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Rk3588 boards now share the same linuxfamily as rk3568 and rk3566 boards. It means rockchip-rk3588 kernel won't get update longer. Here is some steps for migration: sudo sed -i 's/LINUXFAMILY=rockchip-rk3588/LINUXFAMILY=rk35xx/g' /etc/armbian-release sudo apt update sudo apt install linux-image-legacy-rk35xx linux-dtb-legacy-rk35xx linux-headers-legacy-rk35xx sudo apt remove linux-image-legacy-rockchip-rk3588 linux-dtb-legacy-rockchip-rk3588 linux-headers-legacy-rockchip-rk3588 NOTE: The steps are currently for beta branch only. Don't try on stable branch.

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haajee

October 13, 20241 yr

I have recently accepted the 23.11.1 armbain kernel release on my RockPro 64 The update has not rebuilt or updated the uIntrd for the 6.1.63 kernel. Note that the /boot/uInitrd symlink still points to the old uInitrd version but the other two symlinks have updated. root@jupiter:~# ls -l /boot/dtb /boot/Image /boot/uInitrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Dec 2 20:38 /boot/dtb -> dtb-6.1.63-current-rockchip64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec 2 20:38 /boot/Image -> vmlinuz-6.1.63-current-rockchip64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 30 18:04 /boot/uInitrd -> uInitrd-6.1.50-current-rockchip64 root@jupiter:~# ls -l /boot/uInitrd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root …

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David Pottage

December 4, 20232 yr

My current setup is the tinkerboard powered by the raspberry pi universal adapter connected to ethernet and a external HDD(Maxtor M3) powered by the Tinkerboard's usb. I have used it very lightly in this configuration (ssh-ing into it and copying some files to the hdd) but from what I have gathered from the information available here this powering setup is inedequate and will lead to problems. So I want to follow the recommended method and power it through the GPIO pins. I am considering using this or this powersupply. (I realize 10A on the second one is overkill for the tinkerboard, but the price difference from the 3A rated one is minimal and I could find some othe…

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berin

January 18, 20233 yr

I have a recently commissioned Radxa Rock-5B that I use as my PXE host. It has a number of iso images that are loopback mounted on directories like /var/www/html/mirrors/Fedora-44. I recently attempted an install of Fedora 44 on a VM and it crashed, complaining that it was unable to download a package from /var/www/html/mirrors/Fedora-44/Packages/p/parted-3.6-14.fc44.x86_64.rpm. I checked the directory on the Rock-5B and it was indeed missing but it was also giving me a lot of output that looked like -r--r--r-- 1 root root 264876 Feb 2 2026 policycoreutils-3.10-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? policycoreutils-newrole-3.10-…

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Werner

Friday at 06:32 AM2 days

Edge kernel 7.3.0-rc6 Makes board unstable [ 1173.843180] rockchip-dw-pcie 3c0800000.pcie: PCIe Gen.3 x2 link up [ 1173.971258] pcieport 0002:20:00.0: Root Port has been reset [ 1173.971328] nvme nvme0: restart after slot reset [ 1173.982877] nvme nvme0: D3 entry latency set to 8 seconds [ 1173.994210] nvme nvme0: 4/0/0 default/read/poll queues [ 1173.994642] pcieport 0002:20:00.0: AER: device recovery successful [ 1173.994719] pcieport 0002:20:00.0: Recovering Root Port due to Link Down [ 1173.994761] nvme nvme0: frozen state error detected, reset controller [ 1174.028524] phy phy-fe8c0000.phy.7: lane number 0, val 1 [ 1174.343104] rock…

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MaxT

Thursday at 05:20 PM3 days

Hello all, I am running an Orange Pi 5 board with Armbian on a SD Card and I realized that my /var/log path is constantly full, with it being at /dev/zram1 It gets full at 50Mb with the file /var/log/samba/cores/smbd/core taking up all the space I have not managed to read this file, so I can't tell what kinds of errors are showing up. My OpenMediaVault and samba setup are running perfectly fine, and even though I delete this core file, it shows up again during reboot. I have tried to set enable core files = no in smb.conf With no sucess. The file continues to show up during reboot. Any ideas how to solve this? …

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bedna

Thursday at 03:56 AM3 days

For the vendor-rk35xx kernel (6.1.115): an out-of-tree build of the vendor imx415 driver with a real 4K@60 mode, plus the overlay to bind it. https://github.com/bambooCZ/rk3588-imx415-4k60

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Abdul Badalambadad

October 4Oct 4

Board: Orange Pi 5 Plus (RK3588) Armbian image used: Downloaded from https://armbian.cn/boards/orangepi5-plus (Ubuntu 26.04, .img format) Comparison image: Joshua Riek's Ubuntu for Rockchip – https://joshua-riek.github.io/ubuntu-rockchip-download/boards/orangepi-5-plus.html Problem Description I downloaded the Armbian image for Orange Pi 5 Plus from the official Armbian page and flashed it to both a TF card and eMMC. The board fails to boot in either case. However, when I flash Joshua Riek's Ubuntu image using the exact same methods, the board boots successfully without any issues. I have compared the partition layouts of both images and found them to be essenti…

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defcom5-rockchip

September 22Sep 22

Hi, just installed 23.8.1 on my odroid M1, and I get poor network perf when using 1G port speed. iperf to another machine (iperf -c <server>, M1 sends traffic) gives the following: [ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 8.15 MBytes 6.84 Mbits/sec 631 sender [ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 7.86 MBytes 6.57 Mbits/sec receiver reverse direction, M1 receives traffic: iperf -R -c <server> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-10.04 sec 1.10 GBytes 937 Mbits/sec 587 sender [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec …

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TrevorH

September 20Sep 20

I have an interesting discovery that smells suspiciously like a kernel bug. I find it easiest to see this bug by running btop which shows a historical per core cpu usage graph so it's easy to see when one stops being used. You can see the same thing in ordinary top but it's less easy to see than with btop. I have a Radxa Rock 5B with an RK3588 chip that I have been stress testing to make sure the hardware is OK before I start to use it in anger. As part of that I ran `openssl speed -multi 8` to spin up 8 threads using 100% cpu each. On all other machines that I've ever done that with it runs all X cores at 100% until it runs out of tests or is Ctrl-C'ed. Watch…

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spry_plover44

September 19Sep 19

Hello, I have an orange Pi5, i had installed armbian a few years ago and everything was working fine. Roughly one year ago i turn it off and kept off until now. A few days ago I tried to turn it on again and i've inserted a new sd card containing armbian but it doesn't boot. I've re created the sd card a few times and also used another sd card because i was thinking something was wrong with the card. The board turn on but i got only the red led, and is stable. Searching on internet i found that maybe the Orange Pi is bricked, so i tried to use the MaskRom and Recovery button, but nothing happen. Also i'm not able to see the board inside the RKDevTool, neithe…

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Simo

September 14Sep 14

Hello comunity/maintainers, Please could anyone help me? After fesh install Debian 13 trixie Minimal (CLI) — current 6.18.44 there is no wlan0 nor hci0, only theese events in dmesg: [ 4.389072] Btrfs loaded, zoned=yes, fsverity=yes [ 4.987196] systemd[1]: systemd 257.13-1~deb13u1 running in system mode (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +APPARMOR +IMA +IPE +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT -GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID +CURL +ELFUTILS +FIDO2 +IDN2 -IDN +IPTC +KMOD +LIBCRYPTSETUP +LIBCRYPTSETUP_PLUGINS +LIBFDISK +PCRE2 +PWQUALITY +P11KIT +QRENCODE +TPM2 +BZIP2 +LZ4 +XZ +ZLIB +ZSTD +BPF_FRAMEWORK +BTF -XKBCOMMON -UTMP +SYSVINIT +LIBARCHIVE) [ 5.729379] sysfs: cannot cre…

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slmq

September 13Sep 13

Ok I wasnt going to say But Sandi, says Prove The Shit. Who Is Wrong.... nyanmisaka left a comment (jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg#765) I am unable to reproduce the issue. jellyfin-ffmpeg is intended solely for use with the Jellyfin server. If the custom version of our MPP dependency is causing your specific problem, please build your own version using the upstream MPP. Additionally, you completely ignored the issue report template. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. Triage notifications, keep track of coding agent tasks and review pull requests on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS and Android. Download it today! You are receiving this because …

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Werner

September 12Sep 12

Hi Guys, It seems that I can't boot latest Armbian image from SD-card - system always boots into "inintramfs". See the screenshot. SD-card is 100% working (all sectors tested). The image - 25.11.1_noble_6.12.58_gnome_desktop (downloaded from front page of OrangePi5). Checksum is OK. Please note - I've already tested 3 different prorgams for images: USB-imager, Rufus, Win32diskimager. Nothing helped))). I also re-wrote MTD flash (not sata) by "armbian-install" and got nothing (!) I use my main Armbian-server installed on nvme, but I would prefer to run SD-images as well... Unfortunately, as I see, this became very difficult task lately(((. …

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peacepenguin

September 11Sep 11

While doing various tests, also other bootloader than EDK2-UEFI v1.1 that I had in eMMC, I discovered that with 2026.01-rc2_armbian-2026.01-rc2-S365a-Pa203-He3cc-V062a-Bbf55-R448a kernel 6.18.0-rc7-edge-rockchip64 did not find/enable audio via HDMI. I moved the computer to other room where I rely on the speakers in the monitor, else I would not have discovered it as I also use networked pulseaudio. What works is 2025.01-armbian-2025.01-S6d41-Pdb4b-H2194-V062a-Bb703-R448a, so sort of last-known-good, got that via: sudo apt install linux-u-boot-nanopi-r6c-current=25.8.1 and wrote the binary with dd to eMMC Another issue is that the monitor …

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eselarm

September 9Sep 9

I have built and used it with the latest source and still HDMI audio and analog audio does not work. Is there any way to get HDMI audio to work other than using the vendor kernel?

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JFL

September 9Sep 9

Inspired by Bazzite OS, and remind me of experience on Armbian (not just armbian), basically on Orange PI 5/ OPI5+, it'll be solid OS if update failure/ anything went wrong can rollback to previous safe copy. Pain-point: I just want to use the system, not keep re-flashing OS. nixOS is good, but I don't want to re-learn everything ... and giving up my Ubuntu eco-system. Sorry I'm still testing out, and failing with existing Armbian-Config approach, I'm trying my own appraoch, Iknew the rules here, wait until I success I'll share it here. (note: or anyone did it before, can give me some direction) Inspired by Bazzite OS, and remind me of experienc…

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Boardcon_yang

September 8Sep 8

I tried installing the OS using SD card and EMMC, but both failed. Orange Pi OS (Arch) on the official website ran normally. However, I installed focal_desktop_xfce or jammy_desktop_gnome from Ubuntu Image, but they all failed. After inserting the image into the SD card, the symptom is a black screen and no booting. Does it only support SSD? Because it is entered through a translator, there may be unnatural sentences. If you reply about that, I will get back to you.

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deskwizard

September 5Sep 5

Hello, I've installed armbian with Debian Trixie on my Odroid-M1 to replace the Ubuntu installed via petitboot. Everything was running smoothly except the networking part which was very slow (with luck some 100kbit/s) and has shown very high packetloss, even while the switch and ethtool report absolutely no problems and replacing cables and switching ports didn't help. Switching to 100Mbit/s was working fine, no loss anymore, switching back to 1G caused massive packet loss. With some help from chatgpt and another M1 I own that was still running the hardkernel/petitboot installed kernel and dtb I could trace the issue down the RGMII timing…

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fly_kt

September 4Sep 4

I am running Ubuntu 24.04 Noble (Armbian Linux 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx) and no additional packages affecting VPU performance have been installed; everything is stock. Jellyfin is running in Docker, and transcoding works perfectly, except for some movies. I tried to play a 4K video in Chrome (native HEVC support), set the bitrate to 40mbps, and the video played normally at a transcoding speed of about 3x, but after a while, Orange Pi crashed. In Firefox inside neko (where there is no hardware acceleration and HEVC), the crash happened even faster, after ~2 seconds of playback. The crash happens as if the board loses power: journalctl is not saved, nothing is …

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Ritz

September 4Sep 4

i recently purchased an orange pi 5 plus 16gb with the wifi / bt card, the aluminum wifi case, fan and 1tb ssd. when i go to the official website i see different images there none of which seem to work 100%. i mean i was able to get each up and running but what i noticed is that the graphical drivers would not load. i saw a youtube video claiming armbian has the right driver support for the mali 610 gpu. can someone assist me getting this to work? im big into emulation gaming and right now it doesnt even have Vulkan support i crave. someone help thanks

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Ritz

September 3Sep 3

I was able to install the latest Armbian/Ubuntu-Resolute 26.8.3 image on my Orange Pi 5 Plus without a lot of fanfare. It took a bit of hunting around to find the correct process to get the image written to an SD card with the new Armbian Imager and then push that image to my emmc storage after it booted, but it was rather painless otherwise. It seems to work without any issues on my 2.5GB/10GB network and is acting as my home Jellyfin media server for now. It was doing that before running Ubuntu 24.04 with a an older 6.1 kernel from the vendor. Zero complaints with the old setup, but I wanted a newer and better supported kernel build given all the excitement around t…

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Ritz

September 2Sep 2

I'm using Armbian Orange Pi 5 Plus based on Debian 13 with vendor kernel v26.2.1 for Orange Pi 5 Plus running Armbian Linux 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx I'm thinking about switching to Armbian based on Debian 13 with kernel current 6.18.33 because 6.1.115 is an old one => current the kernel is more recent Is that a good idea to swith to vendor kernel to current ? How can I do this ?

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Ritz

September 2Sep 2

orangepi5-max:~:% sudo apt upgrade -y Upgrading: armbian-bsp-cli-orangepi5-max-edge bsdutils fdisk libbz2-1.0 libmysqlclient24 libudisks2-0 linux-u-boot-orangepi5-max-edge rfkill zlib1g-dev armbian-firmware bzip2 gnu-coreutils libfdisk1 libsmartcols1 libuuid1 login udisks2 armbian-plymouth-theme diffutils libattr1 libminizip1t64 libssh-4 linux-dtb-edge-rockchip64 mount util-linux base-files eject …

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Igor

August 31Aug 31

Cannot login to wifi router. $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Armbian 26.8.3 trixie Release: 13 Codename: trixie $ dmesg [ 18.683974] r8152 6-1:1.0 enx001e063222ad: carrier on [ 27.803475] wlxe0e1a93880f7: authenticate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [ 29.112665] wlxe0e1a93880f7: send auth to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3) [ 29.115405] wlxe0e1a93880f7: authenticated [ 29.126606] wlxe0e1a93880f7: associating to AP xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx with corrupt beacon and probe response [ 29.134087] wlxe0e1a93880f7: associate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3) [ 29.253998] w…

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dev001

August 31Aug 31

The NPU on the ODROID-M1 can execute ordinary quantized TFLite models through the standard TFLite delegate mechanism, on a fully open stack: the `accel/rocket` kernel driver (with local fixes) plus the Mesa Teflon delegate. An application loads a regular .tflite file — no model-conversion step, no proprietary runtime. Image classification (mobilenet v1/v2, resnet18) and object detection (yolov8n) work today, and other convolutional networks take the same path. This complements the vendor-stack setup from [the DKMS topic](https://forum.armbian.com/topic/58036-odroid-m1-npu-fully-working-on-armbian-618x/), on the same board. What runs, measured against CPU-only TFLite …

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iav

August 29Aug 29

Hardware & OS Details: Board/SoC: SOM-RK3399 OS: Ubuntu 24.04 Base (Console tty only, no desktop GUI) Interface: DisplayPort 1.2 Alt Mode via USB Type-C (card0-DP-1) Bootloader: Image file on wiki page. Kernel cmdline: storagemedia=emmc androidboot.storagemedia=emmc androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.dtbo_idx=0 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff1a0000 swiotlb=1 coherent_pool=1m rw root=/dev/mmcblk2p8 rootfstype=ext4 rootflags=discard data=/dev/mmcblk2p9 console=ttyFIQ0 consoleblank=0 cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_memory=1 cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1 Issue Description: When booting the SOM with the Type-C cable pre-plugged int…

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Boardcon_yang

August 28Aug 28

Hello, I’ve seen in the latest release Armbian now supports installing to UFS but can’t really see much information about going about this? I boot into the SD card and I’ve tried both installing a new copy to the UFS, which seems to do something but booting only gets as far as initramfs, and copying existing install from SD card which just fails with the following: “No bootable install method is available for /dev/sda on this system (no EFI firmware, no GRUB, and no board u-boot support).” I have tried both Debian and Ubuntu minimal images on vendor and current kernels. I did have a FriendlyElec image on there before but used Rkdevtool to erase …

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Boardcon_yang

August 24Aug 24

Dear team, On Armbian_25.11.1_Orangepi5-plus_trixie_current_6.12.58_minimal.img not possible to boot kernel, only u-boot seems available ? Bellow is the debug log on tty DDR V1.13 25cee80c4f cym 23/08/11-09:31:58 LPDDR4X, 2112MHz channel[0] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=18 CS1 Row=18 CS=2 Die BW=8 Size=8192MB channel[1] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=18 CS1 Row=18 CS=2 Die BW=8 Size=8192MB channel[2] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=18 CS1 Row=18 CS=2 Die BW=8 Size=8192MB channel[3] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=18 CS1 Row=18 CS=2 Die BW=8 Size=8192MB Manufacturer ID:0xff CH0 RX Vref:28.5%, TX Vref:22.8%,21.8% CH1 RX Vref:27.1%, TX Vref:21.8%,21.8% CH2 R…

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Boardcon_yang

August 20Aug 20

Hello, I tired to boot Armbian for my Rock5b but whatever image I choose to use, I'm never able to get past U-boot into linux when looking at the Uart output. Here are the log I get: ``` U-Boot SPL board init U-Boot SPL 2017.09-gd1cf49135ee-220414-dirty #stephen (May 23 2024 - 19:39:28) Trying to boot from MMC2 GUID Partition Table Entry Array CRC is wrong: 0x71678773 != 0xab54d286 part_get_info_efi: *** ERROR: Invalid GPT *** part_get_info_efi: *** Using Backup GPT *** spl: partition error Trying fit image at 0x4000 sector ## Verified-boot: 0 ## Checking atf-1 0x00040000 ... sha256(7612223b82...) + OK ## Checking uboot 0x00200000 ..…

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ScottP

August 19Aug 19

Hey there, can someone build 7.1.5 debs for me 7.1.6 broke my iptables Thanks !

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j0ta

August 18Aug 18

Hi all, Since most of Armbian's Rock 5B images are currently bricked (although hopefully not for too much longer now that we've figured out what the root cause is) I've been using the Ubuntu 26.04 image, which works, but doesn't have hardware video decoding and encoding. Since I wanted to use it with RDP, I needed hardware video encoding at least to make things not super-slow, so I figured, why not port it myself with Claude and Codex. So that's what I did. The kernel and some of the auxillary stuff like ffmpeg, librga, mpp, a mpp -> vaapi bridge, and a gnome-remote-desktop build that encodes using ffmpeg, are all in a PPA. Details here: https://github.com/…

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Boardcon_yang

August 18Aug 18

Hello Everytime I reboot I have to wait many minutes before the NIC auto-negotiates and connects. The problem seems to be at the PHY layer as the LED does not light up at all ... see time span between 23:22:20 and 23:23:52 : Why is this happening? Only enP3p49s0 is plugged in and NetworkManager-wait-online.service is disabled. Thanks

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usual user

August 18Aug 18

Hello I built the core minimal image successfully a few times while I was experimenting with kernel config options and then finally when I enabled all the settings I wanted somehow a different component of the build process started failing repeatedly since last few days: Why is this happening. All I did was edit linux-rockchip-rk3588-edge.config and symlink linux-rockchip-rk3588-current.config -> linux-rockchip-rk3588-edge.config

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Werner

August 17Aug 17

Hello community, I am working on a multi-channel audio project using a Rock Pi S (Rockchip RK3308) running a modern Mainline Kernel (6.18.y-current-rockchip64). My hardware setup relies on a fixed wiring where the Master Clock (MCLK) is connected to Pin 7 (GPIO2_A4) and BCLK is connected to Pin 12 (GPIO2_A5) using the i2s_8ch_0 controller. The Goal: We want to keep the working I2S/TDM master device tree foundation but replace the old, silent dummy codec (linux,spdif-dit) with the actual internal hardware codec (rockchip,rk3308-codec), so that ALSA maps the channels correctly instead of routing them into a digital void. Note: W…

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g.coach

August 17Aug 17

Mainline Kernel 6.18 (Rock Pi S): rockchip-i2s-tdm registers locked in UNCLAIMED state with passive S/PDIF transverters (m0 mapping) Hardware Setup SoC: Rockchip RK3308 (Radxa Rock Pi S) Audio Extension: 3 separate Wolfson WM8805 boards (I2S to S/PDIF TOSLINK), wired in parallel to the primary I2S0 bus for a multi-channel setup. Pin Mapping (m0): Explicitly hardwired to m0 alternative function: Pin 35 = GPIO2_A4 = I2S0_8CH_MCLK_M0 (pin 68 in pinctrl) Pin 33 = GPIO2_A5 = I2S0_8CH_SCLK_M0 (pin 69 in pinctrl) Software Environment OS: Modern Armbian (Debian Trixie) Kernel: Stable Mainline Linux 6.18.43-current-rockchi…

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g.coach

August 17Aug 17

Hello, I have installed the Armbian 26.2 minimal IOT image based on Debian 13 Trixie - with the 6.18.x kernel - and I noticed the USB2 port (the single, vertical port next to the Ethernet port) is not working. Is this a limitation of the mainstream kernel (6.18.x) - i.e. does this work only with the vendor kernel (6.1.x) ? NB: I upgraded to 6.19 using the 'edge' kernel, but I'm seeing the same behavior. Here's the armbianmonitor outpur - https://paste.armbian.com/raw/udefojuxuk

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deskwizard

August 16Aug 16

Hello, I'm the owner of a Khadas Edge2, and I'm trying to run it with a USB-C DisplayPort (plus touch, plus Power) screen. That combination has historically failed for me, especially with newer kernel versions. There's an old thread in the Khadas user forum https://forum.khadas.com/t/usb-c-dp-stopped-working-after-apt-update/21788 describing the problem, but it went stale and unfixed. I'm not a kernel developer, so I can't fix something like that myself. However, I recently ran an investigation with an agent that, although lengthy, appears to have produced a good fix. It's all in here, the documentation and the result: https://codeberg.org/graphic…

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Efe Çetin

August 13Aug 13

I’ve noticed two USB-C/USB3 issues with the Radxa Zero 3{E,W} when running Armbian (Edge & Current), which don’t occur on Radxa’s vendor builds (kernel 6.1). 1. Issues All branches (Vendor, Current, Edge) Depending on cable orientation, USB3 devices register inconsistently on either: Bus 001 → USB 2.0 (480M) Bus 002 → USB 3.0 (5000M) Reference: previous forum post Armbian dfb7c4f: Current (6.12) & Edge (6.16) My unpowered USB3 hub fails to work at all (it's fine on Radxa's builds & Vendor). On touch, the hub feels more elec…

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rockyharder22

August 9Aug 9

Hi Could anyone assist me in getting sound output on my Tinkerboard S? product: Rockchip RK3288 Asus Tinker Board S v26.2.1 for Tinker Board running Armbian Linux 6.18.35-current-rockchip $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono No output on the connected earphones. I don't know where to start to debug the problem. Any aideas anyone? Thanks Chris

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ChrisO

August 7Aug 7

I have edge kernel installed and working. I compiled the v4l2 ffmpeg but some of my av1 videos are not working. After some digging I noticed that v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video4 --list-formats-ext ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT Type: Video Capture Multiplanar [0]: 'VT12' (Y/UV 4:2:0 (4x4 Linear)) [1]: 'NV12' (Y/UV 4:2:0) Shouldn't this include the 10 bit formats as well? (NV15?) Does anyone know why the 10 bit format is missing in the kernel? Is this specific to the orange pi? I found this GitHub - dongioia/rock5bplus-rkvdec2: Rock 5B+ (RK3588) on mainline Linux 7.1: V4L2 stateless RKVDEC2/Hantro hardware video decode (…

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ArmBoy1988

August 5Aug 5

Hello Armbian-Community! TL;DR I've successfully enabled the Rockchip RK3568 NPU (0.8 TOPS INT8) on the ODROID-M1 with 8GB RAM running Armbian 6.18.9-current-rockchip64. The only thing needed to make this work for everyone is a 1-line kernel patch in Armbian build that I've already submitted: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/9403 Once this patch is merged into Armbian, the DKMS modules will work out-of-the-box on all RK3568 boards. The Problem 1. Hardkernel and Rockchip provide NPU patches for quite old kernel versions: rockchip <= 6.6 hardkernel <= 5.10 2. IOMMU …

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ferro

August 4Aug 4

Got quite excited seen that the wifi driver is finally available and was going to test the browser and graphic acceleration in the current kernel but I flashed 3 times the Desktop image with Gnome/Current 6.18.33 and it did not boot. Is there possibly an issue with u-boot?

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OttawaHacker

August 3Aug 3

Hi, ive been trying to resolve the screen issue issue on my cb2 for a few days now, i cannot get it to work. I'm running Armbian_26.2.1_Bigtreetech-cb2_trixie_current_6.18.8_minimal, everything works. HDMI outputs to a 4K display just fine except for my small 5" display, which just stays black. The os has not been tempered with, i've flashed a fresh copy and used armbian-upgrade it, thats all. I've diagnosed the problem enough to see that its an EDID issue or the rk3566 just not likely my weird screen resolution. BTT os who also use armbian as a base somehow fixed this official issue. The display is being detected by the OS. My Armbian OS: root@big…

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faraz ahmed

August 1Aug 1

I am trying to build armbian image via WSL 2, as I have done hundreds of times in the past. I ensured that the wsl2 distro (Ubuntu) was up to date via apt update and apt upgrade, and ran git pull was issued within /build folder prior to issuing ./compile.sh. Several files failed to download during the build including: [💲|🔨] E: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/trixie-security/main/binary-arm64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.130.132 80] [💲|🔨] E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/trixie/main/i18n/Translation-en 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.130.132 80] [💲|🔨] E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dist…

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Werner

August 1Aug 1

I create a file 98-use-serial.rules under folder /etc/udev/rules.d . But symlink not created . My purpose is to fix USB port names, As COM1 COM2 COM3 This is the content of 98-usb-serial.rules: SUBSYSTEM=="tty",ATTRS{busnum}=="1",ATTRS{devnum}=="2",SYMLINK+="COM1" SUBSYSTEM=="tty",ATTRS{busnum}=="4",ATTRS{devnum}=="2",SYMLINK+="COM2" SUBSYSTEM=="tty",ATTRS{busnum}=="5",ATTRS{devnum}=="2",SYMLINK+="COM3" I used to fix the USB port on Asus Tinker S, Khada_VIM3 , all worked fine. I have no idea why Orange Pi 4 LTD not working.

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eselarm

July 31Jul 31

Hi all! I'd like to share a small personal project that I've been working on recently for the Orange Pi 5 (and potentially other RK3588 boards). Like many RK3588 users, I wanted to run Kodi on a modern mainline Linux kernel instead of relying on older vendor kernels. After a lot of testing, debugging and learning, this project started to take shape, and I've a stable almost "all works" setup Tested on Armbian (minimal Debian and Ubuntu 24.04) with mainline kernel Not working: -HDR -Maybe some network services Next up: -Wayland support -Audio visualisers https://github.com/Danibos/mainline-…

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Dbosco

July 29Jul 29

Hi, i think the rpm setting-step's of the onboard fan is to low. - how can this be adjusted? SBC: Rock5b

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usual user

July 28Jul 28

i have 2 sd cards, 32 and 16gb. on every of them i burned ubuntu xfce and debian cli using dd and armbian imager (8 total tries). none worked. board every time booted into Android which locates on 16gb internal eMMC. what should i do? i looked into manual but no luck. i dont have DC to power board while doing maskrom. maybe i can wipe emmc from itself ( boot into android 12 and destroy it)? or i noticed that when i connect board via usb type c to my mac, it still powers on, so maybe i dont even need dc power to get maskrom device? im geniue lost now, i was searching in web for solution past 3 hours

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acupofchicory

July 28Jul 28

Orange pi 5 (i dont find way hot to make it in orange pi 5 section) English is not my native, i hope you understand and sorry for mistakes I spend like 3 days on this problem and i think i am stuck I tested offisial image and Josua and there i can use my wifi normally Setup orange pi 5 v1.3.2 clened spi (i got problem like here) armbian 26.5.1 vendor 6.1.115 (from armbian imager on windows) sandisk extreme 64gb sd card after boot i runs sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y armbian-config (choose orange pi 5 ap6275p overlay) /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 bootlogo=false console=both e…

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Efe Çetin

July 26Jul 26

I have an Orange Pi 5 Plus 16GB board, revision "1.3.1". I've been using it for about a year with official Armbian, Vendor kernel 6.1. The only issues I noticed were a non-working Type-C port and FAN connector. I thought it was an OS or DTS (Device Tree) bug... But it turned out to be a hardware problem. It started when I got another Orange Pi 5 Plus 8GB board for repair (needed to resolder the Type-C power connector). Same revision "1.3.1". Скрытый текст (left is my 16GB board, right is the 8GB board for repair; the PCB solder mask is slightly different in shade of blue — probably different manufacturers or production batches) …

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going

July 24Jul 24

I Installed this image and it works fine. Sadly the build in WiFi module is not working. I now use an external wifi dongle. What could be the problem here? Ernst-Jan

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eselarm

July 23Jul 23

Hello everyone Just would like to start a discussion about the current state of video acceleration (decoding only, h.265/h.264/av1). The soc (rk3588) recently got mainline support for these features in 7.0: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md Has anyone tested this on a OPI5 already, especially using Kodi? Does this work ootb there now? Regards, XXXBold

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robertoj

July 22Jul 22

Armbian_community_26.8.0-trunk.359_Rockpro64_trixie_current_6.18.38_minimal.img.xz If the image installs non free software on the computer can you tell which packages they are and how to remove them from the computer, such that no piece of non free software stays on the computer? In this post free software should be understood as coined by the fsf.org. Thank you.

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eselarm

July 18Jul 18

With the aid of Claude.Ai .. v26.5.1 for Rock 5A running Armbian Linux 6.18.35-current-rockchip64 Starting Point is the Radxa DTS needed to add an include ... #include <dt-bindings/soc/rockchip,vop2.h> Modified this section. Changed the compatible string, added the power-supply key and fixed the active area (width and height) dsi0_panel: panel@0 { status = "okay"; compatible = "panel-dsi-simple"; reg = <0>; backlight = <&dsi0_backlight>; power-supply = <&vcc_lcd_mipi0>; vdd-supply = <&vcc_lcd_mipi0>; vccio-supply = <&amp…

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Private9925

July 12Jul 12

Has anyone successfully set up a MIPI screen with their LCD ribbon connectors on Armbian? Any wisdom from someone who has done this would be appreciated.

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Private9925

July 12Jul 12

Zero 3E, all images, same UUID/initramfs error on boot. Tried different flashing methods, sd cards. All the same fail. Board works with the old Joshua riek dist.

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Ary

July 11Jul 11

Hi @Kwiboo and Armbian rk35xx maintainers, I'm hitting a boot-time eMMC reliability issue on NanoPi R76S with the current Armbian U-Boot 2026.04 build, and the community-known workaround from OpenWrt PR #23520 breaks kernel boot completely in our Armbian environment. Sharing detailed reproduction and requesting guidance. ## Setup - Board: NanoPi R76S (RK3576), 4GB LPDDR5, 64GB Hynix eMMC (hC8aP, manfid 0x000090) - Armbian build: derived from 26.5.1, `linux-u-boot-nanopi-r76s-vendor 26.5.1` - U-Boot: 2026.04_armbian-2026.04-S88dc-P3cfe-H30d2-V3c1d-Bd0d2-R448a - Kernel: 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx (Armbian rk35xx vendor kernel) - BL31: v2.3 fwver v1.20 …

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xSapiens

July 10Jul 10

Introduction This guide describes a tested method for running Android, Armbian, and Ubuntu on the same NVMe SSD of the Orange Pi 5 Plus. This is not an official Orange Pi installation procedure. The entire workflow was developed through extensive real-world testing. The following configuration has been successfully verified: ✅ Android boots from the NVMe SSD. ✅ Armbian boots from the same NVMe SSD via UEFI. ✅ Ubuntu boots from the same NVMe SSD via UEFI. ✅ All three operating systems coexist on a single NVMe SSD. ✅ Armbian and Ubuntu share the same EFI partition. ✅ Android, Armbian, and Ubuntu can share a common data partition. 1. Requirements Har…

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Tâm Vũ Minh

July 10Jul 10

Hi ! I have a FriendlyElec NanoPi M5 and I want to play movies with it. But I want to squeeze everything out of this SBC ! So, I need hardware acceleration. I tested first with a OS image downloaded from FriendlyElec and mpv and (almost) everything works well. The mpv working configuration is: hwdec=rkmpp, vo=gpu, gpu-api=opengl. But I don't like that OS for other reasons, so I switched to Armbian. I installed the image "Armbian 26.5.1 KDE Wayland (Ubuntu 26.04 - vendor 6.1.115)", then I installed mpv, but when I try to play movies, it says: marus@nanopi-m5:/mnt/NAS/WDRed1/Samples/FullHD$ mpv --hwdec=rkmpp --vo=gpu --gpu-api=opengl H265.8bit.FullHD.192…

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eselarm

July 8Jul 8

Hi all, After a recent update bumped the current kernel to the 6.18 series, the rear 3.5mm jack on my NanoPC-T6 LTS stopped playing any sound. I'm connecting it to an external amplifier that worked fine before the update. What I see on 6.18 (6.18.35-current-rockchip64): The audio card (rt5616) still shows up in aplay -l and playback commands run without errors, but no sound comes out. Volume levels and mute aren't the issue — I checked those. What fixed it: downgrading via armbian-config to linux-image-current-rockchip64=25.11.2 (kernel 6.12.58). With 6.12 the audio works perfectly again. So 6.12 works and 6.18 doesn…

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Manuel R

June 29Jun 29

I've ran into two issues. The first my board won't boot off the Armbian Debian vendor image. Second it boots off the mainline Debian image, but when I try installing the boot onto the MTD via option 7 in Armbian-install it completes, but I get a solid blue LED and a UART output that hangs on BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world -> Entry point address = 0x200000 -> SPSR = 0x3c9 then it hangs. Before this I tried manually erasing the SPI and loader and reinstalling them with rkdeveloptool, but this didn't help. I would provide the UART logs, but the server is failing at uploading images. I'm looking to boot off the nvme, but I'm not sure how to resolve this.

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JPWQ

June 28Jun 28

What? Sharing various gaming experiences with RK3588 (Orange Pi 5) on Armbian. Why? Because RK3588 is a capable gaming chipset, Armbian is a good OS; Vulkan on RK3588 is getting better over time (PanVk) How? Posting your gaming results here (preferably with setup and screenshots/videos) so people can learn more.

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Alex Ling

June 27Jun 27

I finally successfully got Armbian installed on my Pinebook Pro's eMMC. That should be giving it its best possible performance. I thought you may all be interested in compiling a list of games that work at least reasonably well on it given its restrictions of being ARM64 architecture, 1.8GHz CPU & 4GBs RAM. So to start here is a list of the ones I currently have on mine. I may try more later but for now I'm limited by the stock 64GB eMMC that the PCP came with... 0AD - 3D RTS Cave Story - Pixel Art Metroidvania Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers - Kart Racer Dune Legacy - RTS Endless Sky - Space Sandbox Flare - Fantasy RPG Freeciv - St…

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Bruno Piras

June 17Jun 17

Hello All.. I am trying to get rknpu working properly. I have resolute minimal install with 6.1 vendor kernel installed. Default install does not have `/dev/rknpu` and shows error with loading the rknpu driver. Can any one help resolve this? This is with fresh install of the OS on the NVME drive: There is no NPU option in the dtb list for orangepi5plus. PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 26.5.1 resolute" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION_ID="26.04" VERSION="26.04 (Resolute Raccoon)" VERSION_CODENAME=resolute ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="https://www.armbian.com" SUPPORT_URL="https://forum.armbian.com" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://www.armbian.com/bugs" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://w…

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robertoj

June 8Jun 8

Connecting a usb keyboard doesn't seem to work with 7.1 .. [ 2.836541] usb 7-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-platform [ 3.024538] usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [ 3.304535] usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [ 3.596542] usb 7-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-platform [ 3.780527] usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [ 4.076543] usb 7-1: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [ 4.180566] usb usb7-port1: attempt power cycle [ 4.372529] usb 7-1: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-platform [ 4.780541] usb 7-1: device not accepting address 4, error -62 [ 4.96452…

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j0ta

June 3Jun 3

I've been trying to configure the HDMI screen I purchased for the orange pi 5. It's listed to work with the raspberry pi so I figured it should work with the orange pi 5 as well. When I connect the screen, the screen just turns white. These instructions were included in the manual to configure the usage of the screen with the raspberry pi, but I am not familiar with how to translate the configuration into armbian. Write the image to the TF card, then modify the following configuration in config.txt: # uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA) hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=87 hdmi_cvt 1024 600 60 6 0 0 0 # unc…

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J.Ayuso

June 2Jun 2

Hi, I would like to report an issue I encountered while testing the new NanoPi M5 UFS boot support in Armbian 26.5.1. Board: NanoPi M5 Boot media for installation: SD card Target storage: onboard UFS BOOT switch after installation: UFS/SD Tested images: * `Armbian_26.5.1_Nanopi-m5_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img.xz` * `Armbian_26.5.1_Nanopi-m5_trixie_current_6.18.33_minimal.img.xz` My current NVMe setup uses a custom layout: * `ext4` `/boot` * `btrfs` `/` I had to use this layout because, in my previous NVMe tests, installing the system directly to NVMe with btrfs using `armbian-install` did not boot when `/boot` was also located on btrfs. With a separate ext4 `/b…

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eselarm

May 31May 31

Hi There, Board: NanoPi R6S I've flashed armbian OS via armbian imager tool + microSD card and installed the os into emmc using armbian-install. Os was working fine then i realize that the minimum required kernel drivers are not available (npu/tpu/gpu). I have tried to install more than a dozen operating systems including that I used before, but the booting process doesn't work. After lots of try I realized that only armbian os is getting booted from the SD card. Mask button which should bypass emmc and force to boot from microSD card is not working after flashing armbian os. I couldn't connect the NanoPi R6S via USB A to A lin…

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Nurb

May 30May 30

Good afternoon. I bought a NanoPi R76s rev. 2 (3GB RAM + 0 EMMC). It works fine with the manufacturer's firmware. However, it doesn't boot on Armbian (26.02.1). I assume rev. 2 isn't supported. Is it possible to add support? Armbian_26.2.1_Nanopi-r76s_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz Скрытый текст --- my build from tag 26.02.1: (log https://paste.armbian.com/poduzitifu ) Скрытый текст --- vendor ubuntu boot log https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OZqZk48LsbSzFz63fcqMKVp5YkhyNOoT/view?usp=drive_link (rk3576-sd-ubuntu-noble-gnome-desktop-6.1-arm64-20260403.img.gz) Скры…

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SuperKali

May 28May 28

**Board:** NanoPi M5 (RK3576) **Kernel:** 6.18.33-current-rockchip64 (#1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 23 11:07:21 UTC 2026) **Armbian build:** v26.8.0-trunk.53 ## Problem Gigabit RX is completely non-functional on `end0` (GMAC0, `ethernet@2a220000`). The interface comes up at 1000Mb/s, TX works, but no packets are ever received. DHCP never gets an OFFER, `ethtool -S end0` shows RX counters stuck at zero. Forcing 100Mb/s via `ethtool -s end0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off` works around the issue — RX starts working immediately. ## Root cause The DTB sets `phy-mode = "rgmii-id"` together with `rx_delay = <0x3f>`. The RTL8211F PHY in `-id` mode a…

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dva108

May 26May 26

Hi, I have been running armbian with the minmal debian trixie image on a odroid M1 for a few month now and I noticed that since I installed the image there has not been a single kernel upgrade. the kernel is still at 6.18.10 despite current debian install image for this board being shipped with 6.18.28 so I am assuming I am doing something wrong. The apt update and apt dist-upgrade logs show clearly all current package information are being downloaded from both debian and the armbian mirrors, and both armbian-config updates and upstream debian packages have been upgraded whenever I run the apt dist-upgrade commands, but the kernel is still the same old ve…

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mybob96

May 26May 26

https://libre.computer/products/roc-rk3399-pc/ Can the computer run entirely on free software which is software you can use, share, modify and redistribute? The question includes firmware, microcode, etc, any piece of software that is running on the computer. If some devices on the computer requires non free software in order to work then what devices are they? And will the computer still work if you choose to not install the pieces of non free software in question? Thank you.

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renky

May 24May 24

Due to the shortage of memory chips these days, Radxa is using different emmc models in their boards. For example, I recently ordered a big batch of Rock S0 boards, but they had to be delivered with Sandisk iNAND 32GB emmc drives instead of the typical 8GB option. The problem is that Armbian did not reliably boot on these new boards. It randomly gets stuck during initialization with the onboard LED endlessly blinking. Some boards works, some did not, some only works sometimes. Long story short, in case other people also have this problem: I found the solution. I believe it is caused by Armbian's Rock S0 device tree enabling the HS200 high speed mode for t…

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grixm

May 21May 21

Hello all! Not sure what is going on at all but I'm having a problem booting the "rolling release" of armbian (debian 14/forky) minimal cli. I'm using a nano pi R76S with 4gb of RAM and 64GB emmc. I can successfully burn a microsd for the previous version (also minimal cli vesion) which boots ok.However if I try to use the newer version nothing happens -- the red LED on the R76S stays permanently on and I get no display or any other life. I did try using different microsd cards but it did not make any difference. I also tried using the same microsd (I wrote the older version first to the microsd which boots) then wrote again on the sa…

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SuperKali

May 21May 21

Note: This is for Odroid m1s, not Odroid m1 - there just isn't a forum for the m1s (yet?) When I tried to start the board with the community image for the Odroid m1s on a SD card, it wouldn't boot. The connected screen (HDMI) would stay black and the blue heartbeat LED would stay on permanently. I tried building and flashing u-boot but that didn't help me. Here's what DID work: (Note: it worked for me. I can't guarantee that this fixes it for everyone, use at your own risk) I mounted the SD card on a Linux desktop and created backups of the boot scripts (just to be safe) sudo cp <mount_path>/armbi_root…

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Jojo

May 19May 19

I am using a Rock 5T 12GB board and have tested multiple Armbian images (24.04, 26.04, and others). Here is my experience so far: Armbian current images Audio does not work at all. When I plug in a 3.5 mm headset, nothing happens — no detection, no sound. Bluetooth works, Wi‑Fi does not. I have to manually compile the Realtek rtw89 wireless driver. After compiling, both Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth work, but still no audio output. Vendor (Radxa) images Audio works perfectly. When I plug in a headset, the system immediately detects it and asks whether it has a microphone. Sound o…

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Monsteroid

May 17May 17

Hi Ive just installed the latest version of Armbian (Ubuntu Noble+KDE) and everything works fine except it looks like it is not detecting my TV resolution correctly. I can choose 1920x1080@120hz but if I try yo go to 4K I can only select 24Hz I attach armbian monitor logs url, modetest and kscreendoctor My cable is HDMI 2.1 Any help would be appreciated modetest -c trying to open device '/dev/dri/card1'... is not a KMS device trying to open device '/dev/dri/card0'... done opened device `RockChip Soc DRM` on driver `rockchip` (version 1.0.0 at 0) Connectors: id encoder status name size (mm) …

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PajPaj

May 16May 16

Hi team, I am on the latest vendor release of gnome installed via armbian installer. Kernel is linux-image-6.1.115-*-rk2410. When I look for audio drivers I do not see card 3: rockchiphdmiin [rockchip,hdmiin], device 0: fddf8000.i2s-dummy_codec hdmiin-dc-0 [fddf8000.i2s-dummy_codec hdmiin-dc-0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 I got the board very recently and the forum is a little mesay about the hdmi rx functionality. It would be a great help if anyone can help me out on this, let me know if i am missing anything.

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hyperwolf

May 16May 16

Hi there. I just got my hands on a brand new 5T with 24GB of RAM and installed Armbian 26.04 minimal on it (on an SD card - no eMMC on this board). I immediately put it to use running CI jobs, however started seeing segfaults and things almost straight away. Current power source is the Radxa 60W power supply. Currently passively cooled (with the Radxa heat sink). Hasn't gone over 70º in the last 24 hours, even when maxxed out compiling rust packages. Here's information about the board: james@kassandra:~$ cat /proc/device-tree/model Radxa ROCK 5Tjames@kassandra:~$ james@kassandra:~$ dpkg -l | grep '^ii linux-' ii linux-base …

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jamesharton

May 11May 11

Has anyone found a working gpiolib implementation for Armbian on Orange Pi 5? I'm aware of wiringPi and it sort of works. However, being able to use the "real stuff" so to speak would make my life easier.

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Werner

May 11May 11

I have been pulling my hair out trying to get the acceleration performance (smooth 4K video playback in mpv / chromium) in Armbian (any of the MESA/VPU marked releases) that I am getting from the FriendlyElec distributions. In my naive mind, I thought the MESA/VPU version would get me there, but mpv stutters on 4K videos. I suspect this is because Armbian avoids the proprietary drives. A long time ago, Armbian Ubuntu versions were able to be 'amended' with the Amazingfate/liujianfeng1994 repository, but I have not been able to make that work in a while. Could someone point me to a guide that allows me to get similar performance with Armbian as I am getting with Frien…

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Blind55

May 9May 9

Hi all, Testing this OP5, got a standard M2 NVMe SSD (this works on my OP5Plus) I have formatted to exFAT with windows, inserted on the OP5, loaded ArmbianOS on MicroSD, it boots fine but I cant get it to show the nvme drive using fdisk -l or lsblk It seem like its not detecting the m2 nvme ssd at all.. little help please ?

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zjd

May 9May 9

I am using :- [ Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble)](https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/Noble_vendor_server) from :- [Radxa Rock 5B Plus - Armbian](https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/) Trying to turn fan on on Radxa Rock 5B+ selecting the device using armbian-config actually makes it disappear I am getting `line 3: echo: write error:Device or resource busy`

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赵泰淇

May 9May 9

After upgrading armbian to 26.2.1 with kernel 6.18.10 performances on WAN interface dropped to 20Mbps for a single TCP connection. The interface is end0, renamed from eth1, driver from ethtool -i is "st_gmac". I used armbian-config to rollback to kernel 6.12.58 and performances are ok now. Will it be fixed in the future kernels ?

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eselarm

May 9May 9

Hi I managed to fix an issue with the usb-c port of the orange pi 5 plus. It seems the device is not activated unless you put it in host mode yourself: as user root: echo host >/sys/kernel/debug/usb/fc000000.usb/mode I have tried a usb-c network card and usb stick. Both work after this command! I noticed this when I installed the 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx kernel. This one does not need this setting, it switches automatically from device mode to host and vice versa. I had alot of problems with analog sound on older kernels, e.g. youtube just hangs unless you mute the sound. But sound in noble 6.19.0-edge-rockchip64 wo…

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Werner

May 8May 8

On RK3568 the Panfrost driver needs the clk-scmi kernel module to be loaded. But is not build in 6.18 / 6.19 otherwise we get [ 13.370681] panfrost fde60000.gpu: get clock failed -517 [ 13.370717] panfrost fde60000.gpu: clk init failed -517 [ 13.485723] panfrost fde60000.gpu: get clock failed -517 [ 13.485761] panfrost fde60000.gpu: clk init failed -517 [ 13.503876] panfrost fde60000.gpu: get clock failed -517 [ 13.503918] panfrost fde60000.gpu: clk init failed -517 Thanks !

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j0ta

May 8May 8

$ grep -i error /var/log/armbian-hardware-monitor.log [ 2.990779] rockchip-pcie f8000000.pcie: probe with driver rockchip-pcie failed with error -110 Looking at this I see the following: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-pci/patch/20210421083115.30213-1-jinsiyu940203@163.com/ "In function rockchip_pcie_host_init_port(), it defines a timeout value of 500ms to wait for pcie training. However, it is not enough for samsung PM953 SSD drive and realtek RTL8111F network adapter, which leads to the following errors: [ 0.879663] rockchip-pcie f8000000.pcie: PCIe link training gen1 timeout! [ 0.880284] rockchip-pcie f8000000.pci…

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joejoe44

May 3May 3

loading the current debian trixie image for nanopc-t6 the reset button on the box stops working after boot-up. the vendor kernel works without issue. Any tips to troubleshoot or patch?

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ando

May 2May 2

Looks like the current-rockchip64 kernel that one receives with apt on PINE64 rockpro64 is 3.18.10 (6.18.10-current-rockchip64), vulnerable to copy-fail. This seems weird because if you go to https://armbian.com/boards/rockpro64 that page says that the "current" kernel for these systems is 6.18.26 and that is what you get when you download the image file. Is there an issue with updating the apt repos?

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callegar

May 2May 2

https://github.com/siderolabs/sbc-rockchip/issues/103 I'm trying to apply this patch, but I think i'm doing something wrong it doesn't seem to be working. I'm getting the same behavior. [ 1.369895] rockchip-dw-pcie a41000000.pcie: iATU: unroll T, 8 ob, 8 ib, align 64K, limit 8G [ 2.224201] r8169 0003:31:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 16362 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] [ 1.504906] rockchip-dw-pcie a40800000.pcie: iATU: unroll T, 8 ob, 8 ib, align 64K, limit 8G I tried putting the patch in: build/userpatches/kernel/rockchip64-current/ Then I tried it in: build/userpatches/kernel/archive/rockchip64-6.18/ b…

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Werner

May 2May 2

I am trying to get the ARM performance assessment setup working (I'm trying to get Mali profiling for OpenCL code) on the Rock 5B+, and I've hit a blocker. The main component to this is some kernel configuration (CONFIG_ARM_SPE_PMU) and a loadable module. Oddly, those work fine in a custom kernel build. What I am hitting appears to be some missing interrupt setup that renders all those components inert. (It has to be a custom build to get CONFIG_ARM_SPE_PMU set. The issue is that even with the kernel configured and the module loaded, the SPE component remains inactive. ARM has its own system report tool which analyzes a setup, and that tool is re…

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Stuart Watt

May 1May 1

Board : radxa rock 5c lite with NVMe HAT and SPI Flash Module. OS : Armbian 25.11.2 stable 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx (Debian trixie) Overlays : rock-5a-spi-nor-flash SPI Flash is on /dev/mtdblock0 Boot from SD : OK Boot from SD system on NVMe : OK ---- I want to boot from Flash, so I tried `Install/Update the bootloader on MTD Flash` menu on `armbian-config'. Then I got this message. No SPI image found. I also updated SPI with `rsetup` from Radxa OS, but it does not work(boot from NVMe failed) either. What do I have to do?

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slmq

April 30Apr 30

I updated to Armbian 26.2.1 on OPi5, and it can't boot from MTD (rootfs at NVMe), and I have to use SD card to boot to NVMe as workaround. After looking into this issue, I found rkspi_loader.img is no longer available for current (6.18.8 kernel) u-boot pkg and armbian-config flashes u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin ( or similar sata version) to /dev/mtdblock0 and I think this is wrong image for MTD bootloader. If I use older vendor image, which u-boot pkg has rkspi_loader.img, system can boot to NVMe rootfs and I notice that /dev/mtdblock0 has several gpt partitions including u-boot one, and flashing u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin erases partitions in SPI flash. I…

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eselarm

April 28Apr 28

Hello, good afternoon. I'm using a translator, so I apologize if it's not clear. I have an Orange Pi 5 Plus SBC which I have Android installed on the m2 drive. I install Armbian on a microSD card. I don't remember what problem I was having, but I had to format the SPI Flash. After that, the Armbian version worked fine. Also, after formatting the SPI Flash, my microphone stopped working on Android (it works on Armbian). Could this be due to formatting the SPI Flash? Thank you.

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Igor

April 25Apr 25

Hi everyone, I'm facing an issue with Armbian installation on Rock 5B Plus. Hardware Board: Radxa ROCK 5B+ (RK3588) Storage: NVMe #1 (system): 256 GB, in M.2 slot 1 NVMe #2 (backup): 128 GB, in M.2 slot 2 Boot: MTD flash + NVMe Power supply: both POE+ HAT 25W and official power supply 30W Software Armbian: 25.11.2 Desktop ubuntu Kernel: 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx Boot configured via armbian-install → “Boot from MTD Flash, system on NVMe” Initial install steps Wrote Armbian image to microSD and booted from SD. Used armbian-install to install: Boot from MTD Flash, system o…

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armbuilder

April 22Apr 22

Greetings, I have an Orange Pi 5 with the edk2 1.1 UEFI bios on the SPI, and an NVMe installed. The BIOS has been set to "Mainline" in the device tree option I tried visiting here https://armbian.com/boards/uefi-arm64 and burning the minimal current6.18.8 CLI image to my USB stick. The Orange Pi 5 displays the graphical grub menu with no problems, complete with penguin in the background etc, but once I choose the boot Armbian option, it displays a few lines of terminal output and then the monitor goes black as if the GPU is initializing and a desktop or graphic would be about to show - when instead, the monitor just reports no signal instead. The system isn't…

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eselarm

April 15Apr 15

Hi! The board gets unnormally hot with when i attach the 2.5G Router Hat. (Powered though the HAT) I tried vendor and edge kernel. Same result. Using the radxa image, its significantly cooler. First look through dts i cannot find any problem. Maybe someone has a better understanding? Thanks Jakob

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Werner

April 12Apr 12

Built image with such flags: Etched img to sdcard and SBC has no response on power up. U-boot log: OS boots normally if I use ext4, but would like to stick to f2fs. Btrfs or f2fs used to work if I used 7 months old armbian-build git checkpoint but not any more. Anyone else had similar problems?

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temp739

April 11Apr 11

mar 22 2026 build. system seems to boot up, lights on, fans on at boot but no hdmi output

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Cybereu

March 27Mar 27