Beginners

hi there! im a beginner in the linux world, but to try to learn a bit more and to try to make something useful im currently lookin at a orange pi 4 board in hope to somehow turn it in a NAS/Emby server. i played a little with the Opi4 and it looks promising, the only problem is that it doesnt have sata ports. i can get an extension board to plug in a mPCIE device, and i was planning to use it to connect a PCIE-Sata device. since i still have to buy it, do you have any suggestion? i looked at the JMB585 and the ASM1166 expansion boards, they both have plenty of ports for what i need and the speed its more than amazing, but i would like to know if they are …

Dear all, I am trying to install ZFS on my ODROID N2+ without success. I am sure this question has been asked before, but I don't think the answers I found are still relevant, unfortunately. Linux odroid 6.6.47-current-meson64 #3 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 19 04:04:32 UTC 2024 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux BOARD=odroidn2 BOARD_NAME="Odroid N2" BOARDFAMILY=meson-g12b BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=89476e86f LINUXFAMILY=meson64 ARCH=arm64 BOOT_SOC= IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm64 KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image KERNEL_TARGET=current,edge KERNEL_TEST_TARGET=current FORCE_BOOTSCRIPT_UPDATE=y…

I am adding support for a new board: NanoPi R2S Plus. I have added it to the kernel and it works in testing so far. Now I am attempting to add the new board to u-boot. The u-boot configuration for NanoPi R2S does not enable the eMMC and I want to install to boot from eMMC. Using my modified kernel and u-boot for NanoPi R2S I am able to run armbian-install because in the system booted from SD card the eMMC is enabled. But after installing to eMMC, shutting down and removing the SD card, boot fails because u-boot cannot access the eMMC. Looking at the device tree for NanoPi R2S in u-boot, not surprisingly, eMMC is not enabled: NanoPi R2S does not have eMMC memor…

I am working with a nanopi neo. The overlay documentation says the default pps pin is PD14. How do I cross reference the gpio names in the overlay documentation to what the documentation on friendlyelec site. I dont see anything close to a PD14. None of the pin assignments match whats in the manufactures documentation. The I2C pins and a few others are clearly marked from the manufacture, so I could give that a good guess. Other than that, where do I find or how do I figure out which pin does what? Rob

Please, help me find an old version of firmware for Nanopi Neo Air. I'm looking for Armbian 5.73 Debian based 4.19.20-sunxi . Best regards

Hello, previously, after creating a patch file, (v24.11) I used to save it in the userpatches directory as zzzz_xxxx_whatever.patch to ensure it was processed at the bottom of the current patch list. But now, it seems that this no longer works, and therefore, I cannot apply the patch.zzzz_panel_mipi_dsi.patch thank you. here is the log file: https://paste.armbian.com/horamafuru Edit: tested with(trunk.239) latest armbian build( https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/v25.5.0-trunk.239 with zzz-patch-test.patch here is the log file: https://paste.armbian.eu/joyalusado zzzz_panel_mipi_dsi.patch

Has anyone tried to get a hyperpixel4 screen (GPIO) to work with armbian? Seems easy enough on a raspberry pi but i want to use a orangepi zero 2 and haven't been able to get results. Any help?

OS running from eMMC: Armbian Debian 12 Bookworm Image Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.87_Orangepi3-lts_bookworm_current_6.6.72_minimal apt updated and upgraded Docker-engine installation through armbian-config fails. Here's the log: Get:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB] Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease [151 kB] Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease [55.4 kB] Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease [59.4 kB] Ign:5 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Get:6 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bookworm InRele…

Hello everyone. I've upgraded my Cubietruck from Xenial to Noble Ubuntu using supplied image on https://www.armbian.com/cubietruck/ . Thank you by the way for uncomplicated installation, worked just fine. Now to the problem: Cubietruck continues to hang (or shut down, I don't know exactly on the same time in a few days turn. Here are the last lines of syslog when it happens: 2025-03-03T23:34:59.245531+01:00 Artisan anacron[8415]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2025-03-03 2025-03-03T23:34:59.249722+01:00 Artisan anacron[8415]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) 2025-03-03T23:34:59.253667+01:00 Artisan systemd[1]: anacron.service: Deactivated successfully. 2…

When I check the eMMC from the Disk utility, it shows that it's normal. I can also boot the android distro that came with it normally. Help? 🥲

I would like to run Armbian on my multi boot PC. i came across a video on how to install Armbian on an X86 PC. How you have to use Gnome Disk to Restore Image to your drive. Does anybody know if it would work correctly doing that on a multi boot PC? I know I would need to update Grub afterwards for it to show in the list.

Just installed armbain for a orangepi zero plus 2 H3 setup the root and usernames credentials. I am able to login under root in putty, but sudo armbain-config is not found.

motd is no longer showing on boot with my rockpi-s and rock s0. (same cpu) I feel like this started when I updated from 24.8.3 to 24.11.1 Anyone else having this problem? This looks suspect... root@rock-s0:/etc# cat /etc/motd cat: /etc/motd: No such file or directory root@rock-s0:/etc# cat /var/run/motd cat: /var/run/motd: No such file or directory root@rock-s0:/etc# cd /etc/ root@rock-s0:/etc# ls -l motd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 24 15:27 motd -> /var/run/motd root@rock-s0:/etc# cd /var/run root@rock-s0:/var/run# ls -l motd ls: cannot access 'motd': No such file or directory

I have a NanoPi R2S Plus. If I boot the FriendlyElec Debian image both network ports work: LAN and WAN. If I boot the Armbian NanoPi R2S image, it boots OK and the LAN port works but the WAN port does not work. I believe the WAN port does not work because the NanoPi R2S has an RTL8211E chip but the NanoPi R2S Plus has an RTL8211F chip. I found some notes about problems with network on other boards that had the same change of chip (e.g. radxa RockpiE) and the device tree changes required to accommodate the new chip. So I tried to patch armbian/build to make the same changes for the NanoPi R2S Plus. I am not familiar with armbian/build or…

The page at https://docs.armbian.com/Process_Release-Model/ has a link entitled "Release Testing", but the link doesn't seem to go anywhere. Is there a document on the release testing process?

Hi, I'm trying to build an image on Windows. But when running compile.sh, I get the following error: [💲|💥] Problem detected [ WSL2 Terminal does not support UTF-8 ] Full log: https://paste.armbian.com/zopitumatu I don't know why this is happening, I've tried both cmd, powershell 5, powershell 7, all with the same result. The log mentions the Windows Terminal in the Microsoft Store should support it, but that already is installed and seems to just open the same Powershell 5, with the same error. Any idea on how to fix this?

Hi, Today I updated to Armbian v25.2 and did the good old reboot after the update. I never had issue with runing the SBC headless, but since the update I get a blinking blue status LED for a couple of minutes until the system boots. When I tried to plug in a monitor to get an idea what is going on, the SBC boots normally. Monitoring with HDMI monitor plugged in: https://paste.next.armbian.com/ehirazemot Monitoring without HDMI monitor plugged in: https://paste.next.armbian.com/zaqipatoci Most notable difference are: [ 105.189528] meson-drm ff900000.vpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out [ 105.189543] meson-drm ff900000.vpu: [d…

Hi! installed the recent armbian 25 server image on my Odroid HC4. Used armbian 22 before, but microsd was physically damaged. Unfortunately, the board can't reboot! I already tried to apply this solution, which was prescribed for armbian 24 reboot problems, yet it does not seem to help. Any help is appreciated. Although I do not want to downgrade... what is the last stable (=rebootable) armbian for the Odroid HC4? Does anyone know?

Hello all, i feel i may have made a fatal mistake. I was running Armbian Bookworm server on an Orange PI 5 Plus. All was well until the latest update. After updating, I thought i'd checkout what's changed in arbian-config. I enabled rolling releases and rebooted when prompted. Sadly, the OPI5+ now wont boot. Anything I can do? Or do I need to reinstall everything? Thanks in advaced for anyone taking the time to help Shad

I installed IceWM, but when I boot Armbian GNOME Desktop, it still signs into GNOME automatically. What do I have to do to instead sign into IceWM automatically instead of GNOME? I didn't see this kind of option in armbian-config.

hello, i have a Pine A64 and i have a problem with audio since i installed pulseaudio, i have no audio output and all audio devices are lost and the mouse cursor blinks(g every 0.5 second when i move the mouse

I I'm getting a 502 Bad gateway when I'm trying to run apt update on the http://apt.armbian.com/dists/noble/InRelease repository. I checked the forum and didn't see a server maintenance notice. And the arbianmonitor seems to fail to post the report too. Is there an infrastructure problem?

I picked up an OrangePi PC Plus. I installed armbian Jammy which does not have the mt7921u driver. I would like to install the driver and was wondering the proper steps. I have done apt install linux-headers-current-sunxi cd /usr/src/linux-headers-5.15.93-sunxi make scripts Now is it a matter of grabbing the mn7921u source and compiling it? Thanks for any direction.

Hi, I have a Helios4 NAS I haven't used in over a year. This NAS have 4 HDDs set as a RAID5 in it with valuable information that I need access to. I've installed Armbian bookworm and found that there is no /proc/mdstat file from which to recover the RAID5 array. I am now at a loss on how to rebuild the RAID5 array and regain access to the information on these drives, from what I read, mdadm was removed as a feature in more modern distros and is no longer used. I've installed mdadm however still no /proc/mdstat from which to recover the RAID array. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to rebuild this array and use it in my bookworm d…

Test version of the Armbian+EDK2 system (UEFI\grub) is available. The system startup control is performed as on a regular PC - through the menu on the monitor screen, therefore, to fully use all the features of selective startup, you need to have a connected monitor and keyboard To use this option. Download the EDK2 image. https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/edk2/ https://disk.yandex.ru/d/kK6KIqHShRHLyw Unpack and burn to SD card. Download the Armbian image (kernel 6.1.0-rc7), For Station M2 https://disk.yandex.ru/d/C4Ql9v0BvhKPjQ For Station P2 https://disk.yandex.ru/d/5XuGz9WgF7FGCg unpack and …

Is it possible to install armbian using dd? I see the instructions say to use USBImager is recommended. However, my situation is that the computer I am using is an ARM64 running Linux, and it appears there is not a binary download of USBImager available for ARM64-linux. I could compile my own copy of USBImager, but it seems like it might be simpler to use dd. Or--is there an alternative to USBImager that I could install on my ARM64-linux (debian), preferably using the package manager?

Hello everyone, I’m a complete beginner and have very little programming knowledge. However, I decided to build a MagicMirror as a project. For this, I got a BananaPi M2 Berry and installed what I believe is an Armbian operating system on it. Then I downloaded the corresponding packages for the MagicMirror from GitHub. Everything worked so far—though it was quite challenging—and I even managed to personalize each module. But now I have two problems: I want the MagicMirror to stay in portrait mode permanently. However, after a while (about 30 minutes), the screen automatically switches back to landscape mode and opens a new window of the “Display” appli…

I am a beginner here and wanted to install Armbian onto my MXIII android box. This was my conversation with ChatGPT.

Hello everyone, I’m trying also to connect the RTC ds1307 in RockPi4C+, but it isn’t detecting by I2C. Informations: RTC ds1307 used: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Pi-RTC-DS1307.html Armbian OS version: 25.2 Kernel version: 6.12.10-current-rockchip64 i2c-7 enabled on armbian-config (> System > Kernel > SY210 > rockchip-rk3399-i2c7) When I run the command: sudo i2cdetect -y 7 shows the error Error: Could not open file /dev/i2c-7' or /dev/i2c/7’: No such file or directory When I run the command: sudo i2cdetect -l shows: i2c-0 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter i2c-3 i2c rk3x-i2c I2C adapter Is someone can help t…

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

Hello everyone, First timer here. I enabled the wlan0 interface on my Orange Pi zero 2w and am able to connect to the internet. However, I am not able to connect to it via SSH or even ping it, (cannot resolve host). I'm using the minimal image available here: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero-2w/ I followed the docs to configure wifi as pointed out here: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Networking/#connecting-to-wifi-network Currently I'm stuck on how to debug it further. I tried to ping other devices from within the orange pi and it works without any issues. Any advice is very much appreciated

Hi. For my application it would be very advantageous to speed up the boot time of the device as much as possible. The application depends on the network, and unfortunately it seems it takes a while for the interface to establish a connection. After plugging in the device, I count that it takes about 25-30 seconds until my application starts (which is set to start on reboot by cron). However, at that time, the network is still not up, so it matters little that the application has started. It takes another 20 seconds or so until the device is reachable by the network. So total 45-50 seconds from boot. Why is this? I see in systemd-analyze t…

Hello! After installing Debian stable (bookworm) v25.2 on my Cubietruck from SD card to SSD using armbian-install and then moving boot to SSD using armbian-config: Install/Update the bootloader on (/dev/sda/) i'm trying to boot with SD card removed and ending up in this strange android GUI. My /etc/fstab is looking like this: # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 …

Hi! I just flashed Armbian 24.11.1 Bookworm Minimal / IOT onto my Odroid HC1 SD-Card. The download page states: "For HC1 and HC2 we provide specially optimized config which has to be applied manually. This results in shorter boot time and lower consumption. Edit /boot/armbianEnv.txt and add: board_name=xu4 # or xu3, xu3, hc1" However there is no /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Should I just run the system as is or do I have to modify something to have it run optimally? Should I just create the file and add line? Thx! Björn

Hi! When I try to run overlays on Armbian 21.08.2 Focal, they do not seem to load, see attached screenshot below for the output during boot. It looks to me that fdt is not properly run or sth. root@rockpro64:/boot# cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 21.08.2 Focal" VERSION_ID="20.04" root@rockpro64:/boot# cat armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 bootlogo=false overlay_prefix=rockchip rootdev=UUID=73fac48d-4f73-4ac1-b899-e67dc98b5794 rootfstype=ext4 overlays=pcie-gen2 spi-spidev extraargs=net.ifnames=0 isolcpus=4,5 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0…

Hi, all I have a development kit board Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC HDK 8550/SM8550/sm8x50. As understand it's more smartphone. Do we have support from Armbian for this board ? If so, can you provide me some info how to install it on sm8550 ? Currently, sm8550 has only fastboot and some AOSP images (u-boot, boot etc)

I'm trying to use an Orange Pi Pc Plus v1.1. The disk images for it provided by Orange Pi are worth nothing, having repositories that do not work. As an alternative I've been looking at Armbian, and decided to try the images supplied here: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-pc-plus/ . I had a problem with both: -The Ubuntu image always reboot as soon as the gui loads. I don't think it power related, since I'm using a 3A power supply and that's more than what is recommended. -The Debian image doesn't allow me to connect to the internet. I don't have the option to use a cable and the WiFi network I have access to uses PEAP, and I found no way to configure …

I’ve done some searching, but haven’t found a clear answer. i have a rockpi-s with a built in eMMC that has a bootable armbian image. When i insert a micro-SD card into the RP, and the card has a bootable image, it happily boots off of the card. Remove the card, and it boots off the eMMC. Perfect. Now, how do I duplicate this same functionality with a usb key? no key or sd = boot from eMMC SD inserted = boot from SD USB inserted = boot from USB I’ve been able to get the RP to boot from the usb using armbian-install to set it up, but then if I remove the USB, it no longer boots from the eMMC.

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

Device rk3399 I have installed Waydroid and installed an application to watch videos But some of the videos were found to have issues (Does the playback speed increase like frame skipping? The sound has also changed) Because I don't know if it's a GPU issue with the firmware itself or if it's caused by not using Waydroid,So I want to know how to test whether GPU is used in Linux Did the installed Waydroid use GPU

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

Hi, It is very hard to start OS (community version, downloaded from here). The system doesn't start at all, if the keyboard is already attached. I've discovered some magic moment during the startup process, when I can attach keyboard and system goes further. In most of moments the boot process stops, as soon as I'm attaching the keyboard. Lines are scrolled too fast to let me note what moment is "successful". Also I've noticed that the chip is very hot, when the keyboard is attached. It's much colder when keyboard is detached. Another small issue is that functional keys don't work. Though Ctrl/Alt and other similar keys do. …

I installed armbian with a vendor kernel 6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx. I want to be sure the kernel is not updated. I used armbian-config and selected "SY203 - Disable Armbian kernel upgrades" Disable Armbian kernel/firmware upgrades Would you like to continue? after selecting "Yes", the menu shows "SY202 - Enable Armbian firmware upgrades" so I check with apt-mark showhold and it returned only "armbian-firmware" Do I have to put my kernel packages on hold? linux-dtb-vendor-rk35xx linux-headers-vendor-rk35xx linux-image-vendor-rk35xx I find misleading the change in the description from SY203 to SY202: kernel ->…

Hi all, apologies I know this isn't the correct forum to post,but, I have a question regarding the armbian build process for a raspi5b , but unfortunately I can't post in the correct forum because It requires the url of my build log which I don't know the location of - anyone here know where that is ? I use SHARE_LOG=yes as a parameter to compile.sh and my build machine is a x86_64 GNU/Linux with a 1gb ssd and 32gb of ram - please ignore the tag I couldn't find an appropriate one

Hello, Im using Orange Pi One with Armbian v6.6 (Ubuntu 24.04 CLI). I want to autologin to armbian and than auto run a python script. I already tried some things, but with no success. I will add screenshots of files what I modified. In the first screenshot in the red rectangle I modified it and changed every RealUserName to root as suggested in this thread: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16788-auto-user-login/ Or it doesnt work with root and I need to use user account? In the second screenshot I just added few lines according to this thread: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/7458-how-to-run-a-python-script-at-startup-on-orange-pi…

Guys i have an orange pi zero 3 with 4GB RAM running a tiny proxmox 8.3.2 and everything was ok, i used the ./compile.sh command in /build to create a custom kernel with KVM enabled to get this to work a few months ago, now i have updated the system but the kernel installed has no support for KVM, obviously i want to use the standard procedure to recompile the kernel re-enabling the KVM but i dont know how, i know there is a way to pass commands to ./compile.sh but from what i have seen i dont know where or how to pass to the program the fact that i want KVM support enabled, i have seen things like this: apt -y install git git clone https://github.com/armbia…

I'm trying to build the linux-tools binaries from the kernel using the armbian build. I ran the ./compile.sh script and it built the image, but I only want the linux-tools binaries to copy over. I'm not sure how to get it to build them, when I go into the kernel tools folder and do "make all" it builds the binaries for x64 instead of for arm64. I looked through the kernel config file when running ./compile.sh script but can't find an option to build the linux-tools. I'm not sure how to add it so that they are built for the target system arm64.

Hi, I'm running Ambian 24.11.2 Noble Genome version on OrangePi 5 Plus in my nvme drive. I want to change my system language to Chinese simplified. However, when I select 'Chinese simplified' in 'Settings -> System -> Region & Language -> Manage Installed Languages -> Install/Remove Languages' and click 'Apply'. It says: 'software database is broken. It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the software manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f " in terminal to fix this issue at first.' I did tried to run synaptic with sudo and clicked 'Fix Broken Packages' and 'Reload'. It says 0 is broken, 0 to install/upgra…

I've got an original Tinker Board rev 1.2 that I want to install Klipper on for a 3d printer. I've tried installing both Armbian 24.11.1 Bookworm Minimal / IOT and Armbian 24.11.1 Noble XFCE and with either one when I try to shut it down with "sudo shutdown now" or using the shutdown option in the desktop mode, the board seems to shut down, the lights go out but it still draws around 700mA and the CPU stays warm or even gets a little hotter (with the board powered on but doing nothing it draws around 460mA). I've tried disabling wake-on-lan but that didn't help. I've tried adding power_off to the extraargs line in /boot/armbianEnv.txt also didn't help. It d…

I am trying to build Armbian using command below. I use 25.02.0-trunk armbian build version in docker. However I don't get kernel source package after succesful building. I get only following debs: armbian-bsp-cli-bananapim2zero_25.02.0-trunk_armhf__1-PC7e64-V62c4-H9299-B6e44-R7697.deb armbian-bsp-cli-bananapim2zero-current_25.02.0-trunk_armhf__1-PC7e64-V62c4-H9299-B6e44-R7697.deb armbian-config_25.02.0-trunk_all__1-SAfdf5-B8c21-R448a.deb armbian-firmware_25.02.0-trunk_all__1-SA8dbb-B6c7f-R448a.deb fake-ubuntu-advantage-tools_25.02.0-trunk_all__1-B34ac-R448a.deb linux-dtb-current-sunxi_25.02.0-trunk_armhf__6.6.65-S943e-D0531-P78f8-Cc98cH5c21-HK01ba-V…

As listed in the topic, this is my desired and actual partition table setup for a lot of my computers. The U-boot 'partition 0' is typically somewhere in sector 1 till where partition 1 starts and only for SoCs/boards that do not understand any filesystem, like Allwinner and Rockchip based platforms. Also old BIOS PCs actually. It can be MBR or GPT (+hybrid) if more than 4 partitions are needed, for multi-boot, like adding Linux to a new Win11 pre-installed PC. The FAT is ESP or just type 0x0c/0x0700. Now I am struggling a bit with the case where a preinstalled ROCK 3A (RK3568, board ordered, not delivered yet) image has FAT mounted in /boot. RaspberryPi and U…

Hello, I'm in the process of setting up OrangePi PC Plus and when updating packages I get this error Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy InRelease Get:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-security InRelease [110 kB] Hit:4 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease Get:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB] Hit:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-backports InRelease Hit:3 https://cli.github.com/packages stable InRelease Get:6 http://armbian.hosthatch.com/apt jammy InRelease [52.4 kB] Err:6 http://armbian.hosthatch.com/apt jammy InRelease…

Hi, picked up a Rock 5b+ as it looked like the exact right board hardware wise and the rk3588 is getting a reasonable amount of support and happy to see it's officially supported by Armbian. Was able to build and flash the UEFI image and boot into the Fedora installer which would allow a RAID install but unfortunately it doesn't support either the PCIe bifurcation needed for both m.2 slots to work or the hardware acceleration for transcoding. It looks like there's progress being made by Collabora so eventually mainline support should be good enough but for now I'm looking to use Armbian with the BSP kernel as able to boot into it with both drives being de…

Hello everyone, new ARM user here, but long-time GNU/Linux user for about 25 years. I'm trying to install a (preferably debian based) distribution on a newly acquired ARM laptop, a Samsung "galaxy S book" model SM-W767V - this machine is based on qcom's "Snapdragon 8cx" SoC. When i try to boot a generic image (assuming the BIOS/UEFI lists it in the boot menu) it either freezes or reboots at a specific point during the boot process. Where it crashes is always consistent for a specific image, but can differ across different images. The Armbian ones make it past the bootloader and crash at some point during the kernel boot. Has anyone had …

Hi all, i just stumbled upon the Bana Pi M4 Zero while searching for an pi zero 2w alternative that features at least 5ghz network support. My use case is explained quickly, I want to use g_mass_storage to create an smart usb stick device. I can't use libcomposite, since old devices (and it's going to be used with old tech) don't support composite as far as I know. Is g_mass_storage supported by default or would I have to compile my own kernel/image?

My setup is SD boot and rootfs on ssd on USB 2.0 smartctl on laptop reports TIRM is enabled, but it is missing on orange pi PC. using the same SSD in the same USB box. Do I need another ssd, USB box, or armbian upgrade for TRIM support? root@focal-armv7l ~ $ fstrim -v / fstrim: /: the discard operation is not supported root@focal-armv7l ~ $ mount | grep " / " /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,discard,errors=remount-ro,commit=600) root@focal-armv7l ~ $ smartctl -i -d sat /dev/sda smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [armv7l-linux-5.9.14-sunxi] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org ===…

I have done a flat install of "Armbian 24.11.2 Bookworm Minimal" but for some reason it keeps failing to update. I get the following output and I can ping the IP address but when I try to follow the http address it show s a 404 error in the browser. Is there something I am missing as I have tried to fix it but not sure if its just me or everyone is getting this as the file is missing to download. root@orangepi5-plus:~# apt update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Hit:2 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-bac…

Hello everyone, I encountered a "No space left on device (28)" issue while compiling custom firmware and would like to seek your help. The firmware compilation process works fine under normal circumstances. However, after using the customize-image.sh script to install my own applications, the rootfs size became 3285 MiB, and I encountered the "No space left on device (28)" error during compilation. I modified FIXED_IMAGE_SIZE to 6G and recompiled, but the same issue persisted. After mounting the raw file, I confirmed that no additional files could be added. I suspect there’s some parameter restricting this, but I’m not sure…

Hello everyone, I recently purchased an ili9488 touch screen for use with my Orange Pi 5, but I'm having trouble getting it to work. I've tried several solutions that I found online, but so far nothing has worked. Specifically, the screen isn't displaying any output when I connect it to my Orange Pi 5, and I'm not sure what steps to take next. https://a.aliexpress.com/_EQaN4gj - That is the screen I bought. For context,I have the latest version of the Armbian operating system installed. I've followed the instructions that came with the touch screen, and I've also tried several different solutions that I found online (including using the fbset …

Hello. Sorry for my english. I have OrangePi3 LTS and BTT TFT35 SPI v2.1 with ili9488. I am trying to connect display to orangepi via SPI, but I dont have ili9488 driver in fbtft folder. When I am building fbtft with ili9488 from github https://github.com/Snitro/fbtft-ili9488, I am getting error. What did I wrong? uname -a : Linux orangepi3-lts 6.6.31-current-sunxi64 FBTFT Build error: root@orangepi3-lts:/lib/modules/6.6.31-current-sunxi64/build/drivers/video/fbdev# make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=$PWD modules make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.6.31-current-sunxi64' CC [M] /lib/modules/6.6.31-current-sunxi64/build/drivers/video…

Should all be working far as I can tell.... All i get is fuzz/static throught the 3.5mm headphone plug. Alsa info: http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=eacea3ea4fd57e45bd9ba735cd7cf3b8a82024b7 ``` aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: rockchipes8316c [rockchip-es8316c], device 0: ff880000.i2s-ES8316 HiFi ES8316 HiFi-0 [ff880000.i2s-ES8316 HiFi ES8316 HiFi-0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: hdmisound [hdmi-sound], device 0: ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0 [ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ``` ``` for i in /proc/asound/card[0-…

I’m trying to use a 3.5 LCD (waveshare clone) with ILI9486 + XPT2046 with my orange pi zero. My display is like this. I installed both Debian_buster_next_4.19.59 and Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.57 and I followed many guides in here with no success. I edited armbianEnv.txt and added these: overlays=spi-spidev spi-add-cs1 param_spidev_spi_bus=1 param_spidev_spi_cs=1 After that I ran this sudo modprobe fbtft_device custom name=fb_ili9486 gpios=dc:18,reset:2 speed=16000000 busnum=1 rotate=90 and didn’t get any error. I figured that the reset & DC pins on orange pi zero are pin22(GPIO2) and pin18(GPIO18) but I’m not 100% sure about these.…

armbian-config seems to be updating every day on my system, which I suspect is unintentional. sudo apt list --upgradable Listing... Done armbian-config/unknown 25.2.0-trunk.116.1202.192010 all [upgradable from: 25.2.0-trunk.107.1130.212127] N: There are 12 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.

I am trying to download img files of orange pi5 plus, and none works now.

armbian-config has significantly changed in Bookworm/Kernel 6.6. It looks to me that its not reflecting the actual device settings. Please refer to the attached screenshot from /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Compared to Bullseye/Kernel 6.1.92 I see an additional line "fdt_overlays, where all the dtb settings from the new armbian-config appear, fdt_overlays=sun50i-h5-analog-codec sun50i-h5-i2c1 sun50i-h5-tve sun50i-h5-uart2 sun50i-h5-usbhost0 sun50i-h5-usbhost1 sun50i-h5-usbhost2 sun50i-h5-usbhost3 but they seem to not having any effect. In 6.1.92 this line does not exist. The real dtb settings are still in the line above overlay_prefix=sun50i-h5 overlays=i2c1 uart1 usbho…

After upgrading the system, my WiFi cannot be used. After inspection, it was found that there was no driver (brcmfmac4330-sdio.oranth, tx3 mini. bin). Where can I download it or how can I fix this error?

Hey, im trying to install pihole on my very old banana pi bpi-m1 on an Armbian_22.11.0 OS (maybe that is the issue after all). im getting this error "Error: Unable to update package cache. Please try "sudo apt update" after that the installation wont continue. when i run sudo apt update it shows the following: Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy InRelease Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-security InRelease Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-backports InRelease Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/saiarcot895/chromium-beta/ubuntu jammy InRelease Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/moz…

Ive downloaded the latest build of debian trixie here for opi 4 lts: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-4-lts/ However nothing comes up on the screen when i use the sd card. Is there anything special I need to change to get this to boot?

Hi, I have read the topic about emmc backuping, thank to @martinayootte . Now, how do I restore from backup? New Nano Pi has booted. SD/USB card with backup image is attached. Must I simply use dd form "if" to emmc? Is it correct? Emmc contains image that is being run now, and as far as I know, some files are locked? Does it matter? Brgs, Aleksei Mikutskiy

Hello I have a 1440p (QHD, 2560x1440) monitor, but whatever I tried it was always giving me 1080p (1920x1080). I'm using Armbian 24.8.1 Noble Gnome and the resolution settings are in the Displays system panel. I noticed people who had similar problems on the Rock5b, the suggested solution did not work, but hinted to dtb files. After examining the /boot/dts tree of Armbian I found 3 files: /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay/orangepi-5-plus-hdmi2-8k.dtbo /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay/rock-5b-hdmi1-8k.dtbo and /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay/rock-5b-hdmi2-8k.dtbo You can decompile the object file with the dtc command from the device-tree-compiler package…

I have strange issue with small hdmi display, when i connect orange pi to it theres no signal, but whet i connect orange pi to a 15'' display it works fine. also when i connect small display in to a pc output it also works. i tried different distros on that pi with the same behavior. Today i turned it on and it randomly worked but when i try to enter console mode theres no output. theres some weird hdmi errors Nov 11 18:08:12 orangepi5pro kernel: rockchip-hdptx-phy-hdmi fed60000.hdmiphy: bus_width:0x7aae4,bit_rate:502500 Nov 11 18:08:12 orangepi5pro kernel: rockchip-hdptx-phy-hdmi fed60000.hdmiphy: hdptx phy lane can't ready! Nov 11 18:08:12 orangepi5pro kernel: p…

Hi i have had my linux box turned of for a very long time and i was trying to run updates but it doesnt seem to want to update, is there something i can do? im very green when it comes to Linux. I tried to do the url command but it didnt work: root@pine64:~# sudo armbianmonitor -u System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to <!doctype html> <html lang=en> <head> <meta charset=utf-8> <title>&nbsp;</title> </head> <style> body { font-family: monospace; margin: 2em; } </style> <body> <p>ix.io is taking a br…

Hi, I setup a Radxa Zero 2 last week with Klipper, a 3d printing firmware. Over the past few months, I've transitioned my printer to using canbus. I'm finding the setup process slightly different with Armbian than it was on RpiOS, and I'd appreciate feedback or pointers that could help me better understand networking in Armbian. I use a usb canbus adapter. In the past, I've configured it using the standard Klipper config written to `/etc/network/interfaces.d/can0`: allow-hotplug can0 iface can0 can static bitrate 1000000 up ifconfig $IFACE txqueuelen 1024 So, when I went to setup the Radxa, I did what I've always done, and i…

Hi I got ugly fonts in chromium. It seems the package fonts-liberation was missing. I did not have the issue with the Uefi-x86 version. Kind regards Philippe

Hello! I have orange pi one, and i need to connect 2-ch rs232 hat from waveshare, i tried to do something similar to instruction for raspberry only with replacement to armbianEnv.txt, but it’s not worked. I’m newbie, can anyone describe how i can connect this hat?

Hello, I have questions related with overlay. I'm using Radxa Zero 3W and in the /boot/armbianEnv.txt it has overlay_prefix=rk35xx. I want to use this overlay /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay/radxa-zero3-disabled-wireless.dtbo. If I cat /boot/boot.cmd it read the overlays with this line ${overlay_prefix}-${overlay_file}.dtbo. It means if I add overlays=disabled-wireless in /boot/armbianEnv.txt, it will not find the dtbo right? So my questions are, 1. Can I manually edit the overlay_prefix to radxa-zero3? 2. If can then will that has impact on the feature, eg kernel upgrade or anything?

So I was trying to compile a wifi driver for a somewhat new usb wifi device and it breaks during compilation because it expects a directory named /usr/src/<linux-headers>/arch/aarch64 but on NanoPi NEO3 the directory is named (on NanoPI R4S is the same case btw) /usr/src/<linux-headers>/arch/arm64 In order to make it work, I created a symlink under the "arch" directory called "aarch64" pointing to "arm64" and I was able to compile it. Here is what happens when I try to compile it without the symlink: pablo@callampa:~/repos/github.com/morrownr/rtl8852cu-20240510$ make clean cd phl ; rm -fr */*/*/*/*.mod.c */*/*/*/*.mod */*/*/*…

Hi all. I am new to Arm and Linux in general. Got me a Raspberry pi5 several days ago and was going trough different OS systems so i can settle on one final choice. Landed in the Armbian community and tested the Armbian Bookworn / Gnome distro and was amazed how smooth and good looking this is. The only problem i have is the lack of preinstalled Widevine support. I know (and also tested) that Raspberry OS does have DRM playback support trough Widevine. So it works with the latest 64bit Arm Linux Kernel, right ? So i even went and extracted the Widevine folder form the RpOS system.... Now, several days after i am clueless on how to install Widevine and make the Chcromi…

Hi there, recently I bought an Orange Pi Zero3 with 1GB RAM. I want to connect a 20*4 character LCD display(https://www.tinytronics.nl/en/displays/lcd/lcd-display-20*4-characters-with-white-text-and-blue-backlight-with-i2c-backpack) to it. I have previously used this display with Arduino UNO, which worked great. Now I want to use it with the Orange Pi Zero3 (Ubuntu 24.04). I have no experience with the Orange Pi or single-board computers in general. I followed some tutorials, but I couldn't make it work. I did this: Wiring: I2C Backpack Orange Pi Zero3 VCC Pin 2 GND …

I just created this account. During the account creation process there was a part where I had to click a checkbox saying that I agree to the forum rules & policies. But I didn't see a link to actually read the policies (I'm usually impatient about these things, I may have missed something obvious). Now, after the fact, I've spent more time looking, and I can't find the forum rules / policies. Is there a post or webpage somewhere detailing what they are?

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

Hello everyone, I purchased a single board computer and plan to use Armbian for my projects.; Could anyone suggest the best version of Armbian for beginners?? I want to ensure I have a stable and user friendly experience. I am curious about the initial setup process. Are there specific configurations or settings that I should focus on during installation to optimize performance? Also, I am interested in knowing about the community support available. Are there resources, forums or tutorials that you would suggest for newcomers to learn more about using Armbian effectively? Also i have check this; https://forum.armbian.com/topic/27407-complete-headle…

I have multiple n2s and I don't want them all to be called odroidn2. What is the recommended way to change the hostname of an armbian system?

for the past few days i have been trying to set up a samba server but without any luck. my main problem is that after installing and setting up everything i try to connect to the ip of the server (just by typing \\server-ip\ in the explorer path) using a win 10 machine and it doesnt even prompt me to log in using credentials, it just says that is impossible to connect to the server, even tough im connecting trough ssh. I just wiped the machine and installed everything new again but still no luck, im not prompted to log in. (i assume that even without editing the smb.conf file i should be getting a prompt to log in right?) what should i do? i dont thi…

Did anyone tested to build Armbian in Distro Box?

just downloaded orange-pi-3-lts's latest debian bookworm available on your website I found out that apt sources includes a reference to a beta repository didn't expect that and I'd rather prefer to avoid beta... what's better: just comment out the beta updates or build a custom image not containing betas?

To control from terminal a remote orangepizeroplus in case of lockup, I connected the otg to the USB port of a second Opi0+ modifying a usb cable to which I disconnected the power cables (+red and -black). I gave these commands on the orange to monitor: # echo "g_serial" >> /etc/modules mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyGS0.service.d nano /etc/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyGS0.service.d/10-switch-role.conf #add 2 lines save and exit [Service] ExecStartPre=-/bin/sh -c "echo 2 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/sunxi_usb_udc/otg_role" systemctl --no-reload enable serial-getty@ttyGS0.service echo "ttyGS0" >> /etc/securetty reboot on the secon…

I am trying to get BigTreeTech Pi TFT43 display working on a Radxa Rockpi 3A I have. I put the latest Armbian image on the rockpi, but I'm at a loss as to how I configure the device tree to make the screen work. I have verified that the screen does work on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ while using BTT's instructions here, but those instructions don't seem to translate to Armbian. All other examples I have found seem to be specific to the SBC vendor's custom branches. It looks like the vdd_mipi regulator is not enabled so I guess that should be the first step, how do I enable it? Thanks for your help!

Just started my new odroid HC2 with armbian (Armbian_21.08.1_Odroidxu4_buster_current_5.4.142). However, I could not log in via ssh. I got the message kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer Connection reset by 192.168.0.89 port 22 The reason was, that in /etc/sshd_config PubkeyAuthentication was enabled. After commenting out I was able to login via ssh. I think this should be corrected as it makes no sense. Or at least the documentation should be changed (it says you can do your first login via ssh). Jürgen

After the update, the welcome screen shows Armbian 24.5.1, but when I log out of the shell, it displays Armbian 24.8.2 (please see the attached screen). Is this normal ?

Dear All, I just want to share my workflow of successfully installing Box86-Box64, Wine32-Wine64 and Winetricks on Arm64 Big thanks to @NicoD for sharing his source code of Armbian-Gaming. I modified some of his code to be used in Armbian Focal (or any Arm64 distro) and fix the armhf dependencies issue by using the "arm-linux-gnueabihf" Library from TwisterOS. I also used some of Box86 Manual. So many thanks to all of them. Ok Let's Start: 1. Add armhf multiarch sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf sudo apt-get update 2. Install dependencies for box86 & box64 sudo apt-get install git cmake cabextract gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf lib…

Hello I need to increase the size of the CMA on my armbian set up. But I've not found a way to do it. Is there a kernel command line option I need to pass to increase the CMA size, or is this done in the kernel configuration before building? Thanks in advance.

the jack audio on my Orange Pi 3 LTS is very noisy... my setup description below anyone having the same issue and fixed it? or anyone that went with a USB audio adapter or a HDMI adapter? thanks for sharing ___________________ this is my setup ORANGE PI 3 LTS headless Linux 6.1.53-current-sunxi64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 07:43:05 UTC 2023 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy I'm using alsa and everything plays fine when using bluetooth **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: ac200audio [ac200…

I noticed the BPI-M4 Zero is supported. It's the same SoC as the BPI-M4 Berry and mostly the same hardware (8GB eMMC, 2GB RAM). The main differences seem to be the ports. Is there a chance the image would work? Is the BPI-M4 Berry possibly going to get support?

I was updating packages on a host running on board "Orange PI PC", running Armbian bullseye version 22.02.1. There is only one package left: The following packages have been kept back: armbian-bsp-cli-orangepipc and if I try to run: sudo apt install armbian-bsp-cli-orangepipc I get: The following packages have unmet dependencies: armbian-bsp-cli-orangepipc-current : Depends: base-files (>= 24.5.1) but 11.1+deb11u10 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. If I look at my installation of base-files I see that that's is right. How I can fix this ?

I have an Ubuntu 20.04.06 system where my /var/log zram mount ran out of space. I took a few steps to address this (see below), and after rebooting, /var/log is no longer a zram mount. I've tried to find mentions of zram or ramlog in log files, but can't find anything that looks like an error message. /etc/default/armbian-zram-config and /etc/default/armbian-ramlog both still show they're enabled. Any idea how I can fix ramlog to come back up? - mv auth.log ../log.hdd/auth.log.240912 - mv mail.log ../log.hdd/mail.log.240912 cd ../log.hdd gzip auth.log.240912 gzip mail.log.240912 df -h # df showed /var/log as still full # it …

in using minimal armbian with network configuration through dhcpd, ifupdown, wpa_supplicant systemd-networkd-wait-online failing to start during boot causing long boot time. systemctl restart systemd-networkd-wait-online.service causing an error Job for systemd-networkd-wait-online.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status systemd-networkd-wait-online.service" and "journalctl -xeu systemd-networkd-wait-online.service" for details. Sep 10 22:48:17 orangepi5pro systemd-networkd-wait-online[457]: Timeout occurred while waiting for network connectivity. Sep 10 22:48:17 orangepi5pro systemd[1]: systemd-netw…

Looking at lscpu reports turns out that my board is vulnerable to spectre v2 because eBPF is enabled. I tryed to disable it by using sysctl but it seems it doesn't work (this is the solution used by ubuntu distributions to solve the problem 'sudo sysctl kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=1 or 2'). I'm on Debian version. Is this option kernel dependent?

Hi, I'm trying to build armbian with the tutorial https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/#what-do-i-need but I get this error: ~/git/others/armbian/build$ ./compile.sh [🚸] Docker is installed, but not usable [ can't use Docker; check your Docker config / groups / etc ] [💥] Problem detected [ Docker installed but not usable ] [💥] Exiting in 10 seconds [ Press <Ctrl-C> to abort, <Enter> to ignore and continue ] Counting down: 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... 0... [💥] error! [ Exiting due to 'Docker installed but not usable' ] [💥] Exiting with error 43 [ at /home/eloy/g…

I have FriendlyElect CM3588 (RK3588 based) Nas kit which is lagging behind in terms of incorporating the latest NPU driver (the current is 0.9.3) in their firmwares. Thier repository contains Ubuntu / Debian with Kernels 6.1.x As far as I know the latest RKNPU version is 0.9.6. and as I understand there is no OS on Armian tailored for CM3588. What is best way to get the lastest driver?