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I've taken peeks at threads related to hardware decoding (of H.264 and HEVC, mainly) on Allwinner and Rockchip platforms on and off, sometimes dabbled in trying and failing to implement solutions recommended there. Being a complete amateur, I find the topic very opaque and confusing, with various different components that need to interface with each other, be patched in sync, and sometimes change drastically between kernel versions, etc. Today I sat down and read up on these subjects, scouring wikis, documentation, this forum, and assorted other sources to try and understand how this works. In this post I will attempt to compile what I've learned on the different software…

I can't seem to get apt-get update to work, this is a fresh install anyone know the fix? mango@nezha:~$ sudo apt-get update Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy InRelease Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-security InRelease Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu jammy InRelease Hit:6 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates InRelease Hit:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-backports InRelease Hit:1 https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs vscodium InRelease Hit:2 https://cli.github.com/packages stable InRelease Err:2 https://cli.github.com/packages stable InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because th…

This tutorial is based on my knowledge and experience in testing Tinkerboard. It has not been tested on other devices and I do not take any responsibility nor am I liable for any damage that may be caused through the use of this tutorial. Debian / XFCE minimal desktop Download the latest current version of Bullseye (Panfrost drivers included) for your device and follow the instructions https://www.armbian.com/download/ After the first login type ... exit (exit from root, login with your new user id) sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade (if the kernel installation prompts for modifications, just say Yes or Ok) sudo apt install task-xf…

Armbian implements some basic 'system logging' at every startup and shutdown and contains a little utility to provide this collected information combined with some more useful debug info from user installations. All that's needed is executing 'sudo armbianmonitor -u' (or armbian-config --> Software --> Diagnostics) and then all this support related information is uploaded to an online pasteboard service automagically (see example output) How to interpret this wall of text? The output is best read from bottom to top since the most important information is collected during upload: At the bottom /proc/interrupts contents to chec…

Hi! Currently try to figure out how to run my freshly builded Armbian using QEMU arm64. According to this tutorial: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ I prepare clean Jammy VM. Build using this CMD: ./compile.sh BOARD=qemu-uboot-arm64 BRANCH=current RELEASE=bookworm Build process was going smoothly i pick up two files from output folder: 1) Armbian-unofficial_24.5.0-trunk_Qemu-uboot-arm64_bookworm_current_6.6.29_minimal.img.qcow2 2) Armbian-unofficial_24.5.0-trunk_Qemu-uboot-arm64_bookworm_current_6.6.29_minimal.u-boot.bin Currently boot up process stucked, i can run U-boot and mount qcow2 ima…

Hi there, I have been using Ubuntu stock from Hardkernel but it is worse than a kick upon my jewels... As usual only Armbian is the way to go, however I personally dislike Ubuntu therefore I'd like to go with Debian but I didn't get the difference between CLI and Minimal. Can anyone advise me? Thanks in advance, F.

Hi, I wrote this news http://time4ee.com/news.php?readmore=170 about Orange Pi Zero Plus (SBC with SIM and Bluetooth) but I have a question. I didn't hear about this processor RDA8810PL and my question is if armbian will support this board. I don't know if xunlong send you preliminary boards or not. Thanks P.S. The answer will be release in news :-)

Some sort of hope? http://nanopi.io/nanopi-m3.html http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=130 Great eW

Hello, I wish to share my research on getting OpenGL to work on Mali GPU. I realize Armbian focuses on server images, but I suppose many people would be interested nevertheless. I have a Banana Pi Pro and an Orange Pi PC, which both have a compatible GPU. Perhaps it will work on other boards as well. Here are the commands I used to get OpenGL to work. 1. Install: # install GLX Gears, mesa GL and GLU libraries apt-get -y install mesa-utils # install development tools apt-get -y install build-essential automake pkg-config libtool ca-certificates git cmake subversion # install re…

A new 4xA53 Amlogic S905 board from FriendlyArm. -> http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=186 Really interesting.

At this point upgrade is ready only for advanced users. Repository: apt.armbian.com Key: http://apt.armbian.com/armbian.key Add to sources if not there: deb http://apt.armbian.com $(lsb_release -cs) main Packages naming logic for apt-get install: I. Kernel 3.4: Deprecated linux-u-boot-DEVICE_NAME-default (cubieboard, cubietruck, lime, ...) linux-image-sunxi (all) or linux-image-banana (for boards bananapi, orange, lamobo r1) linux-headers-sunxi or linux-headers-banana (for boards bananapi, orange, lamobo r1) linux-firmware-image-sunxi or linux-firmware-image-banana (for boards bananapi, orange, lamobo r1) linux-$(lsb_r…

armbian-config - wireless network connect, - AP (hotspot) in bridged or NAT mode, - freeze and unfreeze kernel and BSP upgrades, - edit boot environment, network, FEX, welcome screen items, - switching between available kernels and nightly builds, - enabling read only root filesystem (Ubuntu only), - set display resolution (H3 boards with legacy kernel), softy - TV headend (IPTV server) - Syncthing (personal cloud) - SoftEther VPN server (VPN server) - Transmission (torrent server) - ISPConfig (WEB & MAIL server) - Openmediavault NAS (NAS server) - PI hole (ad blocker) - MiniDLNA (media sharing) Welcome to submit / push …

Have been struggling to install Armbian on Firefly rk3399 - did try many images from armbian.com/firefly-rk3399 with no luck at all. Then I did stumble on a Arbmian image on a USB stick from 5 of January this year Armbian_19.11.7_Firefly-rk3399_bionic_legacy_4.4.208_desktop.img which did work to my surprise. Thought it had something to do with u-boot and partitions. I did always stop on starting kernel ... with some prior errors. Will try to install newer images for the sake of curiosity :-) Btw. have donated to the Armbian project twice - not so much, but some amount - as people should do. This is the serial out…

Is it possible to install armbian to EMMC? Is the Fat32 partition still necessary?

Hi, I setup armbian version 5.6 (Ubuntu 16.04.5 Xenial) on OrangePI PC. Working long time without problem. But after power failure I found that directories in /var/run have bad permissions and some daemons won't start. After investigation I found failure start of systemd-tmpfiles: systemd-tmpfiles[210]: Failed to fstat() file /dev/btrfs-control: Bad file descriptor systemd-tmpfiles[210]: Failed to fstat() file /dev/net: Bad file descriptor systemd-tmpfiles[210]: Failed to fstat() file /dev/net/tun: Bad file descriptor I setup debug loglevel and got this: systemd-tmpfiles[210]: Failed to fstat() file /dev/btrfs-control: Bad file descriptor systemd-tmpfil…

Hi there First of all thanks a lot for your images. Currently I am trying to setup my R1 as wifi access point using the image Lamobo-r1_Debian_3.2_jessie_4.1.2 The out of the box hostapd let me connect successfully from my wireless devices. After some time, one hour or so, the connection starts dropping and reconnecting up to a point that I cannot connect at all. BTW, I could not get hostapd working stable with Bananian and self compiled drivers as well. Symptoms were similar. I am also not using any harddisk or USB devices. I also used a second R1 and have the same problems. Does anyone have the same sy…

After reading from June '16 until February '17 I think it makes sense to start at the last steps /improvements. In the 5.24 nightly the directory for networking looks like this (the network folder and the few below this branch): Looking back to my manual I deleted the VLAN file and created my own. Then I see here: ifenslave | ethtool | ip | several 'interfaces' and I was wondering does it need all that for a working VLAN with DSA=Distributed Switch Architecture ? ==================================================== reto@lamobo-r1:/etc/network$ ll total 60 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 4 18:34 ./ drwxr-xr-x 94 root root 4096 Feb 4 18:36 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2…

Hi, Is nand-sata-install script still included in Armbian_4.5_Cubox-i_Debian_jessie_3.14.54.raw ? Thanks

So I tested Kodi playing different demanding video files (H256), and it works smoothly, without crashing at all. So far the most stable media center option. But yes, we have no ethernet. So I was wondering how could we load the basics drivers from the Xulong image, into the PineH6 one. So I browsed for hours (because Im not at all familiar with this android weird partitions system, and with the OS itself). First I realized both Pine H6 and OPiOnePlus use the same ethernet controller (the realtek 8211). Then I went for the schematics, to actually check if the realtek chip was connected to the H6 the same way on both boards. Which it seems to be for…

Doing apt search took just a few seconds before, but since some days, probably after an apt update && apt upgrade, it has become so slow that a search takes many minutes (20+ minutes) instead of seconds. I don't know why, and I don't know how to fix this. Do you know what to do? The slow part of the search is where it says "Full Text Search". It reaches 50% quickly, and then goes slow. If it matters: ODROID-C2, Buster

Hello to everyone! : ) I've made a lot of digging around but I haven't found a final reply to my questions because all the informations I've found are quite old and probably outdated. I own an OPi PC which I was using with Libreelec but unfortunately the HDMI output broke because of the missing protections. By what I know, there isn't any mean of getting AV out working on Libreelec so I switched to Armbian for which it seems to be possible instead. I've installed it with no issues at all (version as per title) but all the guides I've found on this forum to enable AV out seem not to apply, probably because they're intended for much older Armbian versions nor I couldn't fin…

Hi, in addition to some research regarding a few quality SD cards I wanted to ask our users to contribute to some collective benchmarking. In case you bought Samsung, SanDisk, Toshiba or Transcend SD cards within the last few months, have a A20 device and are able to test the card in question, please use this A20 Armbian 5.07 image (vanilla kernel, performance governor, no user creation), burn the image on the card, connect board to network, start it and do the following at least twice iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 Please be aware that some cards seem to need some time for auto calibration when being first used s…

I know I shouldn't have, but I bought today a Sunvell H3 2GB RAM + 16GB ROM TV Box. I have no idea if this will run Armbian someday, but I had to try...

hello guys !!! I want to make a backup of my sd card with armbian and other installed on it . In windows not possible because the ext3-4 format of the card . In ubuntu I can see the armbian file system into the card but not copy because I don't have permission So , I put again the card into my orange pi and I type sudo su and then password . I tyoe also sudo -s but nothing . Pratically some folders are not "visible" Do you have any suggestion? ciao Walter

What about the new Banana PI M2 ultra ? Is it a real SATA controller ? or just one more that is channeled through the USB ? And is this machine likely to be supported by Armbian ? It in short seems to be a little overpriced and the eMMC storage to be to little. And the M3 left a bit bad taste in my mouth, but if it is Sata that gives more speed than USB and if it will be Armbian supported then I might give them another go.

I have done a firmware update on my Compulab Utilite Pro using u-boot compiled from source. However something went wrong, leaving me with a bricked board. In the manual it is mentioned, that the iMX6 has 2 boot-modes. The recovery-mode can be configured by switching some pin to a high-level. On the PCB I can not find any jumper, that allows me to do so. Question: Does anybody know how to switch the Compulab Utilite Pro to the recovery-mode? Thanks in advance

Hello I wanted to post on here regarding a new project we have been working on called SimpNAS. Its similar to OpenMediaVault or FreeNAS but simpler and more basic. Its currently in Beta but we are looking to have a stable release by the time Kobol ARM NAS gets released. It can be installed on armbian devices as long as it has two hard drives one for the OS and one for Data. For example we have it installed on an ODroid HC2, but can be installed on any PC. Feedback will be greatly appreciated. Check it out here https://simpnas.com Thanks for looking

Since the question came up a few days ago on linux-sunxi IRC and Igor2 provided a nice tutorial to activate Ethernet Gadget mode, I added the necessary one-liner patch to our repo (disabled by default) and built now a kernel with all the necessary stuff patched and enabled: http://kaiser-edv.de/tmp/4U4tkD/Armbian_3.4.112_g_ether_kernel.tar.bz2 To get the idea please read through Igor2's Readme: http://igor2.repo.hu/tmp/opi_usb_gadget.txt You should run a recent Armbian installation (apt-get update/upgrade), then extract the contents of the tar archive above somewhere, install the stuff using dpkg and then reboot: tar xf Armbian_3.4.112_g_ether_…

For what it's worth, and one of the most discussed topics can now hopefully finally closed: Mali in mainline Did not try it, but the source is trustworthy to my humble knowledge... Still no open source release, but I guess it silences a lot of people questioning for Mali support! For the real Mali die hards, here is a link to some more background info: Free Electrons

I have a raspberry pi camera attached to the tinkerboard. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to use it. Help?

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Hi, Did today a kernel update...upon reboot, has no connectivity. I have lost swconfig; copied the one that comes with the sdcard/img download, it booting the switch by default, but does not allow to do much more...the reset and set operations are giving an error. What could I do?

Hi, I'm running the latest bionic image (nightly build) on my rock64pro. (I've tried with the stable build but it has the same result) uname -a Linux 4.4.166-rockchip64 #22 SMP Fri Dec 14 00:56:53 CET 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux I've used armbian-config mayan edms 3rd party software installation option but it failed during the mayanedms/mayanedms container deploymentment. With docker events& turned on I saw the next message: standard_init_linux.go:190: exec user process caused "exec format error" I found a recorded issue in mayan edms gitlab and it looks this issue is still not resolved: https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/may…

Linux orangepizeroplus 5.15.25-sunxi64 #22.02.1 SMP Sun Feb 27 09:24:04 UTC 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux. I don't see anymore the /sys/class/gpio... directory. Has this been suppressed or is my filesystem corrupted? The /sys/class/ dir exists w/ a lot of stuff, just gpio is missing! This is duplicated in Discord, but I'm not sure, if it is right there (1st use)

Hiya I just received a free Roseapple Pi board and seeing as it uses the same SoC as the LeMaker Guitar was wondering if there could their be an Armbian build for it please? Many Thanks Lemonzest

K-worker takes 10-20 % of one cpu core with later kernels. Does the 4.17 kernel still have this problem? Or is bionic a solution?

There are updates in the most recent mainline kernel about the Odroid C0/C1/C1+ board: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?h=v4.20&qt=grep&q=odroid The armbian image with the mainline kernel have not been updated. Could you please update it? I would like to use it. You can officially drop the outdated version with the kernel 3.10. The Kernel 3.10 is not supported any more and have ton of security issues that wont get fixed. Only the mainline kernel is interesting and worth upgrading to latest kernel. Thanks

Hi, if anybody would like to use - please see attached script for backup of block devices. I used it when executing backup for topics: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/2073-orange-pi-plus-2e-upgrade-to-520/and http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1681-migrate-from-orange-pi-plus-2-to-orange-pi-plus-2e/ Requirement: dd, gzip, ssh client (I guess they should be available by default on every system) lsblk, mount (should be available on every system) pv tool; you may install it "apt-get install pv" Script is identifying list of available block devices. The condition is that it should be block device with at least one partition and it cannot be mounted at the…

I have a Clusterboard and the latest images (Stretch and Bionic) do not work with my SOPINE modules. Legacy 3.10 (Xenial) works. I've been told this is a problem that has been resolved before but somehow the fix has been left out of the latest images. What is the process for getting it back in? armbianator didn't generate a URL so I'm manually pasting it here: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spoiler ### Activated 4 lzo zram swap devices with 248 MB each ### Activated Armbian ramlog partition with compression ### Activated 4 lzo zram swap devices with …

System Information: - Cubietruck with Ubuntu 16.04 - armbian-config 5.62 - armbian-firmware 5.60 - armbian-tools-xenial 5.60 Hallo since last few updated I've noticed that I have no logs... With some update armbian ram logging was enabled and all logs moved to log.hdd folder, but not all of them are filled up after this operation. I did disabled armbian-ram-loggin wia editing /etc/default/armbian-ramlog: ENABLED=false After this services was disabled, but no logs filled in a log folder... Also no log rotation happens. Spoiler # /var/log/ls -lah total 116K drwxrwxr-x 13 root syslog 4.0K Oct 15 06:30 .…

I've an OrangePI PC. I would like install, enable and start watchdog. I installed watchdog using apt-get install watchdog. But install seems to require some tweaks. I tried to googling but until now nothing works. Any hints ? Thanks!

Hi Igor, thanks for your work and excellent armbian builds! I have a Cubietruck and wish to have a OS like OpenElec which running only Kodi on the device. Because OpenElec ist no available for Cubietruck, i start to try and play with your armbian builds. But i have no luck, maybe because i am a linux noop. Can you help me to compile Kodi and a Kernel with CedarX to run Movies with hardware accleration on Mali-400? Unfortunatelly i found no ready-to-use Kodi/XBMC-Images for Cubietruck on Internet. There a only 3 years old images based on XBMC 12 (Frodo) and a Kernel for CubieBoard2. This images runs only without working ethernet and only 1GB RAM and i have no idea to…

I'm looking to potentially set up a dedicated VPN server probably using an Olimex Olinuxino A20 Lime 2. The main thing I was somewhat confused about is how to connect to my router and how to ensure that traffic is routed through the VPN server? Presumably to connect to my router I would just use an Ethernet cable. But how then would I ensure that all traffic goes through the VPN? The vast majority of SBC that I have seen only have 1 Ethernet port so connecting devices physically is a no go. I assume I might need to use some form of port forwarding?

Hello. I want to use btrfs as my rootfs (Armbian Ubuntu xenial 5.14 on M2) so I can use snapshots to roll back, freeze for backups, and to help manage changes. Btrfs is also good for error checking and can provide cheap easy data redundancy. How does booting work on my BPI M2? How can I change the target root partition? What has to be on /boot (ext4) and what can be on / (btrfs)? Along the same lines, is it possible to boot off of a USB device either directly or indirectly (Small SD with bootloader and /boot→ USB large root device)? Is there some documentation or good keywords to learn about how booting works in the ARM world?

I run this command I saw that my system clock is not synchronized. destructor@orangepiplus:~$ timedatectl Local time: Mon 2020-05-18 14:05:45 EEST Universal time: Mon 2020-05-18 11:05:45 UTC RTC time: Tue 1970-01-06 15:48:55 Time zone: Europe/Kiev (EEST, +0300) System clock synchronized: no NTP service: inactive RTC in local TZ: no So how can I active ntp server? I undestand that is common Linux OS question but when I installed Linux OS on PC devices it never disturb me because there it worked as default

Does the older stable version of wheezy have the sata power regulator patch? I am having issues with my device shutting down if i access my drive on the Lamobo-r1_Debian_2.8_wheezy_3.4.107 image. I need the hardware support that the older version gives me along with a working sata drive install script. i dont seem to have the shut down issue on the newer kernal images.

Hey. I have a banana pi m2u (Allwinner A40), I created a debian stretch console image, but ethernet interface does not work. The eth0 interface is not visible in the system. Could you say what could be wrong?

Hi, I am currently working on a OLinuxIno A20 limeX system which works in read only mode. I use the code I developped here: https://github.com/lauhub/debian-to-readonly I have small problems with armbian evolutions, since it uses, creates and modifies some files in some directories that should not be modified according to this page. Example of files : /etc/init.d/armhwinfo (modifies permissions of /etc/logrotate.d/armhwinfo) /sbin/fake-hwclock (creates /etc/fake-hwclock.data) /etc/update-motd.d/40-updates /usr/local/bin/armbianmonitor (modifies /etc/armbianmonitor/datasources/soctemp) I can easily disable these files for my purposes, but I would be gla…

Errors shown when doing $ sudo apt update ... Ign:1 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt bionic InRelease Get:8 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt bionic Release [17.5 kB] Get:9 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB] Ign:10 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt bionic Release.gpg .... E: The repository 'http://apt.armbian.com bionic Release' is not signed. N: Updating from such a repository c…

I am using Armbian for a long time on mi Orangepi mini (A20), board not supported but installing image Bananapi M1 it has been working very well adding fdtfile=sun7i-a20-orangepi-mini.dtb on /boot/armbianEnv.txt After running apt upgrade kernel package is upgraded from 5.10.60-sunxi to 5.15.25-sunxi i get this errors: S'està configurant linux-image-current-sunxi (22.02.1)… update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.15.25-sunxi modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.25-sunxi/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.25-sunxi/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.ko.xz not found. modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/5.15.25-s…

When trying to run `apt update` on Bionic I am getting a `File has unexpected size` from the armbian mirrors. This has been the case for several hours now. This is with the Bionic xfce desktop image from 12th December 2020 (just installed today). motofckr9k@rockpro64:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt update Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-security InRelease Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-backports InRelease Get:5 https://minio.k-space.ee/armbi…

Hi, I'm wondering can I build the armbian for BPI-M3? I've tried this way: ./compile.sh BOARD=bananapim3 It fails on rootfs creation (I've tried to select CLI Xenial or Jessie): [ error ] ERROR in function create_rootfs_cache [ debootstrap-ng.sh:137 ] [ error ] Debootstrap base system first stage failed Can it be fixed?

I'm unable to make an RTC module to work: RTC module ds3231, BPI M2Z and ARMBIAN Bookworm i2c pins 3 and 5 Driver RTC-ds1307 loaded, because RTC-ds3231 is not available. Why do I need a RTC-module? Often in the field I'm not online but I do need the right time on my observation camera's. My application does not allow me for having a monitor. My system does the recordings by motion detection, and the recordings do need the right time on it. armbian-config i2c0 set Tools installed: apt install python3-smbus i2c-tools i2cdetect -y 0 Detects address 068 and not UU as proof of driver been loaded …

rk3288.txtHi all, I stumbled across a board which may be of interest for one of my next projects. Here you can find a link to it, it is model JLD076 I have the board already on my desk, and as it is really well equipped with loads of interfaces, I would love to get Armbian working on it. J have attached the boot log from console to the message, it uses Uboot 2017, and seems to be based on a standard Rockchip eval board. Onboard peripherials are handled by the usual suspects: ethernet by RTL8211, WiFi by RTL8732, and some of the display links by ALC6540. eMMC is fixed on the baord, so RKUSB is needed (can be invoked by Uboot command or bu…

Hi All The "real time" kernel patches are included in Igor's Armbian build tools, but are disabled by default. Enabling them are simple. (Thanks Igor) Build "real time" kernel images by doing the following: refer to https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib Execution apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib--depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . mv ./lib/patch/kernel/sun7i-default/0014-patch-3.4.108-rt136.patch.disabled ./lib/patch/kernel/sun7i-default/0014-patch-3.4.108-rt136.patch ./compile.sh Press "Enter" to continue Confirm you are running a RT kernel by checking "uname -a" output for PREEMPT e.g Further reading…

Could someone remind me of the status of the H3 crypto engine, both hardware (capabilities, aes-ni ?) and software (mainline or vanilla kernels) ? I've been testing openvpn on an amlogic s905 box (still need to fix my beelink x2 problems) and as expected i'm hitting a cpu bottleneck. i've been able to achieve around 60Mbps (Blowfish-cbc, usb hdd, ext4) but openvpn being single threaded the cpu load maxes out thus limiting openvpn's bandwidth. Unfortunately as with most vpn providers you can't tweak all parameters and so, changing the tun-mtu size is not possible and has to stay at the default 1500 value. I will perform some tests on my beelink x2 or opi pc…

Hello I wanted to change kernel from meson to sunxi[code] $ dpkg -l | grep linux-image rc linux-image-current-meson64 24.11.1 arm64 Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.6.63-current-meson64 ii linux-image-current-sunxi:armhf 24.11.1 armhf Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.6.62-current-sunxi[/code] and after reboot It is not booting What can I do is it possible to copy some files from fresh downloaded image or edit any file to make it boot from sunxi kernel?

I added a script lurking around on my disk for some time to Armbian's repo to be hopefully included into future Armbian releases when testing looks good: https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/scripts/h3consumption Since it's just a script you can include it in your running Armbian installation simply by downloading it from Github -- try it this way please: sudo -s wget -q -O /usr/local/bin/h3consumption "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/igorpecovnik/lib/master/scripts/h3consumption" chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/h3consumption h3consumption -H h3consumption -p The last 2 calls will show the verbose help text along with current settings. This might …

SMART AM40 iQ Appliance P/N: 1031572 Model: UGK-AM40-EDU | EWY1-AM40-EDU | EWY2-AM40-EDU Processor RK3399, Dual-core A72+Quad-core A53, 64 bits, 2GHz Memory 4 GB DDR3L SDRAM Storage 32 GB eMMC 5.1 Wireless technology Bluetooth 4.1 802.11A/B/G/N/Ac Capture options Establish a Bluetooth wireless connection with a supported mobile device Connectors HDMI 1.4 (1920 × 1080) output for external monitor USB 3.0 Type-A (×2) RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet --Update-- For device tear-down and technical sheets included in package - SEE SECOND POST …

Hi All, A question from a linux newbe i want to build a custom image for an A13-SOM-512 from Olimex. I followed the next instructions from page www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/: apt-get -y -qq install git git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib cp lib/compile.sh . nano compile.sh # alter if necessary ./compile.sh After selecting linux-som-a13 from the dialog "Select one of the supported boards" i receive a messages [ error ] ERROR in function source [ main.sh:103 ] [ error ] Board configuration does not define valid kernel config [ o.k. ] Process terminated Is the A13 not supported or do i need to create a kernel config f…

Good morning everyone, I'm trying to find the script.bin file in my nanopi M1 in order to change HDMI resolution but untill now it has been impossible to find it. I'm using the debian that provides friendlyarm in version 3.4xxx (the one attached to in the page). I've been using all I commands and modes that I know, even show hidden files and nothing I know this is not a conventional linux device (its a development platform with a ARM Alwinner H3 processor in it) but since it has debian jessie, I think somone can help me find where the HDMI config files are. when I use find, it shows this: root@FriendlyELEC:/# find / -name script*.bin root@FriendlyELE…

Suddenly after updating via armbian-config I lost ssh access and found the port closed. I rewrote the latest armbian version, stuck the sd card in, connected to ethernet cable via router and started up. The red and green lights were on as they should be and the internet cable was flashing green. Waited 3 minutes and checked the ports with nmap. And the port is closed again. Not responding to ping at all. I am still new to this topic. Please help and sorry if the translator translates crookedly.

I read a lot of U Boot documentation the last hours but I still fail at fundamental understanding, like: - where can variables be set? boot.scr obviously, but there is also uEnv.txt boot.cmd armbianEnv.txt ... and in which order and precendence are they parsed? (If I set a variable in different files, which value will be used? first? last? ...) - how is a change made persistent (saveenv does not work) - Can sub-variables be changed, e.g. root in bootargs what I am trying to achieve atm is to change the boot partion rootdev from p1 to p2. Even thou I think I patched the relevant files, printenv shows that bootargs and rootdev are still set to…

I am trying to figure out how to create a dtoverlay to allow my waveshare 2.8a fbtft screen to work. I understand that i the 5.x.y kernels, a dtoverlay is required. I'm starting with the waveshare32b.dts for raspberry pi, found here: https://github.com/swkim01/waveshare-dtoverlays Should be compatible with the 2.8a per waveshare wiki. I'm trying to modify it in sort of the same way as was done in this thread, for another display: The board I'm using for this is an orangepi pc2. But i don't' actually know what I'm doing. What I've come up with so far is this: /* * Device Tree overl…

Since December 2013, when I started to deal with CLI Debian images and support them, things become ... bigger. My prime motivation was only to build an working Linux image for some amateur based services. Project brought a lot of fun, a lot of new toys on my desk but also tears and frustrations. I hope and wish that public use our work to the greatest degree. Blog comments - your questions and (not only my) answers - become large and valuable knowledge base for ARM single board computers and general Debian / Ubuntu problems. I already manage to pack some of the into the FAQ but I'll need your help and patience within summarizing this into General FAQ. You only need…

I've got one of these boards. It is just Kernel development that has ceased as there are no maintainers? (Had I had the skills, I would have happily maintained it. ;-( ) Also, to get the latest Kernel later on, is it as simple as obtaining the official sources and then compiling (or cross-compiling to ARM) and then install the Kernel? On this one I'm a bit like a duck out of water and if anyone can point me along the right path, all help will be greatly appreciated.

Hello guys. I have Banana Pi BPI-M2-Ultra v1.1 board with A40i chip I download img from armbian "Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.86_Bananapim2ultra_noble_current_6.6.62_xfce_desktop.img.xz" and write it on microSD(HC) 32Gb A1 10 class with balena etcher. Then plug it in a board and turn on. Here is uart debug output 11:14:41.598 -> 11:14:42.396 -> U-Boot SPL 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-Pb2fe-H0429-V0f9a-Bda0a-R448a (Nov 17 2024 - 03:22:36 +0000) 11:14:42.429 -> DRAM: 2048 MiB 11:14:42.429 -> Trying to boot from MMC1 11:14:42.728 -> ns16550_serial serial@1c28000: pinctrl_select_state_full: uclass_get_device_by_phandle…

No matter which image I take (stretch/bionic; Bananapim2/Bananapim2ultra; 5.38/5.69) my Banana Pi M2 Berry with it's Allwinner V40 won't boot correctly. The attached screen stays off and the LED keeps shining red. I used Etcher 1.4.9 portable to copy the image to an 16 GB MicroSD. It's worth mentioning that the Pi and the MicroSD work just fine if I'm running it with another distro, like the 2018-05-24-raspbian-jessie-preview-bpi-m2u-sd-emmc.img from the official website. If I'm using the image Armbian_5.69_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.13, then I'm able to access the Pi via ssh. Yet, the screen won't work at all. As an interesting side …

Hello, I have tried to enable second SPI interface on orange PI, so far without any success, here is what I done (orange pi pc+) first I look at script.bin/fex and saw there is spi1 configuration, uncommend lines, edit a little: [spi0] spi_used = 1 spi_cs_bitmap = 1 spi_mosi = port:PC00<3><default><default><default> spi_miso = port:PC01<3><default><default><default> spi_sclk = port:PC02<3><default><default><default> spi_cs0 = port:PC03<3><1><default><default> [spi1] spi_used = 1 spi_cs_bitmap = 1 spi_cs0 = port:PA13<2><1><default><defa…

Sorry if I have come to the wrong place. A friend has given me an Orange Pi 5 Plus, fitted with a 1GB SSD, and I have been trying to get it started up. According to its previous owner, the SSD had been completely erased (I don't know why). It had no SD card with it when I got it. I downloaded the online instruction manuals, and set about trying to start it up, using a suitable 32GB SD card. I first tried with (OrangePi) Ubuntu, but ran into problems using Balena Etcher. It apparently transfers the Ubuntu Image to the SD card, but just as it appears to complete the process of verification, it produces a helpful error message ('There was an Error'....). I also tried wi…

Hi, I just migrated to armbian freom bananian using exactly the same hardware components (that were working well with bananian) and now after let armbian auto configure the wifi AP with armbian-config, I can see many problems in starting hostad: Spoiler hostapd v2.5 for Realtek rtl871xdrv root@bananapi:~# hostapd -d /etc/hostapd.conf random: Trying to read entropy from /dev/random Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf ctrl_interface_group=0 drv->ifindex=4 l2_sock_recv==l2_sock_xmit=0x0x16e1ae8 BSS count 1, BSSID mask 00:00:00:00:00:00 (0 bits) Completing interface initialization Mode: IEEE 802.11g Channel: 5 Frequency: 2432 MHz DFS …

I'm not sure if anyone is interested in a very small distro without gcc, but I spent some time the last week using buildroot and armbian's source files to create a 3.4.112-rt image for the nanopi neo. It is going to be part of a realtime audio project (think synth or guitar pedal) that I'm working on and it demands a quick boot, among other things. There is also a mainline version, but it doesn't have all the fixings you folks like, so I don't know if you'd want to use that. You can find the build scripts and config files on my github. I'll be posting the legacy image in a zip file tonight, once I verify everything is reproducible. I…

Hi! After update to kernel 5.15.75 via apt upgrade, boot fails. Though I can flash an older image, I would prefer trying to recover existing setup and rollback to a previous kernel. What would be the best approach, ie flash image to usb, boot from usb and what then? I will appreciate any advice. U-Boot 2022.07-armbian (Oct 18 2022 - 07:36:22 +0000)SoC: Rockchip rk3399Reset cause: PORModel: Radxa ROCK Pi 4BDRAM: 3.9 GiBPMIC: RK808Core: 285 devices, 31 uclasses, devicetree: separateMMC: mmc@fe310000: 2, mmc@fe320000: 1, mmc@fe330000: 0Loading Environment from SPIFlash... jedec_spi_nor flash@0: unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: ff, ff, ff*** Warning - spi_flash_pr…

Hey guys and a happy new year! I am working on a custom H3 board and I just got the prototypes from the oven. I am now trying to boot armbian on them. And as it's first prototypes I expected problems but I have trouble figuring out. I think it's because of my lack of understanding the boot process. See picture of the board enclosed. It don't tell much but it's nice to have a visual I think. On top right is a battery manager/power input. Right under is AXP8036 that makes 4 buck channels (1.35V for ram, 1.2V sys, 1.3Vcpu and 3.3V) Most is similar with orange pi PC schematic, there is few changes : - crystal and wifi is sa…

Would someone mind educating me about kernels please? I have a problem with my vpn Tailscale and it seems to be related to the kernel version. Nov 12 12:07:30 odroidhc1 tailscaled[8259]: Starting userspace wireguard engine with tun device "tailscale0" Nov 12 12:07:30 odroidhc1 tailscaled[8259]: Linux kernel version: 4.14.187-odroidxu4 Nov 12 12:07:30 odroidhc1 tailscaled[8259]: is CONFIG_TUN enabled in your kernel? `modprobe tun` failed with: modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:586 kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/4.14.187-odroidxu4/modules.dep.bin' Nov 12 12:07:30 odroidhc1 tailscaled[8259]: modprobe: FATAL: Module tun not found in…

/var/log goes full every 15 min when i remove.Please see attachment download-2020.2.18_20.11.35-root-(projectok.com).tar.gz

EDIT: This is NOT about a (hidden) backdoor but just a local privileges escalation that affects one single 3.4 kernel variant for 2 Allwinner SoCs. In case you came here through lurid headlines please read this comment here first and help stop spreading further BS like "all Allwinner devices contain a hidden backdoor" -- the code has been found since Allwinner could be convinced to open their Github repos in the past so everyone is able to audit their Android kernel source! It has been brought to our attention two days ago on 2016-04-30 in linux-sunxi IRC that Allwinner's 3.4 legacy kernel for H3/A83T/H8 contains a nasty local privileges escalation. Any process …

Hello All, I've tried Armbian_5.59_Xt-q8l-v10_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.18.6_desktop.img image taken from Though the system mostly works, in the main desktop menu (the one that opens clicking on left upper corner of the screen) I see no menu entry that can be interpreted as software management. By software management I mean a GUI application allowing to browse available package, read their descriptions and install or remove the packages. Examples of software management are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_(software) , https://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Software_Management , https://delightlylinux.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/software-a-better-software-…

Hey guys, one of my 2x OPI3 Allwinner H6 board wont boot from the micro SD card. That rather decrease me to a nowinner instead of an allwinner. But joking apart The red LED over the SD card is enlighted when all cables like keyboard, mouse, HDMI and ethernet are cable-connected. The red LED from the power is only a few seconds red and is switching to green, then the board boots to the pre installed Android.7 OS. The SD card will not be detected. When Android is up, there is a point called "local" at the bottom of the screen When I open "local" I can see "Local Memory" that possibly should be the SD card, Network Neighborhood (CIFS…

Hi folks, I'm running armbian on a Banana Pi 1st generation, so far no probs. Indeed it runs very stable. The armbian is a debian jessie. Is it possible or recommended to update to stretch via the official debian upgrade path ? The armbian is fully updated Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.36 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 4.13.16-sunxi I'm running an nginx php stack on the BaPi. But what about stretch ? Can I do a dist-upgrade ? Sorry if this has already been discussed. Thanks in advance for replies :-)

It's important to believe blindly in numbers! At least when you try to be mislead as much as possible! Yesterday Michael Larabel from Phoronix fired up his usual set of passive benchmarking tests for the new Raspberry Pi 3 and he still uses rather questionable results for other boards to compare with (he claims that it would be sufficient to use a board with 'factory settings', run a set of synthetic benchmarks, don't analyse the results or even think about whether they could be wrong and treat the results as the truth) RPi 3 is 4 times faster than OPi PC and 6 times faster than OPi Plus? Really? If you just try to think about these graphs for a second it…

Sorry, can't find (using apt-cache search) [seamonkey, thunderbird, firefox, openoffice] WFUP? Ex I use OO 3.3 so I DONT want to switch to Libre Office, even they are OS Licence...

Hi Folks, Trying to wrap my head around this still, so bear with my if I've crossed my wires somewhere, first some background. With a 5.8 linux-image-current-rockchip64 kernel, zfs 0.8.4 and 2.0.0-rc won't compile because of the following error. ERROR: modpost: "__stack_chk_guard" [/root/zfs/module/zfs/zfs.ko] undefined! This has been mentioned in a few places: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/10985 https://forum.armbian.com/topic/15065-downgrade-linux-image-current-rockchip64/ Digging into this I managed to build the module on focal with the same kernel and install that on buster. I'm of the be…

Hello, I am trying to compile some firmware to recognize a DVB-T USB device. The compilation process raises an error as following: I was trying to to build kernel headers again: $ cd /usr/src/linux-headers-3.4.112-sun8i $ make headers_check $ make headers_install $ make scripts And then I run this command in the source directory: $ make ARCH=arm KSRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-3.4.112-sun8i this is the output: This is the same error from the compilation process. How can I solve this problem? Any help will be appreciated.

I wanted to update my tinkerboard and my nanopi m4. I tested the following versions: - Armbian_5.98_Nanopim4_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.192_desktop - Armbian_5.95_Tinkerboard_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.190_desktop - Armbian_5.95_Tinkerboard_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.190 with most of the ppa that I add I have the same error: 404 Not found [IP: 2001:67c:1560:8008::15 80] E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/libgphoto2/ubuntu focal release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and …

Hello, I have idea to make a product (based on SBC - Small Board Computer) and sell it on the market, but after searching many forums, websites, youtubes etc I am sure only for one: All what can work on that SBCs stable (I mean stable for production use, for customer product) is... lighting a LED connected to pins... That's all. Anything else could work, but also could not work. Drivers coud be found, but you can not be sure they will work (most of them are in version zero point...). Units could be connected, but it doesn't mean they will work when connected... Crazy. Let me explain more. My project needs a SBC with working camera and working communication (Bluetooth or …

Dear to all, I'm not expert. How can I add kernel header of zfs to linux kernel 5.15.80-rockchip64? I have run the command "apt install dkms zfs-dkms" and I've got the following output: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done dkms is already the newest version (2.8.4-3). Suggested packages: debhelper Recommended packages: zfs-zed zfsutils-linux linux-libc-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: zfs-dkms 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2297 kB of archives. After this operation, 18.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you…

hi: I want to use my orange pi to control some network devices which has rs232 console port. so I enable uart1 as 2 pin mode, and buy some rs232-ttl converter board. then I found these rs232-ttl converters is not working under my situation. they do work when I use my PC to control orange pi (so this is RS232 -> TTL). they don't work when I use my orange pi to control rs232 device (so this is TTL-> RS232, not working). it seems there is something difference between RS232->TTL and TTL->RS232. now I wonder if TTL->RS232 possible? or I need enable 4 pin mode and find another kind of converter for the work? thanks a …

Hey there! I've just bought a used Orange Pi 5, according to the owner he never managed too boot up the first time, because he said it was bricked, for the price he offered for the device and accessories I thought I'd give it a go.. and yeah, I tried to install on different microSD cards, Armbian, OrangePi Os, Android 12 for Orange Pi, many tries but none of them booted or did anything after waiting even 15min. If I set the device into maskrom mode it enters the mode but it gives error to anything I try. I read on a post that using this firmware fixed someones board: https://dl.radxa.com/rock5/sw/images/loader/rock-5b/release/ I tried and I get the following: Downloa…

Hello! I wanted to install the Armbian 26.2.1 Minimal / IOT to an Ordoid HC2 (using the XU4 distro). Download ok - sha hash is ok - balena etcher ok - startup - ok. Problem: When I log in the first time with "root", the "1234" as first password is not accepted. Also, PUTTY warns that ths ssh of the armbian uses only "Diffie-hellmann-group1-sha1" which (for PUTTY) is a bit unsecure. Any idea about the password issue?

Hello, I am using Armbian 5.25 Linux 8 jessie 3.4.113-sun8i and when I plugged usb grabber with chipset utv007 lsusb shows only 1b71:3002 without name of device. How can I add driver for this device to my armbian? (preferably without reinstalling Armbian) or If I install new version 5.3, will it work out of the box? Thank you!

Hi, guys. I need some help in understanding of usage AR100 (OpenRISC) coprocessor inside H3 SoC for the own real-time tasks. Now i'm using mainline kernel built with RT-PREEMPT patch. I'm using it with Machinekit (LinuxCNC) software to control stepper drivers/motors via GPIO step/dir pulses. But step pulses frequency is too slow (about 17 kHz) because the RT kernel latency is about 30 us. I think we can use the built-in coprocessor for the realtime GPIO toggling. The AR100 and main Cortex-A7 can talk to each other with built-in MSGBox. And the question is - how to launch my own firmware on the AR100 core?

Hello, I'm using Armbian_5.90_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_dev_5.1.12, which is offered as latest, but non supported download. I have used it a bit and installed OMV already, which seems to work fine (sata not tested yet), but I can not get wifi to work. wlan0 device does not exist. iwconfig says : root@bananapim2ultra:~# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. dummy0 no wireless extensions. ifconfig does not bring up wireless interface at all. If I try to modprobe bcmdhd, ap6210, ap6212, it says : modprobe: FATAL: Module bcmdhd not found in directory /lib/modules/5.1.12-sunxi I…

Armbian monitor http://ix.io/3BGM Hello updating supported bullseye 4.9 orange pi zero 2 dont work, problem with libc6 because of kernel version. I tried hacking uname -r update was successful but wont boot anymore. I use clean install with clean image from website : dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.31-13+deb11u2_arm64.deb (--unpack): new libc6:arm64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.31-13+deb11u2_arm64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) …

Hi all, i've installed Postgresql on my Nanopi M4 V2 board which is running Buster Armbian Linux 4.4.192-rk3399 and it appears to have installed ok but it won't start - there's nothing in the logs and running pg_isready returns no response - any ideas guys

Armbian Stretch Is there an instruction on getting a graphical user interface on the orange pi one? Thanks.

Some days ago I installed the latest armbian updates to my armbian buster installation / openmediavault 5 on my odroid n2. After the installation of the following updates the cron jobs, which were setup on omv5 gui (not in crontab os) are not working anymore and are not started because of error: Here the update packages: armbian-config 20.08 armbian-firmware 20.08 linux-buster-root-legacy-odroidn2 20.08 linux-dtb-legacy-meson64 20.08 linux-image-legacy-meson64 20.08 linux-u-boot-odroidn2-legacy 20.08 Here the error message: /var/lib/openmediavault/cron.d/userdefined-ee6e5e4d-afef-449f-88fb-b6b4d0e4f1a5: 20: /etc/profile.d/ar…

I have an Odroid N2 connected to my TV via HDMI, 1920x1080. This works with the Ubuntu 18.04 Mate OS. In order to not block my TV for hours making it useless to my family, I would like to use my PC monitor instead (DVI/VGA, resolution 1680x1050). There are two entries in the file boot.ini regarding the resolution and interface. Currently it is set to the default (1920x1080, HDMI). Is it required to change both values to 1680x1050 and DVI or is it just sufficient to change the resolution ? Of course, I'll loose the sound. The result, however, is a headless server running a Nextcloud instance at home, so sound doe…

Hi, I normally use Proxmox on Intel Nucs (also Buster based) and also had here usbip with some USB sticks on a USB hub. Now I decided to split that up a bit and so I got some ZeroPi devices and wanted to use them as USBIP hosts kind of. So I installed the buster image and also added usbip_host module to /etc/modules. The devices are seen by the Linux on the ZeroPi in general and also /usr/sbin/usbip list -l lists them successfully. Here the dmesg output too: [ 350.174305] usb 4-1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-platform [ 350.331127] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1a40, idProduct=0101, bcdDevice= 1.11 [ 35…

Here I'll try to accumulate all the useful information I find on topic. # System config and build ## Build OS for building Armbian disto: Ubuntu 20.04.1, 4 x core i7, 2GB RAM; HDD usage so far: 29GB so I guess 32GB disk is bare minimum; My build script mkBoardImg.sh for Armbian: Spoiler #!/bin/bash ./compile.sh CLEAN_LEVEL="images,debs,make,oldcache" \ BOARD="wandboard-srv" BRANCH="dev" \ KERNEL_ONLY="no" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" \ BUILD_DESKTOP="no" BUILD_MINIMAL="yes" RELEASE="focal" \ Kernel configs are stored in /srv/kern/v1.0.conf, it's easier to save/lo…