' does not seem to be a partition nor an address Unable to boot:recovery". It also tries to find a backup partition: "'backup' does not seem to be a partition nor an address Unable to boot:backup" then suggests I start rockusb: "try to start rockusb", but I have no USB. I have tried with several different computers and USB cables, but there is no USB! I assume that the boot file for recovery mode are no…

Hi ! Is there any chance to flash an armbian to the 16MB SPI Flash-Chip? regards, volker.

Can anyone recommend a usb adapter that works with Armbian on Rock64 wifi access point/hotspot. I tried a few I had but none work as access point. Thanks

Dear maintainers, Guess some device tree issues with neo3 got me into this mess, since rk3328-nanopi-neo3-rev02.dtb is missnig. Scanning mmc 1:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3185 bytes read in 7 ms (444.3 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 00500000 Boot script loaded from mmc 1 428 bytes read in 6 ms (69.3 KiB/s) 12514638 bytes read in 556 ms (21.5 MiB/s) 30083584 bytes read in 1326 ms…

Hi Guys, i'm selling my helios64. No harddisks and 2 Adapter for 2,5 zoll included. Possible shipping in Europe with insurance. Please send me DMs Pics comes later... Greetings Daniel

I've installed Armbian_v22.05.2_Rockpi-4cplus_jammy_current_6.1.33_minimal and whatever I try to play a 1080p video via the performance is horrible with very slow refresh, totally unusable. Normally loki gives me acceptable performance on SBCs of similar performance but not in this case. The Rock 4c plus is quite powerful so I'm really shocked at how badly it's performing. Let me be clear, I understand that the issue I see is not that the Rock 4c plus isn't cable of playing video, clearly it is and I'm not complaining about the hardware of the device. It's just that the software being used clearly needs to be optimised for it and most things out th…

Hi, I'm trying to fully boot an Orange Pi 4 from a USB flash drive from Uboot's prompt before it actually loads the kernel from the SD card (The SD card already has a working image of Armbian installed, that's where the board pulled Uboot from and is booting from it). The SD card currently has Armbian_23.5.1_Orangepi4_jammy_current_6.1.30_gnome_desktop installed on it. The reason why I'm trying to boot the board from USB is that I want to try an image with Orange Pi 4's legacy kernel to be able to take advantage of its vendor Mali blob for performance comparison against the current open source Panfrost driver in mainline kernel. And that I don't ha…

Hi, Not sure if anyone has seen the same as I have been seen on my box; the HDD status LEDs are cycling in brightness, from 0% to 100% and back to 0% continuously. It's a smooth transition, no flashy circus. I might have triggered this myself, but no idea how? Is this is a new feature? I tried to make some video of it, but it is quite difficult to see. Groetjes,

Hi, I just ordered a Rock64 with 4GB and wanted to hear your recommendations on what image and os I should run it with. I want to use it as my home server with Docker, Samba, Pi-hole, Tvheadend and Tinyproxy. 100 Mbit/s ethernet is enough. What do you recommend?

Hi! My Orange Pi 5 (no Pro, no Plus, no B…) was running Armbian, the Debian Bullseye flavour. It was running Linux `5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588`, then I installed the `linux-image-current-rockchip-rk3588` metapackage, which pulled and installed Linux `6.10.6-current-rockchip-rk3588`. Right after having installed such kernel, I tried to reboot the device, but the device never rebooted: it's just stuck at startup, nothings is displayed on screen and the device is not available on the network (doesn't do any DHCP request at all). I fully unplugged anything from the board, including removing and re-inserting the microSD card. The device now refuses to boot since I up…

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

Hi, Today i make upgrade to 23.11 armbian on my Helios64. It's in bookworm version (apt source list is good, no change since 23.08) but now it display this: Welcome to Armbian 23.11.1 Buster with Linux 6.1.63-current-rockchip64 No end-user support: community creations & unsupported (buster) userspace! it's a bug? thank have a nice day

Hello ! i'm trying to enable the SPI interface on a OrangePi4B board using Focal latest stable build, so I edit `/boot/armbianEnv.txt` to add these lines : overlays=spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=0 But after rebooting, I'm unable to access to the board anymore (No IP address is assigned to the board by the DHCP server). What's wrong ? Is there any additionnal steps ? FYI, I also tried to enable SPI using armbian-config tool but it doesn't work neither. As this tool doesn't even specify the `param_spidev_spi_bus` parameters which is required according to the overlay README.

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 …

Hello everybody! From what I found there’s no rockchip64 (is that the right one for rk3568?) header for 5.10.110. Since the current Kernel is that version can somebody help me either build or point me to right header files? That would be much appreciated

Hi, my company have commissioned at an external company ti develop a device based on rk3399. The external company have returned a device with a Debian 10 Linux image for the device. We are not satisfied about its the Debian distro maded by the external company because the UI it is not perfect. Sometimes, by moving forms, a little part of the display is not repainted correctly or sometimes a portion of a form disappear. So the question is: wich is the right way to build a Debian distro ourself? I have tryed ubuntu fiendlyarm. The os starts, I can enter by ssh but nothing appear on the display so, wich is the righ way to manage the hardware configuration of a custom d…

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

I originally installed Armbian witk Kernel 4.4 on my Nanopi.m4 and later upgraded it to 5.10 via armbian-config. Things work fine but whenever I got a new update via apt update, things get messed up a bit the /boot/Image got linked to vmlinux-4.4.213-rk3399 instead of vmlinuz-5.10.35-rockchip64 while others uInitrd -> uInitrd-5.10.35-rockchip64 dtb -> dtb-5.10.35-rockchip64 The result's the board couldn't boot-up, when I restarted it. And, I need to correct the Image -> vmlinuz-5.10.35-rockchip64 and doing mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d boot.cmd boot.scr from another linux machine to the SDCard. It works fine …

My question to the developer: Is there any probability that the native ethernet (gigabit) connection will be working in the future? I think that's the main advantage of the rock64 board (gigabit ethernet AND usb 3.0). Otherwise many other boards will work as well as NAS as the rock64. Thanks in advance for answers!

I have a Ambian 6.12.7-Edge-Rockchip64 minimum installation. How can I enable or upgrade to a desktop environment without changing the kernel? Thank you

Hello, After facing multiple instabilities during previous week, I decided to completely reinstall my helios64 to a fresh image (bookworm) from the download section. But before doing that, I need some help/have some questions: Currently, I’m using emmc to host the system, how can I completely backup and restore the system on an sd-card (you know, just in case...) Does the current image (https://dl.armbian.com/helios64/Bookworm_current_minimal) already contains usb drivers from:and this dtb file: Does the process to install the new image on emmc is the same as the one documented on Kobol site? At the moment, I’m a little bit los…

Not recognizing network adapter.

Subject: [R58X] Hard Brick After Failed Armbian Upgrade (Jammy to Noble) Hello, My Mekotronics R58X running Armbian Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) hard-bricked after a failed attempt to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble). Initial Failure: The upgrade crashed, and the device would not boot/log in properly . Recovery Attempt: I successfully flashed a new Ubuntu 24.04 image using the official Mekotronics documentation/tool. Current Status: After the flash completed successfully and the device went offline, it is now completely dead. It will not power on. No LED activity. I cannot enter recovery mode (Loader or Mask…

Hi, I have tried multiple Rock Pi 4+ (Plus) boards, all of them run regular Debian well, so the hardware should be good. But when I tried Armbian, the 2 USB 3.0 ports were not working with logitech USB dongle or Samsung USB drives (which did work in regular Debian), I searched and found maybe they were in OTG mode and needed to be in HOST mode. I tried armbian-config then System -> Hardware, then enabled: dwc3-0-host rockpi4cplus-usb-host After reboot, the bottom USB 3.0 port would start working, yet the top one still wouldn't work. Otherwise, Armbian was the most user-friendly, fast and stable…

Hi Team, i have a lcd touchscreen android rockchip rk3288 ( armeabi-v7a ) and i want change the OS with armbian and install it on sd card , which image that should i use? regards, Adrian

Yesterday, Oct 20th, I installed armbian version "Minimal/IOT images with Armbian Linux v6.1" to the Orange PI 5 PRO and updated kernel using armbian-config to kernel 6.18 RC1(2 options were available 6.12 and 6.18 R1, note 6.12 did not work). Armbian works fine including vulkan support(I tested with swith emulator) with this kernel(6.18 rc1), but today option to update to any kernel is not available anymore. I'm getting warning "No other kernels available!" System is pretty stable with this version. stas@orangepi5pro:~$ uname -r 6.18.0-rc1-edge-rockchip64 stas@orangepi5pro:~$ vulkaninfo --summary ========== VULKANINFO ========== …

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…

Hello all, not sure if this is the right place for bug reporting. I'm getting a kernel panic during early boot (no hdmi initialized at this stage) since october 2024 when doing kernel updates. Mitigated the issue with holding back apt kernel updates. today i found time to finally connect a serial console to collect a boot log. The issue only happens if the SATA Penta Hat is connected via the flex cable, upon disconnecting the system/image boots to login prompt. To produce a clean boot log i got the latest image and booted via sd card : Armbian_community_25.8.0-trunk.375_Rockpi-4a_bookworm_current_6.12.38_minimal.img (Edit: Not sure…

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

Hi, I've downloaded the latest two images from the links mentioned https://disk.yandex.ru/d/-zSW21XKN0pfIA/ArmbianTV/20230103-edge But none of them boot from SD on my M3 box. The only one booting is the image from this link https://redirect.armbian.com/station-m3/Bullseye_legacy_xfce But this makes the cooling fan on the M3 to always spin at full speed and it's not usable because of this (it's really noisy). How can I make the other images boot? Tried both Etcher and USBimager. Please help. Thanks.

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?

On my Odroid M1 which used to run kernel 6.6.63 / armbian 24.11.3 noble from NVME, an update to kernel 6.12.9 arrived this morning. Afterwards the machine failed to detect an external USB disk. There are some messages in the logs of the 6.12.9 boot that look suspicious to me: [ 2.670354] rockchip-naneng-combphy fe820000.phy: error -ENOENT: failed to get phy reset [ 2.670392] rockchip-naneng-combphy fe820000.phy: probe with driver rockchip-naneng-combphy failed with error -2 [ 20.458737] platform fc800000.sata: deferred probe pending: platform: supplier fe840000.phy not ready [ 20.458786] platform fcc00000.usb: deferred probe…

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

I'm new to SBC and tinkering with Rock 4C+ (plus) board and appreciate some support and guidance for blueooth setup. Installed Armbian 23.11.1 Bookworm CLI build. Enabled BT package from Armbian config utility as well tried installing bluez package from CLI using apt command afterwards. Started bluetooth service but seems not working. Command sequence I used: sudo apt install bluez sudo service bluetooth start sudo service bluetooth status (output says Loaded & Active). 'hcitool scan' command however returns message "Device is not available: No such device". When I installed Radxa's official Debian 11 des…

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 …

Current issues with Armbian board support: -U-Boot problems (various) Solutions so far: - fix the method of generating idbloader.bin. <--- update: the "release" and "mainline-master" behave significantly differently. Mainline-master behaves as it should as far as writing the bootloader. Release does not.

CAUTION: This content is provided "as is," without warranties or guarantees, and the user assumes responsibility for any consequences, including data loss, system failure, or damages, whether direct or indirect. This is just a few hints how I persuaded mine helios64 to run stable with armbian 24.11 and linux 6.12.1-edge. I have been stressing it several days now and haven't encountered any issue/crash/kernel oopsie. 1) created custom device tree with higher cpu voltage: big cores up to 1800Mhz@1.3V small cores up to 1400Mhz@1.15V also the clock-latency-ns was bumped from 40000 to 50000 2) set up the cpufrequtils ser…

Hi, I have one silly problem developing a FBTFT device driver for SSD1322 display : https://github.com/MarkoBursic/fbtft---SSD1322/blob/master/fb_ssd1322.c The initialisation starts OK, all GPIOs (DC, RESET, CS) follows as they should, since the data is sent through a function write_reg. For example : write_reg(par, 0xA0, 0x14, 0x11); It asserts DC low, then sends 0xA0, then asserts DC high and sends 0x14 and 0x11. Within every sent character (8bit bata) the CS toggles. The problem becomes when I want to send video data, I guess a function write_vmem is called. But here the entire tx buffer is filled and then streamed. for (y =…

hi thanks for this excellent device wished it was not sold out and had hdmi though X-D https://dwaves.de/2024/12/24/test-review-benchmark-armbian-gnu-linux-on-rockpi-e-rk3588-armv8-no-gpu-but-desktop-via-x11vnc-and-xvfb-how-to-download-run-geekbench-v5-v6-arm-x86-out-of-ram-fixed-risc-v-faster/ https://shop.allnetchina.cn/products/copy-of-rock-pi-e?variant=31974543425638 but it's possible to run full desktop virtualized installed https://www.armbian.com/rockpie/ running fine and dandy until one fine day, thought about, let's upgrade this thing: after: apt update apt upgrade reboot only 1x nic s…

I have the Helios with two 10T disks mounted as a BTRFS raid 1 array. This setup is stable, although I have not stressed it a lot, except for when I do a btrfs scrub. It is using the 20.11.1 Buster image on SDcard. The disks have about 900GB of files. A btrfs scrub causes a crash with the following kernel output. Is this a known bug? Spoiler [351424.849687] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [351424.850193] Modules linked in: rfkill governor_performance r8152 zstd snd_soc_hdmi_codec snd_soc_rockchip_i2s hantro_vpu(C) snd_soc_core rockchip_vdec(C) leds_pwm v4l2_h264 panfrost rockchip_rga snd_pcm_dmaengine videobuf2_dma_contig s…

Fresh install of Armbian_21.05.1_Rockpi-4b_buster_current_5.10.35 Ran apt update/upgrade Reboot arm-config>softy>install linux headers It seems to be affecting the latest release only. Tested with Armbian_21.02.3_Rockpi-4b_buster_current_5.10.21 and it works until it's upgraded. I also tried disabling kernel upgrades before upgrading and still received this error.

Hi, I have an Rock64 v2.0 and after update to trunk 24.8.0-trunk.369 to 24.8.0-trunk.399 the OS stop to starting process with this kernel error: U-Boot 2022.07-armbian (Mar 14 2024 - 00:34:55 +0000) Model: Pine64 Rock64 DRAM: 4 GiB PMIC: RK8050 (on=0x40, off=0x00) Core: 229 devices, 25 uclasses, devicetree: separate MMC: mmc@ff500000: 1, mmc@ff520000: 0 Loading Environment from MMC... Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110 *** Warning - No block device, using default environment In: serial@ff130000 Out: serial@ff130000 Err: serial@ff130000 Model: Pine64 Rock64 Net: eth0: ethernet@ff540000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Card did not…

Hello, I recently updated my Helios64 board from 5.9.11 to 5.9.14 using `apt upgrade` and since then I'm unable to boot my board which is stuck on `Starting kernel ...`. Here is the log of the what got upgraded. Spoiler shepard@helios64's password: _ _ _ _ __ _ _ | | | | ___| (_) ___ ___ / /_ | || | | |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \/ __| '_ \| || |_ | _ | __/ | | (_) \__ \ (_) |__ _| |_| |_|\___|_|_|\___/|___/\___/ |_| Welcome to Armbian 20.11.1 Buster with Linux 5.9.11-rockchip64 No end-user support: work in progress System load: 2% Up time: 14 days 13:18 Memory usage: 14% of 3.71G Zram usage:…

I have Rock-5b with 6.2.0 kernel uname -a Linux rock-5b 6.2.0-rc1-station-m3 #23.06 But it does not contain some modules for multimedia USB devices, such as si2157. How can I install the sources, import default config for Rock-5b and build & install custom kernel? It's OK to build it natively on Rock-5B

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

When comparing network speeds on the orange pi 3b 8gb model using armbian (Jammy Gnome 6.8.2) and Opios (aarch64-xfce-opi3b-23.08.1-linux5.10.160), there seems to be an issue with uploads on armbian. Using iperf3 for testing, the results were as follows: For orange pi os (arch): From other device (server) to orange pi 3b (client): 112mb/s From orange pi 3b (server) to other device (client): 112mb/s For armbian: From other device (server) to orange pi 3b (client): 112mb/s From orange pi 3b (server) to other device (client): 42mb/s I would like to know the cause of this problem and how to solve it.

Hi there, i'm trying to getting Armbian working on my RockPi 4B. Installation and everything went fine. Even my Intel 660 2TB NVMe SSD was detected as I booted the SD card Image (created with Etcher). But as I booted the image from eMMC (flashed the image via dd if=image.img of=/dev/mmcblk1); it booted fine so far, but it doesn't detect the NVMe SSD... If I return to uSD Boot, it is detected again... Here is the log output of dmesg | grep nvme from "Boot from eMMC" root@rockpi-4b:~# dmesg | grep nvme [ 2.754457] nvme nvme0: pci function 0000:01:00.0 [ 2.754688] nvme 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 64.489438] …

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

Hi, I have major issues with my helios64 / ZFS setup - maybe anyone can give me a good hint. I'm running the following system: Linux helios64 5.9.14-rockchip64 #20.11.4 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 15 08:52:20 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux I have a three WD 4TB Plus disk - on each disk is encrypted with luks. The three encrypted disks are bundled into a raidz1 zpool "archive" using zfs. Basically this setup works pretty good, but with rather high disc usage, e.g. during a scrub, the whole pool degrades due to read / crc errors. As example: zpool status -x pool: archive state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices are faulted in response to persisten…

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-…

Hi all, Something to share for those who use the USB-C serial console from another Linux host. Install and use 'tio' to connect to the serial console instead of minicom. This supports both 1500k baud and also can be easily used inside GNU screen (minicom gets a meta key conflict per default; CTRL-A is default meta key for both GNU screen and minicom). Minicom resulted in regular errors posted in syslog by the ftdi_sio kernel module. Did not run any strace to find out what syscall is causing it, but in short, tio appears to not treat the tty as a modem: no errors are popping up in syslog. Hopefully the serial consoles will remain up now. One caveat: I did not fin…

I have been looking around for a way to boot OrangePi5b from the eMMC drive while a blank for formatted SD Card is inserted for extra storage space. I dd wrote the debian server image to flash, booted and got no display, connected by ssh and it does recognized the eMMC storage. Download Armbian-legacy-bookworm image and dd'd that to the EMMC and it boots with a working display. Great, did a lot of work setting up Xorg with task-xfce4-desktop, xfce4-goodies, pulseaudio, firefox-esr, brave. gtkterm, tigervnc-viewer, remmina, wine32 for winbox, winbox and all working but was not able to find a way to boot with the SD card inserted. After checking many hints onlin…

Can anyone confirm whether HDMI-CEC is working on the opi5pro? I got one recently and regardless of distro neither cec-utils or v4l-utils can see any devices. e.g. cec-ctl: > cec-ctl -S Driver Info: Driver Name : dwhdmi-rockchip Adapter Name : dw_hdmi_qp Capabilities : 0x0000000e Logical Addresses Transmit Passthrough Driver version : 6.1.75 Available Logical Addresses: 4 Connector Info : None Physical Address : f.f.f.f Logical Address Mask : 0x0000 CEC Version : 2.0 Vendor ID : 0x000c03 (HDMI) OSD Name …

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

On a Rock 5B, I installed Armbian 23.11 Bookworm CLI via a SD card and now trying to setup boot via the NVMe drive. I followed the instructions on https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b/ to create a partition on the NVMe drive, format it, then tried `armbian-install` to boot from SPI. However armbian-install does not list the option to "Boot from SPI". It shows only the following options: 1 Boot from SD - system on SATA, USB, or NVMe 5 Install/Update the bootloader on SD/eMMC I then noticed I do not have a SPI device. /dev/mtdblock0 doesn't exist as well as "cat /proc/mtd" is empty. # ls /dev/mtd* ls: cannot access '/dev/mtd*': No such file …

Hi!, I am playing around with customizing my boot script (to install later my custom distro), and I am fighting with the Recovery. I took a long time to understand I have to press the recovery button during a "long time", then release it very quickly to get the UMS mode and not falling into the Maskrom mode. Indeed, when U-Boot detects the recovery button keypress, it proposes UMS, then very shortly after the Maskrom mode. Is it possible to configure U-Boot to wait longer on the UMS mode, let's say 5 seconds, and after that delay switch to Maskrom mode as latest failover? For info: I have Armbian running on EMMC, and I…

Hi Guys, I bought a new Rock64 and try to connect a CC1101 FM Transmitter (CC1101 wiring with the Raspberry Pi) which communicates over spi with the Rock64. How can I activate spidev on the Rock64? I tried to add spidev to the armbianEnv.txt: verbosity=1 console=both ethaddr=02:38:a0:82:2d:c0 eth1addr=02:38:a0:82:2e:c1 overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3 rootdev=UUID=52ddb7ff-487f-4f7c-8606-4e27c00ab708 rootfstype=ext4 overlays=spi-spidev user_overlays=spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=0 param_spidev_max_freq=100000000 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u But spidev is not appearing in /dev/ . I only used Raspberry PI's befo…

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…

What Works: - USB2 and USB3 - PCIe2 - GMAC - eMMC on HS200 mode - Cpufreq - User and maskrom buttons Dmesg Output: https://paste.armbian.com/onelomofit You can download them from Rolling releases section on https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-r6s/ page. Images include devicetrees for R6S and R6C. If you have R6C, you must change the devicetree from armbianEnv.txt.

Hi, Using the image Armbian_23.5.0-trunk.181_Rock-5b_lunar_edge_6.3.1.img I get this error at boot: Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... Scanning for Btrfs filesystems done. Begin: Waiting for root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. done. Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! UUID=6a70cc68-5120-4343-887c-ca90fd2188f9 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! The SD card is wo…

Hello, target : nanopi R4S/4Gb I downloaded the last image from the armbian site for the friendlyelec nanopi RS4. I flashed an A1 SD card of 32GB. I only see one partition (after a 17MB offset). When I try to use it on my R4S, the red power led lights up, then nothing, even after several minutes. I opened the router and connected a serial converter on the console, in this case also there is no sign of life after the power on... I have flashed on another SD card an ubuntu image from the friendlyelec site. This image boots, but it seems that the configuration of the console is not the usual default one => the speed 115200 does not w…

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, I'm not an expert with this. I have the M4V2 with metal case. I downloaded Armbian_20.02.7_Nanopim4v2_bionic_legacy_4.4.213_desktop.7z and burned the IMG to one of my spare M4 eMMc Problem is that the eMMC does not boot and does nothing So I tried another M4 eMMC and exactly the same thing. So I burned the img to an SD card and it boots fine. But I cannot see the eMMC AT ALL, lsblk does not show it Is it possible the M4 eMMC is NOT compatible ( I dont' think so or I would have seen in my searches) OR I did something wrong ? Or missed a step I don't remember having this with my M4 ? Thanks in …

Hello, I'm currently having trouble getting Kodi to run smoothly on my RADXA RockPi 5B. Despite having set up Kodi multiple times before, I'm facing some challenges this time around. Here's what I've done so far: Installed the Armbian_community_24.5.0-trunk.168_Rock-5b_jammy_vendor_6.1.43_gnome_desktop.img.xz image onto a micro SD card for my RockPi 5B. Followed the instructions provided on the Armbian website for the RockPi 5B (https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b/). While Armbian boots up fine and I can start Kodi, I encounter a few issues: - The screen resolution is initially incorrect when Kodi starts up. To fix this, I have to navi…

Dear all, I am highly interested in the Helios64 and registered for the next batch. Here are a few questions, I hope that your guys can answer. The OS is Embedded Debian I assume. Questions are quite simple: 1) Hard drive numbering on startup Under Debian, the hard drives in a RAID array are renumbered on each startup by random: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc ... This means that if drive /dev/sdb fails ... it is not necessarily the second hard drive in the bay. I already lost a RAID server extracting the wrong disc in an array. Then I migrated to a Synology NAS and notices that this problem had been fixed as dis…

I have Rock64 board with latest Armbian Focal flashed on it. I want to use it with this HDMI display by Waveshare: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_HDMI_LCD_(H)_(with_case) Now, when I connect it to Rock64 it runs as 1080p downscaled by HDMI controller on display, resulted image is garbage, even though it is present. As was discussed here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/10071-tinker-board-hdmi-resolutions-do-not-all-work/ current kernel/u-boot doesn't have required video mode to run this display properly. I tried to set required mode with xrandr but with no success. Can anyone help me to figure out how to patch kernel/u-boot to get this thing work properl…

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

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

TL;DR: How to make HDMI screen with custom resolution work? Including boot log/boot splash screen. How to configure auto use of/auto switch to newly connected display? Means moving tty/X Session to connected display like it works on e.g. Ubuntu desktop. Why HDMI screens with non standard resolution works well on kernel v5.x but stop working on v6.x ones? Where are HDMI related I2C interfaces in Armbian? Full version: In theory host system (SBC, laptop, PC) should detect new HDMI device connection, load EDID data from screen and use it to configure video output (resolution, timings etc). In practice it works well for Ubuntu deskto…

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.

I would like to enable SPI on RockPi4, but I don't know how. Further I did a list of I2C devices, also I can't figure out where those I2C devices are suppposed to be: pi@rockpi:~$ sudo sudo i2cdetect -l i2c-0 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-1 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-2 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-4 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-7 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-9 i2c DesignWare HDMI I2C adapt…

Hello, I just need to check the NPU driver version on my Orange Pi 5 with Armbian_24.11.2_Orangepi5_noble_current_6.12.0-kisak My command is sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/rknpu/version but error No such file or directory Is there NPU driver on this Armbian OS?

I have nfs server. Whenever I do "systemctl stop nfs-kernel-server" I can see this in dmesg: lockd: couldn't shutdown host module for net f00000a1! Later when I do "systemctl start nfs-kernel-server" I see this: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period (net f00000a1) Of course "systemctl restart" gives me both messages in a row. Any idea what does it mean? What the hell is this "f00000a1"? Except strange messages everything seems to work fine...

I am hoping that the community can enlighten me on how the Armbian development process works. I just purchased a Rock 64 board to use for a NextCloud box at home. I am seeing that Armbian seems to be the "best" OS solution for this. I also see that the Armbian release for Rock64 is still in "testing" phase. I would really prefer to run a "stable" release for this application. So my question is how does Armbian for Rock64 move from testing to stable. What is the process, what still needs to be done? I am not a developer or linux expert by any means. I am wondering how the process works so the I can see if I might be able to assist in any way. …

As topics title, did anyone manage to get the Raspberry Pi Touch Screen (DSI) work with the Rock Pi 4B running Armbian? Should it be working out of the box like with the TinkerBoard? Note that in my setup the display works with the Radxa Debian 9 image. Thanks guys

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

I am attempting to set up rock-5b-plus to use as a Desktop device, with OBS Studio for livestreaming. My ultimate objective is that I wish to plug an HDMI signal (from a camera) into the HDMI input (`hdmiin`) and use this as a "Video Capture Device" for livestreaming from the camera. Steps I have taken so far: 1. Written this to the microSD card: `Armbian_25.2.2_Rock-5b-plus_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img.xz` downloaded via [this link](https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/Bookworm_vendor_cinnamon-backported-mesa) available [here](https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/). I opted for this one as it appeared to include …

Hello, i want to use a NRF24L01 on my Rock PI 4B. I found out that i cannot enable spidev0.0 because this is corresponding with the network interface. Linux rockpi 5.4.32-rockchip64 #20.02.11 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 14 17:30:19 CEST 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux Linux version 5.4.32-rockchip64 (root@builder) (gcc version 8.3.0 (GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture 8.3-2019.03 (arm-rel-8.36))) #20.02.11 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 14 17:30:19 CEST 2020 My armbianENV looks like this: verbosity=1 overlay_prefix=rockchip overlays=spi-add-cs1 spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=1 rootdev=UUID=3c50a1d1-71a5-4a0f-9899-099b17a1050b rootfstype=ext4 usbstora…

Just wonder if there is a good guide how to make dri work and allt the supported code´s work in wayland / xorg or other / Thanks

Will there be support for the RK3399PRO processor? e.g. for a Rocki pi N10 SBC?

I am observing huge difference in samba speed (both ways to/from PC on Gigabit Ethernet) with Rock Pi 4B. Earlier I had Debian and Ubuntu provided by Radxa and recently speed has gone from 115 MB/s to ~12 MB/s. I moved to Armbian which is currently available for download. Before any updates I had 115 MB/s transfer speed. When I updated to Armbian 20.08.11 Focal with Linux 5.8.15-rockchip64 the speed has go down to ~15 MB/s. The bigger change that happened was kernel upgrade. I exclude problems like: PSU (it is over enough), home network (nothing has changed) and SSD speed (checked - 330 MB/s). Has anyone else also observed limited speed rec…

Is anyone having issues with the Cinnamon desktop version restarting the desktop when using the menu app launcher? Can be repeated by launching with super key and typing anything for search or just launching any application. Happens with all 3 major menu app launchers. menu, cinnamenu and cinnstark Pinebook pro

My Helios64 is "far away" and I am afraid to change network configuration, because if I miss something I could lose connectivity to the box. I would like to attach COM-to-IP adapter so that I always had serial console available, but... what actually do I need? "Normal" com-to-ip adapter provides COM port. Helios64 has COM-in-USB. So...? How to convert Helios'es serial console to anything accessible via LAN?