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I think Thunderbird, Firefox and other programs should configure firewall as well, of course without any information about that.

@Ducdanh Nguyen without a axp chip I’m pretty sure you don’t have a h313. You’re going to have research your box on your own. Sorry but I’m too busy.

What guidance are you trying to follow?

To anyone interested, I am seeking help to test the latest tm16xx changes for the (hopefully) final upstreaming submittal. You will find in-tree patches here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/compare/master...jefflessard:linux:tm16xx, just suffix with ".patch" to get all patches in a single download. You will find out-of-tree version, device-specific dtso and latest display-service in the https://github.com/jefflessard/tm16xx-display/tree/v4-feedback branch. Thanks to all of you for you help so far!

I have a ssh connection with my TV BOX (it is a AMLOGIC with S912), in my etc/ssh/sshd_config I have "UsePAM yes" and without any delay for connection, and probably it was not the problem of your delay in the start connection. In addition, I installed a vnc service to work remotely using the graphical interface. Either ssh and vnc Viewer (xtightvncviewer in my Debian Desktop) run pretty well. Please, check your basic network services, as well, fix the IP in the TV BOX. In my case I did some adjusts such: cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.15.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.15.1 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 1.1.1.1 There are some network services that can be impling in your delay by ssh (it is robust, old and fast application of Linux) I hope to help you too.

I'd read rumors that uBoot has the ability for a multi-boot menu, but I was never able to get any video out of it to my DVI monitor to explore that too deeply. What I ended up doing was installing this UEFI port, and booting from it (instead of uBoot): https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588 The image takes up just over 8MB, but the built image is only 6MB in size. So you need to use dd to zero out a space first. The difference is where it stores the configuration. It can be flashed onto a microSD card or once you're confident in it, onto the SPI-NOR. I've done both. There are a few other versions of it for other hardware (other than rk3588). https://github.com/orgs/edk2-porting/repositories?type=all&q=edk2 That will boot UEFI and into grub very easily, and I do use grub to select which OS to boot into. I have one grub partition, and multiple installed OS partitions. The edk2 port is highly configurable, and recognizes hardware, including the network. Not sure if it's usable for remote access or not in its current build, but I think it can, at least, boot off the network. You can also configure a standard layout/path for your devicerees and overlays, where it will load them, but I haven't tested that out yet. If you don't override in the edk2 configuration or in grub, it will use the Vendor or Edge kernel's devicetrees (built in), or ACPI (also built in). Btw, I built it last night with a tiny change I made to the Orangepi5-plus edge devicetree to re-enable the ES8388 audio, and tested it out in Trisquel 12 with its kernel (with the devicetree from edk2) - it worked! The great thing is - their git clone and build process puts ALL the source files on your computer, so you don't need the internet to build, and you can know that any changes you make in the source code won't be "updated" overwritten by the build process. I've found with Grub, the update-grub utility will not find and add devicetrees, so you have to do that manually or hack in (which is what I've done). But again, apparently the edk2 port would make that unnecessary. So to add to the resources already mentioned, the edk2 port is open-source - they did it. Btw, I have also read that uBoot can boot grub directly, but I think you have to supply it with the address to load it into. Without knowing what I'm doing (when I first got my SBC), I didn't want to touch that.

Hi everyone, i manage to extract the .dtb file from the recovery partition of the rk3528-X88pro13-android. This is the board number : X88PRO 13-D4-V1.1 (2023-04-12). Maybe it will be useful to someone 😉 rk3528-x88pro13-android.dtb

Overlay was renamed at some point to just uart5 `/boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-h616-uart5.dtbo` (without `ph5`), so `overlays=uart5` works and is available at /dev/ttyS1

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

nice, thank you for your feedback

hi, I am unable to boot Armbian on Gamebox G11 Pro. I am able to boot CoreElec and Emuelec easily via sd card. I have tried every tip and trick to boot it, lot of Armbian versions and forks. Can you suggest a suitable armbian dtb file for the same. The most reliable method to boot it.

The mmcblkXbootX partitions are hardware defined partitions on eMMC storage device and can be used by storing boot firmware.

Great to see continued development for RK3318/RK3328 boards, Armbian support really helps unlock their full potential for lightweight Linux projects.

@usual user The USB and Ethernet ports are exposed, but how would that work exactly? I don't know how to make the software boot from USB or Ethernet and even if I did I don't know what to boot into that can write an image file to the emmc chip. I can find no info on this on radxa or armbian sources.

When you do first login, you need to choose correct locales combination and language in desktop should follow - you still need to install desktop packages ... If you don't have locales support in the system, you won't be able to use it in desktop. I think this is the problem. In my case, when I select my own locales (sl_SI.UTF-8) and install those desktop related packages, I have Gnome with Slovene support.

RPi added some checks in their initramfs post-update script which causes this, found here: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d/z50-raspi-firmware: case $flavour in v8|v8-rt|2712|v6|v7|v7l) ;; *) echo "ERROR: Unsupported initramfs version ($initrd_version)" exit 0 ;; esac However there is also another fine in this folder which was added years ago: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6039/files#diff-02b9b6fbb77fcab23278cd4a148b3f2c91d2c1361d05f33a21bdab19182caf21R139-R153 That seems to handle initramfs creation properly. So the error message is purely cosmetical. That would give trouble when updating rpi packages from upstream since there would be changes detected. Better solution might be to add a hint to our code stating that the ERROR can be ignored as long as overall initramfs generation was successful.

Additional Info: The "Current" Kernel I found the equivalent code in the Current kernel. It is a clearly a different version of the file, but it looks like the same error is present. I have not tested it. Snippet Source: ./build/cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree/6.12__rockchip64__arm64/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dts &analog_sound { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&hp_detect>; simple-audio-card,aux-devs = <&speaker_amp>, <&headphone_amp>; simple-audio-card,hp-det-gpios = <&gpio1 RK_PD3 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>; // This line here: Change GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW to GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH simple-audio-card,widgets = "Microphone", "Onboard Microphone", "Microphone", "Microphone Jack", "Speaker", "Speaker", "Headphone", "Headphones"; The "Vendor" Kernel I found the equivalent code in the Vendor kernel's devicetree. It is also a clearly different version of the file from the other two kernel trees. But it looks like this particular coding error (for the audio) is not present here. The headphone detection level is set to GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH. Source: ./build/cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree/6.1__rk35xx__arm64/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dts However in my experience (tested again just now with version 28.5.1), the Vendor kernel seems a bit crippled: No GPU or video acceleration, and no ES8388 analog audio whatsoever (not even at the ultra-low volume I was getting with the Edge kernel). At least the screen, keyboard, mouse, and ethernet works, but with no video acceleration the video is slow and clumsy. I suspect that the best place to look for the audio issue with the Vendor kernel is not to focus on the audio, so much as to focus on what broke on an apparently deeper level.

still on windows , but microsoft suggests 11 so looking for linux 11

It's worth noting that you don't have to necessarily change anything in the build process. As long as you plan to not insert partitions in the middle, you can: write the image to the card with parted, resize the root partition to whatever you want make a new partition If you want to have more than 4 partitions total, this works best with GPT partition table, but legacy msdos works too with a little more effort `fsck.ext4 -f /dev/foo` where foo is the root partition `resize2fs /dev/foo` after you have the machine booted, you can then mkfs the new partition [you could probably do it in advance of booting the system too] I do this regularly, b/c I typically only partition about 1/2 or 1/4 of the SD card to leave the rest for wear-leveling. Are you trying to do this as a one-off or are you trying to do it for a dozen or more SBCs of the same type?

@fevangelou nice guide. THX! but maybe it would be best to have the instruction in an separate topic! in best case it gets also pinned. so new users can find it much easier than scrolling though 18 pages (in this thread. there is also the 4gb thread) to find it......

Yes I'm aware that I can only rely on the community for any help or tip. I'm now considering to revert back to a bullseye setup with a 5.10 Radxa kernel, but I was kind of reluctant to keep an old version of Debian as my Rockpi is accessible from ouside my network... The Rockpi is powered by a PoE hat, it never had any issue so far but maybe the PoE management is the culprit. I'll try an use the Rockpi with a traditional power supply, but in any case if this is the issue it won't be a sustainable solution for my target setup.

I had the precise information about data-offset from "--examine" mdadm command, and also I was in raid1, that's far less sensitive to error than raid5 or raid0 for example. I would not have been surprised that the resync, if taken to the end, would have worked... But I will never know. As far as I know, I get the data back and I'm very lucky and happy. Thank you

Customizing image and customizing kernel are different tasks. For latter use the code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } kernel-config command and then copy over the created config file from output to userpatches. The framework will look for custom kernel configuration files and uses them if they're detected. More details here: https://zuckerbude.org/armbian-using-kernel-config/

That seems to have gone away. ? SNILMERG... Now using very small but 1920x1080 screen, xfce terminal text is about 7 microns tall, way too small for my ancient eyes, Simplified keyboard. ctrl&shift&+ magnify's text but when big enough to read, bottom of xfce4 terminal is offscreen below bottom of screen, so cannot see command line. Is there a keycode combo that expands text independently from terminal window size? Thank you.

Armbian kernel and BSP Debian/Ubuntu userland