Rockchip

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 installed the latest Gnome Noble image from the very top of the Orange Pi 5 page, it has Wayland and generally is working really well - it even is doing higher refresh rate for my monitor and is smooth! HOWEVER the one big thing I noticed right away - my screen never turns off anymore And my Power options are missing such settings? It only gives the option to blank, which still is running my monitor at 100% brightness and a horrible solution Where is the setting to turn my screen off after 5 minutes? NOT blank, but into standby mode Worked on the previous Cinnamon version but that version lacked higher refresh rates and I think…

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Werner

July 22, 20251 yr

i also have issues to move the system to the nvme ssd 😞 my base is the Armbian 25.5.1 with 6.1.115 (vendor kernel) image .... "copied" (usbimager) it to the sdcard and its booting ... 🙂 so I upgraded the system on the sdcard, still running 🙂 I read some posts and advices .... so I partioned the nvme with one big partition (/dev/nvme0n1p1) running armbian-install choosing option 7, (loading/upgrading bootloader to mtd ) after this i choose option 4 (boot from mtd, system on sata, usb ... ) only possible selection was /dev/nvme0n1 ... looked ok said yes to everything no Error system goes to shutdown /power off …

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H_Berger

July 24, 20251 yr

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

I got a radxa rock 5t and trying to install armbian(https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5t), arimbian NOT boot and I can see the indicator light on the board is showing a steady green light. I boot with the official image https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/rock5t/low-level-dev/maskrom/linux and insert the sd card(with armbian img), and run such command, then I can boot armbian from SD card sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=working_idbloader.img bs=512 skip=64 count=8000 sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=working_u-boot.itb bs=512 skip=16384 count=8000 sudo dd if=working_idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 seek=64 conv=notrunc sudo dd if=working_u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs…

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laibsch

August 8, 20251 yr

Hello everyone, I use my Orange Pi 5 board to run Open Media Vault with Wireguard installed. But there is a known issue with Wireguard that, when installing it, you have to manually reinstall the correct kernel into the board again, otherwise it won't be able to boot. However, ever since it has been installed, during apt update / apt ugrade of my board, it keeps recognizing the wrong kernel to be updated and changing the symlinks inside the /boot/ folder, rendering the board unbootable. If I see this happening, I can change the symlinks and it works normally after that. However, sometimes the symlinks changes unnoticed and I cannot boot anymore. I…

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SteeMan

July 20, 20251 yr

I am Running Armbian 24.5.1 Jammy with Linux 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx on Radxa Rock5b (and it works great!!) when running sudo apt dist-upgrade or sudo apt upgrade I get Die folgenden Pakete sind zurückgehalten worden: armbian-bsp-cli-rock-5b " Packages retained" apt list --installed | grep armbian-bsp-cli-rock-5b gives: armbian-bsp-cli-rock-5b-legacy/jammy,now 24.5.1 arm64 [installiert] armbian-bsp-cli-rock-5b/jammy,now 24.5.1 arm64 [Installiert,aktualisierbar auf: 25.5.1] ## installed, can be updated can/shall I force the the use of "armbian-bsp-cli-rock-5b/jammy,now 24.5.1 arm64 [Installiert,aktualisierbar auf: 25.5.…

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robertM

August 4, 20251 yr

I've downloaded the Armbian 25.5.1 (Kernel 6.12) Home Assistant image (https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi5-plus/Bookworm_current_minimal-homeassistant), burned to microsd and rebooted the orange pi 5 plus. I burned the image to a microsd cards, inserted the microsd and did a hard reboot of the SBC. The error message is "Gave up waiting for root filesystem device."

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Igor

July 30, 20251 yr

Using Jun 26's Sid_vendor_server-kali, my Zero 3W is stuck in a loop. I can't "Create a loop password" as it'll instantly jump to the "armbian-security login:" prompt. If I login with the default root:1234, I'll briefly see the welcome screen, followed by a very brief "waiting for the system to finish booting", then it's back to 1. This occurs regardless of internet access (provided by a USB-C ethernet adapter, for which Armbian reports a valid LAN IP address).

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laibsch

July 21, 20251 yr

The Gnome desktop Power off menu selection and `sudo shutdown now` both reboot rather than powering down.

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AaronNGray

July 21, 20251 yr

`ls /dev` is not showing mmcblk1. I have Armbian Ubuntu install that may have been messed around with and is not showing /dev/mmcblk1, where as a fresh uSCDCard install is.

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AaronNGray

July 21, 20251 yr

After enabling the rk3588-hdmirx overlay in armbian-config device tree overlays, whenever I boot, I am greeted with multiple hdmirx (fdee0000.hdmirx-controller: hdmirx_wait_lock_and_get_timing HDMI pull out, return!) errors on boot. On a previous install, the hdmirx errors would block the entire boot process and it would just hang forever. I do not know the exact cause, but the issues seemed to arise after I ran this command to disable the X Display Server "systemctl set-default multi-user.target". The errors could only be resolved if I plugged in the sd card into another device and removed rk3588-hdmirx from overlays in /boot/armbianEnv.txt . …

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Werner

July 19, 20251 yr

Hello there ! - nanopi R3S 2GB ram / 32 GB SD card and 32GB MMC here. - Image running: Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopi-r3s-lts_noble_current_6.12.33 An upgrade (armbian-upgrade or apt-get upgrade), both on SD card or MMC, breaks boot of the system, reboot or cold start fails, stuck in system red-light. Both SD or MMC boot at broken. Need to reflash the SD and boot + reinstall. See attached some logs. Thanks ! nan0r r3s-armbian-apt-upgrade.log r3s-armbian-armbian-upgrade.log

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nan0r

July 15, 20251 yr

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

@Igor@amazingfate Can someone look at this issue please ? I am wondering if this is possibly affecting a large number targets or whether its just BananaPi-M7 / rockchip64 ? I have tried on another monitor also and am getting a black screen. On doing an `apt-get upgrade` on ssh terminal I happened to loose by HDMI display. AFAICT It looks like Ubuntu 'backgraded' gnome v46 (in Nobel release, and also in my older unofficial image) to v44. https://armbian.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/AR/issues/AR-2702?jql=project %3D "AR" ORDER BY created DESC

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MaxT

July 19, 20251 yr

It's been a while since I used Armbian. I have tons of ARM SBCs from a few years back because I think they're fascinating but they either wind up being too slow or just not worth using it for whatever since x86 "SBC like" boards exist and are pretty cheap. Fast forward to now and I'm doing some touchscreen development and just because of how I have things setup I needed 3 things, I2C, Interrupt capable GPIO and an actual DisplayPort. That combination of things is surprisingly hard to find. I had a couple of things on hand, (Seeed Odyssey x86, Odroid H2/H3, Rpi's, Nvidia Jetson Nano). I spent way more time than I should have trying to make each of these work, i…

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blazini36

July 12, 20251 yr

A few days ago I had an issue with a successfully running Armbian installation running from the NVME of my Orange Pi 5 that suddenly developed an issue with nothing being shown on my TV. So after seemingly not being to identify the problem, I started again, wrote the image to an SD card and then moved the installation to the NVME drive using armbian-config utility. So now that I have a set-up that works again, I want to instigate a more belt and braces approach and create an image of the NVME installation using GZIP to compress the image file and decided to use the DD option from terminal. Having tried well over a hundred different comb…

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laibsch

July 7, 20251 yr

v4l2loopback-dkms 0.12.7-2 fails to build make.log: DKMS make.log for v4l2loopback-0.12.7 for kernel 6.12.32-current-rockchip64 (aarch64) Sat Jul 5 09:16:17 PM CDT 2025 Building v4l2-loopback driver... make -C /lib/modules/6.12.32-current-rockchip64/build M=/var/lib/dkms/v4l2loopback/0.12.7/build modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.12.32-current-rockchip64' CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/v4l2loopback/0.12.7/build/v4l2loopback.o /var/lib/dkms/v4l2loopback/0.12.7/build/v4l2loopback.c: In function ‘vidioc_querycap’: /var/lib/dkms/v4l2loopback/0.12.7/build/v4l2loopback.c:717:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘strlcpy’; did you mean ‘strncp…

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laibsch

July 7, 20251 yr

Hello, I had to encode lately some video files and I discovered that video encoding hardware acceleration seems to be broken. gart@orangepi5:~$ uname -a Linux orangepi5 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx #1 SMP Tue Jun 3 13:10:51 UTC 2025 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux gart@orangepi5:~$ sudo dmesg | grep mpp_rkvenc [ 12.705174] mpp_rkvenc2 rkvenc-ccu: probing start [ 12.705179] mpp_rkvenc2 rkvenc-ccu: probing finish [ 13.267729] mpp_rkvenc2 fdbd0000.rkvenc-core: Adding to iommu group 10 [ 13.267963] mpp_rkvenc2 fdbd0000.rkvenc-core: probing start [ 13.268179] mpp_rkvenc2 fdbd0000.rkvenc-core: Looking up venc-supply fro…

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eselarm

August 20, 20251 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

My OS OS: Armbian (24.8.4) aarch64 Host: Radxa ZERO 3 Kernel: 6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx Uptime: 5 mins Packages: 1358 (dpkg) Shell: bash 5.2.21 Terminal: /dev/pts/0 CPU: (4) @ 2.000GHz Memory: 1168MiB / 7686Mi Reference Posts x2 I have this patch already in my /etc/systemd/journald.conf I edited /etc/default/armbian-zram-config -> ZRAM_PERCENTAGE=10 but allotment size didn't increase after a reboot (~47M before as well). By default this variable was commented out Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 769M 24M 745M 4% /run /dev/mmcblk1p2 116G 32G 84G 28% / tmp…

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ioncube

June 29, 20251 yr

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

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

Any fixes for this? Some rock chip ICs need custom PCie overlay to set pcie speeds, maybe the kernel just has it set to gen 2? 0001:11:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Micron/Crucial Technology Device 5421 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [NVM Express]) Subsystem: Micron/Crucial Technology Device 5021 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 126 Region 0: Memory at f1200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabil…

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laibsch

June 29, 20251 yr

Is there any trick to make use of the integrated fan on Radxa 25W PoE Hat? I'm using 4GB Radxa Rock 5C Lite Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5c_bookworm_vendor_6.1.115_minimal Some guides mention that one should enable an overlay. I didn't find any relevant overlays in armbian-config. In the Radxa repo I found rock-5a-radxa-25w-poe.dts which specifies that it's also compatible with Rock 5C. I've compiled it and enabled it, but by default the fan is not spinning (on high temps) and I'm not sure how to investigate that. Also, does it matter that I have 5C Lite? As it has another chip: RK3582

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Uko

June 26, 20251 yr

Armbian_25.2.2_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.99_gnome_desktop.img.xz I first tried this, as it was the first version offered at the top of the page. No matter what I tried, sound would *not* work. Not speakers, not HDMI, nada, zip. I then started trying earlier versions further down the page. Armbian_25.2.2_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img.xz And this one, sound *did* work, at least through the speaker jack anyway, but I suspect HDMI would too. I'm really suspecting something kernel related is going here (that "Rockchip BSP" note right above it makes me suspect that). In any case, I'd like…

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Reluctant Linux User

July 1, 20251 yr

For a few weeks I've been using the latest official release from May 26, 2025, running just fine from my NVME drive. But then I turned it on and at the screen where you get the Amrbian grey/red logo in the middle of the screen and the spinning circle, it went no further. The spinning circle would either stop rotating or disappear after a minute or so. I can SSH into the device. But when I use remote desktop from a Windows PC, the full and functioning desktop is there. It's just not on my TV screen any more. I've done the usual HDMI cable testing and powering off the TV completely, but no change. The fact that the…

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compent

July 6, 20251 yr

See for more details but without using the overlay-user folder - I was not able to get the pwm to work on a fresh download.

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OttawaHacker

June 15, 20251 yr

Been trying to enable multiple overlays on kernel 6.12 (orange pi 5) but I am not able to get any pwm device in /sys/class/pwm/ The i2c also seems to be missing. Is going back to 6.1 the safest option? Thanks

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OttawaHacker

June 15, 20251 yr

Why does HDMI Audio work on Debian 12 Bookworm 6.1 version and not on Debian 12 Bookworm 6.12? I have updated to latest version and still no HDMI audio. Is there a patch or something i can do to fix this?

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7alken

July 25, 20251 yr

The base device tree for the Renegade (roc-rk3328-cc) already includes a PWM2 device but armbian does not include the .dtbo to enable it. Thus, it is also unavailable through armbian-config. The Libre builds of Debian support it, but not armbian. I have copied the overlay from the Libre build of Debian for Renegade and it applies correctly on after I manually add it to the overlay directory: /boot/dtb-6.12.32-current-rockchip64/rockchip/overlay/rockchip-rk3328-pwm2.dtbo Note that as of today armbian-config is having a general issue with loading overlays via armbianEnv.txt. This can be bypassed by avoiding using armbian-config for overlays and …

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Tom Sl

June 11, 20251 yr

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'm using orange pi 5, and I noticed that I'm using 100Mb/s instead 1000Mb/s, i changed the cables that are working in another pc to a 1000Mb/s but still works to 100Mb/s, I changed to another kernel like 6.12.32-current-rockchip64 with no luck, any idea how to solve it? root@opi5 /home/pi# ethtool end0 Settings for end0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Supported FEC modes: Not reported Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Full …

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Michael Robinson

June 9, 20251 yr

Hi all! I am entirely new to Armbian. I see Radxa's Rock5B RK3588 based SBC is suppored and its Armbian page is https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b/ . Can you give me a small crash course on your experience with Armbian on the Radxa Rock5B? If you have an idea of any of the points I raise below, please share. 1. Super stable? Generally to use and to upgrade Armbian, how stable has it been to you? 2. Which image should I pick? I see both Debian and Ubunto are offered. I'll pick Debian. Then there are "Desktop", "Server" and "Minimal/IOT"and "Dedicated applications" images, and some are listed …

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laibsch

July 21, 20251 yr

Hi, I wanted to give my Odroid M1 new life by installing a fresh Armbian 25.5.1. Previously it was running on an old Odroid Ubuntu Image. After starting from SD I have no ethernet connection. The eth0 interface is DOWN. I tried using a USB3 2.5G ethernet adapter, but the new network interface also shows DOWN. I have tried Debian and Ubuntu Minimal images with the same results. What could be the cause and how do I get a working ethernet connection? Thanks Malz

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Malz

June 5, 20251 yr

G’day guys, just grabbed a version of Armbian again to play around with on an orange Pi 5 I have had for a while. I have installed the latest stable (25.5.1 Noble Gnome). Everything went smoothly, and I have a 512GB ssd on the board, so I went through the install process using armbian-install. I managed to get the OS installed on the SSD, but when I went to install the bootloader, I got some error messages saying that the SPI image was not chosen. I followed the process for erasing the MTD, but still I got error messages relating to no spi image. I tried to boot from the ssd and just got a black screen. I downloaded Joshua Riek’s Ubuntu 24.04 dist…

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vinrich

June 2, 20251 yr

I had this plan on utilizing the Radxa Rock 5 ITX+ as a Moonlight client device to stream games from my desktop computer to my living room TV, and using my 8BitDo Ultimate controller to play. On paper, the board has all the bells and whistles needed to do it, but I am having trouble getting hardware decoding of H264 and/or HEVC to work as expected. From what I gather, I need mesa-vpu support, but the documentation I find is very scattered, and repositories that once held the needed resources are no longer available. I am currently running Armbian_25.DBhsHKsx.2.2_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img (build date 21st of February, 2025), dow…

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DavidFajardo

June 25, 20251 yr

I've got a ROCK 5B+ with two NVMe drives installed, and for reasons I've not been able to track down, I'm noticing that the `-edge` releases (Kernel 6.14.6) are not able to display more than one of the NVMe drives at once. I've checked various physical configurations (i.e., slot one, slot two, both slots), and only one slot is presented (i.e., output from `lspci` or `lsblk`) – but it doesn't seem to matter whether its slot one or two. If I use a `-vendor` images (6.1.115), I see both devices and can use them without problems. I'd love to be able to provide more information or help debug, but I'm not quite sure where to start here! …

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Werner

May 30, 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

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

hi running Armbian 25.2.3 stable 6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx (Ubuntu noble) having to change audio every time on reboot (not sticking after selecting),and maybe not showing as they should ,currently using HDMI 0 but shows as below:

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Guest

May 27, 20251 yr

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

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JFL

September 9Sep 9

hi, ubuntu22 gome desktop How to fix USB sound card with card1 identifier 1

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lay

May 23, 20251 yr

Kind people： How to modify the default swap partition size in the configuration file and compile the firmware？？ help help

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lay

May 22, 20251 yr

Hi, I am currently using rock-5-itx to setup a NAS. Everything is working fine. uname -a: Linux amberbyte 6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx #1 SMP Thu Nov 28 03:16:11 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux Now, I wanted to update RKNPU version from 0.9.7 to 0.9.8. So, again I recompiled the image with the updated drivers. Using Pi-imager flashed it onto an SD card. When I tried to boot I am getting the following error message from the serial output: ./compile.sh build BOARD=rock-5-itx BRANCH=vendor BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes RELEASE=bookworm DDR 9fffbe1e78 cym 24/02/04-10:09:20,fwver: v1.16 LPDDR5, 2400MHz channel[0] BW…

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Werner

May 20, 20251 yr

Hi, The RK3588 supports frequencies as low as 408MHz, but in armbian the minimum is 1008MHz, which makes the cpu run hotter and draw more power even when idle, compared with the OPI ubuntu version. These are the available frequencies: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_available_frequencies 1008000 1200000 1416000 1608000 1800000 $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy6/scaling_available_frequencies 1200000 1416000 1608000 1800000 2016000 2208000 2400000 I want to add the missing frequencies, I tried to look in the armbian repo for dts files that contain these frequencies, but I couldn't find anything. Is is possibl…

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Werner

May 30, 20251 yr

After installing official Armbian_25.2.1_Orangepi5-plus_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_xfce_desktop.img to sdcard, then to nvme all is fine, until, I do an apt update & upgrade, after that point chromium fails to run. I explored the logs to see it a failure to load chromium.conf from /etc/chromium.d/chromium.config (failed symbolic link to /etc/armbian/chromium.config). Is there a known workaround besides utilization of firefox?

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Robert Pace

June 3, 20251 yr

The armbian Khadas Edge 2 Noble image seems to be corrupted? its literally impossible to extract.

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Werner

May 17, 20251 yr

On the ROCK 5B+, I am getting the following error at boot [ 12.361648] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database [ 12.389297] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7' [ 12.390688] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'wens: 61c038651aabdcf94bd0ac7ff06c7248db18c600' [ 12.392699] cfg80211: loaded regulatory.db is malformed or signature is missing/invalid I believe this is the cause of being unable to set the regulatory region for WiFi. Running sudo iw reg get returns global country 00: DFS-UNSET even after running sudo iw reg set GB

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MichaIng

June 1, 20251 yr

Ubuntu 22 gnome desktop compilation encounters' Configuring Locales' exception: bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8) setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:285 put_font_piofont: PIO_FONT: unsupported font height: 16 [🔨] setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:285 put_font_piofont: PIO_FONT: unsupported font height: 16 [🔨] setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:285 put_font_piofont: PIO_FONT: unsupported font height: 16 [🔨] setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:285 put_font_piofont: PIO_FONT: unsupported font height: 16 [🔨] setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:285 put_font_piofont: PIO_FONT: unsupported font height: 16 [🔨] setfont: ERROR kdfontop.c:285 put_font_pi…

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Werner

May 16, 20251 yr

How do I change the default desktop environment on Debian 12 startup from cinnamon to xfce4? I have installed xfce4 and it's related "goodies", added a .Xclients file containing "startxfc4" in both root and ~/ folder locations. But the unit sometimes boots back into cinnamon. I do not see anything under armbian-config to control the desktop environment or to switch between cli/gui. I recall such options under orangepi-config (at least the cli/gui switching).

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Robert Pace

May 16, 20251 yr

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

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

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

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lay

May 16, 20251 yr

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

hi，Kind hearted people ubuntu22 gome desktop How to configure the default settings of non-stop screen and non automatic screen lock？？ I tried to execute: sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target it can only solve the problem of not entering sleep mode！！！ But the screen will still go black, So how to set the default black screen never??? help ,help

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IBV

May 14, 20251 yr

I just tested the latest, 2025 May, built image with default/recommended options and there are some missing features. Here is what I have tested: LAN yes WiFi yes BT yes USB3 *partly, some devices are not detected at all, some will take a few minutes before detected* GPU Mali-G610 (Panfrost) HDMI audio *no* Fan control yes temp. sensor htop *no* Temp. sensor Gnome *no* Other: some cursor graphic glitches Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_Rock-5c_noble_current_6.12.28_gnome_desktop.img Any ideas on how to get more features supported?

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Guest

May 13, 20251 yr

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

Hello again, We're already aware of the existing issues with kernel 6 and the audio on the RK3308B. In this case, it fails again in the latest versions... Alsamixer detects the audio card and even shows it in arecord -L or arecord -l, but when trying to record, the error appears: "arecord: set_params:1416: unable to install hw params" The command applied is: arecord -c 2 -r 192000 -f S32_LE test.wav Although if I leave it without parameters to see what it does, it throws the same error, even if I specify the hardware... In the previous kernel (I think it was 6.12.11 (with the u-boot issue in the previous post), the audio worked per…

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Igor

July 8, 20251 yr

I'm using Armbian with kernel 6.12 on a (CB2) device. When I connect my monitor via HDMI, the EDID is successfully read and it includes both 1920x1080 and 1280x800 as supported resolutions. However, only 1920x1080 appears in the available display modes. The 1280x800 mode is missing, even though it is clearly listed in the EDID.

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anarsoul

May 29, 20251 yr

I have an Orange Pi 5 running Armbian Noble and I need a distribution that supports USB OTG in peripheral mode and supports dcw3_generic kernel module. I've tried to compile one with support, but I keep getting: modprobe: FATAL: Module dwc3_generic not found in directory /lib/modules/6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx I triple checked .config and the appropriate flags are set to Y. I am trying to get the Pi to act as a mouse attached to another machine's USB port. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Joe Noonan

May 4, 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 followed this manual I tried to boot , led was green and red , Display did not work. But Orange pi official images ca n boot my machine. How can I solve this problem?

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Werner

September 15, 20251 yr

I have installed Armbian 25.02 via an official Armbian image for Armbian 25.02 (Debian 12) Vendor Kernel 6.1.xx, is it possible (and sane) to upgrade to Armbian 25.05 (Debian 12) Vendor Kernel 6.1.xx? If so besides downloading the new image and installing fresh what are one's options?

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SteeMan

April 29, 20251 yr

I would love to use Armbian Build to construct a Debian 12 Bookworm images with KDE Plasma as the windows manager. I note that KDE Plasma isn't an option in the armbian builder. I have no problem building with XFCE or Cinnamon.

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Robert Pace

April 27, 20251 yr

This issue is about Nanopi M6 model without LCD, but there is no tag for Nanopi M6, even though it has Platinum support, so I had to set nanopi-r6c tag. The Ethernet interface can't receive settings from DHCP with errors: [ 12.894724] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: IRQ eth_lpi not found [ 12.894866] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: Looking up phy-supply from device tree [ 12.894876] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: Looking up phy-supply property in node /ethernet@fe1c0000 failed [ 12.894892] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: supply phy not found, using dummy regulator [ 12.894948] rk_gmac-dwmac fe1c0000.ethernet: clock input or output? (output). …

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aproxityloq

April 27, 20251 yr

Hello! I'm trying to look around in the Armbian build/config scripts to see how I can enable a mainline v6.15-rc3 kernel to be built. I did try to make a build/userpatches/lib.config file with the contents, KERNELBRANCH="tag:v6.15-rc3" But that's not working. Would anyone be able to tell me the file I need to edit for an OrangePi 5? Update: I actually seem to have it try by editing config/sources/families/rockchip-rk3588.conf changing the version tag. But I get a bunch of red errors complaining about SHA1. hmm...an 'rc3' is probably not to be found in a tree with 'stable' in it. Cheers! Fred

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Fredrik

April 22, 20251 yr

In our testing, when attempting to use various Wi-Fi mini-PCIe/M.2 adapters from Intel and Realtek, we've encountered problem: oftentimes OS will not see PCIe device with error "PCIe link training gen1 timeout". Some days it happens only in 1/10 boots, other days it can stop working completely. After long debugging we've found that 24-pin FPC cable that connects Orangepi and official connector board (PCIE-SOCKET-OPI4-4B) does not pass PERST signal from Orangepi. Instead, it is high by default and the only way to temporarily set it to low is by pressing physical button on connector board. As far as I understand, PERST signal basically tells the connected de…

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ArXen42

April 19, 20251 yr

I recently added a monitor to my server as there were issues and I wanted to see logs directly on the OPi5. The monitor is part of the Motorola HD Dock. I'm using it for it's keyboard and monitor. In any case, the following messages appear in DMESG and keeps repeating ever second or two: [522074.762209] vop2_isr: 107217 callbacks suppressed [522074.762239] rockchip-vop2 fdd90000.vop: [drm:vop2_isr] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0 [522074.762321] rockchip-vop2 fdd90000.vop: [drm:vop2_isr] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0 [522074.762359] rockchip-vop2 fdd90000.vop: [drm:vop2_isr] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0 [522074.762400] rockch…

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ArmBoy1988

April 17, 20251 yr

Hello, I'm quite new to SBC and linux. On one hand I'm learning a lot, but on the other hand I'm struggling to make it work as I would like. I already have a low performance Zimaboard (just 2GB Ram) that I use as a NAS and I want the ROCK 5 ITX 8GB to be used as a general purpose apps server for home automation, streaming music, listening music, etc. One of my use case I'm playing with is the following: 1) music files are on the NAS 2) Music files are played from the Rock5 ITx via the speakers plugged into the headphone jack, 3) The music player is controlled remotely using Lyrion Music Server + Squeezelite. I've already tested t…

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Bobbox

April 15, 20251 yr

With the vendor kernel, my logs are getting flooded with drm error messages Apr 13 17:04:05 kitchen-opi kernel: [drm:rockchip_vop2_mod_supported] *ERROR* Cluster0-win0 unsupported format modifier 0x800000000000062 Apr 13 17:04:05 kitchen-opi kernel: [drm:rockchip_vop2_mod_supported] *ERROR* Cluster0-win0 unsupported format modifier 0x800000000000062 Apr 13 17:04:05 kitchen-opi kernel: [drm:rockchip_vop2_mod_supported] *ERROR* Cluster0-win0 unsupported format modifier 0x800000000000062 Apr 13 17:04:05 kitchen-opi kernel: [drm:rockchip_vop2_mod_supported] *ERROR* Cluster0-win0 unsupported format modifier 0x800000000000062 Apr 13 17:04:05 kitchen-opi kernel: [drm:r…

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OttawaHacker

April 18, 20251 yr

Hi All I'm trying to use a microphone using the audiojack connector but without any success. Any help around that? I tried to search in the forum but didn't find any useful information regarding Radxa 5B Plus Thanks Erez

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Igor

April 15, 20251 yr

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

Hi I installed https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5c/Bookworm_current_minimal-homeassistant, configured it to my liking (OS on a mirrored ZFS pool) to discover there is no WiFi, no Bluetooth. It's now kernel 6.12.17-current-rockchip64. Anybody managed to get WiFi and BT working with this kernel? Thanks, Chris

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ChrisO

April 3, 20251 yr

Hi @ all, long time reader, but never managed to register. Now it is time... as I'm not able to solve this myself, kindly asking for help. I'm stuck, my Orangepi 5 plus stops boot at this: Loading, please wait... Starting systemd-udevd version 252.36-1~deb12u1 Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... (initramfs) What happened before? Last year I bought the Orangepi 5 plus (8GB) and went ahead, testing everything out - having incredible fun with this little box. But with a way to old/slow sd card which finally failed two or three months ago. I went ahead and wrote the A…

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Zyxx

April 2, 20251 yr

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

So a clean install of "Armbian 25.2.1 Noble Gnome" with the vendor kernel (6.1.99) fails to boot when installed on an nvme SSDwith the armbian-install script, when btrfs is chosen as the partition type. I am not sure if the files are copied over correctly, since the ~6GB image on the SD card is copied as 2.9GB on the btrfs partition, but there are no errors occuring as far as I can see. The bootloader is up-to-date, and I can access the btrfs drive when booted from the SD card, so the kernel supports btrfs I guess? However, I think there are some things going "wrong", since the armbianEnv.txt file on the nvme SSD has ext4 instead of btrfs as the ro…

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Omer Hasanov

April 3, 20251 yr

I haven't been able to find a step-by-step for enabling a USB OTG Network on the RockPi-S. Anyone have a link to the steps? I'm referring to the ability to connect a USB cable between the RockPi-S and a computer and be able to ssh or network to it. My usb port is in peripheral mode and I'm using Network Manager on Armbian Bookworm.

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Meestor_X

March 29, 20251 yr

I installed U-Boot in the Orange Pi 5's SPI memory, connected via UART via the CH340G adapter (the power switch is lost). The speed is 1500,000 baud, 8n1. Connected TX-RX, RX-TX, GND-GND. After starting the board, I see the logs, but I can't enter anything at all. When I change the power supply, the input works, but it enters incomprehensible characters instead of the usual ones. When installing the EDK2-RK3588, there was no such problem on the same power supply and adapter. How can I fix the UART input?

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ᴛʏᴘᴇ 81

March 28, 20251 yr

Can you tell me how I'm able to enable PWM? I'm not able to see any of them in the armbian-config overlay management

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Werner

March 28, 20251 yr

With Debian Bookworm on BananaPi-M7 when Viewsonic VX3276-2K-MHD WQHD 2560x1440 the display is the wrong resolution only supporting upto 1920x1080 or 2560x1080 for ViewSonic 32” monitor config. It also fails to resync when turned off and on again or another source is selected on and the BPi-M7 is reselected, resulting in a flickering white backgound. Armbian_25.2.1_Bananapim7_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_xfce_desktop.img with apt-get update & apt-get upgrade Armbian 25.2.3 bookworm 12 Linux bananapim7 6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx Ubuntu works fine and supports the Viewsonic VX3276-2K-MHD WQHD on 2560x1440 for this but has a display area i…

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amazingfate

May 7, 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 have tried to used apt update and upgrade to update latest Mesa driver but keep getting error 'file has unexpected size' so therefore fails as unable to fetch the archive! the file is available after apt update but unable to install. How can i fix this please?

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Jon M

March 20, 20251 yr

Hi I have just installed this version of Armbian on Rock 5b but there is no wifi! I have wifi module installed and works fine on the latest Gnome build but not on Cinnamon. Can anyone help please? I have also found that there is no sound through hdmi. Only option is for headphones! How can I change this? Note: just started up again and option for wifi has appeared, good news! But still no sound.

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Jon M

March 20, 20251 yr

Hello. I want to try UEFI boot on this board. And I have one question. Can I use Rockchip vendor kernel with Armbian UEFI?

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VennStone

August 5, 20251 yr

Hi can anyone advise if they have come accross this issue. so somehow HDMIRX seems to be the hdmi input controller starts to freak out for no reason there is nothing plugged into it EVER and will randomly start to outpur this to console im thinking maybe the HDMIRX is faulty and want to remove it, I have tried removing it removed the DTB , decompiled and edited and removed it from DTB, tied to blacklist it but with no effect it does not stop spamming and the device [ 89.603095] rk_hdmirx fdee0000.hdmirx-controller: hdmirx_phy_register_write wait cr write done failed! [ 89.613765] rk_hdmirx fdee0000.hdmirx-controller: hdmirx_phy_register_write wa…

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Werner

March 14, 20251 yr

Hi. I have RockPi E v1.21 and I found, that I'm not able to boot image with new kernel 6.12 (tried minimal images 25.2.1 and 24.11.1, USBImager and Balena Etcher, 3 SD cards, different power supplies). With image 24.8.3 it boots normally. Also I found, that after upgrading 24.8.3 to kernel 6.12 the RockPi boots, but Ethernet doesn't work (even LEDs are dead). Another thing which I notice is, that I didn't find any option to disable kernel upgrades, but what I googled, it should be present in armbian-config->system->kernel->Y203. But this Y203 option is missing. Here is successful boot log of 24.8.3: https://paste.armbian.com/ixuvimofis.sql …

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Benik3

May 26, 20251 yr

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

The code being compiled is the latest mainline. My compile command: ./compile.sh build BOARD=rock-5b BRANCH=vendor BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED= DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=gnome DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=noble ENABLE_EXTENSIONS=mesa-vpu It has not been compiled successfully and is stuck here. I am in China and have used a VPN. Sometimes it compiles successfully, but after installation, the 3D acceleration feature is not detected. In the GNOME settings, it shows as LLVM software rendering. Installing 3D extension packages [ mesa-vpu ] [🚸] WARNING: SDCARD /var/cache/a…

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RND

March 19, 20251 yr

Hello, here with a Radxa Rock 5 ITX I experience endless loading at reboot after some system upgrades... But not always. Am I doing something wrong by using the command reboot from ssh ? instead of shutdown and power up ? In that case the system loads to rescue mode, asking for the root password and even if entered correctly does not identify. All comes back to working state with a shutdown and a reboot. Notice : I've made a donation to support the team. Please help.

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Werner

April 8, 20251 yr

I'm unable to activate bluetooth in the armbian build above. Confirmed bluetooth working in the vendor radxa bookworm xfce build. Here's what I see in dmesg that may be relevant: ... [ 9.329177] kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22 [ 9.329247] kernel: NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family [ 9.329261] kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 9.329281] kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 9.329296] kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 9.329337] kernel: Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized ... [ 11.165207] kernel: [BT_RFKILL]: bluetooth_platdata_parse_dt: get property: u…

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yuki Orikasa

July 15, 20251 yr

What is the current status of Pinebook Pro? I see there were Pinebook-Pro-specific install images for older version of Armbian, but there doesn't appear to be any for more recent versions, and currently, the download page points to (non-machine-specific?) UEFI install images. Is this a transition that was discussed/announced, and can I read the discussion/announcement in archives somewhere? Also, does anyone have any installation/testing reports? Is 25.02 known to work on the Pinebook Pro? I've tried a few different times to create a Armbian SDCard for my Pinebook Pro. I've only had one success, one one of my early attempts. Unfortu…

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djzort

August 12, 20251 yr

Can anyone point me in the right direction for an Armbian image that would allow audio recording over the 3.5mm jack? I'm trying to record audio over the 3.5mm jack. This works on a previous installation, but I'm trying to update to a curreent Armbian. Running Tinkerboard S R2.0 and this image: Armbian_25.2.1_Tinkerboard_noble_current_6.12.13_xfce_desktop.img Playback works record does not. Works: aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Right.wav -D hw:CARD=Audio,DEV=2 None of the following arecord commands work: arecord --vumeter=mono -D hw:CARD=Audio,DEV=0 -f S16_LE -c 2 -d 5 /tmp/t.wav arecord --vumeter=mono -D hw:CARD=Audio,DEV=1 …

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danfoxley

April 7, 20251 yr

I am using the M.2 connector on the Radxa Rock 5B+ board to connect an LTE module (EM7455). According to the datasheet and engineers, this M.2 slot is connected to the board via a USB hub (USB 2.0). When using the official Radxa OS, I can successfully detect the module under lsusb, the necessary kernel modules load correctly, ModemManager recognizes the modem, and I can establish an internet connection. However, on Armbian, I am experiencing a strange issue. The device does not consistently appear under lsusb; instead, the logs show that it keeps connecting and disconnecting in an endless loop. I am unsure of the root cause and how I can gather more detailed log…

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Igor

March 6, 20251 yr

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

Seems like the kernel 6.12.16 just does not boot - either updated regularly or from "rolling" minimal image. Steps to reproduce: - 1 way - just burn and run current "rolling" minimal image (Armbian_25.5.0-trunk.115_Orangepi4-lts_plucky_current_6.12.16_minimal). Result: Getting no records on UART after "Starting kernel..." and only red led shining. - 2 way Enabling kernel updates from already up to date Armbian v25.2.2 with older 5.15.76-rockchip64 (`# sudo armbian-config` -> System -> Kernel -> SY201 - Install alternative kernels) Result: same as above - 3 way Enabling kernel updates from older Armbian 22.08.10 without Armbian update itself.…

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renard

April 6, 20251 yr

Hi, this week my Rock 5 ITX+ board arrived and I started installing Armbian with vendor kernel (now on 6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx). This board has slightly different hardware than the original ITX. It has two M.2 M-key (2-lanes) instead of one M.2 M-key and four SATA ports. I think because of the different hardware configuration the DTB has to be changed as no SATA controller is present on the board. With the ITX DTB I am experiencing problems with not regonizing NVME disks when activating ASPM in armbianEnv.txt. I have no experience in editing DTBs or applying patches, so I need help to figure out what to do to make things work. …

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Malz

March 3, 20251 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

After working in the ssh session for a while, the message suddenly appears: Broadcast message from user@rock-5c (Wed 2025-02-26 11:08:02 CET): The system will suspend now! Judging by the entries of journalctl, suspend is triggered in the kernel, not in systemd $ journalctl -b | grep -i suspend Feb 26 11:00:29 rock-5c kernel: rk806 spi2.0: dvs-suspend-control-by missing! Feb 26 11:00:29 rock-5c kernel: rockchip-dmc dmc: suspend_rate = 528000000 Feb 26 11:00:29 rock-5c kernel: rockchip-dmc dmc: deep_suspend_rate = 2112000000 Feb 26 11:00:29 rock-5c kernel: rockchip-pm rockchip-suspend: not set pwm-regulator-config Feb 26 11:00:29 rock-5…

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pepperheart

February 26, 20251 yr

EDIT: I tried using ext4 rather than btrfs and.. somehow that solved it? I don't understand how the SSD file system would change how the bootloader is flashed because if properly flashed, the SD card shouldn't work at all, unless something has changed. Hey all, I wanted to move to the newest version of armbian (25.2.1) and for whatever reason neither `apt update && apt upgrade` nor `armbian-upgrade` (as a sanity check) worked so I wiped the SPI flash using `mtdtools` as prescribed in the forum post linked on the support page. 1) Booted from SD, installed Armbian and the bootloader. 2) Shut down, removed SD and turned on. Machine hung and never boote…

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Jacob Olness

May 7, 20251 yr