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I am unable to get any RTC installed on a C2 with current Armbian. i2cdetect sees the device ID but no joy getting anything to talk to it. Yes, I know these are very old but they were donated to a non-profit and I am trying to help set them up for a project. Current Armbian runs great and perfect for our need. I need an RTC. I have tried both the Odroid PCF8563 (0x51 seen) and DS3231. I have tried all the online blog posts, rebuilt the Device Tree, etc. but can't seem to get things to work. Any pointers would be much appreciate. LInux odroidc2 6.12.56-current-meson64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed. Oct 29 13:09:02 UTC 2025 Thanks, Scott

I have tried to download at least 3 times this image: Armbian_25.8.1_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz All sha256sum verified Ok. And wrote 5 times on 3 different SDCards, and this img does not boot on my OPI-5-Plus. No image on monitor, partition armbi_root not expanded, no green lights... Just unusable (for me). Other img's that boot are OK: Deb-xfce, noble-cinnamon, noble-neon... Someone got success with this img??? I'm looking for a distro that works well on OPI5-Plus, well configured, and that works with HDMI audio. The best for now is Noble-Cinnamon but failed to setup Menu button, and I cant find support until now to solve this issue. Thanks, Cury

I see on the mint website that there is nothing mentioned about Arm64, so consider mint as 'stay away' if you use Arm64. You have to do it yourself, so I would go for the most integrated solution. Mint is good for x86, because Ubuntu kernel an various proprietary HW, but that is all not the case for an OPi5+. I would take Debian as base and put Cinnamon on it. You can do it yourself by running 'sudo tasksel' or you put EDK2-UEFI v1.1 firmware on the OPi5+ and use https://dl.armbian.com/uefi-arm64/Trixie_current_cinnamon The missing start button might be complicated to fix, it can be due to some tiny error somewhere when you did setup the computer. Maybe a second try it will work, but maybe it is a real bug. I have only ran Cinnamon once for test for 15 minutes or so, it worked, but I use KDE normally, so have no clue where to look to fix it.

My post on Mint Forum was rejected: Somebody knows were Can I get support for Cinnamon on Armbian distros???

Hi all, I decided to revive my old rk3229 board with NAND. Could someone please tell me how to unbrick it?

Just an information about the `edge` kernel (6.18) when used on the cm3588-nas system. The rtc driver is not initialized on a `poweron`. After a poweron, you will see the following in the log. Nov 11 01:17:10 uhutest kernel: rtc-hym8563 6-0051: could not init device, -6 Nov 11 01:17:10 uhutest systemd[1]: System time advanced to built-in epoch: Tue 2025-11-11 01:17:09 CET If you have `fake-hwclock` running, you will see the following a moment later. fake-hwclock restores the time, but the service will not properly start, because of the rtc device error. Nov 11 01:17:12 uhutest fake-hwclock.sh[461]: Restoring saved system time Nov 20 13:22:43 uhutest fake-hwclock.sh[466]: Thu Nov 20 01:22:43 PM CET 2025 Nov 20 13:22:43 uhutest fake-hwclock.sh[468]: hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. Nov 20 13:22:43 uhutest fake-hwclock.sh[468]: hwclock: Use the --verbose option to see the details of our search for an access method. Nov 20 13:22:43 uhutest systemd[1]: fake-hwclock.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 20 13:22:43 uhutest systemd[1]: fake-hwclock.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 20 13:22:43 uhutest systemd[1]: Failed to start Restore system time on boot and save it on shutdown. You would need to restart the fake-hwclock service, if you want that it saves time before the next restart. If you do a `restart` of the system, the rtc device will get properly initialized and time is good. Following is seen in the logs. Nov 20 13:26:14 uhutest kernel: rtc-hym8563 6-0051: registered as rtc0 Nov 20 13:26:14 uhutest kernel: rtc-hym8563 6-0051: setting system clock to 2025-11-20T12:26:11 UTC (1763641571) Nov 20 13:26:16 uhutest fake-hwclock.sh[455]: Not restoring old system time I have seen the issue right now only with the 6-18-RC kernel. The following patch mentioned here works as a pure workaround. https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-rockchip/patch/20220608161150.58919-2-linux@fw-web.de/ Lets see how the development of kernel 6.18 goes and if the final version will not have this issue.

Is there any chance of this image running on a device using the RKPX30 chip? From some research, it seems to be a variant of the RK3326, and I'm not sure how similar the 3328 and 3326 are or are not. Or is there another Armbian image for the RKPX30/RK3326? Specifically looking to run Armbian on this: https://docs.revrobotics.com/duo-control/control-system-overview/driver-hub-specifications

Hello SteeMan, Thanks for your answer Its running now And I will browse the getting started pages To get this system running well It seems faster So i hope i can learn a lot at this forum Greetings Herman

https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#first-boot

Hello everybody, I am new at linux have ubuntu running on n old windows laptop now I found a new use for my old TVBOX i have lying around I need some help logging in to my tv box it is a T95ZPlus with a 912 soc I am booting Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.519_Aml-s9xx-box_plucky_edge_6.18.0-rc6_xfce_desktop.img.xz I copy u-boot-s905x2-s912 to u-boot.ext My extlinux.conf looks like this label Armbian_community kernel /Image initrd /uInitrd fdt /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-t95z-plus.dtb append root=UUID=8ba6ae05-2bb2-4d2c-bba6-ce6cd91ed2cb rootflags=data=writeback console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0 rw no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 The system runs but after booting Armbian_community 25.11.0-trunk.519 plucky tty1 it gives me this prompt aml-s9xx-box loging the tutorial tells Basic OS configuration is conducted at first boot. You are asked to set a root password, normal user But my system asked for a login so i am stuck I hope someone have had this problem and can give a solution Greetings Ducdreamer

Quick update, having sorted this out I went on to install a CanBus device only to have to enable it again, so I'm back to the same delay

current isn't a good option for rk3588/s devices. At this point of time barely any support for this SoC was mainlined. And it seems like later revisions introduced a regression causing a crash. Since 6.18 may become next LTS kernel it will replace current current kernel at some point. So better go for an edge based image instead.

orangepi5 and 6 have nothing in common. double-check what you are actually talking about. Also there is no 0.9.9 rknpu stuff. 5.10 bsp has been abandoned long ago.

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ok same error. The maxio module works with this snippet though : mdio { compatible = "snps,dwmac-mdio"; #address-cells = <0x01>; #size-cells = <0x00>; phandle = <0xee>; ethernet-phy@0 { compatible = "ethernet-phy-id7b74.4411", "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22" reg = <0x00>; status = "okay"; phandle = <0x51>; }; };

yes. Things that can be tried: - DTS phy-mode = "rgmii-id"; or phy-mode = "rgmii-rxid"; - UBOOT CONFIG_PHY_REALTEK=y CONFIG_DWC_ETH_QOS=y CONFIG_DWC_ETH_QOS_ROCKCHIP=y CONFIG_DM_PMIC=y CONFIG_PMIC_RK8XX=y CONFIG_REGULATOR_RK8XX=y CONFIG_PWM_ROCKCHIP=y

OK do you mean boot with ethernet working using the maxio module then change DTB and reboot?

Can you boot in a working ethernet and then reboot to this trial?

I have a very similar if not the same issue on my Odroid M1. When doing a reboot it won't detect the SATA hdd. The NVME is working fine and I am booting the device via a sdcard anyway. Aparantly it has something to do with the kernel. Once I shut down the odroid and power it on again (cold reboot) the SATA device is just working fine again. I did not find a solution for this so far but I keep on digging...

@makaOK I corrected my error and tried your suggestion but i get in dmesg : [ 47.378829] rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-0 [ 47.380072] rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: __stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19)

Hello comunity members, I've installed and run Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.437_Tanix-tx6_trixie_current_6.12.47_minimal Since my Tanix TX 6 is running pretty hot in my opinion I want to reduce the operating frequency. Please help me with some instructions how to do so, since I couldn't find any. Thank you in advance.

I know that told you the ID of your chip but also told you to switch to phy1 but you didn't. I think It is possible to use the generic driver but don't know if It will work. Changes in dtb must be accurate.

Thank you! I'm still in the middle of a long build (chromium). I'll be able to check the flash-image-DDR4-1g_1cs_5-1200_750 image with the specific device I own with frequency scaling enabled and report if it is stable or not. It will crash pretty reliably if the firmware doesn't have the change I submitted here: https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/mv-ddr-marvell/commit/622677674cf34ef8fdf75b0c580d27efc8628ae8

Apologies, I somehow missed this comment until after I'd posted mine Would have saved me a fair bit of searching had I read it

@maka Thanks for this suggestion. I'll look further into this. The reason I made that change was because you suggested it here : It works well to auto load the maxio module on startup without resorting to manual modprobe commands. Is it really possible to use a generic driver for this maxio NIC chip?