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Success story: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2322591#p2322591 with the 3.5 inch ili9488, graphics (wayland) and touch in raspberry pi 3b I hope this helps with making it work in orange pi zero 3 and 2w (only touch missing)

@rockamal Write the image to the SD card using whichever method you prefer—Balena Etcher, Rufus, dd, etc. I installed it on Manjaro using gnome-disk-utility. Just insert it and power on the TV box, and it should boot from the microSD.

I'm more concerned about what version 5 might break. Still, I don't think anyone makes Facebook account in order to login to Armbian forums 😄 and GitHub is not far from those I am afraid By the end of the day, this would be a symbolic gesture that works against practical ways. I think most of people uses Google login connector. Do we have any stats for that?

If this worked for you, I propose to open a PR, so there is a GitHub record of your work. Add it here https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/patch/kernel/archive/sunxi-6.12 Here you also need to pay attention to add to series* files.

All good now?

fwiw I was able to build a set of Armbian kernel packages based on 6.16-rc1 and this patchset: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250619173007.3367034-1-wens@kernel.org/ If it works, no clue, don't have the hw. Just played around. https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8330

as I've not been running X11, I can't really help with this, but among the things, check the logs during X startup, that could lead to the cause. note also that more recently, the display systems are running wayland rather than X11. that could cause xfce etc to fail if it is expecting an X11 based setup it is also recommended to bootup in the uart console (debug) port using a usb-uart dongle. - the benefits are numerous, the boot messages are mostly presented - it provides you with a console to login and check things while the system is running e.g. to login and check dmesg and other logs - essential especially when re-wiring network configuration

Providing logs with armbianmonitor -u helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

And how to compile openvfd with this patch? How to apply this patch to openvfd?

Added instructions for joining your home lab: https://docs.armbian.com/WifiPerformance/#adding-a-new-device

Hi and thank you for the advice. The USB end of the dongle goes to my desktop PC. I compared the time stamps of the last issue and found that the PC was actually switched off during the last issue, having been switched on 10 minutes after the last sysrq log entry. So for the moment I will watch the findings of auditd, although the startup msgs from yesterday looked somewhat suspicious (?): 2025-06-23T18:23:09.799581+02:00 bananapipro2 systemd[1]: Starting auditd.service - Security Auditing Service... 2025-06-23T18:23:09.910646+02:00 bananapipro2 auditd[18408]: Audit daemon is low on disk space for logging 2025-06-23T18:23:09.911684+02:00 bananapipro2 auditd[18408]: Audit daemon is suspending logging due to low disk space. 2025-06-23T18:23:09.912308+02:00 bananapipro2 auditd[18408]: No plugins found, not dispatching events 2025-06-23T18:23:09.917468+02:00 bananapipro2 auditd[18408]: Init complete, auditd 3.0.9 listening for events (startup state enable) 2025-06-23T18:23:10.181350+02:00 bananapipro2 systemd[1]: Started auditd.service - Security Auditing Service. Greetings.

That should make it. You can always try to see if it works and search online if not.

FYI. HDMI out is broken on those board at the moment. Try to access the board remotely. We don't have people to maintain those old boards.

Thank you for that information. From a cursory look, it seems as if that is only binary images, no source (violating GPL).

I will try to make that easier and more automatic with APA, eventually.

Thank you for letting us know as it allows an interested party to more easily bisect the regression.

download all files attenmented . sudo cp *.dtbo /boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay open /boot/armbianEnv.txt , add this line: overlays=spi-spidev spidev1_1 and reboot, you should find and use /dev/spidev1.1 sun50i-h616-spidev1_0.dtbo sun50i-h616-spidev1_0.dtso sun50i-h616-spidev1_1.dtbo sun50i-h616-spidev1_1.dtso

Moved to Community supported forum as this isn't a standard support board.

True. Also on most computers we have eth0 Not just eth Devices naming is a cosmetic thing from the outside / user perspection, while it has consistency issue from the inside and currently breaks initial (default netplan) configuration. Our job is not to tell user how to configure his network, but that network devices gets up at first boot. Now they do. Job done.

From the picture - I can only guess that kernel package was somehow not upgraded properly as kernel image files are missing. Perhaps they were removed by accident or there was some disk / file system troubles involved. @Chris007 Try hints from here: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Troubleshooting/

This is being worked on https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/20250526002924.2567843-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com/T/#t There is a version of this that was ported over from a vendor kernel to Armbian. https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6617

Okay, then you have to adjust the source to mitigate the issue. Also log excerpts are often useless. My random guess is that uboot is some old outdated version depending on python2 which has been deprecated years ago.

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To anyone this may help, removing hc4 related packages and replacing them with c4 packages did the job. Only to discover that, for whatever reason, I actually had an HC4 board and convince myself that it was a C4 ... Anyway, the reverse process also worked as expected and my board is now running 25.051.1 happily, except for the samsung SSD not recognized at boot, and requires to be hot plugged just after the linux kernel starts in order to be seen by the system, as it is described in other threads.