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Ubuntu changed the location of the mini.iso file for the minimal Ubuntu (Server?) installer in their file servers (since the 20.04 release), it's now located here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/installer-amd64/current/legacy-images/netboot/mini.iso The docs should be changed since it could be confusing for new users/developers.

Alan in Sydney, Australia. I've loaded: eoan desktop, Linux aml 5.5.0-rc6-aml-s9xxx #rc1.038 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 6 10:21:51 MSK 2020 from the 20200205.zip file and upgraded. root# mkdir -p /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/i2c3a cannot create directory ‘/sys/kernel/config/device-tree’: Operation not permitted What am I trying to do? On an Odroid N2 compile with GCC 10 (from Fedora) "neural networks" code (FreeDV) using the ARMv8 SVE extensions. (Odroid N2 is not supported on Fedora)

Hi all, I am using Armbian Bionic on ASUS Tinkerboard S board(s) in an application where the power may fail at any point. I have now, for the second time, seen a running OS starting to fail with the error. ALERT! /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exists. Dropping to a shell! I have restarted the board several times, but the error continues. If I do a: (initramfs) blkid /dev/mmcblk2p1: UUID=.... /dev/mmcblk2: PTUUID=.. It seems that the OS tries to boot from the wrong device. If I then, booting from another OS using SD card, change the /boot/boot.cmd rootdev: setenv rootdev "/dev/mmcblk2p1" And rerun the mk…

Hello. I feel like this is a really basic stupid question, but for the life of me I can't find an answer. Every thread that I read about getting a display XYZ to work in Armbian references using fbtft. But apparently fbtft is now deprecated and cannot be used anymore. So.. what do I do now? I'm mainly looking to get ILI9341 -based 3.2" TFT and MPI3508 3.5" TFT to work with Armbian. Mainly testing with an Orange Pi Lite2 and Orange Pi 3 currently. I've read this: downloaded, compiled and installed the .dts. Also modified/added line to boot.cmd to use lcd as display according to https://docs.armbian.com/Hardware_Allwinner/ tha…

Hello everyone. I'm trying to configure wifi on my orange pi zero based on armbian buster. I planed to work in two wifi modes - client mode and access point mode. Wpa_supplicant allows me to register several networks in one configuration file, one of the networks can be with the option mode = 2, which means an access point. Then if during scanning wpa_supplicant does not find available points for connection, its own access point is created (which with mode=2 in conf file). I have problems with connecting other clients to this access point (it sees, but always reconnect). dnsmasq works as dhcp server as service, but i try to connecnt with static Ip on client too - no resul…

Hi guys, I am going to apply some LibeELEC multimedia patches to Armbian kernel Please advise, what is the proper way for this? I have found folder build/userpatches/kernel/sunxi-current. Should I put files here?

hello, and sorry for my English I installed Armbian and i have many problem : 1/ I want a auto-login at startup, but I don't know how to do. 2/ I want stay the command line , and choose to startup on desktop. 3/ I have a problem to return to command line then i am on desktop (with default desktop). 4/ that other desktop works on Armbian and how to install them cordially Rachel

Hello, Trying to compile the Qualcomm Gobi serial USB drivers for a Simcom wireless chip on a NanoPi Neo2 (sunxi64). I've loaded the kernel headers via armbian-config and typically this specific header file would be in drivers/usb/serial. We're using the pre-built image. Is there an easy way to get this into our kernel or do we have to embark on a full compile? Any help very much appreciated Rob

Actually this is answer not a question . How to drive things with the OrangePi board with smartphone? My GOAL was : 1. create Access Point with Orange Pi Lite board. 2. create wireless local network with Nodejs 3. connect my smartphone to this wireless network So , I think almost all kind of boards could work , from Raspberry pi , Orange pi and many others boards families with wireless adapter . This is tested on OrangePiLite board with OS-Armbian 5.65 with node.js installed. First you have to create two files - server.js and index.html(see below) server.js is your nodejs server script file who will handle index…

Hi, I have an Orange Pi Zero configured as a Wireless Access Point (via armbian-config) and it works great. However, I want to be able to scan for wireless networks whilst configured as an AP. If I try scan, I get the following error: wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported Just wondering if this is a shortcoming of the driver or the XR819?

I just got a working version of the mcp251x.dts overlay running an the Allwinner H3, and ran into a few issues along the way. I'd like to save someone the pain and maybe find the right place for a bug report for the old version of dtc in the image. Compiling the overlay with armbian-add-overlay fails on the target system because the following throws: dtc -@ -I dts -O dtb -o mcp251x.dtbo mcp251x.dts ... dtc: livetree.c:521: get_node_by_phandle: Assertion `(phandle != 0) && (phandle != -1)' failed. aborted The best reference I can find for this symptom is: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10015389/ Following them, commenti…

Hello, I will use the BPI M3 with armbian and a GPU support. With my understandig GPU is with the normal installation not activated. What is the way to actvate this? Many thanks for the support, André

Hi all, this is somewhat odd. I am using the nextcloudpi image NextCloudPi_Rock64_03-28-20.img. I believe it uses armbian (I am really not an expert sorry) and my problem is really not nextcloud related i believe. I had to cut the power to the rock64. Then i rebooted. The system clock is set to some early date (2016-xx-yy). Therefore the unmount is in the future causing an fsck. It fails miserably and drops to initramfs (where i really am lost). I don't think this should happen. I dont have a rtc battery - maybe this wouldnt be an issue if there was one attached? I hope someone can tell me how to progress or how to provide better insight …

I use Armbian Buster on ODROID-C2. I try to install the package "syslinux" with apt, but it's not there. What now? apt install syslinux Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package syslinux is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'syslinux' has no installation candidate

I'm using an Orange Pi Prime to build a Magic Mirror. The module I'm trying to install is for switching the HDMI on/off with a PIR sensor. The module is called MMM-PIR-Sensor. The readme file it says to execute this command sudo chmod u+s /opt/vc/bin/tvservice && sudo chmod u+s /bin/chvt. The result I get is:chmod: cannot access '/opt/vc/bin/tvservice': No such file or directory. I believe the module is set up for Raspberry pi and the issue I'm having is due to disconnected libraries? Anyways, I'm relatively a novice so any help to figure this thing out is greatly appreciated. The OS I'm using is Armbian 20.02.1. Let me know if there is any other info need…

I have compiled Armbian buster with Linux 5.4.32-rockchip64 with additional option in RTC clock and enabled DS1307. Everything is fine, the board can communicate with DS1307, but I am unable to use this /dev/rtc1 as the main hwclock instead on /dev/rtc (it points at /dev/rtc0 which is built in RTC). I have read many forums on Raspberry, this forum but it doesn work. I did: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/5346-rtc-ds1307-i2c-for-tinkerboard/ 1) Add "echo ds1307 0x68 > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-7/new_device" to /etc/rc.local, above the "exit 0" line at the bottom 2) In /lib/udev/hwclock-set comment out the lines below if [ -e /run/systemd/s…

I installed Armbian Bionic Desktop 4.4 on the emmc module and I also have an SD card in. When I get to the desktop the card looks like it has been mounted by the current user (I'm new to Linux) - it was listed under /media/myuser with myuser as user and group -, so I changed /etc/fstab to have it mounted during system boot, by adding: /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/sdcard This is what lsblk says: mmcblk1 179:0 0 14.7G 0 disk └─mmcblk1p1 179:1 0 14.5G 0 part / mmcblk1boot0 179:16 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk1boot1 179:32 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk1rpmb 179:48 0 4M 0 disk mmcblk0 …

Hi. I'm trying to use microusb port as additional usb port on OrangePi Lite. uname -a Linux orangepilite 5.4.31-sunxi #20.02.11 SMP Thu Apr 9 21:47:57 CEST 2020 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux I've tried enabling usbhost0 in armbian-config and modify sun8i-h3-orangepi-lite.dtb as described here: In both cases I have no power on microusb port. What am I missing? Thanks Christian

I installed armbian_eoan_desktop_5.5 on my set-top box and updated mesa to 20.1-devl . But I found out the Xfce4 desktop is a little bit larger than my TV screen . I checked the Application->setting->display and used xrandr -q to print out the parameters : Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 3840 x 2160 HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 575mm x 323mm 1920x1080 60.00*+ 60.00 50.00 59.94 24.00 23.98 1920x1080i 60.00 50.00 59.94 1680x1050 59.88 1280x1024 60.02 1280x960 60.00 1360x768 60.02 1280x800 …

I posted here since this is more a generic question related to initrd than specific to board My scenario is this: I modified my ARMBIAN uInitrd ( unpacked and repacked ) and added a driver I needed , in particular driver for recognizing internal nand. Of course in the init script I added insmod aml_nftl_dev.ko The process was successfull and infact now i can see the internal nand lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT mmcblk0 179:0 0 980M 0 disk |-mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 128M 0 part /boot `-mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 848M 0 part / cache 250:0 0 512M 0 disk logo 250:1 0 32M 0 disk recovery 250:2 0 3…

I try to use the pwm from GPIO to PWM control a fan. I would need around 20kHz with a variable duty cycle. As far as I understand I need to activate the pwm overlay, but its only available for the h5. Can I change the UART or I2C overlay to achieve this or should I try to write my own overlay? Is that even doable?

Hi all, I bought a Orange Pi PC 2 a couple of months back, loaded the Armbian image successfully and tweaked it until it was just right for my application. As this piece of hardware was going to live on a remote property, I bought another 2 Orange Pi PC 2 boards and some new SD cards with the intention of having 2 backups - one for development and the other as spare. I cloned the SD card by copying the active EXT4 partition across to the blank SD card using GParted. The long and the short of it is that these images did not work. I know the hardware is good as the original SD card works in the new OPi PC2 boards. Likewise the new cards don't wo…

Hi, I have Armbian-Buster installed on my ODROID-HC2. And everything is working perfectly. But today I opened armbian-config and installed Pi-Hole, installed OK. Checked to install Radarr. Installed OK Checked to install Sonarr. Said it is not installed, the check is not marked, but it was installed and I can even see the /etc/systemd/system/sonarr.service file. OK. I want to REMOVE all three. When I open armbian-config and select the pi-hole or Radarr, the interface just blinks and return to the list, Nothing is uninstalled. Where's the log file so I can see what may be the problem ? …

Hi. Can someone please kindly shed a light on Armbian / Debian / Sunxi release information that is confusing me: I run Armbian Buster on two Cubietruck systems - one was freshly installed, the other upgraded from a previous installation. Both systems were apt-updated/apt-upgraded most recently with identical /etc/apt/sources.list, and subsequently rebooted. Both systems report identical "uname -a" (=Linux ... 5.4.30-sunxi #20.02.9 SMP) and /etc/debian_version (=10.3) information. The /boot folders have identical zImage resp. uInitrd links pointing to identical targets. Still the /etc/armbian-release resp. /etc/armbian-image-release infos differ: …

My problem system crash when physical memory(actualy mem chache) is full. I think when mem cache is full system try to use swap.Then kernel crash. I fix this problem with crontab job * * * * * sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Cleary every minute cache memory System keep running look like every things fine.But this is a very bad solution. How can i solve this issiuse? System detail -My hardware T9 tv box Forum https://forum.armbian.com/topic/8082-armbian-for-tv-box-rk3328/ System image Armbian_5.96_Rk3328-tv_Debian_buster_defaul…

Hello, I have read a lot of posts and the topic is described many times but I have a problem with moving armbian buster with Linux 5.4.28-sunxi to emmc in banana pi m3. I am not fluent in Linux, I took out m3 and I want to put home assistant on it. I don't know what I'm doing wrong to run armbian with emmc. Does not start. Please don't yell at me, help me please.

I want to read and burn DVDs, but the devices won't show up in Xfce Thunar. Other USB devices show up. Has optical drive support been deleted in Armbian?

Hi, i've had armbian running on banana pi m1 and orange pi zero. Seems like selecting any application softy list does not seem to be installing anything on both devices. Am I missing something here? I used both of these commands by the way: sudo armbian-config armbian-config

I use image linux-image-current-meson64=20.02.8 5.4.28-meson64, kernel set by apt upgrade RTC battery connected. Try to perform setup by instruction seems nwclock can't work: lsmod|grep rtc rtc_meson_vrtc 20480 1 ls -l /dev/rt* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 30 18:28 /dev/rtc -> rtc0 crw------- 1 root root 252, 0 Mar 30 18:28 /dev/rtc0 hwclock hwclock: select() to /dev/rtc0 to wait for clock tick timed out root@droid:~# hwclock -w hwclock: ioctl(RTC_SET_TIME) to /dev/rtc0 to set the time failed: Invalid argument How to set hardware clock correctly? Previously I use earlier ubuntu-based armbian kernel 4.* on…

I've installed Armbian on my brand new Odroid N2. I realise it still is WIP, but almost everything works great. There is just one issue, which prevents me from setting it up the way I want. I use my eMMC card to boot the system. I've also added a larger A1 SD card for application data. However, after a reboot the SD card isn't recognized. There isn't even a message about it in dmesg log. But when, after booting, I remove the SD card and insert it, all of the sudden it's detected and mounted. Does anyone know how I kan make this happen at boot, so I don't need to physically access the device in order to use it after a reboot?

Hi, I have 5 cubieboards 1. I want to give to my employees, so i decided to install desktop ambian installed on nand (neither sata nor sd card). Q) Why not installed on sata and sd card? Ans) firstly the work is into excel only (data entry work). Secondly i dont want to give more space because they start downloading songs, game, videos, torrent and movies.So get slow speed of internet . Thirdly save money to buy sd cards and sata hdd. My questions are:- 1) Where i get the old desktop image file to install it into nand? 2) I have this file armbian_5.25_cubieboard_ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop.7z. I find out in my …

Hello, I have been trying for a few weeks to get this LCD dsiplay (Store Wiki) to work with the NanoPi Neo Air. The display driver required is apparently the ST7789V. I was able to get the pair to work using this image supplied by FriendlyArm. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CAKS1BNGk6vbAsPy5HmeGdO4FPZkvksz However, the OS introduces other issues to my setup and I don't want to depart from our beloved Armbian. at last I know the hardware working and wired correctly. I think I need a custom kernel, but I'm not sure. This thread mentioned the display I am using and talked about building a custom kernel. I got the build env up ran a kernel b…

Hi, I was building a new image for my win and noticed this: https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.3.1_27678.20180430_COEX20180427-5959 Deprecation notice. This repo is deprecated and a newer version of the driver is available at https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu Not sure if it's worth switching over. Thanks TB

Hi all, I had a need to install the latest version of Postgres possible across my various boards ( Nanopi4 v1 and v2 and a raspberry pi ) the only way I could find to do this, is, compile from source, I came across this howto written for the Ras Pi but it works perfectly for the other boards Here is the link https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2019/07/postgresql-postgis-install-from-source-raspberry-pi

Hello. I have a couple of Chinese 3.5" TFTs, model MPI3508. I'm trying to get it to work with my Orange Pi 3. The module supports either connecting via GPIO or HDMI, either is fine for me. I'm using Linux orangepi3 5.4.20-sunxi64 #20.02.1 SMP Mon Feb 17 02:37:37 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux I'm trying to get it to display the console - no GUI installed, just the console is enough. The module also supports touch, but I don't care about that - I just want to use it as a monitor.. If I use HDMI, I can get a picture, but the resolution is all wrong. It's a 480x320 display but because Chinese manufacturers, it reports itself as having a m…

before you start: Armbian already provides kernel build script in armbian build framework, and you can download these packages via `apt` in common cases, you shouldn't build kernel yourself, even you want to build a customer kernel package, you should use armbian build framework. because you can get best supports. so below content is only for experts. prepare source code: 1, stable linux kernel source code: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 2, armbian build framework, fo…

Hi. I bought some time ago a OPi One and a OPi PC. Yesterday i tried to setup them with armbian without success until I switched images from one to another and...it worked. I think that the download page for each should be fixed ( 5.4.20 image ). Made me crazy as a beginner until I figured out, tried different micro sd cards, different power supplies... Sorry for my english. Many thanks for developers who makes something stable for this boards.

I realised, that my OrangePI Plus 2E doing the logrotate of /var/log.hdd and not /var/log dir I'm using: root@orangepiplus2e:~# lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release: 10 Codename: buster root@orangepiplus2e:~# uname -r 5.3.13-sunxi In my dir /etc/logrotate.d/ I realised that in every file standing: /var/log.hdd/.... as a path for logrotate even if I change to /var/log/... everytime when I restart my box. Now if I understand correctly the ram part is named: /var/log/... what can I see from: root@orangepiplus2e:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev …

So I just got my Orange Pi Prime board today and I tried the Ubuntu Bionic desktop image on it. (Armbian 20.02.3 Bionic current 5.4.18 desktop) Things didn't go like I expected... When I got into the desktop, all I saw was a missing taskbar, a white background (instead of a grey one) with a penguin on it. However, all the items on the taskbar worked normally. I thought that wasn't much until I tried to open Chromium, the whole window was white and I couldn't interact with it. I couldn't open the terminal either (clicking on its entry in the menu didn't launch it) I was shocked as I thought something was wrong with my board. So I told myself …

Hello, I have a RockPro64 running Armbian buster version 20.02.1 (Linux kernel 5.4.26-rockchip64) I have connected an M.2 SSD via an adapter in the PCIe slot, and have setup an LVM PV on it, with a number logical ext4 and btrfs volumes on it. All this worked fine when I set it up, but when I went to reboot the system, it never came back. On the serial console, I got a series of message from the firmware and U-Boot, then "Starting kernel ..." and nothing. (I waited about half an hour) I have increased the boot verbosity, by increasing the value in /boot/armbianEnv.txt from 1 to 7. If the boot is successful, I see lots of output after a delay of about a…

hi: I have old allwinner H2/H3 boards which work very stable with armbian jessie. although I can still get debian jessie packages, I found armbian jessie packages are gone from apt.armbian.com. is there any place I can sync these armbian jessie packages? thanks a lot for your help!!

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Xupdate: includes updated mesa libraries for mali GPUs. how to use: add below to you source.list gpg key can be found at: after that, run `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` before reboot, please update your xorg.conf, follow below webpage:

Hi, Could anyone please help me to configure CB3 and the subboard RAID? In fact, I own a CB3 and the RAID subboard with two SSD 120GB that I bought at Cubietech three years ago and I have already assembled it. I use the Armbian distribution for Cubietruck and I installed it on a SD Card, but now I would like to install this distribution (Armbian for CB3) on the two SSD from the SD card. If I type the following commands 'hwinfo --block' or 'fdisk -l' or 'lsusb' or 'lsblk -o name' at the prompt (as root), I do not see any SSD except the SD Card (mmcblk0) I also launched 'armbian-config' but nothing appear in the menu about that. I have done some onl…

Hi, I run a wireguard server in my home. I have a Mac and a couple of iOS devices that can successfully connect to the server, my internet traffic is routed via the home wireguard server and I can access devices in my home network using an address like 192.168.178.200. No problem. Now I want to connect my cubitruck running Armbian Ubuntu 18.04 to my home network. I created a similar configuration as for all of the other devices, wireguard connects after I say `wg-quick up $configname`, with `ip a` I can see a new interface with an IP that corresponds to my configuration, there is a route set (Dst 10.9.0.0 -> Iface $configuration_wg0) BUT …

Hello, Armbian devs, I have customized a kernel for an existing Armbian system. I wish I can replace the kernel on the system directly without going throught Armbian build system. According to what Martinayotte told me, there are 3 symbolic link to kernel image, dtbs, and uInitrd actually to boot. While I have done first 2, and I know that I have to do "mkimage" to generate a u-boot compatible uinitrd for sure. But... How can I produce the original initramfs, first? I trace the log of Armbian build system and found out it's generated by update-iniramfs command. But the environment is wiped out after it's done. I'm not sur…

I want to do some debugging in the Orange Pi Lite 2 and it requires the ability to output the kernel log to the serial console. I am using an Arduino as a TTL-to-USB serial converter (shorting the Reset and GND pins) with the TX pin from the OPi Lite 2 UART header connected to RX on the Arduino (Digital pin 0), the RX pin from OPi connected to Arduino's TX (Digital pin 1), and Ground to Ground. I tried to enable the serial console by enabling all the UART overlays in armbian-config (ruart, uart1, uart2, uart3), setting the "console" environment variable to "ttyS0,115200", setting the "loglevel" variable to "7" and disabling the login on ttyS0 by executing the …

Hello I have problem with quality of internal A20 tv decoder because output is interlaced and not useful for my purpose. I tried to port tvp5150 driver to sunxi CSI but only get green screen. Do you offer analogue chip with driver for A20 and Linux 3.4? How can I fix the tvp5150 problem and completly port to sunxi CSI? thanks device.zip

I would like to ask you for help with quotaon.service. I am struggling with it on my nanopi neo2 with armbian. ● quotaon.service - Enable File System Quotas Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/quotaon.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-03-17 20:00:48 CET; 59min ago Docs: man:quotaon(8) Process: 425 ExecStart=/sbin/quotaon -aug (code=exited, status=4) Main PID: 425 (code=exited, status=4) Mar 17 20:00:48 openmediavault quotaon[425]: quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel. Mar 17 20:00:48 openmediavault quotaon[425]: quotaon: using /srv/dev-disk-by-label-HGST7K10001TB/aquota.user on /dev/…

I am using armbian with Orange Pi Pc. I am using Chromium, Netsurf browser. Both these browsers can display chinese characters without problem. However, w3m is unable to display chinese fonts. Is there any solution for this issue? (I think this is not a w3m issue, as i can display chinese fonts via w3m in puppy linux, ubuntu etc in other machines)

Orange Pi PC+ I have been using an image generated in 2019 (based on Debian 9) to develop code for a project. On the development machine it works well. I moved it to a machine running a custom Armbian build (simply having removed drivers that weren't necessary - sound etc. - and requiring that u-boot not search USB devices before starting the kernel) that was based on the same version (reported as Debian 9). It worked as expected. No probalme there then. Yesterday I rebuilt the Armbian image (now based on Debian 9.12), loaded it on to the client machine and went to run the software. I now get the error; "Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-version.c: 224: …

Hi there, this might be a dumb question but I've done some searching and haven't gotten any closer to a solution, so, my apologies. I need to connect to my NanoPi M4 over the serial UART because I've made the eMMC unbootable, and I need to tell the board to boot from microSD so I can fix it. I've attempted to do this in both 'minicom' and 'screen' at 1500000 8N1 and the result is the same either way. I can see output from the NanoPi just fine, but when I attempt to send characters, it only displays a question mark imprinted on a square for each character, similar to what I'd expect if e.g. the character was not in my terminal font. It's not just a …

Hi, My ODROID-HC2 has just arrived and I flashed a SDCard with a fresh Armbian Sketcher fot it. Did the initial configuration, with apt-upgrade and then opened Armbian-config and selected to install OpenmediaVault (the only other things installed are SAMBA and Softether). The installation started whiteout any problem, but I got some errors the it tried to install openmediavault extras package. Since all logs were vanished after the install stopped, I cannot post here. But when I try to install again, I get this errors: If I try to do an apt Upgrade I receive the following error: alexantao@NAS:~$ sudo apt up…

Do i need a new kernel or something because if i plug in my wifi Adapter it says no firmware

Hey folks, I know I should rather post in the OMV forums, but those are in maintenance until next week, maybe someone here uses OMV on a HCx. I flashed the Armbian minimal image, booted, SSHd into it, ran updates, ran the OMV install script and rebooted. Now I still can SSH into the HC1, but the there is no OMV interface running for the browser. During the OMV installation it complained something about something like openmediavault-flashmedia or something but apart from that finished successfully as far as I can tell. Here's the output in the console windows as far as I can scroll back: Spoiler - directory mask = 0700 - …

I have one problem a bit hard to explain. I had a monitor with VGA, and that was working with my Orange Pi Plus 2e, but I had to change the monitor to DVI and the screen doesn't work anymore. I can't see anything. even if I try to run with my television (32'') i can see the screen when it's loading the armbian (the commands), but when it tries to open the GUI I cannot see anymore. I want to cancel the autologin to GUI to change the size to use the command line to change the screen size, but I have no idea how to do it, I didn't find anyway to do that. Anyone has any idea?

Hello, I'm actually working on the implementation of the MAX9860 Mono Audio Voice Codec in the devicetree. TheTLV320AIC3204 audio codec works fine and the operating system (Linux embedded) can see it with the command "aplay -l". So in the kernel, i have activated the MAX9860 audio codec, however, i don't know how to declare it in the device tree next to my TLV codec. So i have tried something like this in my i2c node: max9860: max9860@10 { compatible = "maxim,max9860"; reg = <0x10>; clocks = <&max9860_clock>; clock-names = "mclk"; supply-av = <&reg_aud_avdd>; su…

Hello, Amrbian devs, Thank you for the efforts first. I'm fiddling with some of SBC including PineH64, Rock Pi4... Sometimes, I have to provide a new kernel or add modules. So after the kernel modules are installed. How can I edit boot loader to start it. I discover /boot/boot.cmd and boot.scr contains a line "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE" So how can I start another kernel image? Is the init ramdisk is required? Thank you.

Hello Everyone! I cannot get Gstreamer to use video acceleration on my ROC-RK3328-CC (Libre Renegade) rockchip-gstreamer from Rockchip's github page just wont let me compile the vpudec plugin I have tried both stretch and buster with 4.4 legacy kernel (currently on buster), but I seem to be missing one peice. Here's what I do: -Install a current Armbian Renegade Legacy image, and install all the tools necessary to compile everything. -Git Clone and compile: Gstreamer, plugins-base, plugins-good, plugins-bad, plugins-ugly, plugins-libav -Git Clone and compile: libmali, mpp, rockchip-gstreamer, rockchip-gstreamer-extra during mpp compilation…

Hello. I need to boot armbian without logs and start my application. I rebuilt and configured uboot and create splash screen with plymouth, so i have no any logs on screen until os boots. I use autologin by NODM, but after splash screen login string appears for a second. Can i disable this output? And the next question: how can i start my gui application without starting desktop?

Hi all, I can't find any documentation (i prob just don't know where to look), so just a quick question: I have a Mi Box S, and i can run Armbian fine on it, it uses "booti ${kernel_addr_r} ${ramdisk_addr_r} ${fdt_addr_r}" to load the kernel images, i'm assuming they are all unsigned. But i would also like to run unsigned app images (openElec/emuElec/etc) which use "bootm <kernel_addr>" but those return an error: aml log : Sig Check 1467 So my question is are you guys doing any "magic" to get it to load, or does "booti" not do a signature check where as "bootm" does? Thanks.

Greetings everyone. I have sucessfully used Armbian Bionic in a production environment. Its really great. I am now evaluating Armbian Buster and I am seeing a strange issue perhaps you can direct me where to look so I can do troubleshooting. With the board connected to our corporate network, it takes about 48 hours when the whole board (OrangePi+ 2E) will crash with the CPU burning up. The second time it happened I had htop running to try and diagnose the problem. Investigation revealed that rngd became unstable due to the nm-applet. This led me to re-running the known conditions when this happens, with the network disconnected and now it doesn't cras…

Hello! How to show boot.bmp instead U-Boot log? Default Armbian inage only show ERROR that bmp is 8 bit but must be 32 bit. What wrong?

How to change font / view size in qbitorrent. The menu items are very small. In the settings under Appearance no effect on the font size in qbittorrent. $ hostnamectl Static hostname: Icon name: computer Machine ID: 4147 Boot ID: 129d Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 5.4.20-rockchip64 Architecture: arm64 $ uname -a Linux RockHomeServer 5.4.20-rockchip64 #20.02.1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 17 04:45:00 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux Thank you very much!

Hey. I have a beer-brewing machine which has software running on an olimex A13-SOM board, that has a capacitive touch panel attached to it. The company (Brewie) did'nt survive, but I really like the machine, and the potential it has. The board is running a very slimmed down linux system, so it's a bit difficult to sniff stuff out, and expand on it - so I want to install a more recent linux system on it, and try making new software for it as a shared project with other people using this machine. I managed to make a functional image using github.com/olimex/build I'm building it using: ./compile.sh BRANCH=next BOARD=olimex-som-a13 KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_C…

Hi! I installed libhybris on my armbian 19.11.5 (kernel 5.5.0) to use mali user space drivers from android. After done, I have verified that my system can not run armhf, so not calling libhybris libEGL.so. I already ran apt --add-architecture armhf; update; install libc6:armhf, but still can not run 32-bit armhf, why?

Hello. I need kernel 4.15.0-88 on Orangepi PC. I used "apt-get install linux-generic" to install kernel 4.15.0-88. After reboot Orangepi does not boot. What is wrong?

I been running my own images with great success thanks to rock solid build environment but one thing that catches me by surprise every now and then is that updating the system can also overwrite my custom kernel, which is is far from ideal. Up until now I been issuing an apt hold command for the packages but I was thinking maybe there is a better way. Because even with the hold in place if I don't pay close attention and do an apt dist-upgrade for example they will still be replaced despite the hold. Is there a better way to prevent my kernels from being updated by the stock kernel? Cheers!

Hello all, I am developing a video streaming device that streams video to youtube. For this, I am using NanoPi NEO Core2 as an SBC. It runs on "Base on UbuntuCore, Kernel: Linux-4.14" os version as mentioned on http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Core2 Along with the SBC, I am using its shield to use peripheral ports like USB, ethernet, and debugging port. For capturing video, I am using a Logitech c920 webcam. Here I am facing two issues : 1. Hardware Issue When I connect Logitech C920 camera with NanoPi Neo Core2 via mini shield, it freezes. I am unable to understand whether it is due to the power issue, or is it due …

Hello Everyone! What is the kernel config option that I need to set to enable the VPU driver? Background: I'm using the most current RK3328 RENEGADE armbian image (debian non-desktop) on my ROC-RK3328-CC (Libre Renegade). I've compiled a brand new kernel with the armbian build tool. first, I cloned and compiled gstreamer and it's plugins from Github. Everything works fine but no video acceleration... So then I clone, compile, and install libmali, mpp, gstreamer-rockchip and gstreamer-rockchip-extra, and although the new pluggins are now available to gstreamer (specifically mppvideodec), whenever I try to use mppvideodec, I recieve the following e…

Hi, I am trying to get an armhf mainline image for rk3399 and another one for other amlogic socs (s9xx) to test panfrost and lima properly. Many propietary binaries/libs are armhf, also many dynarec are armhf only alongside box86 emulator. Ive tried several attempts with no success to boot. Chroots have been useful for now.. but aren't that friendly, also, multiarch its not that great on arm, mesa 32 and 64 goes in conflict all the time. ive read an old post about this topic. Essentially it said you need to create an image for a 32 bit board and replace the uboot and kernel, also, set the proper dtb.. ive tried several times, also edited other stuff on …

Hello. I'm trying to install Jeedom on my Odroid C2 running Linux odroidc2 5.4.14-meson64 (Armbian_20.02.0-rc1) Distro has been updated with : apt-get update apt-get upgrade But when I download and run the install script : wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jeedom/core/stable/install/install.sh chmod +x install.sh sudo ./install.sh I have an error : Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package mysql-client is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source Package my…

Hello! I've got unnamed board with Allwinner A20 and FORESEE 8G memory, in completed device with HR215WU1-120 LVDS display. Spoiler It was working on Android 4.0 system, but someone needed to replace android with linux os system. LVDS display was lost when owner put SD card with linaro in slot for the first time. Now we have Linaro 14.04 command line, Spoiler and SD class 10 card with Armbian_20.02.0-rc1_Cubieboard_bionic_current_5.4.14 image, burned with Etcher. So. If power on without SD card - linaro starting in command line. If try to boot …

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…

This may not be an 'armbian' thing at all, but if not, maybe I'll get a little direction. My first "image" with armbian I downloaded had some 3.4.x kernel on it. After some learning, I was able to get GPIO to work with it. I had some other limitations though. So, I decided to build my own image (buster) so I could customize it. After booting, I GPIO did not work. I explored this, but was unable to to get it to work. I tried a -legacy version (which was 4.x) but also, GPIO did not work. This is my first sunxi experience. So, I'm not sure of the tricks used to get it to work. Either it's broken, or there are patches/config for the kernel …

Basically my box is a h96 pro + (amlogic s912) and I'm trying to run prime video / netflix, but it is not possible since it is only possible to extract widevine in the arm-32bits version. I searched here on the forum and found nothing about it, so I ask for help.

Hello. I use Retrorange Pi on Orange pi pc+ and the kernel includes a uinput module for implementing console utility management from the gamepad. Unfortunately, in this 5.3.0-dev-rc8 core, the CPU temperature information does not work. I switched kernel to 5.4.20-current via armbian-config. In this kernel, the cpu temp readings work, but unfortunately, there is no uinput in the modules. Can I somehow build this module separately for 5.4.20-current without recompiling the entire kernel? Or is it possible for respected developers to re-enable the module in future kernel releases? With best regards, Sergey

Hello! First post so apologies for any naivete. I have a USB wifi adapter connected to my la frite (it was the only distro that supported it out the box so thank you). On each boot it seems like the USB is getting a different device address and therefore I have to open nmtui and connect to my wifi all over again, to the point where I have 10+ stored connections to the same wifi in my network managers saved connections. At first I thought I could solve the problem by reversing the Persistent Interface Names settings on boot so that it would be wlan0 and I could automate the connection on startup but that hasn't worked for me either. I've run out of ideas a…

I don't want to talk about how long i beat my head against this but i have it working so i thought i would share. First, in the 5.4.y kernels, the fbtft_device module seems to be missing? So i am using 5.90 oragepizero ubuntu bionic next 4.19.57 as my image, kernel is upgraded to 4.19.62-sunxi via regular apt-get upgrade. I have a genuine waveshare 2.8 A rpi lcd. Waveshare states repeatedly that it is compatible with the 3.2 B rpi lcd except for the screen size and number of buttons, so this should work for the 3.2 B lcd as well. This blog post was pretty helpful: https://kaspars.net/blog/spi-display-orange-pi-zero But it …

Greetings, I set up an an armbian build environment, and went through the initial build, which took some time. Subsequent rebuilds took a couple hours as well, and I discovered I could 'skip' rebuilding the kernel unless I wanted to build it. Now, I'm testing customize-image.sh, things aren't always going where I want. so, I troubleshoot, make changes, but now my minimum build time is 30-40 minutes. Is there something else I can do to speed up the process?

Greetings Docs say Yet I need to use Ubuntu 18.04 to compile. I'm not understanding - - - - Ubuntu 18.04 isn't Debian testing (11 or bullseye), it isn't Debian stable (10 or buster) - - - - so why do the docs say I can compile on Debian?

Hi, I have checked that the GPIO Interruptions are very slow. If i receive a wave in a GPIO with IRQ edge enable, for a frequency of 100Hz, all IRQs detected are right (100 interruptions received) However if i increase the frequency of the wave up to 500Hz, i can't detect all the IRQs received, (50 interruptions received more or less) Well, i think maybe, the solution is to change the following kernel parameter: CONFIG_HZ=1000 instead CONFIG_HZ=250 (default) What do you think ?? Is there other solution?? Thanks a lot in advance

Hello, I would like to get RT Kernel, but i am not able to do it. I have downloaded the patch file: patch-5.4.19-rt11.patch And I copy this file in the following folder: build/userpatches/kernel/sunxi-current Now, I create the following file: build/userpatches/lib.config And i add this sentence: KERNELBRANCH='tag:v5.4.19' and I run compile.sh But it doesn't work. I think there are 2 different errors: one for compiling for an specific kernel version, and the other one for loading the RT patch file. Error 1: fatal: Couldn't find remote ref tags/v5.4.19 error: pathspec 'F…

Greetings, I built armbian with these instructions (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/#using-our-automated-build-system) I am now wondering: How can I provide specific packages, files, or config to my built image? For instance: I'd like to have the gpio utilities installed, other deb packages I might want, wireless firmware, and even wireless config. Thanks!

hi all, does anyone have postgresql running on a Nanopi M4 v2 under bionic beaver ? I have it working on buster but can't get it to install on bionic

I have a problem with a script python that is running in the background, this script needs to run all the time without stopping, but the script freezes or stops without error, when I change for another card, it works for a few days and then the same thing happens, however the debian system continues to work perfectly, only the background script stops working, I already debugged the code and it has no problem making it stop. my sdcard is MicroDrive class 10, 8Gb. what could be causing this problem?

Hi! I powered off my tvbox directy by power cord, and after boot can not enter in Xorg anymore, the screen go to black like successful Xorg start and back to console (each try delay 1s - slow blinking) and repeat this process ininterruptly. Maybe related to lightdm? How to start in console mode to try to fix it? This already happen with two different tv boxes (with buster and now with bullseye).

Hello everyone, I need some help from the community. I would like to install the Unifi Controller on my OrangePi Plus 2e, but it requires mongodb see here... [root@OrangePi:mongodb]$ apt-get install unifi Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: unifi : Depends: mongodb-s…

Hey folks, The tl;dr version of my question is "is there a way to stop tmpfs from being used for things like /tmp, /run, etc.?" Essentially I have an OPi Zero running PiAware and graphs1090. Graphs1090 is throwing a bunch of images into a folder under /run, which is causing the amount of free space to drop below 16M. As a result, systemctl refuses to restart some services because there isn't enough free space on /run. So...is there a way to disable the use of tmpfs for folders like /run or /tmp? Honestly, I'd rather just take the hit to the SD card rather have to deal with issues like this.

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I have tried downloading the Armbian Buster release for the BananaPi M3 but it only seems to have a EXT4 partition and no FAT BOOT partition. How am I meant to prepare an SD Card ? How do I go about getting the BOOT Partition or kernel and rdinit files for a boot partition ?

Hi. Overlayroot can't be used on Odroid C1 due to the kernel has no corresponding module. Are there any chances to get it recompiled in your repository with the following module? /lib/modules/5.1.15-odroidc1/kernel/fs/overlayfs/overlay.ko

Hi everybody ! Is it possible to transfer from emmc to sd card? That is, as in the nand-sata-install script, only in the opposite direction.

Hello everyone! I'm trying to use a small SPI LED screen with my ROC-RK3328-CC. I've scoured all over this website as well as the internet for information on enabling SPI on my ROC-RK3328-CC (libre renegade), and I'm sorry to say after trying so many things, I still cannot get it enabled. I'm currently using this image: Armbian_19.11.7_Renegade_buster_current_5.4.8.img I've added the following 2 lines to /boot/armbienEnv.txt overlays=spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=0 and after reboot, nothing. nothing for dmesg|grep spi and no spidev devices in /dev I've also tried manually changing status to "okay" for fragment@1 a…

Are there any commands to show information that could tell me about the level of power consumption ? E.g.: energy saving state of CPU or the like ? On the SBC i am using, i think the power consumption is lower when running the same setup with kernel 5.4, and higher with legacy kernel 4.4. Alas, 5.4 has other problems, so i want to try to figure out what settings/features reduce power consumption in 5.4 and maybe i can then configure them equally in 4.4. This is rockpi4a rockchip3399. If there is nothing generic enough about the topic, i can ask on the forum for that chip.

Target board is Orange Pi PC+ based on H3 the <ump/ump.h> file is needed which must contains in linux-headers-XXX-sunxi with version match to 20.02.0-rc1 however aptitude search linux-h | grep sunxi outputs linux-headers-current-sunxi 19.11.3 <none> Linux kernel headers for 5.3.9-sunxi on armhf linux-headers-legacy-sunxi 19.11.3 <none> Linux kernel headers for 4.19.84-sunxi on armhf linux-headers-next-sunxi 5.92 <none> Linux kernel headers for 4.19.62-sunxi on armhf And there is no version for 5.4.14 (20.02.0)

I'm trying to get VPU acceleration on Manjaro ARM and I'm having trouble figuring out how Armbian is able to leverage the VPU with Hantro still incomplete. I know it uses RKMPP but I don't know which driver or patches I need to enable it in the Kernel and DTS. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Hi! I want to still have original Android in my S905X3 and use some space to Armbian root, but boot can still by SD card. I cant see partitions by fdisk, gdisk or parted. Partitions are managed in DTB?! Thanks.

i have a RK3399 and a samsung-860-pro-512gb when i boot with this ssd connected using this official cable (which was recommended for this model by the orange pi manufacturer), i get this in dmesg: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 but when i do `fdisk /dev/sda` i get `fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: No medium found` when i put this ssd in my laptop, it is working correctly. i also soldered an alternive sata cable where the 12V power was connected instead of the 5V, don't remember exactly how, but that didn't work either.

Hi i would like to use the eDP Display on my nanopit4. How can i compile the Kernel to support the edp?