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Hi @Gunjan Gupta, Thanks for the info. I'm trying to do something similar but on a different board. Running the "uboot-patch" build command just seems to download uboot?? There is no pause for me to make changes then to hit enter to continue. Has the process changed or am I doing something wrong? Many Thanks, Fiery

Hi goodfvh _YT_. I wanted to know if you are using Dupont wires?

Looks like that one can take stereo input but it is mostly designed to output one channel only. Did not research on my own but asked LLM. Since you experience one channel output only it might be correct about this behavior and also the overlay seems correct. In case you're interested in the output summary:

If someone interested on this tv box: I've managed to download original firmware image (update.zip) from backup partition. Also I cleaned it from malware (at least I think so) and packed as modified update.zip. Files are located here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etPmH8ZG4UtPHI3Vf1U9MUHl5_gK_s-E Further info available here (in Russian): https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=1016510&view=findpost&p=139209499

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Hello @Eks Ma, how are you? Unfortunately not. I gave up trying. The TV box is just sitting here at home.

It may or may not work to use a Tinkerboard image for your Chromebook. Same processor or manufacturer does not mean much, though, in terms of compatibility.

Also note that if you are on a community build or anything that points to the "beta" armbian apt repository, you will get a new linux kernel image pushed out to you each day, which would then trigger the need for a reboot (depending on settings) for that new kernel to be run.

unfortunately, your board has no maintainer in Armbian, it is only supported by the community

what version of OS are you guys running? are you possibly affected by the hardening of fancontrol in trixie?

After like a week of trying to make my tinkerboard rk3288 play videos I finally found the holy grail: https://users.armbian.com/jmcc/output/ Find the latest version and install that with all his dependencies, all the dependencies are in the debian archive: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg] https://github.armbian.com/configng stable main deb http://apt.armbian.com buster main buster-utils buster-desktop I managed to play 4k hevc dolby atmos 5.1 movie streaming from my jellyfin server at my parents house using kodi-gbm and it worked flawlessly! I couldn't do the same with mpv yet. I hope this helps ppl with this ancient (2017) sbc.

I also upgraded from bookworm to trixie and saw this warning. I can confirm that Igor's suggested workaround addresses it: wget https://apt.armbian.com/armbian.key gpg --dearmor < armbian.key | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg > /dev/null apt is now happy with the armbian repo.

I flashed same image to a SD card and tried to boot from it. Following is the result of `grep mmcblk1p2 /var/log/syslog` 2025-09-17T09:52:44.015489+00:00 rock-5-itx armbian-resize-filesystem[947]: ### [resize2fs] Trying to resize ext4 filesystem on /dev/mmcblk1p2: 2025-09-17T09:52:44.015493+00:00 rock-5-itx armbian-resize-filesystem[947]: Running 'resize2fs /dev/mmcblk1p2' now... 2025-09-17T09:52:44.015508+00:00 rock-5-itx armbian-resize-filesystem[947]: Filesystem at /dev/mmcblk1p2 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required 2025-09-17T09:52:44.021891+00:00 rock-5-itx kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Quota mode: none. 2025-09-17T09:52:44.021891+00:00 rock-5-itx kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): unmounting filesystem. 2025-09-17T09:52:44.021893+00:00 rock-5-itx kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Quota mode: none. I will try booting from a different medium and running `fsck mmcblk1p2` too.

Sorry, it's working now.

Hi, In the documentation (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/#user-provided-kernel-config) it says: "User provided kernel config: If the file userpatches/linux-$LINUXFAMILY-$BRANCH.config exists, it will be used instead of the default one from config." Is there a way to define only the desired changes to the kernel parameters?

@SteeMan That is actually a good question, to which I do not have the answer. Here's a picture of the chip itself: I have not been able to find any information on that particular chip, so it may as well be nand...

this can easily be answered with a quick web search or AI request for "disadvantage of LPAE on armhf". As expected, one of the drawbacks is increased use of memory when the benefit of larger addressable memory applies only to few installations and in a limited way.

Certainly worth a look. It is also probably worth comparing the Armbian commit from when I last had it working until now, but it will need to be when I have a bit more time, and me remembering just when I first started seeing these issues.

Hi pcduino2user, glad you are finding it useful. Maybe CMA Buffer size needs to be lowered during the kernel, which actually appears to get ignore anyway once the board has fully booted and replaced with 96mb based on the reserve memory node within the A10 DTSI. This is definitely needed if trying to run a desktop although I wouldn't recommend running a desktop on the Pcduino2. There are still some minor issues that I would like to address in future but I don't have as much time as I used to. For example the pcduino2 is actually booting from the Pcduino1 DTS although this problem is more cosmetic than functional. Both the Pcduino1 and Pcduino2 share the same uboot defconfig file but the Pcduino2 has a USB2 VBUS pin defined within its DTS and physically connected on the PCB. This is normally pulled high by a resistor so does not cause any problems with USB power being enabled. The build framework allows us to configure the kernel but there must be a way to customize uboot more dynamically as well? Now certain Armbian board configuration files appear to contain configuration data for adjusting the dram speed as can be found in the cubieboard.csc so I wonder if a similar setup in the pcduino2 configuration file to override the default device tree property to use sun4i-a10-pcduino2.dts instead of sun4i-pcduino.dts. Given the closeness of hardware it does not seem worth creating a separate defconfig file. Ryzer

Hi @Nick A, the armbian in afiftyp board just see 2GB to, at least it was this way in 2024 when he sent me his boot log. My board is very similar to afiftyp board, except of a number near the QC sticker, that looks like a version number. afiftyp number is 2336 and the mine is 2333. The amout of memory chips is identical to (8 chips), but tha labels is a litle different, but I cant found the label meaning. I use your image since very old one, so I don't think it is about u-boot update, but I could try an older one. About Secure Boot, A patch that you give me solved it and it isn't a problem any more (thanks again for it). @afiftyp, if I'm wrong and you already solve your rom amount in armbian, please let us know and if you could, explain us what you did to solve it, thanks.

Something like git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git -b main cd build git remote add -f imx8mp-build https://github.com/OLIMEX/imx8mp-build.git git remote update git fetch origin git fetch imx8mp-build git checkout main git rebase imx8mp-build/bookworm # fix conflict vi VERSION git add VERSION git rebase --continue # fix conflict vi .github/dependabot.yml git add .github/dependabot.yml git rebase --continue git log

@Dann https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/Noble_vendor_gnome verifies fine for me. Try https://netcup-03.armbian.com/dl/rock-5b-plus/archive/Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz and https://netcup-03.armbian.com/dl/rock-5b-plus/archive/Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz.sha

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@remolaan "...Hey i have a SDMC DV8040 stb ,SoC-Amlogic S805X,CPU-Quad-core 1.2 GHz,GPU-ARM Mali-450,RAM-1GB,Storage-8GB it currently runs custom made android 9..." Please @remolaan, could you send me a working download link for the custom Android 9 system you made?

Armbian 25.8.1 Noble XFCE (mainline Kernel: 6.16.6-edge-rockchip64) + PanVk - mesa 23.0 (https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco) + box64 3.7 (https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/) + wine-10.15-staging-tkg-ntsync-amd64-wow64 (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/tag/10.15) + DXVK-stripped v2.7.1 ~60fps@720p Hades