Rockchip

I try to understand the usage of Tinkerboard for Industrial Application usage, we have below questions. 1. Operating temperature is between 0-60 C [as many Industrial PLCs recommend 0-55 C only] 2. Long Term Supply of the Boards 3. Bulk Quantities buying [Get 30 to 50 boards in 2-4 weeks notice] The board and quality seems top notice, RPI interface is good for our use cases, anyone sees a risk in above points or would like to suggest something? We are looking a good sized community, Ubuntu OS, much stable and better performing board compared to Raspberry PI, all seems good with Tinkerboard. Please share your idea…

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Gops

May 2, 20197 yr

Here in the forum the psu mod for the roc-rk3328-cc board was discussed. Does anyone know where I can find instructions on how to do this exactly?

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ska

March 28, 20233 yr

I did a fresh install of armbian jammy 23.5 cli on my orangepi 5 (I previously used 22.11 and 23.02), and I cannot reboot. "sudo reboot" just hangs the system. Not really a big deal, just somewhat annoying, because previous versions runs fine. Anybody else experiencing the same problem? "armbianmonitor -U" output is attached. armbianu.txt

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conky

June 16, 20233 yr

New OPI5+, unable to finish install because ethernet doesn't work. I haven't been able to figure it out and my searches turned up nothing. journalctl has the following messages: - hpptx phy lane locked! - rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet error: no phy at addr -1 - stmmac_open: cannot attach to phy (error -19) I've checked power supply, cables, edited the interfaces file, and more , with no success. I have an Orange Pi 5 that I can swap as is in its place and everything works. Coupled with the fact that I couldn't find mention of the errors, I'm hoping that someone can help me before I give up and return the OPI5…

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octal8

January 1, 20242 yr

I installed Debian 12 (Bookworm)XFCE from the official Armbian website onto the NVME SSD of the board. Everything works fine except the 4 hard drives that are connected to boards SATA connectors. They do appear and work when i boot into the Debian provided by Radxa, so I know hardware isn't an issue. I think that they also worked during the very first boot of the system but after ``` apt update && apt upgrade ``` and reboot, they stop working. Any advice would be much appreciated. ``` rock-5-itx:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS mtdblock0 31:0 0 16M 0 disk mmcblk0 179:0 0…

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Popolon

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How to reset the armbian system and restore the initial configuration operation

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lay

May 16, 20251 yr

I upgraded my ROCK5B in-place from Armbian Bookworm beta to Armbian Testing/Trixie beta and it turns out that no Ambian packages are seen (so not updated). The Debian Trixie packages do upgrade, as for example I just saw while doing full-upgrade: libavif16:arm64 (1.2.1-1.2) over (1.2.1-1.1) ... I thought something with my install, but also downloaded 'Armbian_25.8.0-trunk.50_Rock-5b_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img' yesterday and it has the same issue (quick test via systemd-nspawn container on loopdev mounted image). My goal is at least to figure out what is best bootloader and kernel for the ROCK5B. So far I simply copied/cloned Armbian Bookw…

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eselarm

June 3, 20251 yr

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

Tried 5 diferrent microSD cards, 3 card readers, multiple redownloads on Mac and Windows. Diferrent power supplies, including 100W charger and 52pi EP-0136 direct 5v supply. No green LED, no LAN communication, no HDMI output. Everything i get is in log (via UART) Please help... i've got no more ideas. DDR Version V1.08 20220617 LPDDR4X, 2112MHz channel[0] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=1024MB channel[1] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=1024MB channel[2] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=1024MB channel[3] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=1024MB Manufacturer ID:0x1 Samsung CH0 RX Vref:32.7%, TX Vref:1…

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DimonKyiv

February 19, 20233 yr

Hello. Is it possible to enable OV13855 camera on OPi5 with the latest armbian image? If yes, how do it? Thanks!

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Roman Aliev

June 6, 20251 yr

Hello, unfortunatelly I post again, because of the latest problem with broken install of initramfs .... The system is unable to write it to uboot and gives the error about unsupported architecure. Every standard commands are probed, without result. it comes always the same error.

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technik007_cz

February 1, 20251 yr

Hi, Armbian_23.02.2_Orangepi5_jammy_legacy_5.10.110 works well with my OPI5. I can ssh to and play with it from my Debian desktop. I don't have HDMI monitor so I want to try serial port. i'm using USB-TTL cable to connect OPI5 to my Debian box. Then in Debian bash I use this command to connect to the port screen /dev/ttyUSB0 Then power on the OPI5. The output is garbled: If i change it to cs7 (screen /dev/ttyUSB0 cs7), the output is still something I cannot understand: The stty command and output: $ sudo stty --file=/dev/ttyUSB0 --all speed 9600 baud; rows 0; columns 0; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; e…

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royk

June 5, 20233 yr

Hello! Can anyone comment whether PCIE Passthrough is even theoretically possible on an Orange Pi 5+? Or should I just cease and desist? #1) The hardware seems to be there #2) IOMMU seems to be working at least for platform/PHP devices #3) VFIO looks to be on #4) no cigar The missing piece looks to be MMU600_PCIE support, as non-platform devices don't seem to be getting assigned iommu groups? --- #1 "There are two MMU600 instances in RK3588, MMU600_PCIE and MMU600_PHP respectively " https://github.com/FanX-Tek/rk3588-TRM-and-Datasheet/blob/master/Rockchip RK3588 TRM V1.0-Part1-20220309.pdf #2 root@oppa:~…

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chivi

May 14, 20242 yr

When executing a command - sudo opt upgrade - returns an error: Setting up linux-image-legacy-rk35xx (23.11.1) ... Armbian 'linux-image-legacy-rk35xx' for '5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx': 'postinst' sta rting. * dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx [ OK ] update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8125a-3.fw for module r816 9 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw for module r816 9 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl…

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MakKou86

January 17, 20242 yr

Login, type "sudo armbianmonitor -u" and copy the URL here. the command failed with the following error : /usr/bin/armbianmonitor: ligne 976: iostat : commande introuvable img used : Armbian_24.8.4_Rock-5c_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75-omv_minimal.img.xz hardware : https://docs.radxa.com/en/accessories/penta-sata-hat https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/rock5c 4 ssd samasung evo 870 The image works perfectly when flashed on a SD card and booting from the SD card, the Radxa pentaHat works, the disk are powered (green led for the hat, blue led per each disk). However, when the image is flashed on emmc, the OS boot normaly but the pentaHat does…

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royk

November 17, 20241 yr

Hello Armbian community, I am writing this topic because, despite the drivers for the processor's integrated GPU are installed within the operating system, they do not seem to work properly. Precisely the system seems to work but as soon as I try to play a video it is played by the CPU and not by the GPU with lag and the CPU is at 100%. I leave the link and the attachment of the result of the armbianmonitor -U command that I posted here: https://paste.debian.net/1337993/ it is a compressed tar.gz file since I included all the results of the command Analysis.txt

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Giuseppe93

September 24, 20251 yr

Hello all, I'm also bought an orange pi 5 pro :-) I have red a little bit in the Forum (after i'm bought) and I'm a little bit confused now 🙂 I'm new in the embedded (arm) world but have some knowledge from the desktop/x86 windows & linux world. my first expirience with the device was also .... intresting. I'm installed the official (orangepi.org) debian-booksworm image with the 6.1.xx kernel .... and diddnt get the network interfaces to run, and no nvme device available ... next try was with debian-booksworm image and the 5.10..xx kernel and the networks just runned and the nvme showed up. But i think for my need this kernel is…

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H_Berger

July 21, 20251 yr

Anyone who typically updates on nightly kernels I would recommend freezing and not updating until we clear up some issues gifted us by some large amount of upstream changes that broke well, pretty much everything. I will update this thread as things get brought back to life. June 7th 2018: I've made a branch (rockchip-default) to work out the kinks. So far I have the board booting and Mali working again (with an initial error on load) , however there is no HDMI terminal, so initial boots would require a uart or SSH hdmi terminal is back thank you to Ntemis on github, I'd missed part of the conversation (I only have cell phone while at w…

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TonyMac32

July 20, 20197 yr

May I know how do you enable Panrost support Ubuntu 24.04 on Khadas Edge2? By Khadas SDK, I have built image which failed with followings: 1. Enabled Panfrost in defconfig. 2. Add kisak-mesa ppa, apt update and upgrade. 3. Replace mali_csffw.bin by Armbian mali firmware. After these, the gnome-settings shows the GPU is software vendoring. Hope to get your help~ Thanks!

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Jacob Zang

August 22, 20242 yr

Just got my new tinkerboard powered up with armbian. For some reason I could not get anything after build 1.3 off the Asus site to boot! Anway, first impressions good, however in the graphics settings it seems to max out at 1920 x 1080 whilst on paper the tinkerboard is supposed to support 4k. I'll admit I am new to linux so perhaps i'm missing something ovbious, but if someone could explain how I can up the resolution to 3,840 x 2,160 that would be great. For the avoidance of doubt I have it connected to an Acer 27" 4k monitor.

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zador.blood.stained

August 4, 20179 yr

Scan ssid by mobile phone the SSID can be seen . but always in password loop. I've installed hostapd V2.7 and dnsmasq V2.79. and wpa_supplicant and networkmanager are stopped. The config files are as below: 1: etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf interface=wlan0 driver=nl80211 ssid=TinkerNet hw_mode=g channel=7 wmm_enabled=0 macaddr_acl=0 auth_algs=1 ignore_broadcast_ssid=0 wpa=3 wpa_passphrase=mypassphrase wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=TKIP rsn_pairwise=CCMP 2:/etc/dnsmasq.conf interface=wlan0 # Use the require wireless interface - usually wlan0 …

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SecureXperts

May 31, 20197 yr

In the original PR for Orange PI 5 I recall someone mentioned that the Jammy had somekind of glitch with USB on the OPI5 but is that still the case? From the threads here, it looks like the distribution has many patches and fixes. Is Bullseye the recommended distribution?

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Marco Schirrmeister

February 27, 20233 yr

While exploring my Info Center, I stumbled across this screen: If there are other users who use a Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB, they may also be interested in following this link: https://www.pugetsystems.com/support/guides/critical-samsung-ssd-firmware-update/

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usual user

April 29, 20233 yr

Hello, I'm identifying myself has a newbie concerning linux. After some time I reboot my rock5c and it is not booting anymore. Here is what I've done initially: I bought a rock 5c and a penta sata hat. -I installed Armbian_24.5.1_Rock-5c_bookworm_edge_6.8.10_minimal. -I installed OMV (configure some samba shared folder) -I installed ZFS (for that I needed linux headers that I found online because there were not included) -I create a ZFS pull with two SSD. -I installed immich and setup a cloudflare tunel to use it. -I installed plex media server. That's pretty much all I have setup on my SBC. I've done apt upgrade multiple time &amp…

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eselarm

January 6, 20251 yr

Hello all, I have noticed that whenever I reboot my Orange Pi 5 board, all the 8 cpus slow down to 408 Mhz with no range, as stated by cpufreq-info: I have created a cronjob script in order to bring the frequency back to acceptable range. I don't even know if this is the correct way to solve this, but I am running the following: echo performance | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/dmc/devfreq/dmc/governor cpufreq-set -c 0 -u 1800000 cpufreq-set -c 4 -u 2260000 cpufreq-set -c 6 -u 2300000 cpufreq-set -c 0 -g schedutil cpufreq-set -c 4 -g schedutil cpufreq-set -c 6 -g schedutil However, even though I set the frequency for processo…

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pdieguez

October 20, 20241 yr

Since Armbian moved to the official Rockchip kernel, camera support should work with their new ISP1 driver. I built an image with the needed drivers but unfortunately it doesn't boot anymore... A boot log with the compiled drivers can be seen here (kernel config is attached to this post): Spoiler U-Boot SPL 2017.09-armbian (Mar 03 2018 - 23:43:36) Returning to boot ROM... U-Boot 2017.09-armbian (Mar 03 2018 - 23:43:36 +0100) Model: Tinker-RK3288 DRAM: 2 GiB MMC: dwmmc@ff0c0000: 1 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Model: Tinker-RK3288 Net: eth0: ethernet@ff290000 Hit any key to stop a…

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Myy

June 5, 20188 yr

Basically, I'm trying to get iptables to block per country: https://daenney.github.io/2017/01/07/geoip-filtering-iptables.html I got most of things work until getting problem on installing xtables-addons-dmks # apt-get install --reinstall xtables-addons-dkms ------------------------------ Deleting module version: 2.12 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done. Unpacking xtables-addons-dkms (2.12-0.1) over (2.12-0.1) ... Setting up xtables-addons-dkms (2.12-0.1) ... Loading new xtables-addons-2.12 DKMS files... Building for 4.4.174-rk3399 Building initial module for 4.4…

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Jerry Jyrer

March 30, 20197 yr

Only sharing what I managed to make working on the Orange Pi5: a Tvheadend server with satellite cards TBS 5527 and TBS 5520se. The rough path I followed: - recompiled the kernel in order to have "Linux tv" as a module (CCONFIG_DVB_CORE=m). This will be replaced by the tbs driver in next steps. - installed TVheadend from the armbian-config - compiled tbs drivers by following standards instructions....but: - had to add a CFGLAGS += -w to avoid some warning stopping the build (Makefile in the v4l directory) - had to disable the creation of the mc.ko (MEDIA_CONTROL) to avoid conflict with kernel built-in module (n…

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Tony3

February 12, 20233 yr

Hey there, first of all: THANKS for the armbian project! My issue is with an M1, fresh jammy xfce install on an sd-card. NVME is installed (can be accessed after mounting it manually, no issues there) Wishing to move system to this /dev/nvme0n1, keeping boot on the sdcard, as I understand this being the only viable option, currently. When using armbian-install, selectin option 1 "Boot from SD - system on SATA, USB or NVMe" and confiming, next is an error message: --- There is not enough free capacity on /dev/nvme0n1. Please check your device. --- Did so, tried creating an empty (…

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_Rygelius_

March 19, 20233 yr

Per Radxa here, it is possible to obtain CPU temperature via "sudo cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp". But the following paths do not exist on Armbian 23.05.1 Bookworm with Linux 6.1.30-rockchip64: /etc/armbianmonitor/datasources/soctemp /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp Running armbianmonitor -M, also does not show the temp: Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq C.St. 22:29:52 408 MHz 0.02 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0/6

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kolsi

October 6, 20233 yr

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

Hello, I'm trying to install the zfs-dkms package with the latest build (Armbian_23.02.0-trunk.0127_Orangepi5_jammy_legacy_5.10.110_xfce_desktop.img.xz) and I get the following error: configure: error: *** This kernel does not include the required loadable module *** support! *** *** To build OpenZFS as a loadable Linux kernel module *** enable loadable module support by setting *** `CONFIG_MODULES=y` in the kernel configuration and run *** `make modules_prepare` in the Linux source tree. *** *** If you don't intend to enable loadable kernel module *** support, please com…

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simonswine

January 21, 20242 yr

Hello. I'm sure this has been discussed a lot but I couldn't find anything recent. I just got my Orange Pi 5 Plus and I installed Armbian 23.8 Bookworm CLI on it. It is really fast and I love it so far. I see that it is unclear whether we have some kind of working vulkan drivers or not but I just installed the mesa-vulkan-drivers package and the vulkaninfo command is actually returning output so does that mean that we have vulkan drivers that work for the G610? Thanks in advance

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m33ts4k0z

October 13, 20232 yr

Hi, I have tried Rock 5b images with Kernel 6.8.10. Any of image I've tested will not start. No LED flashing, no HDMI signal.. nothing. The others with Kernel 6.1.43 starts fine.

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Igor

June 5, 20242 yr

Hi, I've installed Armbian_24.5.1_Rock-5b_bookworm_vendor_6.1.43_cinnamon_desktop.img on my Rock 5b and when I have tried to do apt update get error message with armbian.com url. (timeout error) I did all necessary and now it work fine. But for dev info, there is some problem probably with all Stable images.

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Werner

June 6, 20242 yr

This is a new release of the uefi firmware for Orange Pi 5 Plus which now has mainline kernel support. My thought was that this new release would support armbian uefi builds but so far no love. Does anyone know of an armbian build that would work with this??? The is the one of the tag lines from readme.md found @ https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588 "It delivers a PC-like standardized boot experience, supporting multiple operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, BSD and VMware ESXi."

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Hooutoo

December 28, 20241 yr

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

I am working with a Rock Pi S v1.3 and thus far the only image I have been able to get to boot is Armbian 21.05.9 Focal with Linux 4.4.247-rockpis. I have tried the recent Arabian Bookworm, Armbian Jammy and a few other variations I have come across on various forum posts here. With the above working image I can communicate with it via UART and get to the terminal. With everything else I don't even get the blinking blue LED; just two solid green LEDs. I have a few of these boards and have confirmed this issue across all of them. I am not sure what next steps to take so any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in ad…

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boi

June 9, 20233 yr

Hi, I do not konow, it this is the right place to raise this ticket. But in stable releases of Armbian it works fine, but there is no video acceleration. I have tried Kodi on Armbian Noble Gnome + trunk MESA/VPU: Armbian_24.8.0-trunk.85_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.43_gnome-oibaf_desktop.img Kodi falling when I'm trying to install some of extensions. For example https://repo.sc2.zone/ Crash log in the attachment. System log: 2024-06-05T12:01:28.534687+02:00 rock-5b kodi.desktop[3739]: Fatal Python error: PyImport_AppendInittab: PyImport_AppendInittab() may not be called after Py_Initialize() 2024-06-05T12:01:28.…

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ozacas

November 10, 20241 yr

Hi guys We're trying to run SPI with Linuxcnc. But sometimes SPI latency with other hardware (FPGA) gets big. The operating system is armbian and I could install a real-time kernel on it so I know it shouldn't be real-time issue with kernel. We've noticed that it might be the spidev driver issue that is not real-time. And now we're gonna communicate with low-level SPI. Bit I dont know how? can any one please help me?

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going

June 30, 20242 yr

I could not find any arm64/aarch64 MODERN, up to date, Tor browser binaries. Anything below current-stable would be considered insecure, and at a glance I couldn't find them anywhere. So I was able to compile Nightly for the latest updates as well It took 331 minutes, and failed 4 times along the way with 8GB RAM native on the device and 4GB ZFS to start. It did a SIGKILL9 on firefox-glean. Increased to 8gb, still failed until I increased ZFS to 16gb, and then even at a whopping 16gb it crashed next on GkRust for OOM/SIGKILL9 as well until increased ZFS to 32GB! 331 minutes later, it was succesful Just wondering, to save myself from future pun…

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snow

September 7, 20251 yr

Why so few Debian (Trixie) images with this batch of newly released images? Not one full desktop image for Debian?

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Igor

December 4, 2025Dec 4

I'm adding this here as I want to contribute to the community, but I'm still not sure how. I've been playing with Armbian Build lately and found it's great for quick build images for testing purposes before it's officially made available. So I started build my own images with i3, mate, kde, and I noticed that, in my personal taste, the one that was better suited for my needs was Sway, but there's no desktop image with it. So I built a Server version and start installing it. I know it may not be of interest of everybody, so I was planning to do it for myself, so I can continue building with the interface, but having Sway "automatically" installed. …

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ricardo_brz

October 19, 2025Oct 19

Is there a list of Armbian Kernels that include EMMC support? I've tried the vendor kernel build 6.1.99, the LTS 6.12.21, and Bleeding Edge 6.14.0 to find they all lack the mmcblk0 under /dev/ , and lack overlays for it under /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlays/. I have wiped SPI and SPNOR without success.

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Robert Pace

April 18, 20251 yr

Hey everybody, First, thanks for Armbian. The Asus Tinkerboard and the ROCK64 both have the same processor. I'm interested why the Asus Tinkerboard gets the mainline kernel, but the ROCK64 only gets the legacy kernel. Why is this?

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TonyMac32

January 24, 20188 yr

Anybody with a Tinker Board with a Gpu could run an inference for me? I need a benchmark for my thesis.

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jock

February 25, 20233 yr

Anyone tried installing Steam Link? There seems to be an image in Raspberry OS but I cannot find a deb image for aarch64. Official flatpack is x64 only...

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OttawaHacker

December 14, 20232 yr

I have long struggled with a problem with my Rock S0: If using the USB OTG port in device mode, the connection would suddenly drop randomly, minutes or sometimes hours after initialization. I spent months on and off looking for solutions, and I finally found one, so here it is if you ever find yourself having the same problem. Basically, it is caused by the SoC being very sensitive to voltage drops before the USB controller interprets it as the connection being lost. It's far more sensitive than it needs to be, given that my device is bus-powered and so the OS never actually needs to worry about a connection loss. If the connection is lost it is because I have unplug…

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laibsch

July 4, 20251 yr

Howdy, I am in desperate need of help getting this dang usb wifi dongle working on my orange pi 5. I am new to sbc and fiarly new to linux. I have tried multiple github drivers with freash OS installs, all to no avail. Time spent trying to get it to work is reaching close 20 hours, across multiple forums, github searches, videos, linux how to site, and armbian site itself. I'm either missing something or an idiot cause i can't figure out this "make" or "dkms" command stuff out for compiling the driver and installing it. My last resort is asking for y'all for help before i feed this thing to my dog... "joke". My most recent attempt is from the git h…

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MarcAndro

February 25, 20233 yr

Hello everyone, I recently installed my orangePi 5 to pass workload from my x86 servers over to the orangePi. My main focus is to reduce my overall energy consumption of my homelab. TL;DR Kernel thinks, that while being idle the sweet spot for the frequencies in "ondemand" and "schedutil" is: 1024MHz on the small chips (CPU0-3) 816MHZ on the big chips (CPU4+5, CPU6+7) Reason is an internal cost calculation power vs. frequency gain, which sorts out the lower frequencies. Long story: After getting my first orangePi5 in place, I started to play around with the hardware. I am running: █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █…

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Matthias Strubel

September 20, 20233 yr

I must be doing something stupid. After having switched the branch "Multimedia" as M, no module are generated at all and I end up with error like: 🔨] ERROR: modpost: "dma_contiguous_default_area" [drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-cma-sg.ko] undefined! [🔨] ERROR: modpost: "cma_release" [drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-cma-sg.ko] undefined! [🔨] ERROR: modpost: "cma_alloc" [drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-cma-sg.ko] undefined! Reading documentation to buld armbian, it only mention docker. I have been (last year) generating kernel on the machine itself (the orange pi 5 plus), this is not supported? thanks.

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Tony3

June 17, 20242 yr

Hello, Recently I have upgraded Armbian on my PBP (w/o kernel). My current kernel is 5.10.60 #21.08.1. I know, it's old but the newer only makes PBP unusable at all - black screen on boot. My current issue concerns the PBP keyboard. Some keys started generating weird outputs. I have never faced with something like that. When I press 'q' - output is - aq2468 x - zxetuj c - cfghk d - DWRI 1 - the screen is dimming I have no idea if this is software or hardware issue. The computer was on the shelf. Nothing has happened to it physically. After years of fighting with this crap :( - I want to be sure if that is the last straw to put this com…

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bushw

November 15, 20241 yr

I have built quite a few Debian12 Desktop images from github.com/armbian/build for a Debian Bookworm/XFCE/Vendor Kernel environment and noticed that recent vendor kernels do not have I2C-2.M0 as a kernel module listed within armbian-config. It appears that only two kernel modules are to be found, one being Panthos, the other involving a change in frequence of some item. This image does include I2C-2.mo: Armbian-unofficial_25.02.0-trunk_Orangepi5-plus_bookworm_vendor_6.1.84_xfce_desktop.img which includes kernel: Linux Atlas 6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx #1 SMP Fri Feb 21 18:11:03 UTC 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux But these images do not contain the I2C-2…

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Robert Pace

March 1, 20251 yr

Hi, I am wanting to try running OPNsense under proxmox, but before that I wanted to setup the type-C port as a management port. I have added g_cdc in /etc/modules to load the kernel module and if I run a vendor kernel, it works fine. I plug my laptop in to the boards type-C port and it shows up as an ethernet adapter and I can SSH directly to the Rock 5 ITX. I however would like to use a mainline kernel instead as it generally runs better thanks to the amazing work of the community here. Running 6.12, this same functionality does not work and nothing appears in the network adapters on my laptop when plugging in. Looking on mainline-status, I see that the typ…

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prahal

May 16, 20251 yr

Hello, I usually use the Next version of the image for the tinkerboard. I would like to use the nightly version. But the nightly version does not automatically log on to the user I created at the beginning in contradiction to the other version. How do I reactivate automatic login in nightly build ? Thanks

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freak

October 11, 20179 yr

Hy, I'm looking for a Command to get the Serial Number of my Tinkerboard. I have found this in the Web : cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Serial | sed s/.*\ //g But i get 000000000000. Someone have an Idea please? Thank you :)

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domoticity

February 25, 20197 yr

In fact all versions since kernel 5.10.?? are broken and stop at u-boot. Better the Uboot shall dive down and never ever come up to bother us. Finally I managed to install bullseye by using a buster image, deactivtion kernel upgrade and removed the armbian.list from /etc/apt/ Then I changed source list from buster to bullseye apt update apt upgrade -y apt full-upgrade -y thats it. And i is really a shame to fool the community by uploading untested software.

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TRS-80

July 27, 20242 yr

Trying to set Wireguard (www.wireguard.io). I can compile and load the module (which is an issue on most distributions as they lack the necessary kernel headers), but bringing up the interface fails: root@tinkerboard:/etc/wireguard# wg-quick up mullvad [#] ip link add mullvad type wireguard [#] wg setconf mullvad /dev/fd/63 [#] ip address add 10.99.0.23 dev mullvad [#] ip link set mtu 1420 dev mullvad [#] ip link set mullvad up [#] wg set mullvad fwmark 51820 [#] ip -6 route add ::/0 dev mullvad table 51820 [#] ip -6 rule add not fwmark 51820 table 51820 RTNETLINK answers: Address family not supported by protocol […

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lampra

December 17, 20178 yr

Hi I was struggling to find the right package for my Tinkerboard. I needed a reasonably powerful 24x7 appliance that could provide torrent downloading, wifi hotspot, a shared network drive and a LMS box. After trying out the Asus effort and DietPi - both with severe issues) I landed on Armbian and it seems to have everything going for it but the LMS install just does not work. I am a Linux newbie, I know my way around Windows and a GUI, and used the instructions here and a few other places to successfully set up the hotspot and the sharing and automounting of large USB drives. It took me the better part of 6 hours just to figure all of that out (j…

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Sangram

January 28, 20188 yr

Hy again :p; I have customed my sd for my tinkerboard. i have done some settings like eth0 in static, partitions modified scripts and hostapd. When i put it in another Tinkerboard, everything works except wifi ap. I have searched why, and i have found that in my initial tinkerboard wifi is wlan0 and his settings is in /etc/network/interfaces.d/armbian.ap.nat When i put my SD in another tinkerboard, it is wlan1 which mounts and no wlan0. Wlan1 has no ip address. i don't see where is the problem? thanks by advance

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domoticity

February 26, 20197 yr

I have seen the uefi port for Rock 5B, which uses rk3588. seed this the opi5 use rk3588s which may lack some IOs, so I think maybe it can work on opi5 without modification. (actually i don't know how to modify to fit for it, need to learn) here i show you the result, I burn the uefi image (complied from balbes150's repo: https://github.com/150balbes/edk2_uefi ) to a tf card, then burn the image from balbes150's post to a usb portable ssd. then i change the dtb. The efi and grub can boot form tf card and then load the image from my usb ssd. successfully enter the Armbian and seems no big issues. But this can only work on the 2 type-A usb3.0, i try on usb2.…

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Sumn255

January 4, 20233 yr

Please advise on how to fix this, thanks: Setting up rockchip-multimedia-config (1.0.2+jammy) ... dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs at least one package name argument Use --help for help about querying packages. dpkg: error processing package rockchip-multimedia-config (--configure): installed rockchip-multimedia-config package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: rockchip-multimedia-config E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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FierroMarco

December 9, 20241 yr

Hi i want to know if it’s possible to connect a raxda rock 5B with armbian on a touch screen Joy-it LCD10 V2 Module écran tactile 25.7 cm (10.1 pouces) 1280 x 800 Pixel by usb and hdmi ?

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cvogelzang

July 23, 20251 yr

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

Hello, I'm unable to make the RTL8723BS chip on my Tinker Board to work on AP mode with the 5.4 kernel (same configuration works on legacy kernel). When I try to connect I get this error on dmesg: RTL8723BS: ap recv deauth reason code(3) sta:40:4e:36:cf:8a:18 On the console I also get a bunch of kernel errors similar to this: Message from syslogd@localhost at Dec 27 14:26:11 ... kernel:[ 799.239910] ff60: bf0377a4 dd8057e8 dd07ffac dd07ff78 c014a17c bf0377b0 de2d9128 de2d9128 Is this a known problem? Thanks

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Ravaz

January 14, 20206 yr

I know for sure that booting from an sd card and then using dd to write the uncompressed image to the emmc device isn't what works. I'm talking about Armbian_22.02.1_Pinebook-pro_focal_current_5.15.25_xfce_desktop.img here. Because that essentially bricked my PBP. I have the little adapter to connect the emmc to a usd slot, and using balena etcher to write to that isn't it either. the uboot in that image prevents booting from sd automatically as well, and i didn't find any uboot documentation that made it clear how to manually boot from sd, though i did hook up a serial console. This is what it said. The LED never turned green, the display flashe…

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kgb

October 22, 20232 yr

I searched & tried all materials I can find, trying to set up FFmpeg to work with hardware acceleration on Orange Pi 5. But it did NOT work. Anyone else succeeds in using GPU hardware acceleration to encode/transcode video on Orange Pi 5 using FFmpeg? (or using gstreamer?) Could you please share with me the way to do it? Thank you very much indeed!

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jyce

July 3, 20242 yr

hi all, so i skipped i beleive 2 releases of armbian for opi5 and i just downloaded latest and installed. i am not english native and armbian installs local langauge automaticaly wich is ABSOLUTELY NOT WANTED and quite annoying from my perspective. what i need is just plain en.us or english internatinal for system and keyboard but i cant get it. i tried changing it with armbian config but it doesnt do a thing, local language is always there and its a huge PITA. please armbian dudes, return to manual selection, i beg you. any tips how i can fix it so its just plain english? or how can i force installation to ask me what language to choose? thanks for an…

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Dim3nt0

August 15, 20233 yr

Armbian 24.5.1. I don't have a serial console setup so I can't tell if it's actually starting to boot or not, but it never gets to the point where a video signal is sent to HDMI. It *does* send a CEC on signal to the TV, which does turn on, and power-cycling the Pi then begins a normal boot process. Pi also boots normally headless. Problem noted on one Insignia model and on a Vizio TV, works as expected on another Insignia model, on a Hisense and on an LG. Issue began after updating the kernel from legacy.

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Alex D

August 14, 20242 yr

Hi, after upgrading to Armbian 24.11.3 noble with 6.1 Kernel I have this problem that every time I turn off my TV that is connected to OPI with HDMI, then turning it back on again it will never have a HDMI signal. Same thing happens when I unplug the HDMI cable and plug it back in. I can reproduce it every single time - not just occasionally. It is not a hardware or cable problem, the exact same setup has worked flawlessly for long time with older Armbian and 5.1 kernel. I tried disabling all of the KDE power saving settings, also totally disabled kpowerdevil - with no change. SSH still works fine, the OS has not crashed. …

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martivo

February 7, 20251 yr

Hi out there! I've managed to build a quite complex system based on Tinker, using 1 Wire sensor, I2C-s, all of all UART's, and all of all remaining GPIO's... :-) Unfortunately a long term test in a climate chamber have failed... (although the core was just heated up to 70 degrees Celsius) The need for a hardware watchdog then arise... I've build new kernel using latest compile.sh with the HW watchdog checked resulting Linux tinkerboard 4.4.110-rockchip #2 SMP Wed Jan 10 16:41:03 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux but there is no /dev/watchdog Not even in /proc/iomem at ff800000... …

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TonyMac32

January 11, 20188 yr

Hello, Armbian 22.02 images doesn't boot on rockpro64. I have tried: Armbian 22.02 Bullseye Armbian 22.02 Jammy XFCE It doesn't boot (not blinking white led). Previous builds works correctly: Armbian_21.08.1_Rockpro64_bullseye_current_5.10.60

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2play

August 21, 20233 yr

Thanks to @brentr we got new images with several fixes: https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1269 RockPI WiFi assigned different MAC address on each boot https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1268 RockPI-S WiFi throughput only 300K bytes/second https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1265 Rock PI-S images will not boot from internal EMMC (SDNAND) https://www.armbian.com/rockpi-s/

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Igor

November 9, 20223 yr

I received my new orange pi 5 plus. I installed the official Orange PI 5 Plus Ubuntu on a SD card and it worked great. Then I installed the "Armbian_23.8.1_Orangepi5-plus_jammy_legacy_5.10.160_gnome_desktop" on SD card (Yes I took the image from the page with the "archive for orange Pi 5 plus"), and it get stuck on a screen displaying "Orange PI" (I do not see any armbian logo) , and nothing else happens (the blue light on the board does not blink). Why is that? How can I see what is happening? I installed in the past Armbian on an Orange Pi 5 with no issue, so I am really wondering what is going on there. Your view/ideas w…

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Tony3

September 1, 20233 yr

I just upgraded to Arabian 24.5.1 using `apt-get upgrade` and now I cannot load ip_tables: # modprobe ip_tables modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'ip_tables': Exec format error I’m not sure what to make of it.

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Koehn

November 26, 20241 yr

Hi, I've come from Joshua's 24.04 Server build. I was concerned that the support was dropping off as he's having a well deserved break. I've installed the latest Server build from here. https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi5-plus/Noble_current_server-kisak Works fine, have moved it to EMMC and removed the SD card. I use a USB power meter to see how much juice it uses. I noticed this build uses about 20 to 25% more when idle or under load compared to Josh's 6.1 kernel build. I am suspecting 6.12 has enabled more hardware in the OPi5+ and this is the reason. Is there a way to disable some of the HW to low…

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Thewonderer

March 11, 20251 yr

I have an extra CB2 laying around and want to set it up with Home Assistant. However, I think I have tried all the google search and am not able to find the answer. Thus I am wondering if CB2 would be supported by Armbian community? I am currently on BTT V3.0.0 Beta 2, and got crashed (no boot) after I tried to install the docker, so I guess the BTT CB2 V3.0.0 does not fully supoort other program except Mainsail for 3D printing.

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anarsoul

March 23, 20251 yr

I got a 6.1 noble minimal image installed with a latest kubuntu update to KDE 6. Was quite some work to get this all working. But some thing aren't working (e.g. audio?). 6.12 and later supports a range more peripherals. I tried the non-vendor images but no go. How do I install one of those? (Not using ROOBI, I hacked this to use my own)

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Jurgen.Schober

June 2, 20251 yr

I have an Orange Pi 5 board, installed with the 25.8 Debian Bookworm + Cinnamon desktop system. I have switched (using armbian-config) to the edge kernel in order to test the HDMI audio support in the new Linux kernel, but I'm not getting any audio out. The ALSA HDMI card seems to be present (see below), but there's no sound using speaker-test or aplay. I have enabled the hdmirx overlay through armbian-config also, but the result is the same. Is there anything extra that should be configured in order to get audio output ? Output from armbianmonitor - https://paste.armbian.com/gegorimako

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mitu

October 6, 20251 yr

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

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