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Here's a very old image that worked.

Has anyone here configured armbian with a Wayland desktop, and completely free of X11? How did you do it? I have compiled labwc and it works great with my orange pi zero 3, with bookworm or trixie... but I can't figure out how to configure a wayland greeter. I need to do this because my LCD driver can't work with X11 (panel-mipi-dbi-spi).

no boot for Khadas-supplied Fenix 24.04.1.6.9 image, either. sha256sum: e89b80b7777fed524651b98d04e8afc0406fee76e4c5f9ccf4457df4fb6d9054

The latest Armbian IoT image for Khadas VIM4 does not boot. sha256sum: 69b10797369fd572d590aeb0dd7b28a4ebc5882cec8db8daf592db7b158bf141 Here is the log from the serial debug console.

@ebin-dev could you perhaps update your post 1 and post your latest instructions and upload the files there? That would make it much easier to find the stable files.

Hello everyone, I need help. I have an HK1MAX device with an RK3318 chipset. I need a firmware that can be installed using the loader, as my device is stuck with a red WiFi light (model number: HK6334Q).

@pochopsp - you can buy two tv-boxes of the same type at once from the same seller and they might have different hardware internally still - that is the reason why it is not prossible to provide really good images for tv boxes: the hardware is simply too random and often also low quality

I would put boot and system on the eMMC. Then it will run with or without the SSD, which I would reserve for data. Things like VMs and containers that get a lot of writes can go on the SSD and be symbolically linked to their system folders.

@AHMEDLORI try these the transpeed or x98h image. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

@Luckyisnotcoolest try the x96q images here. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

@emor acid could be your gpio settings for mmc0. Try the x98h image. If that doesn’t work you need to extract your android dts or use the one from the working Ubuntu.

Just wonder if there is a good guide how to make dri work and allt the supported code´s work in wayland / xorg or other / Thanks

Hi Keith, I'm not too familiar with the in and outs of armbian-config. Just navigate around and see what's available. The kernel being Edge makes it easiest to install to a different device (i.e. if that's eMMC), so you're goo there. And remember, if you break the operating system, you can always start again with a clean install. So don't be afraid to experiment. It's how we learn. But I am very careful with the 16 MB SPI-NOR, and not to mess with that. I'm not sure if overwriting that with junk would brick the machine or not. Perhaps someone else who knows more about that can comment. But otherwise just follow your instincts as best you can and do what makes sense to you. Armbian-config is meant to be pretty straight-forward.

The kernel 6.17 release benefits from improvements in the graphics subsystem, hardware enablement, and more! See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release. View the full article

So I now got Edge 6.16.4 Kernel on my SD card, and I want to boot from either EMMC or SATA to take advantage of the extra speed. Arbian-config presents several options. Which option is generally recommended, from the 5 shown in Armbian-config?. For me, Option 3 (boot from EMMC, System on SATA, USB or NVMe) seems to be what I want, but I am interested to hear any recommendations or problems, since this is and Edge Kernel. Tanks, Keith

leave a link for other users like @John Taylor to continue your work, also @fedes_gl could give a hand

I already said i cant and dont want to. Anyway, in the meantime, I tried to port to latest version of armbian and didn't managed to finish because of some issues with devicetree. I gave up because no time for the moment (and found nomore fun in debugging for something i dont need) Final goal was to port haos to it anyway. Armbian was only a step for me.

I know an expert in rk3528, his name is @fensoft we are depending on him finding a weekend to dedicate to the community https://github.com/ilyakurdyukov/rk3528-tvbox he will help us by taking this repository and including it in armbian with a wonderful pull request I would like to buy this board and join the fun that you have, but my country has literally started an embargo on all TV boxes

Thanks for that , TallMan. You told me I needed 6.16.4 - and it took me a while to realise that I could probably find it using the Armbian-config. I thought I did pretty much as you describe, but it wouldn't boot, so I guess I did something wrong, (Probably picked up the faulty card mentioned above!). but didn't have time yesterday to try again - so thats for this evening. I'll get there eventually, I hope. At the moment I guess I'm still scared I'm going to do something irrepairable, because up til now I've always been a user, so not too adventurous yet. Keith

@fensoft please make this https://github.com/ilyakurdyukov/rk3528-tvbox as a pull request, you have the dq08 tvbox board, you're embedded in the community, you've tested everything, you seem like the perfect guy

Hi, I tested with the version 25.11.0-trunk.129 and the second network port worked with this. https://paste.armbian.com/hasewoloti

Don't know what to tell you, it is running fine on my boxes and dmesg is clean. Also I cannot see what is your build version since the screenshot is missing the top line of the screen. 🤷‍♂️

This is internal development for our boards, unfortunately, there is no public repository for our kernel. The code is borrowed from reverse-engineered POCs h264 + * Based on https://github.com/jemk/cedrus + * Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Jens Kuske <jenskuske@gmail.com> jpeg + * Based on https://gitorious.org/recedro/jepoc + * Copyright (c) 2014 Manuel Braga <mul.braga@gmail.com>

Please tell me the source of this patch.

Btw, about things turning orange... I had that experience some time ago before I got into Armbian. I did a clean install of Debian Bookworm. Then I tried installing the vendor GPU drivers and packages from the Orange PI company. Their drivers and packages were so horribly hacked / designed that various programs that needed certain SoC features needed to be custom modified to work with those specific vendor drivers. So all versions of those programs needed be held and were non-upgradable if I wanted continued GPU and video acceleration support. Anyway the main GPU driver package, when I installed it myself (instead of whatever secret sorcery their installation did), it turned things orange. Fortunately now, pure Trixie works out of the box on my board (from the Debian installer .iso), except that the kernel needs to be upgraded from their 6.12 to 6.16.3 from trixie-backports. Armbian's edge kernel on an otherwise pure Trixie is even better than Debian's, because it's customized for Rockchip. If you've been doing things like I was trying to before, things have much improved and now simple is better and it works. Also things tend to get really mangled up when upgrading over time - especially major LTS upgrades. Why not try a fresh install of a 25.8.1 Armbian image?