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Hi, all. After I upgraded the system and rebooted, the secondary ethernet port(i.e. the LAN port) is gone. The system info: https://paste.armbian.com/ekotoqigos nanopi-r4s:~:% ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 68:27:19:ad:02:09 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff in…

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ArmUser

March 23Mar 23

Looks like only one HDMI port and one NVMe drive bays work on the edge kernels. Not sure whats wrong with HDMI port but two SSDs installed cause issues PCIE addressing. Probably overlay issue with the newer kernel images?

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armbuilder

March 23Mar 23

Hello, I have experimented with a Realtek USB 2.5Gbe USB Ethernet dongle and find that it works fine with the vendor kernel but not with kernels 6.12.x or 6.18.y. I have included an iperf3 example below, you can see that the dongle manages a few runs at high speed before it quietly fails and seizes up. I use a number of these dongles and they tend to work fine on other set-ups. Any thoughts about a resolution? dmesg output: [Tue Mar 17 11:37:00 2026] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci-hcd [Tue Mar 17 11:37:00 2026] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8156, bcdDevice=31.00 […

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schwar3kat

March 18Mar 18

If you'd like to get the LEDs working with armbian, you can run these commands (or one of the other ones if you want different indications): run modprobe ledtrig-netdev to check if it's loading the driver properly. If not, add the file /etc/modules-load.d/ledtrig.conf add just this line: ledtrig-netdev Then, create /etc/tmpfiles.d/leds.conf and add this: w /sys/class/leds/green:lan/trigger - - - - netdev w /sys/class/leds/green:lan/device_name - - - - eth0 w /sys/class/leds/green:lan/link - - - - 1 w /sys/class/leds/green:lan/tx - - - - 1 w /sys/class/leds/green:lan/rx - - - - 1 w /sys/class/leds/green:wan/trigger - - - - netd…

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Meestor_X

March 16Mar 16

I see there's an overlay for the R4S called rk3399-dwc3-0-host, but it already seems to be in host mode by default. I can't figure out how to set it to peripheral mode so I can have some usb-gadget love. Anyone figured out a fix?

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Meestor_X

March 16Mar 16

Hello, I have installed the minimal Trixie based image for Orange Pi5 (the image named Armbian_26.2.1_Orangepi5_trixie_current_6.18.8_minimal) and then attempted to build an out-of-tree kernel module. Having installed dkms and build-essentials, plus the kernel headers through armbian-config, I found the headers package hasn't been fully set-up, the build symlink in /lib/modules/<KVER> is missing and dkms complains that the kernel headers for the kernel are not installed. The kernel headers are installed though, but it looks like they're from a previous release (25.11.2 instead of 26.2.1). # dpkg -l | grep rockchip ii linux-dtb-cur…

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mitu

March 15Mar 15

Hi, I am not able to make Radxa Camera 8M to work with Armbian_24.5.3_Radxa-zero3_bookworm_vendor_6.1.43_minimal.img and Armbian_24.5.1_Radxa-zero3_noble_vendor_6.1.43.img gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video0 io-mode=4 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=NV12,width=1920,height=1080 ! jpegenc ! multifilesink location=/home/a2t/test.jpg Pipeline is live and does not need PREROLL ... Pipeline is PREROLLED ... Setting pipeline to PLAYING ... New clock: GstSystemClock ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src0: Internal data stream error. Additional debug info: ../libs/gst/base/gstbasesrc.c(3132): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/G…

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Karl Kopf

March 14Mar 14

Bug Description eMMC is not detected on Radxa Zero 3W when booting Armbian Trixie from SD card. The eMMC controller initializes but fails to find power supply regulators, resulting in no block device being created. Hardware Board: Radxa Zero 3W (4GB RAM / 8GB eMMC) Boot media: SD card Image Armbian Trixie (current kernel) for Radxa Zero 3 DTB: rk3566-radxa-zero3.dtb Symptoms WiFi and SD card work fine eMMC does not appear in lsblk dmesg shows the SDHCI controller at fe310000.mmc loading but failing regulator lookups: sdhci-dwcmshc fe310000.mmc: Looking up vmmc-supply property in node /mmc@f…

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EvilGenius

March 9Mar 9

I have a RK3588 (Radxa Rock 5C) system running Armbian Debian Trixie. I have the heatsink and the fan installed as well. I set the fan PWM to 255 as soon as temperature reaches 50 degrees via a systemd service. When using all 8 cores, the system overheats (>110 degrees) and eventually shuts down. For example, when compiling ffmpeg, it works fine with 'make -j6', but 'make -j8' results in a shutdown before compilation is complete. Likewise I had thermal issues when using llama.cpp. Shouldn't the OS throttle the CPU when temperature reaches high levels? I think that is not happening at the moment. Online search referred me to cpufrequtils to …

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ileri

March 9Mar 9

hi. Please tell me, I installed the image and bootloader on the emmc (armbian) on the radxa 5t and now I can't install another one because the board doesn't want to start from the CD card. what should I do? Im try this but doesnt work https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/rock5t/low-level-dev/maskrom/erase

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B1tik

March 4Mar 4

Hi! I have got Orange Pi 4 lts with 4 gb ram version. I made flashed sd card using Armbian-Imager using jammy_current_6.6.31 minimal. My problem is OS detects only 3gb (2.91) of 4gb. And i investigated and googled, spent more enough time to fix it but still fail. It is not likely reservation. also tried with bookworm the result is same 3gb. with noble minimal the board doesn't boot at all. what can i do to make os detect all 4 gbs. Maybe there was some similar issue before and i missed? Many thanks, appreciate any help!

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Kamar

March 2Mar 2

Fairly recently, I've noticed these warnings appearing when running apt update. I have tried importing the keys from the repositories in question, but that has not remediated the issue. root@modron:/home/luna# apt update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease Hit:4 http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease Hit:6 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian trixie InRelease Hit:7 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Get:5 http://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/apt trixie InRelease [62.3 kB] Err:5 http://armbian.lv.…

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technik007_cz

March 1Mar 1

Dear all, I just received my new NanoPC-T6 Plus from FriendlyElec: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=315 I couldn't find a dedicated image for this SBC, is it compatible with the one for the NanoPC T6 LTS (same board, upgraded LPDDR5 RAM) ? https://www.armbian.com/nanopct6-lts/ Best regards, Magic Sam

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magic_sam

February 28Feb 28

My first post here - I'm new to SBCs and stoked I got my home webserver up and running on a Orange Pi 5 which boots from an NVMe (pats-self-on-back : -) It runs great, pages are up, and it's all SO COOL, but it fails to do a restart... I can do a shutdown -h now, count to three and power it back up and all is well, but if I do a shutdown -r now it will go down, start back up, all the way to the login prompt but then barfs a long Oops message. God please... don't make me start over !

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xsetiadi

February 27Feb 27

It seems that the HDMI output does not have any option beyond 1080P. Tried multiple monitors. The font size at uboot stage seems right but the resolution maxed out at 1080P after kernel starts. Tried Armbian 24.2.1 with 6.6.16. Could be related with this: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/rk3399-hdmi-output-for-resolutions-different-than-1080p/90644. but patches should be applied at Kernel 6.4: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.4-imx25-Rockchip-4K Attached is the screenshot when connected with DELL 25inch monitor. Should have 2K option. diagnoses: https://paste.armbian.com/gaketoluye Thank you

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DavidFajardo

February 26Feb 26

Does anybody know how one could correct multichannel HDMI audio mapping in the current-rockchip64 build or kernel? When I run speaker-test -c6 -D plughw:0,0 on (kernel) 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx + (dtb) dtb-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx Everything is mapped correctly and I hear audio from all the correct channels. When I run the same command on (kernel) 6.18.12-current-rockchip64 + (dtb) dtb-6.18.12-current-rockchip64 I get no audio on center and rear right channels (others are working). Is this a mistake or error in the DTB file of dtb-6.18.12-current-rockchip64 (rk3588s-nanopi-r6s.dtb) ? How can we correct this?

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MaxT

February 25Feb 25

Downloaded Debian 13 (Trixie)Minimal / IOT kernel 6.18 onto SD and had it working 24/7 for about 2-3 days with no problems. I selected the option to copy the content of the SD card to an NVME, updated the MTD flash and set it as first boot option and now the device wont boot from nvme, SD or USB. How can I recover the unit?

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Fabricio Martínez Tamayo

February 25Feb 25

I originally posted this on reddit after seeing a lot of posts trying to use a SATA M.2 SSD and saying it wouldn't boot with replies telling them to go buy a NVME M.2 SSD which isn't necessary when the board does support SATA M.2 with flashing the correct bootloader. This guide has 3 different sections, 1 being booting with Orange pi OS and 2 being with Armbian OS Orange Pi OS Instructions Download Orange Pi OS Ubuntu or Debian from their website http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/service-and-support/Orange-pi-5.html unzip the 7z file to get the .img file and flash it to your sd card with your preferred flasher i.e balenaetc…

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dionisisl_

February 21Feb 21

Yesterday I was happy to see the new and fresh Armbian release for the Rock 5 ITX after about 1 year from the last update. I also tried the Armbian Imager and the SD creation was very easy and smooth. I selected the recommended release based on Ubuntu 24.04 + Gnome desktop. Unfortunately when the desktop was about to start, everything when black, stucked and zero interface. On the other hand, the OS is alive and I can connect remotely via SSH. Did anyone have the same problem? Possible solution? [EDIT]. sudo systemctl restart gdm and desktop pops up. Restarting the system, black again.

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DavidFajardo

February 20Feb 20

Can't seem to get bluetooth working with trixie and pipewire. I can pair & trust, just can't connect. Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-profile-unavailable Anyone else had this issue? Was working fine on a cubie running bullseye, so next maybe I'll try and older os and see...

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Meestor_X

February 17Feb 17

When running PassMark on my Rock Pi S running Armbian 25.11, the system completely freezes, including the serial console. The blue TF card read/write LED stays lit, and OOM events are visible on the serial console. This freeze typically lasts over half an hour before the system recovers as the blue LED turns off. OOM events also occur on the stock kernel 4.4 system, but it doesn't freeze. I really don't want to use the 4.4 kernel system, but how can I optimize it? Below is my system configuration and log output: Translated with DeepL.com (free version) pi@Pi-s:~$ uname -a Linux Pi-s 6.12.58-current-rockchip64 #3 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 13 20:34:41 UTC 2025 …

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brentr

February 17Feb 17

Hi, after find out that the usb-connector right so have I tried install on a usb3-sata-m2 disk, I have problem to install. I created partision on the usb-disk with ambian-install, and after that trying to select 8 (download and install clean image), but it can't find any image for my board. I have no eMMC on my 4GB ram radaxa zero 3Wso I run from SD-card.

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Johan Nilsson

February 13Feb 13

I have a nice armbian image on an SSD on a rock5b board. I want to copy it to an sd card for cloning on other boards. Does anyone know how this can be done? It doesn't come out via dd

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eselarm

February 10Feb 10

Armbian Linux v6.1 - Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) with XFCE seems not to support full bluetooth controller at boot stage, we need to manually load hci_uart module and and attach it to the serial interface. Is there any other service that is required to be enabled or any overlay that should be checked? After boot, we need to execute some commands to get the BT controller alive: user@bananapim7:~$ hcitool dev Devices: user@bananapim7:~$ sudo modprobe bluetooth user@bananapim7:~$ sudo modprobe hci_uart user@bananapim7:~$ sudo btattach -B /dev/ttyS6 -P bcm -S 115200 & [1] 3405 Attaching Primary controller to /dev/ttyS6 Switched line discipline fro…

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SM2027

February 5Feb 5

Hi rock5b user 🙂 My sbc hangs after 8-14 hours on the network. no ping from inside or outside works # ip link - show eth0 up after the commands ip link set eth0 down ip link set eth0 up - the network worgs again, https://paste.armbian.com/tiqabekoje - any hints for this issue?

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eselarm

February 2Feb 2

Hi, I've read on here that you can apparently switch to a stable edge branch through Armbian Config, but the closest I can find is 'switch to rolling packages repository' and 'distribution upgrade to rolling unstable'. Are either of these correct? I'm running the Ubuntu Noble 6.12 kernel, btw. Many thanks.

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Farfalla2728

January 25Jan 25

Hi there, I'm really happy with Armbian on my Oprange Pi 5 Plus but recently I noticed that I'm not getting kernel updates so often as before. I use rockchip-edge branch and I'm stuck at kernel "6.18.0-rc6-edge-rockchip64". I know there are new versions being tested (https://github.com/armbian/os/pkgs/container/os%2Fkernel-rockchip64-edge), will they be released to armbian? Maybe you are working hard on Armbian version 26.2 and I'm just anxious Thanks in advance!

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Werner

January 21Jan 21

Hi Wanted to try this Debian rolling release with Linux v6.18 from https://www.armbian.com/rockpie/ page, but both links there https://dl.armbian.com/nightly/rockpi-e/Forky_current_minimal https://dl.armbian.com/nightly/rockpi-e/Plucky_current_minimal lead to a 404 page on github.com. Thanks, Chris

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ChrisO

January 20Jan 20

It was found that 3.5mm jack has issue with using headset. Speakers are work good on my "uname -a Linux orangepi5-plus 6.19.0-rc5-edge-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 12 03:03:14 UTC 2026 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux" system but micro is silent. By debugging it was found that register 0x2b(43) "DAC Control 21" has difference between actually used es8388 on OP5+ and original driver's IC es8328. Also microphone bias was never activated by bits 2,3 in register 0x03. I create patch and now microphone work properly. I don't know how to properly share this patch so I will attache it here. orangepi-5-plus_ES8388_Microphone.patch

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Perechesov Vladimir

January 18Jan 18

hi there, I'm a complete Linux noob so please forgive my ignorance. But I do have 25+ years experience in IT so am relatively conversant with basic principles - so please be patient I did try to search for any previous threads but couldn't find any. I'm trying to setup a RADXA Rock 5 ITX with OpenMediaVault for my NAS. I have a 2TB NVMe m.2 SSD that I'll use for the OS. For the NAS storage I'm using 4x Western Digital 16TB SATA III drives. I downloaded the Armbian 25.2.2 bootable image from https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5-itx/ and used Balena Etcher (the legit version from Balena-io) to make my bootable microSD card. …

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nyecov

January 15Jan 15

Hello, I installed lm-sensors on my Opi5 and I'm able to check temperatures, however I don't know how to make the little fan spin when the temperature rise. I know the temperature is not going to rise till critical levels, but I live in very hot country and I just don't want my device to become too hot. And do you know how to make the fan start at certain temperature rise? Also I'm not sure which pins I should connect the fan to.. One pin should be the 3.3V to get the power, what about the other one? I'm running Armbian 23.02.2 with kernel 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588 Thanks in advance

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JohnU

January 13Jan 13

Hello, sorry for the tag (no odroid m1 tag) and if I'm in the wrong place. I downloaded the image Armbian_24.8.3_ordoidm1_jammy_current_6.6.51_kde-neon-kisak-desktop The image does not start without pressing rcy, so far normal. After flashing the mtd with armbian-installer and copying to SSD. The image still does not start. No display. After trying several things and without success, I decided to try an old image: Armbian_24.2.1_ordoidm1_jammy_current_6.6.16_xfce_desktop. I here rcy boot, install, copy to SSD, flash mtd and reboot. And it works. So I tried image 6.6.51 kde Again. But without flashing the mtd. And there it boot…

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m1zfs

January 10Jan 10

Hello everybody! I need help: I can't turn on the SPI interface in any way so that /dev/spidev0 or /dev/spidev1 appears. In armbian-config, there are generally only 7 lines in the hardware section, in which there is nothing interesting, an attempt to register spidev in armbianEnv.txt it also does not help, in dmesg and journalctl - silence... Where did the interface go?

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solaris3308

December 30, 2025Dec 30

I am experiencing an issue with my Rock Pi S. When using SPI1, I am not observing any CLK output signal on pin GPIO3_B3, which I have verified with an oscilloscope. Other signals such as MOSI, MISO, and CS are functioning correctly. I have found that this issue does not occur in the older kernel 4.4.143-65-rockchip-g58431d38f8f3. However, when using the latest Armbian 25.2.2 Bookworm Minimal / IOT image, this problem arises. Could someone please assist me in resolving this problem?

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solaris3308

December 30, 2025Dec 30

after configuring the image from the sd card and installing the system on ssd m2 via armbiab-install, the board stopped shutting down. I tried to change bootloader, img, and EF through rkdeveloptool, but nothing helps. PS EF doesn't work, does anyone know what to do?

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royk

December 30, 2025Dec 30

Hello, After 5 years of loyal service, my Helios64 SBC just died on me last night. Would a Radxa Rock5 ITX+ and a M.2 to Hexa SATA Adapter could be a good drop in replacement to reuse the case? Both are Mini-ITX so it would fit. I know I would lose the front panel lights and power/reset button, and I would need to cut the back panel to fit the I/O shield but these are minor problems. What I am more concerned with, is if it is at all possible to power the 5 HDD from the radxa board (as the Helios 64 board didi). Helios engineers had made it possible to do it with minimum power, mainly by starting up the drives sequentially. …

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luneth

December 26, 2025Dec 26

Hiya, I am currently trying to setup some ROCK 5B boards as runners and as I install the latest Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) from here https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b/ it seems to get to where I configure my user etc, then on the next boot it gets stuck at kernal. So I guess before I go through trial and error , is there a recognised most stable build that can be relaibly flashed people would recommend, I found the Rock provided Debian and KDE Plasma to be very buggy and just kept locking up on me so something with Gnome would be cool for now , but will probably move to headless much further down the line. Amazing community reading the messages so far so thank y…

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eselarm

December 25, 2025Dec 25

Hello! I'm new to this forum but i follow the SBC comunity for a long time. I have a Pine 64, a bunch of raspberryies, 2 nanopies and some "japanese" arm64 tablet. Now i have bought a Radxa 5 Mini-ITX and i'm very happy with it. I was capable to compile ffmpeg with the rockchip extensions and exploit the RK3588 VPU and the NPU with face recognition. Now i was testing the HDMI Input of the board and unfortunaly discovered that the video is capturing just fine but i'm out of luck with the audio side. On the kernel 6.1.115 (last BSP at the moment i think) the recording device of the audio input is not visible in arecode -l This is what i see: **** List…

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Federico Cappon

December 23, 2025Dec 23

Hi, Board: Radxa ROCK 5T SoC: RK3588 Armbian image: Armbian 25.11.2 for Rock 5T Kernel: 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx Userspace: Debian stable (trixie) U-Boot package: linux-u-boot-rock-5t-vendor 25.11.2 (arm64) u-boot-tools: 2025.01-3 Boot device: NVMe (/dev/nvme0n1), Armbian 25.11.2 for Rock 5T https://paste.armbian.com/opokufetux Summary On ROCK 5T, a normal reboot performs a clean shutdown (all services stopped, filesystems unmounted) but the board does not restart. After reaching Reached target reboot.target - System Reboot., the system hangs for some time and then repeatedly prints an interrupt/IRQ table (GICv3/…

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AWa.

December 21, 2025Dec 21

The page for the NanoPi R76S has also an edge kernel (6.18) image. I noticed some issues related to sdcard and emmc. I know edge images are not officially supported and that is fine. But given the image is available I would like the parameters/configuration/conditions for the current available image. Could you explain the background or assumptions behind the 6.18 edge image for the R76S? (e.g., test conditions you used when building it)

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Marco Schirrmeister

December 17, 2025Dec 17

I have an Radxa 5B+ that are powered through POE HAT. The problem is that POE HAT fan does not work at all. I have to identical machines, same issue on both of them. I have installed Armbian minimal Bookworm on both, on nvme ssd.

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Werner

December 15, 2025Dec 15

I have Radxa 5B+ with 1TB nvme ssd. I installed Armbian minimal Bookworm on my nvme disk. IT starts without the SD card. Problem started few days ago when i run apt upgrade. After that, the machine don't start without SD card. I have tried to reinstall the machine several times, same happends. I also tried Armbian minimal Trixie, but there the machine don't start at all without SD card. So something have changed the last days. At the moment i have installed Bookworm again, and used the command "sudo apt-mark hold linux-u-boot-rock-5b-plus-vendor". Now the machine starts without SDcard, and i can use apt upgrade, but it is not a long term solution. Anyone have the s…

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Werner

December 15, 2025Dec 15

The HDMI0(Port next to Headphone Jack) is driven by DP1 on rk3588 via RA620(a dp2hdmi converter). https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip?h=v6.18&id=07c53a9e970712b1a479dd0ec4adfe184482c22f ROCKCHIP_DW_DP is needed in order to have working 2nd HDMI port. In menuconfig : Device Drivers ---> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.Graphics support ---> 1.0 and higher DRI support) ---> Rockchip specific extensions for Synopsys DW DP <pre> │ CONFIG_ROCKCHIP_DW_DP: …

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Popolon

December 13, 2025Dec 13

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

December 12, 2025Dec 12

Hi guys, First post here, I successfully managed to flash and boot Armbian 25.8.2 (Bookworm Minimal) from an SD card. Everything was working great, HDMI output and network included. I then ran “sudo armbian-install” and selected Option 4 to move the system to my NVMe SSD and make it boot from there. The process itself completed without errors. However, after shutting down and removing the SD card and powering on again the system doesn’t boot. I have the red LED turned on however the green LED that was previously flickering doesn’t turn on. There’s also no HDMI output and the board doesn’t connect to the network. I tried ins…

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eselarm

December 12, 2025Dec 12

Hi all Cannot make usable wol on my orange pi 5 plus. Os: Armbian 24.5.1 Bookworm with Linux 6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx WOL tested in magic or unicast settings or all flags enabled (phy, unicast, multicast, broadcast, arp, magic) Test sending wol packets with running tcpdump -i enP3p49s0 '(udp and port 7) or (udp and port 9)' show that orange pi successfully receive wol packets on speeds 1000 or even 10 mbps while powered on. But after sending orange pi to suspend or power off I cannot bring it online via WOL. So I suppose network component outside orange pi is ok and it is something wrong with orange pi. Any ideas?

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Deoptim

December 11, 2025Dec 11

Continuing the tradition (1, 2) of micro-optimizations for single-board computers that come into my hands. This time I optimized or rather fixed the wake-up function via USB/WoL/WWoL on the Orange Pi 5 Plus. Also got the WiFi adapter RTW8852BE/RTW8852CE working (at least those are the ones I tested). I tested exclusively on the Vendor 6.1.x kernel since the main wake-up features via USB/PCIE/GPIO1-GPIO4 only work in it. I don't currently have the ability to test the new current kernel and I doubt that Power Management will work fully there. Armbian for Orange Pi 5 Plus from the official website, Vendor kernel (kernel 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx), what does…

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Deoptim

December 11, 2025Dec 11

I understand that panthor is not supported for wayland but in that case I would expect libmali to fill in... but I ended up with lvmpipe. The overlay along with another recent post led me to believe that panthor was the expected default and libmali was an artifact, but I'm now questioning that after finding a thread identifying use cases where libmali can be preferred and a comment suggesting panthor wouldn't be available until 6.13. As a result, I am now questioning if there is a reason that software acceleration is the default and the user is expected to determine which path they want to go? I know support for the hardware has been slow going so I …

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usual user

December 10, 2025Dec 10

does displayport over usb-c dock work for you? It doesn't for me neither on 5.15 nor on 6.1.

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Werner

December 9, 2025Dec 9

Hi I dd the Armbian_25.11.1_Rock-5c_trixie_current_6.12.58_minimal.img to a SD card (/dev/sdc) and then run a fsck -f /dev/sdc1 and got errors: sudo fsck -f /dev/sdc1 fsck from util-linux 2.39.3 e2fsck 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Entry '.' in ??? (1065) is duplicate '.' entry. Fix<y>? .... Tried few SD cards, same result. Tried those SD cards with other images, i.e. Armbian_24.8.4_Rock-5c_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_minimal.img no problems. Could anybody verify this behavior? Thanks Chris Armbian_25.11.1_Rock-5c_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img i…

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ChrisO

December 6, 2025Dec 6

Hi Installed Armbian_25.11.1_Rock-5c_trixie_current_6.12.58_minimal.img and one of the USB-3 port, the top one, doesn't work. No reaction when inserting something, nothing in /var/log/syslog. The same with Armbian_25.11.1_Rock-5c_noble_current_6.12.58_minimal.img The Armbian_25.11.1_Rock-5c_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img however is OK. What could be the cause of this problem? Thanks and regards, Chris

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ChrisO

December 5, 2025Dec 5

Hi I am looking for a low power, fanless, solution for a Debian server with a single large 3.5" SATA drive. I don't want to boot from the SATA so I guess I'd buy an eMMC module as well. Currently I have an Orange Pi4 LTS with a weird expansion board and a generic Mini PCIe to SATA, but it isn't stable enough. Given that the Rock 5C has platinum support and works with the Penta SATA hat I'm wondering if it might be more reliable? thanks

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ChrisO

December 5, 2025Dec 5

If any of you have experienced skipping and popping when seeking with vlc, you can try setting the audio sink to ALSA and one of the rockchip-es8316 options. That will smooth out the audio playback BUT you will quickly discover that anything pulseaudio related is locked out of using the soundcard while vlc is up. Instead, try this. Set vlc audio back to pulseaudio (or automatic, seems to map to the same thing) and then change these two lines in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf: -; default-sample-rate = 44100 -; alternate-sample-rate = 48000 +default-sample-rate = 48000 +alternate-sample-rate = 44100 Restart pulseaudio with systemctl --user …

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Popolon

December 5, 2025Dec 5

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

Hello, my Orange Pi 5 works well with the stock OS (1.22, Ubuntu Jammy, BSP kernel 6.1.99), using the SD as a boot device. It also works ok with Armbian Minimal-IoT / Debian 13 / 6.1: v25.8.2 for Orange Pi 5 running Armbian Linux 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx But I prefer Ubuntu and wanted to try 6.12, so I downloaded 25.8.2 / Ubuntu Server / 6.12. Wrote to SD, hooked up the debug UART and powered on. The bootloader is fine, the kernel starts, but at a certain point it panics: [ OK ] Reached target sockets.target - Socket Units. Starting armbian-hardware-monitor.…ce - Armbian hardware monitoring... …

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XFer012

December 1, 2025Dec 1

Hi, I've tried to setup the latest Debian 13 (Trixie) for the Renegade board. I can flash the image with no issue. The problem comes it boots up, prompts for root password. I can type in then press enter, and then it goes to login. This only happens on the Debian 13 (Trixie). I am using the Debian 12 XFCE imange no issue. I am not sure if this is a bug or what, but I loved to use Debian 13, I am trying to setup Docker with the latest OS.

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eselarm

December 1, 2025Dec 1

Just posting my experiences getting armbian going on pinebook pro. I had a pinebook pro on a shelf for a while, picked it up and ran "apt-get update" after which booting the system broke. So without anything important on there i figured i would reinstall. Tow Boot I had already installed an older version of Tow Boot, but i updated it to 2023.07-007 This is a simple process. Write out the spi.installer.img to an sd card (i used dd). Insert the sd card in to the slot on the side of the pinebook. Start the system. Follow the prompts. Shut down the system. Remove the sd card. Power on the system and hit "Esc" to see the Tow Boot menus and …

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djzort

November 30, 2025Nov 30

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to install renegade firmware on a Rasperry Pi build for example? Libre used to host a script for a tool that achieved this but it hasn't been updated since Buster TIA

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0jay

November 27, 2025Nov 27

Hi Guys, I just did a new custom Armbian build ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5-plus BRANCH=vendor RELEASE=noble KERNEL_ONLY=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no. The image is Armbian-unofficial_25.11.0-trunk_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_cinnamon_desktop and when I installed it on orangepi I see it is not supporting Panfrost/Mail: glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL renderer|OpenGL version" OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.2, 128 bits) OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 but for older image Old_Armbian-unofficial_25.08.0-trunk_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_cinnamon_desktop All was well glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL rend…

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Igor

November 24, 2025Nov 24

Hello! Stock image from armbian.com; Armbian_25.8.1_Rockpi-s_trixie_current_6.12.41_minimal.img Here is the armbianmonitor's output: https://paste.armbian.com/ikodekuzel The error might be caused by the absence of the f2fs package in the image. root@rockpi-s:~# armbian-install Select filesystem type for eMMC /dev/mmcblk0 2 f2fs <OK> Formating /dev/mmcblk0 to f2fs ... please wait. Error: Filesystem tools for f2fs not installed, exiting root@rockpi-s:~# find / -type f -name f2fs* root@rockpi-s:~#

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0jay

November 23, 2025Nov 23

Hi guys, I got a SPIdev overlay to work on the rock S0, figured I'd just share it here for the record, since I could have used this info myself (I spent days trying to figure it out since I had no experience with device trees or whatnot). Basically, download the attached .dts file, then run sudo armbian-add-overlay rk3308-spi2-spidev.dts I also edited /boot/armbianEnv.txt and added this line, but I'm unsure if that's actually necessary? param_spidev_spi_bus=2 This worked on Armbian 24.5.1 Noble, creating /dev/spidev2.0. You can verify that it works using this tool: https://github.com/rm-hull/spidev-test The dts file is based on this one…

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Cromefire_

November 23, 2025Nov 23

I have tried to download at least 3 times this image: Armbian_25.8.1_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz All sha256sum verified Ok. And wrote 5 times on 3 different SDCards, and this img does not boot on my OPI-5-Plus. No image on monitor, partition armbi_root not expanded, no green lights... Just unusable (for me). Other img's that boot are OK: Deb-xfce, noble-cinnamon, noble-neon... Someone got success with this img??? I'm looking for a distro that works well on OPI5-Plus, well configured, and that works with HDMI audio. The best for now is Noble-Cinnamo…

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Werner

November 22, 2025Nov 22

Hello, I've been using https://joshua-riek.github.io/ubuntu-rockchip-download/boards/orangepi-5-plus.html with a custom kernel that I built to activate my TPM2.0 device and it works. Now I'm asked to use an UEFI compatible image with my Orange Pi 5 Plus. So what I did is more or less the same thing that in here But instead of the legacy kernel I used the 6.1.115-rockchip-vendor-rk35xx kernel and my device booted, I got an HDMI output, etc. And then I updated it to my custom kernel (6.1.0-1027-rockchip) that has the necessary configurations to allow TPM over SPI. Now I'm trying to activate my TPM2.0 as I did before. To do th…

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cofrandp

November 19, 2025Nov 19

Hy all, For some time now I have a Rock 5b + with 16Gig memory. The problem I have is playback video' s in youtube. Video's are not even watcheble in the lowest resolution. Other 4k video' s play fine. I tried several bechmark video' s from online sources. I looked around to see if others experiance the same problem but cannot find anny clu in this matter. I use Armbian ver. 25.5.1 Do others have the same issue? Is there a soltion for this problem? Also I find this board not the fastest. It's a bit faster than mi RPI5 with 4Gig mem. The PI5 plays HD on youtube. I also have a OrangePi 5 ultra with 16 gig memory on stock Orangepi ubu…

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e.j. Frölich

November 17, 2025Nov 17

FYI latest image for rock 5B+ in downloads section is broken (Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop) Wont boot at all, previous 25.2.2 images works fine.

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Igor

November 17, 2025Nov 17

Hi , I am trying to configure orangepi to turn on and turn off tv. I installed and used cec-ctl to register the boad as playbac device. And then was able to put the TV on standby mode via sudo cec-ctl --device /dev/cec0 --standby --to 0 but not able to find how to turn ON the TV. Can someone please help. Thanks Manish

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msita

November 13, 2025Nov 13

I have my kernel locked to 6.1.75 but still after 25.8.2 update, I lost all USB devices on both of my Orange PI 5. Only the USB3 port is working. The only way I've been able to get access to the USB is by switching to the latest `current` kernel... Any clues on what is going on? Firmware or kernel upgrades are not doing anything... where can the issue be???? I tried downgrading to many different versions but beside the current branch, USB is gone. Thanks

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laibsch

November 11, 2025Nov 11

I grabbed the "Armbian 25.8.1 Bookworm Minimal / IOT" image from https://www.armbian.com/tinkerboard/, landed it on a microSD card, booted it, and ran apt update apt upgrade apt install linux-headers-current-rockchip apt install zfs-dkms zfsutils-linux This gets me linux-image-current-rockchip 25.8.1 (kernel 6.12.44-current-rockchip) and a module built from zfs-dkms 2.3.2-2~bpo12+2. So far so good. And then I ran modprobe zfs.ko and was rewarded with the following panic in the kernel's module loader: [ 1128.728803] spl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 1128.859152] zfs: module license 'CDDL' taints kernel. [ 1128.859178] Disabling lock debuggin…

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nwf

November 11, 2025Nov 11

Hi, I recently got my hands on a used unit of those, quite faster than my old SBC! Only issue I currently have is that I can't seem to get audio output on the 3.5mm jack. (Well the other issue is unrelated .. ) Anyone have an idea on what I should be hunting? I did the obvious cable, etc.. checks. There's always the possibility that it's damaged, hell if I know. Armbian 25.2.1 6.1 kernel KDE Neon (Why use a beta version btw? just wondering) Thanks! DW.

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OttawaHacker

November 10, 2025Nov 10

On an orangepi 5 this image failed to post. Armbian_25.8.2_Orangepi5_noble_vendor_6.1.115.img.xz worked just fine via balena etcher and booting from a nvme.

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OttawaHacker

November 10, 2025Nov 10

https://paste.armbian.com/qocicuyote.yaml <-- captured from debug UART Brand new odroid-m1, Samsung Pro Endurance 256GB; and a brand-new/uninitialized Samsung PM9A1 256GB NVMe. It drops me to a shell [presumably the initramfs]. Note: I'm not out of options yet, I can try building my own image with newer current or edge kernels. Edited to add: I think it's booting me to the petitboot env, not even attempting to boot the SD card,

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tabrisnet

November 8, 2025Nov 8

Hello all! I have a radxa rock 5b (8GB, not the plus version) and am running armbian (bookworm) on it. The kernel version (uname -r) reports as 6.12.32-current-rockchip64. By and large almost everything seems to be working - video playback in VLC is fine, 3d acceleration is working (I get around 58-60fps in the game 'torcs' as an example). The only thing I can't seem to get working (and can't find much about it) is the hdmi input. I see some five devices listed in dev (from /dev/video0 to /dev/video4) although none of these seem to relate to the hdmi input. Does the hdmi input work on the 5b under armbian at all? thanks …

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Werner

November 8, 2025Nov 8

I have tried to get the CSI port working on my Radxa Zero 3W with the GEEKOM X1301 HAT, and now I can get the chip to show up in /dev, however there seems to be an issue when I try to access it, as I keep getting ioctl errors. I started by copying over the .dtbo files from the regular radxa official image, and putting them into the overlay-user folder in /boot. Then I enabled the radxa-zero3-tc358743.dtbo overlay, which gets the devices to show up. I am following this guide from GEEKOM https://wiki.geekworm.com/X1300_Software, however, I keep getting ioctl errors when trying to set the EDID file on the Radxa Zero. On the Raspberry Pi, this was not an issu…

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opi-5-plus-user

November 7, 2025Nov 7

Hello everyone! I was struggling to make wiring work on OrangePi 5 Plus armbian. Tried everything and came up with a solution that worked for me. I was constantly getting these errors: wiringPiSetup: mmap (PWM) failed: Operation not permitted wiringPiSetup: mmap (GPIO) failed: Operation not permitted I'm on 23.8.2. 1. Install armbian and update apt sudo apt update 2. As stated in OrangePi5Plus wiki page I got .deb installer for wiringPi on OrangePi Now here's the link to this file: https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/blob/next/external/cache/debs/arm64/wiringpi_2.51.deb 3. The mos…

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eselarm

November 6, 2025Nov 6

Some prerequisites. Distro: Debian 12 bookworm, xfce; Board: Orange Pi 4 LTS; Screen: Samsung SyncMaster 923NW, 1440x900_60, VGA. Using hdmi to vga adapter with vga cable. Tried one piece hdmi to vga cable. Tried other all in one adapter that goes in to the screen and goes to hdmi cable. The problem. While running armbian distro screen resolution is set to be 1080p by default. Using xrandr I can not set it to suggested 900p. Every time I set any other resolution - screen turns black until I set it back to 1080p. It is not a hardware issue, because right now I am running headless Debian bullseye from orange pi and the resolution is set …

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Guillermo seara

November 5, 2025Nov 5

due to network limitations， how to compile Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome OS image in offline mode, build.sh need to download many debs，can I download them in advance，then install them locally. I have already downloaded kernel and uboot.

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laibsch

November 5, 2025Nov 5

I recently bought an orange pi plus and am using the armbian 6.12 server (https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi5-plus/Noble_current_server) I'm wanting to setup hardware acceleration for jellyfin but having trouble with the right steps. I'm using jellyfin inside docker on the orange pi inside armbian. I've found various tutorials but it seems like some of them reference things that no longer exist (like panfork seems to no longer be needed for latest mesa if I'm understanding correctly?), so wanting to see what I need to do to set this up. So it seems like I need to disable panthor and use mali instead, but I can't find in the armbian config menu the opt…

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KhanhDTP

November 3, 2025Nov 3

When the ODROID-M1 is setup to boot from SPI with the system installed on a M2 ssd, power loss seems to lead to an unbootable system. Once an SD card with armbian is inserted and the system is booted through the recovery button once, logged in* and then shutdown normally, the system boots again from SPI. * Without login and regular shutdown of the system booted from sd card, the issue remains I have observed and reproduced this issue several times in the last year. In my case the M1 is connected to a power strip that turns on and off the multiple devices. When I forget to unplug the M1 and it gets turned on and off several times over a day …

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tstalker

October 30, 2025Oct 30

Hello, I'm using Ubuntu noble lts with kernel 6.1 it appears. I've enabled the orangepi-5-sata overlay. In the photos I have showed how I've connected it. When plugging in the pi with my official 5v 4a usbc charger, the adapter lights up for awhile. I'm not sure if it needs to stay on. I then check fdisk -l and nothing new appears. This drive works if I put the sata to usb connector on it and plug it in - so it's not the drive.

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nom

October 30, 2025Oct 30

Starting today Oct 27 2025 I'm not able to upgrade armbian on Radxa 5C for any version from 6.12 and up with the multiple exceptions like this: Err:6 http://apt.armbian.com trixie/main arm64 armbian-plymouth-theme all 25.8.2 Hash Sum mismatch Hashes of expected file: - SHA512:718d46957b9e9940ba7569761069864c46b07bd5570db462894b81d2730803dc9f9b0618ed45104c6357b92ddf00600a9664b93bd3eaca8c453b4724ba495688 - SHA256:3ee8733f28c38f66f3a1328c93bf75d00416f8e2d1e7a5c91f4727489d7c1b00 - SHA1:2ad501942596de1a53e9339284635a712346a245 [weak] - MD5Sum:a7dc1e7a3ff05af314e49c0b841ce240 [weak] - Filesize:112140 [weak] Hashes of received fil…

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Werner

October 27, 2025Oct 27

Hi everyone, I need to enable the csi camera and i2c port on my zero3 development board. When I click on the management overlay, an error occurs. Is there any solution?

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opi-5-plus-user

October 26, 2025Oct 26

Hello, I just got a wifi 7 adapter (QCNCM865) and I was thinking the ath12k driver was available starting from kernel 6.13, I'm running the edge kernel 6.16.4 and the ath12k driver is failing to load and I can't find any wireless drivers in /usr/lib/modules/6.16.4-edge-rockchip64/kernel/net/wireless. Do I need to rebuild the kernel with the ath12k driver? or is there a kernel version available with that driver? Thanks for your help!

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mido_00

October 23, 2025Oct 23

So I was messing around with my new OrangePi-5+ and installed the EDK2 UEFI firmware for Rockchip RK3588 platforms onto the SPI flash (/dev/mtdblock0). After which I tried all sorts of images and kernels with varying success, only the 5.10.160-legacy-rk3588 kernel would really have a working display. Until I tried a generic UEFI arm64 image (Jammy-CLI on a USB stick) which gave a working display, albeit at 1080p max. (my monitor is 4K) with no acceleration (after the extra steps), and installed the Mate desktop (just my preference). The big caveat is that it does not recognize the SD-card, EMMC or SPI-flash, just regular drives (e.g. sda/nvme0n1 etc) and I'm…

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pageev

October 23, 2025Oct 23

Yeah so just like the title says, has anyone got a tip for a USB Bluetooth dongle that works with the mainline kernel? I got a UGREEN Bluetooth 5.0 dongle a while ago and have just tried again, installing firmware for it. It does get detected as a USB device and the firmware loads. But bluetoothctl never finds it. Gnome doesn't let me 'enable' bluetooth. I'd like to avoid buying a string of these so was just wondering if any are working with mainline? Cheers!

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Fredrik

October 22, 2025Oct 22

I've had an OrangePi4 LTS with a 7-inch IPS LCD HDMI jRP7007 external display for three years. Always used it with the stock OrangePi operating system: Debian Bullseye xfce (2022). I had Home Assistant installed and used a desktop client to view cameras and control lights from the touchscreen. Always looked good, and the only problem I had was that Debian didn't have power options, so I couldn't turn off the display; I had to do it manually with a button. The October Home Assistant update completely broke my H.A., it stopped running completely, and when I tried to reinstall it, it threw up errors due to broken dependencies. I tried to repair them, but nothing w…

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Guillermo seara

October 19, 2025Oct 19

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

Can I use the Armbian 25.8.1 noble XFCE thinkboard/S image for an ASUS ChromeBook C100P, which is no longer supported by Google, to convert in Linux Debian notepad?

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Pi-R

October 18, 2025Oct 18

Hi Basically the subj sums it up. I got the AP6275P wireless module with Armbian, and BT is not functional. `hcitool dev` doesn't show the device in its output. Neither does `rfkill`. It works with the Ubuntu image published by Orange Pi though, so it doesn't look like a hardware issue. I'm using Armbian 23.5 Jammy Gnome with the 5.10.160 kernel. Happy to provide any additional data.

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default-writer

October 17, 2025Oct 17

Hey @amazingfate, I have an issue with the build-in IR receiver on my OPI5+: ##O#O## OS: Armbian 25.8.1 noble aarch64 ####### Host: Orange Pi 5 Plus ########### Kernel: 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx ############# Uptime: 2 mins ############### Packages: 1934 (dpkg), 5 (snap) ################ Shell: bash 5.2.21 ################# Resolution: 3840x2160 ##################### DE: GNOME 46.0 ##################### WM: Mutter ################# WM Theme: Adwaita Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] …

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tanod

October 15, 2025Oct 15

I recently updated from bookworm to trixie, here's how i did it: commands: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y sudo cp -p /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak sudo sed -i 's,bookworm,trixie,g' /etc/apt/sources.list sudo cp -p /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list.bak sudo sed -i 's,bookworm,trixie,g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list sudo apt dist-upgrade /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware # deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main…

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lovenemesis

October 15, 2025Oct 15

Does anyone have any clues to give as to setting up dual screen on the Nanopi m6? I searched the forum and found nothing. I don't know why I can never easily find Anything here. The forum shows one post for the Nanopi m6 and I know that can't be right. The Nanopi mirrors by default, and that is just not going cut it. Currently installing X on a minimal install. But that's the next thing. Get a reasonablf sized terminal up.

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EricaLina

October 14, 2025Oct 14

Hi there I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) KDE Neon image from may 26, 2025. After download this image and installing it, Wayland was working fine, not problems at all. Then, after a system upgrade, if i choose Wayland from session manager, the system freezes and i can't boot with Wayland, only X11... Before the update, the system was smooth, now it's really laggy....Like i said, i'm using Desktop image with Armbian Linux v6.12 KDE Neon (Ubuntu 24.04) There's something wrong with the update Anyone knows why is this happening, and any turnaround to use Wayland again?

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Михаил Шестаков

October 13, 2025Oct 13

Hardware: OrangePI-5-Plus (rk3588), with "32 GB" of RAM Operating System: Debian Trixie (pure, except EFI boot and Armbian edge kernel) Root File System: Ext4 (encrypted) Desktop: KDE Plasma 6.3.6 (wayland, GDM3), KDE Frameworks version: 6.13.0, QT version: 6.8.2 EFI Source: https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588 The boot messages, after a few starts (spaced apart) of the low-memory-monitor.service, say there's a failure to start it. After booting is complete, here's a screenshot of the output of: systemctl status low-memory-monitor.service This error didn't show up until I installed a number of packages. I tracked down the off…

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The Tall Man

October 9, 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

Hi, SD card did not load Armbian_25.8.1_Orangepi5_trixie_current_6.12.41_xfce_desktop. I noticed that in boot.cmd line 9 , rootdev is defined as /dev/mmcblk0p1. Should that be /dev/mmcblk0n1 or /dev/mmcblk0n1p1? I note that this file should not be edited and the armbianEnv.txt only refers to rootdev=UUID=7e27c862-0a39-41cd-891e-7d77ff7968fd. Is this an error or am I off course? If so where do I correct it? cheers

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mcfo

October 5, 20251 yr

Greetings everyone. I hope to receive some assistance here. Our company is a small Linux cloud gaming provider that uses the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint for our cloud gaming services https://maximumsettings.com/ . We are searching for an affordable local streaming device that we can recommend to our clients, capable of decoding H.265 at 4K - 80Mbps. The Orange Pi 5 is a perfect fit for this role, and the Armbian Cinnamon desktop is well-suited since our clients already use Linux Mint Cinnamon edition on the cloud Gaming PC. However, there is currently no support for our open-source streaming client, Moonlight, which we use as the default option for our clients. T…

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m33ts4k0z

October 5, 20251 yr

I had some difficulties to make my sata disk work and found out that the regulator had to be switched on. So here a dtbo and source to make it hopefully a bit easier for some others. Easiest way to install is "sudo armbian-add-overlay orangepi-5-sata.dts" orangepi-5-sata.dtbo orangepi-5-sata.dts

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royk

October 3, 20251 yr

My setup is still running, yay! I even updated to Trixie and all worked out fine. But I'm stuck on edge kernel 6.12.x, I saw that rolling had 6.16.x. So how do I install/convert to the rolling 6.16.x edge kernel ?

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Werner

October 3, 20251 yr

##O#O## OS: Armbian 25.8.1 noble aarch64 ####### Host: Orange Pi 5 Plus ########### Kernel: 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx ############# Uptime: 1 day, 8 hours, 17 mins ############### Packages: 1852 (dpkg), 5 (snap) ################ Shell: bash 5.2.21 ################# Resolution: 3840x2160 ##################### DE: GNOME 46.0 ##################### WM: Mutter ################# WM Theme: Adwaita Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] Terminal: x-terminal-emul CPU: (8) @ 1.800GHz …

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amazingfate

September 27, 20251 yr