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Armbian Buster on Rock Pi 4 longer has libgfortran3 library. Other versions of Buster do have it. Has it been superseded or just went missing? The ham radio weak signal programs use a lot of fortran modules. Thanks Frank

I found relatively little information concerning AXP209 support on mainline. My targets : - set the battery as 4.35V instead of 4.2V. Datasheet say it's set in REG 33H. Defaut value for register : 0xCX, X being the charge current. if 1200mAh then default value is 0xC9. To change from 4.2 to 4.35V, use EXh (so E9h if you'r using 1200mA) 11001001 to 11101001.) - Remove boot when AC plugged in and boot only when PEK is pressed. Datasheet say it's possible is not clear about how to do it. It may be reg40 bit6. I could not test yet as REG40 strangely reads 0x00 with i2cget. - Set GPIO0 and GPIO1 as ADC. GPIO0 function is REG 90H (see page 40 datasheet). GPIO1…

So using the old sysfs (/sys/class/gpio/) interface, you "export" a gpio by spitting the gpio number into /sys/class/gpio/export. The GPIO number depends on the board and relevant documentation. Having once found that I need GPIO number 76, I'm migrating code to the new "gpio character device" interface (/dev/gpiochipn) on my Rock64. However, "gpioinfo" shows that hardly any gpios have useful labels, and Google searches always turn up Raspberry Pi results. So, can I just calculate the new gpio identify? Old gpio is 76, all /dev/gpiochips have 32 lines, 76/32 = 2 rem 12, so old gpio 76 is now /dev/gpiochip2 line 12? Edit: I tried this…

Hello, I use Banana PI M1 with TFT touchscreen and Jessi Legacy Kernel 3.4.113 sun7i I have to stay with legacy kernel because it supports FEX configuration for TFT display and USB-OTG. (Mainstream Kernel does not seem to support TFT) Unfortunately the display touch changed to GT911 driver IC which seem not to be included in legacy. Can anybody help me to bring the Goodix GT9xx driver working on this system? I found following links of this driver but don't know how to compile and install it. http://linux-sunxi.org/Touchscreen#GT9xx https://github.com/reinforce/gt9xx https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvald…

Hi, I'm running Armbian Ubuntu Server on my Neo2 and works quite good. I just can't install Wireguard. I have installed kernel headers from armbian config, bit still fails. I use the ppa repo. Kernel stable latest, 4.19.57 Any ideas how to proceed and install?

Is anyone know how to set HDMI and LCD simultaneously on mainline kernel? We use a 3.5" LCD for which we made a patch (see enclosed). Now I'd like to have both HDMI and LCD showing the same framebuffer. Currently HDMI is only showing the console while signal is OK on LCD. Any hint would be appreciated. u-boot-sunxi-next.patch kernel-sunxi-next.patch

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

I'm bringing up a custom Allwinner H3 board with Armbian. I created the required conf, u-boot and kernel patches and built the image. The SD card connector card detect pin is active high (high when card is inserted) unlike all the references available online. (Orange pis and nano pis) U-boot SPL refused to complete the boot sequence with the following error message: U-Boot SPL 2019.04-armbian (Jul 14 2019 - 17:19:54 +0000) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1: no card present spl: mmc init failed with error: -123 SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ### Here is a snippet from the relevant part in the device…

Rock64. Running mosquitto. Running my python script for home automation, measures temps, does a bit of control and uses an SIM900 for SMS outside access with no IP address issues. I've run this for ages with an Rpi doing mosquitto and an ESP8266 doing the SMS part. I tried using the RPi for everything but it can't keep up with the 19200b SIM900. The Rock64 does it beautifully. So, all works beautifully but for pulsing the SIM900 to power it up. I have R64.GPIO which works only if I sudo into idle or python. Otherwise I get the dreaded "cannot export GPIO". So close, so far. My eyes and the lcd are dim from searching for an answer. Tryin…

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Hey guys, Using a A20 board with AXP209, using mainline, I am trying to add a battery indicator as an overlay on video signal so that user can see remaining battery %. Something similar to smartphone battery indicator. Any idea how to do this? This shows how to get battery % but how to add an overlay? This sounds like something that probably have already been done. Do you know any existing reference ?

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

I'm getting some strange behavior with the new image when trying to enable OMV on my T4. Its always installed no problem, but now when I try to do a clean install Im getting the below info. Although after reboot the box is checked in softy to suggest OMV has installed ok, I haven't gone far enough in configuration to see if anything isn't working. Can anyone tell if Im doing something wrong? (I also experienced similar behaviour in Buster but I had no prior working installation's to suggest its a bug or me) --------------------------------- Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.wBAnSaHxyZ/gpg.1.sh --keyserver hkp://keyserv…

I am looking to build a stable applicance that is updateable on demand / over-the-air in an atomic way. Ideally, it uses a dual-partition setup, where the is an active rootfs and an inactive one. On update, a new rootfs is streamed directly to the inactive partition, the device reboots to the new rootfs and - if everything runs according to plan - the new rootfs is committed as the new active one. If the reboot fails, the device reverts to the previous (still active) rootfs. This functionality is very common with embedded devices, many using the Yocto project. I'd like to try to use Armbian, however, building the image from source with my own userpatches and i…

As the title says, I would like to ask your help if you still keep some old working orange pi one plus image. I have downloaded some images in https://dl.armbian.com/orangepioneplus/ but none of them work with my boards. I could not SSH to the board or it says `Network error: Connection refused` As far as I know orange pi one plus H6 image OPi One Plus - 5.1.0-sunxi64 works with board. Please share your working image download links. Thank you for your help

This is likely a stupid question but I couldn't find anything about it. I have a NanoPi Neo2 v1.1 1GB where I flashed nanopi-neo2_sd_friendlycore-xenial_4.14_arm64. After that it has been upgraded to 18.04.2 LTS Ubuntu. Outputs: uname -a Linux NanoPi-NEO2 4.14.0 #82 SMP Fri Dec 8 14:33:14 CST 2017 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS" VERSION_ID="18.04" HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_P…

Can I power orange pi zero directly from 0 & 5V pins?

Hi everyone, I have a Helios4 NAS on which I have installed Armbian 5.85. I used the Armbian-Config to install OMV 4.1.23-1 (Arrakis). I used OMV to configure some CMB/CIFS shares which were working properly. I connected to my server via SSH, and performed an apt update/upgrade, and I think this broke my SMB shares. According to my Googling, Debian now uses smbd instead of samba. When I try to access my shares at \\192.168.1.x I get a message that says "The specified network name is no longer available." When I run sudo service smbd status, I get the following: ● smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service; enabled; vendor p…

Hi all, I am trying to use a MCP3426 I2C ADC chip with my NanoPi Duo2. I have compiled a custom kernel with the mcp3426 driver in it, but I can't get it to load. The problem seems to be that the chip uses address 0x68 which is the same address that the commonly used DS1307 RTC chip uses. I have blacklisted the ds1307 module which has stopped that module from loading, but somehow '/sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0068/name' still claims to be a ds1307. 'echo mcp3426 0x68 > /sys/class/i2c-dev/i2c-0/device/new_device' results in a "Invalid argument error" with 'i2c i2c-0: Failed to register i2c client mcp3426 at 0x68 (-16)' being logged in dmesg, and apparently the -16…

Hello all, My team and I are trying to use the ASUS Tinkerboard S (running Armbian Bionic v4.19.7, i.e. ubuntu bionic 18.04) as a platform to host a webapp, with a touchscreen as the user interface. We've successfully set up the Tinkerboard S to open chromium-browser in kiosk mode on startup using systemd, and a script that launches `chromium-browser --kiosk --app=server_url`. Our next step is to customize the boot process with the following changes: - none (or as few as possible) lines of text while the services are starting up - include a splash screen with our company logo, if possible Any advice on how to acc…

Hi everybody, bought 1 to 5 port multiplier card from Ali, it's based on JMB575 chip. Is there any posibility (PM firmware) to use JMB575 with USB 3.0 to SATA 3 adapter like hardkernels JMS578. Tried with latest hardkernel JMS578 bridge firmware v173.01.00.01 it recognized only first HDD. JMB575 Link for reference https://www.aliexpress.com/item/SATA-Expansion-Card-1-to-5-Port-SATA3-0-Controller-Card-Motherboard-SATA-Multiplier-Riser-Card/32899742104.html

Hello! I am new to Armbian, so I need a little help and advice here. Until now, I've been using a Banana Pi M1 with Bananian on it, and running NextCloud as my personal cloud server. Unfortunately, Bananian is dead, so there won't be any updated PHP version ( < 5.6), which are needed for recent NextCloud Version: NC 14 requires PHP 7, but Bananian (Debian 8.11) is stuck at PHP 5.6. Soo sad... That's why I need to switch to Armbian, and as far as I know, this project has no sword named "EOL" hovering above its head — at least not yet. ;) My questions are these: - Which version of Armbian would you recommend running NextClo…

After some frustration with poor support for Banana Pi M2 Zero board by the manufacturer and not a very active community on Banana Pi forums, I stumbled upon Armbian and found out there's a CSC for building Armbian for this board. And because I'm having issues with wifi on the images found on Banana forums, with all images being old and based on kernel 3.4 -- wifi disconnects with some weird firmware errors in dmesg after about 3 minutes of running, requiring reboot to get back up again -- I was happy to read Armbian runs fine on BPI-M2Z for some folks here. So I did the build process, twice, so that I have two images to test, one with kernel 4.19 and one with 5.1, b…

Hi there, I just tried to use armbian-config's softy to install OpenMediaVault on my rather new EspressoBin (v5), but it ended up with a bunch of errors (this is from the terminal at second try of installation - didn't record the errors at first try): --2019-06-30 22:12:53-- https://packages.openmediavault.org/public/archive.key Resolving packages.openmediavault.org (packages.openmediavault.org)... 178.254.11.33 Connecting to packages.openmediavault.org (packages.openmediavault.org)|178.254.11.33|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3134 (3.1K) [application/pgp-keys] Saving to: '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/openmediavault-ar…

I'm on a Rockpro64 rev2.1 and wanted to use the maximum of the availiable Power of this SoC, so i tried using cpufrequtils and the amrbian config for doing so and noticed two things: I can only set one of my CPU's frequencies and the maximum is 1800 MHz, so i searched this forum for a while and found out how to show the device tree table which is currently loaded(dtc -I fs /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/) and there is one unused mode for both of my CPUs, a 1992 MHz mode for the big chip and a 1512 MHz mode for the small chip, and at this point im stuck. What could i do to load this modes in the cpufrequtils or the armbian config? Spoiler dt…

Hello I am running a NanoPi M4 (kernel 4.4) with /boot on SD and / on an USB-attached disk. At the time I ran `nand-sata-install` ext4 seemed like a good choice. I want to snapshot the file system as a preparation step to backing up, so it looks like I have 2 choices now: 1. ext4 on LVM 2. btrfs -> Will 1. work with u-boot/armbian at all? Which solution is recommended? My guess is that btrfs would be the easiest, so the next question is -> can I go and a) `btrfs-convert /` b) update rootfs in armbianEnv.txt, or is there any other step involved? Regards -Patrick

Hi I was trying to setup my RK3328 based A5X Max tv box running armbian ( a fairly recent version 4.4.154 based) as an access point. Yesterday I tried the armbian-config option, and it downloaded/setup things and the access point worked. Because I only need it as an access point sometimes, I went back through armbian-config and turned it off. Today I tried to go through armbian-config and start an access point again, and I see the access point option has disappeared from Networking in armbian-config. !!! Has something changed recently? I might have done a update/upgrade in between. Or does armbian-config just set it up, …

Hi all, I cannot post to the H6 forum so I cannot reply to @renedis with the link to download the Armbian_5.88.190601_Orangepi3_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_5.1.5 file he asked. For him and other users that actually cannot run the Ubuntu image for Orange Pi 3 I uploaded in my OneDrive the working image: Armbian_5.88.190601_Orangepi3_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_5.1.5 PS: please can someone move to the Allwinner H6 forum? Thank you.

Hello! I tried to update jessie dismally, here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/9984-apt-get-update-pointing-to-404-not-found-ip-151101240204-80/?do=findComment&comment=79685 Since then, I have been attempting to update to strech, I feel like I got close, but it's failed and I strongly suspect, my next reboot will hose it. (I will not reboot it, linux is wondeful!!) I updated my sources.list file to have the following 4 values. deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stre…

Hi, I have two Opi in the same LAN (Ethernet wired) and trying comunicating each other (client-server TCP/UDP) The issue is: From a Laptop in the same LAN, both OPI are detected, and I can ping and SSH both of them. DHCP works fine, they have intertet... all seems to be ok... But, none of the OrangePI are reachable (not even ping) from other OrangePI in the same LAN!!! Thanks in advance in case anyone could support. It is getting me crazy. More info: Orange Pi Zero config: -Allwinner H2+ quad core 1,2GHz 32bits -SO=Armbian_5.83_Orangepizero_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.38 - ethernet configurated gateway: 192.…

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?

Hello, I have an Orange Pi 3 I bought this display https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P7TLLRN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. It looks like it uses the ili9486l driver but I cant find any instructions that apply for this set up. I tried to follow this guide: https://kaspars.net/blog/spi-display-orange-pi-zero and after using: modprobe fbtft_device custom name=fb_ili9340 gpios=dc:3,reset:0 speed=16000000 busnum=1 rotate=90 dmessage showed: [ 408.747027] fbtft: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [ 408.750915] fbtft: unknown parameter 'custom' ignored [ 408.750925] fbtft: …

Hi all, I have Armbian installed in a TVbox (5.88). I activated ssh, xrdp and samba to create my headless and standalone server. I managed to make the 3 services to work. When I reboot the machine I am not able to see the samba shares, I can not ssh or use xrdo unless I log myself to the machine. I have been searching the internet for this information but I still did not find it. Could you help me to configure to make everything working even If I do not log in?? Thanks in advance.

Hi, Now that I have my NanoPC-T4 working with hardware 3D acceleration, 1080p video playback, full development environment on NVMe, Think it's time for a backup. Has anyone found a usefull utility ? Or should I just use dd to dump the eMMC partions to image files on a USB attached drive and rsync to backup the NVMe the the same ? I'd imagine to restore just boot from an install image, don't install, just dd the images to their repective eMMC partitions and rysnc to restore. Has anyone had to restore a board and how well did your solution work for you ?

Hi I have a5x tv box.Rk3328 chipset. Iam Accidently broke the emmc chip.Damaged. Right now can't boot on sd card. I think need the disable emmc chip on to the dtb file.How can ı do this? I connect tx rx cable to uart debug tool and i get the this log. DDR version 1.13 20180428 ID:0xFFF In DDR3 786MHz Bus Width=32 Col=11 Bank=8 Row=16 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=4096MB ddrconfig:3 OUT Boot1 Release Time: Feb 2 2018 15:41:39, version: 2.46 ChipType = 0x11, 141 SdmmcInit=2 0 BootCapSize=0 UserCapSize=0MB FwPartOffset=2000 , 0 SdmmcInit=0 0 BootCapSize=0 UserCapSize=7580MB FwP…

Hi!! I have a radxa rockpi4 and I cant replace the kernel that comes on it (4.4? dont remember). its from the official radxa page because the two versions here didnt boot at all (red lights). My main goal its to test panfrost. I am not familiar with armbian at all. I've tried utilising the defconf from radxa (https://github.com/radxa/kernel) with https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/panfrost/linux fork and mainline from torvalds and none of them boot when replace the Image, the dtb (and change it on armbianenv.txt) , install the modules ande the firmware... first. how i could follow the boot process...see the console output like on raspbia…

Hello, Trying use SNAPD on Rock64 board (4G RAM). After install SNAPD and LXD (or other SNAP app) everything works. But once I reboot board - it won't start and I see Kernel Panic on screen. Any ideas why and how I can try to fix it? Thanks.

I just had an OrangePi of mine at a customer site, die on me. It just stopped responding to ping, so I made them a new MicroSD card and mailed it out. Now I think the Pi hates the Stretch release or something and fries SD cards? Check this out: https://pastebin.com/KaMk70vS Literally first login! only been up 15 minutes

Hi, I downloaded Armbian Bionic for OrangePi Lite from: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-lite/ and everything works fine, except audio recording from microphone. Error: root@orangepiserver:~# arecord test.wav ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1246:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:4528:(…

I have a Digital Signage Kiosk with Android 7.1.2. It somehow got stuck on boot screen the second day I recieved it. I can put it in recovery mode but there are no power or volume buttons to do the factory reset.

Is it possible to use uart rts gpio on mainline? May be like discribed here https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next/+/refs/heads/akpm-base/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/serial.txt

Hey guys, What is in your opinion the best solution to add WIFI/BT capability to a A20 board? Currently I tried to add ESP8266 connected with SDIO. (without much success so far). Then in order to add BT too I am thinking about ESP32 (with ESP-WROOM-32 module). Do you know if there are references of using this ESP32 solution to provide wifi and bt to a allwinner board/armbian ? Also this module have a lot of different interfaces available, which should be prefered? Or alternatively, do you know other armbian supported solution for wifi/bt? Best would be a solution that does not use USB ports as I need them. …

Hi All, just discovered this great project. Awesome to see it's so well frequented. I'm trying to do some realtime data acquisition on a OPi one with Armbian Debian Stretch. Following on from the link at the bottom, I'm trying to set an interrupt handler in my loadable kernel module onto a seperate core that I've isolated from the normal scheduler (using isolcpus=2,3 in boot.cmd/.scr). I've built the kernel using the Vagrant instructions with the 4.19.50 RT22 realtime patches. But I've also tested with no luck on the standard build from the download page. I'm using the irq_set_affinity_hint in the following manner, but it has no effec…

Hello there I have been using my orange pi zero as a network wifi adapter for my computer since it does not have one baked in. But this morning it stopped working. I reinstalled armbian hoping to fix the issue to no avail. I am running armbian 5.83 on opz and ubuntu 19.04 on pc. I attempted setting ethernernet to share network via guy nm as well as nmtui. I get an error from nmtui "could not activate connection: ip configuration could not be reserved (no available adress, timeout, etc) any help would be very appreciated.

Hello Does anyone know how to toggle GPIO output at boot / power up as an overlay or similar? I have seen only examples that show GPIO in function and I didnt find much information how to toggle GPIO out function. Basically I would like to be able to turn LCD back light on when the board is booting and than to be able to control the brightness. (That I can do after the Linux is up and running) but before the Linux is up I still want to be able to control the LCD back light. Can anyone help with that matter?

Hello. I have a task: «Find fail-safety, high stability SBC device, which can work 24/7/365» For the past year I have been monitoring for 30 Orange PI PC2 device`s in different locations. (I used Armbian images on all device`s and very like it.) I observe the following errors: -deadlock (I can repeat by set low voltage on laboratory power supply. As result - device is deadlock, green diode is lighting, only reboot can help; -reboot (no any error`s in logs, just information about booting, just like device was rebooted) On this moment I split up into three groups: Group A: Error not happen, or less, then 1/60 days (25% of all my device) Group B: E…

Hello, OPi3 has a red LED (which lights up when USB device is connected). Is there a way to control it or simly turn off?

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Hello! I've been trying to do this for a long time. I have orange pi wan+ and operating system Symbian_5.75_orangepiwin_Debian. also have collected from source u-boot-2019 downloaded from the official site. ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ I want to install u-boot-2019 c Armbian_5.75_orangepiwin_Debian. but the core doesn't start. Please help to understand. all the forums say I don't know why. uname -a Linux pc 4.19.20-sunx64#5.75 SPL FEB 8 aarch64 CNU/Linux pwd /usr/local/bin gcc -v gcc-8.2.0 tar xjvf u-boot-2019.04.tar.bz2 cd u-boot2019/ make orangepi_win_defconfig make -j4 dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 seek=8 uart u-boot spl 2019.o4 …

Hello guys, I like armbian very much and i think it's the Best OS for SBC. Will there be an official suported armbian Version for the Odroid n2? IF yes, will i be able to migrate from the no official support version to the official support version? Which risks exists if i am using the no official support version? Sorry if the section is wrong.

Hello, Andrew from Italy. I'm a lucky owner of Orange Pi3, running nighly good armbian (debian). i saw now there's a dev WIP version. how to update, cause i made update and dist update but now i'm on 5.88.190610 nightly Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 5.1.7-sunxi6 . thanks in advance bye

Hello, i am sorry to post here but i posted on Orange pi forum, they are not responsive, i decided to post it here since there is a lot of support here.I have been struggling with this problem for almost 3 weeks, i am lost, i would appreciate if you take consideration my problem and help me fix it. And also sorry that it is happening on android 4.4.2. The problem is that i am trying to port alsa-lib for use with jack since i did it successfully on Olimex A20 and A33 but not on H3. i am using the stock linux kernel 3.4.39 that comes from "lichee" downloaded from opi site. Alsa aplay gives me this **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0:…

Hi, I upgraded 4.13.16-sunxi to 4.19.47 Seems all went fine. but after reboot the former 4.13.16 kernel is still active. My cubietruck runs sd-card+ssd with system moved to ssd by armbian-config. Maybe the issue has to do with the sd-card/ssd booting sequence? If I have the sd-card/ssd system up and running, will the sd-card be touched with later kernel upgrades too, or just the root system at ssd? Holger armbianmonitor: http://ix.io/1Lit

Hello Is it possible that orangepi installs the operating system like a pc in bios? My goal is to install all operating systems in the normal way by creating a bios or UEFI for orangepi. Is it possible?

Hello I bought screen SEED 10.1" with 1200x1980 resolution and it was mistake. I try use it with orange pi lite under armbian linux but system do not recognize screen and set default resolution. I need change resolution to 1200x1980 and rotate 90o . h3disp can not resolve this problem. I also try some other metod but without success. If somebody has any idea please help.

hi, i have a c compiled app & i would like to encrypt it but using H3 implemented security to protect it is this even possible ?

Hi, I run a cubietruck appliance, booting by sd-card->sata (stretch). For availability reasons, I have to build up a spare part machine for quick exchange procedure if hardware/ software will crash. Thus I take a second cubietruck and copy both sd-card and ssd to second ones as a first step. How to tweak the copies to get it up and running? I am not sure about understanding the boot procedure. I assume, I have to change the UUID´s in /boot/armbianEnv.txt and in fstab to the second ssd/sda1. I tried this in the past, but didn´t succeed. Now I want to give it another try. Could someone give advice, if I am right with the UUID issue …

Anyone can help me to find what I need to modify in u-boot for reach 1.2ghz cpu clock. I know that I can have some troubles with this clock but I use only 1 or 2 CPU core and already test this clock with old legacy kenrel without thermal or power issues.

Hi, have anybody idea what can cause this garbage layout in armbian-config ? It works fine but seems after install some things (I cannot tell what exact, I not use armbian-config often) I get this: (similar garbage menus I have in config tool used in oscam source) Thanks for any help /Tomi UPDATE: I connect monitor via HDMI and on monitor it looks perfectly, then seems this is problem of ssh/putty...but where?

how do i get controllers working, i have all 3 drivers for all 3 controllers i tried to use, xbox 360, xbox one, and a ps3 controller. none work. sixad says module uinput not found in (kernal) directory

Hello to all, I've followed this thread to compile the new u-boot and kernel: The only difference during the instructions was that I've had to enable the 'EXPERT="yes"' mode to access BananaPiPro. After patching and compiling, the result was: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 176360 Jun 3 04:42 linux-dtb-next-sunxi_5.88_armhf.deb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10597964 Jun 3 04:42 linux-headers-next-sunxi_5.88_armhf.deb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20541784 Jun 3 04:42 linux-image-next-sunxi_5.88_armhf.deb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 396289200 Jun 3 04:43 linux-source-next-sunxi_5.88_all.deb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 247868 Jun 3 04:43 linux-u-boot-next-bananapipro_5.88_a…

Hi evereyone, After doing some upgrades my Pi-hole Admin Page was not reachable anymore, while blocking still worked. 1. Problem The lighttpd service was not running because of the missing folder /var/log/lighttpd. So lighttpd crashes when trying to access /var/log/lighttpd/error.log and access.log. Reinstalling Pi-hole and lighttpd didnt solve the problem. So I first created the folder myself: sudo mkdir /var/log/lighttpd sudo chown -R www-data: www-data /var/log/lighttpd Then I reinstalled Pi-hole and lighttpd, now lighttpd was running. Unfortunatly now I ran into 403 - Forbidden when accessing…

Thanks for work on armbian! I've got nanopim4 recently, stable build worked like a charm out of the box (maybe w/o bluetooth) I digged into all build scripts, tried out the dev and even got a step forward. I'm actually ready to support further development with this board See my reports, attempts and links here: https://gist.github.com/razum2um/8e2bfbcffdcdb3a832a4862339330867 Would be glad if @Igor , @chwe or someone else helps with the wifi question there p.s. sorry for posting here, but I'm unable to post into `development` forum section for rk3399

Hi, I've read this post but it's two years old. What I need is a SBC (in order to save some energy costs, otherwise have to go to x86) that could be used as a small SOHO firewall and router and also small file and backup server. I'd need gigabit ethernet (preferably with dedicated controller), at least one, could buy a dongle to have another port. A SATA interface would be nice, otherwise USB 3 is needed. Probably at least two USB 3, one for the ethernet dongle, another for the SATA disk. UASP support would be great. The lower the cost and the more stable the best. What do you recommend?

Hey guys, Some questions about LCD interfacing. I have a A20 board and 2 LCD, one 640*480 3.5" (FJ035CI54-R40), one 320*240 3.5" (LQ035NC111, same as bananapi LCD). Both LCD have the same pinout, formfactor and ribbon so should be hardware compatible. 1 - LQ035NC111 I could get the LQ035NC111 to work on legacy kernel with the following script.fex (for reference) Spoiler [disp_init] disp_init_enable = 1 disp_mode = 0 screen0_output_type = 1 screen0_output_mode = 4 screen1_output_type = 2 screen1_output_mode = 11 fb0_framebuffer_num = 2 fb0_format = 10 fb0_pixel_sequence = 0 fb0_scaler_mode_enable = 1 fb1_fram…

hello, how to redirect audio output on jack instead of hdmi? cannot find any configuration... thanks a lot

Dear all, I have a nanopi neo plus 2 and i need a realtime kernel to support mpd and SPDIF, where can i get one or how do i make one ? Thanks in advance, Klaas Eenkhoorn

Dear Armbian community I am currently porting some project from Debian/amd64 to Armbian (Debian GNU/Linux7 Wheezy) with shell and python and its impressive ! I though noticed strange behaviour on some command execution via variable and will here focus on a simple date sync example : 1. nc command : from shell or from script : nc time.nist.gov 13 revert a typical 46 char long ASCII answer. via a variable, a=$(nc time.nist.gov 13) ; $a delivers the same time server answer followed by the list of dir & files in the current dir, space separated. explicit error : $a | hexdump -v -C 2. date command from the shell or from script : …

i have a orange pi pc and i was trying to update kernel and i made a huge mistake, i installed linux-image-next-sunxi instead of linux-image-next-sun8i !!!! now my orange pi pc dont boot, can i reverse my error, how can i change boot in SD card to boot with sun8i ??? please help

Hello, First off, I'd like to thank the Armbian group for making my hobby a little more fun :) So I'm tinkering with gpio in devicetree, but I'm getting stuck. cd-gpios = <&pio 5 6 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>; /* PF6 */ with the excerpt from above, how/where can I find the description of 5 ?

Hello forumees. I am running as root on an OrangePI Zero+ which uses a H2 processor running a CL version of arrmbian 3.4.113 which works fine. I have recently obtained a SimCom SIM7600CE GSM/GPS module which has only a USB interface. I tracked down drivers for it but the Linux version must be compiled to a module which I have managed (with a number of warnings) after a couple of hiccups. Now trying to install the compiled module is resulting in error messages. I think the problem is compatability with armbian which is beyond my expertise, so I am asking for help. Below is the CL dialog of my attempts to install the module. ```````````````` root@gpsC…

Hello - I have attempted an install of Armbian Stetch on a Pinebook (non HD) with the latest image from https://www.armbian.com/pinebook-a64/. I can power on the pinebook and can SSH in, and have successfully installed to the internal emmc, however the screen does not come on. This pinebook readily works with other OS images I've attempted. I suspect I'm just missing something somewhat obvious, but I can't find reference to this issue elsewhere - how do I enable access via the screen/keyboard on the device itself? Thanks!

Hi! I'm trying to star the SNMP daemon, but i have : pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci pcilib: Cannot find any working access method. pcilib: pci_init failed Warning: no access control information configured. (Config search path: /etc/snmp:/usr/share/snmp:/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/snmp:/home/pepeluis/.snmp) It's unlikely this agent can serve any useful purpose in this state. Run "snmpconf -g basic_setup" to help you configure the snmpd.conf file for this agent. Error opening specified endpoint "" Server Exiting with code 1 I write in snmpd.conf agentAddress udp:161 doesn't work,,,the same,,, …

I'm trying to create an access point on a Tinker Board S with a MT7601U wifi dongle, since the wifi that it incorporates I could not make it work. When I configure the AP, this message appears. One of your wireless drivers are on a black list due to poor quality. AP mode might not be possible! Is not supported in Armbian? is one of the hardware devices tested?

I use Neo4 for media streaming using plex or minidlna. At first I don't know the problem but the movies played from it is lagging. My previous banana pi is better than this. I thought it is because of heating problem and normal for about an hour after shutdown for several hours. I also thought that may be it is my usb 3.0 hardrive adapter or maybe unstable minidlna. iperf result look normal with speed around 950mbps. This internal wifi is not detected but not a problem because I will not using it. I already tried using FriendlyCore, armbian ubuntu and then armbian debian. After using armbian debian, it starting to show its problem when the other os variant …

Hello guys, I'm new to SBCs in general and would like to start tinkering around a bit. But am not able to find a central resource with reviews and such. So have decided to ask the question here (moderators please feel free to move the thread around) I am looking for a SBC in the 30 to 35 or upto 40$ price range with a bare minimum of the following : 1. 64bit SoC 2. Atleast 1 GB RAM (pref 2 GB) 3. Wifi on board (or are wifi dongles a better option?) 4. 1080p out by hdmi.. Preferably 4k.. I read enough to understand that manufacturers other than Raspberry are not great with OS support or optimisation.. So I am looking for something t…

Hi, Not sure I should ask this kind of question here, but here it goes: THe question is how to grow a RAID5 after replacing 4x2TB with 4x4TB I replaced each disk one by one and hit recover each time a disk was replaced. I have access to all the files. After that I used the command "mdadm --grow /dev/md127 --size=max" to grow the size. I'ts now showing 10.92TiB in Raid Management but it didn't reshape or grew the partitions/filesystems. If I hit resize in File Systems for one partition, nothing happens. I have two partitions: /dev/dm-0 /dev/dm-1 ignore /dev/sde1, it's an external usb HDD. Any advice? how can I res…

Hi, The OrangePI Plus 2 has 2 video output : HDMI and composite. I wander if it would be possible to use independantly these output : My goal is to have a media player on the HDMI (Kodi ?) and, at the same time, the composite image used to display my smarthome dashboard ? Thanks Laurent

Hi, i have orangePi One with armbian ubuntu (updated up to day). I have this old one 11g wifi usb: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS ZD1211B 802.11g i have tried to install firmware-zd1211 but there`s no package. i`m linux beginner so my knowledge end`s here, on forum i have tried to search info but unsuccessful Can anyone help me/point in to some direction? Will be grateful.

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

Hi, After upgrade from xenial to bionic we found a problem with R1 internal WIFI. First connection to any wireless network with nmtui works wihout problem. But after that if we try to switch to another wireless network it fails. It doesn't even reconnect to the first network ever. If we plug in an external usb wifi adapter(which uses a different driver than the internal wifi driver) it works without problem as expected. What do you think ? Have you experienced the same problem ever ? What is wrong with the internal wifi ? It was working good in xenial. I blacklisted the internal driver and using external wifi adapter for now. "wlan0" in the logs …

Hi, Compiled image for Nanopi3 , Ubuntu Xenial Server, After booting, LCD backlight switches on, but no display. Need help to fix this. No Customization or kernel config change done, used defaults. Linux nanopifire3 4.14.96-s5p6818 #2 SMP Tue Jan 29 12:56:43 UTC 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux from dmesg: [ 2.532000] leds-gpio: probe of leds failed with error -16 [ 1.912000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 60x50 [ 1.920000] nexell,display_drm c0102800.display_drm: fb0: frame buffer device Thank You Sudhir

Hello. I start this thread here because in not start it in 3399 forum section. I wanted preempt-rt kernel for my armbian rockpro64 so i have compiled and generated preempt-rt 4.4.167 deb kernel package. I have installed my custom kernel deb package but after reboot the system boot in old kernel not the custom kernel. How i can set the system to boot from custom installed kernel ?(4.4.167-rt176 is my custom kernel) s# ls -a /boot . boot.cmd dtb-4.4.174-rockchip64 System.map-4.4.174-rockchip64 .. boot-desktop.png Image uInitrd armbi…

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

Hi, Following advice regarding the Ubunto 18.04 issue where RDP throws you back to the login window if an account is already logged into the console, I'd like to disable autologon to the GUI on my Armbian_5.75_Orangepilite_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.20 installation. I've looked up a couple of similar questions on this issue on the forum already but I think the others describe disabling the GUI altogether, which I don't want to do. Is it just a case of setting the variable NODM_USER in /etc/default/nodm to equal nothing or 0 or something else? Thanks!

Hi all, I just downloaded the latest Armbian Bionic release and tried the new 5.0 kernel. So far everything looks good, but I can't get openvpn to work. The /dev/net/tun device is missing and I can't load the module. Since I'm new to armbian and my search didn't turn up any help - is there a way to get it to work? Thanks in advance, Jan

Mini tutorial I am putting here some notes for posterity In the current version of armbian (testing H6) I use X11 / Xorg only reaches 1024x768, but my display reaches 1440x900. To add this new resolution to the list of Settings/Display you have to give these commands: # xrandr --listmonitors (this command serves to see what it's called, the hdmi output) # cvt 1440 900 (output: # 1440x900 59.89 Hz (CVT 1.30MA) hsync: 55.93 kHz; pclk: 106.50 MHz Modeline "1440x900_60.00" 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync ) # xrandr --newmode "1440x900_60.00" 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -h…

I have a Pine64 A64+ (2GB RAM version) with Armbian 5.75 installed. After creating the SD card image networking works perfectly, but then after a few days it just stop connecting to the Wi-Fi network. Troubleshooting Wi-Fi: I can see the APs in the GUI and also using the armbian-config tool. When using armbian-config: Network -> Select default interface = wlan0 -> WiFi -> I select my home Wifi and press Return key : it says `Connecting...` then after about 30 seconds: `Could not activate connection: Activation failed: The Wi-Fi network could not be found` Troubleshooting Wired connection: …

Hi dear friends, We are working on a project with nanopc t3 plus. We need to enable USART in this board. In three OS (Linux, Linux kernel , Android) we can not enable this feature. We need an example or sample with USART enabling. Thanks in advance.

Didn't see anything from a search of the forums, so ... on a Rock64 with Armbian, I have compiled the 8723bu driver since it is missing. However, when this driver is loaded, only 2G wifi APs are visible. I am trying to connect to a 5G wifi AP. Other devices do not have a problem connecting to this AP. The Armbian install just can't seem to see it. I see the usb wifi in iw and in iwconfig. I'm just not sure how to get the usb wifi to connect to 5G when only 2G wifi APs show up. I've tried the usb wifi in all three different USB ports, and in all cases it still can't see 5G wifi, only 2G. Is there some config file or manual command that I can issue that w…

New user here Quick question re: the "Install to eMMC" script detailed in the getting started guide here: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-install-to-emmc-nand-sata-usb Does it put a fresh install of Armbian onto the eMMC? or Does it move the configured install from the SD card to the eMMC? The situation is that I have a live home server which is in use by the family all the time but is playing up a little so i was going to re-install it. Rather than take it offline and configure the board all in one go which would take a while. I wondered if i could boot from a new SD card and configure it as needed (over a f…

I'm trying to setup serial GSM module, but wvdial/wvdialconf can't connect to modem: WvModem<*1>: Cannot set information for serial port Manual communication (from screen, minicom) is ok, modem responds to all AT comands. Seems like wvdial can't set right baud rate or other parameters

Sorry if this in the wrong spot. I need a bit of help here, I once or twice updated the kernel on the Rock64 from older versions but I've always ran into an issue where it just wouldn't boot anymore and needed to be re-flashed. I run a always up server that has to have little to no downtime and I wish to avoid having to re-flash again. So I want to know if its safe or not to upgrade to 4.4.174 from 4.4.167 I can provide more info if needed. Thanks

Hello all, I'm using Armbian 5.73 stable (Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS) for a year or so on an OrangePi Zero. That little box is working as a backup box and network-wise DNS server via DNSMasq (ver. 2.75-1ubuntu0.16.04.5). The OS and general system is working very stable, but I'm having issues with DNSMasq. It's solving both local systems' names via /etc/hosts and internet hostnames for the whole network. Sometimes, DNSMasq stops solving external addresses. There'll be no error and warning messages anywhere, and when pinged with kill -USR1 signal, it happily prints the current stats. I'm running with a cache size of 6148, and I see no cache overflows in the…

What's the difference between gtf and cvt ? # gtf 800 480 60 # 800x480 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 29.82 kHz; pclk: 29.58 MHz Modeline "800x480_60.00" 29.58 800 816 896 992 480 481 484 497 -HSync +Vsync cvt 800 480 60 # 800x480 59.48 Hz (CVT) hsync: 29.74 kHz; pclk: 29.50 MHz Modeline "800x480_60.00" 29.50 800 824 896 992 480 483 493 500 -hsync +vsync # xrandr --newmode "800x480_50.00" 24.50 800 824 896 992 480 483 493 497 -hsync +vsync xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default root@orangepione:~# xrandr --addmode "default" 800x480_50.00 xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default xrandr: cannot find mode "800x480_50.0…

Hi, Do I have to create a Default Custom Command line under Preferences/Advanced in Xarchiver to allow zip files to be extracted with SU level access or is there a way within the desktop GUI to launch Xarchiver with SU level access? I want to extract a .NET binary archive to /user/local/bin, which needs SU write access. I realise I could use the command line for this but I like working with the desktop GUI. Thanks

Apologies for this noob question but I am still new to Ubunto. If a piece of software is currently available as a binary archive only and the accompanying installation advises unzipping it to "a folder" and running the software from this place I presume this is not really advisable, as would be the same in the Windows world. In which case, should I install the software in, say, /usr/share and run it from there or is it okay to just unzip it and run it out of the /home/[username]/ directory? Thanks!

Hi all, I'm trying to RDP into Armbian from a Windows box and whilst I can connect I only see a blank desktop - any ideas ?

Is it possible to install Minecraft Pi on Armbian?

Hi, I have a Pine 64. Latest stable kernel works fine, but after update to kernel > 5.0 I don't have network. dmesg shows the next lines: Could not attach to PHY stamac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error -19) Tried a 100 mbit switch, even that isn't a solution. Strange thing is it has worked once a month ago. Power for the board is supplied by the Euler bus. Update: update to the latest kernel (5.1.3) and now I see in in dmesg: Unsupported interface mode: rgmii-txid. Tried this solution: but it doesn't work. Thanks, Rene