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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

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

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?

So, looking to create a CLI version of armbian-install. Only has to work with the rockpi-s and from the SD card to the eMMC. Looking at this script: If it works to clone the SD to eMMC (with some changes?) then I need to tell armbian to boot from the eMMC when the SD card isn't inserted, same way that armbian-install does. Do I simply change the UUID line in /boot/armbianEnv.txt to the UUID of the eMMC, or do I need to edit /etc/fstab or ??

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…

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…

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

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, 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)

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

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 …

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 …

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

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…

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’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.

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.

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, 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 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…

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…

My goal is to use Radxa Rock3a with a large 3.5inch HDD as a first step. Works fine if I use a M.2 E-key adapter which connects on the PCIe2.0 x1 lane and provides SATA via a JMB 5-port chip (only 2 connectors, support is in U-boot default Armbian build 2024.10). Worked also if I use an overlay included in early 6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx builds that maps RK3568 SATA onto the PCIe2.0 M.2 connector traces/signals, but now the whole 6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx ends in panic. I have not looked at exact changes (it is from the beta channel), but it was working with trunk.x and now installed variant is from trunk.y. I might not be able to find exact numbers for x and …

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?

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…

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

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-…

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…

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?

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…

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

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?

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…

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…

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 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?

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 */*/*/*…

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 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 …

Hello. I can see thet avaota A1 is supported. But how it run from sd-card? I burn image put sdcard and i can see only black screen. Image does not boot...

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?

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…

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?

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 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!

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 ?

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 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.

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 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 …

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?

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…

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…

Hi, I'm trying to setup the wifi with the image: Armbian 24.8.1 Bookworm Minimal / IOT But there is no wlan0 on the ip a command. Can you please give me a hint on how to setup the wifi with the bananapi M4 zero? I have also tried the server image debian12 but found the same issue. FYI I tried an image from the BPI M4 zero website: 20240819-Bananapi-Armbian_24.8.0-trunk_Bpi-m4zero_Debian12 And there is wlan0 so I successfully configured the wifi ( but there is no bananapi-config to copy the image to the emmc but that's another story... ) Thanks in advance!

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?

Hello there, I connected my board to 5v/4a power adapter and the blu/red led shines...yet the monitor shows "No Signal". Any ideas will be appreciated, Damian

Is there any generic build of Armbian compatible with that processor?

When I turn my Orange Pi 5 on, it auto-logins to the desktop which I do not want. I tried looking at nodm and lightdm but couldn't find either. I would like to disable this as it is a security concern. On a side note, as a feature request, this should be disabled by default or else something prompted for during the first time setup.

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 ?

Recently when I run apt update I receive a message that an update is available. When I run an apt list --upgradable it shows the following: mark@station-m2:~$ sudo apt list -a --upgradable Listing... Done armbian-bsp-cli-station-m2-current/bullseye 24.5.1 arm64 [upgradable from: 23.8.1] armbian-bsp-cli-station-m2-current/bullseye 24.2.1 arm64 armbian-bsp-cli-station-m2-current/now 23.8.1 arm64 [installed,upgradable to: 24.5.1] When I run apt upgrade I get the following output: mark@station-m2:~$ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upg…

Is there any description how to setup the boot logo? I tried what I found: in build/packages/blobs/splash change logo.png and run command line with "BOOT_LOGO=yes", it doesn't work. After I found "What we use now is plymouth". OK. Does it work in compile time? I don't have plymouth after installing armbian in a docker container. How should I use plymouth (if it is the only way) to make a boot logo in compile time?

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

I am creating the image from source from the Armbian build repository on GitHub for an Orangepi5. I have altered the kernel configuration to force module signing. The .config is attached. My problem is that after the build there is no signing_key.pem in /certs. But when I get the source from Torvalds repository and not using Armbian build the file gets created. The following helps to realize the scope of my question: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.1/admin-guide/module-signing.html#generating-signing-keys .config

I'm compiling Armbian image and even if I choose "minimal console" version I get a 1.5Gb image while the ones prebuild by you are 250Mb. What I doing wrong?

Model Orange pi zero v1.4 OS Armbian_community_24.8.0-trunk.495_Orangepizero_bookworm_current_ 6.6.36_minimal Original IP 192.168.12.115 Having trouble trying to setup Static IP I used the followed example on https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Networking/#minimal-images-networkd /etc/netplan/20-static-ip.yaml it setup OK network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ethernets: end0: # Change this to your ethernet interface addresses: - 192.168.12.65/24 routes: - to: default via: 192.168.12.1 nameservers: addresses: - 1.1.1.1 - 1.0.0.1 sudo chmod 600 /etc…

Attempting to install ZFS. But it seems that the latest linux headers are linux-headers-5.10.0-31-arm64. I am not able to install ZFS. Pretty sure I need to lower the kernel to match. sudo modprobe zfs modprobe: FATAL: Module zfs not found in directory /lib/modules/6.6.39-current-rockchip64 Installed linux-image-5.10.0.31-arm64. I also sudo apt-mark hold linux-image-5.10.0.31-arm64. But I do not know how to set the kernel to boot. Search tells me to use armbian-config. Had to install it and after running it the "Other" option is missing. There isn't any options to change the kernel.

Have a nice day! Could you tell me how to build a linux-tools package for my OS? Best regards.

Long story short, I accidentally removed all the contents of the /boot folder 😢. I'm running minimal Armbian 24.5.1 Bookworm with Linux 6.1.43-vendor-rk35xx on Orange pi 5 plus. It all started with a failed apt update indicating there wasn't enough space in the boot partition. The update was trying to install 6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx kernel, so I decided to remove the old one from the boot to free up some space. Instead, I accidentally applied 'rm -r' to the entire /boot folder. My SBC is working fine now, but I'm afraid it won't boot on next restart, so I'm looking for a way to recover the files. So far, I performed apt upgrade, which put the new…

I downloaded and installed the Ubuntu noble image. Was this the correct one for my Raspberry Pi400 if I wanted the rolling release version? Thanks

With the latest version of Armbian I am no longer able to edit the IP from Armbian-config, is it possible to have instructions to set the static IP?

I am looking to purchase an SBC ideally under $100 to install armbian and develop some hardware projects. I had previously gone for a BpiM5 which also has EMMC but when I came to install software I found there is little support from the makers, installing software is fiddly and the most recent Armbian images for this board were not working. I eventually got this going using Ubuntu Mate. For my next project I would like to change from Amlogic CPU's , use Armbian as the software base and choose a platform which has reasonable up to date support whilst avoiding going for an RPI. Regards

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

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?

I get this error on https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/dl/orangepi5-plus/archive/Armbian_24.5.3_Orangepi5-plus_bookworm_vendor_6.1.43_minimal.img.xz Jul 14 18:03:22 ek-arm kernel: ********************************************************** Jul 14 18:03:22 ek-arm kernel: ** NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE ** Jul 14 18:03:22 ek-arm kernel: ** ** Jul 14 18:03:22 ek-arm kernel: ** trace_printk() being used. Allocating extra memory. ** Jul 14 18:03:22 ek-arm kernel: ** ** Jul 14 18:03:22 ek-arm kernel: ** This means that this is a DEBUG kernel and …

The build instructions `README` suggest it's possible to build an image using Github actions. So, I created a new repository and created the following file under `.github/workflows/orangepizero3_build.yml` name: Build Orange Pi Zero 3 server image on: workflow_dispatch: …

If I would like to build myself an image with all content present in images posted on web, downloading code at https://github.com/armbian/build and choosing my board, when I build image if I don't change anything I will get what I want? Thanks

Hello, I'm a newby in linux and armbian. I'm trying to force static ip on my sbc, I followed some hints on internet adding file to interface.d folder, directly in interface file (both created on purpose by me). Interface is enP4p65s0 and I replaced in exaples eth0 with this (auto enP4p65s0 iface... etc) but it seems none works. armbian-config seems to do nothing (it seems broken) Anyone can route me to some doc?

Hello, I'm looking to buy an ARM SBC with: Bluetooth Connection for monitor x3 CPU: x86 AMD Graphics integrated LAN x2 Mobo: I'm unsure on mini pc mobos, but needed? Power Ram: 16-32GB preferred Storage: small is fine 32GB-256GB, nothing large like 1TB USB for mouse USB for spare Wi-Fi for hotspot I usually use Raspberry Pi 5, however the Bananapi-M7 appears to have dual port, although I haven't confirmed the other requirements I need. The question is which OS do I download please? as per https://www.armbian.com/bananapi-m7/

Hello, I'm looking to use a Raspberry Pi 5 and usually use Linux Mint. However LM doesn't work on ARM, so I'm looking at other OSes. Raspberry Pi Desktop is nice but needs work for basics like Print Screen etc. Ubuntu installs on RaPi5, so I'm wondering where Armbian fits into the necessity please?

Hi I am building armbian image for Nanopi Neo. I need to include SWUpdate package in my armbian build. The already built SWUpdate package does not work for me, because I need to disable CONFIG_SIGNED_IMAGES. As far as I understand, I need to rebuild SWUpdate inside the armbian build system. Can you please help me to understand where I should write commands to build SWUpdate from source (git repo), so that armbian build system will put the built binary and libraries into the resulting image?

Hi, I have installed Ubuntu Jammy on my Orange pi 5 plus board a while ago, I was wondering if I could upgrade to the new Noble release of armbian for OPI5 plus without having to reinstall the whole image and without breaking the system, I upgraded the kernel to the latest version with no issues, I just wanted to know the correct and safest way of upgrading the Noble release of Armbian. Thank you in advance.

A few weeks ago I installed the minimal Armbian Bookworm image on a Odroid M1. The installed kernel was 6.6.31 The current minimal version for this board is 24.5.3 with kernel 6.6.36 After running apt update and apt dist-upgrade the kernel updated to version 6.6.32 which was build more then one month ago. I also used armbian-config to update the firmware in hopes that this covers the kernel as well but I am still stuck with the old kernel. What am I doing wrong? And how can I actually update the entire software, including the kernel to the most recent release without manually reinstallig the entire system?

a Few days ago I started noticing strange behavior with calls failing and pods with valid imag tags not working and finally figured out what seems like armbian stopped trusting any certificates. When I apt update I get errors (certificate something something) When I curl google.com it says invalid certificate and have to use --insecure for it to work. I've run update ca-certifactes -f to try and force it to trust them again but no real idea of what is wrong here.

My environment is ManjaroLinux, x86 with docker installed on the system, I want to build the system for orangepizero3 via Arbian/build, I chose the CSC version, but there is an error during the build process, here is the log file:log How should I this problem? Thanks.

Hi, I have a neo3 that has been running without any issues for about a year. Today after I had to restart it and the device wouldn't boot anymore. I checked the systemd logs by mounting the sd card in my laptop and I can see that it didn't get to boot at all (as there are no systemd logs after the shutdown). I checked the card for filesystem issues, and it seems to be OK. But I have no idea how to fix this. I really don't want to flash again an image and start from zero as I have a good amount of software installed that would take a lot of time to setup again. If this is a problem with the bootloader, how can I troubleshoot it? I don't have a serial interface so I…

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…

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…