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Muchas gracias S-petersen por tu ayuda y amabilidad, ya lo estoy descargando. Luego te comento si tuve suerte! Thank you so much, S-petersen, for your help and kindness. I'm downloading it now. I'll let you know if I've had any luck!

Hi @faxe2110, or any other user, how are you? I'm working on a project with an Amlogic S805-based TV box and found your forum posts about custom Armbian images, particularly older versions like 5.67 with Debian Stretch and kernel 3.10.108. Unfortunately, the links you shared are no longer available, and I was wondering if you still have any of those files, or if you could give me some guidance on how to generate them. I'd greatly appreciate any help you can provide! Greetings from Argentina, Ricardo

Hi, Juan the image won't boot only getting a static red led.

Maybe, but maybe the issue won't occur then. If you want it reproducable, first for yourself, make a complete image of that USB stick on other large storage device and use that as 'master problem disk'. I have an old PC with 3x 4T HDD Btrfs multidevice formatted for such cases. Btrfs can make reflink copies or do RW snapshots, so easy and fast to create a slightly modified image. There is gddrescue to make initial copy from USB-stick. Also this is a USB-stick in an SBC, all sorts of power issues might also be a root cause. You can use nbd-server and nbd-client to make large/huge images available via network, I do that for my BananaPi M1 (8T HDD). In the past for Btrfs kernel development itself for example, there was/is? a metadata only imager tool, so in case of a complex filesystem bug, you can share only meta data, the data is actually zeroed/sparse. But you need a good extra Linux computer, Windows exFAT handling makes little sense. Best to also test/use the image with a generic Debian Bookworm/Trixie computer, I use a Armbian virtual machine for such a case, running on RPi4 (if 32-bit) or ROCK5B (64-bit only). They can use NBD (as client). AFAIR you can use the sunxi kernel directly in a KVM, at least did something with a NanoPi-NEO image (same kernel as well).

Tomas. In regards to SteeMan writing that we could 'brick' our tv box, I have recovered two tv boxes that have an amlogic chip in them. Here are my and others' notes. Some more notes there about how to install/reinstall Android for the sake of installing Armbian maybe also be useful.

Hey - thanks for Webmin. That looks pretty slick. Nice graphics. I am going to have to do a deeper dive against cockpit but very nice. I bet both work with Tailscale which makes for nice for remote access.

Generally debugging is done through the UART connector: https://debug.armbian.de/

I would first suggest that you read this post: That may give you lots of reasons why you shouldn't depending on what your goals are. Installing armbian on a TV Box depends on the TV Box. Each CPU has differing levels of support (from none to fairly well supported in mainline linux). And then given there are hundreds of different TV Boxes, each will have different sets of working/non-working features depending on a variety of factors. As far as supporting a USB audio device, it shouldn't be any different than support for the device on any other linux platform/distribution. On Armbian you may need to install the linux-firmware-full package to get the driver support as by default Armbian ships with a slimed down set of firmware support.

Thank you!

That is a wise thing to do and might be a good default for armbian to adopt.

OK, can you do the following for me, please, to be sure this is properly fixed? Kindly share the console output for me to have a look at. sudo apt reinstall wireless-regdb dpkg -S /lib/firmware/regulatory.db* Then reboot and see if your problem remains fixed. For now, I suggest you keep the wireless-regdb-2025.02.20.tar.xz file around on the NanoPi in case you need it again.

This is nothing new, its Windows related issue. Probably had something with the drivers. But ultimately I just use a older windows version, I had a machine running a Windows 10 1809 LTSC and for some reason it works there. One thing that also works is using a ubuntu live CD and using the upgrade_tool for rockchip.

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Ur welcome.

Ugoos AM9 DTB extracted from stock firmware,if it helps someone. AM9dtb.zip

https://debug.armbian.de

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@Nick A good news, everything seems to work except emmc. For now I'll just use the SD card. Thanks again for the help Update: I messed around with the device trees and found out that eMMC works if the frequency is lowered to 12Mhz as done in this patch: https://github.com/sicXnull/armbian-build/blob/333e462466670e9a8609771ccd05977b87800881/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/board_x96q-v5-1/sunxi_mmc-dec-f_max-to-12MHz-to-get-emmc-reliable.patch Maybe the next x96q-v5.1 builds can just use the x98h base with this patch applied

Hi Guillame, I forget how many hours/days I worked on this to get this box to work and at times I felt like chuckin it in the wastebin! It's not in a github, sadly, but all the info is here in this thread - I tried to document my madness as I went along and as you say I am very indebted to Nick and others for getting me started and the help he provided along the way. In the end I just moved to a Raspberry Pi as it was so much easier lol But I think I have a working SD Card somewhere. I got everything working, including the remote, with the exception of the onboard wifi chip had no drivers for Armbian, that may well have changed by now, I don't know, but I just used a wifi dongle with wifi and bluetooth - It's here in the thread. I can image the sd card if you have somewhere to upload it to - maybe start your own github and let me uploaded the img there to get you started? Regards, Mark

Once PR is merged, automated nightly beta repository has this kernel within hours.

Thanks! 🙏

please share more information about the problem you ran into for the sake of the next guy coming to the forum to look for a solution to the same problem. Thank you.

I am checking now Before installing plymouth, I checked that panel-mipi-dbi-spi is still loaded late: I added the include-lcd-bin.sh and installed plymouth: Checking that my bin file is there: The LCD works with plymouth: it starts the LCD earlier, with a smaller font, then switches to normal font, showing all the boot messages My armbian is not setup yet with lightdm+openbox (x11) or greetd+gtkgreet+labwc (wayland)... I will continue tomorrow

I am using my orange pi zero 3 with an SPI 4.0" LCD, with driver panel-mipi-dbi-spi. It works great with Linux 6.13.7 (started with a self built image with edge, minimal, Bookworm) and older, but I am having troubles with 6.14.8. Result from armbianmonitor -u after upgrading to linux 6.14.8: sudo apt install linux-image-edge-sunxi64=25.5.1 I reboot and the SPI LCD starts the text mode console, then turns black instead of starting lightdm https://paste.armbian.com/ucoxuwetiq Also xorg log after "sudo startx" fails to start. When I start the opiz3 with an HDMI screen connected (appears as /dev/fb0), startx and lightdm start normally, but NOT displaying anything in the small LCD Then, I downgrade to linux 6.13.7, sudo apt install linux-image-edge-sunxi64=25.2.3 I reboot and lightdm starts normally in the 4.0 LCD https://paste.armbian.com/uqafuxexiv Stopping lightdm and trying x11 to see the log sudo startx ... starts xorg normally Just downgrading to Linux 6.13.7 allows the 4.0" SPI LCD to work again. Dowgrading the linux package did not cause a downgrade of X11 (version 1.21.1.7). The small LCD always works ok in text mode. The driver is DRM but it is using the X11 fbdev submodule The fbdev.conf file: Using an HDMI screen is not affected When I disable the fbdev conf file sudo mv 99-fbdev.conf 99-fbdev.conf.disabled Then x11 fails in another way: The xorg log doesn't show any error: dmesg|grep MESA shows nothing. Probably here is the solution https://github.com/agherzan/meta-raspberrypi/issues/1389 rebuilding mesa with some extra dependencies Bookworm containg mesa 22.3.6 right now, but Trixie contains mesa 25.0.5 I tried the same in Trixie and Sid, but still get the same error: not able to load panel-mipi-dbi_dri.so I have a newly built armbian OS with kernel 6.15.x... I will try it later today.

@Turbine Thank you, I had this problem and your solution was spot on. Problem fixed.