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I would always go RPi, as I have been burned going with a different board in the past. This may not be a fair reflection on the Orange Pi, as I can only speak for having purchased an Odroid C1+ many years ago. The C1+ was a very capable board, and definitely more capable than the RPi offering at the time. However, there just is no substitute for the support and community around the RPi. I now have 3, and even my original RPi 1 Model B+ is still supported by the RPi foundation, and still gets modern kernel and OS updates. This is a board running off just 512MB RAM, A 700 MHz single-core 32-bit processer and released over 11 years ago. No one could complain if they had dropped support long ago, but they didn't, and they still show no signs of dropping support any time soon. Hardkernel, on the other hand, pretty much dumped support for the Odroid C1+ as soon as it released, so it is stuck on a 3.x kernel and a uBoot from 2011. If it wasn't for the Armbian project this board just would not be useable, and even then, we are still stuck on a 15 year old uBoot solution. None of this may be important to you, and like I say, my experience is not likely a like-for-like comparison with the Orange Pi, but the long term support you get from the RPi foundation and the wider community around it is not even close to being matched by any other vendor, and (personally) I don't like supporting vendors who effectively manufacture e-waste.

@Shubham Singh To check if KVM is compiled into the kernel, use the following command: grep CONFIG_KVM /boot/config-$(uname -r) CONFIG_KVM=y CONFIG_KVM_MMIO=y CONFIG_KVM_VFIO=y CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT=y CONFIG_KVM_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK=y You also need to ensure your CPU supports virtualization. Check with: egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo 0 A return value greater than 0 indicates virtualization support is present. CPU doesn't support virtualization. Check the official Radxa image. Using these commands. I doubt it works. I'm using the same kernel config and Board support package.

HI, I'm trying Mint forum. I am receiving this notification on every system startup. 19/11/2025,16:18:34 Problems during Cinnamon initialization Cinnamon started successfully, but it was not possible to load one or more applets, desklets or extensions. Check the system logs and the LookingGlass log for any issues in Cinnamon. You can disable all extension(s) in Cinnamon Settings to prevent this message from appearing repeatedly. Please contact the developer. and Looking Glass log error t=2025-11-19T03:20:50Z [menu@cinnamon.org]: Util.latinise is not a function [menu@cinnamon.org]: Failed to evaluate 'main' function on applet: menu@cinnamon.org/0 error t=2025-11-19T03:20:50Z [menu@cinnamon.org]: Applet menu@cinnamon.org: Could not create applet object.[menu@cinnamon.org]: Error importing applet.js from menu@cinnamon.org error t=2025-11-19T03:20:51Z [menu@cinnamon.org]: Util.latinise is not a function [menu@cinnamon.org]: Failed to evaluate 'main' function on applet: menu@cinnamon.org/0 error t=2025-11-19T03:20:51Z [menu@cinnamon.org]: Applet menu@cinnamon.org: Could not create applet object. [menu@cinnamon.org]: Error importing applet.js from menu@cinnamon.org info t=2025-11-19T03:20:51Z AppletManager started in 15564 ms info t=2025-11-19T03:20:51Z Cinnamon took 15834 ms to start info t=2025-11-19T03:20:51Z Adding systray: blueman-tray (1x1px) info t=2025-11-19T03:20:51Z Adding systray: solaar (1x1px) info t=2025-11-19T03:20:51Z Adding systray: indicator-solaar (1x1px) info t=2025-11-19T03:20:51Z GPU offload supported: false Captured from my system: cury@orangepi5-plus:~$ inxi -Fxxxz System: Kernel: 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx arch: aarch64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 clocksource: arch_sys_counter Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.10 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Armbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) Machine: Type: ARM System: Orange Pi 5 Plus details: N/A CPU: Info: 8-core model: N/A variant-1: cortex-a76 variant-2: cortex-a55 bits: 64 type: MCP smt: <unsupported> arch: ARMv8 rev: 0 cache: L1: 768 KiB L2: 2.5 MiB L3: 3 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 1800 min/max: 408/1800:2256 cores: 1: 1800 2: 1800 3: 1800 4: 1800 5: 1800 6: 1800 7: 1800 8: 1800 bogomips: N/A Features: Use -f option to see features Graphics: Device-1: display-subsystem driver: rockchip_drm v: N/A bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: rockchip:display-subsystem class-ID: display-subsystem Device-2: rk3588-dw-hdmi driver: dwhdmi_rockchip v: N/A bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: rockchip:fde80000 class-ID: hdmi Device-3: rk3588-dw-hdmi driver: dwhdmi_rockchip v: N/A bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: rockchip:fdea0000 class-ID: hdmi Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev dri: rockchip gpu: rockchip_drm,dwhdmi_rockchip, dwhdmi_rockchip display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93") Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 model: LG (GoldStar) FHD serial: <filter> res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 100 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 82 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (27") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480 API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: panthor device: 1 drv: rknpu device: 2 drv: rockchip device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: panthor surfaceless: drv: panthor x11: drv: rockchip inactive: wayland API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.1 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mali-G610 (Panfrost) device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr Audio: Device-1: hdmi driver: rk_hdmi_sound bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: rockchip:dp0-sound class-ID: dp0-sound Device-2: rk3588-dw-hdmi driver: dwhdmi_rockchip bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: rockchip:fde80000 class-ID: hdmi Device-3: rk3588-dw-hdmi driver: dwhdmi_rockchip bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: rockchip:fdea0000 class-ID: hdmi Device-4: hdmi driver: rk_hdmi_sound bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: rockchip:hdmi0-sound class-ID: hdmi0-sound Device-5: hdmi driver: rk_hdmi_sound bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: rockchip:hdmi1-sound class-ID: hdmi1-sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx status: kernel-api Server-1: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 1000 bus-ID: 0003:31:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200 IF: enP3p49s0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 100000 bus-ID: 0004:41:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200 IF: enP3p49s0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-3: wlan-platdata driver: wlan_platdata v: N/A bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: wlan-platdata:wireless-wlan class-ID: wireless-wlan IF-ID-1: dummy0 state: down mac: <filter> IF-ID-2: enP4p65s0 state: down mac: <filter> IF-ID-3: wlx90de807f1947 state: up mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek 802.11ac NIC driver: btusb,rtw_8822bu type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-1.4:3 chip-ID: 0bda:b82c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.04 TiB used: 107.07 GiB (10.0%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Reletech model: P600 M.2 PCIE3.0 1TB size: 953.87 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: SN10660 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 115.47 GiB type: USB rev: 2.1 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0000 scheme: MBR Partition: ID-1: / size: 576.47 GiB used: 12.63 GiB (2.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 ID-2: /var/log size: 46.8 MiB used: 7.4 MiB (15.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/zram1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 19.14 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 7.79 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 5 dev: /dev/zram0 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A Info: Memory: total: N/A available: 15.58 GiB used: 4.38 GiB (28.1%) Processes: 313 Power: uptime: 1h 17m states: freeze,mem suspend: deep wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1548 Compilers: clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 14.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.38 cury@orangepi5-plus:~$

Yes, I removed that as well quite quickly. Now the printer is ready in 30s after power-on.

@djoness you need to Disable Armbian kernel/firmware upgrades using the armbian-config tool. System -> Updates -> UPD002 - Disable Armbian firmware upgrades -> Disable Armbian kernel/firmware upgrades X96Q has many different variations of the same box. Read the bottom of this thread. https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/issues/102 If you want a well supported box get a Transpeed 8K618-t.

Hello, my Orange Pi 5 works well with the stock OS (1.22, Ubuntu Jammy, BSP kernel 6.1.99), using the SD as a boot device. It also works ok with Armbian Minimal-IoT / Debian 13 / 6.1: v25.8.2 for Orange Pi 5 running Armbian Linux 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx But I prefer Ubuntu and wanted to try 6.12, so I downloaded 25.8.2 / Ubuntu Server / 6.12. Wrote to SD, hooked up the debug UART and powered on. The bootloader is fine, the kernel starts, but at a certain point it panics: [ OK ] Reached target sockets.target - Socket Units. Starting armbian-hardware-monitor.…ce - Armbian hardware monitoring... Starting armbian-hardware-optimize… - Armbian hardware optimization... Starting armbian-led-state.service - Armbian leds state... Starting armbian-resize-filesystem…vice - Armbian filesystem resize... armbian-hardware-monitor.service [ OK ] Finished armbian-hardware-monitor.…vice - Armbian hardware monitoring. [ OK ] Finished armbian-led-state.service - Armbian leds state. armbian-led-state.service [ OK ] Finished armbian-hardware-optimize…ce - Armbian hardware optimization. armbian-hardware-optimize.service [ OK ] Finished console-setup.service - Set console font and keymap. console-setup.service sys-kernel-debug-tracing.mount [ 158.363359] rockchip-pm-domain fd8d8000.power-management:power-controller: failed to get ack on domain 'gpu', val=0xa9fff [ 158.364324] SError Interrupt on CPU7, code 0x00000000be000411 -- SError [ 158.364327] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 462 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G M C 6.12.49-current-rockchip64 #1 [ 158.364332] Tainted: [M]=MACHINE_CHECK, [C]=CRAP [ 158.364333] Hardware name: Xunlong Orange Pi 5 (DT) [ 158.364334] pstate: 404000c9 (nZcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 158.364336] pc : _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x38/0x8c [ 158.364342] lr : regmap_lock_spinlock+0x18/0x2c [ 158.364347] sp : ffff800083f03660 [ 158.364348] x29: ffff800083f03660 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff800083f03c60 [ 158.364351] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff710bf0c4c080 x24: ffff710bf0f64098 [ 158.364354] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000001 x21: 0000000000000000 [ 158.364356] x20: 000000000000000c x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffffffffffffffff [ 158.364358] x17: 66203a72656c6c6f x16: 72746e6f632d7265 x15: 776f703a746e656d [ 158.364361] x14: 6567616e616d2d72 x13: 00000000000002ac x12: 00000000ffffffea [ 158.364363] x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000000001 x9 : ffffc80dcfdf9250 [ 158.364365] x8 : 000000000002ffe8 x7 : c0000000ffffdfff x6 : 00000000000affa8 [ 158.364368] x5 : ffffc80dce6c1b54 x4 : 0000000000000008 x3 : ffffc80dce6c15c8 [ 158.364370] x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff710bf0f65c00 [ 158.364373] Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt [ 158.364374] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 462 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G M C 6.12.49-current-rockchip64 #1 [ 158.364377] Tainted: [M]=MACHINE_CHECK, [C]=CRAP [ 158.364378] Hardware name: Xunlong Orange Pi 5 (DT) [ 158.364379] Call trace: [ 158.364380] dump_backtrace+0x94/0x114 [ 158.364383] show_stack+0x18/0x24 [ 158.364385] dump_stack_lvl+0x38/0x90 [ 158.364387] dump_stack+0x18/0x24 [ 158.364389] panic+0x39c/0x3f4 [ 158.364392] nmi_panic+0x40/0x8c [ 158.364394] arm64_serror_panic+0x70/0x80 [ 158.364396] do_serror+0x3c/0x78 [ 158.364398] el1h_64_error_handler+0x30/0x48 [ 158.364401] el1h_64_error+0x64/0x68 [ 158.364402] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x38/0x8c [ 158.364404] regmap_lock_spinlock+0x18/0x2c [ 158.364407] regmap_write+0x3c/0x78 [ 158.364409] rockchip_pd_power+0xf8/0x5e8 [ 158.364414] rockchip_pd_power_on+0x14/0x20 [ 158.364417] _genpd_power_on+0x94/0x188 [ 158.364418] genpd_power_on.part.0+0xa4/0x1ac [ 158.364421] __genpd_dev_pm_attach+0x144/0x2dc [ 158.364423] genpd_dev_pm_attach+0x60/0x70 [ 158.364425] dev_pm_domain_attach+0x20/0x34 [ 158.364429] platform_probe+0x50/0xdc [ 158.364431] really_probe+0xc0/0x38c [ 158.364434] __driver_probe_device+0x7c/0x15c [ 158.364437] driver_probe_device+0x40/0x114 [ 158.364440] __driver_attach+0xf4/0x1fc [ 158.364443] bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0xd4 [ 158.364445] driver_attach+0x24/0x30 [ 158.364448] bus_add_driver+0x110/0x234 [ 158.364451] driver_register+0x60/0x128 [ 158.364453] __platform_driver_register+0x24/0x30 [ 158.364455] panthor_init+0x64/0x1000 [panthor] [ 158.364467] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x2a8 [ 158.364470] do_init_module+0x58/0x20c [ 158.364472] load_module+0x1e4c/0x1f3c [ 158.364474] init_module_from_file+0x84/0xc4 [ 158.364476] __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x1f4/0x2f0 [ 158.364478] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x110 [ 158.364481] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xe8 [ 158.364484] do_el0_svc+0x20/0x2c [ 158.364487] el0_svc+0x30/0xfc [ 158.364488] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158 [ 158.364491] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ 158.364492] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 158.364557] Kernel Offset: 0x480d4dc00000 from 0xffff800080000000 [ 158.364558] PHYS_OFFSET: 0xffff8ef600000000 [ 158.364559] CPU features: 0x1c,00000017,00280928,4200720b [ 158.364561] Memory Limit: none [ 158.393407] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt ]--- Power brick is a solid 5V/4A and as I said works OK with the stock OS (7zip benchmark and all) and Armbian Minimal Any suggestion? Thanks a lot Fernando

Did you do Update All after removing knotes? If you were running wayland you will probably need to use Ctrl-Alt-F3 as wayland uses F1 and there is an (unusable) X server on F2 for xwayland. Then, after logging in sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade If that's not enough try sudo apt install task-kde-desktop

Can you copy those dtbo's to /boot/user-overlays (maybe they will need renaming) Then activate them in armbianEnv.txt? https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian_overlays/

An apt error related to ntpdate typically indicates a time synchronization issue, as apt relies on accurate system time for validating package release files. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=55588fd05011d482&rlz=1CDGOYI_enCA922CA922&hl=en-US&sxsrf=AE3TifMjcn14YNfEQNUHV48vtdb2hNOADw:1763573317647&q=How+to+fix+apt+error+around+ntpdate&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLzojJ3v6QAxUbEFkFHatLG24Q1QJ6BAgQEAE&biw=390&bih=665&dpr=3

@Marvin-03 this trixie img boot on Orange pi 4A?!

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That's nice, I don't have this new board BOM, be free to add the variant, I think board variants are included using a .dtso file for armbian i think we cannot include tirth party drivers, but any changes to .dts could be included into a .dtso file that's a way to enable this variant into mainline armbian

I made a typing error: Please use the the correct emmc block instead the parition: Extract the DTB file with: dd if=/dev/mmcblk1 of=rk3528-<TV_BOX_NAME>.dtb skip=<START_ADDR> count=<SIZE> bs=1

So I rebuilt the image, applied a patch to integrate the tpm into the dts during the build and it works. I still need to figure out how to make overlays work with GRUB in case we need them. Thank you for your support

@Igor, supposedly, these images do not boot. Maybe you have a chance to verify on your end.

One interface is for STA (client mode / normal wireless) and one for AP (access point, where you connect to) or P2P (Wi-Fi Direct). Some firmware / drivers enables this by default. Usually it is in Makefile (just example https://github.com/armbian/rtl8723ds/blob/main/Makefile) but it could also be deep in the code. Don't know.

Oh I get it. Since you are using another distro with newer versions of everything, my effort to build ffmpeg and mpv in Debian Trixie LOOKS like a backport to you XD

With 6.12, no changes as far as I know

Try pipewire instead of pulseaudio

Thank you for sharing. You might want to have a look at Shrink Backup as well.

@Maurizio Finesso Try editing on a linux machine instead of windows. I've seen some windows machines not be able to read the boot partition

In this case ethernet chip is realtek so it should be supported by armbian kernel? So problem is to find or make a modern DTS for this board?

This site deals with Armbian Linux not android. You should direct your question about restoring Android to a more appropriate forum

not recommended for rockchip socs since it cannot handle the rather high baud rate of 1.5Mbaud. Use FT232, CH340 or CP2104 instead.

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