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Share your DTS. It is the most challenging part of this. We can customize, based on SBC model.

@robertoj Yes, yesterday I installed ffmpeg package from jok's repository and tested mp4,webm videos through mpv/smplayer/vlc or even chromium at 1080p@30 smoothly. (@60 stuttering) It's great for software decoding. Now all I need is to watch youtube smoothly on chromium at 1080p. From what I've seen in the comments on the forums, it seems like chromium needs to be new compiled with v4l2 patch and the kernel needs to support it. This is where it gets really difficult for me.

@Sergey Lepeshkin i also note that the picture of the tv boxhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etPmH8ZG4UtPHI3Vf1U9MUHl5_gK_s-E are from diffrent boxes, but the reflash_from_backup.jpg is probalby mine. But i can't access the recovery menu, is there any way?

@Sergey LepeshkinThank you! You made me feel better, i will flash your modified .zip file since i saw 2 partitions on the file manager, that's why Also, i don't have a uart connector and soldering skills, so is running armbian on my atv box impossible???

@Gian Luca On Wayland, you can install the "gnome-remote-desktop" package to enable remote. However, I don't recommend it because it has an issue where the audio is lost after a remote session and reboot (which I don't know how to fix).

@nom What do you mean? Armbian Edge with the mainline kernel and PanVk is working properly.

@0jay the work I've done on the firmware is here: https://github.com/bschnei/ebu-bootloader. Looks like MOCHAbin is an Marvell Armada 88F7040. I believe with the correct changes to configuration, you can build firmware with my scripts. There is another user here with ESPRESSObin v7 and v5 devices that may try to build firmware using my scripts as well:

To build for other devices, you need to figure out the correct configuration and adjust these values accordingly: https://github.com/bschnei/ebu-bootloader/blob/main/Makefile#L15-L19 Reference for configuration options is here: https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plat/marvell/armada/build.html So for V7 you probably want DDR_TOPOLOGY of 5 or 6 depending on RAM size; for V5 a value of 2. You'll have to look up your defconfig in u-boot. It's probably this one: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/configs/mvebu_espressobin-88f3720_defconfig but note that I have added an ultra variant here: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/configs/mvebu_espressobin_ultra-88f3720_defconfig which has settings required to provide HWRNG to the kernel at boot. So you may way want to start with the default if it is known to work and experiment with your own configuration file. You know how to test an image without flashing it to SPINOR, right? I have a guide at my repo above. Regarding Armbian and device support in general, there is another thread here where I had some back and forth a while back:

I am having the same issue on Nanopi Neo Air and uname -r 6.12.51-current-sunxi I can't find a solution. I can also as @mue473 mentioned see that prebuild kernel modules: readelf -r netlink_diag.ko | grep cleanup 00000000 00003402 R_ARM_ABS32 00000001 cleanup_module 000002d4 00003402 R_ARM_ABS32 00000001 cleanup_module while my own has readelf -r testm.ko | grep cleanup 00000000 00004902 R_ARM_ABS32 00000001 cleanup_module 000002c4 00004902 R_ARM_ABS32 00000001 cleanup_module I have no idea though if this matters at all. Does anyone know?

Installing 'wireguard' caused lots of problems, but wireguard-tools works after restart.

Hi all, I just installed Armbian Linux v6.12 with OpenMediaVault (build date 2025/09/23) on a Odroid HC4. When I try to use apt update I get these errors Get:1 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives InRelease Ign:1 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives InRelease Get:2 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Release Ign:2 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Release Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Err:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Method gave a blank filename Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Err:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Method gave a blank filename Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Err:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Method gave a blank filename Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Err:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Method gave a blank filename Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Err:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Method gave a blank filename Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Err:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Method gave a blank filename Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages Is this expected and related to Armbian setup or should I ask on OMV forum?

Strange thing is that on Armbian Trixie (arm64), if I do 'apt install wireguard', I get as dependencies: linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 linux-image-rt-arm64 wireguard-tools On vanilla Debian Tixie (arm64), only wireguard-tools Even if I remove/disable all armbian sources, same problem. Anyway the fix/cleanup that works for me (RK3588 platform): apt purge linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 linux-image-rt-arm64 apt-mark manual wireguard-tools

@Ducdanh Nguyen, I don't understand how you could use electrical (insulation?) tape to connect to test points... Nevertheless, all you need is a good electrical contact between wires and test points. Means has no matter. Beware: signal levels is 3.3V. Do not connect directly to RS232 interface! What about flashing my modified update.zip - don't worry. It doesn't alter partition table, bootloader and backup partition. If something goes wrong, or you just want original firmware back - just connect power while holding button near "A/V" jack. This will start reflashing using your original update.zip, located in backup partition. If you want to extract your original update.zip from backup partition, simplest way to do this is using uart. Connect uart to pc, boot tv box normally, open serial port on pc (115200/8/n/1), issue 'su' command, mount /backup and copy /backup/update.zip anywhere you want. About laptop - I don't understand, how it's related to this discussion... If you want to compile armbian using it - go ahead. It doesn't matter what cpu architecture or type of memory it uses. All you need is correct toolchain, which suits our tv box SoC.

merged. forum tag added.

I think I messed something up in the system, maybe with the repositories, but I get this message when updating... apt update Stary:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Stary:2 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease Stary:3 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bookworm InRelease Stary:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease Stary:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease Stary:6 https://dtcooper.github.io/raspotify raspotify InRelease Stary:7 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Stary:8 http://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/beta bookworm InRelease Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe Budowanie drzewa zależności... Gotowe Odczyt informacji o stanie... Gotowe 1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it. root@orangepi3-lts:~# apt list --upgradable Listing... Gotowe armbian-bsp-cli-orangepi3-lts-current/bookworm 25.11.0-trunk.401 arm64 [upgradable from: 25.8.0-trunk.49] N: There is 1 additional version. Please use the '-a' switch to see it root@orangepi3-lts:~# apt list --upgradable -a Listing... Gotowe armbian-bsp-cli-orangepi3-lts-current/bookworm 25.11.0-trunk.401 arm64 [upgradable from: 25.8.0-trunk.49] armbian-bsp-cli-orangepi3-lts-current/now 25.8.0-trunk.49 arm64 [installed,upgradable to: 25.11.0-trunk.401] maybe someone has already dealt with this message and error?

Armbian Version: 6.12.56-current-rockchip64 TV Box: I have same board that is mentioned at this post. Issue: using the .dts mentioned in the above link I am able to see the clock with blinking separator. However I am not seeing the disk activity or LAN connections icon. If I am using devicetree changed to rk1188-box-led-conf-5, I can see the disk blinking icon and LAN connection, however the clock is not visible. Is there anyway I can get the clock as well the icons? Can you share the steps or the post that has the solution to this?

Good to hear that it worked for you 👍. The PR on Github seems to be on a good way, so "official" support might be there soon...

There is no need to install "wireguard" as all Armbian images come with this kernel module by default. All you need is the userspace tools (if not installed already) from "wireguard-tools". If necessary try installing with "--no-install-recommends".

I have a raspberry pi running "Armbian 25.11.0-trunk.38 trixie" - I want to use this as a gateway, including running wireguard. When I install 'wireguard' and 'wireguard-tools' I receive this error: ``` Summary: Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 2 2 not fully installed or removed. Space needed: 0 B / 27.9 GB available Setting up linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 (6.12.48-1) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 WARNING: Unsupported initramfs version (6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64) - skipping setup NOTE: Manual boot configuration may be required /etc/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware: WARNING: Unsupported kernel version (6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64) - skipping setup NOTE: Manual boot configuration may be required /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zzz-copy-new-files: cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64//overlays': No such file or directory run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zzz-copy-new-files exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 (--configure): installed linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-rt-arm64: linux-image-rt-arm64 depends on linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 (= 6.12.48-1); however: Package linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package linux-image-rt-arm64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 linux-image-rt-arm64 ``` It looks like the linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 (6.12.48-1 package is trying to install an overlay in '/usr/lib/linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64//overlays' but that directory does not exist. The description of this package says: "This package depends on the latest Linux kernel and modules for use on 64-bit ARMv8 machines. " ``` ic linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-rt-arm64 6.12.48-1 arm64 Linux 6.12 for 64-bit ARMv8 machines (signed), PREEMPT_RT ii linux-image-current-bcm2711 25.8.2 arm64 Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.12.56-current-bcm2711 rc linux-image-rt-arm64 6.12.48-1 arm64 Linux for 64-bit ARMv8 machines (meta-package) ``` Any suggestions on how to resolve this? fastfetch output:

I just wanted to thank @Jojo for the hints and guidance - it works, my Armbian was directly installed onto my eMMC and booted right away, all seems to be working fine, I can move forward with my project. Really appreciated!

When I first flashed your latest image, the USB2 port did not work, only the blue port works. I then applied this overlay and after rebooting it now works. USB3 speed is still not functional. rk3528-x88pro13-usb2ndhost.dts rk3528-x88pro13-usb2ndhost.dtbo

@Sergey Lepeshkin from the messages, i bought it online and the seller i know him since i bought wires from the shop. I couldnt contact the seller to provide the rom and i think they dont know since they most resell them. Also is it safe to install that file on my box?? Im scared that is going thr brick the box

@Sergey Lepeshkin HOLYthat was the same color, same board layout i think mine is the same as you Btw im busy from school and my phone broke, it was a long time since… Also im not really into soldering can i use a electrical tape instead?? Edit : i have checked the modified version of the file, and the os, all the malwares are on my box i think we have the same box. I have a good specs laptop from 2018, it runs well and i can compile the image, the problem is the memory settings since i think we dont have the same ra, chips accord to the 2 years difference of the ram chip on my board

I got interested after reading this thread and ordered an X96Q from AliExpress. The board is marked as V5.1, so I thought it would be straightforward, but after two days of trying, no matter which image I use, it always boots into Android. I tried UART communication, but nothing appeared. I even applied the secure boot patch and built it, just in case, but it still wouldn’t boot. How can I get this machine to boot from an SD card? I’m attaching photos of my board and the extracted DTS for reference. dtb.0.dts

I found a TX box X96 Mini with rk3228 chip and I try to boot with multitool but it is stuck with a red ligh. I try multitool and multitool2, with no success, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong ? Thank you The multitool i used are from here i used balena etcher to burn the image I also try to short pins on eMMc (around 45 times...) but nothing works from me. Now i order a male-male cable on amazon. edit: added front/left photos