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Thank you very much @c0rnelius, using your image and (for France) I'm almost good. The only errors in the dmesg are the HDMI audio errors but it works... However loading GPU overlay or not, I have a problem decoding videos. To reproduce: - download this mp4 video test file (https://www.sample-videos.com/video321/mp4/720/big_buck_bunny_720p_30mb.mp4) ) open in chromium, make it full-screen. Denis

I didn't have that much time to look at my Orange Pi board. On work, i have to deal with similar issues, but regarding another Soc (imx8mp with vivante GPU). But on work i have support from other people / offices. Meanwhile the grafik looks like to work, but also with lot of kernel patches and fixing involved (we have a yocto based build, and even Qt is somehow patched to work with our yocto base, wtf) on my orange pi board testet out some kernels. tried the official debian / ubuntu kernels (from orangepi.org) the version 5.10 kernels versions are booting (from sd) but no Grafik support ... the version 6.1.43 kernels are not even booting .... wtf 😞 i tried a SPI flushing, no change the armbian Kernels are booting !!! yay ! but : Armbian 25.5.1 with 6.1.115 (vendor kernel) looks like it has gpu support ! yay ! at least glxinfo shows the gpu string 🙂 but no emmc support 😞 even with booting from sd the kernel does not find /dev/mmcblk0 (mmcblk1 is detected as the sd card) 😞 Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.12: it detects the emmc, so booth /dev/mmcblk0 and /dev/mmcblk1 are present, yay ! 🙂 but no grafik card support 😞 what do Im missing ? on the newer kernel Im need the device tree overlay for panthor (gpu_panthor) right? But didnt manage to get the gpu up ... mesa always fail to create the context and than switching back to the software renderer (regarding glxinfo logs) So im stuck atm .... and yes, its frustrating!

@mantouboji recently there was a substantial change to the build flags for the entire sunxi64 platform in this PR: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8368 Looking at the diff (https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8368/files#diff-003c7426ff865cb4e5d2d17e324129fe9de266da1f83a11e290670929e55036dL1105-L1106), it seems PPS client (whatever that is, sorry, not familiar with it) flags have been removed. Maybe this can help you raise an appropriate "bring this back" issue.

Hi all, Sorry for such a kiddy question but I couldn’t find the answer. I have a bit another device than expected. I have Banana Pi 3 device with Armbian-bpi-SpacemiT 24.5.0-trunk Noble and i'm trying to install a new kernel to it. I've installed linux-allwinner kernel 6.8.0-60.63.1 and all the stuff with it. linux-allwinner/noble-security,noble-updates,now 6.8.0-60.63.1 riscv64 [installed] linux-headers-allwinner/noble-security,noble-updates,now 6.8.0-60.63.1 riscv64 [installed,automatic] linux-image-allwinner/noble-security,noble-updates,now 6.8.0-60.63.1 riscv64 [installed,automatic] linux-tools-allwinner/noble-security,noble-updates,now 6.8.0-60.63.1 riscv64 [installed] And current boot kernel looks like ``` # mkimage -l /boot/Image FIT description: Linux 6.1.15-legacy-k1 Created: Wed May 1 17:17:59 2024 Image 0 (kernel) Description: Linux 6.1.15-legacy-k1 Created: Wed May 1 17:17:59 2024 Type: Kernel Image Compression: uncompressed Data Size: 32397312 Bytes = 31638.00 KiB = 30.90 MiB Architecture: RISC-V OS: Linux Load Address: 0x01400000 Entry Point: 0x01400000 Hash algo: crc32 Hash value: f571b82e Default Configuration: 'conf-default' Configuration 0 (conf-default) Description: Generic Linux kernel Kernel: kernel ``` The question is - How to make from vmlinuz-6.8.0-60-generic a kernel with the same format like above ? When I try to make it like this `mkimage -A riscv -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x01400000 -e 0x01400000 -d /boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-60-generic /tmp/Image` I have another kernel format. ``` Created: Fri Jul 18 15:49:58 2025 Image Type: RISC-V Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 38608384 Bytes = 37703.50 KiB = 36.82 MiB Load Address: 01400000 Entry Point: 01400000 ```

I don't think that there was an intentional removal. Feel free to re-enable, test and send a PR.

Who in charge of the SUNXI64 edge kernel config ? Why removed all PPS device support in 6.15.4 kernel?

I see. The logs show that you have setup armbianEnv.txt to boot from a filesystem that the later logs show is an EXT4 filesystem, located on the first partition of first namespace of the first found NVMe device. The logs do not show any blockdevice for mmc1 (which appears to be the driver linked to the SD card). No logging usually means that there is no device detected. Do note that things will indeed not be simple if you change your setup after gathering diagnostics logs. People are willing to help, but correct diagnostics information is needed for people to actually help you. Grt,

@djurny No, its not a simple as that, its acutally not on the install on NVMe anymore.

I got a radxa rock 5t and trying to install armbian(https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5t), arimbian NOT boot and I can see the indicator light on the board is showing a steady green light. I boot with the official image https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/rock5t/low-level-dev/maskrom/linux and insert the sd card(with armbian img), and run such command, then I can boot armbian from SD card sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=working_idbloader.img bs=512 skip=64 count=8000 sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=working_u-boot.itb bs=512 skip=16384 count=8000 sudo dd if=working_idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 seek=64 conv=notrunc sudo dd if=working_u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 seek=16384 conv=notrunc BTW, it seems there's no rock-5t tag, so I selected the 5b one

moved to off-topic since not about Armbian but 3rd party img.

expected. HDMI or hw support in general in 6.12.y is very basic and I am often impressed that hdmi actually works on some boards with this kernel. tl;dr: use vendor or edge kernels If need stuff running. current won't receive any further feature updates but security fixed only.

Hi, I have a few sbcs live while most are laying on the shelf waiting for tests. I have a PiHole on an Orangepi One Plus. On a ROC RK3399 PC PLUS I have paperless-ngx running in Docker. On an OPi5 Plus I have Invidious, yourspotify and something else I frequently forget about. Most likely something from similar importance

Hi @AaronNGray, Did you check if there is indeed an SD card inserted? If so, try to remove it then re-insert it while the system has booted. Also, seems that you have an NVMe storage device attached, on which the OS was installed - not the SD card as you mentioned? As @laibsch mentioned, the eMMC is detected and available as /dev/mmcblk0, but seems that SD card is not seen (if it was inserted). Grt,

I downloaded Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopi-r6s_trixie_current_6.12.32_minimal.img.xz and used unxz to uncompress it. Then I wrote it to a flash drive using: sudo dd if=Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopi-r6s_trixie_current_6.12.32_minimal.img of=/dev/rdisk4 bs=4194304 status=progress sync When I put the SD card in the slot, the heartbeat LED runs, the keyboard initializes, the LED light for the connected LAN lights green, but I get nothing on the monitor (HDMI). The SD cards are amazon basics 64GB Class 10 U3 A2 cards. I tried two different cards and got the same results. I just tried Debian from FriendlyElec, and that worked using the same cards and method, and that worked. Is there a trick to getting these images to work? I'd much prefer to be on the mainline kernel with Trixie (which I know will be released soon). Please advise.

First test was in a CLI environment so running fullscreen. Self built with no media related changes to the configuration. Edge build around kernel 6.15.0 and running on Pcduino2 For the second test I used the build scripts to create a desktop image which came to be less of a headache because less dependencies had to resolved than working purely with CLI only. This was built around kernel 6.15.4 and running on Pcduino3. This time got a blue screen within the window and lots of errors relating to dmabuf. test2.txt I currently have CMA set to 64mb, although this is overridden by the shared-dma-pool within the sun7i-a20.dtsi

Hi all, I discovered this distro through FriendlyElec and I think it is the perfect hybrid of deb and wrt, but the only image is a file system, it doesn't even boot. All FriendlyElec's official ones are from 8 partitions with: boot, rootfs, kernel, etc, this one has everything in one and I don't think it's good for a mini device that runs in blocks like any openwrt. Has anyone installed on the r5c? How, is there a clean way to recreate the partitions? (note on boot: I turned on with sd and mask calc, steady red light, and eth mail router doesn't see it either. With friendlywrt and bullseye everything was working) Edit light blinks, I was confused between usbimager, balena, winimager and I had put an empty sd when hoprovided rufus. But it remains that it doesn't go to dhcp, and the doubt about the blocks (maybe it creates them at installation). Edit: Not dhcp matter, eth don't see any link. There's a best way to image sd? (Initial question) Solved: if you want, delete the topic but take it as a recommendation for the installation guide. Extracting the archive.xz from explorer in windows 11 24h2 the content corrupts and win32diskimager (recommended by FriendlyElec) or usbimager (recommended by you), doesn't notice it, balenaetcher instead warned, so I tried to give it the archive.xz, it extracted it by itself and started. Thanks anyway for creating it, but warn about using balenaetcher on archive.xz to windows users, and delete the topic. Greetings! Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Hi @C127, any progress on the DTS?

Probably worth a shot - I had an install one time that gave me fits at initial boot. For giggles I expanded the FS using Gparted in linux to fill the entire card. It solved that problem for me.

Hi Armbian folks, I’m new to the forum and joined today (07:42 PM CEST, July 20, 2025). I’ve recently started playing around with single-board computers, like an Orange Pi 5 I set up with Armbian a while back—it’s been a fun challenge! I’m based in Poland and enjoy tinkering with tech in my spare time. I’d love to hear what brings you all here—any cool hobbies or projects you’re working on? I’m thinking of trying something simple like a media server or smart home setup, but I’m open to ideas. What do you enjoy doing with your SBCs or other gear? Looking forward to chatting with you!

Thanks! My opi zero 2w was intermittently crashing, I think I bumped a component off soldering the pin header on, so I am going to get a new one and see if it does any better. Will update in a few days once it arrives.

@psygnosis Do you have any heat sink or other cooling on your orangepione? Is your environment hot? At idle (480MHz) your machine is running quite hot, over 55 deg. The idle cpu speed is the minimum that the os can manage and so the os it doing the best it can.

Ok, thank you! I've made an issue on github: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/8403

We might lost WSL2 compatibility, which is experimental ... I tried same command on my Ubuntu Noble bare metal ... and it works as expected. I suggest you to use some VM to complete what you want to achieve and open a bug at https://github.com/armbian/build so this gets eventually fixed.

You will have to uninstall the upstream wireguard as that will remove the dependancy on the non-armbian kernel.

Well, since it is already installed and working as expected, besides this issue of the my post above, what are my options? What could I do to fix this?