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Hi Guys, I have recently been contracted to a new project where I have moved out of my comfort zone (embedded 8-bit/32-bit uC) and have started my work on a H3 based device (currently NanoPi Neo) with Armbian. Over the course of my work I have managed to get up to speed with the basics; configuration, scripting, hardware and interfaces and device trees to a point where I can now work on the device as a proof of concept. The work that has been contributed so-far to the armbian project is impressive as is the active and knowledgeable forum - to which I hope I can contribute. One element which I cannot find an easy solution to is one of remo…

I use 5.32 dev on NanoPi NEO: $ uname -a Linux watchdev 4.11.5-sun8i #11 SMP Fri Jun 23 20:03:23 CEST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux I use NFSv4 and autofs. The number of "[NFSv4 callback]" processes increase each time a volume is mounted, and does not decrease when un-mounting: # ps axwww |grep -i nfsv4 | grep -v grep 1478 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] 1501 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] 1515 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] # umount /storage/motion # ps axwww |grep -i nfsv4 | grep -v grep 1478 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] 1501 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] 1515 ? S 0:00 [NFSv4 callback] # ls /storage/motion backup…

Hello, I tried to apply the patch https://github.com/lintweaker/xmos-native-dsd/blob/master/SRPMS/patches/kernel/0001-usb-Add-native-DSD-support-for-Amanero-Combo384-LE.patch in armbian build for orange pi pc and banana pi pro. Neither works. Attached is the error message. Grateful for any help, thanks!

Hello, MTK have launced a MT7623 based SOC with the interesting BPI-R2 smart router board : http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r1-bpi-r2-smart-router-board-comparison-20170612/3390 I am quite enthusiastic about the hardware build features, like network acceleration, QoS and ipsec in this SOC. Will you build an image for thet board? Regards, Serge

Currently on the latest version of armbian I am experiencing high background internet data usage. I am limited to a 50MB plan which works fine with other devices, but seems to not be enough for more than 10 days on this distro. I have tried disabling all periodic checks for updates, but I am still seeing high data usage. Any ideas on where these might be coming from? I can provide a wireshark PCAP if needed.

Shall we go back with sunxi and cubox NEXT to 4.9.x and push update out since: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/4254-cryptdisks-fail-with-new-kernel-41012/#comment-31614 https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/4498-no-network-after-upgrade-to-530/&page=4#comment-33710 Any other critical thing?

Current situation with WIP/EOS boards: ➜ armbian % find lib/config/boards -name '*.wip' -o -name '*.eos' | xargs grep BETA_TARGET | grep -v '\"\"' lib/config/boards/orangepiprime.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepiprime.wip:DESKTOP_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepipc2.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepipc2.wip:DESKTOP_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/lamobo-r1.eos:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:next" lib/config/boards/nanopineo2.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepizeroplus2-h5.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/config/boards/orangepiwin.wip:CLI_BETA_TARGET="xenial:dev" lib/…

Now that Debian stable has moved from Jessie to Stretch, what would it take to move the Debian branch of Armbian to Stretch? Would it break anything if I just s/jessie/stretch/g in /etc/apt/sources.list and do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?

Hello, I'm tempted to load the Siano Mobile Silicon driver (TV adapter) into the Orange Pi PC more I'm not getting. I have performed the following procedures already: I put it in the / lib / firmware folder: isdbt_rio.inp I configured the smsmdtv.conf file (options smsmdtv default_mode = 4) in the /etc/modprobe.d/ folder I installed firmware-siano-rio_1.0_all.deb (sudo dpkg -i firmware-siano-rio_1.0_all.deb) Has anyone already set up the siano drive on linux? Thank you very much

Hi!I already compile new kernelArmbian_5.27_Orangepipc_Debian_jessie_dev_4.11.3.imgUSB and networks work fine, but button power off dont wokrItry toacpi_listenBut no change (acpid version (1:2.0.23-2)Thank you! Please help!

I've migrated the patches from sunxi-next into sunxi-dev ! https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/20240e9669055030076e69452cf6a1ccb368cc2e Unfortunately, during my migration of my 3x Olimex-A20-Micro boards, I've faced strange hangs during Armbian Filesystem Resize service. One of the boards, I wait 5 mins, but service was still hanging/looping. I've have then press reset button, reboot, automatic fsck, then resize Ok ! So, can other A20-Micro owner can confirm ? ...

Hello, First please excuse me for being not learned enough to do it without asking stupid questions. Here is my goal: Build Armbian (debian jessie) image with some packages included into it, include some web content and scripts into image, run my own script at firstboot to configure apache/mysql etc. So everything to start working out of the box after first boot. I read a little and saw userpatches/customize-image.sh is responsible for custom configuration, but got no idea how to proceed further. For example if I want to install mariadb what should I do? apt-get install mariadb (it says this file was executed in chroot environment) …

I was doing some testing and it looks latest u-boot is broken for Allwinner H3 (no boot), A20 (Banana no network), I assume A10 too. There was some RFC upstream, but I did not go further into details ... Shall we rather rollback to 2017.03?

IMO this needs to be discussed separately, not in this (Banana Pi M2 Ultra) thread.

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/armbian/u-boot-sun50i Cloning into 'u-boot-sun50i'... remote: Counting objects: 104, done. remote: Total 104 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 104 Receiving objects: 100% (104/104), 15.69 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (60/60), done. Submodule 'arm-trusted-firmware' (https://github.com/apritzel/arm-trusted-firmware.git) registered for path 'arm-trusted-firmware' Submodule 'u-boot' (https://github.com/apritzel/u-boot.git) registered for path 'u-boot' Cloning into '/home/samuel/u-boot-sun50i/arm-trusted-firmware'... remote: Counting objects: 17522, done. remote: Total 17522 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pac…

For who is interested in the dwmac-sun8i driver for Ethernet on the Orange Pi H3 family. It is an alternative driver for sun8i_emac driver. I have good results with it. No multicast problems and 24x7 uptime ( no RX errors). The maintainer Coretin mailed me today about an update. Tommorrow version v6 will be updated.

Hi, I am working on H3 based Nano Pi Neo board. my task is to enable audio and kernel version is 4.4. I tested Armbian image, Audio is working fine(good) and capture working too. Enabled sun4i-codec.c (which has h3 support). I struck with major problem. I am unable to write AC registors(physical address: 1c22c00) but i can read them using readl. writel is not showing any effect on register. I enabled audio_pll, codec clock, bus codec gate registers and reset deasserted. I have cross-checked H3 datasheet for clock tree. Everything looks fine. why writel is not working?? any suggestion.?? help me. …

Need uinput module to use with tslib but "nanopineo 4.11.0-sun8i" doesn't seem to have it, neither static linked to the kernel or as a dynamic module. What am I missing? Thank you

What's the FDT_NO_SPACE error? U-Boot SPL 2017.05-armbian (May 19 2017 - 04:11:50) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.05-armbian (May 19 2017 - 04:11:50 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 38518 bytes read in 162 ms (231.4 KiB/s) Unknown command 'bmp' - try 'help' switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3559 bytes re…

Should we use Mutex to prevent writing on same file / device by 2 or more threads? Any alternate suggestion? Nbird

Greetings. Trying Armbian on this board instead of using the usual Buildroot mechanisms. Thanks for the project. Armbian repo cloned etc as per https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/. Ran ./compile.sh which updated various things. Selected the 4.x development version of the kernel, and Debian Jessie, then server option, then things fired up but failed attempting to apply the u-boot config file. nanopi_m1_defconfig is definitely missing. That defconfig is definitely not present in the u-boot repo I use with buildroot. What have I missed here? TIA Jerry [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] …

'Upstream' the idea to ship OS images with Firefox/Iceweasel has been dropped in the meantime due to horribly low performance in favour of chromium-browser. As far as I understood that's partially related to firefox acting single threaded (while Chromium uses all CPU cores). Here's longsleep's latest config and the mostly accepted 'fix' for Chromium complaining about running insecure due to missing sandboxing is disabling exactly this. (that's Hardkernel's method to 'fix' Chromium on ODROID-C2). Users will be happy with a fast(er) browser not throwing annoying error messages at them they click away without reading them anyway and surfing the web on Pinebook wi…

Hello, i was wondering, how Armbian images are different compared to official orangepi images available on their webiste? clearly, orangepi official images are not well maintained or regularly updated, but what's armbian policy here? are official images using proprietary drivers that armbian doesn't? for example, mali450 (on H5) for armbian is not available, is it the same on official images? what the difference? avoiding non-free software?

Any idea how to make this u-boot compiler tool chain mess a bit human / armbiantoolchain friendly? http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_K2

Hi all, please be aware that Pine folks in the meantime understood that recommendations to use WinDisk32Imager, dd and other non verifying burning tools are wrong, tried to recommend Etcher instead (as usual sabotaged by at least their most famous forum moderator) and now use finally a 'branded' Etcher 2.0 beta: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4481&pid=27520#pid27520 I don't think it's correct to do it this way (and at least the macOS application sucks since not digitally signed and using a wrong so called 'bundle identifier') but anyway. Let's take this for a foresight. Etcher 2.0 uses catalog files in such a way: http:…

Where I can read the changelog about the last armbian release 5.27? Github shows only 5.24 https://github.com/armbian/build/releases and on the docs 5.25 https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/

Since I've been asked recently why Armbian doesn't ship with F2FS by default I thought let's have a look again what to gain from F2FS (a filesystem specially designed for use with flash media by Samsung few years ago). For a history of F2FS discussion please use the search function: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/search/&q=f2fs Armbian fully supports F2FS partitions for a long time now but we don't provide OS images with F2FS for a couple of reasons: F2FS still doesn't support resizing so our default installation variant (ship with a minimized rootfs that gets resized on first boot automagically to the size of SD card / eMMC) wouldn't wo…

Now that I've done builds for NanoPiM1Plus2 and BananaPiM2Plus, along with the previous series OPiZeroPlus-H3/OPiZeroPlus-H5/OPiWin/OPiPrime, and that all of those boards has the same symptoms of missing AP6212 (+/- some have mmc-sdio appear, some not), I've continue my search for hints. To my discovery, I found the following quote in http://linux-sunxi.org/Sinovoip_Banana_Pi_M2%2B I hope that is not true any more ...

To help diagnose the issues I'm facing with AP6212 with other boards, I've decide to build an image for the newly received NanoPiM1Plus. It produced the following image : Armbian_5.27_Nanopim1plus_Debian_jessie_dev_4.10.11.img I've plugged an USB-TTL on the board, it booted until the login prompt. Trying the usual root/1234 failed, looking at FriendlyArm site, although I'm not using their image, but an Armbian freshly built, I've try their passwd : root/fa It logged ... looking for AP6212 traces, I've seen some "bcmsdh_sdmmc_probe" ... Doohh ? I did "uname -a" : again, Doohh ? : Linux FriendlyARM 3.10.65 #4 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 24 11:…

@Igor, I started a new topic because is more clear. I compiled with the last files in your github and remove the ".disabled" of the file 30-real-time143-full-plus-rt-fixes.patch . I choose the option 5 (full real time) but crashes. I attach the screen of the error. I compiled two times. One in lubuntu 16 and other in Ubuntu 16. The error is the same. Very Thanks!!!

I've added new patches for OrangePi-ZeroPlus and commited them. Like for OPiPrime done yesterday, the OrangePi-ZeroPlus WiFi still not working. I don't know why yet, although is more encouraging than OPiPrime, since at least the driver comes up in "lsmod" in the OrangePi-ZeroPlus, while for the Prime it didn't. Also another issue : OrangePi-ZeroPlus has an eMMC, I was able to do "nand-install-sata", but I'm unable to boot from it, although the MMC2 DT is part of U-Boot, for some reasons, it doesn't scan it.

Some of you probably saw that I added recently the OrangePi-Prime to the build process. Unfortunately, I'm still struggling to get the WiFi. It is even worst than the WiFi issue still present on OrangePiWin. For the OrangePi-Prime, even the DT doesn't process the WiFi entries, and the mmc1 is still "disabled" in /proc/device-tree at boot time. The strange thing is that if I load a small overlay to change the mmc1 status to "okay", the kernel start processing it. But, unfortunately, I'm seeing "sunxi-mmc 1c10000.mmc: no support for card's volts" error, although I didn't found obvious errors in vqmmc-supply setting of mmc1. I will have to dig f…

Hi all, I'd like to compile latest kernel 4.11-rc7, so i added KERNELTAG="v4.11-rc7" to ./compile.sh and created file /userpatches/lib.config and added KERNELBRANCH="4.11" to it i also added to /lib/configuration.sh according to documentation ARMBIAN_MAINLINE_KERNEL_VERSION='4.11' # lock in a particular kernel version but i get this error : [ o.k. ] Using user configuration override [ userpatches/lib.config ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ u-boot v2017.03 ] [ .... ] Up to date [ error ] ERROR in function fetch_from_repo [ general.sh:184 ] [ error ] Error in configuration [ o.k. ] Pr…

When trying to build my own image for Orange PI Win using Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 x64 on VirtualBox i am getting a bunch of messages like below CC spl/drivers/block/blk_legacy.o In file previous definition from include/configs/sunxi-common.h:22,UNXI_TVE0_BASE 0x01c0a000 from include/configs/sun50i.h:28, from include/config.h:5, from include/common.h:21, from drivers/block/blk_legacy.c:8: …

Hi There. I'm working on connecting the screen to Roseapple Pi. I got patches for kernel and u-boot, added it to userpatches, but it didn't work. After I touched dts up with these patches, but unfortunately it didn't work. I use these patches. Kernel diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/actduino_bubble_gum.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/actduino_bubble_gum.dts index 65551f3..80142ad 100755 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/actduino_bubble_gum.dts +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/actduino_bubble_gum.dts @@ -1084,15 +1084,59 @@ status = "disabled"; }; - dsi: dsi@b0220000 { - status = "disabled"; + dsi: dsi@b0220000 {…

I found various information from various places about running minimal egl programs on the OrangePi. Suggesting I need to do things such as modify various .fex's, etc. http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=53 However, I can't seem to find anything that's up-to-date, and much less one that doesn't rely on X to run. And, I'd really like to avoid a dependency on X. 1) Is the most up-to-date userspace driver still https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-mali I find it hard to believe that that is right considering its age. It is also referenced here: http://linux-sunxi.org/Mali_binary_driver. In addition, no mali modu…

I just got a copy of the dev branch armbian comipled (2017-04-10). I'm here with the grand goal of getting libsurvive running with the HTC Vive on the Orange Pi. In order to do this, I need to coax the OrangePi to output to the vive. I was skeptical at first, but it appears you guys support 4k@30, so it should be okay on the pixel-clock front. The vive is 2160x1200@90Hz. You can't underclock it. Just won't go then. It's sadly the only mode the thing supports. I've seen shreds and bits here and there of information about how to do this, but, it seems that most of it is out-of-date for the "dev" branch. Any hints on how I can get the OrangePi to output as per …

Hello everybody, I have a loftq of Mixtile at home for 2 weeks and try to install linux since that time. The Howto of Mixtile I have tried with the Mainline Kernel I get the error message pxelinux.cfg Timeout of several different files. If I use the legacy kernel I get no error handling it stops only after the message Linux kernel. I took the Armbian desktop version of Bananapi M2 and copied my * .dtb file with into the dtb folder in the directory boot. Here I get also the message startin Linux kernel but then the monitor is black. Can you help me please? Many Thanks.

Hello i successful compile kernel for my chinese tablet and work but usb host no work. # modprobe g_ether modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'g_ether': No such device I use this configuration in kernel: https://pastebin.com/gWJWtRav i use base image cubieboard 1 legacy, script.bin for A13-SOM and uboot from archlinux uboot-a13-olinuxino-2017.01-2-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz .. Work: Wifi Realtek RTL8188CUS Nand read/write sdcard Audio jack 3.5 No tested/No know: LCD no can test at broken. Touch Guddix GT811 how to test? HYM8563S Real Time Clock (I2C). how to test? MMA7660FC 1.5 g 3-Axis Accelerometer (I2C…

Hi guys, do you have idea why boot stopped? Check log below please. It was build about 25minutes ago but about 1 week younger build was working. U-Boot SPL 2017.03-armbian (Apr 03 2017 - 19:48:42) DRAM: 256 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.03-armbian (Apr 03 2017 - 19:48:42 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero DRAM: 256 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment Setting up a 720x576i composite-pal console (overscan 32x20) Error: no valid bmp image at 66000000 In: serial Out: vga Err: vga Net: phy interface0 eth…

Hello, I'm trying to upgrade Armbian on my little OrangePi Lite, and it's been 3 days at it already. It is stuck at "Compiling headers", and it is not hung, I can use it. It does happen from time to time to all my SoCs, sometimes I prefer to re-dd and reconfigure. So I was thinking, if compilation cannot be avoided, can it be done on another computer? Cross-compile?

I'm trying to turn on the SPDIF transmitter in the H3 mainline kernel (v4.10). To do this I'm copying sun4i_spdif.c from sunxi-next kernel (spdif marked as working starting from kernel v4.11) and make some changes in .dts files for OrangePi PC: diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts index 90a767f..29980a8 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts @@ -91,6 +91,24 @@ gpios = <&r_pio 0 3 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>; }; }; + + sound { + compatible = "simple-audio-card"; + simple-audio-card,name = "On-board SPDIF"; + + simple-audio-card,c…

This way it works with 720p or whatever less than 1080p. There kernel logo doesn't want to show. Good on 1280x1024 or 720p Spoiler [ 3.336551] simple-framebuffer 7fb00000.framebuffer: framebuffer at 0x7fb00000, 0x500000 bytes, mapped to 0xf0900000 [ 3.336562] simple-framebuffer 7fb00000.framebuffer: format=x8r8g8b8, mode=1280x1024x32, linelength=5120 [ 3.363471] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 [ 3.365113] simple-framebuffer 7fb00000.framebuffer: fb0: simplefb registered Broken on 1080p: Spoiler [ 3.337435] simple-framebuffer 7f817000.framebuffer: framebuffer at 0x7f817000, 0x…

This is second afternoon I spend trying configure wifi on headless orange pi because we started using nmtui-connect (editing /etc/network/interfaces was much more easier especially when I need make universal image for about 15 same boards). It found wifi but when I try enter password it instead shows message "Could not activate connection: No plugin │ │ │ │ supported adding this connection" I can select which wifi I want but It everytime ends with same message. I tried it on image Armbian_5.25_Orangepizero_Debian_jessie_default_3.4.113.img I made no changes on this image except changing root password. User creation I canceled.

Hello, i want to read from a mcp3008 on my orange pi zero with armbian and python. Sadly i can't read any data from my moisture sensor on channel 0 over the mcp3008. Anyone got an idea or a tutorial for the mcp3008 with orange pi zero? This is what i got right now: pi@orangepizero:~/spi/SPI-Py$ ls -la /dev/spidev* crw------- 1 root root 153, 0 Mar 20 13:17 /dev/spidev0.0 crw------- 1 root root 153, 1 Mar 20 13:17 /dev/spidev1.0 Vdd / Vref on 3,3. Agnd / Dgnd on ground. CLK on SPI1_CLK/PA14 Dout on SPI1_MOSI/PA15 Din on SPI1_MISO/PA16 CS/SHDN on SPI1_CS/PA13 Code: …

I am trying to install perf on armbian. It happens that perf is dependent on the kernel release (see /usr/bin/perf, a shell script). I use kernel 4.10.0-sun8i, but the linux-tools installed are apparently for kernel 3.16: # uname -r 4.10.0-sun8i # apt-get install linux-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libdw1 libperl5.20 libpython2.7 linux-tools-3.16 Suggested packages: linux-doc-3.16 The following NEW packages will be installed: libdw1 libperl5.20 libpython2.7 linux-tools linux-tools-3.16 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and …

From Armbian documentation (https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Allwinner_overlays/) Most in-circuit and GPIO based interfaces (SPI, I2C, I2S, …) don’t have a mechanism for detecting and identifying devices connected to the bus, so Linux kernel has to be told explicitly about the device and its configuration details. While Device Tree is a way of describing hardware configuration to the kernel, Device Tree overlays are a way for modifying the DT in order to provide the kernel and kernel drivers with details about external devices or to activate interfaces disabled by default. What do we want? We want to add Device Tree overl…

Finally got a SPI connected DS3234 RTC for my BananaPi working! Main problem was that a patch is needed to get SPI master mode working reliably on A20: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9567833/ @Igor/staff: it would make Armbian even better than it already is if you could apply this patch on all A20 boards Setup: BananaPi (bought back in 2015 so not exactly sure which "flavour" it is, specs are equal to BPI-M1) DS3234 RTC (SparkFun DeadOn RTC Breakout DS3234) Mainline kernel (4.10 currently) Armbian build/devopment (of course ) Note: wiring and base of DTS according to Science Gizmo - Raspberry PI and your SPI Rea…

I'm just starting out with Armbian development, and the most recent "stable" version (5.20, v2016.09) doesn't compile. Is this supposed to work? olaf@tackd:~$ mkdir routertest olaf@tackd:~$ cd routertest/ olaf@tackd:~/routertest$ olaf@tackd:~/routertest$ git clone -b v2016.09 https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib Cloning into 'lib'... remote: Counting objects: 19756, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (155/155), done. remote: Total 19756 (delta 75), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 19601 Receiving objects: 100% (19756/19756), 173.96 MiB | 1003.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (12762/12762), done. Checking connectivity... done. Note: checking out '4c5…

My board is OrangePI PC. I use Armbian5.27_Ubuntu_xenial_desktop (kernel 4.10.1-sun8i). My display is "Innolux AT070TN90": 7", HDMI. I can't expose resolution 800x480. Prompt how to change resolution?

Simple library for 128x64. Works fine with SH1106 1.3" OLED and OrangePi Zero (4.9 kernel). You just need to activate I2C interface by replacing "disabled" with "okay" in device tree file (or in the fex). Connect display and test with "sudo i2cdetect -y 0" (or 1). If your display has 3d address instead 3c, change OLED_I2C_ADDR parameter it in the oled.h. Enter "make" to compile and run demo with "sudo ./oled_demo /dev/i2c-0". This library was written by Sonal Pinto for Arduino and ported to Linux by Vladimir Komendantskiy. I just wrote functions for text drawing and add three little fonts. This library only can draw text at X Y with specified font and draw cu…

Hi, I am using mainline 4.10.0-sun8i and to enable I2C I added: overlays=sun8i-h3-i2c0 to armbianEnv.txt and rebooted, then I checked: cat /proc/device-tree/soc/i2c\@01c2b400/status and still found that it was disabled, I feel that I may be missing a step, like having to compile armbianEnv.txt into the config script, is that so? Just to make sure it wasn't working, i changes the pins to I2C using: sunxi-pio -m PA11'<2>' sunxi-pio -m PA12'<2>' BTW. sunxi-pio has very few code comments, did not specify the field order and finding which bits to flip in the H3 data sheet was annoying, did you want me to fix and submit a pull …

Hello Igor, Good day. I have two questions regarding cubietruck(A20) kernel 4.9.7 source. 1. Where can I get kernel source 4.9.7 you use ? 2. Where can I get cubietruck(A20) patches for this kernel source you use ? I need this sources to clear some moments in a way of 2nd CPU start. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Andrey

Hi, while i was trying to work with the NTC C.H.I.P. i've started to take in consideration the ubifs instead of mounting all the system partition as read only. Someone have experience with ubifs? do it is supported by armbian? Someone can help me with some guide?

Using the dev build of Armbian for the OrangePi One, does the SPI driver in the mainline kernel support DMA? According to the mainline status page the work on SPI is done, and DMA has been supported since 4.2 I have enabled the spi interface in the device tree and my driver initialises properly with the master. But in my kernel driver I attempt to allocate some memory with dma_alloc_coherent and it fails. The driver works fine with the legacy kernel and with alternative hardware (raspberry pi). Is there some additional configuration needed or does anyone have any pointers to information on this that I look at? --edit Solved…

I tried to compile wireguard from source in armbian xenial with kernel 4.9.7. on a Banana Pro. After compiling and installing the resulting kernelmodule, modprobe fails: sudo modprobe wireguard modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wireguard': Exec format error dmesg shows: [ 5563.012529] wireguard: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 5563.013912] wireguard: unknown relocation: 102 On the wireguard list, one pointed out this might be related to old toolchain, so i checked: the installed gcc is: gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) and the mentiond gcc Version in dmesg is (gcc version 6.2.1 …

Hi, I'm trying to compile an Armbian image for OdroidC2 with btrfs rootfs, I created an Ubuntu Xenial container with systemd-nspawn as building environment. The building process reports these errors: ERROR in function prepare_partitions debootstrap-ng.sh:374 err Unable to find free loop device err Process terminated info ERROR in function unmount_on_exit debootstrap-ng.sh:525 err debootstrap-ng was interrupted err Process terminated info I've done a little search and found that there are no loop device in a default container and that's impossible to create a new one with: mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0 The answer is: mknod: /dev/loop0: Operation not permitted So I …

Has anyone been able to get kernel 4.???? to work on an orange Pi Pc?

I have an orange pi lite and I'm building my (dev 4.10) image using the Armbian tools. So far I figured out how to enable the DT overlays located in /boot/dtb/overlays by editing the armbianEnv.txt file and adding overlays=sun8i-h3-uart1 sun8i-h3-uart2 sun8i-h3-uart3 sun8i-h3-i2c0 sun8i-h3-spi0-spidev This now enables the various uart, i2c and spi ports I wish to use and that works. I'm trying to now set up a ADS7846 Touch controller using DTB I have copied the file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raspberrypi/linux/rpi-4.4.y/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/ads7846-overlay.dts and run dtc -I dts -O dtb ads7846-overlay.dts -o /boot/dtb/overlays/ads7846-ove…

Mainline dev image as here: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/3574-orangepi-2-wifi-driver-issue-in-mainline-dev-410/ When I try to run armbianmonitor: rufik@opi2:~$ sudo armbianmonitor -m Stop monitoring using [ctrl]-[c] Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq CPU/usr/bin/armbianmonitor: line 271: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq: No such file or directory 12:57:09: MHz 0.02 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 38.5°C^C So it looks like cpufreq not working. Dmesg says: rufik@opi2:~$ dmesg -T | grep -i cpu [Wed Feb 15 21:40:37 2017] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=50c5387d [Wed Feb 15 21:40:37 2017]…

I've build an dev image for my OrangePi 2 (kernel 4.10) to try mainline kernel and got into troubles with onboard wifi. It works fine in legacy with 8189es module, but there is no 8189es module in mainline image. So I tried 8189fs but it's not working. After doing some search I've managed to build 8189es module myself using https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux.gitrepository. Quick manual: git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux.git cd rtl8189ES_linux/ make ARCH=arm KSRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r) CROSS_COMPILE= sudo mkdir /lib/modules/4.10.0-sun8i/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8189es/ sudo cp 8189es.ko /lib/modules/4.10.0-s…

I customized my Armbian install with 2 operating systems on two partitions. In armbianEnv.txt I use rootdev to specify the default partition. I would like to set it so that if booting from the default rootdev fails (triggering panic or root-wait, etc.), it will instead try to boot with rootdev/root set to the other partition. Is that possible?

Hi Experts, I am using Readily available MFRC522 NFC reader board. It works fine on Raspberry Pi but we are not able to read card on Orange Pi Zero. I followed steps in the below posts. Both are same and person posted confirmed that it works for him https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/617-wip-orange-pi-one-support-for-the-upcoming-orange-pi-one/page-9#entry5747 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41350031/dual-rc522-on-orange-pi Person who published the post says that he tested on 5.04 and I am using image Armbian_5.24_Orangepizero_Debian_jessie_3.4.113.img We have checked wiring again and again and wiring looks all OK. read.py runs but when card is …

Currently I am busy getting the new version of Kerberosio video surveillance software (website) to work on Armbian (Debian Jessie). The current version is already working (refer also to this post), and I have also compiled successfully the most recent development version which includes video recording which is not included in the current release. There will be a special Armbian page (I am currently writing it) on the Kerberos.io site in the near future. I am working towards a general Armbian recipe. Because the software originally focuses on the Raspberry Pi Platform, there are some slight differences (library dependencies because of the Raspberry Pi camera which is s…

A touch of bravery got me to install mainline on my Nanopi Neo using the orangepi one dtb. It worked OK. Today I updated the system and got a nice new kernel 4.9.4 but also had bit of bother in the form of the absence of network devices. It seems there is an issue with the new sun8i-h3-nanopineo.dtb as reverting back to the orangepi one restores that capability. It's all a bit mysterious to me but I do notice that the alias "ethernet0" is absent from the nanopi dts and the configuration of ethernet further down seems quite different. I'd be quite interested in trying a new version of the dtb if someone's ahead of me with this.

Hi all, special thanks to Igor for his work and all who are involved, thank you for reading this, THE MISSION:I am trying to install Armbian 5.25 Cubietruck Ubuntu xenial onto a cubietruck v1.0-0606. THE SITUATION:My computer I am creating the SD-Card from is: First I tried to copy Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.7_desktop.img then I copied root root 2946498560 Feb 5 12:04 Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.10.0_desktop.img root root 2942304256 Feb 5 02:43 Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.8_desktop.img sudo dd bs=1M if=Armbian_5.25_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.10.0_desktop.img of=/dev/sde sync My cardrea…

Let's first recap from the other thread : And here is Zador's first reply : And my first reply : Now, here is my latest investigations : Both H5 and A64 doesn't probe RTC driver successfully, explaining why dmesg doesn't mentioned it (I hate driver which are not verbose on failures !) But, why H5 doesn't react the same as A64 ? I will have to wait until issue re-appear to dig further in /var/log/syslog , maybe tomorrow ! BTW, Zador, the -EINVAL seen on "date" command is only shown when symptom occurred, not after reboot... (let's wait tomorrow to see) As I said, I suspect "systemd" compatiblilty issue here. BTW, each time the issu…

Hi there. Did anyone tried to get a recent kernel running under NanoPi M2? I got one board some days ago and would like to get a kernel running with DTS support. Thanks for any hints.

Hello, I would like to share my experience about development and debugging inside Armbian. On the beginning I tried to use Code::Blocks. But it crashed too many times, mostly during simple file editing. Then I found better IDE - CodeLite. When I wanted to debug a program, I found I have to install GDB. After installing and configuring it, the debugging looked to be possible, but every attempt finished with segmentation fault somewhere outside of my program, even before the first statement in main function was reached. After several attempts, I uninstalled and re-installed GDB and this time found recommended additional component - libc6-dbg. Installing this component fixed…

Hi Wondering if anyone knew the algorithm that assigns mac addresses to orange zero. Is it based on something static/cpu id /...? or it is purely random. Will this mac change over time or after it is generated, it will stay the same? I have one zero that mac is pretty static and another changed mac after I did a upgrade. If I want better control of the mac address, what's the best way to make it static? this is on the mainline -jerry

Did a clean build (deleted all cache & sources), for OPi+2E, Ubuntu development, with desktop. (up to commit 633824d) Build ok and copied on SD, yet after boot no HDMI screen came out boot [ OK ] Started Create list of required sta...ce nodes for the current kernel. [ OK ] Started Set console keymap. [FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details. [ OK ] Started Remount Root and Kernel File Systems. [ OK ] Started Nameserver information manager. root@orangepiplus2e:~# systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service Warning: systemd-modules-load.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl da…

Hello, Although Armbian is not the only one, most of the orange PI PC linuxes are not include XFS support so I had to go through a time consuming process to recompile the kernel by a guide which only works on Ubuntu 14.x (doh!): http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/Building.html Here is the kernel I made for the OrangePI boards, for those who miss the same thing: http://www.filedropper.com/orangepihwpacktar

Could some one advice or point to documentation for these tasks On some images the first boot is automatically restarted probably due to the filesystem expansion. I would like to do it myself or detetch some not yet done trigger file. Secondary avoid the forced account creation on first login. I have a bootstrap task which I start by using the external usb media which does all these things and starts my application install process. But to avoid the restarts and apt-get locks the plain image should not do things automatically... example on raspbian my process takes around 15minutes but installs all my required tools.

I have searched all the forums, can't find a way to use compile.sh build a image with the kernel to be 4.9.0 version. Is there a variable some where to set this? the latest 4.9.4 and 4.9.3 are not working well for my nanopi or my orange zero. and yes, i went through all the docs, and tried I can. -jerry

I want use OPIZero as print-server for Samsung ML-1865w. But there are not hard-float samsung's proprietary utilities. Explain please how I can build SD image for OPIZero with soft-float version Ubuntu or Debian server. Or may be anybody knows way to run soft-float in hard-float OS.

Hi Pulled latest git repo and build mainline image (Ubuntu/Debian both) 4.9.2-sun8i kernel. Eth0 now stuck at 100mb/s and half duplex. I have tried using ethertool to make it full duplex. Not working. The previous image which I used and suggested was Armbian_5.24.170109_Orangepizero_Ubuntu_xenial_4.9.0 This image works with full duplex. Is this a bug or there is more configs needed when I building my own images? From ethtool output, looks like problem with auto negotiation. pi@orangepizero:~$ sudo ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Ha…

I'm using an opi PC with a sandisk ultra 32GB micro SD. I've noticed that if you do a large write to the SD card (i.e. via samba) then the system becomes sluggish. Writing to a USB stick does not have the same effect on system performance. I tried changing the scheduler to CFQ (from noop) and it helped a lot. Has there been any testing on which scheduler is best? I assume noop performance will vary dependant on the SD controller? raspbian uses deadline as the default - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=64702 Some very good info here: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Linux_I/O_Scheduler

Hi guys! Thank you for your hardwork, we decided to use armbian as our development platform because it is great, well structured and documented! I think I am hitting a problem with u-boot compilation. I am running the compilation as follows: ./compile.sh KERNEL_ONLY=no BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BOARD=cubieboard BRANCH=default RELEASE=jessie PROGRESS_DISPLAY=plain CLEAN_LEVEL=make,cache,debs Then, after the sources are already downloaded, I get an error in the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin target. This is my screen output: /usr/bin/env: «python»: No such file or directory Makefile:1090: recipe for target 'u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin' failed make: …

Hi, Where should I place a .patch in order to be taken into account on a next custom armbian built? This is for building legacy images. Need to have a modified nanopineo.fex and got a .patch for it, where should I place it in order to be applied on top of the armbian-provided one? P.S. Seen this -> https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/ but it only mentions u-boot and kernel.

Shall we start to finalise and prepare for images rebuild? Some new features were already documented, but there are some ongoing things and we are also preparing new download organisation, which could be included. - it looks like I manage to disable / merge little too much images, which needs to be built. @tkaiser was right I made a mistake, so please check .conf if I forgot something. - beta builds. we can't check all images, but some should be enough to assume everything is o.k. ... Do we have a minimum set yet? - I will try to enable beta testing protocol / call for testing within this build. What else should be included / finished and pushed into this buil…

What kind of work is needed to upgrade Orange Pi 2E+ from legacy to kernel 4.x? Thanks, Kriston

I'm trying to compile the tv.ko driver for the NanoPi M1 (to see if I can bake overscan compensation into it). First I compiled the whole of Armbian to see if I can produce the .ko in such a roundabout way, but besides being a very dumb/slow way of going about it, I can't find any file called "tv.ko" after running all of that (it probably gets cleaned up). Short of mounting the generated Armbian image manually and extracting tv.ko, is there a way to compile just the driver? It normally sits at: /lib/modules/3.4.112-sun8i/kernel/drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/tv/tv.ko And sources for it are under: sources/linux-sun8i/sun8i/drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/tv/ The modin…

First of all, happy 2017! May Armbian be the great OS it is, forever more. Now, I wanted to compile Armbian from scratch so I can see if I manage to hardcode some overscan into the tv module (it seems there's no way around it), but for some reason I can't seem to get the compilation going. I downloaded ubuntu, put it in a VM (so fresh, aside from VMWare guest tools) with 60GB storage, got it up to date, and tried to compile Armbian (since I don't know how to compile a single module). Steps taken: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install git git clone https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib --depth 1 cp lib/compile.sh . sudo ./compile.sh Then "Ke…

Perhaps I badly searched, but except for the file makeboarddeb.sh not find the option how you can make changes to the initrd. Perhaps there is some primitive or correct functionality that may make changes in the collected initrd, which gets in the finished image. I need to add some utilities and modify init in the initrd. Возможно Ñ Ð¿Ð»Ð¾Ñ…Ð¾ иÑкал, но кроме файла makeboarddeb.sh не нахожу варианта, как можно внеÑти Ñвои Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð² initrd. Возможно еÑÑ‚ÑŒ како-либо правильный функционал, который может вноÑить Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð² Ñобира…

A great 9.30 min review here, pointing out the issues: Cooling, GPIO expansion, no MIPI, lack of SPI support in Armbian? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzxLYGWQddA Apparently the much discussed Armbian cooling/Vreg techniques were not known to the author. Other stuff is interesting, with comparison to RPi.

Hi, thanks for the efforts making armbian very well and very stable for all the distributions, I'm running with a Cubieboard 1 and other arm devices.. I don't want to disturb, but I'll be a headache to support or add in repository this old A10 device Mele A1000/A2000? I know that is old chip, but I'm feel nostalgia, because was one of firsts devices supported in linux-sunxi, and Tom Cubie worked at mele, and sell this litlle joys overseas in 2012, and there are a lot of people now that have this devices too. a lot now sure in the dust and is in mainline kernel also. Tom left Mele, and maked Cubieboard 1, this Mele A1000 I think that have the same configurat…

So, Just installed Arbian Xenial mainline/stable on a 32Gb microSD on a Cubietruck. Everything seems to be working well except when I attach an external USB 3.0 1Tb disk. It seems to keep issuing some kind of ATA command to query the disk and cause a clicking. I know its not the disk because it works fine elsewhere and theres some info in the dmesg about it (which I will post when I get a chance). Is this a known bug or not? And if Im able to track down the bug and fix it where should I submit a PR? Thanks for the great project! - Zack

We would like to thanks all of those who participated in our small contest. Great submission! It was really hard to make a cherry pick, while the winner will be chosen by the vote. Since we only need one default wallpaper and that one must be as generic and clean as possible, this choice is as follows. Few others, which might come into action, had either too small text size, strange colors or were simply too busy. We might will add more than those five wallpapers to our desktop or use them as a boot splash. Vote will be online until 16.12. 1. Dre0x-Minum-dark 2. chzbacon-Micro-SD 3. chzbacon-Linen---Dark 4. 1430-very-dark 5. username-dark

Hi This is my patches for using NAND + UBI + UBIFS with legacy kernel and latest u-boot Tested on Cubieboard-1 and Cubietruck. U-Boot: - read-only support for now - i.e. all write/erase ops are locked Kernel: - pooling events - need to convert to interrupts+completions ToDo: - make led support NAND layout - driver will create two MTD partitions: mtd0 - with name "SPL" - 1024K rounded up to eraseblock size. mtd1 - with name "UBI" - all other space excluding last 4 erseblocks - for bad block table. For using with u-boot need to create ubi volume named "boot" with id=0. This volume must contain /boot/* files. For other files I use in tests all …

Hi I think the subject I am interested in, called Kiosk OS or computer. I like to build a computer that when you turn it on, it does only execute one or some programs that I want. how can I do that? Is it a simple thing or should I spend weeks or months to learning and doing that? (I am a newbie linux user but know the C language). Very thank you in advanced!

Hi I have a nanopi-m1 board and connected a simple dc motor to GPIO15(pin10). I used this commands to run the mtor but nothing happend else making a folder named gpio15 in /sys/class/gpio path! echo 15 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio15/direction echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio15/value Also I tried it with GPIO18 (pin12) and didn't work!

Hi I had 2days of effort on make my lcd working here: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/issues/428, but no results till now! I like to know if I change my OS and download and install armbian, will my problem solved easily or it doesn't make any sense and I should keep trying on my Debian OS? Very thank you in advanced!

Hi I have 2 questions: 1- can I install Armbian on my nanopi-m1 board? 2-Is there the support of fbtft driver on Armbian kernel or not? Thank you in advanced!

Hi, just build an image with 4.9.0 for my orange pi lite. I tried to incorporate the https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/1b4c92e53ac2c6ff2a78ae44898e32e2f5b62902/patch/kernel/sun8i-default/linux-200-wifi-mac-fix.patchpatch for persistant mac address for wifi, but didn't work. Is there some other patch that I'm missing, since the mac is persistant in 3.4.113?

In the very beginning of the building I got such error *** [cmd] Ошибка 2ude/generated # error bmp_display() requires CONFIG_LCD or CONFIG_VIDEO inclmake: *** Ожидание Ð·Ð°Ð²ÐµÑ€ÑˆÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¹â€¦ ^ make[1]: *** [cmd/bmp.o] Ошибка 1 [ error ] ERROR in function compile_uboot [ common.sh:119 ] [ error ] U-boot file not found [ u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated Sorry for russian, but I hope it still can be understood

I was using usb otg(microusb) as host mode in kernel 3.x. I was using this port to connect banana pi to touch&PWR in LCD. With kernel 3.x, there was no problem, but in the kernel 4.x the touch did not work. I was searching about the structure of usb port, and found out that to use micro usb as a host mode, the forth pin(sense) and the fifth pin(GND) should be connected. I checked this had been causing a touch problem by trying soldering the forth and the fifth pin of the usb otg port in banana pi, and the touch worked. Isn't there any way I can handle this situation in software-wise, not by soldering? I had also considered buying a microusb wire which has …

Hello, Just returning after a little while, I cannot get ethernet working on my opi+2e with mainline kernel, direct cable connection to PC, no serial console at hand, neither HDMI output, so I had the habit of blindly booting then sshing into the box... I tried my personal config + megous repo, xenial or jessie, current armbian repo nothing coming out of eth on the PC (tcpdump -i eth0). LEDs, green solid on, red heartbeating, orange eth led blinking slowly. I then reverted back to montjoie's repo (default for dev BRANCH), for identical results. Could this be the updated u-boot (I think I saw a new version being used) ? Or is this expected to be…

It's time to unify GPIO for the other PIs with WiringOtherPI and bundle it with Armbian! Inspired from these discussions: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/2808-orange-pi-zero-went-to-the-market/page-4#entry20302 http://tech.scargill.net/banana-pi-m2/#comment-27946 Goals WiringPI GPIO support for most AllWinner H2/H3 boards using legacy kernel WiringPI GPIO support for most AllWinner H2/H3 boards using mainline kernel Compatiblity with code using WiringPI dependencies Make my Orange Pi Zero blink my christmas lights Produce a distro-friendly package to be included with Armbian releases Todos Compile todos from other discussions Resources WiringOtherPi R…

After the upgrade from Armbian 5.11 to actual one, linux automatically loads the module BMP085 (I do not need it, I have my own program to support BMP180). How to block the loading of the module during restart of program? (rmmod removes temporarily only) Thank you for your help

I have worked with a BeagleBone Black which has a very nice feature. Out of the box you can connect it to a laptop via USB and it sets up a network between the BBB and the laptop. Is there some kind of equivalent to allow the USB OTG ports of these boards to be used for a PC to Device network ? I am particularly interested in the H3's