Amlogic meson

Topic covering feature updates/bugfixes. Sep. 29 2017 - HDMI hotplug script/udev added for Mainline. Switching monitors no longer results in a necessary reboot. Nov. 22 2017 - Dev updated to 4.14 with Libretech patches Nov. 23 2017 - Next updated to 4.14.y with Libretech patches <- wait for nightly, not on download page Active download Dec. 18 2017 - Patch uploaded to fix Ethernet instability: commit Feb. 04 2018 - Ethernet LED's fixed in repo. commit July. 08 2018 - Next is kernel 4.17, HDMI audio fixed [bug] Dec. 20 2017 - Init 0 results in reboot [bug] July 8 2018 - Kernel 4.17 cpufreq throwing errors setting c…

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Da Xue

August 9, 20224 yr

Before I give it a try, has anyone already tried to write armbian to eMMC of the Le Potato ? If not, can you give me a hint where I shall read in order not to destroy the storage? * Thank you * it gets interesting from page 2 onwards

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bosch_tracer

December 30, 20214 yr

Hello, I have tested Armbian with SD card without issue. I'm wondering if it's possible to do the same using SSD. SSD is much more reliable and faster than SD card. I can do it with the Ubuntu release from Odroid using petitboot, but it seems that Armbian isn't compatible with petitboot. Thank you

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-hannes-

March 25, 20233 yr

So, I've been struggling to figure out the reason behind this problem. I have 4 Le Potatoes, all connected to a 100 mbps switch. Each of them have a 32 GB Samsung SD Card EVO. Initially, the problem was that my SSH session would hang at random usually when I download something. I can't SSH again unless I reboot the PI (I didn't bother waiting longer than 5min) Initially, I thought SD Cards were bad, I moved them around, done reinstalls. I'm also using SD Formatter to format them and Etcher to install them. Still, this freezing problem had no consistent behavior according to PI hardware or the SD cards.. For Power, I'm u…

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TonyMac32

July 16, 20188 yr

I got the Le Potato Ubuntu server image up and running. Then installed the Mate desktop environment. Most everything is working fine, but the system freezes hard at times, mostly when I try to run several large programs concurrently. Problem with memory? Also, some resolutions have the refresh rate set at 68.5 Hz that don't work on most of my monitors. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for the work you guys put into it, and I look forward to the continuing progress!

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TonyMac32

May 29, 20188 yr

Hi all. I've recently received the Odroid N2+. Since nobody else started a topic about it, I'll be the one. All works fine with Armbian since not much hardware changes have been made vs the N2. Except for the CPU frequency. With the Odroid Ubuntu you can set it to 2.4Ghz for the big cores A73 as overclock (2208 stock)., and 2016Mhz for the A53 cores (1908 stock). With Armbian the max clocks are 2Ghz for all cores. Using Armbian Focal 4.9 legacy. I tried setting the higher values in config.ini. Also tried with the "meson64_odroidn2_plus.dtb" file from the Odroid Ubuntu. Doesn't boot with that. (What do I know ) Other changes are the RTC b…

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Ruediger

March 20, 20224 yr

Hi, I am using the Odroid N2, and I have recently switched from the Hardkernel-supplied Ubuntu Mate, to an Armbian version with kernel 5. I was hoping to combine a homemade NAS using CPU accelerated LUKS-encrypted disks with a Kodi mediacenter, and the N2 seems to have excellent properties to do both. Installing these Armbian functions immediately fixed a few problems that Hardkernel's Ubuntu had (unstable BTRFS driver, and I also see no sign of the USB3 disconnect problems that Odroid used to have). However, this version has a problem to recognize audio hardware - in the GUI, I am unable to select HDMI audio or analog audio. - Fo…

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macerg

September 24, 20206 yr

I've spent the entire morning trying to boot armbian on a vim 3 basic. It won't boot from sdcard. I erased the emmc with krescue, no change except now it doesn't boot anything, except the krescue sdcard. I put the armbian image on a USB stick and tried to flash it to emmc With krescue but krescue says it's an invalid vim 3 image. I verified the Sha and I also tried using the extracted dot img file. Which isn't recognized by krescue. How do I boot an sdcard or flash the emmc When none of these things work? The only thing that boots now is the krescue sdcard. What am I doing incorrectly? What else can I try?

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Erica

June 8, 20242 yr

Running a home NAS using Armbian/meson bullseye and openmediavault. After apt upgrade today, my SATA disks are no longer spinning up or showing up in "fdisk -l". The system is on an SD card and still boots fine. This is what I'm seeing: [ 2.270633] scsi host0: ahci [ 2.272861] scsi host1: ahci [ 2.273074] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m512@0xfc700000 port 0xfc700100 irq 27 [ 2.273090] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m512@0xfc700000 port 0xfc700180 irq 27 ... [ 2.584971] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 2.896948] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) Both disks work fine in another system. I have tried to upg…

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Edgar

November 9, 20241 yr

EDIT: Please don't trust in the numbers appearing at the top of this thread. Obviously there were bootloader/firmware issues that needed to be resolved and afterwards Potato performance will be somewhat higher. Since I didn't find numbers may I ask owners of the device ( @Igor, @TonyMac32 ?) to run 4 quick benchmarks? Two times openssl, 7-zip and tinymembench. Please comment also which clockspeeds and which distro you used (Xenial preferred). Thanks!

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Da Xue

November 11, 20178 yr

Hello Le Potato hackers, I have a small favor to ask of you: I just wrote a Howto cross-compile mainline u-boot for your "Le Potato" (actually it's supposed to be for the La Frite when this starts shipping, but right now it's for the Le Potato) Here: http://wiki.loverpi.com/faq:sbc:libre-aml-s805x-howto-compile-u-boot Since I don't have a Le Potato I cannot verify that my HOWTO really produces a working u-boot, so I would be very grateful if any one of you could spend around 20 minutes of their (very valuable, without any doubt) time to follow the step-by-step instructions and check it out? What you need: An x86_64 PC/Laptop…

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AndrewDB

March 14, 20197 yr

Hi everyone! Been using Armbian for a few days and loving it!! Banging job! I'd like to ask though, is there a way to change the threshold for when the fan kicks in on the N2+? As it's hardcoded to 65C correct? Thanks!

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vinser

June 21, 20233 yr

Hi there, yesterday I tried to use nand install skript tool to move the content from my sd card on odroid n2 to emmc card for booting and using emmc card only. The process itself worked and the content of the sd cards was moved, but after unplugging sd card and plugging emmc card the boot process is not starting and nothing is shown on the hdmi monitor. I compared the /boot filesystems and both are identically. I checked the "armbianEnv.txt" file and it is ok for the new uuid of the emmc card. Everything seems to be identically but why is it not booting. Does someone have a hint what to check additionally what is maybe missing at beginning of the boot process.…

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Franky66

September 28, 20224 yr

as described in: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/issues/2377 it's possible to use meson HW video codec now, but in the URL, not very clear, does any one know how to use it?

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xwfunny

February 20, 20215 yr

I have a Banana Pi CM4 + CM4 IO Board - literally the same one pictured in https://www.armbian.com/bananapicm4io/ I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Server Image - "Armbian_24.8.1_Bananapicm4io_noble_current_6.6.47.img" For convenience, I installed the image to an SD card. Armbianmonitor link: https://paste.armbian.com/igahozatow Everything boots and I can use armbian-config to connect to my local WiFi network, but the speeds are really really slow: iperf3 gives me ~40mbps pretty consistently: -------------------- [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 51.1 MBytes …

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vimal

September 9, 20242 yr

Armbian_22.05.4_Odroidn2_jammy_current_5.10.123_xfce_desktop.img ... comes up with the Armbian logo and circling dots... But the dots go on for an hour and a half. Here's what /var/log/bootstrap.log looks like.

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usual user

August 9, 20224 yr

Hi, in addition to this topic I would like to mention that the current Odroid N2 Firmware (Armbian 22.05.0-trunk.0004 Jammy with Linux 5.10.103-meson64 / U-Boot 2022.01-armbian (Mar 03 2022 - 19:25:51 +0000) odroid-n2/n2-plus) as well has difficulties with both the orange and the red coloured eMMC modules at this time. The orange coloured eMMC module is recognised but couldn't be activated ("unable to select a mode : -5"): Spoiler G12B:BL:6e7c85:7898ac;FEAT:E0F83180:2000;POC:F;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;0. bl2_stage1 bl2_stage_init 0x81 hw id: 0x0000 - pw…

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einsteinx2

October 31, 20223 yr

I am running Armbian 5.38 LePotato Debian Stretch next 4.14.14 and noticing some weird activities going on. When checking the syslog it was full of this stuff: Feb 23 06:25:29 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped Serial Getty on ttyS0. Feb 23 06:25:29 localhost systemd[1]: Started Serial Getty on ttyS0. Feb 23 06:25:39 localhost systemd[1]: serial-getty@ttyS0.service: Service hold-o ff time over, scheduling restart. Feb 23 06:25:39 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped Serial Getty on ttyS0. Feb 23 06:25:39 localhost systemd[1]: Started Serial Getty on ttyS0. Feb 23 06:25:50 localhost systemd[1]: serial-getty@ttyS0.service: Service hold-o ff time over, sch…

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otlabs

April 11, 20206 yr

@Igor I tested the XFCE, CLI and Minimal Bullseye images from https://armbian.com/bananapi-m5 (2022-11-30). I tried to build myself one from master (current and edge - bullseye/desktop/xfce), same outcome: it shows the Splashscreen and then stops here: I don't have a USB-to-TTL adapter, so I can't provide more debug informations. The only images that still boot (reliably!) from the SD card are the ones archived here https://imola.armbian.com/archive/bananapim5/archive/ that still used the Kernel 5.19.16. The switch to 6.0.x occurred two weeks ago: https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/ce61bd7827d42c63bc1f763d…

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berni51

December 23, 20232 yr

My current HC4-setup consists of 1 SSD and 1 HDD. The SSD contains the most recent Armbian-image (Buster-based) (https://redirect.armbian.com/odroidhc4/Buster_current). Long story short: it won't boot from SSD, and Google tells me it is because Armbian is not compatible with Petiboot. Armbian suggests the following solution: "Important: To be able to boot clean Armbian mainline based u-boot / kernel experiences, you need to remove incompatible Petitboot loader that is shipped with the board. From the Petitboot, go for “Exit to shell” and these commands to remove the Petitboot:" # flash_eraseall /dev/mtd0 # flash_eraseall /dev/mtd1 # flash_eraseall /de…

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Max_sky

April 9, 20242 yr

Armbian current: It seems that the N2+ is [i]immune[/i] to Chrony and systemd-timesyncd. The only way I can set the date/time is manually through date -s. # systemctl status systemd-timesyncd ● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-11-24 13:06:59 PST; 31min ago Invocation: 50da85c1116348dbbd83cca270da6ff8 Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8) Main PID: 1185 (systemd-timesyn) Status: "Idle." Tasks: 2 (limit: 4227) Memory: 1.6M (peak: 2.3M) CPU: 79ms C…

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laibsch

December 5, 2025Dec 5

Hi, is there a way, how to check that image in download section is ok? I have Odroid HC4 with good PSU, both old and new card, flashed by Etcher and Rufus, keyboard plugged in USB, no SATA disks at the moment. I'm able to boot Focal 4.9 kernel (however with some errors after the boot). I've removed Petitboot with flasherase first, I've checked SHA checksum. Edit: File I've downloaded is: Armbian_20.11.6_Odroidhc4_focal_current_5.9.14.img.xz SHA: 9930f984eca2a72b3c22953ee6381c95da528b2a355dd9f429da38d1409f7b1f *Armbian_2 Any ideas what is wrong? Thank you.

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NicoD

January 11, 20215 yr

Some time ago a I was desperate to have ZFS on an Odroid HC4 and after some trying found Armbian 21.05.8 Buster with Linux 5.10.57-meson64 on which I could compile ZFS module. Then I moved everything from the SD card to filesystems in a ZFS pool. It boots from SD card, though. And has been working fine for several months. Recently I bought another HC4 and took the current Armbian image for it: Armbian 22.08.8 Jammy with Linux 5.19.17-meson64 Everything works fine. Tried this image on the older HC4 and it doesn't see the second SSD. In the syslog I found this message: ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) …

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SteeMan

December 11, 20223 yr

Hello, While for Odroid-N2 ubuntu standard image wakeonlan worked I miss for armbian 20.08.22 Focal simple advice for bootenv or kernel parameters to enable it e.g. enabled_wol as with ubuntu standard image for N2. ethtool eth0 tells just it is disabled (d) and network settings doesnot work either. regards, Dieter

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MikeSmith

April 30Apr 30

Hi, first of all, thanks for all the good work on supporting all these single board computer. There no exist other disto that can do it. Indeed, this is the only general purpouse linux distro that officially support Le Potato. I would like to ask some help to solve these problems that i have encountered using my board. I have searched on the forum and i have not found any post on these problems. Sorry to be vague in the title, but all these bug appeared after the kernel update, so they may be caused by the same problem. I use a Libre Computer Le Potato inside a Sunfounder Raspad kit. The system is an Armbian Stable with apt linked to Debian Sid re…

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UniformBuffer

March 25, 20206 yr

Hi, I just wanted to report how I got Armbian 23.8.1 working on my Khadas VIM3 Pro board. It was not an out-of-the-box success story, but after a few nights of debugging, I found the cause and fix of the issue. Hopefully this post will save debugging time of somebody else and maybe this can be fixed in future Armbian releases. The issue is as follows: After flashing the Armbian 23.8.1 image to the VIM3's internal EMMC storage, the SBC boots fine initially. I walk through the setup-process of users/passwords/network/locale, etc... After the set-up completes, I reboot the SBC. It starts booting as usual, but when X.org starts, my …

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rpardini

November 14, 20232 yr

Good Morning, I would like to Power ON or Wake the Board by IR Remote. However I cannot find instructions anywhere on how to enable the IR wake or what the code is for wake etc. Can you please point me in the right direction? From: https://loverpi.com/blogs/news/first-look-at-libre-computer-board-aml-s905x-cc-le-potato-hardware-overview it states: IR Shutdown works but then I cannot wake the board by IR. Thank you for any help and for all the time the developers donate to this. Much appreciated.

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wyzco

February 11, 20197 yr

Hello, after upgrading the Odroid C2 to the current Version on 16.08.2024 the USB-devices do not work at all. According to the diagnosis information they are recognized during during bootup. But later they are disconnected for an unknown reason. https://paste.armbian.com/jucovipaxo lsusb only lists two devices: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub The suggested hack "usbcore.autosuspend=-1" for USB-problems is already activated, but USB doesn't work anyway Maybe there is a solution for this strange behavior of my C2.

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Igor

January 3, 20251 yr

How can we acces the SPI NOR Flash on Odroid HC4? The usual error seems to be the driver, not a thing we can overlay device tree? Id for xt25f128b is implemented. meson-spifc ffd14000.spi: registered host spi0 spi spi0.0: setup mode 0, 8 bits/w, 1000000 Hz max --> 0 spi-nor spi0.0: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator spi-nor spi0.0: error -95 reading JEDEC ID spi-nor spi0.0: probe with driver spi-nor failed with error -95 meson-spifc ffd14000.spi: registered child spi0.0

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usual user

July 26Jul 26

Hi, I upgraded armbian on N2+ today... Apparently kernel was updated, I dont know how to fix this. Someone to help me ? Thanks

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Igor

February 19, 20215 yr

u-boot from Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Bananapim5_sid_edge_6.2.0-rc3_minimal.img hangs if I try to boot with my USB hard disk connected. I replaced it with u-boot from Armbian_22.08.7_Bananapim5_bullseye_edge_5.19.16.img and that one works fine. U-Boot 2022.10-armbian (Feb 12 2023 - 17:20:43 +0000)bpi-m5 Model: Banana Pi BPI-M5 SoC: Amlogic Meson SM1 (S905X3) Revision 2b:c (10:2) DRAM: 3.8 GiB Core: 384 devices, 27 uclasses, devicetree: separate MMC: sd@ffe05000: 0, mmc@ffe07000: 1 Loading Environment from nowhere... OK In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: eth0: ethernet@ff3f0000 Autoboot in 2 seconds starting USB... Bus usb@ff500000: Register…

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MrBoyi

May 31, 20233 yr

Hi guys, I installed the latest Armbian (Buster) release for my Odroid HC4 and - after getting rid of Petitboot as that just wouldn't let me boot the image - it's working great so far. Only big problem I have is that it does not recognize any SATA devices, in neither of the two slots. I tried different HDDs / SSDs that I verified are recognized on a Windows PC and another Ubuntu PC. Did anyone get that working already? I assume the required Kernel drivers for the PCIe-Sata-chip are probably still missing. Many thanks and best regards Daniel

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Yan Pashkovsky

July 24, 20242 yr

Hello all, I am using an Odroid N2 with a 16Gb emmc and Armbian Bookworm. However as this got a bit small, I installed Armbian Bookworm to a new 64Gb emmc (Armbian is installed on an SD and can then be copied/installed to emmc). This seemed to work fine, and I had a running system. However, on the 3rd or 4th reboot, I got the error that the file "boot.scr" wasn't readable. With that, the emmc was not bootable anymore. I reinstalled multiple times, and each time, the emmc would work for a 2-5 boots, but no more. Each time, i got the error as above, or the error as below (partition could not be found) I never had this issue with the 16Gb emmc? Does anyone …

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HansD

May 28, 20242 yr

Hello, I'm new to this world of SBC. I'm trying to learn as much as possible, and I realize maybe I should have started with a better documented board like the rPI. I guess I just like learning the hard way. I'm trying to use the GPIO pins on the board. Starting with baby steps, I'm looking to just simply turn on/off an LED via GPIO. I've been searching and poking around the /sys filesystem to try to understand how this works, but I'm having a hard time understanding which pins to expose via the export file, and what physical pins those map to. I see /sys/class/gpio/ has two chips, 0 and 10. I see gpiochip0 has 10 pins, and gpiochip10 has 101. Is t…

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Da Xue

May 19, 20188 yr

After last system upgrade I got, Package armbian-bsp-cli-odroidhc4-current is kept back because a related package is kept back or due to local apt_preferences(5). and (translate from french) sudo apt install --only-upgrade armbian-bsp-cli-odroidhc4-current ... The following packages contain unmet dependencies: armbian-bsp-cli-odroidhc4-current : Dépend: base-files (>= 23.11.1) E: Unable to fix problems, bad packets are in "keep as is" mode. How to fix this issue? uname -a Linux xxxxx.xx 6.1.63-current-meson64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 20 10:52:19 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux apt-cache show base-files …

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Lennyz1988

January 11, 20242 yr

Just a warning for everyone, the new kernel update (6.18.xx I think?) absolutely wrecks the system (atleast it does on Ubuntu Noble). It doesn't boot at all anymore I needed to recover an old kernel from an old backup I had and overwrite the current kernel from rescue mode/petitboot. Kernel 6.12.xx seems to work fine(ish) Just a heads up because I don't know enough to pinpoint the exact cause. p.s. for me the kernel means the files in /boot not sure if I used proper terminology

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dev-null

July 19Jul 19

I've tried a few images of the latest builds. None of them start. Odroid starts to power the screen and I see blinking lights, but screen goes dark and it seems to cycle like this. I use USB power for it and a powered hub (so basically no power output to USB dongles, etc.)

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natural

May 5, 20233 yr

I upgraded the kernel today via apt-get update/upgrade and it seems kernel for armbian 23.08 is being pushed to users with 23.02 breaking a bunch of stuff. After upgrading the kernel ethernet stops working and requires the user to manually downgrade kernel, uboot (and dtb?). I am currently on "current" kernel (6.1.11-meson64) I'm thinking of downgrading to legacy (5.xx) via armbian-config, does anyone know if this is safe?

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Z11ntal33r

December 23, 20232 yr

For the second time today on my few-days-old Odroid N2+ build with Buster desktop I have a system-wide freeze. Blue LED is constantly on and there is no response to keyboard or mouse events. Was interacting with Plex both times but I only have Plex, Tautulli and Samba server set up. I'm loath to pull the power but 30mins in to the second freeze (I pulled the plug on the first one). What should I be looking for when I get it running again?

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Igor

August 16, 20206 yr

Hi all, I've been searching this topic for a while but haven't found a clear answer to my question. Running an N2+, I've noticed that sometimes, in dmesg, a process will be killed due to lack of ram, this is usually when, for example, plex is busy generating video thumbnails and bazarr is syncing newly downloaded subtitles for example. This isn't as common place as such but it does happen from time to time. My armbian installation (latest ubuntu server image with latest mainline kernel) is installed to an nvme ssd, so I was wondering if enabling zswap and disabling zram would be beneficial in this case? Or can both be used at the same t…

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tkaiser

December 29, 20205 yr

Hi, everyone, Recently, i found i can't change ssh port on 6.4.16 bookworm (Onecloud) cli version(https://github.com/armbian-delta/os/releases/download/23.8.0-trunk.2/Armbian_23.8.0-trunk.2_Onecloud_bookworm_edge_6.4.16.img.xz#onecloud) i changed the `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` add the `Port 10086` .and then i restart the system, It still not working, ssh port only work on `22` but at the same time, i found the other thing `KexAlgorithms curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diff…

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Ephraim Gariguez

July 2, 20242 yr

I have big problems with the network throughput on my odroid n2 after a new fresh installation of the armbian image 5.87_debian_stretch_default_4.9.177. I was wondering why the update procedure with apt or some tests with installation for omv is taking so long. Does anyone has the same problems or some hints for solving this? So for know I - switched the network cable (no result and with the same cables different other computers are connected with gigabit and no problem - changed speed from 1 gbit to 100 mbit but with no successfull result on the lan switch (no problems with all other connections on this hp lan switch!) - did some small "…

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Franky66

July 6, 20197 yr

Hello I tried to retasrt my system, but it doesn't work. Before i post my question i found this thread: i can't find a solution in the thread. Does anybody knows, how he fixed it? I need to restart the system. Can i disable the user login to the beginn? i need to start without a login choice. Thank you

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teknoid

March 3, 20242 yr

Hi, i use a AML-S905X-CC board and since the last kernel update, something start moving on the hardware acceleration side, i got mpv hwdec working. I would like to make some tests and start using kodi for media reproduction, but i'm scared that 256M of default cma memory is not enough. I have tried to set the cma memory size from kernel parameters using armbian-config. I have tried to add "cma=350M" and "extraargs=cma=350M" to boot environment. Both commands does not work. The strange thing is that i'm sure "extraargs=cma=350M" pass the command to the kernel parameters because i have already used it to disable a faulty composition output. I h…

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UniformBuffer

October 23, 20205 yr

unable to access gpio using wiringpi python. I have tried steps available on banana pi wiki. but it throws error "/dev/gpiomem" is not available and then "This board is not odroid". did anyone successfully implemented this?

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usual user

March 12, 20242 yr

Hi, Does Le Potato accelerate Kodi? I don't see 'multimedia' image, does it standard image with vanila kernel? Thanks Radius

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TonyMac32

July 13, 20197 yr

Dear all, first, as being new here: Many thanks to all the work that went into this! Now, here's my problem on Le Potato, which I have with armbian and LibreELEC: As soon as I copy anything large to any media, some services (SSH, Samba, Kodi, tvheadend - all of them network dependent) crash after writing something between 200 and 700 MB - not always at the same point. So anything like cp /some/huge/file /home/me crashes the services. Something like this: cp /some/huge/file /dev/null is no problem. I tried writing to SD as well as to USB, and I tried via network (scp from another machine into Le Potato…

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Hauke

March 18, 20188 yr

Hi, I am using Armbian (latest) image on Banana Pi CM4 and I don't have access to gpio493. I am getting the following error: And looks like gpiochip4xx is not available: When I modprobe this gpio number, I am getting following error: modprobe: FATAL: Module gpiochip493 not found in directory /lib/modules/6.7.2-edge-meson64 Could you please help, how can I enable gpio 493? Thanks

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Abhishek Chr

January 29, 20242 yr

Hi i've tried everything now and really out of options and almost out of hair..... Hardware: 32GB or 256GB Samsung EVO Plus Sd-Card 500GB Samsung USB SATA SSD (MU-PA500B) Odroid N2 with the latest petit boot All images with kernel 4.9 will boot straight of the SSD without a problem or much work. But when i try images anything above 4.9 it won't boot , whatever i do: What have i tried with the images with kernel 5.4X 1) Image straight to SSD Black screen nothing happens ( SPI or MMC mode makes no difference) 2) Image on Sd-card, boot into Armbian and use :sudo armbian-config * System --> Install - installs to SATA, eMMC, NAND or USB -->…

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JerryPenguin

April 2, 20215 yr

I was trying to route my audio from HDMI to the 3.5mm stereo jack. Tried playing with various knobs on alsamixer (like what you could do on the Raspberry Pi), but couldn't get the audio to switch. Looking into the DTS, it seemed like there was consideration made for analog audio ( e.g. analog-amplifier). Was this ever working?

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MichaIng

February 7, 20233 yr

Hi I was trying out Armbian_24.2.1_Odroidn2_bookworm_current_6.6.16_cinnamon_desktop.img.xz and its not booting when you have a usb hdd connected. It works pefectly fine on bullseye image. Also tryed some other hdd on usb Board variant: n2-plus Net: dunac_neson8b ethernet@ff3f0000: Can't get reset: -2 ethe: ethernet@ff310000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 starting USB... Bus usb@ff500000: Register 3000140 MbrPorts 3 Starting the controller USB XHCI 1.10 scanning bus usbeff500000 for devices... unable to get device descriptor (error-1) …

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Alexei Shcherbakov

August 28, 20242 yr

Hello, After a firmware update today I got a problem with Wireguard on my Odroid-hc4. I got that when checking ufw status, sudo ufw status verbose ERROR: problem running iptables: modprobe: FATAL: Module ip_tables not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.123-meson64 iptables v1.8.7 (legacy): can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. How to fix that? Laurent

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Guest

September 25, 20224 yr

I was going to install armbian on a new vim 3 board but it seems that krescue no longer exists. Is there another way to install armbian to a vim 3? Does the vim 4 have the same problem?

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Erica

May 2, 20242 yr

Hello, I have a La Frite 1gb. Im trying to boot armbian but it wont boot, I have checked the common problems list on the libre computer forum , It stated sd card, power supply etc. I have made sure that none of these are the problem, I have tried 5 different sd cards and im now using a 6th brand new Sandisk Extreme bought in the store (The one recommended by libre computer). I have tried many PSUs , All 5V 3.0A which is supposed to be enough, I get no help in the la frite forum so i thought i would check in with you guys and see if anyone knows what the issue could be. Also, id like to add, it wont boot anything, none of the images of ubuntu destkop, raspbian, etc f…

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rpq399

December 23, 2025Dec 23

FYI, Device is Odroid N2+ 4 GB. Some months ago I installed/ran: Armbian_25.2.1_Odroidn2_bookworm_current_6.12.13_xfce_desktop.img with no issues that I could not overcome. I re-downloaded it yesterday and re-installed/ran it on another Odroid N2+ 4GB with no issues. However when I try to install/run: Armbian_25.11.1_Odroidn2_noble_current_6.12.58_xfce_desktop.img "* Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as Chromium, Firefox browser, Office tools etc." It leads to a number of issues, but the most important one is no internet browsers are installed that are either visible from the Applica…

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EDM

December 20, 2025Dec 20

Good morning, after some time using armbian on my OdroidN2 with great success (got Nextcloud with working Talk installed, external USB, Minecraft server, nginx, LetsEncrypt, Netdata...) I encountered some problems I am not able to solve by myself: I bought a RTC battery and a LED power button to "finalize" my Odroid (hardwarewise), and to my surprise both did not work as expected. RTC: It says: chris@OdroidN2:~$ sudo hwclock hwclock: select() to /dev/rtc0 to wait for clock tick timed out cat /proc/interrupts |grep rtc ...gives me also no return (empty string), so i guess there is a module missing in the kernel : chris@Odroi…

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onkel_enno

March 16, 20215 yr

I recently installed the latest precompiled Bullseye image on my Odroid HC4 and plugged in two Samsung 870 QVO 8TB SSDs. After configuring the system I noticed that they were not present, checking output from `/var/log/syslog` I can see the "SATA Llink down" messages for both channels. After several reboots I tried seating them after booting, both drives cause some messages about a soft reset failing, then eventually within 30-60 seconds are recognised until I reboot. I then one Crucial MX500 4TB SSDs which was recognised at first, after some reboots it would no longer be present, or strangely, be present with a much lower capacity (1TB). When seating the d…

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ChrisO

December 8, 20232 yr

context ------------ Hardware: BPI CM4 on BPI CM4IO board OS: Armbian 24.11.1 Bookworm Minimal Build: https://dl.armbian.com/bananapicm4io/Bookworm_current_minimal problem ------------ How do i enable i2c2 so i can be able to use the following pins on the BPI CM4IO board for i2c pin 82 (GPIOX_17): (MUX UNCLAIMED) (GPIO UNCLAIMED) pin 83 (GPIOX_18): (MUX UNCLAIMED) periphs-banks:595 Previously on the ubuntu build all i had to do is add the following line to `/boot/env.txt` , `overlays="12c2"`, as stated in this doc https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Getting_Started_with_CM4#DTB_overlay 2. Update the overlays env in vfat /boot/env.txt to ena…

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c0rnelius

December 4, 20241 yr

Hi! Recently I've tried Armbian 22.11 Jammy for my banana Pi M5. Initial setup without any error message. When I do the speaker-test but no sound output. Can I know how to add the sound card driver into the OS? Thanks

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scissor

July 6, 20233 yr

Hello all, I noticed that since recently (TM) I got loads of spam from panfrost in my dmesg output: I understand that this has something todo with graphics. The only "graphic" thing I'm doing is running standard Klipper-Screen through HDMI and this seems to be working as always... It definately wasn't there like half a year ago. can I get rid of it? Is it something to worry about? my armbian is running on a Banana-Pi CM4 module of of the eMMC. It's a rather standard installation with Klipper installed via KIAUH. sincerely - cad435

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SteeMan

May 6, 20242 yr

board ist lafrite with 512mb, 8gb emmc tried all possible ports for i2c. first by configuring with armbian-config and activating i2c port a and b. then manual by writing an overlay to activate i2c_ao and deactivate the uart on pins 3+5; also tried pins 27+28; i2cdetect -y bus-nr (0, 1) never detected anything; i2cdetect -l gave me correct ports; i2cdetect -y for the hdmi-port allways worked.

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eibinger

December 16, 20223 yr

Hi. Looking for help. I have uploaded Armbian v6.12 Desktop Ubuntu to a card and run on my device. You can see in the screenshot (video of the boot here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_1dm1rP33tbYISPUsta7nZV1eKPy3Plq/view?usp=drive_link) that some rubbish is displayed. I would also add that the device is sending a signal that is only displayed by the TV. No other monitor in the house is able to display anything that is sent from the device. This is even stranger, as when I upload the old ubuntu 18.04 to the same card, the device connected under any display displays my desktop. Any suggestions or suggestions? Maybe an older version? I want to make myself a RetroPi …

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Igor

September 9Sep 9

PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 22.08.7 Bullseye" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="11" VERSION="11 (bullseye)" VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" Hello everyone and thanks for accepting me in the forum. I recently bought a banana pi M5, intalled armbian but i can't use i2c, I tried to enable i2cA and i2cB from armbian-config without success. I have also tested numerous dts files with no success. Can anyone help me with this? Thank you.

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Hammerill

April 23, 20242 yr

I am trying to set up a Banana Pi CM4 on a Bigtree Tech Manta M8P, which is a 3D printer board which has a socket for the CM4. However, I don't have the option to use a wired connection to the router or plug in a keyboard to interact with the CM4 on initial startup, so I get stuck at the set root password stage. Is there a way around this? I have tried using WSL to mount the SD card after burning, but I can't seem to access it there to change the files on the card directly. Ideally, I would like to burn Armbian with Wifi credentials already set so I can ssh from the start. I appreciate any help. Keep in mind that my Linux fu is about good enough to get Klipper…

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Werner

August 21, 20242 yr

If I do i2cdetect -y 0 I don't see the device id I expect to 0x10 but I do see 0x30 and 0x50 which I shouldn't because there should only be one device at 0x10. I only see one i2c bus at /dev/i2c-0. Is that the i2c bus using header pins 3 and 5 which is where my device is attached? If not how would I enable the bus on pins 3 and 5?

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mihaipop10

May 21, 20206 yr

Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a severe boot delay on my Banana Pi M5 running Server Armbian Image (v25.2.2 - Banana Pi M5 - Armbian Linux 6.12.21-current-meson64) when no HDMI monitor is connected. The board itself is working fine, but without an HDMI connection, the system takes several long minutes to complete the boot process. Details The system boots normally and quickly when an HDMI monitor is attached. However, without a monitor, in headless mode , the boot process is significantly delayed several minutes (approx. 4 minutes). Blue led blinking normaly. I've Tried modified /boot/armbianEnv.txt by setting: display_autodetect=fals…

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gene1934

July 14, 20251 yr

Hi all. A few improvements have been made lately for the Odroid N2/N2+. HDMI sound for example. There are just a few little things I'd like to see happen to make it even better/perfect for desktop use, and for gaming when the GPU drivers for it are ready. Make HDMI resolution selectable in Armbian itself instead of in boot.ini. This would fix multiple issues. Like with mainline it always defaults to 4K on my 4K display whatever resolution I set in config.ini. The N2+ can work well at 1440p, but 4K is just too much for it. In legacy 1440p works when setting it in boot.ini. But can't be changed in Armbian itself. For gaming this will be a huge problem(on mai…

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rob2021

January 8, 20215 yr

hello, I found default armbian image will cause the CPU temperature very high. My cpu freq is setting 1Ghz and usage is around 20%, This should not cause the cpu to overheat. This is my armbianmonitor -m : ``` Time CPU_cl0/CPU_cl1 load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq Tcpu C.St. 18:55:22 1000/1000 MHz 0.88 17% 6% 9% 0% 0% 1% 103.0 °C 8/8 18:55:27 1000/1000 MHz 0.89 17% 5% 9% 0% 0% 1% 103.0 °C 8/8 18:55:32 1000/1000 MHz 0.90 17% 5% 9% 0% 0% 1% 103.1 °C 8/8 18:55:37 1000/1000 MHz 0.83 17% 5% 9% 0% 0% 1% 103.2 °C 8/8 18:55:42 1000/1000 MHz 0.76 17% 6…

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陳柏儒

October 13, 20232 yr

Hi, the system seems working normally, but when installing with apt, I get plenty of errors of: dpkg: cannot write to log file '/var/log/dpkg.log': No space left on device Digging into /var/log reveals that the ./journal directory is responsible; with 48 Mb. Any idea how to prevent this? Currently, I just remove the directory below ./journal.

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classman

April 6, 20242 yr

The latest Armbian IoT image for Khadas VIM4 does not boot. sha256sum: 69b10797369fd572d590aeb0dd7b28a4ebc5882cec8db8daf592db7b158bf141 Here is the log from the serial debug console. Spoiler [...] Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Setting bus to 6 _find_partition_by_name()-200: do not find match in table boot _find_partition_by_name()-200: do not find match in table boot error partition name! 4096 bytes read in 1 ms (3.9 MiB/s) _find_partition_by_name()-200: do not find match in table boot _find_partition_by_name()-200: do not find match in table boot error partition name! 4194304 bytes rea…

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laibsch

October 1, 20251 yr

I have flashed the last 23.8 bookworm lite image to my lepotato 1GB model, and it launched with 927 MB total memory. running apt update ; apt upgrade ; reboot it drops to 862M How can I reclaim the remaining memory? This is mostly a headless server i do not need any GPU. just basic hdmi output for troubleshooting purposes. before: Welcome to Armbian 23.8.1 Bookworm with Linux 6.1.50-current-meson64 System load: 8% Up time: 4 min Memory usage: 13% of 927M IP: CPU temp: 48°C Usage of /: 4% of 29G After: Welcome to Armbian 24.2.1 Bookworm with Linux 6.6.16-current-m…

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ovacikar

April 7, 20242 yr

So Le Potato (and Sweet potato) take about 10 seconds before reaching systemd. Is there a way to speed this up? I've tried putting boot_delay=0 as well as console=serial in armbianEnv.txt in hope of shortening the time in u-boot, but these didn't change anything. I've also tried building this image with no initramfs and no loadable module support.

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mongoose

April 20, 20242 yr

After updating the edge kernel to 6.18-rc, the performance of my ODroid-N2 dropped drastically. Here are the performance test results of 7zip with different kernel versions for comparison I compile the kernel myself using the armbian build system and install the resulting .deb. '7z b' 7-Zip 23.01 (arm64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2023 Igor Pavlov : 2023-06-20 64-bit arm_v:8 locale=en_GB.UTF-8 Threads:6 OPEN_MAX:1024 Compiler: 13.2.0 GCC 13.2.0 Linux : 6.16.6-edge-meson64 : #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 9 17:02:41 UTC 2025 : aarch64 PageSize:4KB THP:always hwcap:8FF:CRC32:SHA1:SHA2:AES:ASIMD LE 1T CPU Freq (MHz): 1901 189…

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usual user

December 4, 2025Dec 4

Anybody know how I can get the CPU temps for this CPU from Armbian? Armbian monitor seems to be missing that info and other common methods seem fruitless as well. I'm just trying to see if my cooling is being effective enough.

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TonyMac32

June 24, 20188 yr

Samples arrived ♥️ HW looks fascinating, Armbian is yet to be ported so can't comment how good this is in realworld. Its shipped with stock Khadas Ubuntu, kernel 5.4.y, which is good to boot something ... Technical specs at CNX.

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buratino

June 29, 20242 yr

Is there some instructions on how to get opencl with gpu working on the C4 with armbian ? I found https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-c4/os_images/ubuntu/minimal/20200526#opencl_configuration but the package mali-fbdev isn't available on armbian. Closest I've got is : $ curl -L http://deb.odroid.in/c4/pool/main/m/mali-midgard-driver/mali-fbdev_0.1-2ubuntu4_arm64.deb -o mali-fbdev_0.1-2ubuntu4_arm64.deb $ ar -xv mali-fbdev_* $ tar --use-compress-program=unzstd -xvf data.tar.zst $ sudo cp -r usr/* /usr/ $ mkdir -p /etc/OpenCL/vendors/ $ echo /usr/share/mali-odroid-c4/libmali.so | sudo tee /etc/OpenCL/vendors/mali.icd But then clinfo fa…

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usual user

March 22, 20242 yr

Hi, I installed armbian_23.8.1_Radxa-zero_bookworm-current_6.1.50 on Radxa Pi Zero eMMC and I have an USB SSD drive connected as storage. Everything worked fine using it as a NAS but if I reboot there is an endless loop of reboots with the core message "scanning bus usb0ff5000000 for devices... Synchronous Abort handler, err 0x56000010". If I disconnect the USB drive it boots fine and when reconnect it after the boot process, the drive works fine. But I really need a system that is able to boot without temporarely disconnecting USB. I tried different combinations of USB with two different hubs or without hub. There are no boot flags on the partitions. I completely de…

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SteeMan

April 8, 20242 yr

I'm trying to complete the installation of Armbian onto the HC4 (HC4-P if that changes anything). With a fresh SD card I run sudo dd if=Armbian_22.11.1_Odroidhc4_bullseye_current_5.19.17.img of=/dev/sdb status=progress plug in the card to the board, plug in the ethernet cable, hold down the boot switch, and plug it into power. It all seems to run correctly: I can SSH into the board and I complete the initial steps to set-up the installation (root pass, default shell, username, real name, and locale). However it does not seem as I can access the SPI FLASH device. Running the following commands from the HC4 page do not work as there are no mt…

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eacton

March 30, 20233 yr

Hello, i need to activate the serial port on the odroid N2-plus, the serial port is on pins (J2 - 2x20 PINS) 8/10. Usually this uart with ubuntu is at /dev/ttyS1. If I try to use it on armbian I get an input/output error. I read the following post, I understand that it is not implemented yet. Can anyone point me in the direction of trying to do this?

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denni_isl

December 21, 20232 yr

I'm trying to get Cinnamon to work with my Le Potato and have had no success. I don't know what data is needed to troubleshoot this so please let me know what info you need. Here are the details that I have. Le Potato AML-S905X-CC-V1.0-A I've tried two different methods to make this happen. Method 1 I tried installing this image: Armbian_24.8.1_Lepotato_bookworm_current_6.6.47_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img.xz Method 2 I tried installing this image: Armbian_24.8.1_Lepotato_noble_current_6.6.47_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz and then tried installing Cinnamon with apt. In both cases, wh…

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Igor

November 28, 20241 yr

Good day to all, please help. How can I install the ath9k_htc driver. Information: v25.5 rolling for MXQ running Armbian Linux 6.12.20-current-meson Packages: Debian stable (bookworm) - lsusb: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0cf3:9271 Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR9271 802.11n 1) apt-get update & apt install firmware-ath9k-htc reboot -- plug usb wifi system freezes reboot apt remove firmware-ath9k-htc system work. dmesg | grep -i usb dmesg | grep -i firmware Please tell me how I can fix this? Thanks in advance for your help.

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SteeMan

April 1, 20251 yr

Hello, i've tried the actually armlogic Image for my six le potatos. (https://dl.armbian.com/lepotato/Ubuntu_xenial_next_desktop.7z) In the first step it looks ok. But then i found you, that there is missing a xfs Module. I need this for a ceph test deployment. After some research i found out, that you can compile you own kernel with this description: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ I tried it and copy the kernel to the le potatos. But then a lot of strange things happens. Some of them where starting, some not, and when they started after some time the whole system brokes (looks lik…

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TonyMac32

March 23, 20188 yr

After upgrading to Focal on hc1 I countinously receive cron mails with the following content: /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-truncate-logs: 19: /etc/default/armbian-ramlog: Syntax error: "(" unexpected Similar problem is reported here: https://forum.yunohost.org/t/continuously-receiving-email-about-armbian-log/16549 After checking the code, the problem seams to be, that nowerdays /etc/default/armbian-ramlog contains something like # If USE_RSYNC is true, additional options may be specified for the rsync # commands used to synchronize logs to disk from RAM (XTRA_RSYNC_TO) or from # disk to RAM (XTRA_RSYNC_FROM). These are bash arrays to make s…

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kollmos

August 28, 20215 yr

Hello all! I have an ODROID-C2 that I am trying to use with a GPS connected over UART for timing purposes, which requires the use of pps. Based on my searching and reading in this forum, I have determined that for my OS and kernel (Focal, 5.9.14) I should be able to do so by adding overlay=pps-gpio to armbianEnv.txt. What is not clear to me, however, is how to specify which pin to use! In this thread I see windysea said: But I don't know how to use this information! I have found no documentation on param_pps_*, and my attempts at guessing based on information from other threads and resources have failed to work so far. I have been fiddling…

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Jeffsf

March 16, 20233 yr

Hello everyone! I bought Khadas VIM1 board and Official FAN(Ali Link) but seems to be not working with Armbian Bullseye, how I can run it? Thanks.

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noisyislands

January 6, 20233 yr

As of 2025-12-01, current 'Armbian 25.11.1 Trixie Minimal / IOT' lists as 'Kernel: 6.12.58, Size: 505 KB, Release date: Nov 22, 2025' and seems to have had problems on image generation. Please check when possible. Thanks in advance, pbg

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pbg

December 2, 2025Dec 2

I have recently acquired a BPI-M2 Pro with what is supposed to be USB WiFi (Realtek RTL8821CU). I am running Armbian 22.08.7 Bullseye. armbian-config does not recognize any WiFi. The output from lsusb -t also does not show the presence of USB WiFi as expected. root@bananapi-m2p:~# lsusb -t /: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/1p, 5000M |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 5000M /: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci-hcd/2p, 480M |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 480M Do I have a defective device, or is the WiFi not actually a USB module? Is there something else I need to …

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RayKnight

November 19, 20223 yr

Hi everyone, I'm trying to control an 5v PWM Fan using hardware PWM pins of Banana Pi M5. I'm not able to output any pwm signal on any pin. It looks like there is an pwm controller visible at `/proc/device-tree/soc/bus@ffd00000/pwm@19000`. File `/proc/device-tree/soc/bus@ffd00000/pwm@19000/status` has content `okay` and file `/proc/device-tree/soc/bus@ffd00000/pwm@19000/pinctrl-0` has content `&`. When i run script: echo 0 | tee /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/export echo 40000 | tee /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/pwm0/period echo 20000 | tee /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/pwm0/duty_cycle echo 1 | tee /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/pwm0/enable echo 1 | tee /sys/cl…

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c0rnelius

August 3, 20251 yr

I was curious if anyone had worked on power management for the S905X. My Le Potato was idling around 0.32A@5.1V = ~1.5W The LibreElec guys documented idle current ~2/3 of that here so I was curious what was going on. Of course I am running a 4.18 armbian kernel (I assume they were using a 3.14 kernel for their tests) so I was never going to match their numbers precisely, but 33% more power seemed like an awful lot. Then I realized I had a USB thumb-drive installed, so I did some experimentation... My numbers were generated using an inline USB power meter that measures pretty accurately compared to a bench meter. My initial findings: …

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Da Xue

October 1, 20188 yr

Hi I installed Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Odroidhc4_trixie_current_6.18.2_minimal.img Trying to build zfs-dkms I discovered that I was missing the linux-headers for this kernel version and there is no package containing it. At least apt-cache didn't find anything. Any idea where to find it? Thanks, Chris

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ChrisO

January 30Jan 30

Hello, I got a BPIM5 with rtl8822cs board and a BPIM2+ with internal wifi chip for home automation. I started my project (vpn gateway) with the ubuntu server distribution on BPIM5. I had a lot of instability of the wifi driver (lost of station in AP mode) and and the board crashed every two, three days. I switches to ARMBIAN with the last Armbian 22.11.3 Bullseye with Linux 6.1.4-meson64. This software seems to work fine on M2+ and wifi is fine and stable. So I tried to move my M5 to the same level. The M5 boot on sd card, I move it on MMC memory and the board boot . Unfortunatly the wifi board (rtl8822cs sdio) is not recog…

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glambert

February 18, 20233 yr

Hi, please ignore my username, it's quite old. System is an odroid n2+. After updating the system (apt dist-upgrade) and updating linux-image-current-meson64:arm64 21.08.1 to 21.08.6, my sd card could not be mount anymore. New firmware was: linux-image-current-meson64=21.08.6 / 5.10.81-meson64 System runs from emmc. The 256gb sd card is used for more internal storage. Kernel message: mmc0: error -84 whilst initialising SD card - repeated every few seconds. Downgrade back to linux-image-current-meson64=21.08.01 / 5.10.??-meson64 (did not remember minor version while changing kernel in armbian-config): works again…

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bananapinas

February 16, 20224 yr

Hi, This is my first try to add a board to armbian build system. I got a BPI M2S since several months, but only had time recently to investigate on this promising SBC. I made a PR here, if somebody wants to try it: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4597 The main improvements are to be done for the dts file, since I'm not an expert about such file definition. Only 1 ethernet of the Gbit ports is working, since I copy the config from vim3 that share the same hardware for it. I didn't try to customize u-boot and I use the one for radxa zero2 that works to launch armbian on the board. armbianmonitor -u is here: https://paste.armbian.co…

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jeanrhum

January 25, 20233 yr

Hi, Recently I reinstalled system on my Odroid C1+ from older Ubuntu with original 3.10.107 to newest Armbian with kernel 6.12.44. Generally it works quite well but I see a lots of stalls detection warnings in logs: Thu Oct 9 02:00:26 2025] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU [Thu Oct 9 02:00:26 2025] rcu: 0-....: (1799 ticks this GP) idle=a184/1/0x40000004 softirq=1089909/1089910 fqs=488 [Thu Oct 9 02:00:26 2025] rcu: (t=2100 jiffies g=2037329 q=10 ncpus=4) [Thu Oct 9 02:00:26 2025] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7987 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.12.44-current-meson #2 [Thu Oct 9 02:00:26 2025] Hardware name: Amlogic Meson platform [Thu Oct …

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Joey O

December 8, 2025Dec 8

Odroid-N2 using Armbian_20.08.1_Odroidn2_focal_current_5.8.5 I've recently got a "Connection timed out" issue. For instance, I can open files with nano, use htop, armbian-config, update and upgrade packages, but I can't reboot (everything over ssh). I'm having a feeling that the issue started when I tried to figure out if it's possible to get HDMI to work with my 4K TV when the HDMI cable is not plugged in at boot. In that case, I booted several times and chaged boot.ini with setenv display_autodetect "false", setenv hdmimode "1080p60hz" and setenv disablehpd "true" without success. armbianmonitor -u information is attached at the end in my post where this line migh…

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Z11ntal33r

September 14, 20206 yr

Hey all, I'm unable to boot Armbian from the SD card of my Radxa Zero 1 GB. When I download one of the official Armbian Radxa Zero images I always get the message "ALERT! UUID=eba52b2e-b77a-47b9-9619-ebda85946883 does not exists. Dropping to a shell!" Previously I ask the Radxa community on Discord, were I received the suggestion that the CMA memory maybe was configured too high. I tried to make an image from master (4b21499534, after https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4151 was merged) but that didn't help. When I run `dmesg` I get the following repeating error "mmc1: error -84 whilst initialising SD card" When I run `blkid` I do not get any output B…

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technik007_cz

June 20, 20242 yr

Hello, I am trying to connect a ds3231 module to get time during boot (dns does'nt like 1970) and without internet connexion. I load a recent build UBUNTU 26.2.1 on the M5 but unfortunatly after 2 days of research with chatgpt , I ask to knowledge experience people if they know if it's possible and which kind of dts can make this module up and running. I did'nt identify a dtbo on the distribution , a made a lot of investigation , pin 3 and 5 og the 40pins connector is connect to the cpu with pullup resistor , i try a lot dts conf and nothing gave result. If some one did this kind of connexion thanks in advance. Gérard

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glambert

April 6Apr 6

Hello everyone, Upgrading from distro isn't supported officially but I tried it anyways and thought I should share my findings. In short, it worked for me. Others have reported issues so maybe we can figure out what causes these issues. My N2+ is fairly vanilla, so I didn't heavily modify it. Running 5.10.x kernel since that is recommended for de N2+ Step 1. Fully upgrade your system on Focal sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Step 2. Shutdown you N2+ and make an image backup of your emmc using dd or Win32DiskImager in case something goes wrong Step 3. Boot up your N2+ a…

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bthoven

June 30, 20251 yr

Odroid N2+ booting from eMMC with a 4TB USB drive. With the USB drive disconnected, the system boots fine and very quickly. With the USB drive connected, it throws hundreds of errors for about 30 seconds before finally moving on and booting from the eMMC. I have no desire to ever boot from SD or USB, so I would like to just disable those options. I found this topic https://forum.armbian.com/topic/10349-disable-u-boot-usb-support/ but I can't really follow what they're talking about and I have no idea how to patch U-boot or build a new boot image. Is there an easier way to do this? Here's what the errors look like: Hit any key to stop autoboot: …

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c0rnelius

February 2, 20251 yr

Hi, i have armbian bullseye (headless) installed on my odroid-hc4. petitboot is disabled. The boot-partition lies on a sd-card while the root-partion is on a ssd. this configuration worked fine. After upgrading to armbian bullseye 22.11 the boot process stucks in initramfs cause the root file-system is not found anymore (ALERT! UUID=xxx does not exist. Dropping to a shell. The sd-card with the boot partition as well as the ssd with the root-partition can be mounted on another PC and seem to be flawless. the UUID shown in fstab and initramfs are identical. In initramfs ls /dev/sd* shows no devices while ls /dev/mm* shows the sdcard (mmcblk01...). I don't really …

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charly_53

December 9, 20223 yr