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@Nick A hi nick i posted above my problem with x96q pro 2g 16g board , today i also noticed second usb port is not working.

I've checked performance of my old rk322x-based box (H2O with 1.5G RAM/4G ROM) and compared it with fresh, h618-based. sysbench shows that rk322x is ~20x times slower in CPU (rk322x - 39 events, h618 - 700 events) and 6x times slower in RAM operations (216MB/s vs 1333 MB/s). in threads test rk3222x is just less than 2x times slower (4317 events vs 7563 events). are these values OK? or maybe something is mistuned?

In settings -> keyboard -> view and customize shortcuts -> launchers -> search I am trying to set this to Windows Key + S, it doesn't register the windows key at all as being pressed, so what keyboard do I choose to be able to use the full k400r keyboard inclusive of the windows key. Many thanks Newbie (please be nice, I'm new to Armbian and SBC's)

@Sergey LepeshkinThank you, it all make sense now… but could you suggest a uart connector? And every time i boot, do i have to get the uart connected?

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So how do I totally disable so access once logged in doesn't timeout in 5 minutes putting machine in sleep mode which disables remote access too? At 16 watts, it can run 24/7/365.25 doing its job which is as a backup server. Thanks all.

Weekly community image produced: https://www.armbian.com/odroid-m1s/ If anyone wants to volunteer as maintainer, a full set of images can follow: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/#standard-support

Quick retest in the container if I also install normal Debian kernel: root@ranc:~# apt install linux-image-arm64 wireguard Installing: linux-image-arm64 wireguard Installing dependencies: linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-arm64 wireguard-tools Suggested packages: firmware-linux-free linux-doc-6.12 debian-kernel-handbook openresolv | resolvconf

But why the Real-Time kernel and not the normal (linux-image-arm64) kernel package? I actually did run it as a systemd-nspawn -bxD <btrfs read-only snapshot> , so Armbian as container and host vanilla Debian. The actual kernel is then 6.12.48+deb13-arm64, but indeed the Armbian userspace (rootfs tree) has a few others/custom kernels installed only, so standard kernel package is missing.

@Ducdanh Nguyen, about uart: just find someone with soldering skills - it's deal of 3 minutes to solder 3 wires. Screenshots: all them taken from one tv box. I've found recovery menu only once - when accidentally flashed update.zip with system and vendor partitions taken from other tv box (also HiSilicon-based). After flashing, something went wrong while starting Android, and box automatically rebooted to recovery.

Can someone confirm that xwayland is working in the other wayland desktops in armbian? I can't make it work in labwc

Hi all, I got my hands on an Odroid XU4 and wanted to use it as a replacement for my RPi 3 for all my amateur radio related stuff. Unfortunately all of the AX25 kernelmodules have been left out of official builds. I have a commit ready to add them back, yet I am not sure what the actual process is to submit a PR. As I understood I need to open an issue first yet I cannot figure out which category this fits in. I attached a patch file for current kernel. Thank You, Geoffrey ax25.patch

Nothing strange there. The wireguard package comes from trixie which has dependency to debian's own kernel packages. The package cannot know that there is wireguard kernel-wise already in place or even know about Armbian kernel packages. So this is kind of expected. However I think at some point Armbian kernel packages included a apt information that it provides wireguard. Not sure about the status there.

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?