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This Gdrive is empty now... Did we see any improvements for the Orange Pi 4A in the 26.2.1 release?

That's strange 🙂 ...we have the same kernel. Maybe something's broken in the system? But I haven't messed with Bluetooth in the system. I've only updated the system: apt update /apt upgrade /reboot 🙂 root@orangepi3-lts:~# rfkill ID TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD 0 bluetooth bluetooth unblocked unblocked 1 wlan phy0 unblocked unblocked .............................. bluetoothctl Waiting to connect to bluetoothd... it keeps reading but shows nothing? ................... bt-device -l ** ERROR:lib/bluez/adapter.c:165:adapter_get_dbus_object_path: assertion failed: (ADAPTER_IS(self)) Bail out! ERROR:lib/bluez/adapter.c:165:adapter_get_dbus_object_path: assertion failed: (ADAPTER_IS(self)) Aborted ............. Something must have broken in the system, but what and where? Can you give me the exact: Armbian image + version ... Contents of ..../lib/firmware/uwe5622/ also: armbianEnv.txt Output dmesg | grep -i uart i dmesg | grep -i bluetooth Maybe that will help me figure out where the errors are in my system? Or maybe I have Debian and you have Ubuntu? Ps. or, more simply, information from the file: diagnostics.txt command in terminal: ................. ( uname -a cat /etc/os-release ls -lh /lib/firmware/uwe5622/ lsmod | grep -iE "bt|sprd|uwe" dmesg | grep -i uart ls /dev/tty* | grep -i "ttyS\|ttyAMA\|ttyBT" cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt rfkill list hciconfig -a bluetoothctl list hcitool dev bt-device -l dmesg | grep -iE "bluetooth|uwe|sprd|hci" ) > diagnostics.txt .....................

DKMS compilation per board, examples: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/radxa-cubie-a5e.csc#L20-L22 https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/orangepirv2.wip#L13-L17 https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/extensions/radxa-aic8800.sh https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/extensions/bcmdhd-spacemit.sh

@Issou thanks for the feedback, I eventually got my hands on the Orange Pi zro I had in a remote location, I will make a fresh install and see how it behaves.

Testing the latest build: apt update && apt upgrade -y Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB] Get:3 http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease [43.4 kB] Get:4 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease [5,467 B] Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease [54.0 kB] Err:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:41Z Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:55Z Err:3 http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T02:15:55Z Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T02:15:55Z Err:4 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Missing key DF00FAF1C577104B50BF1D0093D6889F9F0E78D5, which is needed to verify signature. Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T16:02:28Z Err:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:27Z Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:49Z Get:6 http://fi.mirror.armbian.de/beta trixie InRelease [39.4 kB] Err:6 http://fi.mirror.armbian.de/beta trixie InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Missing key DF00FAF1C577104B50BF1D0093D6889F9F0E78D5, which is needed to verify signature. Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T08:25:38Z Fetched 190 kB in 1s (143 kB/s) All packages are up to date. Warning: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. OpenPGP signature verification failed: http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:41Z Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:55Z Warning: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. OpenPGP signature verification failed: http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T02:15:55Z Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T02:15:55Z Warning: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Missing key DF00FAF1C577104B50BF1D0093D6889F9F0E78D5, which is needed to verify signature. Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T16:02:28Z Warning: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. OpenPGP signature verification failed: http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:27Z Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:49Z Warning: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. OpenPGP signature verification failed: http://fi.mirror.armbian.de/beta trixie InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Missing key DF00FAF1C577104B50BF1D0093D6889F9F0E78D5, which is needed to verify signature. Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T08:25:38Z Warning: Failed to fetch https://github.armbian.com/configng/dists/stable/InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Missing key DF00FAF1C577104B50BF1D0093D6889F9F0E78D5, which is needed to verify signature. Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T16:02:28Z Warning: Failed to fetch http://beta.armbian.com/dists/trixie/InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Missing key DF00FAF1C577104B50BF1D0093D6889F9F0E78D5, which is needed to verify signature. Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T08:25:38Z Warning: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/trixie-updates/InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:41Z Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:55Z Warning: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/trixie-backports/InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:27Z Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T13:39:49Z Warning: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/trixie-security/InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T02:15:55Z Verifying signature: Not live until 2026-03-02T02:15:55Z Warning: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Summary: Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0 root@radxa-cubie-a5e:~# armbianmonitor -u Collecting info and sending to paste.armbian.com, wait... https://paste.armbian.com/zefutefuzi Please post the URL in the forum where you've been asked for. https://paste.armbian.com/zefutefuzi

There aren't any Armbian builds for 5.15 is what I said. And it would be a lot of work to make that happen. Why do you want 5.15? How do you know that would work, when 6.12 doesn't?

You can just download rock-3a edge(6.18+) images (not vendor 6.1) and change the device tree entry (sdcard/boot/armbianenv.txt) to point to "rockchip/rk3566-radxa-cm3-io.dtb" . This seems to boot fine with majority of features working.

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@Werner Sorry for disturbing. I found that my board is actually 3 gb variant. Removed the heat sink. It is actually 3gb variant. The problem was hardware. We can close this topic.

The Rock-s0 has the same rk3308b processor and the build uses a BL31binary, with u-boot. The SV06Ace has the same cpu and BL31/u-boot. I reviewed this thread and was trying to follow the example commit provided. It is a little difficult to work through a commit as not all of the paths to the files are present in my depth=1 git clone. Is it possible to download the commit for the Rock-s0 and use it to patch the build directory? If I could run the patch, then I would have some actual files to copy and edit. The maintainer of the Rock-s0, linked on the Armbian Info page for the s0 has not made any recent commits. The last Rock-s0 commit was where it was moved back to an older bootloader scheme. # Rockchip RK3308 quad core 512MB SoC WiFi BOARD_NAME="SV06 Ace" BOARD_VENDOR="sovol" BOARDFAMILY="rockchip64" BOARD_MAINTAINER="shep" BOOTCONFIG="sv06ace-rk3308_defconfig" BOOT_FDT_FILE="rockchip/sv06ace.dtb" KERNEL_TARGET="current" KERNEL_TEST_TARGET="current" DEFAULT_CONSOLE="serial" SERIALCON="ttyS0" MODULES_BLACKLIST="rockchipdrm analogix_dp dw_mipi_dsi dw_hdmi gpu_sched lima hantro_vpu panfrost" HAS_VIDEO_OUTPUT="no" BOOTBRANCH_BOARD="tag:v2024.10" BOOTPATCHDIR="v2024.10" BOOT_SCENARIO="binman" DDR_BLOB="rk33/rk3308_ddr_589MHz_uart0_m0_v2.07.bin" BL31_BLOB="rk33/rk3308_bl31_v2.26.elf" FORCE_UBOOT_UPDATE="yes" OVERLAY_PREFIX="rk3308" function post_family_config__rocks0() { declare -g BOOTDIR="u-boot-${BOARD}" declare -g BOOTSCRIPT="boot-rockchip64-ttyS0.cmd:boot.cmd" family_tweaks_bsp() { #overrides rockchip64_common.inc #Install udev script that derives fixed, unique MAC addresses for net interfaces #that are assigned random ones bsp=$SRC/packages/bsp/rockpis rules=etc/udev/rules.d Specifically, where are following files, referenced in /build/boards/*.csc located? BOOTCONFIG=*.defconfig" BOOT_FDT_FILE="*.dtb" The declared boot scripts Thanks

What a nice picture! Would you be generous to post your NPU device info? I'm also looking for some w8a8 llm models working on NPU (the GEMM capability is perfect, isn't it).

I am not familiar with these images as I normally self build with the Armbian framework. A trade off of falling back to the old kernel, do you know the chipset of the WiFi dongle? I recall the old Realtek drivers being a complete pain Potentially as the USB iD pin is already exposed within the DTS, however the driver still currently ignores this. It is what requires the most work. The only thing I can think of that the dwc2 overlay initializes suxni-musb underneath along with setting some additional configurations. If you can find where it is actually stored on the image then we can see what pieces are missing then see if it is actually a driver issues or the DTS definitions have changed. Which version of Windows are you using? I can only guess that whatever windows components supporting g_mass_storage are legacy and being removed. Ryzer

Vendor kernel will stay for awhile (this year for sure) as mainline is not on this level yet. This part might not be part of the release - you can grab it from nightly release - but most likely it won't have any affect to this topic.

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Thanks to whom it may concern. I downloaded the today's version and it did connect..

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Hi, I redownloaded the key and replaced it, and it works!

GPL requires source code be offered for any software distributed. Changes to the build system probably aren't covered, but a modified DTB probably is. The final image also has the Linux kernel and other GPL components, so that definitely is. Bottom line is that GPL is supposed to be permissive. DTS is easily gotten from DTB. And you're probably good as long as you're not being a jerk about it. If that bothers you, you could also make a overlay (dtbo) and just patch the DTB on boot. You'd avoid the custom image and also make it more clear that your DTB is tweaked.

I finally managed to boot in Maskrom mode by shorting the clock pin (red circle on the picture) to ground, then loading the loader (rk3528_spl_loader_v1.07.104.bin) and u-boot with rkdeveloptool.

Dear @Werner , I have just created an issue on Github to keep track of this discussion: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/9446 Is it safe to try possibly unsupported images on the NanoPC-T6 Plus ? It's a relatively expensive piece of kit and I'd rather not take any chances (new LPDDR5 RAM: possibly new memory timings, etc.) Best regards, Samuel

... problem is elsewhere. This is running: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata in CLI (Armbian Noble), choosing region Atlantic, then:

So I need to know what I have to do to get MIDI messages into my music app that I'm working on. I developed a cli synth app on Manjaro using SDL3 and Jack. Jack I used to connect to MIDI aka 'MIDI-Bridge' or MIDI Through and an external program to produce MIDI messages sent to MIDI Through. I am currently trying to do the same on the actual device I wish to use which is the OrangePi 4 LTS I have spare with just bare bones Armbian Server, no desktop. I have audio working through Pipewire. I am used to Jack just being available because Pipewire intercepts and handles the calls behind the scenes. I noticed that on Armbian I think I have to use the 'pw-jack' program or jack-play goes into an eternal and uninterruptible error loop (I have to kill it through another terminal). Note: I am developing this program in Zig. Am I doing all of this the wrong way? Is there some system process I have to start? Or something I haven't installed?

Basically it has 1 gb ROM 8gb ram h3 chip and I HAVE put many img files on SD card NONE of them boot and as soon as I take the SD card out it boots into android perfectly fine... I'm lost on words and what to do I have also tried FEL mode on linux but the request times out with error -7 power supply is 5v 2a which is fine for this so not that and I'm using a 256gb a1 rated SD card. This is from a generic Chinese tv box called meecom and it has ADX-H-V1.0 written on it. I also changed the dtb files a lot but it still gave no display or sign that it was booted into armbian idk what to do help ( btw I repasted it that's why it has no thermal putty on it)

I haven't got my head around what the differences are with -copy options. I'm able to use drm-copy but it produces a small stutter when watching 1080p hevc content whereas drm is very smooth. As previously mentioned, drm-copy does allow mpv to display videos with problematic file widths instead of just a black screen. I don't understand it all enough to know why that is.