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Dear members My odroid c2 don't restart. I found this command in the forum: apt install linux-image-edge-meson64 linux-dtb-edge-meson64 linux-u-boot-odroidc2-edge Can i use it for odroid c2? What will be installed?

Hello! I've got unnamed board with Allwinner A20 and FORESEE 8G memory, in completed device with HR215WU1-120 LVDS display. Spoiler It was working on Android 4.0 system, but someone needed to replace android with linux os system. LVDS display was lost when owner put SD card with linaro in slot for the first time. Now we have Linaro 14.04 command line, Spoiler and SD class 10 card with Armbian_20.02.0-rc1_Cubieboard_bionic_current_5.4.14 image, burned with Etcher. So. If power on without SD card - linaro starting in command line. If try to boot …

If I understand the custom-image script is run as a chroot after the image is built. So didn't see anything specifically in the docs but can I ONLY run (from compile script) the custom image script on an already already built image (in /output/images)? Along the same lines can I chroot at any time to the image via the compile script? I should mention that I am using the docker container build for arm on my amd machine. (i.e. ./compile.sh docker.... )

Hello, I am using Nanopi-M4 to develop Computer vision application. I've installed friendlyDesktop 18.04. is using the VPU to accelerate my application available on Nanopi? And, anyone tried to work with Intel Neural compute stick2 on NanoPi? I need some help in the installation as I faced several issues. Thank you.

Let me start by saying thank you all for the great work, it is appreciated! So a bit of info first. board: firefly rk3399-pc pro ( yeah I know it’s old, but so am I!) os: armbian Debian trixie kernel: 6.18.35 Bear with me, last time I touched Linux, lilo and xfree86 were things… I installed the community supported rk3399-firefly as I didn’t find a better match for the pro. Most of the hardware worked with the major exception of the audio. No problem, the rk3399-roc-plus.dts had the correct audio for the board all I needed to do was switch the audio portion into the rk3399-firefly.dts (though other aspects including just booti…

I wanted to build the cli version but didn't see an obvious way to do that with conf variables and the docs don't illuminate that choice. so I tried BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no and that seems to do force the cli version. Just suggesting that this might be easier to grok if the variable was say BUILD_TYPE=(desktop|cli|minimal|custom) with maybe default cli where custom might be a rootfs that is custom (like one I put together) and thus doesn't need to be reconstructed from the custom-image script. Maybe setting custom then RELEASE could hold the path to the tarball? If that seems better mayb…

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

I installed and compiled varios browsers based on QtWebKit - falkon, konqueror, otter-browser - and they are all pretty fast compared to their chromium/firefox colleagues. Unfortunately, the input of special characters (é, ñ, ü, ß) doesn't work. The letters appear as UTF code. However, the letters are displayed correctly in chromium/midori/firefox, and the console. Thus, I blame Qt. This is very annoying e.g. for webmailing and editing text, since typing in languages with special characters such as Spanish and German is practically impossible. Any idea how to fix that?

Tested with speakers and headphones, now working right channel in 3.5 mm. Speakers and headphones works correctly with another devics. Tested on official builds(firstly), pulseaudio, pipewire+wireplumber, also tested self-builded via official building script with same drivers. Speaker-test detects only front left channel. What it may be? How I can fix that? Thanks in advance.

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

Contemplating whether or not I should pull the trigger and buy a new camera. Images were taken with an OV5640 camera attached to an orange pi PC. The first image is a good image, then after a few hours of use I start getting issues; reading images either times out and/or results in corrupted images. (Note: All images were rotated 90 degrees clockwise) https://imgur.com/a/LEyl1h9

On X86 and AMD64 systems they all have either the UEFI bios or the old bios. I don't know what the Raspberry Pi uses but I don't think it's UEFI. Do any of the ARM systems use UEFI? How does Armbian boot on the non-UEFI systems?

After upgrading to 5.14.2 I found that 1.5Ghz was missing for the LITTLE cores, what had previously been available with the optimized board settings. dmesg output: [ 0.982387] exynos-chipid 10000000.chipid: cpu0 opp0, freq: 1500 missing [ 0.982499] exynos-chipid 10000000.chipid: cpu4 opp0, freq: 2100 missing I decompiled the DTB file and found no 1.5Ghz section within in the opp-table1.

Hi everyone, I've updated my pcDuino via: Sudo apt-get update Sudo apt-get upgrade I can reach 8.8.8.8 from the terminal and google.com from the Chromium browser. However, I cannot reach any other website. I am guessing it has to do with the latest TLS requirements. TLS 2.0 is required for 99% of global websites. I'm presuming my pcDuino is on an older version for TLS 1.0/1/1 Any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated Thanks

I've installed Armbian on my brand new Odroid N2. I realise it still is WIP, but almost everything works great. There is just one issue, which prevents me from setting it up the way I want. I use my eMMC card to boot the system. I've also added a larger A1 SD card for application data. However, after a reboot the SD card isn't recognized. There isn't even a message about it in dmesg log. But when, after booting, I remove the SD card and insert it, all of the sudden it's detected and mounted. Does anyone know how I kan make this happen at boot, so I don't need to physically access the device in order to use it after a reboot?

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

I have an orange pi lite, I want to use the lcd ili9341 TFT 320X240 2.8 Inch touch screen, and by header 34 pin and how the installation connections I don't know I need your help. I be very grateful. The OS is "Armbian_22.08.2_Orangepilite_jammy_current_5.15.69_xfce_desktop" And I'm looking for 2.8 inch LCD setup codes on Armbian for Orange Pi Lite!

Hi, I'm trying to download the image to add to my sd card, but all the images I tried downloading, either through direct link or torrent, give me this error: Internal error - code should not reach this point I couldn't find any information about this anywhere, and it is happening with all the images and versions. Can someone please help me download them? Thanks!

How is i2c1 and i2c2 mapped on Nanopi Duo? I can configure in armbian-config, but all the Duo pin diagrams only show i2c0.

I have been using the Pine64 2Gb computer as an automation server for a couple of years now. Purchased it when first available. A bit long in the tooth wanted to upgrade these days to something smaller and faster. Meanwhile here have changed power supply to using the Euler pins and put heatsinks on the device chips. Looking to overclock this device and have not been able to. Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.76.190310 nightly Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 4.19.25-sunxi64 pine64:~# uname -a Linux pine64 4.19.25-sunxi64 #5.77.190324 SMP Sun Mar 24 20:09:19 CET 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Well can I ove…

Hello help please. there is not sound in the headphones

it says connected to local host but it wont connect to my printer it keeps saying cups error please help

Hi, Armbian gurus. I have make a new kernel and related modules for my pineh64 and want to test it. Thus they are not from dpkg. To test this kernel and modules. I have few questions: 1. About the symbolic links in /boot, are they all mandatory? What if I don't have an initramfs? 2. The Image linked file, is it have to be limited to certain compressed format to work properly? 3. Is there a recommended work flow to test a external kernel? Or I can just test by replacing Image, dtb, and the modules? Thank you.

Excuse my ignorance all but I'm not familiar with this type of thing. I got my OP 4 lts running with the latest jammy HOWEVER, the resolution is wrong for the 5" HDMI screen I'm using, The screens touch function is not working, and I can't SSH into it via wifi because I can't seem to find what port it is on. If any of you can help me out here, I'd appreciate it.

I am using an orangePi and I had some scripts with bash but now I have put a screen with more resolution and now I see the text very small. How can you make the text look bigger? I have seen that if I press shift + +/- it increases the size of the letters and with stty size I see that the value of columns and rows has varied. But if I put stty cols 102 rows 29 it does not change the size of the characters. It doesn't work either if I run resize. What can I do?

TI SK-AM62A7 is not supported by Armbian, can I use Armbian and create a custom debian based image for TI SK-AM62A7. Support for TI SK-AM62 is there. Kindly guide me on how can I start building my custom image for TI-SK AM62A7.

Hello to everyone. Being new around here I figured to drop one message here first... So, i have this Radxa Rock 4D SBC and i am quite impressed with it Me being me and SBC being what it is, yada... yada, i now have this hat+ from Waveshare - it is an dual SATA to PCIe adapter. It was designed for the Raspberry pi 5 obviously but Radxa has since started putting those FPC connectors on and i really would appreciate a 24/7 NAS with a SBC footprint... Long story short, it does not work out of the box - i have no doubt the product is okay it's just the HAT fails to initiate the OS and register. It reportedly has an eprom with data o…

I had some answers on it.. there is a few comments at my question.. but no way to fix/reset it.. i tried to chroot on a kde linux and another time on a emmabuntu linux.. result: didnt work.. can someone post to me some an answer!?.. thx alott..

I was very sad to learn that RedHat's BS called network-manager made its way to debian images of Armbian. What should I install after purging NM so that I get my /etc/netwok/interfaces parsed at boot?

Who can create a new kernel using this kernel config file? https://drive.google.com/file/d/16EpJVAA6e2CVnFls2ZlvlHexenCiIh3G/view?usp=sharing I tried a lot to create a kernel and kernel is created. but flash it the device does not boot.

Nanopi T3 rt-preempt patch made the system can't boot. i have use patch-4.14.93-rt53.patch. use this patch made system cannot boot...

Thanks to all the good contribution. I was able to follow the instructions by @janng0 and @xeniter and got the fuses burned. I was able to write TOC0 to SPL with the jemk script and put the SPL to my SD card and it is booting! But... The Bootprocess hangs after "Found device /dev/ttyS0" (i am using a dietpi image). I was using sunxi-spl.bin from git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git after checking out the same version of u-boot as in my dietpi image (2020.10) and compiling it leaving default configs in menuconfig. do I need to enable more features during u-boot compilation? Where did you get your sunxi-spl.bin get from?

On a NanoPi Neo Air I would like to force a USB-connected SDcard reader (which natively uses 4-Bit transfer) to only use 1Bit mode. Any ideas how to configure the driver / device tree to do that?

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

If you're getting poor/bad audio performance from an audio VST on the N2+, it can sometimes be the context switching between the BIG.little ARM cores. In my case, Pianoteq was giving me a lot of x-runs and wide fluctuations in performance when it switched between the 2x low-performance and 4x high-performance cores. One way to get more stable performance is to assign the application to the 4x high-performance cores like this. taskset -c 2,3,4,5 'Pianoteq 7' On the N2+ the 2x low-performance are numbered 0 and 1. The 4x high-performance cores are 2,3,4,5. 'Pianoteq 7 STAGE' is the name of the application being assigned. This is more useful …

I installed Armbian_21.05.1_Odroidxu4_buster_legacy_4.14.222.img on HC2 and after this nextcloudpi with the actual curl script. Portsharing Port 80 and 443 in Fritz!box 7460 worked only for IPv4. An earlier installation of Armbian 14 months ago on the same machine worked under IPv4 and IPv6. It is a mystery for me. Could anyone help? http://ix.io/3nCZ Thanks

Hi all, Using Armbian Focal for a couple of years now and booting from an SSD plugged to USB (used the armbian installer to move to it) and it always worked perfectly but after an apt-update (stupid of me I know) I'm now stuck on a boot loop, it looks like the entire system is fubar'd. I don't mind formatting and reinstalling everything, the problem is that I lost the eMMC to USB converter I had and can't find any in the UK... Attached an image of what I'm seeing. Anything I can do to either salvage or do a fresh new install without the eMMC converter? Can be removed. Did a full format.

Does anybody have the proven experiance that a NanoPi Neo-LTS is a drop-in replacement (no SW changes) for a NanoPi Neo? And is a NanoPi Neo2 a drop-in replacement for Neo and/or Neo-LTS? From the specs I'd assume it works. Both above scenarios. But maybe there is anybody who really did such a HW-exchange...

Hello I flashed EDK2 to SPI and I am able to enter the UEFI menu and change things, but it seems that u-boot takes over the boot process to actually boot the kernel. I also built a custom resolute image using the command below which I flashed to SDCard: Then I added a Grub entry for the SDCard image with this custom build but when I boot it it shows that u-boot is being used not UEFI. The default Grub boot is from emmc with an EFI FAT32, /boot EXT4, and / F2FS which is armbian trixie, and it works well - but with u-boot so I am trying to test how booting via pure UEFI will work so I can migrate to a pure UEFI se…

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

Hello everyone Friends, maybe someone will give clear instructions on how to download armbian from an external ssd on the khadas vim2 board? Now I have armbian installed in emc and ubuntu images created by the developer khadas are loaded without problems. But I can't get armbian to work with ssd in any way. I will be grateful for any help!

I'm looking for an ARM board to self-host some stuff at home. My requirements is that the hardware is light enough that it doesn't requirement mechanical cooling, and can run yunohost [1] So my question at this stage is: how do I know about determining whether any given board requires its own cooling? Complete newbie here, I just want something small and silent. [1] https://doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_started/install_on/arm_board/

Hi: I recently installed Buster xfce desktop on Cubox i4pro. Everything works great, except I can not power off cubox. I tried various commands, shutdown -h now; systemctl poweroff; and hatl; but the system first appears to halt, where I can not ping the ip addrss of cubox, but then it reboots. Is there some way to powerfoff cubox? My current system is nightly, but I also tried stable with latest kernel. $ uname -r 5.10.21-imx6 $ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 21.08.0-trunk.26 Buster"

Hi, I'm running a FriendlyElec CM3588 board, really enjoying Armbian, but the CPU fan does not work whatsoever. It's meant to be powered from the 5V outlet marked FAN (close to MASK button). I replaced the fan with another one, same result - so hopefully it's not the hardware at fault. I never dug into fan control on Linux, anybody knows what to do?

I don't see any H2 overlays for Allwinner. There are H2 DTBs, but no overlays. I looked at the specs and the H2+ seems identical to H3 in terms of cpu, do I just use H3 overlays for H2+ boards?

Hi everyone I have a litlle problem with my customize-image.sh, in my previous version builded last year everything go ok, but currently I cannot copy my scripts from tmp/overlay to /home/$user. When I am looking into the logs everything looks properly, few moments ago I tried copy these files into root folder and everything is ok but I still cannot copy anything to my home folder... I also try check proper adduser command logging into the system during build and I also find my home/$user catalogs but on the built image home folder is empty. Have you any suggestion or solution to fix that issue ?

i have a clearfog pro with ARMBIAN 5.49 Need to set static LAN interface IP address with gateway, and WAN interface is also static IP address, Please let me know is it possible to set two gateway in Clearfog pro for WAN & LAN,

Hello, I'm actually working on the implementation of the MAX9860 Mono Audio Voice Codec in the devicetree. TheTLV320AIC3204 audio codec works fine and the operating system (Linux embedded) can see it with the command "aplay -l". So in the kernel, i have activated the MAX9860 audio codec, however, i don't know how to declare it in the device tree next to my TLV codec. So i have tried something like this in my i2c node: max9860: max9860@10 { compatible = "maxim,max9860"; reg = <0x10>; clocks = <&max9860_clock>; clock-names = "mclk"; supply-av = <&reg_aud_avdd>; su…

Booting first time my device works fine but after apt update & upgrade always appears an error opening Firefox

Hallo, I hope the topic hasn't existed before .. I have an Bananpi M2+ as H5 (64bit). Good Images are OrangePi-PC2 or NanoPi K1 Plus. My problem is, no support of emmc. Are there any known compatible images for the Banana Pi M2 + H5 that work? The NanoPi K1 Plus has problems rebooting and recognizing a keyboard. The OranngeP PC2 works fine, but no emmc support. Thanks and Best wishes, Mahdi2006

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…

Ramlog.service postrotate will execute a cat from /var/log.hdd directory to /var/log directory while rsyslog.service is always outputting stuffs in the background to /var/log directory. This in general has no problem except for some files which are mostly preoccupied with output from rsyslog during logrotate activation, namely syslog and a varieties of journals entries. I have found some of these postrotate failures with cryptic messages as write errors from cat and corresponding rsyslogd omfile module stating lost messages. I suspect two independent processes competing to send output to same files hence causing these errors. I don't know enough of detail but I think ther…

hi everyone, I have this program that displays temperature and humidity on my orange pi, what string can I add to upload this data to the site? thanks from pyA20.gpio import gpio from pyA20.gpio import port #import RPi.GPIO as GPIO import dht11 import time import datetime # initialize GPIO #gpio.setwarnings(False) #gpio.setmode(GPIO.BCM) PIN2 = port.PA6 gpio.init() #gpio.cleanup() # read data using pin 14 instance = dht11.DHT11(pin=PIN2) while True: result = instance.read() if result.is_valid(): print("Last valid input: " + str(datetime.datetime.now()))

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

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

Hello, Could you please tell me which image does not have netplan? I want to compare how much resources it uses. Thanks

Hi I've been on a ride. First things first what do i want help with. I want to know how to install Armbian on an ssd connected via sata. (I know about the sd card hand off, edit this file; sudo nano /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt) I have a Raspberry 5 that I have armbian 13 minimal cli installed on a sd card, I have other means if it makes a difference. I have an ssd connected to a radxa penta sata hat that i have successfully installed with editing the config file, also have an ssd installed and shows. First time around i used the imager to install an exact copy of the os on the ssd which also meant exact copies of labels and uuid's, which i learned the hard way is …

I have a carrier board from codico: https://www.codico.com/en/carrier-board-h-home-control-evb-for-red-yellow-beet-modul I've followed the pdf file from the above link to set up a Rasperry Pi and it all works fine. However, when swapping for my NanoPi Neo Core, even though the drivers load correctly, and I see SPI comms going back and forth on the oscilloscope, I am not connected to the internet. This is what ifconfig returns: What could be the difference between rpi and this board that this happens? Any guidance on how to resolve it would be deeply appreciated!

Hello! Are there any plans for a stable minimal/IOT release for the Rock 4D, and if so, what’s the timetable? Thanks!

Hello, I've been using the Banana Pi M2 Ultra for 2 years now as a mini 24/7 server with NAS and wireguard functionality etc. I started with a Crucial MX500 1TB SSD connected with the SATA interface and formatted as ext4, but not as OS partition, just for data. A few months ago the ssd occasionally disappeared and I had to restart / poweroff the device and after a restart everything was OK. But not the last time - after mounting the ssd I was shown an blank, empty ssd with no files. Testdisk shows all folders from the "root" folder of the partition, but nothing else, extundelete could also no help. So first question is: How can…

Hi everyone, I'm trying build armbian with legacy branch and I need apply patch to u-boot config. If I add my patch in userpatches, buid script ignoring it. If I build current branch, patches aplying

hello everyone, I would like to know if it is possible to remove support for video cameras and wi-fi from the operating system so that they do not load at startup and reprogram these connectors to suit your needs? Thank you in advance for your answer

Hi, I need set the PC1 pin as output on a device driver using the new gpiod_export() method. What argument should i pass on the gpiod_get function? struct gpio_desc *gpio; gpio = gpiod_get(NULL, "PC1", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); if (IS_ERR(gpio)) { printk("Failed to get GPIO: \n"); return PTR_ERR(gpio); } // Export the GPIO ret = gpiod_export(gpio, false); if (ret) { pr_err("Failed to export GPIO: %d\n", ret); return ret; } // Set the direction of the GPIO ret = gpiod_direction_output(gpio, 1); if (ret) { pr_err("Failed to set GPIO direction: %d\n", ret); retur…

I have a Pinebook Pro and installed Focal xfce on its eMMC. I would like to swith to i3. So I have installed `i3`, `i3status` and `i3lock` using apt. Then I have altered the `user-session` config of lightdm from `xfce` to `i3` (actually did this at three places). With all this done, I still end up in XFCE. Hints on where to look further are welcome.

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?

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

Hi. My download speed is so low over ethernet. Speed must be 19Mb/sec, but real speed is 7-8Mb/sec. download speed on armbian download speed without armbian Tell me what is my problem?

can someone tell me which board hardware supports video decoding with armbian? preferably with (C)VLC? Thanks a lot for your help!

Hello everyone, maybe I can get a solution here. My banana Pi M1 mainly runs as an energy-saving recording module for web radio etc. and is occasionally updated "by hand". Since I felt the bananian was hopelessly outdated, armbian runs on the dwarf. Recently there was also the update from 5.10 to 5.15. Kernel included: linux-dtb-current-sunxi/focal 22.02.1 armhf [aktualisierbar von: 21.08.2] linux-image-current-sunxi/focal 22.02.1 armhf [aktualisierbar von: 21.08.2] Unfortunately, the banana Pi can no longer be shut down cleanly, kernel panic, hangs and does not switch off. Reinstalled the old kernel and stapled it down, all good a…

Hi, I just start using armbain after login I saw this error date: invalid date '</body>\r' per attach image. What cause this error ? I have look into motd configuration this error not coming from there. Another monitor package that was installed is rpimonitor. It's look like a some kind of script that run after login.

Texto original em português BR Ola. Tentei gravar uma imagem do armbian para Raspberry Pi num pendrive de 8 gb e testar no Rpi 4 de 2gb que uso exclusivamente para testes e estudo mas o “Raspberry Pi Imager” que tenho no Rpi 4 de 4 gb não permitiu alegando falta de espaço no pendrive. Gravei num SDCard de 16 gb, testei e achei o sistema excelente, então resolvi: 1- Desinstalar alguns aplicativos para diminuir o tamanho. 2- Com consulta na web, usar o comando dd e criar uma nova imagem. 3- Continuando com ajuda da web, diminuir o tamanho da imagem criada anteriormente para eliminar o espaço vazio dessa imagem…

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

I am trying to get analogue sound working on the Pine H64, but the analog-codec overlay appears to be missing. the h5 version is there, though. Does anybody know why this might be? -Craig

Hello Friends, There is a requirement from Client to not run lvextend command if it was run in last 24 hrs. I have tried the following and still havent figured out how to do it, any help will be highly appreciated: 1.] Have tried checking /var/log/messages, dmesg command logs. There are no kern.logs in the server so cannot check that as well. 2.] There is no /var/log/syslog so cannot check that. Also cannot activate logging by modifying lvm2.conf file as there are many servers. 3.] 'history' command only displays 10 commands and that too from current tty. If there are any files which gets added with any volume group changes information please suggest…

Greetings! My first foray into Armbian. Apparently the Link Star H68K is hardware equivalent to the Hinlink H68K. I'm trying to install one of the community supported Armbian images (Debian Trixie, Ubuntu 26.04) for the Hinlink onto a Link Star H68K, using the RKDevTool from the Seeed Studio wiki. And failing. The only image that loads into RKDevTool is the Lubuntu 20.04 from the Seeed Studio wiki. It's just a tad out of date. Any pointers on getting a more up-to-date OS installed would be most welcome. AFAIK my device is OG, not V2. I've also tried booting from TF card, but the device refuses to boot at all wit…

The Main part Is You Buying A Module and Plugging Your Fan Into It. : Here you go — two solid solderless picks: 1. Adafruit MOSFET Driver #5648 (the clean reference — genuine logic-level AO3406, flyback diode already onboard, jumper-friendly header, ~$4): https://www.adafruit.com/product/5648 Also stocked via resellers (Mouser/DigiKey/Pimoroni) if you search "Adafruit 5648." 2. Generic 3.3 V-trigger dual-MOSFET board (cheapest, everywhere, screw terminals — fully solderless; just add a flyback diode across the fan since these usually omit it): https://www.amazon.com/ANMBEST-Trigger-Adjustment-Electronic-Control/dp/B08TW9RB49 …

Hi, I just got the Banana Pi M2 zero board and am wondering if the analog sound output pins are accessible so I can connect headphone / speaker to it? thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm very new to Armbian Linux. I'm about to acquire Orange Pi Zero 2W for my audio project. I have read some of the forum posts related to the SOC's native I2S, and I'd like to know if those problems mentioned in the posts have been resolved in the new kernel? Meaning that users don't have to write and compile their own device tree overlay and kernel mode driver? My project require a full duplex I2S with the CODEC as the master. Nothing fancy, just 2 channels in and 2 channels out. Hope someone can help clear the doubts so that I know for sure I will not be buying what I can not use. Thanks

The new Orange Pi 4 Pro image connects to Bluetooth keyboards perfectly, but typing doesn't work because uinput is completely missing from the 6.6.98-vendor-sun60iw2 kernel config.

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…

Hi, First time poster, so immediately confused with the tags. tag was required but could not find one for Radxa Rock 4se. I want to get the raspberry pi camera working in ubuntu on my rock 4se. I tested with the image radxa provides and the hardware works. Then i switched to the community ubuntu image and it seems i need an overlay to tell the linux device tree that the rpi camera is there. Can anybody help me with this? Thanks!

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…

Does anyone here may have recommendations of standard sdcard or flashdrive that supports for installation on amlogic s905x devices? eg: sdcard only sdhc types or it will work with sdxc or any kind of limitations capacities for certain SBC ? . thank you in advance for your most kind replies. best regards

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

Hello everyone, I urgently need help, as I am on the verge of throwing my Khadas out the window. I bought a used Khadas Vim3L HTPC Kit (S905D3) and want to use it for Navidrome and Audiobookshelf. The FLAC files are located on an external 2.5" WD Elements hard drive, first I intended to format this hard drive to ext4 and set it up in the setup process but it doesnt work and the first thing now is to setup the system,i will add the hd later. Currently, the Vim boots into CoreELEC (which appears to be installed on the internal storage of the vim). Im a total noob and thats my first vim / Board. I just can't seem to get it to work; no matter what I d…

So I'm fairly new to Armbian (although I have already managed to successfully create a custom build with most of what I need). Sadly, I've very much hit a blocker. I really need to use linux-tools/perf on an RK3588 board with a vendor kernel (I'm using the Mali OpenCL, and the ARM packages are mostly locked) and I need to do some performance tuning. I cannot figure out how to get these tools deployed. 1. There are no linux-tools packages build -- which is fair enough, I'm probably in a minority. Some parts of the tools directories are culled during a cleaning process for the headers, I can see that 2. I am happy to copy over the kernel source and build o…

Hi folks, I was looking to activate the NPU on my beagley-AI chip, running armbian, and I couldn't find how. This chip as a NPU (AM67A) on the SOC from TexasInstruments (https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9783895766572_A50990365/preview-9783895766572_A50990365.pdf). The loading of the NPU seems to have failed: mesg | grep remoteproc [ 8.461511] k3-dsp-rproc 7e000000.dsp: configured DSP for remoteproc mode [ 8.461728] remoteproc remoteproc0: 7e000000.dsp is available [ 8.461868] k3-dsp-rproc 7e000000.dsp: register pm nitifiers in remoteproc mode [ 8.464448] k3-dsp-rproc 7e200000.dsp: configured DSP for remoteproc mode [ …

For troubleshooting purposes I want to temporarily have logs written immediately to disk rather than to ram. Will this work? # ramlog OFF sudo systemctl stop armbian-ramlog sudo sed -i 's/^ENABLED=.*/ENABLED=false/' /etc/default/armbian-ramlog sudo systemctl restart rsyslog sudo journalctl --flush # ramlog ON sudo sed -i 's/^ENABLED=.*/ENABLED=true/' /etc/default/armbian-ramlog sudo systemctl start armbian-ramlog sudo systemctl restart rsyslog

hey hows it going? is there someone who could point me to the right direction on if my device supports armbian and where i could get the files i need to flash my emmc. ive had no luck with pre built rasp pi i get the errors with firmware and it wont let me flash it. kind regrads Daniel

If you've tried hardware video on an Allwinner A733 (Orange Pi 4 Pro, Radxa A7Z), you've probably hit this: there's no V4L2 decoder, and omxh264dec advertises video/x-raw(memory:DMABuf) but aborts in gst_omx_video_dec_negotiate if you actually ask for it. So everyone falls back to videoconvert ! ximagesink and burns ~1.8 CPU cores on 1080p. The vendor OMX component reports the proprietary colour format 0x7f000002 through a malformed port-format enumeration, so gst-omx can't build a negotiation map. You can chase that a long way. Don't. libOmxVdec.so is a wrapper over libvdecoder.so, and that lower library is what actually owns the decode surfaces. VideoPicture.n…

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

It would be super handy whilst also preconfiguring network / users / timezone ... that hostanem was in there also

Can anyone directed me how to install Armbian on my Utilite pro im a total beginner tia

Hi everybody With freshly installed armbian (commit id: d9fb61be0) I created a new uboot config file: ./compile.sh uboot-config BOARD=orangepizeroplus BRANCH=current SHARE_LOG=yes This creates the file: ./output/defconfig-uboot-orangepizeroplus-current But the command: ./compile.sh uboot BOARD=orangepizeroplus BRANCH=current SHARE_LOG=yes does not compile uboot, it just touches ./output/debs/linux-u-boot-orangepizeroplus-current_26.11.0-trunk_arm64__2026.07-*.deb file. Do I miss something? Do I have to copy the file ./output/defconfig-uboot-orangepizeroplus-current to a place in ./userpatches? …

Hi, FYI, there might be an issue with old, slow hardware. Yesterday I installed the minimal Ubuntu 26.04 current 6.18.24 downloaded from https://armbian.com/boards/bananapi on my old Banana Pi on an similar old 8GB SD by sandisk. It runs normaly, but cannot set up the end0 during booting. Doing an "ip link set end0 up" manually on cli afterwards immediately activated end0, so my solution was using an script to do this command after booting. The AI aiding me thinks it's just the slow hardware causing a timeout when it should set up the interface during booting. Just wanted to let you know.

I am new to Ambian and am trying to boot up to it for the first time. I have both an Orange Pi 6 Plus and an Orange Pi Zero 3. Using the Armbian Imager, I had no problem finding the images recomended for my units. My problem is that neither of the devices can boot up to the desktop. They will boot up to a text console where I can configure Wifi, root password, intitial user name, and locale. After that, they state that they are starting the desktop or running some script and continue no further. That I see uniform and reliable failure across the images and the devices make me think that I may be doing something wrong. But I cannot find some step documented somewher…

Hello all, earlier I booted up the board (Radxa Dragon Q8B) when it prompted to reboot & update and I allowed it. The update took uncharacteristically long. The OS is running off an SD card. There is no SSD or eMMC installed. Turns out it wiped the install clean. There was about 20 GB of free space prior to the update, now there's 46 GB. For some reason the user itself and the wifi login are still there, but everything in the home directory is gone. Installed applications and the driver for the wireless card are gone. Chrome add-ons are still there, but reset. The Downloads folder now has Armbian_26.8.1_Radxa-dragon-q8b_resolute_vendor_7.0…

I am using Armbian.imager_2.0.4_amd64,AppImage on a Fedora sytem to burn two new Lenovo 256 Gbyte sd with Rpi4b_resolute_current_6.18.42_gnome_desktop_img.xz, and both report a verify failure at 113246208. I am suspicious because two sd's are failing at the same offset. I think that is unlikely, if they both have a manufacturing defect. I think it is more likely a systematic error in the software. tayolepuqi.txt

Hi, I'm new to this game,being mostly a (French) software dev doing backend Node.js. Recently I bought a 21.5" Android kiosk display from Beelta, the T2100AA, to build a custom kiosk for my company. The Android build is bloated, so I wanted something cleaner. I started looking into porting Armbian to this display. Inside there's an SBC identified as a Shimeta AIoT-3568A. There's no Linux support for this board, and the manufacturer wasn't willing to provide any documentation. I started digging with Claude and worked through most of the blockers in under a day. Here's what I found — and possibly a path forward for other Shimeta-based boards too (more on…

I wasn't able to boot from my SD after flashing either `Armbian_26.5.1_Orangepi5-plus_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal` or `Armbian_26.5.1_Orangepi5-plus_resolute_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop` to it. I would get a red power light, but none of the others. I was finally able to boot `Armbian_25.8.1_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop` after grabbing it from archive.armbian.com, but I'm wondering what the problem may have been? I'd like to get onto the latest Armbian but of course don't want to start having boot issues all over again. Edit: Looks like I may have run into this known issue: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/…