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

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

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

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, 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

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 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, 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

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

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

I have recently acquired a AML-S905X-CC. (Le Potato) Single Board Computer. The manufactures website (https://libre.computer) does not find any documentation (at least, I cannot find it) Their website refers to the LoveRPi Forum and this forum. It is impossible to sign up to the LoveRPi Forum due the confirmation email not being sent. This might not be the appropriated place to ask this question, but since this appears to be the only place where I can ask, I'll ask it anyway here. If I am to power up the board, I would like to know something about the connections. I would like to know how to connect the UART for a serial console to boot the board u…

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TonyMac32

April 23, 20188 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

@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

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

So far I've tried several images, just wanted to update what has and hasn't worked. I know the rz isn't officially supported but I thought I'd give my feedback and maybe it will help someone. All images were written to emmc after first using the radxa-zero-erase-emmc.bin tool to erase and mount emmc as USB storage. Armbian_22.05.0-trunk_Radxa-zero_bullseye_current_5.10.113_minimal - doesn't boot radxa-zero-ubuntu-focal-server-arm64-20220501-0334-mbr - boots but just goes straight into login screen, no option to change password. root and 1234 do not work. Also no armbian_first_run.txt.template included in the image Armbian_22.02.3_Radxa-zero_jammy_edg…

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technik007_cz

June 20, 20233 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

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

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

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

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

Le Potato is the first board from Libre.computer: https://libre.computer/products/boards/aml-s905x-cc/ Basic information is on the link above, here's the TL;DR: Raspberry Pi 2 form factor clone, with 64-bit quad-core Amlogic S905X 1 or 2 GB RAM eMMC and SD support HDMI 2.0 for 4k support 100 Mb Fast Ethernet Extra headers for I2S, UART, etc (nice feature I think) IR receiver Advertised to have low power consumption Powered via micro-USB based on: Amlogic P212 reference board Use Case: Media Player (retro gaming?) I've been using a board now for a few weeks, I ha…

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Da Xue

March 19, 20188 yr

Hi, So I found out the hard way that neither jammy nor bullseye builds for odroid c2 actually allow ssh at first boot My board is headless, but has a wired connection to my lan and always gets assigned the same address. Which file or files do I need to edit to ssh into it without having to do initial setup first, please?

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teknoid

May 23, 20233 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

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

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

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

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, The mission: to change display resolution for "None-1" ('unknown display') - when no physical screen/display/monitor is attached. Machine: Banana Pi M5 (Bpi M5). I use it as a headless machine (without any monitor connected) and access it via a remote control/share screen application (such as: Teamviewer). The problem: the display is very small as the resolution is set to 720 X 576. I couldn't find any way or method to define/change the resolution in such a case. How can this be done? I'll appreciate any assistance you can provide. Thanks in advance! This is the information of the machine and Armbian version installed…

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SoSie

March 16, 20233 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

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

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

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

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, 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

Is there a way to enable the audio jack? Only the HDMI audio is working.

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jmccoy555

March 31, 20233 yr

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

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

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

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

root@odroidn2:~# journalctl -x | grep haveged Mar 12 19:43:51 odroidn2 kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1615574627.248:2): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/haveged" pid=1635 comm="apparmor_parser" Mar 12 19:43:47 odroidn2 audit[1635]: AVC apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/haveged" pid=1635 comm="apparmor_parser" -- Subject: A start job for unit haveged.service has finished successfully -- A start job for unit haveged.service has finished successfully. Mar 12 19:43:52 odroidn2 haveged[1836]: haveged: Couldn't initialize HAVEGE rng 9 Mar 12 19:43:52 odroidn2 haveged[1836]:…

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MichaIng

January 24, 20224 yr

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

Hi all How can I enable the rtc clock in the Odroid HC4? I know nothing about device tree and overlays, but the Hardkernel Ubuntu image has an overlay to enable: wiki. I didn't find anything similar in the armbian image. Could be related to this this PR for the N2 model? Thanks

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alecunsolo

February 18, 20215 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

Hello, I've tried to use the bug reporting tool but unfortunately it did not work (armbianmonitor -u did not work, and it was too big for http://paste.debian.net/), so I've posted here. I'm trying to use a PCTV 292e plugged into the USB2 port of my Odroid N2. I have the correct firmware for this device downloaded into the /lib/firmware/ folder however I have the errors: writing to i2c device at 0xc8 failed (error=-5) I think it is a USB issue as it does work in the USB3 ports, but I am unsure. Logs below. If there is any more info I need to supply please let me know. Thanks. armbianmonitor -U 1 2 ### Act…

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Badger

May 3, 20215 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Hi all, after installing the latest version of Armbian (Jammy 6.1.11 desktop) I found that HDMI monitor audio is not working. With the Ubuntu MATE version of odroid the audio worked. Armbian seems more powerful and its look is much better than MATE, I hope I can solve all the problems because I don't want to go back to MATE anymore, How can I make HDMI audio work? Thanks in advance... PS. I have already updated the firmware to full with the WiFi USB stick problem which has since been resolved

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Papipoisson

March 19Mar 19

Output of armbianmonitor -u: http://ix.io/2SDQ The latest released 21.02.3 Lepotato buster 5.10.21 with Xfce preinstalled is unable to start a desktop environment from a fresh image install. After booting up, the display goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor. Initial issue seems to be lightdm failing to start w@lepotato:~$ journalctl -u lightdm.service -- Logs begin at Sat 2021-03-13 05:51:27 UTC, end at Sat 2021-03-13 06:06:57 UTC. -- Mar 13 05:51:33 lepotato systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... Mar 13 05:51:33 lepotato lightdm[2457]: Could not enumerate user data directory /var/lib/lightdm/data: Error open…

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Werner

March 13, 20215 yr

Hi. I recently purchased a few DS18B20 sensors. I'm having troubles setting up 1-wire on the newest armbian: root@odroidn2:~# uname -a Linux odroidn2 5.8.5-meson64 #20.08.1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 1 18:47:20 CEST 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux My DS18B20 adapter is connected to "GPIOX_7(#)" as suggested on Odroid forum: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?p=305664#p305664 Using the official Ubuntu 18.04 image with 4.9.230-76, I was able to find devices in "/sys/bus/w1/devices". Now, I'm trying to do the same thing on Armbian. I added to: /boot/armbianEnv.txt overlays=w1-gpio param_w1_pin=GPIOX_7 param_w1_pin_i…

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Moan

September 11, 20206 yr

Hi, I fixed the following issue for my own system for now, but wanted to let you know: After upgrading the LaFrite from Armbian Buster 20.08 to 20.11 using "apt upgrade" it didn't boot anymore. It showed a message "Ramdisk image is corrupt or invalid", so I checked /boot/uInitrd and it linked to uInitrd-5.9.6-meson64, which didn't exist. I fixed it by downloading the latest image and replacing everything in /boot except armbianEnv.txt with what was inside the image. Afterwards it booted again. I replaced everything, because the image apperently still is on linux 5.9.6, while vmlinuz and other files on my system showed 5.9.10. …

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thorle

December 13, 20205 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

I can not reiterate enough just how easy it is to "clone" your modified emmc, or microSD card OS, ... into an image file that you can easily restore with (balena)Ethcher afterwards, and all withiin Linux. 1:/ you'll need a USB-card-reader-adapter. 2:/ no matter how your USB-reader card reader sees your emmc, microSD card, ..., it'll most likely be mounted on a /dev/sda1 partition. 3:/ sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sda of=~/tmp/armbian_odroidc4_11_01_2025.img (you don't dd the partition, you dd the drive). 4:/ (optionally) sudo xz -v armbian_odroidc4_11_01_2025.img (this will take some time). ...and that's it, ... and you know the rest.

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laibsch

July 22, 20251 yr

Hi, the lastest kernel update issues the following lines in dmesg output: [ 12.214293] meson8b-dwmac ff3f0000.ethernet: Failed to reset the dma [ 12.215002] meson8b-dwmac ff3f0000.ethernet eth0: stmmac_hw_setup: DMA engine initialization failed [ 12.223988] meson8b-dwmac ff3f0000.ethernet eth0: stmmac_open: Hw setup failed Do I need to update the firmware as well? B.t.w. you may mention that armbianmonitor -u needs to be run as root, otherwise the fping check will fail.

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gemini_geek

September 9, 20206 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

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

Using kernel 4.14.65, I get a usb-driver crash when accessing the top left port (topmost, nearest the ethernet port) of the Le potato. Plugging any device into this port results in the following kernel message and prevents the use of usb until reboot. There is no kernel stacktrace. As long as I don't plug anything into that port, the other 3 ports on the board work fine. [ 292.242434] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 7 using xhci-hcd [ 302.562341] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.0.auto: xHCI host not responding to stop endpoint command. [ 302.583217] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.0.auto: Host halt failed, -110 [ 302.583231] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.0.auto: xHCI host controller not …

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TonyMac32

September 8, 20188 yr

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

Placeholder for Libre Computer La Frite general topics Marked "Supported" as of Nov. 24, 2019 Reference pages: https://libre.computer/products/boards/aml-s805x-ac/ https://forum.loverpi.com/categories/libre-computer-aml-s805x-ac https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dl3lLTs407OZ7HhPYjjlvDX2_FPfKHMr/view

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TonyMac32

November 24, 20196 yr

I am running the Ubuntu Noble 24.04 XFCE image on a Radxa Zero SBC (first generation device). Trying to play a video with parole (gstreamer video player) produces the error message "GStreamer Backend Error: Could not read from resource. " Increasing the gstreamer debug level produces the following additional information: 0:00:00.329008719 131342 0xaaab079354e0 WARN GST_ELEMENT_FACTORY gstelementfactory.c:765:gst_element_factory_make_valist: no such element factory "autoimagesink"! 0:00:05.702394971 131342 0xffff7c0013d0 ERROR v4l2bufferpool gstv4l2bufferpool.c:716:gst_v4l2_buffer_pool_streamon:<v4l2h264dec0:pool0:sink> …

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ning

September 14, 20242 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

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

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

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

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

Hi all, I have been using armbian jammy on my potato without issues. But since the weekend it only boots to initramfs and says can't find mmcblk1p1 I put the sdcard a live gparted and partitions are and verified. In initramfs I can find in /dev the mmcblk0p1 but not the mmcblk1p1 Now how can I change the boot or the name of the device?

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Roberto Rodrigues

September 12, 20233 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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

I've recorded Armbian_20.11_Lafrite_focal_current_5.9.6.img.xz to an usb drive and booted it on La Frite with the latest firmware u-boot-2020-07-r7.bin from http://share.loverpi.com/board/libre-computer-project/libre-computer-board/aml-s805x-ac/firmware/. Armbian boots but text is almost unreadable. I guess, I have to tweak some linux boot parameters but I don't know how to do this without GRUB. I tried holding u-boot button during a launch of the board but it gives no effect. How should I edit kernel parameters on La-Frite? Is there any other solution?

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TRS-80

December 13, 20205 yr

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

I'm not sure what is the cause and effect here, but what I saw today is weird. OS: Welcome to Armbian buster with Linux 4.9.219-meson64 Linux odroidn2 4.9.219-meson64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 3 12:42:50 CEST 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux Symptom: I recently purchased a Seagate external HDD and wanted to use it with the N2. Started to replicate files from my other server over SFTP, and at the same time I also started Midnight Commander to check on the HDD content. As soon as I wanted to change directory to /mnt/seagate, my console became unresponsive, the SFTP connection failed and there wasn't really any way to unstuck this situation. Due to othe…

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vzoltan

July 2, 20206 yr

Been having an issue where my idle temps are >60C The fan will spin for maybe a second or two and then turn off for 10-20 seconds Checking /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon2/pwm1 and it is set to 0 even though my MINPWM is set to 90 Even if I manually tee 90 to pwm1 it will eventually reset to 0 even with fancontrol turned off So something resetting without my input... fan1_input does read fan speed & pwm1_enabled is set to 1 lsof & auditd do not have any info as to what is overwriting the file Only way I can get the fan to stay on is to loop the tee command for a few seconds and then it is on that one speed Turning f…

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Semmu

December 16, 2025Dec 16

X windows system on term 7. turns black and then the Monitor goes in Power Saving modus. But the others terms still work ( not 100 percent sure ). Strangely enough that this happens only shortly after switching on. But if I cut the Power or reboot then it will run 24 hours or longer. Haven't tested more than 24 h. I recognize that late that I could switch to other terms i.e. term 1. At first I thought that the N2+ was under powered and tried another PSU but later I saw that only X window system on term 7 has crashed. Music per bluetooth continued playing. What I did was making updates before it happening.

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Michal.

June 20, 20215 yr

Is there any way to enable Wake on Lan? As far as I know the Odroid-HC4 Supports WoL but I can't get it to work

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Sakuraa

September 13, 20224 yr