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I was able to extend, thanks everyone for the support. I attached my final dts, I also changed from spi4 to spi1, because I double check the pinount and spi4 is not mapped. In the original pinout armbian spi1 = orange pi 5 pro spi4. rk3588s-spi1-5cs-spidev.dts

Thanks for your sharing! While I was trying to perform the upgrade for a Pine64, I happily notice that the latest release of armbian-config actually have an option for the distro upgrade. By following the wizard, Debian was upgrade to trixie.

Try an apt full-upgrade. The libraspberrypi packages have been deprecated recently (e.g. June/July) and recent RPI packages shouldn't depend on them, including raspi-firmware.

Hi, difficult task since there is no support for the whole chip family in the framework yet, but first steps are here:https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8364 I suggest to start by getting familiar with the framework and how the mentioned pending pr it put together. moved

Hello! I have an RPi5 8GB board that I bought off of AliExpress, along with a Waveshare PoE M.2 HAT+ ( https://www.waveshare.com/poe-m.2-hat-plus-b.htm ) Initially I tried to use the Noble XFCE image, by following the recommended installation procedure via rpi-imager via a USB drive, hoping to install the system to a Toshiba (Kioxia) NVMe drive. The RPI5 was connected to a CrowView Note. What I saw was that the firmware loaded up the necessary files from the USB drive (then later the micro-SD card), and the initramfs loaded up too, then systemd started up, and probably when the screen usually goes blank for a short time (probably switching to KMS), here, the signal completely drops, and apparently nothing happens. (The messages scroll too fast, and then disappear, and I can't make out anything from the screen content.) I tried looking on the network to see whether the RPi5 comes up at all, but no. Since then, I tried to eliminate elements from my setup to see whether that makes any difference: I removed the Waveshare HAT Swtiched to using a micro-SD card instead of the USB thumb drive Tried to boot it without the CrowView Note Tried using the Noble Server image to eliminate any possible problems with the graphical UI but none of these helped. I now have the bare RPi5 with an active heatsink, and it's still not booting properly. What should I try? Should I try to get serial console working so that I at least see the boot messages? Is there an activity LED on the RPI5 where I could at least configure a heartbeat so that I could check whether the OS is alive at all? Since the OS can't be installed, I can't really submit much diagnostic information.

@going Yes, git is a pain in ass. I think it's better to teach everyone the git commands. Maybe someone will learn from my instructions and contribute to the mainline Linux kernel and Armbian. Transpeed 8k618-t Tv box will always be supported because I learned how to use git commands and submit patches. I hope others will do the same. A lot of the patches are mainlined for h618. I don't think it will be too long before Armbian only needs a Transpeed 8k618 board config to build an image. But of course there's different variations of the same box. I hope this thread helps them because I won't be here forever.

The way the Debian .iso installer does it: sudo apt-get -o APT::Install-Recommends="true" install task-lxqt-desktop That will install a fully functional desktop with a minimal set of applications. If you set Install-Recommends to false, or any other way of installing it (i.e. lxqt), in my experience, the result may not be quite functional.

@remlei I'did uploading this imagem, is minimal, i hope help you! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1esroAyxq2D2kJ5XPB2_pofQ473B-h1_S/view

Dont write that "fbi works correctly", when it is not. The display remains white, and the kernel doesn't show any errors. * Re-check your wiring * Disconnect the touch part of the LCD pins * Try reversing the polarity: dc-gpios = <&pio 2 6 1>; << change the 1 to 0 reset-gpios = <&pio 2 9 1>; << change the 1 to 0 If the CPU is successful sending the reset signal, the data/command, the chip select and any bytes through SPI, at least the LCD should turn black.

@Hqnicolas Thanks for your response and apologies being so slow to reply busy IRL and then I forgot I used Google to sign up to this site.... yeah... Okay thanks - I thought it would just be a changing of timing so to speak on x86. In this case if I plan to develop for something I also go for the lowest variant of it, ofc, at this time both were Android. Rather code closer to the "metal" than bringing a whole web browser in to say "hello world" The images came from a link on this thread; either yourself or another member. Yeah I noticed a certain lag on the ethernet with 1GBit connection -- it has all the resources available yet it pings hard and downloads fluctuate. My plans for this Armbian is WiFi Repeater (router is broadcom and no Open- or DD-WRT alternative) to relay the signal. I don't want mesh, I don't need a TPLink account. The box will provide some services to Orange/Raspberry Pi systems. Right. I'm against AI So last thing I'd do. A link was provided but as I said expired. I'm sure there's differences in SDCard holders so didn't want to order two of the wrong type! Ah obrigado! I think your link may have solved it. I'll look in to it a bit in the future. Amazing how an Firestick turned me to Chinese TV boxes which are quite capable once you get rid of the Spyware. What I will say is, I think these boxes may have poor solder joints on the WiFi sub board, was hoping it was a misconfiguration my 8G model no longer recognizes the Wifi board, when I get the SD card holders I'll reflow it ad see. dmesg, lsusb, lspci know nothing of it. my 2G box the WiFi is fine. Regards

I know this is older, but you need fping6 as well. See inside my install script for Zabbix server https://github.com/sgjava/install-zabbix/blob/589abd9527b1dbd505776a4c80afe8e515aef878/scripts/install.sh#L210

I can provide you the vmlinuz and uInitrd 5.10.43, if that helps. You should be able to put them on your SD card. Don't know of the newer userland can handle that old kernel, but at least you should be able to see the kernel log, to rule out hardware or u-boot problems.

I simply don't need or want a desktop or anything with icons. I do use a few things on occasion that have toolbars like libre office or krita, gimp, ink scape, and kicad. But otherwise I have no use for all that mess of desktop window management and mousing. Xfce is ok for a half day of installing stuff. But otherwise I have no use for that stuff.

due to network limitations， how to compile Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome OS image in offline mode, build.sh need to download many debs，can I download them in advance，then install them locally. I have already downloaded kernel and uboot.

need help regarding wifi, i tried different server img and found no working wifi, should i just install armbian full or keep searching,,,,,plus is latest recommended or older versions......my device is 1gb ram with 8 rom, it may sound cheap, but i got this piece for free just tryin to repurpose it rather than getting a pi, i need it only for klipper, i got no lan ports left(lan ports are filled with different uses), only wifi, or should i just give up

Thank you so much for your help and explaining how it should work! I tried all the cores that you ordered - it only worked on this: #unnamed -a Linux orangepi5-plus 6.16.4-edge-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 28 14:34:51 UTC 2025 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux I put it like this: @apt install linux-image-edge-rockchip64 linux-headers-edge-rockchip64 The old cores were not suitable because the wifi card 0002:21:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7925 refuses to run on cores less than 6.12.X I bow low to you! cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 bootlogo=true console=both overlay_prefix=rockchip-rk3588 fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dtb rootdev=UUID=e08e0355-09a7-41ad-a6db-fa17566a7f12 rootfstype=ext4 extraargs=cma=1G usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u With the extraargs=cma=1G parameter, videos in the browser somehow load faster.

Not planned but should be possible. A good start would be to copy the mentioend 2f and extract the device tree from official image and add it to vendor kernel source. If you're lucky that's all what's needed to get it to work.

moved to offtopic. not using Armbian. If you need support with that image, ask at the place where you downloaded from.

I got my issue resolved with labwc+greetd+nwg-hello See this link https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-hello/issues/43 Please check it and post any corrections if needed Getting rpi-greeter (no python) and wf-panel-pi (combines panel and launcher in compact form) would be ideal, but not resolved yet. If anyone is interested in getting rpi-greeter working, this is my partial progress, and I still cannot make it start under lightdm, without any X11: sudo apt install lightdm accountsservice polkitd These might be needed. I installed them the day after I installed greetd and ngw-hello. Note: I am working from a minimal debian trixie image appmenu-gtk-module-common libaccountsservice-dev gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 liblightdm-gobject-dev liblightdm-gobject-1-0 libgtk-3-dev gnome-common nasm ~$ mkdir rpi-greeter ; cd rpi-greeter wget https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/pi-greeter/archive/refs/heads/master.zip unzip master.zip ; cd rpi-greeter-master autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install Change /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with: greeter-session=pi-greeter-labwc Test with: $ sudo lightdm --test-mode --debug or $ sudo systemctl start lightdm $ journalctl -b -u lightdm.service The error is: Oct 13 22:01:49 orangepizero3 lightdm[845]: Error updating user /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied: Not authorized: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child process ?plymouth? (No such file or directory) I think I am very close to getting rpi-greeter working. What could be missing? I see that in a raspberry pi, the folder /etc/xdg/labwc-greeter/ exists, with 3 files inside, but in armbian, it doesn't exist. Should it be created by sudo make install? sudo nano /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log: Nothing weird. Only: [+0.07s] DEBUG: Session pid=6392: Running command /usr/bin/labwc -C /etc/xdg/labwc-greeter/ (and this folder /etc/xdg/labwc-greeter/ does not exist) In raspberry: /etc/xdg/labwc-greeter/ contains autostart, rc.xml and environment sudo nano /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log: ** (process:6392): WARNING **: 00:23:07.745: Failed to open CK session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.E> 00:00:00.000 [ERROR] [../src/main.c:202] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset The etc/xdg/labwc-greeter/autostart, etc files come from a package named raspberrypi-ui-mods (raspberry$ dpkg -S /etc/xdg/labwc-greeter/autostart) What part of https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/raspberrypi-ui-mods would get my lightdm+labwc+rpigreeter working? Copying the /etc/xdg/labwc-greeter/ folder with the 3 files, with the same permissions, allow the pi-greeter to display (it is very plain), but after entering the password, the text mode display shows for 2 seconds, then the labwc black background and cursor shows for 1/4 second, then returns to the login screen. Found this error in the log: /etc/xdg/labwc-greeter//autostart: 2: /usr/bin/kanshi: not found Final part of solution: lightdm should contain: user-session=LXDE-pi-labwc Create file /usr/share/wayland-sessions/ LXDE-pi-labwc.desktop: [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Labwc Desktop on Wayland Exec=/usr/bin/labwc rpi-greeter does not allow selection of other sessions: only labwc

Hello friends, I'm trying to install Armban from sd card or usb disk on a x96 max+ box( s905x3 confirmed, 4gb ram+ 32gb flash, realtek wifi and samsund emmc or nand). but nothing works. tried minimal and CLI but non of them works. I've done this before for another box(s905), but this one is giving me a hard time. Tried almost all dtb files, and renamed u-boot file as per instruction above( didn't patch the dtb file (as I felt it's already done for S905x3 in latest community image I used(Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky) , Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble)). Tried installing from usb flash drive and sd card to make sure it's not about medium, no success. Some times the device enters into recovery menu( I think the toothpick method works but as it cannot detect a bootable media goes into recovery menu). and most of the times it goes into a loop ( I see boot logo and then restarts) from both usb and sd card. any Idea? someone said, they were able to boot from 24.5 desktop, but I was unable to find the exact same image to download. cheers, Ignore the message. found out what was wrong and fix it.

I think this device already have a working linux on SD-card, make a complete documentation of the boot method used by the current ambernic present in the SOC, and how it makes the search for the SD-card your work around will be only inside the rkbin and the u-boot. you will need to match the needs for this rkbin to find armbian, You may need to migrate armbian to mainline uboot or you may need something legacy, only with a debugger connected to the TTL port will it be possible to distinguish link link link I got this folder with some examples: https://github.com/hqnicolas/Rockchip-Library/tree/main/RK356x/rkbin https://github.com/hqnicolas/Rockchip-Library/blob/main/RK356x/rkbin/ABOUT.md also: Ambernic use some custom rkbin and u-boot, please share your research https://github.com/hqnicolas/Rockchip-Library/tree/main/RK356x/u-boot/socfpga https://github.com/hqnicolas/Rockchip-Library/blob/main/RK356x/u-boot/socfpga/rk3568_common.h

@djtecha6 I have faced the same issue. And it's the Armbian 25.8.2 problem, use the Armbian 25.5.1 image indeed.

OK, tried build my own full server image and the same error. It cannot find SSD, but nand-sata-install had no problem copying the file system over from the SD. The fstabs and boot.ini looks fine. I guess no one has tested this for a while. I'm just going to use Jammy version for now since it still works.

I see, thanks for the reply @hexdump. In the end I bought this card https://allegro.pl/oferta/karta-pamieci-samsung-evo-plus-microsdxc-128gb-adapter-15833111368 and I'm using it as main disk. I'm pretty disappointed with the write speed (around 20MB/s in my tests) but I guess it could still be fine for lightweight server usage.