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Made some progress today. For debugging, I built my own image with the Edge kernel (6.18). However, this time, the board did not even boot up and there was also no signal on HDMI. The last idea I had was to downgrade the kernel using armbian-config. But since the Ethernet is not working, I was trying to setup WiFi because armbian-config was trying to load apt cache but without internet, I cannot load anything. After multiple reboots, I slowly cached the apt. Then the armbian-config loaded. I downgraded the kernel from 6.12.60 to 6.6.63 and then the Ethernet started working fine! ☺️ Current version: $ uname -a Linux rockpi.dev.com 6.6.63-current-rockchip64 #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 22 14:38:37 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description: Armbian_community 26.2.0-trunk.44 trixie Release: 13 Codename: trixie I am now confident that somewhere after Kernel 6.6, the Ethernet is broken in Rockpi 4B.

That's not really possible either. The only thing that is possible is using my kernel build in Armbian environment to see how it is performing for you. With my jumpstart image, this is actually quite easy to implement. For this, both root filesystems just need to be mounted and extlinux/prepare-jump-start ${target-rootfs-mount-point} needs to be executed in the jumpstart rootfs. If the target system is now being booted with firmware that uses mainline U-Boot as the payload, nothing stands in the way of booting with my kernel. And don't worry, prepare-jump-start only adds files to the target rootfs. Nothing will be overwritten or deleted. If you want to give it a whirl, speak up and I will upload a current image. But you will be disappointed, because the stock kernel only provides the functionalities available with the officially released kernel. Both Armbian and my kernel build have already applied patches that may appear in a future official release. I doubt that you will succeed, because even the fedora organization only does a full rebuild once per release cycle. There is no advantage in rebuilding a component unmodified that leads to the same result as the package already provided. It only makes sense to do this when branching off the release version in order to create a synchronized basis for further development. Only modified packages will be replaced or upgraded. My weekly upgrade gives me several gigabytes of new packages each time because I'm on Rawhide. Somehow, I can no longer manage to stick to any official release versions.

Maybe a handful, I have most SBC's equipped with one permanently. And needed for Arduinos etc, you can even power tiny old things like RPI0/1 with it (if you connect red wire to 5V pin as well). In the meantime, you might think about some previous U-Boot and previous kernel. For quite some SBCs, there is trouble when U-Boot is new/mainline/releasecandidate and kernel vendor. I am currently also doing some tests on my NanoPi-R6C (RK3588s) because HDMI is not initialized fast enough (by U-Boot). And with 6.1.115 vendor kernel really choppy mouse updates and green tint, not complete flat green luckily, I can still see icons and mouse.

Hey @Sergey Lepeshkin, thanks for the fast reply. I will check what you mentioned. I was thinking, could i modify the recovery.zip from the recovery partition so when it reflashes it gives the box "su" rights? that would be via software and no need to connect wires. If my idea is not possible, i will keep trying with the UART. Thanks for the advice.

Nothing is working and the device did not boot sun50i-h313-tanix-tx1.dtb sun50i-h313-x96q.dtb sun50i-h313-x96-q.dtb sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb sun50i-h313-x96-q-v5.1.dtb

I managed to run Armbian, everything seems to work except the WiFi, which is module KM3306005. Any idea how to fix it?

Thank you for the kind words.

@Jerry Falken well this forum is more oriented on hardware and compiling stuffs rather than generic linux info that you can find every where on the net so I won't answer on this, google it You can remain also on old distros such as debian 9 stretch minimal without gui but with ssh support to run headless ngix apps. I don't think you need newer distros to run such easy apps , the important is improve a good firewall and also a fail2ban app to protect your system but, again, those are more generic linux questions rather than support on tvboxes socs

Thank you! Unfortunately, this didn't help. The device won't boot at all and immediately goes into MASKROM after rebooting. I just built Ubuntu 24.04.3 from here - https://github.com/markbirss/rk3506-ubuntu and it booted perfectly without any problems. I'm testing it now.

Have just tested Forky (Debian) release on both the 2A and the 2F, and in both cases the wireless driver survived an upgrade. I also tested the Plucky release on the 2A, and the wireless driver did not survive the stock upgrade. I have not tested the Plucky version on the 2F yet. Also it should be noted that the cron implementation in the Forky version for the 2A is fouled up. Any ordinary user's crontab has to be edited by root. Bad permissions on a number of files. Nice to know that at least the wireless adapter problem has attracted someone's interest.

Thanks! I think it will be a little bit of work, but I agree that it would be the best way forward. So I'll attempt to start again with a fresh install. Really appreciate your help!

So I have tried all the different images for the Opiz3 from the Orange pi website with the dts, I have tried 2 of the desktop images for the opiz3 from armbian. All of them result in the desktop environment not booting correctly. with Armbian I even got to the point where there are no errors in the lightdm logs, yet still a black screen. However with all those different images, a simple manual restart of lightdm (systemctl restart lightdm.service, will fix it and make the desktop show up.

Does this happen if you are running from an SD card also? Or is it specific to running off of emmc?

Yes, that is the correct sequence of actions: 1. Build armbian minimal with panel-mipi-dbi kernel module 2. Use DTS so that the kernel links the GPIO, SPI to the panel-mipi-dbi kernel module 3. Use the bin file (originally provided by Kungfu pancake) <-mandatory, not optional 4. If you see console text successfully in the LCD during boot, you have successfully installed your LCD 5. Tell us here, for the next step in GUI installation The "greeter" is the graphical login screen. Labwc is the wayland-based compositor and window manager (I think).

The connection is correct, the H3 (nano pi neo) output works for external sound i2s, but both the input and output need to be made on a newer board H5 ( Nano{iNeo2 ), the pinout is the same

Thanks. I am figuring thing up, like fixing a cycle dependency and adding traces to my lcd driver module. But I can compile this one on the target. So it is fine. The "fixing cycle(s) dependency" thing is annoying because I mostly find example boards using the lcd pins and not the dsi lanes.

https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/issues/3146#issuecomment-3630691360 Optimize is on the way, just wait!

these modules/configs are missing in 6.16.8 (vs 6.15.4): CONFIG_SND_SUN9I_HDMI_AUDIO=y CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_MACH=m CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_AHUB=m CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_AHUB_DAM=m CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_INTERNALCODEC=m CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_AAUDIO=m Could this be a problem?

Hi again and thank you for the new reply. Something went wrong with the mip-dsi 7" display on that board somewhere between 6.1.104 (02/02/2025) and 6.6.750 (03/02/25). I already sourced those from the armbian-config kernel loader tool and confirm that the display works perfectly on the 6.1 kernel and d-t and not on 6.6, with no other changes. None of the more recent kernels work either. I figured that if I could find the exact kernel version where things broke, I might just be able to diff what changed, but 6.1 to 6.6 is a big gap. Any other suggestions? I don't see any significant changes in the logging (uboot unfortunately not available as I don't have a serial connector.), but the screen is picked up and loaded to the d-t. There's just no output. The screen is grey and noisy right from startup - no startup messages or anything at all, with no visible picture signal on 6.6. From 6.12 on it is completely black, although backlight appears to be there. Are any

Hello Respected Supporters, After upgrading to Armbian 26 (kernel version 6.12.58), the onboard network card (end0) experienced a severe degradation in transmission performance (reduced to approximately 1/10 of previous levels). Upon investigation, it was discovered that the kernel driver (dwmac-sun8i) has locked all hardware offload features (TSO/GSO/Checksum), forcing the CPU to handle all processing in software. root@orangepi3:~# uname -r 6.12.58-current-sunxi64 root@orangepi3:~# dpkg --list | grep linux-image ii linux-image-current-sunxi64 26.2.0-trunk.48 arm64 Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.12.58-current-sunxi64 root@orangepi3:~# readlink /sys/class/net/end0/device/driver ../../../../bus/platform/drivers/dwmac-sun8i root@orangepi3:~# ethtool -k end0 Features for end0: rx-checksumming: off tx-checksumming: off tx-checksum-ipv4: off tx-checksum-ip-generic: off [fixed] tx-checksum-ipv6: off tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: off [fixed] tx-checksum-sctp: off [fixed] scatter-gather: off tx-scatter-gather: off tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: off [fixed] tcp-segmentation-offload: off tx-tcp-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-tcp-mangleid-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-tcp6-segmentation: off [fixed] generic-segmentation-offload: off generic-receive-offload: off large-receive-offload: off [fixed] rx-vlan-offload: on [fixed] tx-vlan-offload: off [fixed] ntuple-filters: off [fixed] receive-hashing: off [fixed] highdma: on [fixed] rx-vlan-filter: off [fixed] vlan-challenged: off [fixed] tx-gso-robust: off [fixed] tx-fcoe-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-gre-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-gre-csum-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-ipxip4-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-ipxip6-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-gso-partial: off [fixed] tx-tunnel-remcsum-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-sctp-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-esp-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-udp-segmentation: off [fixed] tx-gso-list: off [fixed] tx-nocache-copy: off loopback: off [fixed] rx-fcs: off [fixed] rx-all: off [fixed] tx-vlan-stag-hw-insert: off [fixed] rx-vlan-stag-hw-parse: on [fixed] rx-vlan-stag-filter: off [fixed] l2-fwd-offload: off [fixed] hw-tc-offload: off [fixed] esp-hw-offload: off [fixed] esp-tx-csum-hw-offload: off [fixed] rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload: off [fixed] tls-hw-tx-offload: off [fixed] tls-hw-rx-offload: off [fixed] rx-gro-hw: off [fixed] tls-hw-record: off [fixed] rx-gro-list: off macsec-hw-offload: off [fixed] rx-udp-gro-forwarding: off hsr-tag-ins-offload: off [fixed] hsr-tag-rm-offload: off [fixed] hsr-fwd-offload: off [fixed] hsr-dup-offload: off [fixed] Could you please help look into this issue? We are looking forward to seeing it fixed in an upcoming release. Thank you very much. Regards, GBH

If that doesn't do it, try the main integration branch which for once combines all branches and for the other is actually meant to be used by megi iirc:https://codeberg.org/megi/linux/commits/branch/orange-pi-6.18

First step is to cleanup and bump the sunxi patchset to 6.18. This is a major blocker. Once that is done. Patches for more recent Allwinner SoCs can be added. I started doing that but it is extremely exhausting. I have no clue how the-going managed to maintain that for that long... must be sort of masochistic or something lol. https://github.com/EvilOlaf/build/tree/sunxi-6.18

Not an Armbian uboot binary. Also we started to drop vendor uboot in favor of mainline.

Hi Igor, I recently updated to Armbian 25.11.2 bookworm aarch64 with kernel Linux odroidhc4 6.12.58-current-meson64. This should be a working version? There I still get the same connect-debounce error. Do you have any advice?

Hi all, i've been going this forum long enough to try and root a tv box that i buyed recently, but this one is HEAVILY locked up, like nothing i have seen before. My objective here is to access 'su' so i can have access to rooting/overclocking this thing for emulators, and after that adding a heatsink, active cooling, etc. I tried ADB over all USBs (4 in total) but nothing. then i tried to see if root was available through some leftover app or vulnerability, but nothing. Then i tried following the specs from this thread (pretty similar in design to my PCB) but my UART displays nothing. (I leave the images from my setup below), i tried switching the wires, i tested the voltages and they return 3.3v, so they are ok. I tried the toothpick method to access recovery, but it has 2 buttons. 1 does nothing (AFAIK) and the other one goes directly to updating, so no menu. Any help is appreciated, as i'm out of any ideas. I leave my pictures below, and my specs: CPU: Alwinner H313 RAM: 1GB ROM: 8GB PCB: Z01S-v13.3, 2025.05.20 OS: Android 7-8 ish