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Many thanks for fixing this! I also tested on my side, works now. We can eventually put this board back to supported list. (board config .csc -> .conf) There are few other things that would be nice to get working - I notice WOL service erroring out, fan support is unknown. I only have PCB without anything attached to it, for testing. Merging both patches shortly.

So I decided to modify the armbianEnv.txt with the values you provided and it has moved to "Starting kernel..." It is taking quite a while to boot. The older version seemed to take quite a while as well but this seems to be hanging possibly. I tried changing the armbianEnv.txt verbosity to 7 but it is still stuck on Starting kernel... U-Boot 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-P7738-Ha5c2-V1f00-Bb703-R448a (Mar 16 2025 - 04:03:33 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner V3s (SUN8I 1681) Model: PineCube IP Camera DRAM: 128 MiB Core: 47 devices, 20 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0 MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c10000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial@1c28800 Out: serial@1c28800 Err: serial@1c28800 Autoboot in 1 seconds, press <Space> to stop switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 5475 bytes read in 2 ms (2.6 MiB/s) ## Executing script at 41900000 U-boot loaded from SD 227 bytes read in 1 ms (221.7 KiB/s) Load fdt: /boot/dtb/sun8i-s3-pinecube.dtb 12286995 bytes read in 509 ms (23 MiB/s) 11013984 bytes read in 456 ms (23 MiB/s) Found mainline kernel configuration 19691 bytes read in 4 ms (4.7 MiB/s) Working FDT set to 41000000 Kernel image @ 0x41080000 [ 0x000000 - 0xa80f60 ] ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 42080000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 12286931 Bytes = 11.7 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 41000000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x41000000 Working FDT set to 41000000 Loading Ramdisk to 42248000, end 42dffbd3 ... OK Loading Device Tree to 421da000, end 42247fff ... OK Working FDT set to 421da000 Starting kernel ...

https://libera.catirclogs.org/linux-amlogic/2023-11-18# It appears the bl30 blob is the only non free software file required for the le potato. What can you tell about the bl30 blob? Can it get reverse engineered? Where can you get the bl30 file? Thanks.

If you don't need GPIOs, don't take SBCs - they are too expensive, without a case and power supply. For the same money, you can buy a mini X86 PC such as razen5 4600 and you will have no problems with support. If you need an ARM, then buy an H96 Max V56 from two TV boxes. The time of SBCs has come to an end - they are no longer so popular and are mainly needed by developers. Leave these SBCs to the developers!

I was looking for a solution to this for a long time before seeing John's post and figuring it out. Here's a more explicit explanation to hopefully help make this info easier to find. This was tested and does work on both the Orange Pi 5 16GB, and the Orange Pi Zero 3 4GB. I haven't run into this issue on my x86 nodes as it doesn't appear zram exists on them at all on a fresh install. If you go to the /etc/default directory, there should be a file called <distro>-ramlog. If you're on armbian it will be armbian-ramlog, for me on Debian it's called orangepi-ramlog. In this file there will be a line reading "SIZE=50M" Simply edit this line to whatever value you'd like, and then reboot the device. If rebooting the system will cause serious problems, you can use the following command on armbian: service armbian-zram-config restart Again, I'm using the official Orange Pi Debian image, so for me, the command would instead be as follows: service orangepi-zram-config restart Don't panic if you notice that this command results in the creation of a zram2 and zram3, as these duplicates will automatically remove themselves the next time you reboot the machine

I'd say start with the device tree. Maybe it is just not enabled? KDE 6 DE was introduce when it still was beta and I assume this never changed. Feel free to send a PR to make it stable.

Yes, maybe. There are a way to make a similar patch for kernel instread of u-boot? In Android, the boot logo show some parameters like DRAM_VCC, DRAM_CLK, Chip id, Param1, param2 and tpr113 , it helps? Tanks for your time. [626]HELLO! SBOOT is starting! [629]sboot commit : 4b34f2890a [632]set pll start [634]periph0 has been enabled [637]set pll end [641]unknow PMU [642]unknow PMU [646]PMU: AXP1530 [650]dram return write ok [653]board init ok [655]enable_jtag [656]DRAM BOOT DRIVE INFO: V0.651 [660]the chip id is 0x2000 [662]chip id check OK [684]DRAM_VCC set to 1500 mv [687]DRAM CLK =648 MHZ [689]DRAM Type =3 (3:DDR3,4:DDR4,7:LPDDR3,8:LPDDR4) [697]Actual DRAM SIZE =4096 M [700]DRAM SIZE =4096 MBytes, para1 = 310b, para2 = 10000000, dram_tpr13 = 6041 [709]DRAM simple test OK. [711]rtc standby flag is 0x0, super standby flag is 0x0 [717]dram size =4096 [719]Use rtc to store dram tuning para [723][mmc]: mmc driver ver 2021-10-12 13:56 [727][mmc]: b mmc 2 bias 4 [735][mmc]: Wrong media type 0x0, but host sdc2, try mmc first [741][mmc]: ***Try MMC card 2*** [770][mmc]: RMCA OK! [773][mmc]: MMC 5.1 [775][mmc]: HSSDR52/SDR25 8 bit [778][mmc]: 50000000 Hz [780][mmc]: 119280 MB [782][mmc]: ***SD/MMC 2 init OK!!!*** [858]read toc1 from emmc 32800 sector [862]OLD version: 0.0 [864]NEW version: 0.0 [870]don't have rotpk, skip check [941]load rotpk hash [1204]load vbmeta_a-key hash [1207]load vbmeta_a hash [1214]load vbmeta_b-key hash [1217]load vbmeta_b hash [1220]monitor entry=0x48000000 [1223]uboot entry=0x4a000000 [1226]optee entry=0x48600000 [1229]opensbi entry=0x0 [1231]no need rotpk flag [1234]tunning data addr:0x4a0003e8 [1239]run out of boot0 NOTICE: BL3-1: v1.0(debug):54937d5 NOTICE: BL3-1: Built : 17:44:59, 2021-12-13 NOTICE: BL3-1 commit: 8 NOTICE: cpuidle init version V2.0 NOTICE: secure os exist MESSAGE: [0x0] TEE-CORE: OP-TEE version: 5c40397e #1 Tue Feb 2 07:45:37 UTC 2021 arm NOTICE: BL3-1: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world NOTICE: BL3-1: Next image address = 0x4a000000 NOTICE: BL3-1: Next image spsr = 0x1d3 U-Boot 2018.07-gb99798b4 (Apr 04 2023 - 13:23:26 +0000) Allwinner Technology [01.302]CPU: Allwinner Family [01.305]Model: sun50iw9 I2C: ready [01.313]DRAM: 4 GiB [01.322]Relocation Offset is: 70ecd000 [01.358]secure enable bit: 1 [01.360]smc_tee_inform_fdt failed with: ffffffff [01.365]pmu_axp152_probe pmic_bus_read fail [01.369]PMU: AXP1530 FDT ERROR:fdt_get_regulator_name:get property handle twi-supply error:FDT_ERR_INTERNAL [01.383]CPU=1416 MHz,PLL6=600 Mhz,AHB=200 Mhz, APB1=100Mhz MBus=400Mhz

@rafaeldavid can you show me the output when you type in the command "fdisk -l"

Hi all, I was quickly able to get the 3.5inch RPi LCD (B) working with an Orange Pi Zero 2W, but the colors are all wrong, it seems that it wants BGR. Any hints where to change color order? I could not find anything for the DTS. Using this driver with following DTS:

Hi catotinha, Can you please share which image you successfully used, and where you downloaded it from, please? Thanks!!

Hi Pilinha and Werner. My problem was that I misidentified the board and thus installed the wrong software. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/51779-orange-pi-plus-2e-usb-ports-not-working/ Thanks for your help, I learn a few things here.

Great find.... this will be useful for me very soon

OK .. now i must "cleanup" all voltage regulators

@RaptorSDS, it do not boot from sdcard or flash usb, i think this box is die, only enter in Mask mode, but do not working any rkdeveloptool commands to rescue it! I rememeber now, to be a emcp so the ram memory is the same chip, i do not remove it, this go to junk! Thank you by help-me!

https://www.loverpi.com/collections/le-potato It says open-source support. Free software is software you may use, share, modify and redistribute. Can le potato run entirely on free software, such that there is no piece of non free software on the computer? If so are the armbian le potato images free software images? https://www.armbian.com/lepotato/ Thank you.

This may or not be the case. Looking through the Ubuntu bug tracker, I find a lot of similarly failed upgrades. But at least ports.ubuntu.com was not disabled in the past: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/757026143/VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.txt from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2086530

Sounds like an error with X. @ALL above: Did you recently update any packages? Please pastebin or attach the content of the ~/.xsession-errors file. Go and search for it if necessary "sudo find / -name .xsession-errors*"

A quick google search seems to suggest that the Orange Pi Lite is prone to overheat. Obvious question that you did not mention in your original question: Do you have a heatsink installed? Is there sufficient airflow? In general, are you sure you want to use this board with a mate environment? Even if you get to work around the heat issues. RAM and CPU are likely to cause this to be a bit of an underwhelming experience.

Hi @Vaclav Rada, You can also disable the systemd 'predictable naming convention' of interface naming by adding: net.ifnames=0 to your kernel commandline. This can be done in armbianEnv.txt by adding them to the extraargs variable as follows: extraargs=net.ifnames=0 Would be better to adjust your armbianEnv.txt instead of changing on-disk systemd service unit files, as they will be overwritten whenever an update comes along. I have not seen a situation myself where using the 'new' naming convention for network interfaces would work out better. But perhaps my use cases are not as flashy as other's 🙂 Groetjes,

Still no clue what's happening...

Probably topic name was changed, because originally my case is that bootloader doesn't even read dtb or extlinux.conf, it says no partition table on mmc 1. My box has thgbmbg7d2kbail. If booted from sd or usb it can access mmc without a problem.

Thank you for reporting back. Glad you got it solved.

This. Just use the tools that were intended for software installation.

I suggest you simply try. What is holding you back?

Thank you for your question, @Jacob Burckhardt I do not use tags and FWIW, I do not see them on my main laptop, running Ubuntu Noble, either. Is this a Debian thing? Is your Armbian user space Debian?