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Recent apt upgrade caused problems with headless Orange PI+. It is not respond via ping and ssh. Prev upgrade also made the breaking change - eMMC's path in /dev was also changed. But 2020.02 was pretty stable. What packages should I put on the hold to prevent upgrading armbian specific packages? I maen what packages should i place in placeholder to prevent upgrade. echo "<package> hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections Thanks in advance.

Hi all. I hope I'm posting this in the right section of the forum. I'm looking for an SBC to use as a media center (Kodi) attached to an old CRT TV to watch (among others) german DVB-T2 terrestrial broadcasts. I've set up a Raspberry Pi 3 with OSMC so far and this works well for net content but isn't up to the task of decoding the H.265 TV streams, presumably due to lack of hardware support. So, what I need is an SBC with hardware support for H.265 decoding which also sports a composite video output. Preliminary research leads me to believe that the Orange Pi series of boards should be up to the task and seem well supported by Armbian. However, I'm a bit lo…

I want to load my custom service to show orangepi zero as three devices on the host PC. But as the UDC ( /sys/class/udc/musb-hdrc.1.auto) is being used by another service which is probably the builtin service using udc to show orangepi as: Bus 001 Device 048: ID 0525:a4a7 Netchip Technology, Inc. Linux-USB Serial Gadget (CDC ACM mode) I want to disable that service so that my custom service can use the UDC for the required purpose. This is the command: echo "$(ls /sys/class/udc/)" > UDC and this is the error: echo: write error: Device or resource busy "ls /sys/class/udc" has the file musb-hdrc.1.auto an…

Hi all, Which branch or tag should I use if I'm willing to work on the latest stable linux version on Banana Pi M1 ? How do I choose between legacy / current / dev, and what are the differences between them ? Is there some guide that explain these issues ? If someone is willing to answer by giving an example, then lets assume I want to build from source kernel 5.10.32 on Banana Pi M1. Thanks in advance

I am trying to use serial ports on a Banana Pi M2 zero. Do I need an overlay? If so which one? I see nothing in H2, only H3.

I have an Orange Pi PC Plus and I'm looking for a USB video grabber. Could you suggest me some models which are easy to setup and work with OPi reliably? Thanks.

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.40.f57e21b68NeeMB&id=569157333974&ns=1&abbucket=13#detail It's name is QiHua, based allwinner H6. official system and all source code can be download from BaiDu net disk: URL: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1siA3QyOZ_SUAQIy2IVqwQg Password: 7u3q I like the armbian system, it simple, light and fast, I need it run on this board, but I don't know how to do. Any helps? Thanks!

Why am I getting error logs when trying to update, upgrade, etc? buster debian 10 orangepi chromium no firewall Reading package lists... Done E: Repository 'http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details. N: Repository 'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '10.2' to '10.11' E: Repository 'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to …

Etcher understands zip, gzip, bzip2, and I don't know what all else. But it has no idea what a 7z file is. So I have link in proximity for two of the three binaries I need to get, and the third buried in grey on black text at the bottom of the page where nobody will see it and instead they will feel compelled to go out to find it on their own. Are 7z files really enough smaller than bz2 that it's worth this?

On attempting to disable `sound.target` in a Nanopi Neo3 I noticed that both `alsa-state.service` and `alsa-restore.service` use the same `ConditionPathExists=!/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf` (apparently called Card State Management Schemes). This contrasts with the unit files on my host system, with `alsa-state.service` using `ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf` and `alsa-restore.service` using `ConditionPathExists=!/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf`. What is the reason for using both services within the same scheme?

Since u-boot can deal with the original initrd.img, do we still need to convert it into uImage?

I'm using the newest Ubuntu image for my RockPi4C+, and from time to time, I try to login, but it wont allow it. If I reboot, I can login just fine. I tried from 2 devices, both devices could not ssh into the pi. running a cat on /var/log/auth.log doesnt show any attempts at all. After a reboot, I cat the log and can see my login attempts present after the reboot. Its like the sshd service is dying. Mar 17 00:15:01 rockpi-4cplus CRON[1869]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0) Mar 17 00:15:01 rockpi-4cplus CRON[1868]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0) Mar 17 00:15:01 rockpi-4cplus CRON…

I read that armbian bullseye for odroid HC2 is still unstable, while it is considered stable for other boards. Can somone explain the reaseon for this? Or point me to a place where this is discussed? If I knew what the reason is and it would be not important for my application, I could switch to bullseye now. Regards, jba

Just after writing the image on the SDcard, I start tuning rc.local and crontab. I have found that crontab is not run before first authentification; this is an issue, because I use crontab to handle my networking; and without networking, I can not know the IP of the pi, and I can't login. I have found that after first authentification, I am asked to change the root password, then I see /etc/update-motd.d/99-point-to-faq, then /etc/profile.d/check_first_login.sh (which includesuser account creatino), but not /etc/update-motd.d/41-armbian-config After second authentification, I can see /etc/update-motd.d/41-armbian-config and /etc/update-motd.d/99-po…

Hello, I just installed Armbian on my SBC based on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa). > cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)" PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 21.08.2 Focal" VERSION_ID="20.04" VERSION_CODENAME=focal UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal Installed NFSD server via apt-get install nfs-kernel-server and checked which version of NFS is supported: > cat /proc/fs/nfsd/versions -2 +3 > rpcinfo -u localhost nfs program 100003 version 3 ready and waiting Indicating NFSD is not supporting v4. That might be because of: > zcat /proc/config.gz | grep NFS # CONFIG_USB_FUNCTIONFS is not set CONFIG_XENFS=m C…

Hi, I'm a long time Armbian user and overall extremely happy. It my default Linux distro everywhere! Thanks to everyone who is developing or contributing to it! Every time I pickup a new board and deploy Armbian I have to edit the `armbianEnv.txt` file and change verbosity to 7. The same question repeats in my head. Why is it not the default? Systemd and startup messages spam up like crazy and they have nothing interesting to offer. I do care what hardware did the kernel detect or was a protocol correctly negotiated etc. I personally would have it in reverse, verbose kernel, quiet systemd. But thats just me. Could we at least have parity, if syst…

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?

I installed a nighly Build. over nmtui i added an wifi connection. Both the Wired and the Wifi connection get an IP from my router. i can connect ssh over the ip from both. But if i disconnect the wired cable, also the Wifi connection gets lost. If i connect again the Wifi is also here. i want to use only the wifi. Whats wrong? greets Thomas

Hi Armbian Community, I Am Really New To This Forum, So Forgive Any Mistakes.... SO, I Have A X96 (Not Max Or Mini Just X96 Normal).Used It More Than 3 Years As A TV Box. But The System Can Do More Than Just A Android TV. So I Have Flashed "Armbian_20.07_Rk3328-tv_bullseye_current_5.7.8_desktop" To My X96 It Works Fine But I Need The Wi-Fi Chipset To Work. I Have A Home Router With Just 1 LAN Port. Which Is Currently Connected To My PC. What Can I Do Now?? Any Solutions?....

Good afternoon. I install Armbian on OrangePi_+2 and OrangePi_PC. I have a problem: on OrangePi_+2 and OrangePi_PC not set static_IP to Wicd_Network_Manager for Ethernet, but for WiFi static_IP installed. Question: how to replace Wicd_Network_Manager old Network_Manager. I need it to work with multiple networks. I tried to remove wicd and install network-manager, but had a terrible problem with rights. For earlier grateful.

Hello there! Maybe mine is a bit of a newbie question so I'll drop it here: My cubox is set as an access point using an Edimax EW7822UAC dongle although it is only in AC mode. Is there a way to set it to run also as a N ap or it requires another usb dongle? Thank you guys

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

Good afternoon, I run Armbian bullseye on my orangepi zeroplus2-h3. My wifi hotspot causes the OS to reboot sometimes, with the error "xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0012 (16)" I use the NetworkManager conf files below for my wifi hotspot. echo """ [connection] id=mywifi uuid=58356325-7da4-4d1d-ad6b-54f33bfee335 type=wifi autoconnect=false interface-name=wlan0 permissions= [wifi] band=bg mac-address-blacklist= mode=ap ssid=IQLINK-1 [wifi-security] key-mgmt=wpa-psk psk=123456789 [ipv4] address1=192.168.43.1/24 dns-prior…

How do you connect to a wpa network?.

Hi, I can't compile the RTL8192EU driver on my cubieboard 1 setup with armbian. It keeps showing errors about timers. Anyone has succeed with that ?

Can we build like this? and about the code?

I am new to armbian and R2S, and would like to ask for guides of the way to set up hotspot. With some searching, I installed 22.02 Focal in R2S and tried to set up the WiFi hotspot via armbian-config. With the default SSID of AP mode in armbian-config, my device could find a WiFi network called ARMBIAN, but I cound not connect to it due to 'wrong password', although I typed in the default password 12345678 correctly. The armbian-config interface showed that my USB wifi adapter has got a chip of rtl8821cu. However, the lsusb command returned a different information of the wifi adapter, as shown below. root@nanopi-r2s:~# lsu…

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?

Where is the linking between the WiFi state and the LED defined? The NEO Core has an inconsistently on LED on the Core/Air image and I believe this to be the bug.

Hi, after login the error> RX today: Error: Unable to read database "/var/lib/vnstat/wlan0": No such file or directory Merge "eth0+wlan0" failed. When i try to connect to WIFI network via armbain-configure -> WIFI ; network selected + password provided I got error> Passwords or encryption keys are required to access the │ │ wireless network 'OpenWrt'. second / third try> Could not activate connection: │ │ │ │ │ Activation failed: Secrets were │ │ │ │ │ required, but not provided root@bananapi:~# ca…

Hello, I use an Orange Pi 3 H6 with Armbian 20.05.2 Buster (5.8.0-sunxi64) The wifi has been configured as host. A Canon Selphy CP1200 printer has been connected to it. When I launch a print, the task is created, appears in progress for a time, then an error message indicates the printer does not answer. The printer works fine when connected by usb but it is more easy for me to connect it through wifi. Can somebody help me please ?

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 still struggle Got today new adapter, it came with Linux drivers https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0kast2unzyg6sux/AADz143tOM2Lqg2bYF-OneK5a?dl=0 Can someone explain how to use these drivers?

Can someone send ebay link to wifi USB which DO work with Orange Pi This do not work http://www.ebay.com/itm/201567023435

Hello. I installed armbian (22.05 jammy) on my banana pi m1 (original model). Since it doesn't come with onboard wifi, I decided to attach wifi dongle which uses RTL8188EUS chip. However, although i see it is recognized as "realtek ~~ RTL8188EUS network adapter" when i type 'lsusb' command, it doesn't show up as 'wlan0' when i enter 'ifconfig -a' command. What can I do to make the module work again?

Hi I was using my R4S with OpenWRT and with an Elekel WiFi AC dongle without any problem. Now, I've just installed the newest Armbian but I don't know how to use my WiFi dongle. Armbian-config doesn't recognize it ... probably because the driver is not installed. How can I install it? Best regards and thank you in advance

I have orangepi plus2e, 32 bit and tor does not seem to work on a 32 bit board. I see orangepi now sells 64 bit boards. My sole purpose is to use Tor on orangepi and will buy whatever 64bit OP board I need. But I first want to make sure I am correct in that tor will work with OP4.

In settings -> keyboard -> view and customize shortcuts -> launchers -> search I am trying to set this to Windows Key + S, it doesn't register the windows key at all as being pressed, so what keyboard do I choose to be able to use the full k400r keyboard inclusive of the windows key. Many thanks Newbie (please be nice, I'm new to Armbian and SBC's)

Hello everyone. I’m attempting to mount a Windows network share on Armbian, but something seems off—both smb://10.10.2.101 and sftp://10.10.2.101 show up in red. The same addresses work perfectly on Rocky Linux; any thoughts on what I might be overlooking?

Hi. I would like to know if you can and how to, install WINE on my Orange Pi PC +, I am using the ARMBian v5.25 distribution (Ubuntu). Thank you. I saw this tutorial for RaspberryPi https://eltechs.com/run-wine-on-raspberry-pi/

Hi there, i hope you can help me as i saw there are a few Wireguard Users here as well. I did setup Armbian 20.05.4 Buster on my Cubietruck and configured Wireguard. After a few mistakes the connection from outside (iOS Client) is stable but very slow. I went to the obvious roads and found the MTU setting on the client side could be an issue as well some PostUp command parameters can improve performance. But for any reason my wireguard doesn´t want to accept anything with PostUp, Safeconfig etc in my wg0.conf file: Parsing error. But without that been solved i assume i can´t work on the Performance improvement. Here a few lines of code showing the relevant confi…

My NanoPi M4 4Gb suddenly fails to get out to internet, I checked it was OK to link via eth0 but ping fails. Not sure what to do. Please ask me what I can try. It was working but something broke! Sorry but I am not too good at this, any suggestions please? Thanks James

Good morning, I'm new to the community and I'm having problems with wifi adapters driver. I tested some changes that were not recognized. Now I'm testing a RTL8088CU, it came to be recognized at first, but after typing the wifi password it restarted itself and when the call back goes into conflict with the bluetooth dongle and back off. I'm interpreting this as a driver problem, where can I find the usb wifi driver and do its installation? Thank you

Hello, I'd like to set up a WLAN access point with WLAN adapters attached to USB on my Orange Pi Zero. First I started with a dualband adapter and used the armbian-config tool. It took forever (like minutes with a black screen) but eventually completed and gave me a working access point on channel 40. That's fine but I also need to be able to change this to a 2.4 GHz channel. That's where things got problematic. I edited /etc/hostapd.conf and changed the channel number from 40 to 5, then restarted hostapd. That didn't work. The service restarted but there was no access point anywhere to be found on the air. Also, the WLAN adapter's LED …

Hi, after I had trouble running wondershaper with wheezy I tried the jessie img for my Lomobo. With this I can't get AP mode running: hostapd-rt /etc/hostapd.conf-rt (which should be correct for the onboard RTL8192CU chip) gives me: Line10: invalid/unknown driver 'rtl871xdrv' With the non rtl hostapd.conf the driver intitalization fails. Can someone help me pls?! Thanks in advance, hegge

ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.18-sunxi on Cubietruck If my Wlan-Router is shortly offline and online again, the internal interface wlan0 doesn't reconnect. before: 4: wlan0 Link File: n/a Network File: /etc/systemd/network/40-static-wlan0.network Type: wlan State: routable (configuring) Path: platform-1c12000.mmc Driver: brcmfmac HW Address: 6c:fa:a7:xx:xx:xx (AMPAK Technology, Inc.) Address: 192.168.1.4 DNS: 192.168.1.1 after: ● 4: wlan0 Link File: n/a Network File: /etc/systemd/network/40-stat…

I am having a problem with my network settings. The machine has an internal NIC and a USB-WiFi stick. When the NIC is plugged in, both interfaces receive an IP via DHCP. When the NIC is unplugged, the WiFi stick does not receive an IP address. auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid <name> wpa-psk <password> How can I solve this issue? Regards!

on orange pizero ,i installed pm-utils and with the pm-suspend command i put it in suspend . If I try to wake it up , with etherwake or other WOL programs (which send magic packets in LAN to the pizero's macadress) the pizero will not wake up . Do you know any tricks?

I am new to armbian, and so far I managed to build a working image with some custom packages added and some removed by customizing `userpatches/lib.config`. Easy stuff and it's working great so far! Now I need to build some packages from sources and get them added to the resulting image. The usual way I would do this, would be installing a cross toolchain, having a staging dir with includes and libs from the dev packages I add to the image, etc. But after building the base armbian image, on my system I see I have two docker images related to armbian (ghcr.io/armbian/docker-armbian-build and armbian.local.only/armbian-build), and I wonder if maybe the "local on…

I want to use cubieboard 1 to host 5 websites. So I installed bind9 for dns in order to add godaddy and bigrock. Please keep wan and lan in mind when reading this. The wan address is 122.157.152.57, while the lan address is 192.168.1.2. Some applications are functional, while others are not. Godaddy and Rockbig have already added bind9 DNS. On wan, Apache isn't working. It travels to modem or router login (ip address: 192.168.1.1) at domian projectok.com, and I can view a test html page on the LAN. webmin is operational. proftpd: Failed to start qbittorrent is up and running. I search and discover a resolv file in /etc that …

Is there an SPI LCD module that works out of the box with the latest armbian image for the orange pi zero board? I am using Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepizero_focal_current_5.10.60.img and it seems to be missing fbtft_device file which looks like it is very important. I have also seen forums and blog posts that say SPI LCD will not work, or there are no working drivers, for linux kernel 4 and higher, and that I should use linux kernel 3. I am currently also testing out Armbian_5.90_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.57.img which I believe has kernel 4.19.57. Where can I download an older image that has kernel version less than 4? The LCD I need to use …

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

Hello all, Orange Pi 5b v1.1 16GB/256GB # Wi-Fi 6 and WPA3 are not available options in current Debian Cinnamon release. # OP 5b does have these features so comparability isn't an issue. # Works fine with Orange Pi images. # All steps given on download page were taken. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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

I'm having trouble connecting my Android phone when it doesn't automatically connect and recognize. Is there a way to fix it or is there any documentation? Since it has so many different versions, I tried it and it still failed automatically. Sincerely thank you.

I tried to reach out for help, but maybe in the wrong channel. ➝ Is it possible to move a post from «bug tracker» to «Community forums»? My post:

Flashed legacy trusty server for Cubox-i onto a 16G SC card. Installed this succesfully on a Cubox-i4*4 and connected with ssh (no console, after all it is a headless server). The mount command showed /dev/mmcblk0p1 on / type ext4 parted showed one aprtition 1 size 16.0G primary ext4 (as promissed, the partition was extended to use the whole card) Now comes the disturbing bit df -h /dev/mmcblk0p1 gives nonsense. df -h / responds with /dev/root 1022M 896M used 89M free Indeed, I tried to load a GUI but it got stuck on a full partition:( Ideas where this /dev/root came from and why it was not subsumed in the grand mmcblk0p1 partition? The purpo…

Hi, in my case the test is on a Rock64 (4GB, v2 edition) using latest current Buster or Focal. The problem is in the first init configuration assistant. When selecting the "User language based on your location", after selecting es_AR.UTF-8 (I am from Argentina) it "auto-detects" my keyboard layout as AR which belongs to Arabic iirc (which is wrong). After this of course I can't type anything right on terminal. I had to fix it over ssh by issuing the command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration.

I got the stable release of armbian for the ROCK64, flashed on a sd-card aaaaaaaand ... wrong password. root + 1234 doesn't work. Has the password been changed? I tried the following combinations: root:1234 ROOT:1234 root:!"§$ (german keyboard, don't know whats on en) armbian:armbian rock64:rock64 All passwords are incorrect. I try it with xenial and strech. (Files of the direct download)

hello everyone, i realized, that the new armbian-images (buster & bionic kernel 5.10.y) on a nanopi neo core / air will have some problems. i can build the sd-card and the nano boots up and gets an ip-address. but if i try to login via ssh (headless installation) i got the "access denied" msg. something gona wrong with the user root & the init-password (1234). so i try to install focal (same kernel) and it works. somebody got the same problem like me? ore resolve that? kind regards andre

After a reboot of my cubietruck has the wrong date and time !? 26-Sep-2012 I updated the time with: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Select Europe and Berlin but nothing changed. Then i set the time manually. That worked but can not the deal. What is wrong with my cubie? hwclock: select() to /dev/rtc0 to wait for clock tick timed out: No such file or directory ntpq -p: ntpq: read: Connection refused In the moment i have the correct time, becaus i set it manually, but the wrong date :-( Edit: Okay, i do it now that way: date -s "14 Nov 2015 10:58:00" But how can it be that the date and time is wrong after a reboot?

I keep finding the wtmp file missing, anyone else? Just trying to eliminate a configuration error case. odroid n2 odroid xu4 using latest kernel.

I have been away from the forum for a while because my armbian has worked as a charm for a long while. Now however I have a minor problem All my devices (nvidia-jetson nano, raspberry pi 4, raspberry pi 2W, raspberry pi 3) can do x-windows to xming (running windows on my main computer). However none of my armbian can (running kernel Linux orangepi4 5.10.63-rockchip64, sunxi and sunxi64) start xeyes on my windows computer while raspberry and tegra can, so nothing is wrong with my setup. What has changed regarding X11 since kernel 4.x? Using "export DISPLAY=localhost:10.0" in all SBC:s ~/.bashrc On armbian I get "Error: Can't open display: localhost…

Hello, I want to use nano pi neo2 as a compiler server (for picture rendering with "Blender") Is it possible to forward X11 via ssh ? What img must I use to do this ? (I don't know if server bionic is suitable to do this) Best Regards, Boris

Hello, I'd have a question, please. My goal is to setup the VNC server on Pine64 board to be able to connect to it remotely via RealVNC. Steps already done: (1) Armbian_22.11.1_Pine64_jammy_current_5.15.80_xfce_desktop.img.xz burn on 32GB micro sdcard (2) Armbian works well, it auto starts to nice grafic enviroment XFACE (3) I am able to connect to Pine64 remotely via Putty and SSH (4) I have followed this cookbook (#1) to install the x11vnc which works well when starting manually from command line (#2) #1:https://forum.armbian.com/topic/10330-remote-desktop-with-x11vnc/ #2 /usr/bin/x11vnc -rfbauth /home/bdn/.vnc/passwd -shared -ultrafilexfer -bg -o…

Hello, what is the correct way to install x2goserver on armbian? Which repos to use? Regards Daniel

Trying to reach a headless TinkerBoard with X2Go so I can set up wifi. SELinux is disabled. I can SSH in as my user just fine, with and without -i, but when setting the Pyhoca session to "Discover SSH Keys", I get "Not a valid EC private key file!" Ok, apparently it wants an elliptic curve key. It never used to accept anything but DSA and RSA. So I made an ecdsa keypair and ssh-copy-id to the TB. Same failure. I know that X2Go can't handle ed25519 unfortunately, so I don't even have that key for my user. When setting the Pyhoca session SSH key manually to /home/bill/.ssh/id_rsa or /home/bill/.ssh/id_ecdsa, I get, "Not a valid EC private key f…

Hello folks I'm new here, but I have been looking for something to hang on for a while. Maybe you can help me. I purchased X3288 development board from Aliexpress https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ARM-Cortex-A17-Quad-Core-X3288-Development-Board-RK3288-2GB-DDR3-16GB-EMMC-7Inch-Capacitive-LCD/32812113794.html (Without LCD screen) Right now it has Android installed, but I would like to have just CLI linux installed, preferably Debian or related. I have long experience with Raspberry boards, but this is new to me. As I understand, the system needs to be flashed to internal partition, much like Android phones. However, the instruct…

Hello, Thanks to the help here I got to install a latest armbian mainline version with the Lima OpenGL 2.1 support functional that might have not helped the desktop but is still nice to see the o.s. using any part of this system on a chip. To make some test after glxinfo e glxgears I tried the yquake2 engine with the demo old game and it works. I was expecting considering how old the game is to work faster even if it's accelerated for sure and expecting better quality results (bilinear filtering is not the best and sometimes objects disappear and reappear depending on the scene but it's a good test anyway). I heard lately that has been released a free sof…

Hello everyone! I recently heard about running x86_64 programs on ARM using box64, and decided to give it a try. I get the impression that most people are just using it for games but I would like to use it to run Quartus (a program to work with Intel FPGAs). The issue I see is getting the USB drivers to work. Quartus includes drivers for several programming cables (I am only interested in the USB blaster cable), and as far as I know there are no drives available that run on ARM. Is there any hope at all of getting the x86 drivers to work on ARM? Thanks in advance.

The devil is in the details. Armbian was partially working so I started over to study the process more closely ! It seems Geek Buying is NOT the same Wifi as WiFi Chip: RTL8189 on Gear Best in the X96 Mini. iComm SV8051P is not working with Linux and actually not very good on Android 7.1.2 as delivered. HDMI Audio on 5.4 is WIP as Linux Meson discloses.

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

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

$ cvt 3840 2160 # 3840x2160 59.98 Hz (CVT 8.29M9) hsync: 134.18 kHz; pclk: 712.75 MHz Modeline "3840x2160_60.00" 712.75 3840 4160 4576 5312 2160 2163 2168 2237 -hsync +vsync $ xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 3840x2160_60.00 xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed $ xrandr --verbose Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 2160, maximum 7680 x 7680 HDMI-1 connected primary 3840x2160+0+0 (0x41) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 708mm x 399mm ... CRTC: 0 CRTCs: 0 I would like to setup 4k with a PI400. I found https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/ and followed the instructions Did I something wrong, or is this simply…

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

Hey all, New to Armbian, installed to an Orange Pi 5. Installed XRDP - works fine in root (desktop shows) but if I try to do it as a user I just get a black screen with cursor. From searching I can see posts about already being logged in as a user already, and therefore black for privacy but I've not logged in as the user prior? Cant find anything really conclusive explaining how to resolve this Also even in root if I get logged out of desktop (RDP session still active, i.e. desktop lock screen) my root password doesn't work. Password is clearly not wrong

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

Hi all, Testing some versions of the Armbian img for the latest Orange Pi 5 Plus, right now im using Armbian_23.8.2_Orangepi5-plus_jammy_legacy_5.10.160_gnome_desktop.img and noticed when Im RDP in from windows machine, the audio from the OPI it doesn't get played back through. I did noticed when re-login locally back on the same user account, the audio card shows "Dummy Output" and no audio from the 3.5mm port. Is there a fix for this ? even on another version ? I have tested a few and all appears same result. bookworm_legacy_5.10.160_cinnamon bookworm_legacy_5.10.160_gnome bookworm_legacy_5.10.160_xfce …

board : Banana pi M2 zero OS : Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Bananapim2zero_sid_edge_6.1.11_xfce_desktop.img.xz The same error exist for newest Debian releases. Only Users that never opened an X11 session locally can connect using RDP (xrdp)

Hello, I have an XU4 with an emmc. Now I have tried nextcloudpi image from https://ownyourbits.com/downloads/ here. I use dd. With a SD card, I have two partitions and can boot. With the emmc, I have only one partition and can't boot. I don't now why :-( can someone help me? greetings

Orangepi released some new images für SBCs based on the H6 SoC shipped with 4.9 Linux kernel. Did anyone test these yet and got some first impressions? http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=4214&amp;extra=

Hey. I'm trying to set up a 3.5" spi touch display with my orange pi zero +2 (H5). I've gotten the display to work - console is displaying fine, and the same with Xorg. However, getting the touch panel to work, seems quite difficult. (I tested it on a pi, so I know the hardware works). I've been running through all the threads I could find in here, regarding these setups, but I haven't been able to crack it. I have tried a lot of different variations of using spi-spidev, spi-add-cs1, customized spi-double-spidev, setting the param_spidev_spi_bus etc. I have a suspicion that something is off with the second cs channel, as this seems to be where I get my err…

I remember trying to install a usb wifi dongle in the past and while it gave me lots of headaches, i did manage to make it work. It's been a while since i used wifi (it's been a while since i used the SBC too to be honest). Today i decided to power it up at least just to update it. When it was installing kernel related stuff, it gave an error stating it couldn't build the 8192cu module (or something like that), the specific log says scripts/Makefile.build:432: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/8192cu/1.10/build/8192cu.o' failed make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/8192cu/1.10/build/8192cu.o] Error 1 Makefile:1368: recipe for target '_module_/var/lib/dkms/8192cu/1.10/b…

Hi! I've been interested in getting a SBC for a while now and I've done a bit of “researching” during the past two weeks. I'm getting quite frustrated searching for the right one since every board seems to have a list of disadvantages which I probably don't fully understand. I also am not sure what processor/specs would be fit for my needs. The Armbian community seems to be very productive and helpful so I'm asking you to please aid me with your SBC suggestions based on the description below. My wishes a) File server: * (High priority) To run (audio) server software (Logitech Media Server/Squeezebox Server) that serves files (flac) to a net…

I use Ambian on the rk322x board, everything works good except the YouTube videos play notably slowly and with constant pauses, is there a way to fix this and make it a more smooth reproduction? Any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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

This week I installed Armbian on three BananaPi M5s. The OS ran fine from SD card, but once installed to emmc (using armbian-config) the system booted with a message that the file space available was zero. In the case of one of the boards I found an 8GB .img file in /media/my userid/. I assumed it was a copy of the 8GB SD card, and I deleted it. The system is fine now. But in the case of the other two I have yet to determine what is consumbing all the file space. There are two empty directoris in /media (mmcboot and mmcroot). Any idea what is causing this and more importantly how to fix the two existing systems? Thanks, Paul

System Information Distribution: Debian (armbian) Kernel Version: 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx OpenZFS Version: 2.3.5 The kernel module does load. # zfs -V zfs-2.3.5-2~bpo13+1 zfs-kmod-2.3.5-2~bpo13+1 # zfs version Failed to initialize the libzfs library. Note: To keep this post short, I only pasted the errors from the trace below. # strace zfs version prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, 0x30 /* CAP_??? */) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) = 1 prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, 0x2c /* CAP_??? */) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, 0x2a /* CAP_??? */) = -1 EINV…

Dear All, I got a zfs upgrade today, I updated the packages but then it failed to build the module, thus I tried to update kernel and firmware but it failed the same: hecking whether CONFIG_MODULES is defined... no configure: error: *** This kernel does not include the required loadable module *** support! *** *** To build OpenZFS as a loadable Linux kernel module *** enable loadable module support by setting *** `CONFIG_MODULES=y` in the kernel configuration and run *** `make modules_prepare` in the Linux source tree. *** *** If you don't intend to enable loadable kernel module *** support, please compile OpenZFS as a Lin…

Hi So I have upgraded my system with `apt update && apt upgrade`. How do I rebuild ZFS DKMS for the latest kernel? I have tried dkms_autoinstaller but it does nothing. I uninstalled and re-installed zfs-dkms package and this worked, but there's gotta be a better way? Thanks! a

Hi, I'm new to armbian, running armbian focal on an ODROID HC4. I'm trying to setup ZFS but when I install the zfs packages it is failing to build the kernel module. I checked the release notes for ZFS 2.0.1 and it should support 5.10 kernels? Any pointers are appreciated. root@odroid:~# uname -a Linux odroid 5.10.34-meson64 #21.05.1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 6 21:24:14 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux root@odroid:~# dpkg -l | grep zfs ii libzfs4linux 2.0.1-1 arm64 OpenZFS filesystem library for Linux ii zfs-auto-snapshot 1.2.4-2 all ZFS automati…

Dear to all, I'm not expert. How can I add kernel header of zfs to linux kernel 5.15.80-rockchip64? I have run the command "apt install dkms zfs-dkms" and I've got the following output: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done dkms is already the newest version (2.8.4-3). Suggested packages: debhelper Recommended packages: zfs-zed zfsutils-linux linux-libc-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: zfs-dkms 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2297 kB of archives. After this operation, 18.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you…

I have read a few forum posts on the topic but I'm still not convinced. Which one is safer and more stable for Armbian based NAS? I previously had issues and data loss on BTRFS. However I now hear that it's much more stable. I been using ZFS on FreeBSD without any issues for years and I would prefer it but it seems that it's a hit and miss to get it working. I just did and it was very easy but I read that people have random issues with upgrades etc. Any thoughts? Thanks! a

Hi, `zfs-dkms` package's module-building process on Armbian-ubuntu-noble has been unsuccessful with recent versions of the linux-current-meson64 kernel/headers/dtb that is higher than `26.5.1` (I'm not sure if `26.5.1` is the highest version that works with `zfs-dkms`; there might be a working version higher than `26.5.1`, but my fail-safe version has been this one.) Can someone help me keep updating linux kernel without breaking zfs-dkms? I attach the output of `apt` just in case: ```sh $ sudo apt install linux-image-current-meson64 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done l…

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.

hi i used to compile a kernel for raspberry pi 3 and i forget to compile with debug info ..the kernel work correctly but when i recompiled it ihe z image not work and my raspberryy pi 3 can t boot..

Hi! OS - Armbian bionic Board - Orange pi one I dont understand where goes 20-25% of 512mb ram. 18MB goes to video and wlan share. OK... root@OrangePiPBX:~# zramctl NAME ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT /dev/zram1 lzo 98.2M 19.8M 10.2M 11M 4 [SWAP] /dev/zram0 50M 17.7M 2.5M 2.9M 4 /var/log Now we see - 150MB go's to swap and small partition for "logs". root@OrangePiPBX:~# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 502932 242376 26380 20008 234…

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 …

I'm finally realizing that I have no swap and zram is not enabled. I just checked /etc/default/armbian-zram-config and ENABLED=false I'm running Armbian buster with Linux 5.4.49-rockchip64 on a RockPi4A. Is zram turned off by default? Did I screw up/miss a step when setting up my system (quite a while back)? My system boots from an SD card. I have no SSD in the system just SATA and USB HDD. I've been having system hangs when memory runs out (which has not been frequent but is very annoying) I run most things in Docker, so if I needed to rebuild from scratch it's not the worst thing in the world. Espe…