Tinkerboard

My current setup is the tinkerboard powered by the raspberry pi universal adapter connected to ethernet and a external HDD(Maxtor M3) powered by the Tinkerboard's usb. I have used it very lightly in this configuration (ssh-ing into it and copying some files to the hdd) but from what I have gathered from the information available here this powering setup is inedequate and will lead to problems. So I want to follow the recommended method and power it through the GPIO pins. I am considering using this or this powersupply. (I realize 10A on the second one is overkill for the tinkerboard, but the price difference from the 3A rated one is minimal and I could find some othe…

Hi Could anyone assist me in getting sound output on my Tinkerboard S? product: Rockchip RK3288 Asus Tinker Board S v26.2.1 for Tinker Board running Armbian Linux 6.18.35-current-rockchip $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono No output on the connected earphones. I don't know where to start to debug the problem. Any aideas anyone? Thanks Chris

I grabbed the "Armbian 25.8.1 Bookworm Minimal / IOT" image from https://www.armbian.com/tinkerboard/, landed it on a microSD card, booted it, and ran apt update apt upgrade apt install linux-headers-current-rockchip apt install zfs-dkms zfsutils-linux This gets me linux-image-current-rockchip 25.8.1 (kernel 6.12.44-current-rockchip) and a module built from zfs-dkms 2.3.2-2~bpo12+2. So far so good. And then I ran modprobe zfs.ko and was rewarded with the following panic in the kernel's module loader: [ 1128.728803] spl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 1128.859152] zfs: module license 'CDDL' taints kernel. [ 1128.859178] Disabling lock debuggin…

Can I use the Armbian 25.8.1 noble XFCE thinkboard/S image for an ASUS ChromeBook C100P, which is no longer supported by Google, to convert in Linux Debian notepad?

Hi everyone, I’m using an ASUS Tinker Board (RK3288, 2 GB, released in 2017). Since this board is quite old and we are now in 2025 I want to run the latest stable Armbian and develop a Python application using I²C, UART, PWM, and GPIO pins. Which Armbian image and kernel branch (current or edge) is the most stable for this board? Are there any specific steps or adjustments needed due to its older hardware? Thanks!

Can anyone point me in the right direction for an Armbian image that would allow audio recording over the 3.5mm jack? I'm trying to record audio over the 3.5mm jack. This works on a previous installation, but I'm trying to update to a curreent Armbian. Running Tinkerboard S R2.0 and this image: Armbian_25.2.1_Tinkerboard_noble_current_6.12.13_xfce_desktop.img Playback works record does not. Works: aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Right.wav -D hw:CARD=Audio,DEV=2 None of the following arecord commands work: arecord --vumeter=mono -D hw:CARD=Audio,DEV=0 -f S16_LE -c 2 -d 5 /tmp/t.wav arecord --vumeter=mono -D hw:CARD=Audio,DEV=1 …

Sorry bad English. I advise that I'm a noob. I have a MKS TS35 v2.0, that uses ST7796/ILI9341 (or ILI9486, I think) for LCD and ADS7843E for touch, and now I want to use it in my Asus Tinker Board for Klipper. I know that it's possible because exists one HOW-TO of this for Raspberry Pi 3b+. I wanna that someone, with knowledge in Armbian and Tinker Board, build (adapt) this DTS on GITHUB https://github.com/fbeltrao-br/mksts35/blob/main/mksts35v2.dts. I want this especially because the pinout https://github.com/fbeltrao-br/mksts35/blob/main/pinout.png, that is more easy for me understand what pins I need connect.

sorry just switched my box for the first time in a long time. i was wondering if i can seamlessly upgrade to the latest Armbian without losing hardware acceleration included in RK3288/RK3328 Legacy Multimedia Framework or is it only for Debian Buster? is kodi-gbm (RKMPP) still viable? is there a compatible version much higher than 18.9 "Leia"? thanks!

Hi, I tried to activate the SPI interface on a Tinkerboard2S. I used the last Armbian version (Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.110_Tinkerboard-2_bookworm_current_6.6.63_minimal). I edited the /boot/armbianEnv.txt and add the overlays, I found different parameters and all doesn't work, I tried: overlays=spi0 spi2 overlays=spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=0 and via armbian-config: fdt_overlays=rockchip-rk3399-spi-spidev But with all approaches I didn't get a /dev/spi* device. Any ideas? TIA

Hello, the latest armbian image (Bookworm_current_xfce) with kernel 6.6 has issues with the winstar tftp 5 inch hdmi display that I am using. Bootloader (u-boot) is showing but after loading the kernel message, screen goes blank. The screen resolution is 800x480, in attach the pdf specs. Info: the official asus image with kernel 4.4 works, but it is not an option for me as I don't want to use debian buster. Please help. Thank you very much. Bogdan WF50FSYFGDHNV.pdf

Hi! I'm using Tinkerboard S R2.0 in headless mode, but with LightDM (kiosk mode). It's connected to HDMI display, and I soldered display's backlight on/off contact to a relay that can turn on/off the backlight. I see that Amrbian turns off image output (launches screensaver as a black screen) after 10-15 min, but I could not find out where those settings are stored. Please help to find out.

Hi! When I try to access PWM via procedure described here https://tinker-board.asus.com/forum/index.php?/topic/15132-direct-gpio-access/ I see that & are not present (although they should be) I can see pwmchip0, but I don't understand what GPIO it is. Following ASUS docs from GitHub https://github.com/TinkerBoard/TinkerBoard/wiki/User-Guide#gpio-config-table-for-tinker-board-s--tinker-board-s-r20 GPIO32 and GPIO33 should be here: PWM:/sys/class/pwm/pwmchip3 and PWM:/sys/class/pwm/pwmchip2 But those directories are not present. root@tinkerboard:~# ls -la /sys/class/pwm/ total 0 drwxr-x…

On Tinkerboard S, I installed Armbian 24.5.1 Noble XFCE to mmc and tried again with an SD card after having trouble. The desktop does not respond to 2 different keyboards I have tried. If I use a mouse to open Terminal, the keyboards do work in the Terminal. If I try to open Web Browser in the applications menu, I get a window saying "Failed to execute Web Browser. Input/output error." apt update and apt upgrade do not fix the problem. Here is a log: https://paste.armbian.com/onikesixam

Tinkerboard (not 2) not booting after kernel updates for some reason. Who knows how to fix this?

I installed Armbian 23.11 Bookworm Kernel 6.1, Size: 482Mb, Release date: Nov 30, 2023. After installation, a CH340 based board was connected to my original Tinkerboard and recognized. Subsequently, I used armbian-config to provide the default desktop (Cinnamon flavor). Thereafter, the CH340 board is incompletely recognized. Specifically, no device is presented as /dev/ttyUSB?. The device appears in the list from lsusb, the kernel module ch341.ko loads, but no device in /dev. The forum search shows a previous instance of a similar issue many years back. I attempted to build the driver from wch.cn, but the kernel sources pulled from armbian-config were for the Linux tinker…

to recap: Tinkerboard (rev 1?) has 2 USB devices (from RK3288's internal ports), one for the Realtek HD audio, and one for the 4 USB ports (Genesys 4-port USB hub). while i have no info for the HD audio, the hub is powered via the 5V lines (noted as V5 pin in the datasheet). my mistake would be not checking if all the 5V power lines are shorted, or it's just connected to the hub. there's an option to NC the pin if using an external regulator (say, the RK808 power management chip?) The LAN is separated to the hub and instead directly connected to the RK3288 At least the datasheet for RK3288 says. no pinouts whatsoever so i think …

Hi! I need to make sure that my GPIOs remember the last state when my Tinkerboard reboots. Is it possible to modify the bootloader and avoid GPIO.cleanup? If yes, then how? Thanks!

Hello to all, I am using an HDMI switch. I have noticed that TinkerBoard Armbian, displays fine the UBOOT text/logo but after that, the HDMI shows no signal/image If I connect the HDMI cable directly from the board to the monitor all is ok. What would be the reason or setting to be changed so TinkerBoard HDMI port can output display either case (hdmi direct to over a hdmi switch) tx in advance

How can I make sure my /boot is protected against power failure making eMMC of Tinkerboard corrupted? Is it possible to mount read-only /boot while leaving the rest of FS writeable? I know about Overlay root FS, it's OK, but I need to protect only boot. Please help to mount it properly. Thanks!

I try to install chromium and get this: root@tinkerboard:~# sudo apt install chromium-browser Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: chromium-browser 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/49.2 kB of archives. After this operation, 165 kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 41567 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../chromium-browser_1%3a85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu2.22.04.1_armhf.deb ... => Installing the chromium snap ==> Checking conne…

Please advise what patch can I apply during compilation of Armbian Jammy for Tinkerboard S R2.0 to completely hide u-boot logo and messages? And where the patch should be placed? There are many folders in /home/max/build/patch/u-boot/ Thanks!

Anybody with a Tinker Board with a Gpu could run an inference for me? I need a benchmark for my thesis.

probably a post bragging of my christmas gifts, but mostly just documentation because it really confused and stumbled me from the get go so, my setup was powering tinkerboard (the first revision, without the new fangled eMMCs) via GPIO because it confused the hell out of me how to power this beast. this was powered through the XL4015 buck converter 12.1/12.2 V on input, with ammeter and voltmeter included on the board. (the board was current limited to 5A, because why not? the rk808 is 6A tops) ok from the get go the board powers (not load tested, just power through and run kodi-gbm UI) from 3.4V to 6.2V. undervolting or overvolting it doesnt shuts itself dow…

Hello, I'm trying to setup a hotspot on a tinkerboard S running bullseye. Following the procedure from https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Features/ at the point where it requires: 2. Copy /etc/network/interfaces.hostapd to /etc/network/interfaces i realize the file interfaces.hostapd is missing, even though hostapd is installed hostapd is already the newest version (3:2.10-6~armbian22.02.3+1) I manually created the file with the following content even though I'm not sure if that's correct (as referred in one post on the forum): auto lo br0 iface lo inet loopback all…

hi , i installed Armbian 22.11 Jammy minimal image for headless console only usage. uname -a Linux tinkerboard 5.15.80-rockchip #22.11.1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 30 11:05:19 UTC 2022 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux i installed teamviewer and if device rebooted with hdmi connected, i am able to use teamviewer and teamviewer shows shell output but when rebooted without hdmi cable connected, teamviewer seems working on device , but cant connect it.. here is teamviewer info TeamViewer 15.37.3 (DEB) TeamViewer ID: 1374960804 teamviewerd status ● teamviewerd.serv…

So I have downloaded several versions of Armbian for Tinkerboard using BullsEye and Yammy. Not one creates a working Access Point. The Bullseye version ends with a message that the hotspot has been activated but nothing appears. The yammy version fails with a message there is no usable driver for hostapd. It appears there are a lot of issues with this function. Why not leave it out or document which boards the feature doesn't support. It would save a lot of time going down rabbit holes.

Keep getting the error below when trying to run docker containers. I have a first gen Tinkerboard with Armbian on a SSD. Seen some post's about some error with cgroups v2, and using kernels below 5.x sudo docker run -d --name hello hello-world b22653867370a24ab900fc077f50fc6b05bb6eb986906caee88250fc9e9f5433 docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error setting cgroup config for procHooks process: bpf_prog_query(BPF_CGROUP_DEVICE) failed: function not implemented: unknown. docker --version Docker version 20.10.21, build b…

Good evening, last week they changed the electric meter in my building, but in order to do so they cut the power, and my Tinkerboard (the first model, the one issued back in 2017, Asus first's SBC), that I use as my "Save for later, and never look at it again" network folder, suffered. It continued to reboot from some kernel panic, which I forgot to take note; but since it hadn't been upgraded to jammy, I took the opportunity to do it. Pluging in the uSD card (with the newly released jammy version, just downloaded here), power, and all (including the ethernet cord!!), first boot I have to create my user (which, for some reasons refuses to let me put my usual fr3d tag…

Hi, I have installed "Armbian_22.08.7_Tinkerboard_bullseye_current_5.15.74_minimal.img.xz" on a Tinkerboard (no S, with RK3288). I have tried to set the output of some header pins without success. I used both "sysfs" and "gpiod" (which uses char-devices). Test procedure, e.g. for pin 36 (gpio223): # echo "223" > /sys/class/gpio/export # cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio223/direction in # cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio223/value 0 # echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio223/direction # cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio223/direction out # echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio223/value # cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio223/value 0 # echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio223/value # ca…

i'm stuck with this since day 1 but now i upgraded to armbian (with kodi-gbm) i had this problem worse stress testing the board with stress -c 4 doesn't bring the board into shutdown, but logging in to kodi-gbm or using graphical interface? it brings instability all of a sudden. there's no inherent pattern from the shudowns except when i launch kodi or access some files (emby transcoding doesn't cause any instability). anything outside the text mode should cause it to shutdown. weirdly enough, when i removed the USB peripherals (2xUSB HDD, own power supply for both cases) the instability worsens and doesn't boot or sometimes reboot cycle after fsck.ext4 on sta…

Hi all, I have Armbian 22.08.6 Jammy with Linux 5.15.74-rockchip with Desktop running on an "Asus Tinker Board Rev. 1.2". My Problem is that I get no stable HDMI Connection. Picture is appearing and disappearing every few seconds. Changing Cable, Monitors, Resolution and Refreshrate doesn’t change the problem. After Research in the forum I saw that I should provide „armbianmonitor -u“ here: https://paste.armbian.com/oriqiwilah I would be able to compile a custom image, but I don‘t know where to start bugfixing because I am no HDMI Expert. Maybe it has something to do with a Sync-Problem like described …

Hallo! Habe Armbian 22.08.6 Jammy with Linux 5.15.74-rockchip mit Desktop auf "Asus Tinker Board Rev. 1.2" laufen, aber leider bekomme ich per HDMI keine stabile Verbindung. HDMI Kabel bereits getauscht (geht mit anderen Geräten einwandfrei) auch Montor getauscht (geht mit anderen Geräten auch einwandfrei). Auflösungen und Framerates habe ich durchprobiert - fehlerbild aber immer das gleiche; Bild bleibt bestenfalls ein paar sekunden ein, dann geht es wieder aus für ein paar Sekunden und das setzt sich fort. Hab ein bisschen hier im Forum recheriert und sehe das man ein "armbianmonitor -u" ausführen soll und im Forum posten: https://…

Hi. I'm running Armbian 22.05.3 Focal with Linux 5.10.60-rockchip on an Asus Tinker board. Can someone tell me how to enable SPI? I've seen instructions that say you should be able to run armbian-config and go to System > Hardware > spi-spidev, however the Hardware menu does not exist for me.

Hello, I have set kernel.panic=180 in /etc/sysctl.conf to reboot on a kernel panic. Before, the system would keep running/hanging and I could read the errors if I turned on a attached display. Now the result is that the tinkerboard switches off. My expected result would be a reboot. Do I have to set something else? Or do I need to use watchdog? I am using the original tinkerboard with debian bullseye, kernel 5.15.48-rockchip.

I have a question or at last 2. 1.Where to connect outside diode to thinkerboard . 2.How to turn off/on it from command line.

Hi, i want to connect a MCP 2515 (the small modules for arduino) to my tinkerboard "Armbian 22.02.1 Hirsute with bleeding edge Linux 5.17.5-rockchip" I have enabled the SPI0 (and UART1) directly from armbian-config, I have disabled all the other peripherals. The connections are these: INT -------------> pin 32 CLK -------------> pin 11 SI ----------------> pin 13 SO --------------> pin 15 CS --------------> pin 29 in : /boot/armbianEnv.txt i add this: user_overlays=spi-mcp251x but it don't work and i can't find a guide for this board thanks a lot for your help

Hi! I've got a problem getting USB devices to work with Armbian 22.02.1 (Tinkerboard_bullseye_current_5.15.25) - fresh install, bare image without any modifications. While a simple usb keyboard would more or less work, plugging some devices seems to crash the built-in USB hub. This happens in "cold"-plug as in "hot"-plug, whereas there are slight differences. Booting up without any USB device attached: lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:49f6 R…

Hello, I've used the Tinkerboard S (Rockchip RK3288) with the Armbian images available for download (https://www.armbian.com/tinkerboard/). Currently, the /dev/ttyS4 serial port is not available unless CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=5 when the Linux kernel is built since the serial ports are populated in /dev starting with /dev/ttyS0 and the last serial port to be populated is /dev/ttyS4. By default, CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4. Some additional kernel settings are required to ensure that all of the available serial ports can be utilized. Moreover, I had to activate I2C4 in the device tree overlay using the Armbian configuration utility (https://docs.armbi…

Hello I cannot enable the Bluetooth on Tinkerboard device. Tried latest image, fresh install. I've opened the question on StackOverflow: https://superuser.com/questions/1698728/cannot-enable-bluetooth-on-tinkerboard-armbian It contains technical details. The latest what I've found so far is it could be related to Kernel compilation flags: # Extract from the /boot/config-5.10.60-rockchip CONFIG_SERIAL_DEV_BUS=y CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_3WIRE=y CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_SERDEV=y # CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_RTL - is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_DEV_CTRL_TTYPORT - is not set I tried to download and compile the kernel and stuck. Basically I do…

Hi! I have installed Armbian buster 21.08.3 and can`t discover any externally connected i2c devices, such as rtc or ssd1306 Any ideas? i2cdetect -l i2c-2 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-0 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-5 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter sudo i2cdetect -y 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- UU -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- …

Hello, yesterday i got a powerloss , and my Asus tinkerboard got shutdown. i think i had some updates installed but not yet rebooted the Tinkerboard never restarted again. i first suspected a crashed Emmc disk but i did the following tests and got to the conclusion that Armbian for Tinkerboard is currently broken - restored a past complete image to either SD or Emmc : boots ok. - shutdown then unplug/replug power : OK - update with apt-get update + apt-get upgrade => reboot OK, but shutdown, and then never restart, bricked. shutdown down either with desktop or command line tested also with a second Tinkerbo…

I have a brand new Tinker Board S with the latest Armbian buster installed. I have hostapd set up for the board to be a WiFi access point. I can see the SSID on my Windows and mobile devices but when I connect, hostapd tells me an error code 8 and that the device is disassociated. I don't think this is the issue as the kernel panics at exactly the same time. Here is the output from dmesg: [ 101.279674] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 101.284852] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:4117! [ 101.289337] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM [ 101.295860] Modules linked in: fuse rtc_ds1307 xt_state xt_conntrack nft_counter nft_chain_nat xt_MASQUERADE n…

Hi, New build, Armbian_21.05.0-trunk_Tinkerboard_focal_current_5.10.22_xfce_desktop.img. The build finished ok and the image after flashing is working just fine, but.. unfortunately there is no /boot/dtb/overlay folder and of course none and its .dtbo entries are found anywere. Am I missing something ? Is the latest build system broken for Tinkerboard ? Do I need to specify something during the build process menu ? /PS Just checked with the Armbian ready-made provided image for Tinkerboard, the Armbian_21.02.1_Tinkerboard_focal_current_5.10.12_desktop.img.xz and Armbian_21.02.3_Tinkerboard_…

https://justpaste.it/5jszu I tried with I2C connected and disconnected between screen and tinkerboard. No change. (See below, looks like i2c-3/3-0045/tinker_mcu_bl is missing ). I checked around that area and tinker_mcu_bl is missing, but folder 3-0045 exists with lots of files in there. (bottom of the post) From dmesg I also see that i2c had a failure (ret = -6). (see next paste) Looking forward I see that -6 is no device found on i2c bus (assuming that's correct?). Does anyone know if brightness control works? [ 2.446829] tinker-mcu: tinker_mcu_probe: address = 0x45 [ 2.446843] tinker-mcu: send_cmds: 80 …

On a fresh Buster Minimal install, what is required to get armbian-config fully functional? apt install armbian-config 'works' but some functions don't, for instance it fails setting the locale as dpkg-reconfigure errors as usr/lib/armbian-config/jobs.sh line 839 dpkg-reconfigure : command not found EDIT: In armbian-config I selected 'full firmware package' and rebooted, time zone settings now work. Was odd that the welcome page said run armbian-config (beta) but it had to be installed manually via apt.

Hey guys, i want help to install anydesk in tinker board with armbian focal

I just download Armbian_20.11.6_Tinkerboard_bionic_legacy_4.4.213_desktop.img.xz flased it on sd card with balenaEtcher, tried to boot and got error: So. I can't do my first login.

Hi all, I'm using for the Tinkerboard the mem freeze and resume methods; in particular using by the pins near the video connector (and a button) to resume the board. Is it possible to use other pins to achieve that? Thanks!

IT'S FINALLY HERE... THE OFFICIAL ROCKCHIP-LEGACY MULTIMEDIA INTEGRATION After two years of using a separate script to enable the multimedia features in RK3288/3328 Legacy Kernel, the whole framework has been incorporated to the official Armbian packaging system. The choice distro for this integration is Debian Buster (see FAQ at the end of this post about the reasons). I. Installation Download a Armbian Buster Legacy Desktop image for your board, and install it with the standard Armbian method. Install the complete multimedia solution with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install media-buster-legacy…

I got wierd screen blinking after update kernel from 5.8.18-rockchip to 5.9.14-rockchip. Here is blurry video with screen blinking. My screen resolution is 1600x900 and i'm using HDMI-to-VGA adapter. All was working fine with kernel 5.8.18-rockchip. I still can connect to sbc via ssh, so I checked kernel version, install old one and blinking gone: q@tinkerboard:/var/cache/apt/archives$ uname -a Linux tinkerboard 5.9.14-rockchip #20.11.3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 11 22:00:29 CET 2020 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux q@tinkerboard:/var/cache/apt/archives$ dpkg-deb -I linux-image-current-rockchip_20.11_armhf.deb new Debian package, version 2.0.…

Hello, I have been experimenting with the bluetooth audio on my tinkerboard. The issue is both present on the last rockchip-next (4.1x I think) and the rockchip-current 5.8.18 kernel. I am using bluez and bluealsa. The problem is specific to the onboard bluetooth, using an external bluetooth dongle (a cheap and old CSR Bluetooth 3.0 dongle from China) works as expected, I can even send audio to multiple devices simultaneously (quality is very bad, but thats a bandwidth problem). As long as I just connect one bluetooth audio device everything is fine. I can have multiple paired, but disconnected, devices and as long as I connect and p…

Hi, I'll install OpenMediaVault and Nextcloud on a tinkerboard and I would like to know if there is any advantage on run system on SATA / USB in this case and if it is possible to do this on tinkerboard since it was not clear for me on the docs. Thank you

Hi. I would like to download last armbian image for my Asus tinkerboard, but all download links broken: https://www.armbian.com/tinkerboard/ Can you fix that? I found Armbian_20.08.1_Tinkerboard_focal_current_5.8.6_desktop.img.xz here: https://armbian.tnahosting.net/archive/tinkerboard/archive/ Is that latest one?

Hi, since i have a Asus tinkerboard incoming i was wondering if anyone knows if the "generic" arm64 distro will work this board. Its based of the rockchip RK3288 SoC The support pages states that the board supports debian, but since i dont need a UI ect (im going to use it headless) i dont need the board to load a ui into memory and wanted to use a normal build instead of the TinkerOS Please note, my knowledge of the inner workings of *nix is quite limited, so if my question is to generic or imprecise i apologize.

HI all, first of all, I found thi sissue adopting a new board to the CSC tree, done by @balbes150. As it seems to be a problem of RK3288 in general, I post here, in case please move the topic to the approriate place. I have a JLD076 board, and started adjusting the DTS to the schematic. According to the schematic, and the TRM of RK3289, there is a maximum number of 160 GPIOs. This is also the number I get from my schematics. So I expected th get suitable number of pins from gpioinfo (bank:number 0:19, 1:4, 2:18, 3:28, 4:26, 5:12, 6:19, 7:24, 8:10). Instead, I get listed (0:24, 1...7:32, 8:16). I tried now to set ngpios for the &…

I've been (trying) to move the Tinker and MiQi u-boots to 2020.07, however if I use any of the following: A MiQi, A Tinker S an image for a Tinker S an image for a Tinker on a Tinker S I get stuck in the initramfs busybox with it telling me the filesystem is toast. The only 2020.07 combo I've gotten to boot is the Tinker with the non-eMMC supporting u-boot. As for clues, I haven't found any, the u-boot source code is of course very well organized for debugging purposes :lol:. If anyone has an idea about what could be going on with this let me know, I'm shelving the effort to think about other stuff.

In order to review the Tinker Board boot logs via serial console, I set up armbianEnv.txt to get the logs. But Armbian didn't output anything. Can anyone tell me what is wrong? As long as I reviewed boot.cmd, the serial port was assigned to /dev/ttyS2. So I used UART2 GPIO pins (GP7C7 for TX, GP7C6 for RX) to interact. (snip) if test "${console}" = "serial" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=ttyS2,115200n8 ${consoleargs}"; fi (snip) The barudrate is 115200. Of course, I re-checked my connection between USB-UART serial cable and UART2 GPIO pins (USB-UART RX to GP7C7TX, USB-UART TX to GP7C6 RX). Any infor…

Wifi AP access point broken in Linux tinkerboard 5.4.44-rockchip #20.05.2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 3 10:43:15 CEST 2020 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux [ 456.873025] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 456.878198] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3968! [ 456.882680] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM [ 456.889200] Modules linked in: xt_MASQUERADE xt_conntrack ipt_REJECT iptable_filter nf_nat_h323 nf_conntrack_h323 nf_nat_pptp nf_conntrack_pptp nf_nat_tftp nf_conntrack_tftp nf_nat_sip nf_conntrack_sip nf_nat_irc nf_conntrack_irc nf_nat_ftp nf_conntrack_ftp iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 fuse zstd snd_soc_hdmi_codec z…

I logged an issue a little while ago with Armbian running on the Tinkerboard that the screen when rotated 90 degrees couldn't draw the screen at any speed. I have been playing with a few alternatives incl going back to the original tinkeros. All have issues so I was delighted to see the FOCAL port. I am using the recommended Waveshare 7" touchscreen that you advertise on the home page as tested 3rd party hardware. Both the desktop and the server versions of Focal come up with the error Configure crtc 0 failed setting mode when I manually set the supported resolution of 1024 x 600 at 60Hz using xrandr Exactly the same settings on TinkerOS works perfectl…

Hello people, I use a Tinker Board as a low power desktop computer for browsing, office documents and general tinkering, and after all this time it got personalized enough to worry about loosing all this setup and it is a hassle to just overwrite everything every time a new image comes around. Was wondering if it is possible to use apt dist-upgrade as means to get from Bionic Desktop 5.4 to Focal Desktop 5.4 as can be done on x86 platforms without breaking everything?

However, Armbian is configured to provide only spidev2.0, while TinkerOS can have spidev0.0, spidev0.1, spidev2.0 and spidev2.1 all enabled at the same time as long as you disable UART4 which shares GPIO header pins with SPI0. In the TinkerOS case, there is a config tool which edits a small and straightforward text file in /boot/ containing lines such as "intf:spi0=on" or "intf:uart4=off". The corresponding Armbian file seems to be /boot/armbianEnv.txt - possibly with overlays=... lines and DTS files. There also is a tool called armbian-add-overlay to load (at runtime?) DTS files...

If anyone has troubles with HDMI when using 5.x kernels, and has enough skills to recompile an armbian, give this a try : https://github.com/Miouyouyou/build And then either answer here, or in the bug report : https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/1887

So recently I decided to use my (quite old) tinker board, I downloaded the last armbian (desktop, 4.4.213) OS, managed to install a vncserver (x11vnc) and also to use it without a screen plugged in it. And now I would like to turn it into a urbackup server, but I got some error with mdadm, "Module md_mod not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.213-rockchip". I tried to use this forum to find a solution (https://github.com/armbian/build), but I couldn't make it work. When i tipe ´´git clone https://github.com/armbian/build´´ it stop around 7% at resolving deltas, and it just freeze. Someone could have any idea how to solve this issue?? And i can't get my armbianmon…

So I have armbian installed on a tinkerboard and have had absolutely no issues with it until I bought a new Samsung 7000 series TV (2019). For some reason this TV does not recognize the signal coming from the tinkerboard. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get this to work. I notice a few references online about being able to force a resolution but nothing related to the rockchip boards. Is there an equivalent way to force a display resolution as in this article? https://docs.armbian.com/Hardware_Allwinner/#how-to-reconfigure-video-output I'm running 4.19.21-rockchip 5.76 I've also tried kernel 5.4.28 as well an…

Hi, I installed "Armbian_20.02.7_Tinkerboard_buster_current_5.4.28_minimal" at my tinkerboard and, in order to enable uart 4, I had to rebuild the kernel onboard (from linux-source-current-rockchip_20.02.7_all.deb). The uart 4 came alive but the processor serial number now is missing from cpuinfo (printing 0000000000). How can I bring it up again?

Hello people, I have an Asus Tinker Board S and decided to use the Mainline Armbian for this board, love the new panfrost driver but seems it is glitching all over the place, icons in the menu disappear and reappear when mouse hovers over them, tick boxes do not show if they are ticked and only flicker when mouse is over them and applications menu keep redrawing all over when trying to use among the most prominent problems. Other operating systems work well in this matter. Anyone else is having these problems with the mainline 5.4.28 kernel build?

I have a TinkerBoard S. In Bionic Desktop (kernel 4.4), the wireless icon menu lists two devices: wlan0 (which is the expected interface) and p2p0: I don't know this one, but it is always chosen for auto-connecting to the local wireless lan, receiving a random IP and not the one I configured on the router. I can then manually connect to the network with the wlan0 interface the IP is correct. How do I disable / remove / anyway stop that p2p0 interface to "steal" the network connection?

I used sudo swapoff -a as suggested in this thread: but the setting isn't persisted, and upon reboot sudo swapon --summary shows a partition There's no "swap" text in my /etc/fstab I'm trying to install Kubernetes, so I need to disable swap.

Hello, I own a Tinker Board S (bought one or two years ago) attached to a Sony Bravia KDL 22EX320 TV by HDMI, which has a native resolution of 1388x768 pixels. Bionic desktop with kernel 5.4 (got from https://dl.armbian.com/tinkerboard/Bionic_current_desktop) didn't properly recognize the TV resolution, but set it to 1920x1024. If I run xrandr --props the resolution is not listed. I'm posting because I'm almost sure that the old TinkerOS 2.0.8 (that I installed with the board) recognized the TV resolution correctly - it anyway boots to desktop without requiring interaction, so not being able to read the text at the edges of the console …

I have Tinker Board S. I have been using both Tinker OS and Armbian for a while. Recently I upgraded to 5.4.28-rockchip. I noticed that randomly and frequently when I watch cnn.com or other media, my video would freeze. Initially I thought the firefox or chromium crashes. However, later, I realized it was the network issue. Other devices were still able to connect to the internet. When I checked the ifconfig, the network devices still showed proper connection. However, there is no way to ping any URLs. Disconnecting/reconnecting network does not fix the issue. The only fix was reboot. How can I troubleshoot this issue? I was trying to do armbianmonitor but at …

I am testing RK3288 with ubuntu 20.04 (gnome) btw NICE And I have some problems with panfrost and I am looking for anybody with RK3288 device that can confirm or not same behavior. Problem is that when I switch GPU to 600MHz sudo bash -c 'echo "userspace" > /sys/class/drm/card1/device/devfreq/ffa30000.gpu/governor' sudo bash -c 'echo "600000000" > /sys/class/drm/card1/device/devfreq/ffa30000.gpu/userspace/set_freq' and when I run glmark2-es2 or glmark2-es2-wayland I start to see https://pastebin.com/NuYqHdxH in kernel.log So I made bugreport(https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/2693) for panfrost and the…

Hi. I installed Armbian_20.02.1_Tinkerboard_bionic_current_5.4.20_desktop on my TinkerBoard (not S) and get weird screen state (white, then growing black circle in the middle). I tried Armbian_20.02.1_Tinkerboard_bionic_legacy_4.4.213_desktop and it works very good, but I still want to test vulkan driver, so I updated only kernel to 4.19 (install linux-image-next-rockchip, linux-header-next-rockchip, linux-dtb-next-rockchip and delete 3 old packages). After reboot I got same screen. Is it known bug? Can it be related, that I'm using HDMI-to-VGA adapter? Can you help me to fix it or get usefull logs?

Anyone have an issue where on a fresh install with apt update and upgrade I create a hotspot then have openvpn connect on boot. It works fine as a hotspot with 200mbps up and down but when the traffic is routes through a vpn by connecting openvpn the board will crash/become unresponsive if the upload is used heavily. Works great until I run a speedtest and on the upload the board will crash. Normal use is fine even pegging download causes no issue. Le potato s905x works amazing in this regard and never crashes period. Is this a known bug?

Hello togehter, i had 2 ASUS TinkerBoard S and I want to work with your software... The Software was via Etcher installed on several MC - Cards (16, 32 and 64 GB), but it still not working. The POWER - LED is red and the both LEDs on GBIC - Interface are blinking green and yellow :-( So, what kind of problems that I have here. I tried out several IMAGE from your WebSite - but no one won't to work with me :-( Best regards Matthias

Using Linux tinkerboard 4.19.69-rockchip #5.95 SMP PREEMPT Mon Sep 2 07:34:36 CEST 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Using glxgears as a test case.. I get 60fps without the screen rotated. If I rotate the screen right or left the frame rate drops to 4fps. That's on a fresh boot with nothing else running. I tested TinkerOS on the same board and it works fine rotated. My Raspberry PI 4 works fine rotated as well. What could be the problem with Armbian?

Hi there, can anyone give me an URL that i can download an Armbian Stretch Release for the Tinkerboard S? I´ve Problems with my RPI-RF-MOD and i´m thinking it is something with the new Releases. Thx.

Hi all, I'm trying a Tinkerboard running armbian (minimal) and DietPi. My goal is to handle suspend and wake up. To enter in suspend mode i run 'echo mem > /sys/power/state'. I'm looking other ways to suspend .. by C application or by a signal on GPIO To wakes up I notes different modes on different OSes: - linaro pressing power button, pressing a key on usb+bt keyboard, pressing usb+bt mouse button - dietpi - pressing power button - armbian minimal - nothing ? my guess is that the board shuts down Please con you confirm? Where does reside this different behaviors? Thanks, regards. PS: is …

Hi guys i am new on forum so i am sorry if this topic is in wrong place or if i badly look for answer in existing topics. I already using bionic legacy 4.4.199 destkop for few weeks and i am happy ( only problem which i have is with bluetooth-device manager not working aftar i connect keyboard or mouse and handsfree doesnt work too) but i see on web that there is new version so i download bionic 5.4.8 desktop to give a try. boot look normal until i get to tinkerboard login. there i use default root/1234 - it ask for changing root pass so i make it - then Retype pass and after enter it doesnt do anything. i can type anythong but enter only move…

Hello, I'm trying to show a startup logo a Tinker Board without success. I tried to add a parameter logo=/boot/boot.bmp to /boot/armbianEnv.txt but it doesn't work. Is the boot logo implemented on the Tinker Board? Does it require a patch? Thanks for your feedback.

Hi! I seem to have the same problem described here: I have an Asus Tinkerboard, not the S version. Today I upgraded from the latest Asus TinkerOS image: 20190821-tinker-board-linaro-stretch-alip-v2.0.11.img to: Armbian_19.11.3.346_Tinkerboard_buster_current_5.3.15_minimal.img I notice that my maximum CPU frequency has dropped from 1.80GHz to 1.61GHz. cpufreq-info now reports: $ cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: cpufreq-dt CPUs which run at the same hardware freq…

Hello, I'm unable to make the RTL8723BS chip on my Tinker Board to work on AP mode with the 5.4 kernel (same configuration works on legacy kernel). When I try to connect I get this error on dmesg: RTL8723BS: ap recv deauth reason code(3) sta:40:4e:36:cf:8a:18 On the console I also get a bunch of kernel errors similar to this: Message from syslogd@localhost at Dec 27 14:26:11 ... kernel:[ 799.239910] ff60: bf0377a4 dd8057e8 dd07ffac dd07ff78 c014a17c bf0377b0 de2d9128 de2d9128 Is this a known problem? Thanks

Hi, because I find in 4r dont see any topic to talk more about change ramdisk as increase or decrease, so I make this cmt, hope somebody help me know + How to resize for ramdisk, and how to using sd card as ramdisk and swap file, so emmc size will be have more space, because I want install kali into + If using bionic desktop, and only install kali tool for pentest, will bionic running ok ? or I must build and install kali as root ? Hope someone can help me know it. Thank you so much

Dear all, I'm looking for help on having RFCOMM TTY working on a Tinker Board S. Any help will be welcome !! Using : Ubuntu Bionic with Armbian Linux 4.19.69-rockchip # uname -a Linux astrotinker 4.19.69-rockchip #5.95 SMP PREEMPT Mon Sep 2 07:34:36 CEST 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux I'm trying to have rfcomm tty working with a bt HC-05 dongle, but RFCOMM TTY seems not to be available. The BT HC-05 is well reconized and connected: # bluetoothctl [NEW] Controller 80:C5:F2:46:E2:C2 astrotinker [default] [NEW] Device 00:14:03:06:04:ED HC-05_TIC Agent registered # systemctl restart bluetooth.service # …

Hello people, I am trying to set CPU Governors but all the cores change to the same clock and cpufreq-info reports "CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3", with that even one thread working is making the CPU scale up all clocks and heat more than it should, is there a way to unlink them and each one have their own clocks according to each core processing load?

Hello all, I downloaded the Armbian Buster OS desktop version. I need to run it with a vertical display - portrait mode. The OS starts correctly and I see the desktop in landscape mode but when I try to rotate left the display, it does not rotate and return to landscape mode. The display is a large NBT monitor 1920x1080 that I need to rotate to 1080x1920. Any idea? Regards

Greetings, On the tinkerBoard, I'm using python. I having difficulty understanding why the functions don't return the values that is expected according tho the library help. I'm using python3 and the ASUS GPIO library. import ASUS.GPIO as GPIO GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) This is the output from ipython: In [18]: help(GPIO.gpio_function) Help on built-in function gpio_function in module ASUS.GPIO: gpio_function(...) Return the current GP…

Hello! I would like to know if it is possible to use the microUSB-Connector for connecting a USB device (a 7-port USB hub in my case)? My Tinkerboard is powered through the GPIO pins, so i don't use the microUSB for power input. Is it even possible from the hardware architecture of the board? Do i need some extra kernel packages and/or USB OTG to make it work? Thanks in advance, aElmecker

Installed the desktop version of Armbian (bionic) on Asus Tinker Board S and noticed that the GPIO Pin 40 is always high on boot up. Please let me know whether this is high by default for any reason and if possible how to set it to Low while start up.

Hi, I spent several days trying to figure this out, which is a bit confusing given all the information that is available and posts and wikis saying that "Waveshare" LCDs are supposed to work, but something is still not right, hope you guys can help. What I have: ASUS Tinker Board S, flashed with Armbian_5.90_Tinkerboard_Debian_buster_default_4.4.182_desktop.img Updated to 4.19.57-rockchip via armbian-config (in order to get the fbtft* modules that were missing in 4.4). The LCD is a 3.5" original Waveshare 32a panel. I started by adding the overlay for this screen (i.e. my armbianEnv.txt has these overlays: overlays=i2c1 i…

Greetings, After setting my tinkerboard pins 22 and 24 as an Inputs, they reverts to being an output pin on HIgh after around 30 seconds. What is the cause of this? Is this some kind of feature. I don't have this happen on any other pin other than these 2. iomari

Just as a notice the Raspberrry PI 7" DSI Touchscreen was working fine on Armbian with the 4.4 Kernel. Using the current Armbian for Tinkerboard and the 4.19 Kernel it does not work any longer, nor does it with the current development Kernel 5.1. Does there have to be any special things to be set to get it working again? On the 4.4 Kernel it was working out of the box. Thanx

Hi there, I'm trying to install docker on my tinkerboard s running armbian 5.73. I've managed the following steps from your documentation: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 0EBFCD88 sudo echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic stable" > sudo /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list sudo apt update But when i tried to install docker using: sudo apt install docker-ce I'm getting the error that docker-ce has no installation candidate. Does anyone maybe have an idea how to get this working? Thank you.

Hi all, I just bought TinkerBoard S and I downloaded Armbian Stretch 4.19 (tried both with and without desktop ) and I tried to boot. But no luck I was waiting for few mins but nothing. I also tried Armbian Strech 4.4 but also nothing. Am I missing something here? Original TinkerOS work without any issue Thank you for any advice/help

I'm trying to get the RPI 7in touchscreen working on armbian with my Tinker Board. Can anyone tell me how?

Hi, I am looking for a solution to have the JustBoom and HifiBerry Audio Hat with dtoverlays working like in the TinkerOS 2.0.8 Image from ASUS. Does someone known and has a procedure how to compile those and integrate in the Image or Compile a new kernel with its integration or a way to get those two hat's working? Many Thanks for your help Roman

Scan ssid by mobile phone the SSID can be seen . but always in password loop. I've installed hostapd V2.7 and dnsmasq V2.79. and wpa_supplicant and networkmanager are stopped. The config files are as below: 1: etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf interface=wlan0 driver=nl80211 ssid=TinkerNet hw_mode=g channel=7 wmm_enabled=0 macaddr_acl=0 auth_algs=1 ignore_broadcast_ssid=0 wpa=3 wpa_passphrase=mypassphrase wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=TKIP rsn_pairwise=CCMP 2:/etc/dnsmasq.conf interface=wlan0 # Use the require wireless interface - usually wlan0 …

Hi all, I'm running Armbian 4.19 (both stable kernel 5.77 and nightly) on an TinkerBoard S. I'm trying to connect a 3.2inch resistive Touch Display to SPI2. The display works with ili9341 module on SPI2 CS0. I have the touch screen of it on the SPI2@1 (CS1) but no way of getting a module or overlay dts for the ADS7846 TouchScreen. I've seen, there is a generice resisitive-adc-touch module, but I can't get it running. Using the ADS7846 on armbian with AllWinner and several other boards for many years. Works great so far. Any hints, how to get it running in such a way, that it will be there with downstream updates (meaning without h…

I downloaded the kernel source and kernel headers on a rk3288 rockchip (tinkerboardS) and noticed there was a mismatch between kernel version, armbian release and chipset (rockchip64) - see below. root@tinkerboard:~# uname -a Linux tinkerboard 4.4.174-rockchip #7 SMP Sun Feb 10 11:57:26 CET 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@tinkerboard:~# cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=tinkerboard BOARD_NAME="Tinkerboard" BOARDFAMILY=rockchip VERSION=5.75 LINUXFAMILY=rockchip BRANCH=default ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage root@tinkerboard:/usr/src# …

I have spent a considerable amount reading docs and getting my head around building a custom default kernel & desktop image. Patching the kernel and optimising the desktop environment is working well. The remaining question is: How do I select a specific - kernel 4.4.174 (based on armbian-release 5.75) ? It defaults to 4.4.176 and 5.86.

Hi I need to do the following things on my Tinker Board S what i normally do on Raspberry Pi 3: raspi-config; system; Hardware; 5 interfacing options, 6 Serial Would you like a login shell to be accessible over serial? = No Would you like the serial port hardware to be enabled? = Yes then I need to add the following line in the /boot/config.txt dtoverlay=rpi3-minuart-bt This activates the Serial Console on /dev/serial0 Where do I config Serial and how? what is the correct dtoverlay for the miniuar-bt in tinkerboard? does anyone have a hint for me?