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@Faheem328 Do you have free time? let's talk..... I like to talk.... how much free time do you have exactly?

Hi @Fiery_Fire, all the changes I used have been merged to armbian. I tried to build an image from the current main branch and I got no HDMI output too. I tried a newer kernel and applied all the patches from xdarklight's branch https://github.com/xdarklight/linux/tree/meson-mx-integration-6.15-20250608, here is an armbian branch: https://github.com/domin144/armbian-build/tree/meson_6.16 I compiled with this command: ./compile.sh build BOARD=aml-s805-mxq BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED= DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=xfce DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=trixie Now I get some output on HDMI, but it is so distorted, I cannot read any text. Something must have been changed in the 6.12 kernel between the time I tried it last and now. Unfortunately I will not have time to debug this in a foreseeable future. Hopefully this distorted output will be a better starting point for you than no output at all.

@rockamal maybe you’ll have better luck with x96q lpddr3 https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/patch/u-boot/u-boot-h616/159-add-x96-q-lpddr3-v1.3-defconfig.patch git clone https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build.git --branch v20250306 cd build pico patch/u-boot/u-boot-h616/159-add-x96-q-lpddr3-v1.3-defconfig.patch Change @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ to @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ add this to the bottom of the patch "+CONFIG_SPL_IMAGE_TYPE_SUNXI_TOC0=y" Then you need to include the secure boot patch. pico patch/u-boot/u-boot-h616/secure-boot.patch create the secure boot patch. you can find it here.

Thanks for giving it a nudge. Looks like some activity's brewing on it now. @laibsch, As I said before, I don't have an account with github. But I had looked at your Commit, and it looked to me like you copied the existing edge kernel's .dts, but with the needed modification. From my looking at it, I think it would work. Although if I were doing it, I would do it in 2 commits: 1. An initial commit that's just a copy of the present devicetree to bring it into the patch system, since it's apparently never been part of the patch system. 2. The change to address the specific issue. To address what paolosabatino's, comment on github said... The current kernel and edge kernel have two different devicetrees. The one this is about is the edge kernel's devicetree.

sorry for the delay, @mvpwar for RK3566 NPU you can use the original armbian DTB that enables NPU support: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3566-h96max-v56.dts I think you will take fragments from ancient builds like this: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/28895-efforts-to-develop-firmware-for-h96-max-v56-rk3566-8g64g/page/16/#findComment-211031 I don't know what the status is in version 6.17 but we are still required to use vendor 6.1

Thank you for the nudge. But who are you nudging? It isn't up to the PR author (me) to get this accepted. It's been rotting away since nobody actually tested it. And that could only be done by people who have the device, including @The Tall Man, I believe or others. I do not have access to the device(s) in question. And then one of the other devs needs to accept it. I'm happy to rebase or respond to reviews, but that hadn't happened, so we are now going in circles. So, the question is really who you are nudging.

Hi, Werner and Tallman. The slow update did seem a bit odd to me - its why I mentioned my good network connection. I'll try again later and see what happens. I am in eastern europe, and we don't normally get this kind of problem. I used to have a network connection of only 6 Mbit/s until about a year ago, and even that worked OK at the time. (948 Mbit/s as we have now is great). Normally my Linux Mint apt-update is usually less than a minute. Tallman:- we seem to have common likes and dislikes!. First, Firefox is definitely not installed on my Armbian, so I'll have a look at trying to install it later. Like you, I also dislike Snap and Flatpak packages. My first experience with a computer was back in the early 1960's with a Honeywell 803 - it had 1K x 18bit word magnetic memory, so any program written to run on it (usually Algol 63 - more or less machine code) had to be *tiny*. A colleague wrote a successful program to play whist on it - it rather makes the bloat associated with snap/flatpak packages look very silly to someone like me. My programming experience ended some years ago for various reasons, but I am firmly convinced that modern machines could be far faster and more efficient than they are if modern programmers had to use much less memory. We had to be very careful how we used space, and spent time optimizing anything we wrote. (actually not written - it was mostly hand-punched paper tape. (whats a keyboard)? I believe if modern programmers had to do this, we would not hear so much about the insecurity of software/networks - and I won't even go into how much companies like Microsoft appear to contribute to this bloat. I would have thought that an OS should contain all the elements (dependency files) necessary to run any software compatible with the hardware, so therefore it should only be necessary to install 'system' packages, instead of snap/flatpak with all the attendant dependencies (bloat). - Sorry - rant over. Finally, another question, which is driving me nuts. While I was playing with Armbian, I accidentally dragged the LibreOffice Write icon over the Armbian Config Icon, and got a new 'unnamed icon' folder - and I can find no way to get rid of it. I assumed this created a similarly named folder somewhere, so all I had to do was delete it but extensive file searching hasn't traced it so far - any pointers please? Thanks again, Keith Edit: thanks for that Torz77 - should be able to find it, I guess.

Firefox is called firefox-esr in Debian (Extended Support Release)

Recently, when I run `armbian-upgrade`, I was greeted with an update to raspi-firmware. However, this version of firmware doesn't seem to work with the corresponding intramfs with kernel 6.12.44. sudo armbian-upgrade Hit:1 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/armbian trixie InRelease Hit:2 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/debian trixie InRelease Hit:3 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/debian trixie-updates InRelease Hit:4 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/debian-security trixie-security InRelease Hit:5 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Get:6 https://apt.syncthing.net syncthing InRelease [24.2 kB] Fetched 24.2 kB in 2s (14.8 kB/s) 2 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. The following packages will be upgraded: armbian-config raspi-firmware Summary: Upgraded: 2, Newly installed: 0, To remove: 0, Not upgraded: 0 Download size: 13.2 MB Space required/available: 272 kB / 553 GB Get:1 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/armbian trixie/trixie-utils arm64 raspi-firmware all 1:1.20250915-1~bookworm [13.0 MB] Get:2 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable/main arm64 armbian-config all 25.11.0-trunk.234.0923.175957 [157 kB] Fetched 13.2 MB in 2s (5,967 kB/s) (Reading database ... 46602 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../raspi-firmware_1%3a1.20250915-1~bookworm_all.deb ... Unpacking raspi-firmware (1:1.20250915-1~bookworm) over (1:1.20250430-4~bookworm) ... Preparing to unpack .../armbian-config_25.11.0-trunk.234.0923.175957_all.deb ... Unpacking armbian-config (25.11.0-trunk.234.0923.175957) over (25.11.0-trunk.192.0915.191809) ... Setting up armbian-config (25.11.0-trunk.234.0923.175957) ... Setting up raspi-firmware (1:1.20250915-1~bookworm) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/initramfs/post-update.d/z50-raspi-firmware ... Installing new version of config file /etc/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware ... WARNING: Unsupported kernel version (6.12.44-current-bcm2711) - skipping setup NOTE: Manual boot configuration may be required Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.148.3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.44-current-bcm2711 WARNING: Unsupported initramfs version (6.12.44-current-bcm2711) - skipping setup NOTE: Manual boot configuration may be required Summary: Upgraded: 0, Newly installed: 0, To remove: 0, Not upgraded: 0 How exactly should I do in this case? In the past, I normally invoke update-intramfs to perform the the intramfs update. Thanks,

You're welcome @Hqnicolas 👍

I came here to thank @jock https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8679 and ask you to make the test @Vincenzoernst1 @GBEM @guenter you don't need to install external driver anymore merged 2 commits into armbian:main from paolosabatino:update-tm16xx 4 days ago Available since https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/v25.11.0-trunk.258 rockchip rk3566: h96-TVbox: Include i2c Led Pins into dts. by @hqnicolas in armbian/build#8666 rockchip64: update tm16xx driver from kernel mailing list. by @paolosabatino in armbian/build#8679

Thank you for that additional information, Igor. The lack of desktop images is only a minor inconvenience, I'd say. Easy enough to install the required packages after installation of the base image to the SBC itself.

We support Armbian software but not random software from the internet. RKdevtool is as far as I know a tool from Radxa, not Armbian, either. CPU boxes are cheap and cheap for a reason. Nobody really supports them. We give some very limited community support here. With your current random software this is not the right spot for you. Best of luck to you.

The wifi and ethernet both are not working for my transpeed 8k tv device. it has a rk3528 chipset. 1. I tried resetting it from its android factory setting. it did not work. 2. I found its image which i flashed via RKdevtool. Still the both wifi and lan did not work. 3. i tried external usb wifi dongle but it did not detect it. 4. I tried to install debian OS i found somewhere on internet designed for rk3528 on it as alternative but rkdevtool did not identified the image Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance,

HW (features are determined by kernel used in the image) related issues are shared among all variants, desktop, cli, minimal, Debian or Ubuntu.

Sige5 is community supported and those boards receive automatic generated images only - once per week. Since GitHub introduced additional limitations few months ago, we can't (auto)produce desktop images anymore - only one Debian stable minimal per CSC build target. However, this might change in the future.

Hello, I have an Android M98-Y6 HDMI stick that reportedly has an Allwiner H313 processor with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. When I opened the case, I identified the emcp memory module KMQNW000SM-B316. I don't have access to console mode. I can only access adb commands as root.The RAM type DDR3 seems LPDDR3 ( version ??) I've tried different Armbian images without success. Unfortunately, Secure Boot is enabled. I read this post and test Armbian-20240716-unofficial_24.5.0-trunk_Transpeed-8k618-t_bookworm_edge_6.7.12_xfce_desktop_Secure_Boot.img.tar.xz from Nick, without success I have an Android image named M96-Y6.img. EDIT1: Also it has a AP6330 Wifi Chip ( thanks to "dmesg") It has a internal AC300 PHY ( thanks to "Device info HW") Attached is the "dts" file devicetree.dts device_tree_dump.txt

I use the desktop version and have the same issue.

Never had an issue like that. However we also have mirrors in Asia or RU/UA where politics might interfere with bandwidth. So perhaps you hit one of those? Or you simply hit a mirror which was under heavy load at this time.

Sent a nudge.

@Fredrik thank you for the reply. I wonder what's Gnome doing to initialize the audio that's different from a regular (non-graphical) boot. FWIW I installed also Pipewire/Wireplumber and tried to test the audio through the PW ALSA emulation, but that didn't work either. Just out of curiosity, does speaker-test work from the CLI once booted into Gnome or is it just the sound test in Gnome settings that's working ?

I troubleshooted my problem! So for some reason (I'm not sure if this is for all x88 pro 10's), the SD card needed to be under pressure on it to read Multitool. So, throughout the entire Multitool process, I needed to hold down the SD card with my thumb. I did hurt a bit, but it flashed to the EMMC

@samircobra these TV BOXes with Rockship are very robust and well documented here in Armbian. Once, I even caused a short circuit (a true hard-reset) in its memory system, and the board reverted to its original ROM. Regarding your question, follow the instructions for the classic Rockchip devices on the main Armbian page. The steps described there are detailed and clear. Good Luck

Okay, I couldn't find a solution to restore it to its original state. Now I want to switch it to Armbian. What files do I need for that? Thank you. hk1 max rk3318 wifi hk6334Q Rockchip RK3318

There was a devicetree related pull request sent for the audio issue on another board a month ago. It hasn't gotten any action since it was made. There apparently haven't been any devicetree-related patches in the entire Armbian build system - at least for this other board (Orange PI 5 Plus). So this would be the first. https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8568