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I have a new Tinkerboard S that I have installed Armbian 5.59 on. I am trying to run updates and I am getting this: W: The repository 'http://apt.uk.armbian.com stretch Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: Failed to fetch https://apt.uk.armbian.com/dists/stretch/main/binary-armhf/Packages server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. …

Hi there. I have some audio project on different SOM/SOC boards, now my task is to bring an i2s DAC on RK3399. I use external high-quality clock for i2s and need to make the Rockchip the masterclock slave. This is the case where I find no tail to pull yet, due to VERY cumbersome device tree, poorly documented and poorly explored. For instance, the CPU datasheet says that I2S_MCLK is output only, whilst I could find the opposite in the TRM. Moreover, the clock tree explained there, says that I can use CLKIN_I2S not only for i2s interfaces, but for spdif also! (Also there is explained some "bitclock slave mode", it's even implemented in the DAI driver,…

Hi, First of all i'm NOT a software developer and i have NO one skill on this kind of board's hardware... I've a good soldering skill, so just for fun i've bought a new RAM module for my OrangePi Zero Board... I've bought a K4B4G1646E-BYMA RAM module and then i've replace the onboard module... All of the work gone fine, the OrangePi Zero still boot and work perfectly, but i was hoping to upgrade the RAM on the board... After the boot, in the welcome screen the, the RAM amount is now 512MB (494MB) and before was 256MB... The RAM amount is now increased, but not like expected... I've choose the K4B4G1646E RAM module because, theoretically, it was a 4GB RAM m…

I've tried without and with --no-allow-insecure-repositories and --allow-unauthenticated Cert issue on the remote? ns1@ns1:~$ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease Hit:2 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Hit:3 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease Ign:4 https://apt.armbian.com buster InRelease Err:5 https://apt.armbian.com buster Release Redirection from https to 'http://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt/dists/buster/Release' is forbidden [IP: 173.45.128.12 443] Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'https://apt.armbian.com buster Release' no longer has a …

Hi, Is there support planned for this board anytime soon? I've been using Armbian on my Banana Pi M1 since more than a year ago and I've been thinking of upgrading to a more powerful board and the M2 seems quite nice. Thanks!

Can someone please test this img on Orange Pi Lite. 4gb sd card or larger You can use nmtui to connect to wifi Connect to wifi the point browser to port 5000 of the IP address to see if gui starts and doesn't have any issues. http://x.x.x.x:5000 Thank you for your help. login root password octoprint Full instructions here http://www.cnx-software.com/2017/07/11/how-to-use-octoprint-on-orange-pi-lite-board-amlogic-s905x-and-s912-tv-boxes/

Good morning everyone. I'm unable to connect to a nanopi M1 through ssh, I'm using windows power shell and the network is made with a TP-Link router MR3220, I've looked several guides around there but always is saying "connection reset". I've also checked the IP address wich is allways the same because I used the address reservation feature of the router (of course, there is a fixed MAC address on eth0), when I apply the command ssh -p 22 root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on the uxterm of armbian it shows the shown in the attached image "resulado de usar ssh" and like I said, the answer of power shell is connection reset on port 22 for that server. the ssh_co…

when I tried to install Armbian (Armbian_23.8.1_Lepotato_bookworm_current_6.1.50.img.xz) on my Le Potato, it asked me to enter the desired value of the TZ environment variable when I chose not to set the timezone automatically. however I am confused with what is a valid Posix timezone string. here are my attempts: Please enter the desired value of the TZ environment variable. For example, AEST-10 is abbreviated AEST and is 10 hours ahead (east) of Greenwich, with no daylight saving time. UTC 'UTC' is not a conforming Posix timezone string. Please enter the desired value of the TZ environment variable. For example, AEST-10 is abbreviated AEST and is 10 hours ahead (east…

Hello everyone I own some noname chinese Android stick, which has Allwinner A20 CPU. Unfortunately, long time ago seller cheated me and device has 512 MB ram instead of 1GB (4 gigabit chips..). It has some "Android" firmware (which shows 1GB), but I cannot find nor backup, neither upgrade firmware. Not a big deal, since device not in active use. I tried Armbian Cubeiboard2 and pcDuino3 builds - everything working like a charm, desktop starts, so I want to run sata-nand install for Armbian for legacy kernel - /dev/nand is here, and I can even dump a "backup" of NAND to have it "just in case". Some help is really appreciated (some questio…

I don't have a fiber/fast internet connection, and I get around 200kb/s download speed when I use normal apt or apt-get. But apt-fast accelerates download speeds significantly. I go up to 1MB/s using it (I set max connections option to 16 while installing it, you'll know what I mean when you try to install it using apt-add-repository, of course, if you don't know). So I suggest you to use apt-fast in "armbian-config" or any system utility. This suggestion goes to the developers. So that we (users with no good internet connection) can update the system or install the desktop environment a lot faster and easier.

Ok, so I am bit of a linux noob. I understand the basics, and compiled my first image from source today, and hey it works! What I am trying to do is, build a image that has the packages that I need preinstalled. Packages that I need are(nfs-kernel-server, samba, speedtest-cli, openvpn, and a few other) I tend to muck up my installation quite frequently, as I play around with settings too much. What I had been doing is cloning the sd card with dd, but I am looking for a better more reliable way, that gives a fresh install each time. I didn't know whether I could edit the list of packages that are installed while compiling the image from source. Also, Tha…

Basically my box is a h96 pro + (amlogic s912) and I'm trying to run prime video / netflix, but it is not possible since it is only possible to extract widevine in the arm-32bits version. I searched here on the forum and found nothing about it, so I ask for help.

I am building a kali linux for espreso bin. I used the initrd and kernel from Armbian and I already got it to boot without any problem. However during the boot process, when it is using the ramdisk this warning appears. Warning: fsck not present, so skipping root file system I Would like to be able to check root partition during the boot. How could I add fsck to the ramdisk? I also noticed that armbian buster for espressobin have the fsck present on the ramdisk. On my building script I added the armbian respositories for debian buster and installed: linux-dtb-next-mvebu64 linux-image-next-mvebu64 linux-headers-next-mvebu64 …

Hi! I want to still have original Android in my S905X3 and use some space to Armbian root, but boot can still by SD card. I cant see partitions by fdisk, gdisk or parted. Partitions are managed in DTB?! Thanks.

Hi. Finally have the time to get into this, and find the biggest problem i am having right now is conceptual. What is Softy? Why is it needed? Why is it better than installing from apt with a repository? How is its installed software managed, including updates? Also, I understand that there is no uninstall feature. In which case, how do manage system recovery? Say I install docker and omv and I've set up other bits and pieces like wifi and ssh, then I mistakenly install desktop. I want to uninstall desktop... It looks like I need to bust back down to a clean image and start again. Do wiser heads have a good strategy to handle …

Hi All, Does anybody have a solution to the issue with playing video in Armbian that the MPV on-screen controls (i.e. Pause, Stop and the Timeline) isn't visible in the bottom middle of the video frame? Is there any way to get this back? Does it require a re-compile of mpv, or is this behaviour a result of the All winner undocumented blob based hardware acceleration, dumping pixels straight onto the frame buffer, with little one can do about it. Has anybody compiled mpv from scratch and not had this issue? I notice that when playing video, the video paints over the top of everything - including the mouse pointer. Photo attached with red boxes to highlight…

Hi all i'm trying to boot my Orange Pi bord over the network. For this purpose i'm going to use SPI Flash memory to load bootloader (Uboot). I found a tool named nand-sata-install introduced by Igor. I have read all the script and i'm wondering how much capacity my SPI NAND flash should have. SunXi recommends 2MB (16Mbit) but my bootloader is about 5MB.

Hello! I`m very new on how SBC`s work, and wanna know if there`s some way to fix this situation: My audio is not actually being reproduced via the HDMI connection between my TV and my Orange Pi [Orange Pi 4 LTS]. I took a brief look at the solutions/instructions on the documentation page ((https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/#sound-output)), such as: # Check the available sound output options: pacmd list-sinks | less # The default will be marked with "*" # Press "q" to close # Define the new default sound output pacmd set-default-sink <NAME-OF-DESIRED-OPTION> but i only got this, and as far as i could test…

Hello everyone, Over the past year or so, I've been getting back to my utilite pro board that bought quite a while back. After asking a few things to Compulab, and figuring out some of the bad download links to get their latest resources, I could finally upgrade to their latest Ubuntu build, that was based on 12.04. So not so recent. I am not the most aware user when it comes to arm devices, but a page on the Debian wiki pointed out to running buster on the board. Then, I came across the armbian ecosystem, and thought, well, I'll give it a try. Kudos to the work done. This looks impressive. The past days I've been trying to co…

I've installed the latest Armbian Bookworm Cinnamon desktop image to the EMMC of the Banana Pi M5, but it does not display anything on the HDMI output after startup. Here's what happens when I start the system: - Starts loading the kernel (I can see the startup messages) - Shows the "Armbian" loading screen (with the spinning icon) - Switches back to the startup messages for a bit - Shows a black screen with a single "_" in the top left corner - After a few seconds my screen says that there is "No Signal" The Banana Pi still seems to be running, I can see the lights. Any idea what happens and how to fix it? …

Hello guys I know that this image is still under development and probably there are lots of more important things to do. but this problem bothering me for weeks. I am trying to create a hotspot using rtl8188cus the one in the armbian-config didn't work I have used different methods searching the net now I am using this driver: https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes and the hostapd-realtek which is in apt.armbian.com (the one armbian-config installs) and now I am getting the following error: wlan1: interface state UNINITIALIZED->COUNTRY_UPDATE ioctl[RTL_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Operation not supported wlan1: Could not connect to kernel driver +rtl871x_st…

If you are reading this you've probably discovered that there are a few things about the Orange Pi series of boards that can be frustrating. I know I have been.. I purchased an Orange Pi PC and two Orange Pi Ones anticipating Pi bliss at a fraction of the cost of the Raspberry equivalent. I tried, and tried hard, to load distro after distro of various linux flavors onto micro SD cards with many a blank screen or an aborted boot attempt.. Orange Pi site distros, laboris distros, Armbian distros.. nothing seemed to make a difference. Reading about power supply issues, ornery boot processes, and overscan issues I was really beginning to think this was m…

Getting below error: whereas board is shown connected

Hi all, i've installed Postgresql on my Nanopi M4 V2 board which is running Buster Armbian Linux 4.4.192-rk3399 and it appears to have installed ok but it won't start - there's nothing in the logs and running pg_isready returns no response - any ideas guys

Hi there, I have too many SBCs running Armbian with very recent kernels (even two Raspberry Pi 3B), and I love the consistency of my herd. I will change job next month, and I will at last be able to have a Linux machine as my daily driver... The thing is, I will need Windows too for video editing so that I need to keep it available when needed. I was thinking of Manjaro or Linux Mint for the freshness of their kernels (as the laptop hardware is pretty recent), but I gave a try yesterday at Armbian on x86_64, and it went almost well. I did not go as well as @NicoD's attempt in his latest video, but it is encouraging anyhow. So... Is there anything like…

Hello. I have industrial PC on Allwiner A40i cpu. Manufactor provides support only for Ubuntu 12 with linux 3.10 core. But i want to use newer version of software. Is it real to install Armbian on this hardware? i didnt find any information about this cpu on forum.

Hi basically i am switching from Raspberry pi to orangepi PC. Managed to find armbian which looks way better than raspberry gui! Now my problem is i used raspi-config to set login after POST in CLI in Rpi but in armbian we dont have this config thing and I want to make the system login at CLI then I could either continue to use CLI or go into gui mode by typing startx. Any ideas for this? I have tried systemctl enable multi-user.target but it seems nothing change and I also tried to find the directory of grub but there is none at armbian. Many thanks, Gabriel

Tinker Board S, Armbian 5.75, 4.19.20 I've spent a week now full-time trying to make this busted thing work. The closest I've come is setting everything for roaming. /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf wpa-driver wext iface mercury inet dhcp iface home inet static address 10.2.1.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.2.1.0 gateway 10.2.1.1 #post-up #Schnittstelle automatisch aktivieren auto wlan0 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf # Will automatically select the best network based on the order of netw…

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 looking for a recommendation about a SBC capable of: manage 2 x HGST HTS721010A9E630 (HDD 2,5", 1 TB) offer Gigabit ethernet connection I saw different threads where a mPCI SATA card is used (e.g. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/4845-marvell-based-4-ports-mpci-sata-30/), I don't know if there is a better option. Thanks for any tip, -f

Hi all! I make a board base on H3 CPU, I got a 8G EMMC under mmc2, and a ap6212a chip under mmc1. It boots successfully with the "armbian orange-pi-pc-plus", the emmc works fine while the wifi does not work, so, i changed the dts's mmc1 section based on the file 'sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc-plus.dts' in 'arch/arm/boot/dts/' directory, the mmc1 is changed to as follows: &mmc1 { vmmc-supply = <&reg_vcc3v3>; vqmmc-supply = <&reg_vcc3v3>; mmc-pwrseq = <&wifi_pwrseq>; bus-width = <4>; non-removable; status = "okay"; /* * Explicitly define the sdio device, so that we can add an ethernet * alias for it (w…

I've tried the latest CLI and GUI images. I tried different microSD cards but the result is the same. Both images get to Booting using the fdt blob and never progress. Is there anything I can try to get this working?

Hello, I'm trying to build a image using the amazing auto builder supplied by armbian. In the past I've build kernels and modules for linux running at CycloneV-Devices. I don't need graphic support. If I use the image for a M2 Plus there is a initialization issue at mmc: MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1 Card did not respond to voltage select! mmc_init: -95, time 22 So I'm stuck. Is there a way to get it running by using the auto builder? Using the stock image provided by the manufacturer works. Regards, Sombohan

Hi all, is it possible to flash the a board's eMMC via USB from another PC? I already checked this but could not figure out exactly how. Thanks in advance, kind regards

So I had my OPi Zero 2 running Sonarr and Emby with a mounted shared folder, I have a HDD connected to a USB3.0 router with trasmission on it working great, but all of a sudden 3 days ago it didn't boot, don't know why, yesterday installed bookworm on another sd card, trying to mount my shared folder is giving me the error mentioned on title: dolphinus@orangepizero2:~$ dolphinus@orangepizero2:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.2.2/Descargas /home/dolphinus/Descargas Password for root@//192.168.2.2/Descargas: mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg) It asks me for a passw…

Collected test image with 5.27. When you run "armbianmonitor -m" is not displayed the temperature. It had me at the Assembly get an error or is it a new mode of monitoring ?

Hello, I am using Armbian 21.02.1 Focal with Linux 5.10.12-sunxi (Armbian Focal from https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero/). I use the default logrotate configuration (ratate logs in /var/log) but I have a problem that the /var/log/syslog file is still growing (even if logrotate is run daily). Currently the logrotate process takes place in 3 steps (see /etc/systemd/system/logrotate.service -> [Service] section): 1) ExecStartPre =/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog write (ramlog write files to update log.hdd before rotation) 2) ExecStart =/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf (Logrotate) 3) ExecStartPost =/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog postrotate (r…

Hi, I'm using an Orange Pi PC and i'm having some issues using traffic control. I'm using the correct network interface using the command tc qdisc add dev wlx30b5c214fe58 root handle 1: cbq avpkt 1000 bandwidth 100mbit tc class add dev wlx30b5c214fe58 parent 1: classid 1:1 cbq rate 500kbit allot 1500 prio 5 bounded isolated tc class add dev wlx30b5c214fe58 parent 1: classid 1:2 cbq rate 500kbit allot 1500 prio 5 bounded isolated tc class add dev wlx30b5c214fe58 parent 1: classid 1:1 cbq rate 10kbit allot 1500 prio 5 bounded isolated and i received the error RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory After some reading i saw that is missing 'kernel-modules-e…

Hi. I have a freshly installer Jammy (XFCe) version installed on a Pinebook Pro and after the install run one single update. sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade As part of that upgrade a message appeared to inform me that the existing firefox installion will be replaced by a snap version, apparently standard in Ubuntu now. The installation did not show any errors but if I want to start firefox in the snap version now I get this error: mmw@pinebook-pro:~$ firefox & [1] 3726 mmw@pinebook-pro:~$ /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-c2.scope is not a snap cgroup As this is all still almost out of the box, is the…

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 would like to ask you for help with quotaon.service. I am struggling with it on my nanopi neo2 with armbian. ● quotaon.service - Enable File System Quotas Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/quotaon.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-03-17 20:00:48 CET; 59min ago Docs: man:quotaon(8) Process: 425 ExecStart=/sbin/quotaon -aug (code=exited, status=4) Main PID: 425 (code=exited, status=4) Mar 17 20:00:48 openmediavault quotaon[425]: quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel. Mar 17 20:00:48 openmediavault quotaon[425]: quotaon: using /srv/dev-disk-by-label-HGST7K10001TB/aquota.user on /dev/…

Dear All, I managed to install Armbian on my H96 Max RK3399 box by using the nano-pc-t4 image Armbian Focal, and rockpro64 dtb. I am also able to boot to Armbian Twister OS by using Armbian Reforge u-boot as I mentioned in my previous post: Everything works fine. Even I managed to activate the internal wifi QCA9377 (ath10k_sdio) by installing the Full Armbian Firmware via armbian-config. I also installed the bluetooth module via armbian-config. The buetooth status is active But the bluetooth is not working. $ service bluetooth status ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor…

Greetings, I set up an an armbian build environment, and went through the initial build, which took some time. Subsequent rebuilds took a couple hours as well, and I discovered I could 'skip' rebuilding the kernel unless I wanted to build it. Now, I'm testing customize-image.sh, things aren't always going where I want. so, I troubleshoot, make changes, but now my minimum build time is 30-40 minutes. Is there something else I can do to speed up the process?

The GPIO pins on the Rock64 are very similar to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO, except the Raspberry pi calls pin #19 GPIO 10, pin #21 GPIO 9 and pin #23 GPIO 11. Where as the Rock64's pin #19 is GPIO3_A1, pin #21 GPIO_A2 and pin #23 GPIO3_A0. The Rock64 documentation does say that it is quasi-Raspberry Pi compatible, but it's hard to find anyone who has actually tested this. Here is the GPIO layout of the Rock64, compared to the Pi 3 I'm currently trying to figure out if a display such as THIS can be connected to the Rock64's GPIO pins without any major issues. User documentation for the display can be found HERE on page 2, in the PDF named …

Greetings everyone! I'm having some issues with my Armbian installation. I have an Orange Pi PC 2 (64 bit H5 SoC). I followed the procedure for installing Armbian on my Sd card (reliable one, recently bought as new) using Etcher (so errors won't occur). The SSH daemon works, nmap lists port 22 as open, yet whenever I try to ssh to root ("root@10.42.0.1", where 10.42.0.1 is the IP given by the shared wired network to this connection) even after I wait like 10 minutes or so, it doesn't work (Permission denied). Thing is I don't own a keyboard and a HDMI cable, or UART cable, so I went for this "headless" approach. I know it's possible, but SSH won't …

Hi everyone, have any of you ever used the orange pi GPIO inputs to use as SATA inputs, so you can use HD's? if so, what procedure to take?

I've done a apt-get upgrade on my banana PI running ARMBian. Since then I get every morning this error message via email: /etc/cron.daily/ramlog: Error: ramlog is not running... failed! run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/ramlog exited with return code 110 In release history I can't find any recent changes regarding ramlog. Whats wrong? If I invoke the cron-command manually in SSH, i get this: root@bananapi:~# /etc/init.d/ramlog restart [FAIL] Error: ramlog is not running... failed! If I do simply a start instead of restart, I get this: root@bananapi:~# /etc/init.d/ramlog start [FAIL] Starting ramlog-tmpfs 2.0Error: /var/log is in use... failed! The list of open files: (Y…

Hi, I've two Tinker Board servers running latest Armbian stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 with 4.19.*-rockchip. In that regard, I've connected some HDDs and from the log I see that every day at a specific time all HDDs are spinning up as seen below in the spoiler. This happens for both servers at the same specific time every day.. Spoiler # Server 1 May 13 06:25:26 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sda spinup May 13 06:25:26 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sdc spinup May 13 06:25:26 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sdb spinup May 13 06:35:36 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sda spindown May 13 06:35:45 Tinkerboard hd-idle[29538]: sdc spindown May 13 06:…

Does "orangepi3" also support Orange Pi 3 LTS? The board looks different from the Orange Pi 3 on the download page and has a different number of USB ports.

I’m using the Pine64 2GB Kickstarter’s board with the official LCD, running Armbian 5.25 Pine64 Debian (Jessie) 3.10.104 image. Everything works fine, display in terminal only and touch screen with the desktop. Now I would like to upgrade to the latest stable Armbian version (which on download page is 5.83). However now I can’t enable the LCD, although the download page says: It was a couple years back, I don’t remember exactly, but seems that was the same way I’ve used to enable the screen in old 5.25 Armbian. I’m no Linux kernel developer, but searching through the forum on the topic I found several mentions of “kernel recompile” - is there no other ways …

Hello there, I'm trying to do is read-only system. My system will only work nginx and cron. I do not want to system update. I made some sets available below. Do you think I'm doing all right? apt-get remove logrotate apt-get install busybox-syslogd dpkg --purge rsyslog disable swap /etc/sysctl.conf in ` vm.swappiness=0 ` remove fake-hwlock, install ntpdate update clock boot and every hour rm -rf /var/lib/dhcp/ ln -s /tmp /var/lib/dhcp rm -rf /var/run /var/spool /var/lock ln -s /tmp /var/run ln -s /tmp /var/spool ln -s /tmp /var/lock insserv -r bootlogs insserv -r alsa-utils fstab edit /dev/mmcblk0p1 / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime,data=w…

Because I have updated to Armbian 22.02 with the linux 5.15.25 kernel and I am using the rk3328-nanopi-r2-rev00 device tree, I thought I should share what I have discovered. 1/ I had trouble setting up a one-wire device (ds18b20 temperature sensor). I think the w1-gpio pin assigned in the supplied overlay is messing up access of the SD card. I found some helpful information from this post: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php ... #pid100639 I copied the overlay code, modified it to use GPIO2_A2 (pin 7 on the 26pin header), compiled it and copied the new dtbo file to "/boot/overlay-user/" . Added the "user_overlays=rockchip-w…

Glad to say creating virtual machine and getting Armbian build environment and running ./compile.sh was easy and successful for bananapim1plus / 6.1 kernel / jammy. Created SD card and booted and is running fine. Added DT overlay to enable spidev and got /dev/spidev0.0 as expected. Got new version of cross compiler to build code I formerly ran on fedora image and the SPI driver behaves differently. It pulses CS low for every transfer instead of optionally staying low for multiple transfers based on "cs_change" field in each transfer message. Found kernel source in build/cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree/6.1__sunxi__armhf/drivers/spi, and tried editing there to begi…

Hello, I am trying to copy my system from emmc to sd so i can install my current system on another OP. First problem was that when I am booting from emmc, sd card doesn't show up (fdisk -l). So i gave up on doing it that way and now i am copying to usb flash drive as image so i can re burn to sd and use in second OP I believe the image is going to be the entire 7.3gb of the emmc. Is there an easy way to undo the fs_resize? EG sudo fs_resize -"back to minimal option here" I'm hoping that will make the image smaller. or maybe a dd option? thanks.

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…

Hey guys, I'm trying to find a way to read the values of the LRADC0 and LRADC1 of the A20. Those ADC are usually used for android-style buttons (labeled "VOL+", "VOL-", "MENU", "SEARCH", "HOME", "ESC" and "ENTER") which are connected to a low-resolution ADC via a resistor network. But I want to use the ADC for another purpose and I just need to read values between 0 and 63. Now it seems there is already a driver which let you setup the android-style buttons in the DTS (as can be seen in this patch) But I can't find the code of this driver, which I could use as a template. Any idea how to find the driver ? Or…

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?

Hello, I have a 7 in lcd touchscreen that I would like to use with my 'le potato' board. I have begun using Armbian Le Potato Debian Stretch. I would like to get this working and would explore many options but when it breaks down i have: utilized putty to ssh into my 'le potato' with ethernet on my main router and typed in fbset to reveal... putty ssh screenshot I was curious about other possible options in Armbian like utilizing a config file or converting a .bin file to fex and changing the values. However, I have had no luck in utilizing an hdmi touchscreen besides maintaining usb power and flickering. Would anyone have a method of touchs…

I am using kernel 4.9 built from https://github.com/megous/linux and tried DTB plus/plus2E in a custom distro ,But the ethernet isn't working. ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device route: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable What could be the reason?

Hi! Using mainline on custom A20 board with sch very close to lime2, with 2 differences: (- EMAC of lime instead of GMAC of lime2) - AP6210 wifi/bt module on MMC3 with same schematic as cubietruck. Only difference in AP6210 schematic is that : - we use PE1 for WIFI_Enable instead of PH9. - PE0 for wifi_host_wake instead of PH10. BT works OK. Wifi doesn't work. To test the wifi part, we used cubietruck DTS, only patching the parts about PH9 and PH10. BRCMFMAC load without any messages and iwconfig / ifcongif say there is no wireless card. "dmesg | grep brcmfmac" gives no results. nor "dmesg | gr…

Maybe this is a little off topic but I am researching and trying to find a PCB designer that can design a custom Allwinner board. Does anyone have any great leads for such a freelanser or firm? Any leads are appreciated. I love the platform and want to incorporate the system in a product I am working on but I realize that I will need to modify the board in order to fit my product. Cheers.

Hi guys, I am currently working on backing up my armbian installation. Following situation: boot: sd card file system: nfs root backing up the file system is not an issue, there I am using a rsync logic that transfers only changed files, which works great. The problem is with the boot files. In case of sd card failure I need an image that I can quickly restore to a new sd card, without the whole file system, as it is on nfs root and backed up differently. Now my question is: what is the best way to create an image file with only the boot logic? On Raspbian this is simple, as the boot device is a fat32 partition, but on …

Hi, I have Lime2 with installed last version Armbian. How make I2S interface in slave mode? Need build a new kernel or I2S driver? Any recomendations please... Kind regards

Hello everyone. We have checked the forum extensively but have not found a good answer to our problem. Our system is based on a Orange Pi Zero Plus (512 MB), and it is running nicely. However, after some time, (10 - 15 days from the last boot) or /tmp directory gets full and most of the system is not operational. Only solution we have found for the moment is rebooting the system. This is the output of df -h in one of our systems which only shows 7% usage. This usage figure increases day by day. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 174M 0 174M 0% /dev tmpfs 49M 5…

I have an OrangePi +2E with the latest version of armbian. Yesterday, after a sudo apt-get upgrade, chromium upgraded to 87.0.4280.88 (Build) built on Debian 10.7. After that chromium has become useless: probably the slowest browser ever. In case you ask: I've removed all the extensions and uninstalled the browser and then installed again. nothing changed. The older version worked just "fine" (relative to what an orange pi can offer in terms of performance, of course) Is this the end of internet browsing on armbian?

Hello! This thread here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3728-varlog-varloghdd/ triggered the question in me how I could extend the log2ram. My problem is the following: I have installed syncthing. The default in armbian runs it as root - which is not recommended for syncthing, see here: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/running-syncthing-as-root/6316! So I downgraded the syncthing daemon to a standard user account "syncthing". In order to enable a non-root user to write logfiles it's common practice to create a subdir /var/log/syncthing/ and give it write rights for syncthing. This works, however my logfiles stay completely empty! Never…

Hello, is there any system for this trash? : < I've probably searched everything Thanx!

Suddenly after updating via armbian-config I lost ssh access and found the port closed. I rewrote the latest armbian version, stuck the sd card in, connected to ethernet cable via router and started up. The red and green lights were on as they should be and the internet cable was flashing green. Waited 3 minutes and checked the ports with nmap. And the port is closed again. Not responding to ping at all. I am still new to this topic. Please help and sorry if the translator translates crookedly.

Looking in the forums for a few days and reading up on a lot of stuff, I got the zero to boot from spi and USB, fairly easy once you got the right commands, and replacing "linux-u-boot-next-orangepipc2_5.34_arm64" with the version on the image for the board. The I tried NFS shares and that worked fine to, but now I want to boot directly from another server, providing different folders for each board that I have and use spi for the boot. The reading the forum again to find out more about NFS booting, and mostly found this "hurray I got it to work" then kind of leaving the rest of us hanging there thinking HOW??? I was then reading about uboot and fo…

Hello! I have Firefly Station P2 (I use this images - https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/rk3568/) And everything is OK except for one problem: I can't see NVM disk when booting kernel 5.X, 6.X. Yet on kernel 4.X I can see nvm. Please help, what should I do to use nvm with 5.X kernel? Some output: root@station-p2:~# uname -r 6.0.0-rc4-media root@station-p2:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.8G 0 disk mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 14.7G 0 part /var/log.hdd / mmcblk1 179:32 0 29.1G 0 disk mmcblk1p1 179:33 0 28.8G 0 p…

After installing Armbian_23.2.1_Rock-5b_bookworm_legacy_5.10.160_xfce_desktop.img I found a nagging error each start of Firefox. "Failed to read the configuration file. Please contact your system administrator." Looking at internet with Google I found hardly any link referring to linux or armbian, therefore I still don't know which configuration file was actually missing or damaged. The only link I found with armbian in it contained some very obscure editting of some configuration files (just like many proposed Windows solutions). The issue: where does it go wrong? The problem is some configuration clutter somewhere in /usr/lib/firef…

Hi everyone! I am using https://github.com/armbian/build to prepare my own images for orange pi boards. I have a board (orange pi pc) which one I want to use in the my car KIA, and I have touch screen for that. I enabled splash screen, but there is default boot splash, I want to replace it on my custom. Can somebody give me some tips where I can do it, please. I want to make own custom multimedia system for the my car based on orange pi (for begin) and armbian, also I want to use own custom boot splash for that. Thanks

He forum members, I try to install telegraf on my R2 running armbian bullseye: # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=bananapir2 BOARD_NAME="Banana Pi R2" BOARDFAMILY=mt7623 BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=git@github.com:armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=aec64805a DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=bullseye DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported VERSION=21.08.1 LINUXFAMILY=mt7623 ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=csc INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image BRANCH=legacy I can install influxdb via apt install influxdb without problems, but can't install telegraf that is part of influxdb (E: Unable to locate package telegraf) So I …

Is anyone else running their build environment in a VM? Specifically hosted by QEMU? I'm running into some strange things, and wondering if anyone has seen it. I'm running an Ubuntu (20.04) in a VM using QEMU as the hypervisor. Basically, the build generally works fine. However, as I add more features/processes to the customization script, I am starting to see segmentation faults. I see this with sudo and when I try to git pull something. This is what I get: qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped Segmentation fault (core dumped) I got here by dumping into a bash script from 'customize-image.sh', so it'…

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

Board: ODROID HC4 Kernel: 6.12.42-current-meson64 Issue: PWM fan control completely non-functional despite software appearing to work Problem Summary: The HC4's PWM fan runs at constant speed regardless of PWM settings. Manual PWM control has zero effect on fan speed, even when setting PWM to 0 (fan should stop/slow) or 255 (full speed). What I've Tried: Hardware Testing: Verified fan wiring with schematic (Pin 1=+5V, Pin 2=GND, Pin 3=TACHO, Pin 4=PWM) Tested with Noctua NF-A4x10 5V PWM fan (confirmed working on other systems) Swapped PWM/TACHO wire positions - no change Software Testing: Manual PWM …

First of all sorry for the newbie's question. I compiled a kernel with custom configuration to use this instruction: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ OS: Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 x64 apt -y install git git clone https://github.com/armbian/build cd build ./compile.sh \ BOARD=orangepizero \ BRANCH=default \ BUILD_DESKTOP=no \ KERNEL_ONLY=yes \ KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes After the kernel build is complete, the output directory contains output/config linux-sun8i-default.config output/debs /extra armbian-config_5.99_all.deb armbian-firmware-full_5.99_all.deb armbian-firmware_5.99_all.deb linux-headers-sun8i_5.99_armhf.deb linux-image-sun8i_…

I have a brand new install of Armbian 20.05.4 trying sudo armbian-config to enable overlayroot and getting sed: can't read /etc/overlayroot.conf: No such file or directory is that a feature of a bug? would touch /etc/overlayroot.conf be a proper work around or is something more expected of me to enable overlayroot?

Hello! I have Armbian running on a Lime2. It runs from the microSD. The board has eMMC and I have also connected a SATA SSD through USB because I would like to move the system to the SSD. I have tried doing so through the nand-sata-install.sh script but it always shows the following message: There are no available partitions. Please create them. I get that message no matter if I choose to have the boot partition on eMMC or on microSD. And I don't know much about partitions. What partitions should I create? Where should I create them? How should I create them? Thank you!

Hello, Like it happened to @Grogorio in 2016, I need to introduce a boot delay on my OrangePi Zero Plus (Armbian 23.02.2 Focal) to allow time for other network elements in my setup to boot. As per what I have read somewhere, this can done by adding a 'boot_delay=n' line in /boot/config.txt, however I don't see this file in Armbian; I've also tried to add the line, but it does not seems to be working. Furthermore, the max delay that can be setup there is 10 seconds, but I need a longer delay. Can someone help? TIA

Hello, Armbian community, I've been trying to build the Armbian kernel for my board "Orange Pi 5" with the rbd (RADOS Block Device) module enabled. I followed the standard build procedure using Armbian's build tools, and I explicitly enabled the rbd support during the menuconfig step. Despite doing this, after completing the build and installation processes, I'm unable to load the rbd module. When I attempt to load the module with modprobe rbd, I get the following error: modprobe: FATAL: Module rbd not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.160-rk35xx Here are the steps I followed: 1. Cloned the Armbian Build Repository. 2. St…

The following issue occurs on kernel 4.13.9. I haven't tested any other version, but martinayotte commented it wasn't happening on 4.11 Helo, If you installed a brand new image you'll notice that there's an I2C device by default which shows inexistent devices, like: root@orangepione:~# i2cdetect -y 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 30: 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 50: 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5a 5b 5c 5d 5e 5…

Hello, I am running a Cubietruck with Armbian 21.08 Buster. I wonder if this can be upgraded to 22.02. The usual apt update apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade does not install any new packages. However I see e.g. the deb files for the kernel are existing in http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/armbian-apt/pool/main/l/linux-5.15.25-sunxi/ and also http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/armbian-apt/dists/buster/main/binary-armhf/Packages contains the new packages. The kernel is NOT set to freeze in armbian-config. Also that tool does not offer the new 20.02 packages. I seem to overlook something here. What prevents the installation (my apt skill are obviously limited...). …

I've heard people say that the Orange Pi is a "budget alternative" to the Raspberry Pi. On one hand, the Raspberry Pi has an excellent community, with a large user base that could really help you in your learning journey. On the other hand, the Orange Pi offers great value for money, and it's really tempting because the Raspberry Pi can be a bit pricey. What's your suggestion?

There is a syntax error in the default created file. # armbian-config created source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # Local loopback auto lo iface lo init loopback # Interface eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 no-auto-down eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp That's on stretch or jessie.

I have an orange pi lite, I want to use the lcd ili9341 3.2 model SKU: MSP3218 touch screen, and how the installation connections I don't know are these jumpers wires in the gpios correct and if possible use the sd card reader in the orange pi uart? I need your help. I be very grateful. The OS is "Armbian_20.02.0-rc1_Orangepilite_buster_current_5.4.14_desktop"

So, back again. I keep seeing the ethernet connection dropped. When logging in by USB the login reports IP <blank> (see picture). I saw this previously (see full set of traumas here https://organicmonkeymotion.wordpress.com/category/orange-pi/). Happens now on freshly burnt image using Etcher. Ran for two days. The problem also manifested using an image burnt with WIN32DiskImager so we can discount any FS corruption assumptions - the Etcher burn reported no errors. Call it "Phantom Ethernet" in honour of Screaming Jeeby - that is the board is haunted wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…

ntpdate can not ajust time when date is in the future? root@home:~ $ ssh 192.168.100.3 Last login: Sun Apr 3 22:05:19 2016 from 192.168.100.2 root@orangepione:~ $ date Thu Jul 8 21:37:42 EEST 2032 root@orangepione:~ $ ntpdate 128.100.100.128 8 Jul 21:37:59 ntpdate[1553]: Can't adjust the time of day: Invalid argument after setting date in the past ntpdate works .... root@orangepione:~ $ date Sat Jan 1 02:06:23 EET 2000 root@orangepione:~ $ ntpdate 128.100.100.128 5 Apr 00:23:40 ntpdate[1716]: step time server 128.100.100.128 offset 513119826.859864 sec here something similar ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1526264 BUT wit…

Hello everyone, I'm using SBC Rockpi4b running the Armbian system. I encountered a problem when using the Ethernet port. I connected the SBC to my laptop via an ethernet cable directly, just like what I did with the RaspberryPi. while playing with RaspberryPi (Raspbian OS) I can get the ethernet connected, the ip address is set to 168.254.xxx.xxx, i.e., private address. then I can successfully ping the RaspberryPi's ip address in my PC. while playing with the SBC (Armbian OS), the network manager seems to keep waiting a DHCP server repeatedly; and after a while (around 40 seconds) it pops up saying the ethernet disconnected; the only way I can make it connected is to set…

Hi i'm interested in buying an orange pi , i'm interested in running linux and android and the use is for some gaming, using for facebook internet etc. Questions i like to have some help. 1 - Can i run games like gangstar vegas, gta San andres , the orange pi is good for this type of games on android or i have problems it temperature? And i know for this type of use the orange pi needs a coler. 2- I'm a beginer in linux it's easy to install and run some software that i can use for some works? 3 - In daily are much difference if i compare a orange pi and a android box? Thank you for all your help, and remember i'm beteween orange pi or a androi…

Hi, I run a wireguard server in my home. I have a Mac and a couple of iOS devices that can successfully connect to the server, my internet traffic is routed via the home wireguard server and I can access devices in my home network using an address like 192.168.178.200. No problem. Now I want to connect my cubitruck running Armbian Ubuntu 18.04 to my home network. I created a similar configuration as for all of the other devices, wireguard connects after I say `wg-quick up $configname`, with `ip a` I can see a new interface with an IP that corresponds to my configuration, there is a route set (Dst 10.9.0.0 -> Iface $configuration_wg0) BUT …

I just released Armbian Focal Desktop MAINLINE images for Khadas VIM3 Pro. These are individually, pure arm64 and hybrid arm64/armhf variations. Thanks go to @lanefu for key pointers in understanding how to "re-arm" the firstboot and firstboot-config mechanism in current-state Armbian. Please offer feedback and experiences if you test these. The images are currently hand-built, but if enough interest is generated, and time permitting, I will commit to a git fork for an unsupported standard building process. I have more detail on the distribution site at archive.org, and in the corresponding posts to the Khadas forums: …

Dear Community, I want to build a custom FirmWare for Banana Pi M2 Berry, im currently using the BPI-M2-Ultra Firmware, cuz no BPI-M2-Berry FirmWare exist. What do I need for building for my SBC(BPI-M2-Berry) ? I want to use my SBC as a LTE-Router/ Mesh-Repeater and want to pre-install some necessary packages, the device need. I want to build a Dashboard for Administrate the Device. Maybe I'll use electron + reactjs, or would it be better to use php for it? Greetz BlackLeakz

Hi Guys: I have been trying to write a custom overlay to use gpio-poweroff. I'm using ARMBIAN 5.37.180106 nightly Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 4.14.11-sunxi. Attached is the gpio-poweroff.dts file that i wrote and even as it compiles with sudo armbian-add-overlay gpio-poweroff.dts and it is added to the last line on armbianEnv.txt like user_overlays=gpio-poweroff, it doesn't work. On boot, it shows: Applying user provided DT overlay gpio-poweroff.dtbo failed on fdt_overlay_apply() FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND Error applying DT overlays, restoring original DT All the other other overlays ilke i2c0, uart3 works perfeclty. Any…

Hello Everybody: I'm having problems to create and save a new partition to eMMC on BPI M2Ultra board. As you can see on the attachd image below, the fdisk -l command, list the mmcblk1 with the right size (7.3 GB), them, i start creating a new partition (n command) and writing the partition table (w command), but once created the new partition never gets to the disk, and a new fdisk -l command shows the disk like it was before. Of course, whithout a partition i can not format the eMMC and can not use nand-sata-install. This doesn't happen with bananapi original images as there was no issue to create the partition and save it to the disk …

Not sure how much truth there is in this as I haven't had time to follow up on the sources, but interesting if true! http://www.open-electronics.org/the-raspberry-pi-3-gets-seriously-hot-clocking-up-to-100-c/

Hello, I've fairly new to ArmBian and as I'm trying to setup a cluster of Rock64's, I'm wondering if there's any support for using cloud-init (user-data) to be able to setup a board on boot? Thanks!

Hi All! Can anyone help me about rotate de ArmBian logo in startup splash screen? I am working with LCD Display and I want change the logo rotation to portrait mode. Orange Pi PC and Armbian_22.05.1_Orangepipc_focal_current_5.15.43_xfce_desktop.img.xz. Display - 7" HDMI Display 1024 x 600

After downloading and installing (legacy ubuntu trusty) v 4.5 and doing apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (to v4.6) I ran nand-sata-install to boot and run from nand, my board won't boot because of script is invalid and unable to parser boot.ini. I still can boot from my SD-card the following information is displayed boot0 version : 1.5.0 dram size =1024 Succeed in opening nand flash. Succeed in reading Boot1 file head. The size of Boot1 is 0x00056000. The file stored in 0X00000000 of block 2 is perfect. Check is correct. Ready to disable icache. Succeed in loading Boot1. Jump to Boot1. [ 0.177] boot1 version : 1.5.0 [ 0.177] pmu type = 3 […

I am trying to auto login to Armbian 21.08.2 on an AML-S905X-CC I have found this link on the forum, but I am not following what I need to do to skip the login. forum.armbian.com/topic/16788-auto-user-login/ Any help would be appreciated.