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Have solved another todo: grab overlay *.dtbo from Ky/Xunlong. There is still some quirks with SD/TF read/write speed (UHS / 1.8v mode). Also applied for Armbian maintainership on orangepirv2 in advance. Had some experiments with that M.2 to PCIe adapter I recently got. That oversized thing is an older Radeon with an Opi RV2 mounted on top. That does not work (no, card is so old it does not require extra 12V). Second image is a even older Nividia Geforce, That one shows up with "lspci" but does not work b/c no RiscV drivers (that's expected). Next ist an TP-Link / Aquantic 10 GbE Ethernet card. That one works, even without that extra power supply from the PC next to it. Not sure, if the Spacemit CPU can handle the ten gigs... Last image: the 2280-to-PCIe adapter with the eternal SATA power feed cable. LG // Sven-Ola

Hi everyone, and sorry for my poor English. I'd like to enable PWM on my CM3588 nanoPC with the latest Armbian Trixie version. Can anyone who's managed to get the PWM working properly tell me which pin to connect the PWM signal to and what exactly to do to enable it? Thanks to anyone who replies.

Thank you Pearo, What does "S/N" mean? I just ended up using my orange pi zero 3 gpio without the additional DTS, which made connector numbering available in the gpioinfo command... There were comments that made it sound not really necessary, and it was more work than I wanted to take on. The solution for me was: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/33800-orange-pi-zero-3-gpio/#findComment-181191 This was 2 years ago, and I haven't even thought about it, all this time.

I really hope that Orange Pi engineers learn to make Armbian patches, enter the community and give funding accordingly

Hallo, in want to start with odroid n2+ to organize a PV System with smart-power-meter(s) ... To reduce th amount of components I want to use min. 2x UART's from the odroid (without using the console port) + RS485 Transceiver(s) ... I understand that your dtbo file add support for the Uart's of the 40 pin Socket ! ? After upgrading to linux kernel-6.18.5 i need such a dtbs / dtb0 file... Where can I download these files atually ? Bye

How best to do that? I've been treating systemd like a rattlesnake which I've seen in record breaking size, 7 feet long and the size of my calf. I was about 6, my stepfather was farming, had come in for lunch, opened the door to go back out and plow, slammed the door, reached over it for a cheap busted shotgun and a shell. reopened the door and took the head off it. 85 years ago. I haven't had a whole lot of use for a rattlesnake since although I've seen hundreds. Blacksnakes OTOH are goodfellows. They keep the rodents away by eating them.

After applying the following two kernel patches which I understand are valid for mainline kernel only, I can use the display properly with a resolution 3440x1440 and refresh rate of 60Hz: patchwork.kernel.org [RFC,v1] drm/meson: venc: add support for HDMI DMT modes up to 3840x2160 -... github.com/chewitt/linux WIP: drm/meson: add support for higher bandwidth DMT modes committed Jan 5, 2026 xdarklight +3 -3 There's a report from a user with a DELL U3415W monitor and a Khadas VIM3 statin… - But having both patches applied or not does not matter, in general with mainline kernel the display is flickering/shaking only during boot, any idea how to get this addressed? thx

I've read that page and I can't seem to get it working with the image both jock and Victor Picinin recommended yet it doesn't boot off the eMMC nor the SD. I'm at the end of my rope!

I have burned the image "Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q-ddr3_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_server.img.xz" using Balena Etcher to an SD card, then put it in the box and the light is blue, but the screen is black. please help, thank you this is a photo of the board I used

Actually not really strange but a measure for spam prevention.

Hi, does this version of the S805 have HDMI and Wi-Fi? Could you explain more about this backup? Thank you.

So.... I am the winner of a Inovato Quadra4K from a drawing at my amateur radio club meeting. Yeah! Cool! It runs a software called HamClock automagically.... BUT WAIT! There is MORE! You can exit that app and run other applications... Providing you have a mouse & keyboard (because I am a native WinWeenie) or keyboard if you are a Linux forever personage. It also has a wireless interface that I would like to configure so it doesn't have to have an Ethernet tail tied to a port on our ISP router. I would rather it was mounted to a HDMI TV or monitor. So, I need the keyboard (and because I am a longtime WinWeenie and rodent dependent) mouse to reconfigure it. I would like to have it use a USB Logitech Unifier Nano dongle with wireless keyboard/mouse. By the way, the brilliant man that came up with this computer is trudging the same path I am, fighting cancer. His fight has gotten so tough he has shut down his company. I hope he gets better. Is there already a compiled binary for this with directions,,. or do I have to master the dark arts of programming routines, subroutines, interrupts, memory fetches, writes, threads and all that then compile it into something the machine understands? Please understand I didn't even take typing in high school, so college was a real bear.... When I was in high school Jobs and Wozniak were still dumpster diving behind Xerox-Park Corporation and Radio Shack. Any takers on this one? Thanks in advance, Dave, The-Other-One

Hi, I learnt how to customize the image, and also found a simpler way to achieve the bootstrapping alsaloop. Here is the forked repository and a pre-built image for you to try. Supposedly, you just need to flash the image, and it should work out of the box. As the radxa zero 3w does not have the Ethernet port, so you will not accenditally connect it to some networking, I think it is fine to leave the root password as the default. However, if you plan to connect the device to some networking, remember to set up the root password. The Wifi is also working with the latest kernel release (my wifi module is broken, but I do see dmesg is trying to interact with that module).

Hi, how are you? Well, I don't know English very well, so this text will be translated using Google Translate since I'm Brazilian. Anyway. I found a way to boot the SD card with Linux on the Allwinner H3 chip, using a Chinese MXQ 4K 5G TV box. I booted Android normally and, using the remote control, pressed the power button and then confirmed. After shutting down, I booted with the remote control and Linux started normally. After that, every time I booted with the SD card, it booted perfectly. Another thing I did before, but I believe it doesn't affect this, was to enable USB0 device mode in developer mode. I hope this information helps with your Linux projects!

your sbc has only 100mbit nic

@jockNow, I've finally solved this problem. Successfully flashed the latest version of armbian, https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.151/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Rk3318-box_noble_current_6.12.63_gnome_ desktop.img.xz Next, I will share my problem-solving journey. I found that I couldn't enter maskrom/loader mode anyway, and when I accidentally inserted the USB flash drive into the multitool.img into the TV box and powered it directly on, I found that it actually started the system directly in the USB flash drive. So I guess that it may have changed the boot order after flashing the loader.bin before, and the armbian system I flashed in before it continued to toss before it could be configured, probably because the system files of the root partition were corrupted, causing it to not boot normally. Therefore, I simply tried to flash the firmware of the rk3188-box in the official community directly into the USB flash drive, because after these images are flashed into the USB flash drive, there is only the root partition, that is, the system. And there is no boot partition. I guess the boot partition may have been written somewhere else, and I don't need to worry about it anymore. So, I plugged the USB flash drive into the latest rk3318 firmware into the box and waited for a few minutes after powering on it directly and starting it, it obtained the IP address assigned by my router DHCP, I was so excited, I quickly connected to the rk3318-box through SSH, and made the preliminary configuration. Quickly enter the command armbian-install and select item 2, and immediately write the system on the USB flash drive to emmc. After the writing is completed, turn it off, unplug the USB flash drive, power on, wait for a few minutes, and the startup is successful. It means that I have successfully flashed the phone this time. Thank you very much for your help. @jockand @fabiobassa, You're passionate and highly skilled.

I found the reason. (Different function of Pin 100) cm5-io: PCIe_PWR_EN rpi-cm4-io: nEXTRST used for USB hub reset With rpi-cm4-io and no pcie device, linux sets PCIe_PWR_EN=0 (turn off pcie) But rpi-cm4-io thinks that nEXTRST=0 (always reset usb hub) The temporary solution is: For the pause of compile, please turn on kernel config When kernel config appears, sudo vi ./cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree/6.1__rk35xx__arm64/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3576-armsom-cm5-rpi-cm4-io.dts Add the following fix in order to always turn on pcie vcc3v3_pcie0: vcc3v3-pcie0 { ... regulator-boot-on; regulator-always-on; enable-active-high; ... }; Because "sudo apt dist-upgrade" overwrites .dtb, make sure backup and restore. I do not know how the .dts is generated, so the patch can be made by an expert of Armbian.

To be honest I don't know how to do this and even more I am not sure in correctness of of my code in term of conventions. I mean that for example I add #define-s with names ES8388_xxx to header file ES8228 and so on.

URGENT: Kernel update already applied, bootloader points to 6.12.58! Current state: - Running: 6.12.44 - Boot configured for: 6.12.58 (symlinks updated) - usr-merge still broken (duplicate files in /bin, /sbin) Questions: 1. Should I revert boot symlinks to 6.12.44 immediately? 2. ODROID HC4 specific: Which file actually boots (Image vs vmlinuz)? 3. Will 6.12.58 boot with broken usr-merge? 4. Emergency procedure if forced to reboot? NOTE: I'm NOT taking any action until getting community advice.

The boot partition presence doesn't depend directly on the Armbian version—it's determined by the board configuration. Some configs enable an extra boot partition, especially for boards using older U-Boot versions that can't boot directly from ext4. As a result, even for the same board and Armbian version, different branches (e.g., legacy, vendor, current, edge) may behave differently. Vendor branch might use an old BSP U-Boot requiring the extra partition while mainline branch uses newer U-Boot that boots straight from ext4.

Armbian 25.11.2 Noble XFCE (BSP Kernel: 6.1.115) + PanVk - mesa 26.0 (https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco) + Box64 arm64 v0.4.1 2eb2fd9cd (https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/) + proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64 (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/download/proton-10.0-3/wine-proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64.tar.xz) + dgVoodoo2 (https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases) + DXVK-stripped v2.4.1 30~60fps@720p (medium settings) box64 environment variables: Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY

I've never used any other method. I'd suggest using a search engine to search for other methods to "enable multi boot on amlogic TV box"

Hi @ff255, Can you try with the following changes/additions to armbianEnv.txt: # previous load addresses # fdt_addr_r=0x01f00000 # kernel_addr_r=0x02000000 # ramdisk_addr_r=0x04000000 # new load addresses fdt_addr_r=0x01f00000 kernel_addr_r=0x02000000 ramdisk_addr_r=0x04400000 # new kernel_addr_r is aligned to 2MiB boundary # new ramdisk_addr_r is aligned to 2MiB boundary - not really neccessary afaik but "why not both?" Quick calculation below: edit: updated the sheet and put the correct numbers here Groetjes,

Heya, Of interest to anyone encountering the 2025 AIC8800 WiFi and Bluetooth hardware, and who is using Buildroot; this is the package that builds and installs everything into a Home Assistant image. Of academic interest in the present discussion also, offering minor suggestions in dts and service file. The build process may be portable? 👽 aic8800.zip