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hi, I plan to turn my cubietruck IR gateway, and home theater controller. The first thing to do is to be able to decode any remote control can be used with lircmd. But when I use irrecord IRW returns do anything with some remote and works with the other. While in leaving the base configuration (infrared keyboard) there is always something to send. The sunxi ir-limited driver there are thee? The second point is to emit infrared to control my devices and there is little information that is partt LIRC_GPIO seems you abandoned. I watch the IR driver in the mainline kernel and I find that it is very different. I wonder if it would not be helpful to bnackport in lega…

Is there any reason with llmnr has been enabled on each interface while mdns has been globally and x interface disabled? I have some weird issues with llmnr that I don't have with mdns Just to detail my above sentence (on windows pc): when I ping just ipv4 (ping -4) hostname is solved just the first time, subsequent request can't find host when I ping ipv6 or default (ping -6 or just ping) hostname is always solved

Hi all I need to develop a customized application on the OrangePi that uses this Allwinner H3 chip. So everything about this is the standard Armbian, with one change- I need to add security code into the loader to secure the board Prior to this I have only ever developed superloop C code on processors such as these i.e. no OS present. In those cases we had the development tools from the vendor or a JTAG probe. What I need to do is I need to customize the loader code to do certain security tasks. My question is, where is this loader sitting? (presumably its in the FLASH), and, is its source part of this distribution? Also, when they ma…

Good afternoon! Tell me about the case, please, the post is great, but maybe I'm initially going the wrong way. Initial task: data exchange between a remote server and equipment with a USB interface and CDC RS-232 or HID protocols. Putting a computer / laptop next to it is not an option. I did not find any ready-made solutions, there are only options: 1. Single board computer. Fast, cheap, angry, easy to make a case and PoE power from ready-made components on the market. 2. Arduino - to assemble from prototyping boards is long, difficult and expensive. To develop something of my own - the navel will be untied with my knowledge. 3. Hardware "e…

Hello, I have a few small questions: Cubietruck with latest Armbian Two log folders, /var/log and /var/log.hdd, the first kept in RAM that's regularly copied to the SD-Card, keeping the wear of the SD small This used to work flawlessly, I don't know when this changed Lately I realized that the RAM-disk is flooded very quickly by something that is writing to /var/log/journal/random_hex_number/ until it runs OOM. Almost all other logs are empty, likely because a lot more gets written to the journal log. Unfortunately the content of all files in the journal subfolder contain binary data, the only commonality I see is that all files start…

What is the supported way, if any, to redirect /var/log.hdd to a directory located on a real HDD drive? One of my systems has an eMMC to boot and operate from, and a HDD hooked up on the USB3 port. "Ideally" I'd like to use only the HDD, but the poor/incomplete USB3 boot support on the Rock64 V2 (with Bionic at least) had me to buy an eMMC and live quietly with it. As it is, I'd like to move out of the eMMC all the data that is either written often, or that it could get bigger with time passing. For the logs, however, I don't think to have found a clean way to support the relocation of /var/log.hdd on a different drive/partition, unless I hack the armbian-raml…

Hi! Thank you for the best os, for single board computers! Info: Board: Orange pi one 512mb ram, H3 cpu, flash 8gb transcend 10c. OS Armbian Bionic, last release. Aditional info: intalled asterisk16 from src with chan_dongle, freepbx 15, fail2ban. I configured call recording, 3g modems for voice calls. All works fine! But now i have problems with logs... Asterisk make so many logs, flash will die after a week of use. But i need this logs, for make some debug, and ofcourse for fail2ban. From Armbian-Docs, i understand OS have preinstalled zram and log2ram, but i dont understand how to configure them for: Then os boot, i need to mak…

Due to systemd, Journal is going to replace all journals sooner or later, it's already one of the busiest journaling on the sytem. The logs are binary and can't be rotated like text logs, they are already compressed and can't be read by text editor, instead only by journalctl. Thus, in /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog , the directory /var/log/journal is excluded from standard log rotation and copying to HDD. Instead, it is copied once to /var/log.hdd/journal and a soft-link is created: /var/log/journal pointing to -> /var/log.hdd/journal . The RAM logging was introduced to spare the SD card, preventing many write actions that wear the SD card qui…

Login: Pi What the password? No 1234,root,bananapi,armbian

When i run from sdcard on first boot it asks a series of questions and sets up the sd card. Image from here: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-4-lts/ I then run ambian-install to install to emmc, then reboot. At this point it asks for a login, and the default (root 1245) doesnt work, or the ones i created on the sd card do not work! How can i login to the device after install and configure it?

I have installed Debian desktop wheezy on cubox-i and all is ok. After boot I am logged as root on XFCE desktop, I have create a normal user and I want user cubox as normal user, but if I logout the system does not show the login window but return on the root desktop. How can activate login window to change to normal users ? Thanks Alberto

Is there a way to change the first image after the login in the Olimex A20 Lime 2? Best Reguard

Hi basically i am switching from Raspberry pi to orangepi PC. Managed to find armbian which looks way better than raspberry gui! Now my problem is i used raspi-config to set login after POST in CLI in Rpi but in armbian we dont have this config thing and I want to make the system login at CLI then I could either continue to use CLI or go into gui mode by typing startx. Any ideas for this? I have tried systemctl enable multi-user.target but it seems nothing change and I also tried to find the directory of grub but there is none at armbian. Many thanks, Gabriel

Hi. login:root , passwd:1234 this password does not match! on Armbian_19.11.3_Orangepiprime_buster_current_5.3.9_desktop.7z

Hi I installed following image on Banana pi M5 on emmc. BananaPi does boot up but it shows "PI" username for which I am not able to find password anywhere and also tried ssh into the machine which was also denied. Every time I installed the image same thing would happen with same username "PI" popping up every time. Would appreciate help if someone can share the password or what I am going wrong. Armbian_24.8.1_Bananapim5_bookworm_current_6.6.47_xfce_desktop.img.xz Cheers IMG_6271.HEIC

I am trying to locate Login script, in order to modify it, but I can't find it. Which is the path of login script?

So.... I am the winner of a Inovato Quadra4K from a drawing at my amateur radio club meeting. Yeah! Cool! It runs a software called HamClock automagically.... BUT WAIT! There is MORE! You can exit that app and run other applications... Providing you have a mouse & keyboard (because I am a native WinWeenie) or keyboard if you are a Linux forever personage. It also has a wireless interface that I would like to configure so it doesn't have to have an Ethernet tail tied to a port on our ISP router. I would rather it was mounted to a HDMI TV or monitor. So, I need the keyboard (and because I am a longtime WinWeenie and rodent dependent) …

I recently reinstall my Tinkerboard with Focal Desktop to start over. I installed xrdp in armbian-config, and RDPed in, there was no wallpaper, no desktop icon, no mouse icon and windows I opened looks weird (but xfce taskbar shows up) I came to the conclusion that it has something to do with auto login, so a quick google leads me to this instruction, I commented the line in "/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/22-armbian-autologin.conf" out, reboot, and the RDP environment works great. Except now there is lightdm-gtk-greeter process in the background that is taking 100% CPU usage in full clock speed, the board became hot (>70 degree Celsius) very quickly. …

Hello, I've found a few logrotate bug reports in search, but they are not related to a "HDD" install. I have two armbian systems on different boards set up and installed on SD cards. Both systems have the email facilities set up, which is why I found out about this. This is what I get once a day via email from each of the systems: From: Cron Daemon <XXXXXXXXXXXX> X-Google-Original-From: root@cubie (Cron Daemon) Received: by cubie (Postfix, from userid 0) id 5FC6511FA06; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 06:25:13 +0000 (UTC) To: root@cubie Subject: Cron <root@cubie> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report …

My equipment is an OrangePi PC Plus with ARMBIAN 5.6, packages and system updated. I have seen that the /var/ log directory mounted as zram is reaching its space limit in a few days. To resolve, I edited the /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog file and put the following: /var/log.hdd/syslog { rotate 1 10M size missingok notifempty delaycompress compress postrotate invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate> / dev / null endscript } /var/log.hdd/mail.info /var/log.hdd/mail.warn /var/log.hdd/mail.err /var/log.hdd/mail.log /var/log.hdd/daemon.log /var/log.hdd/kern.log /var/log.hdd/auth.log /var/log.hdd/user.…

Hello, I am using Armbian 21.02.1 Focal with Linux 5.10.12-sunxi (Armbian Focal from https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero/). I use the default logrotate configuration (ratate logs in /var/log) but I have a problem that the /var/log/syslog file is still growing (even if logrotate is run daily). Currently the logrotate process takes place in 3 steps (see /etc/systemd/system/logrotate.service -> [Service] section): 1) ExecStartPre =/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog write (ramlog write files to update log.hdd before rotation) 2) ExecStart =/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf (Logrotate) 3) ExecStartPost =/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog postrotate (r…

I apologize if this is not specific to armbian but it's really becoming a problem for me I am using Orange pi Zero LTS board and the Armbian image provided in the official downloads page (Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepizero_focal_current_5.10.60.img). I use the serial terminal and Putty in a Windows 10 PC to use this board uname -a result: Linux orangepizero 5.10.60-sunxi #21.08.1 SMP Wed Aug 25 18:19:32 UTC 2021 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux I am using the serial console to control the board. If I type in a long string in one line, after a certain number of characters the string wraps to the beginning of the line by itself. The command itself i…

Hey guys, Coming from high level programming such as Java or C#, I'm quite new to mid-level development. I'm working on a project and I was wondering there are any low cost Linux compatible SoC that are guaranteed to have a long term availability for like 5-7 years or more? I've seen the H3, but since it is manufactured by a chinese company, I'm not sure about the availability of this chip on long term. Thanks

Hi, I use a device tree fragment example for a shutdown button on my Orange Pi One. /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-a10", "allwinner,sun7i-a20", "allwinner,sun8i-h3", "allwinner,sun50i-a64", "allwinner,sun50i-h5"; fragment@0 { target = <&pio>; __overlay__ { gpio_button_0: gpio_button_0 { pins = "PA20"; function = "gpio_in"; bias-pull-up; }; }; }; fragment@1 { target-path = "/"; __overlay__ { gpio-keys-user { compatible = "gpio-keys"; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&gpio_button_0>; power_button { label = "Shutdown button"; linux,code = …

I am looking for a MiQi Rockchip RK3288 board Armbian image. I checked under website download section and its not available (missing). It would be very helpful if you can refer me to a download link. Thank you.

Hi, I am using Nano Pi Duo2 (Allwinner H3) with latest Armbian OS. My goal is to have all the OS and Data on SD Card Encrypted. It should be secure from hacks. In Developer Guide, LUKS encrypted rootfs needs a key to unlock. In our case we want the device to unlock itself so key has to be stored on the Allwinner H3 securely. Has anybody implemented it on Allwinner H3 ? Is there alternative solution to secure the data on the device.

I have had a chinese sd card and armbian never booted on it(loop stuck). Now i have a Toshiba sd card, it booted.... once. Reflashed the sd card exactly as the 1st time,boot loop... no way. I would love to use armbian, but it seems really hard to get it work, any ideas? USED: Ubuntu 16 to flash 8gb toshiba sd card class 4 Model: Orange Pi lite Image: Armbian_5.30_Orangepilite_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113.img

Hi, on my Bananapi M1 I have a 240GB SATA SSD connected for storage. Unfortunately I'm losing connection after a couple of days sometimes hours. Do you have an idea why? Apr 13 22:13:16 localhost rngd[854]: stats: Lowest ready-buffers level: 2 Apr 13 22:13:16 localhost rngd[854]: stats: Entropy starvations: 0 Apr 13 22:13:16 localhost rngd[854]: stats: Time spent starving for entropy: (min=0; avg=0.000; max=0)us Apr 13 22:13:18 localhost kernel: [ 3627.151866] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) Apr 13 22:13:18 localhost kernel: [ 3627.151914] ata1: hard resetting link Apr 13 22:13:23 localhost kernel: [ 3632.504265] ata1: link is slow to respond, plea…

Recently I installed ubuntu-desktop and switched to gdm3. This caused a lot of my shortcut names and file names to become a large amount of gibberish, so I uninstalled and switched back to lightdm. I still do not have a lot of my icons: and now armbian-config does not open through the shortcut: I can still open it with the terminal but this makes me think there are bigger issues.

Ok, Seen that a couple of times on other threads and now happened to me too. Did the latest upgrade and after that no more WiFi dmesg complain about 8192cu bin firmware missing.. Any easy solution? (tried apt-get install firmware-realtek but did not complete, broken)

So, i set up an OrangePi PC with armbian just to run pihole+unbound about 4 or 5 months ago. Out of curiosity i ran cat /sys/fs/ext4/mmcblk0p1/lifetime_write_kbytes 31366225 That's 31GB written on the 8GB sd card which is almost empty df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 430M 0 430M 0% /dev tmpfs 100M 11M 90M 11% /run /dev/mmcblk0p1 7,2G 1,7G 5,4G 24% / tmpfs 500M 3,5M 497M 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5,0M 4,0K 5,0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 500M 0 500M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 500M 8,0K 500M 1% /tmp /dev/zram1 59M 8,4M 46M 16% /var/log t…

Hi guys, I am looking for cheap device alternatives capable running on battery. It must be low power consuming. Any ideas?

Using Orange Pi zero Revision 1.5 loaded with Armbian Buster 21.08 ArmbianMonitor Logs: http://ix.io/3UXu The board is reporting very low temperatures, with htop and when I ssh on the login banner. Temperatures range from 3 or 4 C but also seen -3404C screenshot https://imgur.com/a/SCLVMYl Previously with Armbian 19.11 and kernel 5.4 temperatures were reported normal 33 or 37C I dont overclock and run my SoC from 480 to 960MHz (keeps current and power down). Screenshot of Armbian 19.11 kernel 5.4 and kernel 5.10.4.sunxi temperatures were normal (30 - 37C) Screenshot below: https://imgur.c…

>>>Check that kernel supports aes-xts-plain64 cipher (check syslog for more info). Please add support for standard aes ciphers in the core.

Hi all, I have a working Pinebook Pro Focal build with LUKS encryption enabled. The only issue I have is that when booting no progress or password prompt is displayed. As soon as I enter the password and hit enter I see the boot logo or console output depending on what is set in armbianEnv.txt. I will be continuing my research and learning about the boot process in general but wanted to check in here to see if people had any obvious pointers to share or whether maybe this is a known limitation that is going to be hard to resolve. Thanks, Matt

Hi I would like to use LVM on my 2TB HDD. I'm working on: _____ _ _ | ____|___ _ __ _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ | |__ (_)_ __ | _| / __| '_ \| '__/ _ \/ __/ __|/ _ \| '_ \| | '_ \ | |___\__ \ |_) | | | __/\__ \__ \ (_) | |_) | | | | | |_____|___/ .__/|_| \___||___/___/\___/|_.__/|_|_| |_| |_| Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.54 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.17.9-mvebu64 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch) Release: 9.5 Codename: stretch Physical device: Disk /d…

On my odroidxu4 with armbian stretch, I had hard time rebooting without having one disk of the 4-drives RAID5 lvm device being kick out of the array on next boot. The logs suggest the problem may come from the /sbin/blkdeactivate script, as seen in these logs during shutdown: Dec 19 13:04:59 nas2 blkdeactivate[12440]: Deactivating block devices: Dec 19 13:04:59 nas2 systemd[1]: Unmounted Mount shared folder data to /sharedfolders/data. Dec 19 13:04:59 nas2 systemd[1]: watchdog.service: Succeeded. Dec 19 13:04:59 nas2 systemd[1]: Stopped watchdog daemon. Dec 19 13:04:59 nas2 blkdeactivate[12440]: /sbin/blkdeactivate: line 345: /bin/sort: No such fil…

Hi! I've tried to compile the lwjgl lib on my opiplus2, but I'm stuck on ant compile_native_es. ant jars_es finished successfully. The error: [apply] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lEGL Tried to install libegl1-mesa-dev package but it conflicts with the mali driver package. Is it possible to compile the lwjgl with opengl-es on the opi, or that's a dead idea? Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone, I have some problems with the example of the ir receiver on a Nanopi M1 usign the geany editor with the debian jessie 3.4.... provided by friendlyarm, I decided to modify the original demo program to match de embedded ir receiver but when I try to ececute the program, the information that I have until now is: The version of geany is: 1.24.1 The response of the console when I try to run the program is: ./geany_run_script.sh: 5: ./geany_run_script.sh: ./Matrix-ir_receiver: Permission denied ------------------ (Program exited with code: 126) Press return to continue after that I press Enter and the terminal closes. As you can s…

Hi, I searched around for any new info on the 3rd USB port (header pins next to the 40pin header) and couldn't find anything new than the 2016 post that found its existance, the rest I found was acknowledgement that the H3 has 3 real USB ports, I am trying to enable this port since it seems it isn't enabled by default even in the latest Armbian, how exactly can it be enabled, the whole script.bin change from 2016 got me confused, is it the usb3host option in armbian-config? Edit, spoke too soon, even though the info is missing actually, it was the usb3host in armbian-config>system>hardware, I had the pins the wrong way, D+ is on the outside. Also w…

The new board only make difficulties the img of http://forum.banana-pi.org/ are very questionable When formatting, it always says write-protected under Windows (read-only) On Linux with fdisk is the deletion of the partitions, is not a failure message but with fdisk -l is everything as before. I have tried several attempts from the net but no success. With me are already two cards defective, are nail new. This problem is when copying with the DD command and Raspbian Pixel SD copier.

I have the magicsee N5 max with amlogic s905x3 processor, I think it is compatible with the magicsee n5 plus, the problem is that I was reading in the forums, but many of the files that were used for the n5 plus I can no longer find them, now there are new versions and I would like to know if someone could guide me now which is the correct way to install it. I'm not very good at this but if you guide me I can make it work for sure, thanks.

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The mailto: procedure attemps to get the default mail app from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo-1/exo-compose-mail-1 instead of /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo-1/exo-compose-mail-1 Armbian Bionic desktop legacy kernel 4.4.y

I am using kernel 4.9 built from https://github.com/megous/linux and tried DTB plus/plus2E in a custom distro ,But the ethernet isn't working. ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device route: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable What could be the reason?

We provided this week experimental Armbian images with mainline kernel for a few H3 boards. On the official download pages there are a few variants with 4.6.7 lurking around and here you find some with 4.7.2: http://kaiser-edv.de/tmp/w8JAAY/ Those for the NEO are also suitable for NanoPi M1 and OPi One/Lite, the one for OPi PC Plus can be used on any of the larger Oranges (no Ethernet on +/+2/+2E -- don't ask please, this is stuff for later) since they all use the same more sophisticated voltage regulator being able to adjust VDD_CPUX in 20mW steps (VDD_CPUX is the voltage the CPU cores are fed with). The procedure is called dynamic voltage frequency scaling and the id…

Hi everyone, I know this question has been answered earlier, but maybe something has changed with the recent versions of U-boot and kernel. So, is there any progress with support of NAND flash with A20 CPU in mainline kernel and U-boot? If NAND is not supported in U-boot, is it possible to load mainline kernel from legacy u-boot?

Hello, I run a clearfogpro, this problem is not board specific, but I would like to use a huawei e3372h-153 USB 4G dongle on this board which has a USB3 port. The current version of armbian is Debian Buster Linux 4.14.135-mvebu. This dongle is in stick mode, as opposed to the hilink mode. In stick mode, when plugging the dongle, two devices appear : /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/cdc-ncm1. With the former I can issue AT commands to the dongle, the latter is the modem itself with the NCM protocol, known to be faster than PPP. There is also an wwan interface appearing with ifconfig -a. However, I do not know…

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…

Hello all, I wondering how is mange the gpu in all Armbian Image

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 am experiencing frequent kernel panics with the RockPro64 board and assume it could be a power consumption issue with the SSD (PCIe NVMe M.2). I tested a variety of different SSDs, with the Cruzial P1 being the most reliable. Is it possible to manually throttle an SSD within Armbian, forcing it to consume less power? In my case, peak performance is not really important. This would allow me to further validate my thesis. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

I use "Armbian_5.59_Tinkerboard_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.67". After every reboot the line for the nameserver in resolv.conf looks like this: ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@nameserver 192.168.3.1 When I delete all ^@ chars my networks works fine. After reboot the characters are inserted again. I tried "chmod 444 resolv.conf" but after reboot resolv.conf has 644 again. How can I correct this? What is the problem with my installation? Best regards.

Dear all, so after switching from bananian to armbian around half a year ago, I've made several updates to the bananapi server running. As the prototype server is still running with bananian, some problems just occured as I am now testing a fresh install of my web-package, including nginx, mysql, php7 / laravel and some other stuff. So what I realized was that the database, even on a fresh install, is extremely slow. I thought the newer setup with debien stretch and mariadb 10.1+ might be the problem, yet running the same on the older armbian jessie build did not change anything. I also set up a fresh virtual machine running debian stretch with two cores,…

I went into a problem after setting up mariadb / nextcloud installation nativ on my armbian installation odroid n2. per default the logfiles for mariadb (bin files) are logged to /var/log which is only 50 mb because of in memory usage (zram). So after some usage the whole installation stucked because of "out of disk usage" in /var/log. So I stopped nginx, php and mariadb and created a new logfile location in /var/log.mariadb and changed the necessary entries in /etc/mysql/my.conf and started the necessary services again. For now the usage is propper again in /var/log. Maybe this is useful for other people or other had another solution for this. …

Hello All, What do I have to do in order to get Armbian on the Marsboard A20 SOM Thanks,

Hello every body... I use MarsBoard A20 with HY070CTP-HD LCD touch screen. after connect lcd to my board every thing is ok. I want to use HDMI of this board In addition to the LCD touch screen. in other words, I want to use both of device in Board. The linux version that the MarsBoard company has been released and I am using is specially for the HY070CTP-HD LCD and does not working with HDMI. Is there any way to enable HDMI on this board? I want to show some things in HDMI port that not displayed on the LCD.... please help me...

Has anyone had success getting the Marvell 88W8897 setup as a hotspot? It seems to work fine as a Supplicant, but I'm having challenges getting it to work as a hotspot. I've been trying to get the card to work as a hotspot via armbian-config without success. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi, I have a question about maximum memory support on Allwinner processors, inc. A20 and A64. In datasheet I see: A20:"Support 2GB address space" A64:"up to 3GB address space" Does these mean the maximum installable memory on them? on the other hand, in official page, written that A64 has 1GB memory support! it is confusing. Thank you

Hi Mates, when i check my device with the dmesg command it looks like that my harddrive (connected WD Red Hard Drive via SATA) has an issue: 3.404949] mmc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001 [ 7.204630] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 7.204662] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000000 [ 7.204676] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [ 7.204686] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:08:00:66:54/00:00:57:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq dma 4096 in res 41/40:00:00:66:54/00:00:57:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> [ 7.204718] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 7.204728] ata1.00: error: { UNC } [ 7.20601…

I am working on getting the MCP251x device running in mainline. So far the SPI and other entries in the device tree are fine. However when I bring the bus up it fails to acquire the interrupt. I think the way I am defining the interupt is incorrect. I had this working in 4.4 so i know the hardware is functioning correctly. Does anyone know how to properly define the interupt and interupt parent in this case? spi1: spi@ff1d0000 { compatible = "rockchip,rk3399-spi", "rockchip,rk3066-spi"; reg = <0x0 0xff1d0000 0x0 0x1000>; clocks = <&cru SCLK_SPI1>, <&cru PCLK_SPI1>; …

Are there any plans to add support for the MCP7940 real-time clock? It's much cheaper than the DS1307 and mostly compatible. The biggest difference is Reg0b7 which is "Clock-Halt" in the 1307 but "STart" in the 7940. The 7940 also has some extra register bits like OSCEN which are default 0 in the 1307. I tried naively enabling the rtc-ds1307 module and it didn't work. An actual DS1307 chip worked immediately (just hot-plugging the break-out boards while executing "hwclock -rf /dev/rtc1"). The actual error I get is: "Timed out while waiting for the time to change", "The Hardware Clock registers contain values that are either invalid (e.g. 50th day o…

Hi, I started using Lime2 recently. I am using Openwrt with Lime2. I am powering the board using LiPo battery. I could not find a way to find the battery level. I use SSH to communicate with the board. Is there any script or way to find the battery level through SSH. Help please.

I have installed Orangepi RK3399 Armbian 5.75 Bionic kernel 4.4.174 on Videostrong Mecoool RK3399. ( on eMMC ) I had to do only one thing. Disable DSI-1 monitor, because system regognized HDMI -1 and DSI-1. xrandr --output DSI-1 --off. ( via armbian-config boot environments setup ) Hardinfo recognized Excavator Single Board Computer. Meccool works pretty well. https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/08/11/videostrong-vs-rd-rk3399-is-another-development-board-based-on-rockchip-rk3399-processor/

I am running an Odroid XU4. My operating system is Armbian 5.20 installed to the eMMC. I have an SD card in the board as well for storage. I am trying to use it for sonarr, deluge, couchpotato and plex. I have updated it as far as I know is safe without the problem from newer versions affecting me. The problem where the eMMC will not run the OS. I have the following 3 updates left and I don't know which is safe and which will cause a devestating problem of the device not booting. -----armbian-firmware linux-image-odroidxu4 linux-u-boot-odroidxu4-default----- Which is safe to install if any? I don't know much about Linux at all. I have had this all working on a rasp…

The final leg of my server is being a media server for my PS3. I'm using MediaTomb as the server application. When I first got my server online and installed MediaTomb, I could see it on my PS3 as a media server option. Also, I could enter into the Website interface by accessing the IP address and the proper port number. However, since I changed to a static IP and worked to get my Samba share working, I somehow broke my MediaTomb connection. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hello people, Half a year ago I flashed Armbian to to Mekotronics R58 plastic box, which was then an unofficial version. It's been on the shelf a while. Now I see new Armbian versions for download. I plugged in my device and did an update/upgrade. See Neofetch result below. My question is: is there any reason to completely flash the new version? Or am I already fine? It seems kernal versions are the same! Everything works fine and looks awesome including RealVNC for which I had some work to do. Therefore I am a bit reluctant to ditch the current version. Couple of minor issues I have are can't get Samba working and boot from SSD. Bas …

hello, i want to install armbran on my mekotronics mini pc. Does anyone have a solution! Thanks (no sd)

I am trying to run AWS Greengrass IOT software on an Armbian based Rockpi (latest versions). At its simplest it runs ok using AWs corretto or Java 8. I am running into issue when i try load up a lamda to set up tunnels. I get the following errors from the log file. The issue seems to start because Resource controller is not enabled. Reading further and taking a stab in the dark - this could be referring to the following cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_memory=1 - apparently usually found in a cmdline.txt in the boot folder. Can anyone in the community help ? [INFO] (pool-2-thread-7) com.aws.greengrass.util.platforms.unix.linux.LinuxSystemResourceController: R…

Just recently started getting ICE when building large C/C++ code using both GCC and CLANG. I suppose memory is failing in some way related to HW. On x86 Ubuntu I have memtest86+ in GRUB, but how do I test for memory errors on Armbian? I tried memtester and stressapptest but they test only part of memory, and so far don't show any errors, does something similar to memtest86+ exist for ARM?

Hello. I just got the board to play with, but I can't find any specific documentation on how to build a specific image to such board. After researching on google, foruns, etc. I've found some *mentions* on using the bananapim2 config and build (since they use the same core), but it's not working. Building an image using bananapim2 profile, after power on the device start booting from SD, but shows me: unknow image format and start asking for TFP to find flash. Can you please point me toward some useful information on how to build an Armbian image on such card? Thank you in advance

Hi, This is my first post on this forum. I'm using armbian for 5 years and I really appreciate the work of all the people who contributed to it. However, I have replaced a Bananapi M1 with Odroid C4, but the kernel doesn't work with usbip anymore. Is it possible to enable usbip somehow? I want to get my usb scanner without Linux drivers to work through Wi-Fi. root@odroidc4:~# usbip WARNING: usbip not found for kernel 5.10.57 You may need to install the following packages for this specific kernel: linux-tools-5.10.57-meson64 linux-cloud-tools-5.10.57-meson64 You may also want to install one of the following packages to keep up to date…

Hi, For the longest time, I've had this issue, but it never really bothered me much. All git updates can be done through git:// and the source lists that I require are still on HTTPS. Since the apt.armbian moved to HTTPS I've been experiencing the following apt-get update error: Reading package lists... Done E: Method https has died unexpectedly! E: Sub-process https received a segmentation fault. E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/https did not start correctly I'm currently on ARMBIAN 5.60 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.70-sunxi and would love to get HTTPS working again over apt. My system details here: http://ix.io/…

Hi to everyone, I'm a newbie in using python for sensors and pins, so I'm using Orange Pi Lite (h3) and i installed pyA20 but i can't find mfrc522 library ( i mean that code we import, my English is not very good ) that use pyA20, so is there any library you know? Or i have to make one? And if i have to make one, would you please help me with basics? Thanks 🙏

hey I am new to Orange pi and i don't know a lot about it could you tell me how can I record audio using the on board Mic input in orange pi zero

Hello. I’m try to run Armbian on my Kurio 7S tablet (https://linux-sunxi.org/Kurio_7S) with Allwinner A20 CPU. I built Armbian image for Cubietrack with USB Gadget Support (https://linux-sunxi.org/USB_Gadget/Ethernet) and ran it using SD-card. But, the micro USB port isn’t active. I need micro USB to connect keyboard to enter a password and for the further configuring Armbian. The micro USB port perfect works in Android on the NAND of the tablet. What am I doing wrong?

Hello everyone, I need to run below code so I can convert speech to text on my OPi Lite. ////////////// import speech_recognition as sr rec = sr.Recognizer() with sr.Microphone() as source: audio = rec.record(source, duration=15) print("Converting...") output_text = rec.recognize_google(audio) print(output_text) ////////////// speech recognition is installed, but everytime I try to run below code, I am getting these odd errors. I tried several different ways, wonder if someone have had same issue and had fixed it. ///Error//// ALSA lib pcm.c:2664snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.front ALS…

I have a cubietruck board and successfully moved my Armbian installation from my microSD card to my SSD. I would like to clean up the microSD card now and shrink it to a smaller size, so I can move the content to a smaller card. What do I actually need on that card to be able to boot to SSD? Just the '/boot' folder or does the boot loader need any other data to do its magic?

After making some changes to my Armbian setup on the Odroid xu4, I decided to use the Win32DiskImager tool on my Win10 machine to make a bootable image from the microSD card. However, I've now tried two different micro sd cards (a Samsung and a Sandisk) for the backup, but Win10 tells me that it doesn't recognize the file system. It asks me if I want to format the cards. Obviously I don't, because neither would be usable my Odroid xu4. Any idea why I can't backup these Armbian xenial images? Is there a comparable tool on Linux (I have Fedora on another machine) that can make the backup? (I pulled this issue from another thread where it really didn't belong.) Thanks…

Hi everyone! To cut long story short I have to make a microUSB port work as USB Host. I found out that there is a patch that will bring the port up. Last year I managed to build a full custom image for my board using armbian documentation. I've already successfully upgraded software upto Armbian 23.8.1 Bullseye with Linux 6.1.53-current-sunxi So I'm going to build custom kernel with the patch applied to arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-r40.dtsi https://github.com/Vutlan/linux-sunxi/commit/e0b16f86b91b5b03c4acd041aa2d45eb688378b2#diff-fb8cf9a1a0b868557516caf54f4e966b ehci0: usb@1c14000 { compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-r40-ehci", "generic-ehci"; reg = &l…

Hi all, Despite I'm not using Armbian but Gentoo on my BananaPI, I hope I'll found some help on this forum as other BananaPI's related forum are sleeping and as many of my previous contact on LeMaker forum are now here I'm migrating my BananaPIes from Sunxi's 3.4.103 to mainline kernel, 4.1.00, and I have several questions mostly related to DTS. The 1st one : * on 3.4, I used J12's IO-8, linked to A20's PH03 to blink a Led, w/o any issue * on 4.11, the system doesn't allow me to acquire this GPIO-227 as it said it is already owned ... which is true cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio gpiochip0: GPIOs 0-287, parent: platform/1c20800…

Hello, I am planning to desgin a Computer-on-Board, but would like to know what are the minimal specs needed for it to run a graphical user interface with a desktop. Doing a simple Google Search gives me two answers: "512 MB RAM memory, at least 8 GB of storage (on a quality SD card or eMMC), a 4-core processor, and wired networking. For a more advanced Armbian build framework, you'll require a system with at least 8GB of RAM and 50GB of disk space, although specific requirements vary depending on the hardware." My main issue with this is that it doesn't explain directly if 512 MB of RAM and a 4-core processor (and what frequency?) are enough for the most ligh…

Is there any reason why orage pi5 pro minimal debian image is missing on download page?

Do the minimal versions of the distributions still support HDMI ? Specifically orange pi 3b kernel 6.7.2 Thanks

Please forgive if this been posted before, I've done a search and found nothing. I'm running xfce desktop and as stated, window control buttons are missing from top right of windows.. I set up a temporary additional user, same on that one. Window configuration is correct.

I have a device on a20, I tried to start an image from Cubietruck, everything works, but I am interested how it is possible to disconnect an error sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet: Failed to reset the dma. There is no Internet connector on the Board I attach the log Apparently the script is constantly trying to raise the connection, but I do not know how to disable it. I would be grateful if someone can tell how to do it

today doing an update on some machines with armbian: ARMBIAN 5.25 stable Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS 3.4.113-sun8i I checked that the xenial folder is empty: https://uk.mirrors.fossho.st/armbian/apt/dists/xenial/ how can I solve?

I started seeing this happen "now and then" a couple of months ago, but over the last month it has gone to "multiple times a day". It's not always the same mirror. Frequently it's the airframes.io mirrors, this morning it was lv.auroradev.org The pattern is usually like this: Err:1 https://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/apt bookworm/main arm64 linux-libc-dev arm64 23.02.2 404 Not Found [IP: 23.186.113.5 443] E: Failed to fetch https://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/apt/pool/main/l/linux-6.1.11-sunxi64/linux-libc-dev_23.02.2_arm64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 23.186.113.5 443] Is there a place to report these issues to get those mirrors fixed?

Is there a repository change? Or is it down? Err:10 https://mirrors.netix.net/armbian/apt stretch Release 404 Not Found Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'http://apt.armbian.com stretch Release' does no longer have a Release file.

Hello everyone, I am new to Armbian and need some help. I tried to install Armbian 26.2.0-trunk (https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo/#collapse-widget-5-0-0-0) on a NanoPi NEO Core SBC. I used Armbian Imager and wrote the latest official image (the only one available) to the SD card. After writing the image, I see only one partition on the SD card named armbi_root. When I insert the card into the device and power it on, nothing happens — there are no boot messages or logs. I think the image is missing a bootloader. So my questions are: 1) If I’m right that the bootloader is missing, how can I add a bootloader to the image? 2) How can…

hi, i' using kernel 4.11.5-sunxi #3, before i used kernel 3.4.113-sunxi7i. i had a script running to collect infos, but now none of the files are there anymore, why? cat /sys/class/power_supply/ac/present cat /sys/class/power_supply/ac/voltage_now cat /sys/class/power_supply/ac/current_now cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/status cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/voltage_now cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/current_now cat /sys/class/power_supply/usb/present cat /sys/class/power_supply/usb/voltage_now cat /sys/class/power_supply/usb/current_now cat /sys/devices/platform/sunxi-i2c.0/i2c-0/0-0034/temp1_input …

@Igor could you help to check?

Hi, Just started playing with BananaPi (I have M2Berry model) and installed Armbian from Armbian download page: Armbian_23.5.2_Bananapim2ultra_bookworm_current_6.1.30_minimal (connecting with board over UART/SSH - no need for desktop at this moment). Wanted to use GPIO, however using sysfs do not work as expected: root@bananapim2ultra:~# echo "24" > /sys/class/gpio/export -bash: echo: write error: Unknown error 517 root@bananapim2ultra:~# echo "24" > /sys/class/gpio/export -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy Went with lsmod to check modules but having only: root@bananapim2ultra:~# lsmod | grep gp gpu_sched 28672 …

Hi, is there some specific reason why there is a kernel linux-source-5.8.16-sunxi as part of packages repository, but headers for such a version are missing? I saw similar post https://forum.armbian.com/topic/8347-install-linux-headers/ without any solution, but if there is a kernel package why the headers are missing? I assume headers were used during the build process... thanks

Hi im trying to install PIWIK, but it needs some php dependencies which i cant find in the packate manager. php-cli php-xml php-mbstring how can i get these thx

I’d like the red led to indicate wifi activity. The led triggers phy0rx and phy0tz are missing on OPiZ+ (H5) however. On OPiZ (H2) this worked fine – any ideas? Hammy

Playing with freshly installed/updated armbian, tried to compile "patched" realtek drivers for those weird realtek 81xx things. Bumped error: ./scripts/recordsmcount not found Go to /usr/src/linux-headers-whatever-version-4.x/scripts then, sudo make recordmcount After this even DKMS version installed/build without any issues. Not sure I will survive next kernel update without manual intervention with this "make", but anyway, it worked for me.

Gents, i have the latest Armbian based on Debian Bullseye on a BananaPi M2 Berry running. It works fine, but i receive seldom updates to install... the sources.list: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free #deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free #deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free Compared to my older BananaPi M1 where A…

$ swapon -bash: swapon: Unknown command I was about to create a swapfile and then the above command happened. Where can I find swapon?

When attempting to update to the dev kernel I ran ' apt-get install armbian-firmware sunxi-tools swconfig a10disp ' per the instructions. It is not finding the swconfig and a10disp packages with the standard repositories active (I have done apt-get update). If these are in an alternative location, perhaps add a line in the kernel update instructions (for various Orange Pi in my case) to add it. I see one older message referencing it being available on a beta site. The same command is present for the non-dev instructions. It also seems odd that a10disp is listed for these H3 based boards (but there is also no h3disp package). Are the instructions wrong/old…