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the intention was, not to boot from sdcard .... have read thats not a good solution, sd cards are slow (even if i have an A2 one) and they are not good for constant read and write ... didnt know thats for emmc the same apply for nvme i have read, thats not possible to boot from or its a hassle to get it to work .... but: Scanning bootdev 'nvme#0.blk#1.bootdev': Scanning bootdev 'mmc@fe2c0000.bootdev': looks like he is already try to boot from the emmc and nvme, right ?

this is posted to Gist: https://gist.github.com/ag88/65db5434158683e43d1cc77c337ebdb5 Introduction Rpi-monitor https://github.com/XavierBerger/RPi-Monitor is a very nice app for monitoring sbc (single board computers/ actually bigger computers as well) like RPi on a web. it gives you a quick look at various system metrics cpu load, uptime, temperatures etc and more on a nice web page. and on top, makes nice time series graphs for the same, practically a dashboard. Installing in Armbian 25.8 for Orange Pi Zero 3 Rpi-monitor is normally not found in the common Apt repositories and actually the binary is a little old. I tried installing it based on the 'formal' docs but hit some invalid public keys errors, possibly expired certs. https://xavierberger.github.io/RPi-Monitor-docs/11_installation.html so here is a 'workaround' Deb packages for rpi-monitor you can find the packages in this repository (note that this may not be permanant and may change) https://github.com/XavierBerger/RPi-Monitor-deb use the **rpimonitor_latest.deb** file https://github.com/XavierBerger/RPi-Monitor-deb/tree/develop/packages install rpimonitor_latest.deb in Armbian use apt to install *rpimonitor_latest.deb* as it has varous package dependencies. e.g. download it to a folder and from there run sudo apt install ./rpimonitor_latest.deb the prior step should install rpimonitor, and check that the service is running by going to http://your_sbc_ip_address:8888 checking the setup rpi-monitor is runa as a systemd (unit) service if it is not running you can try systemctl status rpimonitor.service or journalctl -u rpimonitor.service to check what went wrong. to start / stop rpi-monitor it is as per basic systemd services e.g. systemctl start rpimonitor.service temperature 'not displaying' apparently, it is affected by this issue: https://github.com/XavierBerger/RPi-Monitor/issues/374 accordingly the fix/'workaround' is edit /etc/rpimonitor/template/temperature.conf replace #dynamic.1.postprocess=sprintf("%.2f", $1/1000) dynamic.1.postprocess=$1/1000

->a bit off topic<- Okay, if you have enough time, you can play around with PXVIRT (formerly the Proxmox port). 🙂 (https://github.com/jiangcuo/pxvirt) It's like Proxmox for ARM64 devices. I've been playing around with an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 4 with a 256 GB USB SSD lying around. In short: I installed a self-made minimal image (RPi4b). Installed PXVIRT (https://docs.pxvirt.lierfang.com/en/installfromdebian.html) Created some LXC containers (e.g., Lyrion Media Server, Heimdall, Pihole, Portainer, etc.) Created a virtual machine (Bookworm with OMV) Created a virtual machine with HAOS / -> bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/vm/pimox-haos-vm.sh)" It's been running perfectly stable for 56 days now. 👍 Okay, it wasn't easy to set up and compile all the software components, but it's running perfectly. I plan to buy an Orange Pi 5 Plus with 32 GB RAM for these tasks next time. Regards, Markus

Colleagues, in order to fully cover the topic and make it easier to diagnose such problems in the future, please tell us what methods and where to look for information/logs about Wayland failures.

I have tested this on a NanoPi R5C as well as on NanoPC-T6 (non-LTS). For the later I also tested a vender provided Kernel / OS Installation. What happens is that whenever some Power-Saving is requested, the board will seemingly fully power down and is not responsive to anything, at best the reset button will do its work, R5C requires a power-cycle. The last kernel msgs are these (see https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/states.txt😞 # echo freeze > /sys/power/state [ 54.373374] PM: suspend entry (s2idle) [ 54.671033] Filesystems sync: 0.297 seconds [ 54.775176] Freezing user space processes [ 54.780065] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.004 seconds) [ 54.780769] OOM killer disabled. [ 54.781078] Freezing remaining freezable tasks [ 54.782928] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds) [ 54.791332] r8169 0002:01:00.0 wan1: Link is Down I am at a loss how to diagnose this further. To me it appears that there is some vital power-source to CPU or RAM switched off.

Hi every one, Do we have a fix for bluetooth?

Try to experiment with this value: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/patch/kernel/archive/rockchip64-6.6/board-rockpro64-0001-Add-pcie-bus-scan-delay.patch As this is pulled to DT, you only need to recompile DT - on board.

Is it just modifying the dtb? I was reading and I understand that means decompiling to dts and then recompiling but what edits would I have to do to enable eMMC?

@Error1429 If you were to submit a well thought out PR along with the necessary doc and website updates, I'm sure this would be accepted and incorporated. But I think the feedback thus far as that this isn't something of high enough priority to ever being incorporated with Armbian's very limited resources.

Hello, thank you for these clear instructions. Could you tell me where could I find the zip file?, it seems the link if broken. Thank you

@eselarm I agree with you, it's a fabulous device. And like you, hours after the post, I realized that I only need a VM host. I was thinking about the M6, but why get stuck with Windows ARM when Debian and Android also work on Intel? These bonsai devices are really appealing, but for now I've returned it to Amazon. I bought it as a gateway-media server, to have priority on the LAN and lighten Android TV, but I realized that with MediaTek there is a huge gap in network management, so I put it on the LAN, and Debian in VNC was running strong, I wanted to speed it up with Armbian. Apart from the fact that they call their community “third parties,” it still seems like a good idea to me. I could install the generic Arm64-xfce with mesa-vpu... engineering-wise, it's incredible in 6 square centimeters, but an i7 tower is more convenient for VMs.

Hi i want to know if it’s possible to connect a raxda rock 5B with armbian on a touch screen Joy-it LCD10 V2 Module écran tactile 25.7 cm (10.1 pouces) 1280 x 800 Pixel by usb and hdmi ?

Hi everyone! I have v25.8 rolling for radxa cubie a5e running Armbian Linux 6.14.0-rc1-dev-sun55iw3 runnig and it has only ttyS0 serial device. Due to device schematics it should be able to provide serail interfaces with RTS/CTS support UART4-7. Was anyone able to activate this devices? As I understand, I need an overlay .dtbo files. But those cannot be found anywhere in /boot. Also I can compile those overlays, but I need the correct .dts files.

It all depends on what version or variant of OS you are using. I have a R6C and have done many fixes and workarounds for various OSses/distros to the point that I just maybe take what generic upstream kernel does. I anyhow change/fake MAC addresses as I use bridges and also VLANs. Is in Armbian Bookworm and Opensuse Tumbleweed. Ubuntu based has and extra netplan layer that is even more a PITA as it keeps .nmconnections file also in another place (generated) then /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ Recently a change in scripting has been done so that name 'wan' is/or has been changed into 'wan1', so at least this does not match what is printed on the metalcase. At least that is what I remember from a quick check on github; See what is in your udev rules scripts yourself. https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/nanopi-r6s.conf

I also needed a desktop on my Orange Pi Zero 2. I installed an "Armbian 25.5.1 Bookworm Minimal / IOT", then installed an XFCE desktop using some short guide I found on the Internet: sudo apt install lightdm xfce4 xfce4-goodies xorg After a reboot, my desktop started without any additional configurations. It's so good that now I have a new system with a desktop on my old hardware, which doesn't provide fresh OS images anymore.

Good news! I have finally built a new image (v0.7). It uses the v2025.07 u-boot from the 'orangepi5-pro-uboot' branch, and now the eMMC is working correctly. (Thanks to @salas for testing!)

I also tried sudo dd if=official_rock5t_image.img of=working_idbloader.img bs=512 skip=64 count=8000 sudo dd if=official_rock5t_image.img of=working_u-boot.itb bs=512 skip=16384 count=8000 sudo dd if=working_idbloader.img of=armbian_image.img bs=512 seek=64 conv=notrunc sudo dd if=working_u-boot.itb of=armbian_image.img bs=512 seek=16384 conv=notrunc then burn the img into the SD card, also be able to boot. I got the official image from https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-5t/releases but there's another issue, the hardware acceleration does NOT work in armbian, Mali-G610 is not in use

I Have an A96X with rockchip RK3228 and i tried booting armbian on it, but I got no display on HDMI. I connected a serial adapter to it and here is the information it displays when trying to boot: ▒▒▒▒DDR Version V1.05 20160805_dbg In 300MHz DDR3 Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=15 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=1024MB mach:2 OUT Boot1 Release Time: 2016-03-15, version: 2.31 ChipType = c 275 No.1 FLASH ID:2c 64 44 4b a9 0 ECC:60 SdmmcInit=0 0 BootCapSize=0 UserCapSize=76f5000 FwPartOffset=2000 , 0 StorageInit ok = 1520008 SecureMode : SBOOT_MODE_NS hdr 0x0:ff a1 0 0 1b 0 0 0 f0 f2 2e 68 f0 f2 2e 68 hdr 0x0:a4 81 0 0 4e 23 0 0 f0 f2 2e 68 f0 f2 2e 68 hdr 0x0:ff a1 0 0 3 0 0 0 f4 f2 2e 68 f4 f2 2e 68 hdr 0x0:a4 81 0 0 44 0 0 0 f4 f2 2e 68 f4 f2 2e 68 hdr 0x0:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hdr 0x0:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hdr 0x0:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hdr 0x0:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SecureMode : SBOOT_MODE_NS Loder code check ok! theLoader 0x60000000, loadaddr: 0x2000 Loder code check ok! theLoader 0x68400000, loadaddr: 0x4000 INF TEE-CORE:init_primary_helper:319: Initializing (1.0.1-63-g23e91df-dev #16 Tu e Mar 7 10:07:15 UTC 2017 arm) INF TEE-CORE:init_primary_helper:320: Release version: 1.8 INF TEE-CORE:init_teecore:79: teecore inits done U-Boot 2017.02-RK322X-06-02276-ga7c7ca8-dirty (May 19 2017 - 11:16:15) CPU: rk322x cpu version = 3 CPU's clock information: arm pll = 600000000HZ periph pll = 600000000HZ ddr pll = 600000000HZ codec pll = 500000000HZ Board: Rockchip platform Board Uboot as second level loader DRAM: Found dram banks: 1 Adding bank:0000000060000000(0000000040000000) Reserve memory for trust os. dram reserve bank: base = 0x68400000, size = 0x00100000 128 MiB GIC CPU mask = 0x00000001 rk dma pl330 version: 1.4 remotectl v0.1 pwm freq=0x11e1a3 pwm_freq_nstime=0x355 SdmmcInit = 0 0 SDCard Update. storage init OK! Using default environment Writing env to storage... done GetParam W: Invalid Parameter's tag (0x00000000)! Invalid parameter No pmic detect. SecureBootEn = 0, SecureBootLock = 0 #Boot ver: 0000-00-00#0.00 empty serial no. normal boot. no fuel gauge found no fuel gauge found read logo on state from dts [0] no fuel gauge found 'recovery' does not seem to be a partition nor an address Unable to boot:recovery try to start backup 'backup' does not seem to be a partition nor an address Unable to boot:backup try to start rockusb Can anybody point me to the right direction? I'd really like to turn this piece of junk into something useful 😄 Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

You forgot to mention a very important caveat, in that all filesystems on that device sda should be unmounted when you dd (BTW, pv is cooler than dd for this). That means, you have to boot off a different device. "sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sda | xz -v armbian_odroidc4_11_01_2025.img.xz" gets you the desired compression in one go. | is called a pipe.

so, you are good now?

Unfortunately an added challenge of the older SOC (A10, A13 & A20) generation is a limitation of the video engine which can only access the first 256MB of DRAM. I have tested this and found that the system becomes unresponsive as soon as we attempt media playback which confirms this is true. I dont yet know how it works under the hood but probably a similiar mechanism to how the kernel parses the dts in order to know what modules to load during the boot process. Allocation and ranges are set within the memory reserved node. reserved-memory { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; ranges; /* Address must be kept in the lower 256 MiBs of DRAM for VE. */ default-pool { compatible = "shared-dma-pool"; size = <0x6000000>; alloc-ranges = <0x40000000 0x10000000>; reusable; linux,cma-default; }; }; I have also tried increasing via overlay but it seems anything larger than 96MB gets disassociated from the dma pool. The first address that gets allocated is 0x4a000000. Trying via the extraargs method to specify a lower start address fails. Looks like the display buffers take a chunk out of CMA as well. Monitor disconnected: ryan@pcduino2-2:~$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Cma CmaTotal: 98304 kB CmaFree: 98008 kB Monitor connected: CmaTotal: 98304 kB CmaFree: 89780 kB If I attempt to fast forward, playback falls back to software decoding and I get these errors in the log: [ 596.444060] cma: __cma_alloc: reserved: alloc failed, req-size: 1024 pages, ret: -16 [ 596.444103] cma: number of available pages: [ 596.444110] cma: range 0: 3@109+56@128+64@192+23@2281+8@4344+162@5726+162@7262+162@8798+162@10334+162@11870+162@ 13406+8@15608+8@17656+8@19704+162@21086+162@22622+418@24158 [ 596.444254] cma: [ 596.454008] cma: __cma_alloc: reserved: alloc failed, req-size: 350 pages, ret: -16 [ 596.454045] cma: number of available pages: l: [ 596.454052] cma: range 0: 3@109+56@128+64@192+23@2281+8@4344+162@5726+162@7262+162@8798+162@10334+162@11870+162@ 13406+8@15608+8@17656+8@19704+162@21086+162@22622+418@24158

homeassistant ?

Maybe my firmware build can replace Petitboot?

Yes I have the heat sink and a thermal pad: Time CPU load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq Tcpu C.St. 19:42:28 816 MHz 0.00 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 51,6 °C 0/4 19:42:33 816 MHz 0.00 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 50,5 °C 0/4 19:42:38 816 MHz 0.00 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 52,8 °C 0/4 Armbian 23.02.2 Bullseye with Linux 5.15.93-sunxi Ambient temp is quite hot these days it's like maybe 32°C maybe more