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Would someone mind educating me about kernels please? I have a problem with my vpn Tailscale and it seems to be related to the kernel version. Nov 12 12:07:30 odroidhc1 tailscaled[8259]: Starting userspace wireguard engine with tun device "tailscale0" Nov 12 12:07:30 odroidhc1 tailscaled[8259]: Linux kernel version: 4.14.187-odroidxu4 Nov 12 12:07:30 odroidhc1 tailscaled[8259]: is CONFIG_TUN enabled in your kernel? `modprobe tun` failed with: modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:586 kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/4.14.187-odroidxu4/modules.dep.bin' Nov 12 12:07:30 odroidhc1 tailscaled[8259]: modprobe: FATAL: Module tun not found in…

Hello, I'm trying to find out how to use a 1.5 Inch RGB OLED Display that uses the SSD1351 IC on a NanoPi M4 however I don't seem to be able to turn on the SPI. I used armbian-config to enable the gpio overlay: [ ] dwc3-0-host [ ] i2c7 [ ] i2c8 [*] pcie-gen2 [ ] rk3328-opp-1.4ghz [ ] rk3328-opp-1.5ghz [ ] rk3399-opp-2ghz [ ] spi-jedec-nor [*] spi-spidev [ ] uart4 [ ] w1-gpio And the SPI isn't showing up on /dev: ls /dev/spi* ls: cannot access '/dev/spi*': No such file or directory Wasn't this enough to be able to use the SPI1 on this board? SBC: NanoPi M4V2 System: 5.10.35-rockchip64 #21.05.1…

Here it is specified as required but is not made clear how to obtain or set it. Specifically, how is it different from 'address' line? Thanks so much Joe

Hello, could be possible to introduce the package with newest available GDB 13.2? The version 13.1 is rather unusable — it segfaults on regular basis.

Hi, currently I have armbian installed on an SD-Card with kernel 3.4.112-sun7i on Banana Pi. I'd like to test how armbian works installed on SATA with vanilla-kernel. Therefore I would install armbian (Vanilla) on SATA. Switching between both systems would then require a shutdown, exchange of SD-Card and startup the system again. Since i am a lazy person I'd like to know whether it is possible to use the SD-Card with 3.4.112 and just exchange the folder /boot with the one from the SD-Card I installed armbian-Vanilla on SATA (to avoid standing up, walking to the banana pi which is located in another room, exchanging the SD-Card, rebooting, walking back and sitting …

Hi all I would like to start this topic to discuss on the best approach for having some degree of data integrity using ARM SBC (aarch64 SoC in primis) My goal is to set a big archive, I have in program to build 5x8TB HD, scheme TBD The goal is to have at least one hard drive failure tolerance, it is acceptable that some data is lost during rebuild, since the main goal of the archive is to store picture and video, so it is tolerable that few pictures or video get corrupted, but the rebuild shall not stop in this case The write performances are not so important, but read performances shall sustain some video streaming, roughly at least 25 Mbytes/s M…

Hi, after upgrade to next kernel: my rtc-i2c stopped working. Here is the result for "Linux ... 3.4.113-sun8i #18 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 24 22:10:49 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux" [ 6.008219] rtc-ds1307 0-0068: rtc core: registered ds1307 as rtc1 [ 6.008241] rtc-ds1307 0-0068: 56 bytes nvram [ 6.008277] i2c i2c-0: new_device: Instantiated device ds1307 at 0x68 Here is for "Linux ... 4.14.18-sunxi #24 SMP Fri Feb 9 16:24:32 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux" [ 6376.740796] i2c i2c-0: new_device: Instantiated device ds3232 at 0x68 and nothing else (btw the same is for ds1307). Device rtc1 is not re…

Hello. I've received a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter from the Pine64 store. The problem is than the adapter is not fully SAT compliant, so hdparm doesn't work with it. It is described better in this post. And there's an updated firmware for the JMS578 chip which fixes this issue. However, it was made for another device (Odroid HC1), not the device I have. Is it safe to use this firmware in my adapter? Or maybe there's even more fresh firmware exists for JMS578 chips?

Hello, I would like to tinker with a wayland-based desktop environment. What are the basics I need to know and what are the steps to setup it on armbian? Thanks in advance

Hello, I try to run this image: Armbian_20.02.0-rc0_Bananapir2_buster_legacy_4.19.97_minimal.img on Sinovoip Banana PI R2 (from SD card) and on 1-st boot i'm stuck: Tx DQM dly bit4 = 0x0 DRAMC_DQODLY1=79A98889h DRAMC_DQODLY2=8988B99Ah DRAMC_DQODLY3=2203123h DRAMC_DQODLY4=31103014h Tx DQ dly bit4 = 0x0 Tx DQS dly = 0x8949 Tx DQS dly bit4 = 0x0 TX Byte0: DQ - 16, DQS - 17. win_sum= 32 TX Byte1: DQ - 21, DQS - 13. win_sum= 33 TX Byte2: DQ - 8, DQS - 22. win_sum= 29 TX Byte3: DQ - 8, DQS - 22. win_sum= 29 DRAMC calibration takes 651397386 CPU cycles [EMI] DRAMC calibration passed [MEM] complex R/W mem test pass 0:dram_rank_size:80000000 [Dram_Buffer]…

Hello, has anyone found a way to get a relatively new nodejs running on Armbian Bionic? I can not find one. I always end up with a not supported plattform. I am using a banana Pi M2 plus. I currently have a very old one running, (8.x) and I can not remember how I did that. Thank you for your support!

I am trying to leverage the first run script but am not having any luck. Here are the steps that I am following: 1. flashed the image onto the SD card 2. mounted SDcard on my mac (also tried steps from linux) 3. renamed the file from armbian_first_run.txt.template to armbian_first_run.txt 4. Edited the contents of the file to include the following: FR_general_delete_this_file_after_completion=1 FR_net_change_defaults=1 FR_net_ethernet_enabled=1 FR_net_wifi_enabled=0 FR_net_wifi_ssid='MySSID' FR_net_wifi_key='MyWiFiKEY' FR_net_wifi_countrycode='US' FR_net_use_static=1 FR_net_static_ip='192.168.1.201' FR_net_static_mask='255.255.2…

Hello, I have been trying to get back to a working nanopc-t4. I'm traveling with an almost worthless computer since I accidently let armbian update itself. The next few days I have access to a TV. To get my screen to work I convert the - media - version to support dtb overlays, the build the driver and overlay. This needs the build in the modules to be present. Using uname -r gives me this path. usr/lib/modules/6.2.0-rc8-media/build I can install Linux headers through armbian-config. That does nothing for allowing make in the modules which is what I need. What am I missing and how do I get…

On one machine I forgot to "pin" (apt-mark hold) custom kernel pkgs ... and updated :-/ but no reboot yet. This leads to these 3 questions: Q1 How to recover ? Pull from back-up of sd-card image ? What ? Any hints are greatly appreciated as you can imagine. Q2 More generally: which pkgs to pin ? Usually I set linux-image-* and linux-headers-* on hold but this particular update additionally installed newer versions of linux-dtb-next-sunxi:armhf linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi:armhf linux-jessie-root-next-bananapipro:armhf linux-u-boot-bananapipro-next:armhf Does installing these newer versions break a custom kernel? Q3 How to update w/ custom kernel ? …

Hello, I am running as usual my orange pi one plus H6 ALL WINNER with ubuntu server and cannot find my exFat HDD on it, it detects the usb but not /dev/sda and cannot mount or access it, yes I tried with ntfs This is what I see (image below), should be 232 GB HDD connected via USB, sata is not an option What should I do?

Hi, I was try to get eDP working on My Firefly AIO-3399J board but no success. I try different configs in dts file and .config. I try look up many eDP dts files to find some hints to get that work. I get no some hints from "dmesg" report. Linux won't start if eDP display is connected but continue after disconnect eDP connector. I get few errors in "dmesg" report but can't solve those things... If somebody can help Me and look "dmesg" report? Spoiler firefly@firefly:~$ dmesg [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Initia…

Hey folks, I'm looking to build a little portable server to hold a local mirror of my cloud drive and run a light-duty testing server for medium-weight web apps (Django, big PHP blobs, etc). 2GB RAM, SATA support, and fanless are critical, USB 3.0 and GPIO ready to go with no soldering a big plus. I'm planning to get a 500GB SSD and use an Alfa AWUS036ACH 802.11ac USB dongle. Box will run headless except for configuration. I was looking at the EspressoBin but kernel support appears to still be incomplete and there isn't that big of a userbase. I also don't need two of the Ethernet ports on that board. I've looked around and it seems the combo of >1GB RAM + …

Hi, Has anyone tried to write SD card or eMMC with armbian image that resides on a PXE server? Thanks

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.

I am struggling to make an external RTC work. "i2cdetect -y 7" reports that RTC at address 68 is alive. I have added in the following lines: echo ds1307 0x68 > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-7/new_device hwclock -f /dev/rtc -s Could be a possible reason that hwclock is already linked with internal RTC? Is it possible that DS1307 is not recognised? If I do "modprobe ds-1307" I got the answer: "modprobe: FATAL: Module rtc-ds1307 not found in directory /lib/modules/5.3.11-rockchip64" Could this be the reason? The driver for ds-1307 doesn't exist? How can I get it? P.S. : The OS is Armbian Buster with Linu…

Hello, I have a problem with my Banana Pi Pro... I installed Armbian bionic from this site… https://www.armbian.com/banana-pi-pro/ In addition to other programs that I have installed and which all work, I would like to install piVCCU. I try this according to the instructions from this page ... https://github.com/alexreinert/piVCCU/blob/master/docs/setup/armbian.md Everything works until I get to Step 5. At the end of the installation comes the message... DKMS: add completed. Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 5.4.14-sunxi cannot be found. Please install the linux-headers-5.4.14-sunxi package, or use the --kernels…

I can't find bionic images for NanoPI R2S/R4S , is there any place I can find them ? Thanks.

Hi forum members, I enabled the 1w protocol via armbian.config and found, that the default GPIO pin assignment is set to 110 (what is PD14) root@bananapim2zero:/sys/bus/w1/devices# cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio gpiochip0: GPIOs 0-223, parent: platform/1c20800.pinctrl, 1c20800.pinctrl: gpio-110 ( |onewire@0 ) out lo - - - dmesg | grep -E 'w1|wire' | grep -E 'Driver|gpio-' [ 5.659452] Driver for 1-wire Dallas network protocol. [ 6.408704] gpio-110 (onewire@0): enforced open drain please flag it properly in DT/ACPI DSDT/board file Please can someone tell me what phyical pin is this gpio-110 on my BPI m2 z…

So I've had an odroid C2 running Armbian for the past couple of years without a hitch. Today however, when I try to login to my box either remotely or directly, I'm greeted with a login screen. On this box consists of 4 accounts (all mine) and I've set my primary account to automatically login when booted (never needed a password). Yet still, I'm greeted with the login screen. I try to login under my other accounts using my password, but even then, screen goes black for a second, then back to login screen. I really need some help here. As I said, I've been running Armbian flawlessly up until this point, now all of a sudden I can't even login to any of my accou…

The iso cannot be opened and the file is not written to the flash drive.

Hi everyone, I have rock 5c with PWM fan. I want to control the fan speed manually. Running on Armbian 25.11.1 Noble. Sorry if its obvious I am newbie to this

Hello, I am using "Armbian_5.00_Guitar_Debian_wheezy_3.10.55.raw" image on Lemaker Guitar modul. But I need write image into NAND - "There are no targets....." In notice "NAND, SATA and USB install script included (/root)" , but /root is empty. Where I am doing mistake ?

Hi, Have some H3 boards with the current Armbian level 5.24. Need though Qt5.. Is there any info on how to do this? How to install Qt5 in Armbian? (Might be too easy but for some reason I cannot find relevant info) Christos

please, I am really helpless. I am on Armbian. I am trying to run hyperion-v4l2 in /etc/rc.local (please it is not important why for now) with these parameters: Code: /home/user/hyperion/build/bin/hyperion-v4l2 --device /dev/video0 --video-standard PAL --width 720 --height 576 --crop-top 10 --crop-bottom 10 --crop-left 24 --crop-right 24 --frame-decimator 1 --size-decimator 4 --red-threshold 0.2 --green-threshold 0.4 --blue-threshold 1.0 (before v4l2 I am executing sudo /home/user/hyperion/build/bin/hyperiond /home/user/hyperion.config.json) But it does not take crop parameters in effect (important for blackborder detection) of hyperion-v4l2. I tried to put t…

Anyone know how to get sound for GAMES? Games play but no sound. Sound is configured for TV-out(analog AV) and working.

Hello, I'm pretty new to configuring networks completely with /etc/network/interfaces and have my problems with understanding how to set up my ports adequately. What I want to do is: I want to run a DHCP-Server on all the LAN-Ports and want to use the wireless Connection as a Gateway (using NAT, no bridge). I found this to setup the Switchports as bridged.https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/511#issuecomment-262571252 But I don't know how to set the whole system up. I read lots of introduction but all people are using the WAN-Port as Gateway and setting the wireless as Access Point. That's not what I want to do. And I also was…

Hi all, I am new to linux and SBC. I have installed armbian on banana-pi M1. I want to setup a NAS and Media server for my home network. I am trying to install Openmediavault using armbian configuration as documented in the article here. But I am unable to see the openmediavault under Softy. Is there anything I am missing here. https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/#software Any help will be really appreciated.

I have a NanoPi NEO3, which is not currently supported by Armbian (WIP). I installed Armbian focal version 20.08.1 and seems to work, but I'm running into a packaging problem. I need the usbipd service, and that requires an extra package: WARNING: usbip not found for kernel 5.8.6 You may need to install the following packages for this specific kernel: linux-tools-5.8.6-rockchip64 linux-cloud-tools-5.8.6-rockchip64 The latest version of linux-tools that's available in the repositories is linux-tools-5.4.0-48, which does not match the installed kernel. Presumably there is a way to get the right version, but that would mean building it for the cu…

After spending hours trying to hunt down repositories for this I found this post: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/8328-install-compile-tvheadend/ Following it I can add the repository and update ok, but the package tvheadend is not found: root@orangepizero:~# apt update Hit:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mamarley/tvheadend-git-stable/ubuntu hirsute InRelease Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease Hit:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease Get:6 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt buster InRelease [18.3 kB] Fetched…

Hi, I'm a beginner for orange pi series, so I bought an orange pi pc+ and I tried to use load cell with HX711. I've searched all github links and common forums but I couldn't find anything about to reading HX711 by orange pi pc+ or any device using armbian os. If I need to explain in more detail, I've checked the HX711 libraries to use reading functions of gpios. Is there anybode help me. I want to use Orange Pi in my bachelor thesis because it is cheaper than Raspberry Pi so I really need help.

I've been having a recent issue over the last couple months where my ArmbianEvn.txt file is being overwritten thus causing Helios to hang in the boot process. Using some samples i've found on these forums, I was able to re-create my file and get the Helios back up and running and have since stored a copy so that when it happens, I can just copy and paste and back up running in no time. To date, i've had this happen to me 4 times. I'm not worried about having go through this at this point in time, but I was curious if anyone else has seen this issue or not? I've saved a couple samples of what was written into the ArmbianEnv.txt file: /var/log/armbian-ha…

Hello, I am having reboot issues with my Odroid C4 running Armbian 21.08.2 Focal with kernel 5.10.60 on an eMMC card. I run the SBC headless and log in via ssh. When I issue the reboot command it shuts down but does not start up again. Does anyone know how to resolve this? It is kind of annoying to everytime cut of power and then connect the cable again. I also issues the command: nand-sata-install as recommended on the download page but this does not help. Many thanks! regards, Udo

Hi forum members, since I'm playing with the use of onewire sensos, I came up with the question to use more than one GPIO-pin for the onewire protocol. Is it possible to configure multiple GPIO-pins that the output of: cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio shows more than one onewire gpio pin ? If YES, how can I find the connected sensors under the /sys/bus/ structure? Tanks in advance wollik

Hi guys! I understood yesterday that the Raspberry Pi 3 is limited to only 2-channel 16-bit PCM audio over HDMI by its ALSA driver. Therefore I'm now looking for another board capable of at least outputting 6x 24-bit LPCM 48 kHz channels. My goal is to build a software DSP, processing multi-channel audio recorded from an USB audio interface. The idea is to capture a home-cinema receiver pre-outs, mix and apply biquads for crossover with the sub and speaker tuning, then handle the clock difference between input and output. A couple threads mention difficulties with 24-bit audio, on legacy kernel and over I2S, where the user Christos observed issues. Do…

I installed Armbian_5.24_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.9.4 on my Orange Pi Zero. Because it has no video out, I try to login via SSH. Unfortunately the password "1234" does not work for user root. I get "Permission denied (publickey,password).". Is the password wrong?

Hi, will there be an Upgrade Path to DEBIAN 9 of existing ARMBIAN installations or just apt-get dist-upgrade ? Regards, Ireng

Hello, when I run dietpi-software and select some software to install, it gives me this error. Can someone help me? I had to install armbian on my Rock64 and then ran the install dietpi script. Thank you DietPi-Software: G_AGUG │ - Exit code: 100 │ - DietPi version: v6.19.6 (Fourdee/master) | HW_MODEL:22 | HW_ARCH:3 | DISTRO:4 │ - Image creator: Dev │ - Pre-image: armbian │ │ Log file contents: │ Reading package lists... │ Building dependency tree... │ Reading state information... │ Calculating upgrade... │ 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. │ 1 not fully installed or removed. │ After this operation, 0 B of addition…

Hi everyone, I'm using a Nanopi NEO2 as a NAS (link : https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=222) and it's provided with an armbian jessie version. I did try to upgrade to Stretch but I was missing some repositories. Now I'm trying to install a fresh Armbian Stretch version but on first boot SSH is not enabled. How can I configure armbian ? I cannot connect keyboard/screen. Maybe there is another way to do it ? Other armbian/debian images ? Does anyone have a solution ?

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

/var/log goes full every 15 min when i remove.Please see attachment download-2020.2.18_20.11.35-root-(projectok.com).tar.gz

Yes, I managed to do this. Luckily I managed to re-enable the GDM3 graphical console on-start-up by using the debug serial port and then using the GUI through the TV to put the tick back to enable networking. Yep, very much a noob mistake. So, the question is when networking is disabled so eth0 and wlan0 disappear, leaving only lo, how do I get eth0 and wlan0 back just using the command line? I can't easily find how to do this. I've looked, I've searched and now .... help! :-) (I do also have the ability to put the MicroSD card into my laptop, so maybe it would be simpler to do that and change some configuration files to re-enable networking?) …

I just installed armbian buster on my NAS (odroid HC2). Everything works perfectly. However, as debian bullseye has become stable and I expect this to happen for armbian also in the near future, I am thinking about how to do the upgrade. This is mainly because all my other boxes run bullseye and administration becomes a lot easier if all systems run the same version. In addition, I will have to do the update anyways at some point in time and therefor I want do it when armbian bullseye becomes stable. Reading through the forum I found out it is not supported. However, I am using debian now since woody and have done a lot of upgrades since then, I th…

Good day. Yesterday I downloaded the latest Armbian version for the ASUS Tinker Board S and flashed the built-in eMMC (with Etcher Balena). The software works fine, but - the SD card is not mounted as mass storage, the file manager THUNAR does not recognize it. also lsusb does not recognize it. - a plugged USB- flash-stick is not mounted by the file manager THUNAR, although lsusb lists it. Ist das Problem behebbar? Is the problem fixable? The USB stick of a wireless mouse is recognized and also connects to the conputermouse. Regards Karl Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) …

(sorry for my english) hello!! My problem: can't compile image. I follow step-to-step in official documentation, but it failed in result. And I don't understand why, please help. I do it in Virtual box; Linux version 6.2.0-33-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-073) (x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-11 (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.38) #33~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Sep 7 10:33:52 UTC 2 Device: nanopi neo air https://pastebin.com/xBrAv8AL - i put here my logs

Armbian build: Armbian_23.8.1_Bananapim2zero_bookworm_current_6.1.47 Hardware: BananaPi M2 Zero I am using pure CLI environment, and when the output is on screen I can't really tell what is the resolution or the refresh, but the monitor is 1080p@60 and it seems to be matching. Although when I run apps that use SDL2 for example; the resolution is changed, and I tried to set a fixed resolution but there seems to be no way to do so in Armbian. I changed the boot settings and those are correctly set with 1080p@60; then I tried to use xrandr (I have X11 installed as I have SDL2 installed too), and it says "can't open display" (I assume …

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

Hi, When I format my hard drive and I want to make partitions, just / for the system and Swap partition, Gparted only allows me to make one, saying I only can make one primary partition, so I make one for / (in this step extended and logical options are disabled) Then I want to use the free space for swap and all options are disabled, not even logical or extended partition options. and from the beginning I only can chose logical partition because extended is disabled. So it looks Gparted only allows me to use the entire disk as logical partition. If I use another app in windows to make those partitions then in linux Gparted says there is one error and it can't …

Hi, I got a problem with orange pi zero and audio record latency. What I try to do is to record the audio on orange pi zero, send data to my phone and play it here, but the delay is big(around ~1-1.5s) that's is quite a lot. I've tested it for a few days now and I am sure the delay is on the device. What is interesting sending audio the other way(phone->orange pi zero) has no delay at all(~0.1s). First I tried to use Qt(5.9) and QAudioInput, now I switched to alsa libraries but no results. I also tried to use command line to check this arecord | aplay but still I can hear the delay. Is there any way to decrease the latency? …

Hi all! I write app for statistic generation for my tasks. 1. How I can replace Armbian welcome message? 2. How run app before user login? BR,

Hello. I have "Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" on CubieTruck. After installing Apache2 i get problems with /var folder (that is symlink on hdd folder). Apache2 dont see files in it. So i print stat for this folder from commandline and from php in Apache. That is from command line: root@cubietruck:/mnt/var/armbian/apache2/www/html# stat /mnt/var/armbian/var File: /mnt/var/armbian/var Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 2097154 Links: 13 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2018-02-10 14:35:14.025501481 +0300 Modify: 2018-02-04 09:1…

One of my students told me Armbian no longer accepts donations. Indeed, I see a 'Subscriptions' section, but no longer a Donations link. It's been a while since I looked. When 'subscribing' I guess one could uncheck the automatic renewal, but would that cause trouble for Armbian expecting continuing income? Or should one make the subscription and then cancel? I always encourage my students to support Armbian. I have no clue how many actually have, but feedback is that they would like to make a one-time donation and not a 'subscription.' I dig the subscription idea, but I think Armbian should also have a one time donation link even if it only gets …

I'am currently trying to install a desktop version of armbian focal on armbian-config, the only option avaliable is Desktop, but when i install it and reboot, it comes back to console i am running it on ubuntu terminal (Screen), because i can't use my TFT LCD monitor (don't know why either) Anyone had this problem? is there a fix?

I can run device with compatible dtb(but has bug),so I write for myself. But the dtb that I compile can't start. So I want to compile dtb quick and debug. I only know `compile.sh` to build complete img but to slow, How to only compile dtb?(like `make ARCH=arm64 dtbs`)

I have a Banana PI M2 Zero that I am using to run a 3D printer. Unfortunately the USB port puts out 5V, which I need to disable. Is there any way to do this by editing a file or using a script? There are cases where it might be useful but I'd rather have it off permanently if thats the only choice.

Using Orange Pi zero Revision 1.5 loaded with Armbian Buster 21.08 ArmbianMonitor Logs: http://ix.io/3UXu The board is reporting very low temperatures, with htop and when I ssh on the login banner. Temperatures range from 3 or 4 C but also seen -3404C screenshot https://imgur.com/a/SCLVMYl Previously with Armbian 19.11 and kernel 5.4 temperatures were reported normal 33 or 37C I dont overclock and run my SoC from 480 to 960MHz (keeps current and power down). Screenshot of Armbian 19.11 kernel 5.4 and kernel 5.10.4.sunxi temperatures were normal (30 - 37C) Screenshot below: https://imgur.c…

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?

Hey everyone, I'm eyeing the Orange Pi 6 Plus for some edge AI projects, given its 12-core CIX SoC, up to 28.8 TOPS NPU, and massive RAM options (16/32/64GB LPDDR5). Has anyone gotten Ollama running on it with NPU acceleration? Does it support it out of the box, or do you need to convert models (e.g., to INT4/INT8 formats) using custom tools like rkllama or similar? Additionally, with the higher RAM, can it handle bigger LLMs (like 13B+ models) more smoothly than lower-spec SBCs? Any benchmarks or tips on setups (e.g., Ubuntu/Debian installs, frameworks like MLC-LLM)? I'd love to hear real-world experiences—thanks!

Hi, I am not sure but it maybe a bug in the script. After starting device from SD card (it is visible as /dev/mmcblk0 device) I have /etc/fstab as following: root@orangepiplus:/etc# cat fstab /dev/mmcblk0p1 / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0 1 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0 /var/swap none swap sw 0 0 Then I run nand-sata-install script. It is working correctly, but later on it is modifying copied fstab file and content is as following (pls pay attention on /dev/mmcblk1p1): root@orangepiplus:/mnt/rootfs/etc# cat fstab /dev/mmcblk1p1 / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0 1 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid…

Dear all, I'm using Armbian_5.25_Pine64_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.10.104_desktop. The default display resolution of 720p60 is working fine. When I change to full hd with 1080p60 it's working fine. But when I change to 2160p30 in /boot/armbianEnv.txt it isn't working. Even the eth0 isn't working any more, i.e. the LEDs are not blinking and I couldn't connect to the system any more (additional to the fact that the monitor connected to hdmi is also dark). Has anybody been successful with pine64 and 4K with that image or another desktop image? Best regards, Willy P.S.: I also did the FastEthernet fix "ethtool -s e…

I have some DYI idea to make some custom ODBII Logger using SBC with Armbian. So I'm searching for suitable SBC: - quite small (50x50mm max), IoT category I think - with H3, at least 512MB RAM - eMMC at least 4GB, SD Cards support - 1 USB for pendrive - wifi in AP mode, just for ssh and copying small files via scp - second UART, freen 2xGPIO, and nice to have audio line-out also - and the most important: running Armbian in headless mode with booting from eMMC - working DVFS to keep temperature in lower levels, no heat dissipation problems (SBC will mostly work with low cpu usage, but I don't really know how low can be CPU/DRAM clock…

Hello, I have an OrangePi Zero that installed apache2 and PHP 7.0.33-0+deb9u1. I have also a NextCloud server installed. After update of NextCloud to 15.xx, system status shows me a warning about PHP version. I have tried update to newest PHP (7.1 or newer) but there is no newer version than PHP 7.0.33-0+deb9u1 on Armbian repo. Do I have to wait update from Armbian repo or can I update it from PHP's offical releases ?

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

Hi, I follow this steps to build a wireless driver: linux-headers-3.4.113-sun8i headers are installed cd git clone https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git cd rtl8192cu-fixes make ARCH=arm but the build has errors: Spoiler sudo make ARCH=arm make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/3.4.113-sun8i/build M=/home/citofonia/rtl8192cu-fixes modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.4.113-sun8i' LD [M] /home/citofonia/rtl8192cu-fixes/8192cu.o /home/citofonia/rtl8192cu-fixes/core/rtw_security.o: In function `is_multicast_mac_addr': rtw_secur…

Hey folks, The tl;dr version of my question is "is there a way to stop tmpfs from being used for things like /tmp, /run, etc.?" Essentially I have an OPi Zero running PiAware and graphs1090. Graphs1090 is throwing a bunch of images into a folder under /run, which is causing the amount of free space to drop below 16M. As a result, systemctl refuses to restart some services because there isn't enough free space on /run. So...is there a way to disable the use of tmpfs for folders like /run or /tmp? Honestly, I'd rather just take the hit to the SD card rather have to deal with issues like this.

Hi all, I've installed ISPConfig by the "armbian-config" menu I created several sites on my web server installed in debian Buster and ISPConfig 3.1.15p3. I would like to use phpmyadmin to create an independent database at ISPConfig. When I try to start phpMyadmin (http: // myipadresse / phpmyadmin), I get a 404 error message. I found this post: https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/phpmyadmin-404-not-found-debian-9-3-ispconfig-3.78145/ I applied the first line without difficulty (ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf). The second line (a2enconf phpmyadmin) gives me an error again: "ERROR: Conf phpmyadmin does n…

Not related to armbian distribution, just curious. I googled but had no luck to find an answer. For Allwinner SoCs, there is FEL boot tool to download bootloader, kernel and initramfs to ram and to boot the system directly, without writing those stuff onto flash storage and performing a reset; I wonder whether there is a tool to achieve the same function for rockchip SoCs? or we could modify the usbplug and rkdeveloptool to implement the function? or there are any limitations to prevent it? any comments or advices?

Upgrading to the latest Armbian build 5.15.25 on the M2-Zero has caused the camera to stop working. I had a build from https://github.com/Qengineering/BananaPi-M2-Zero-OV5640, and ive seen my camera work with Gstreamer but i now need it to use the hardware encoding. So i used https://wvthoog.nl/nanopi-ov5640-camera/ to enable the Cedrus encoder, but upgrading the devices loses the camera and /video1. There is no /video1, or media1. Ive tried to edit the dts files, build and push them but no luck. Any advice here would be good. I know there are a few topics on here on this subject, but they are all slightly different issues because of the ke…

Hello, I'm running Armbian on a Orange pi one. In htop I found out that the CPU temperature is not correct. So I tried to figure out what happens. The CPU is define not as hot as the value says. For me it looks line that the factor is about 2. I just wanted to inform about it. I can also deliver more information if required and also support to debug... I started the following commands for verification. $ cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp 63809 $ armbianmonitor -m Running unprivileged. CPU frequency will not be displayed. Stop monitoring using [ctr…

Hello, I used to set dram freq at 132mhz on previous kernels, how can I do it now ? Linux nanopineo 5.15.48-sunxi #22.05.3 SMP Wed Jun 22 07:35:10 UTC 2022 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

Hello, starting at Level 0 here. guess I'm just looking for a point in the right direction. want to learn how to install updates. (the short version) the long version is, I spent several hours learning I was burning armbian for my brand new libre H5 onto a Sandisk Xc V2 (oops) to re-read the instructions for the I don't know howmanith time before I noticed the detail about v2 cards are having a hard time being supported. Finally it is up and running I'm happy to say I'm currently using it which is a step in the right direction, but as I am using it to look up youtube videos to update firefox I realize I don't have audio so now I'm down a different path trying …

Good morning, Since last week I do not manage to compile armbian anymore. I checked out commit c1cfd6059bac4ced7f4901e19acc017d1e92d8ba on repo https://github.com/armbian/build.git and launched the following command : compile.sh docker USE_MAINLINE_GOOGLE_MIRROR=yes BOARD=orangepizero BRANCH=current BUILD_KSRC=no RELEASE=bullseye BUILD_DESKTO P=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no ROOTFS_TYPE=ext4 BOOTFS_TYPE=fat COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,img I always get the 'htop' error: E: Failed to fetch http://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt/pool/bullseye-utils/h/htop/htop_3.1.0-0~armbian20.08.2+1_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: …

Hello, dear armbian community. I am using Orange Pi 5 plus, and I want to use kernel-6.16-5-edge-rockchip64 by armbian, as works much better than actual mainline (I have broken HDMI sound, buggy OpenGL, no power profiles) I, however, want to build kernel for different distro (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, aka binpkg-rpm). Where do I get kernel sources to do this? (And is it the right place to ask this question?)

Hi all, digging into the Orange Pi 6 Plus specs for a potential build. Can anyone confirm the M.2 slots (the two Key-M 2280 ones) are PCIe Gen 4 with x4 lanes each? Official docs mention NVMe support but are light on details. I'm curious if this could handle a low-end GPU like an RX 570 (or even lower) through an NVMe-to-PCIe adapter/riser—thinking for light gaming or compute tasks. Has anyone tried eGPU setups on this board or similar ARM SBCs? What about power delivery, drivers, and performance? Running Linux (Ubuntu/Debian probably). Thanks for any insights or benchmarks!

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Ok this sound soooo noob. I have long experience in linux and android development but this is my very first time with SBC, so please be patient I just received my new Orange PI PC plus! I want to install some stable and constantly developed distro for a headless server and I chose Armbian. On http://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/i read that 5.15 bring important update like fixed board auto detection and fixed eMMC install script). BUT I can only find 5.14 on armbian site! So...without compiling it by myself (i want to gather more experience before build it myself), how can i get the latest version? I think I could do something like: 1) instal…

There are python libraries for the raspberry pi that use its dma channels to output pwm on any pin chosen? How do i get PWM out of the allwinner h3? In the allwinner h3 datasheet it says "12 dma channels". thanks in advance.

hy, please help... i cant set up automatic time and date sync via ntp. date is ok, time set GMT in all time, not apply my custom timezone GMT+2... i power on board, set time, is good. i power off board. today good, tomorrow not. tomorrow set again timezone GMT+2 system use UTC, and i cant change it! i try this metod to fix my local time: "cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-2 /etc/localtime" this work to reboot, after reboot restore GMT timezone... I try NTP time sync... ubuntu ntp server not working, and change to for europe.pool.ntp.org Europe NTP Server. Problem with NTP sync is not sync at boot. I try many metod, all wori…

Hello, I've built a new and clean Image for "Armbian_5.34_Bananapipro_Debian_stretch_default_3.4.113_desktop". The network-manager is not running and can not be started. root@bananapipro:~# /etc/init.d/network-manager start [....] Starting network-manager (via systemctl): network-manager.serviceJob for NetworkManager.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status NetworkManager.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. failed! root@bananapipro:~# root@bananapipro:~# systemctl status NetworkManager.service ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/NetworkMa…

Hi everybody: I'm having problems to compile a custom user overlay on ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.18-sunxi. I tried to install linux-headers-dev-sun8i like said on https://www.armbian.com/kernel/, but i receive the folowwing error: Kernel headers are not installed properly. Please install the kernel headers package so, my one option is to install linux-headers-next-sunxi, but as i'm using the stable version the compiled custom user overlay only works if i switch to nigtghly automated builds using armbian-config tool. all help will be welcome. Regards, Mauricio F.

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

Hi there, this might be a dumb question but I've done some searching and haven't gotten any closer to a solution, so, my apologies. I need to connect to my NanoPi M4 over the serial UART because I've made the eMMC unbootable, and I need to tell the board to boot from microSD so I can fix it. I've attempted to do this in both 'minicom' and 'screen' at 1500000 8N1 and the result is the same either way. I can see output from the NanoPi just fine, but when I attempt to send characters, it only displays a question mark imprinted on a square for each character, similar to what I'd expect if e.g. the character was not in my terminal font. It's not just a …

Hi guys, I am going to apply some LibeELEC multimedia patches to Armbian kernel Please advise, what is the proper way for this? I have found folder build/userpatches/kernel/sunxi-current. Should I put files here?

My Orange Pi PC is restarting without apparent reason at random times and wifi and buses are disabled. The last lines of log always say the same: [ 25.644949] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlxf4f26d1c6002: link becomes ready [ 33.781109] vcc3v0: disabling [ 33.781136] vcc5v0: disabling [ 33.781146] usb0-vbus: disabling armbianmonitor link: http://ix.io/2mTA Thanks in advanced

Hi, I'd like to install to USB storage as the eMMC card I have is quite small. As stated in the documentation https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-install-to-emmc-nand-sata-usb It appears to be quite simple but my question is, I already have everything installed and running, with the software I need etc. Will this pose an issue or should I re-flash and do it straight away? Thanks!

I have a Rock64 running the armbian buster 10 OS, and then Running Home Assistant in a Docker. The problem i have is after a period of time the OS puts the Rock64 to sleep or uses power reduction and that drops the Home Assistant , and SSH. This is do not want t happen sice i want the OS running full time and all the time to monitor the Home Assistant and sensors. How do I stop it from going to sleep or into power reduction and have it always available?

I'm a noob... And paid for cyberghostvpn Account. Now i want to run cgvpn on docker. Now i'm running a virtuell Ubuntu on my WindowsPC. But there's a server with can do it. But how? I tryed to config some openvpn images, but nothing works. How can i add my ca.crt, client.crt, client.key and openvpn.ovpn and run it?!? Thanks in advance and please: Not to complicated. Greetins Daniel

I'm running octoprint on my OPI PC and I'd like to buy some cheap usb camera for printing time lapses and visual inspection. FHD resolution is sufficient. As far as I can see, octoprint uses mjpg-streamer. Does someone use such camera? Is H3 capable of process FHD videos at 30fps?

Hi, I'm trying to boot a legacy 3.4 kernel using the current Armbian U-Boot but progress stops after U-Boot starts the kernel. The last line displayed is "Starting kernel ...". I believe the kernel (uImage) is being loaded at 0x48000000 and the script.bin is being loaded at 0x43000000. These values seem correct to me. Does anybody know if booting these old kernels is still supported with newer U-Boot ? I'd like to have one U-Boot that can handle both old and new. Thanks, Steven

I have a mini computer with ubuntu installed, I forgot my system password, how can I restart it? The Mini PC does not use grub, only U-boot I ran the printenv command and I wonder where I should add the variable to be able to change the root password boot_a_script=load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}${script}; source ${scriptaddr} boot_extlinux=sysboot ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} any ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf boot_net_usb_start=usb start boot_prefixes=/ /boot/ boot_script_dhcp=boot.scr.uimg boot_scripts=boot.scr.uimg boot.scr boot_targets=mmc1 mmc0 usb0 pxe dhcp bootargs=storagemedia=emmc androi…

I'm building a multi-zone music streaming setup built around an SBCs running Snapcast/MPD and this MA12070P board (AliExpress link). From the pinout diagrams it looks like the board is the same as the Merus Audio Amp Hat just with a built in USB-C PD supply (why I want to use this board). If it's a clone then it looks like support is in Raspberry Pi OS, but I want to use the Radxa Zero 3W since I can get it at a similar price point with better specs. This is my first embedded project since ~2019 so a bit out of my depth when it comes to device tree overlays. How would I write a DTO to enable audio output to this device?

Every time the device is turned on, I can start hostapd for the first time. When I ctrl-terminate, the next time I start hostapd, I get an error message: Failed to set beacon parameters Interface initialization failed wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED wlan0: AP-DISABLED wlan0: Unable to setup interface. wlan0: interface state DISABLED->DISABLED wlan0: AP-DISABLED wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0

Sorry if I have come to the wrong place. A friend has given me an Orange Pi 5 Plus, fitted with a 1GB SSD, and I have been trying to get it started up. According to its previous owner, the SSD had been completely erased (I don't know why). It had no SD card with it when I got it. I downloaded the online instruction manuals, and set about trying to start it up, using a suitable 32GB SD card. I first tried with (OrangePi) Ubuntu, but ran into problems using Balena Etcher. It apparently transfers the Ubuntu Image to the SD card, but just as it appears to complete the process of verification, it produces a helpful error message ('There was an Error'....). I also tried wi…

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Hi everybody. Recently i needed to grab videostream from external HDMI. I would like to use my Orange Pi One for this. Is it possible to implement and configure an HDMI input?

ENG (GTranslator) Hello friends. I have an Orange Pi Zero v1.1 running perfectly with ARMbian 3.4.113 server and I connect via PUTTY SSH Client. I use the OPI to control a PRUSA Steel 3D printer with the Octoprint program and I am very happy with the results. For reasons of mobility and distance, I came up with the idea of being able to compile Marlin Firmware updates through the OPI Zero. I've searched and everything found is meant to use the Arduino IDE in graphical mode with X-Window. But as you know the ARMbian for the IPO Zero lacks a graphical system and everything moves by terminal. Can you help me with this question? Do you know how to do termi…