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I know of a way to install a specific kernel version: sudo apt install linux-image-edge-sunxi64=25.5.1 --> installs linux 6.14.8 But how do you install specifically linux 6.15.4? Also, have you checked if the newest linux version requires a dtbo to be activated in armbian-config?

Can you share the DTS you used, to have success with the waveshare LCD? The only thing we need to extract from it are the gpio pins. And I am curious how you made a waveshare LCD work. The gpio formatting in your DTS looks very weird. Can you start with the DTS I shared? Share also which armbian and Linux version you are using. (I can only help with a Linux 6.11 or newer). If you only get a white LCD screen, it means that the LCD is not getting the right control signals in the correct pins. You don't need to try XFCE at this point. It won't work.

Can you try: * activate "analog-codec" within armbian-config * run: sudo apt install alsa-utils * run: alsamixer (text user interface to increase volume by individual output) * basic mp3 player: "sudo apt install mpg123" (instructions for orange pi zero LTS, but it may still work for opiz3) What do you mean by "image became distorted", and "kernel artifacts"? Can you build your own armbian OS with armbian build? (with Linux edge version)

Orima, Ubuntu 22.04 is recommended, but I have no problem installing armbian build in Linux Mint 22.0. I think Debian Trixie in your laptop is too new to have the right requirements and versions for armbian build. You can build Debian Trixie for your orange pi, with no problems. Don't try to fill all the parameters in a single command line. Just download the armbian zip, "git clone" it in a new directory. Then run "./compile.sh". You will be presented with all the text user interfaces to make your board selections, linux and debian versions, etc.

@robertoj Hi I'm completely stuck. I'm trying to build an Armbian Trixie image, but I'm having trouble installing packages. I've tried changing the repository links to the ones closest to my location, but to no avail. I am completely unable to continue my research for assembling Armbian. This is how I collected Armbian ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepizero3 BRANCH=edge kernel-config CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_MIPI_DBI=m CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_EDT_FT5X06=m CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_GPIO=m CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_PWM=m ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepizero3 BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=trixie Also, with the configurator window open, I selected to enable panel_mipi_dbi Perhaps you still have an image of the assembled Armbian? I first built it on Ubuntu 22.04. Later, I built it on Debian Trixie. I change repo to: http://ftp.debian.org/debian And debian security http://ftp.debian.org trixie-security For armbian https://armbian.systemonachip.net/apt Its not work

Hello, Could you please tell me which image does not have netplan? I want to compare how much resources it uses. Thanks

I'm not sure vulkan is the best solution, RK3588, as most ARM SoCs has a dedicated video engine, vulkan is mainly needed on hardware without dedicated engine, using graphic card to decode, as it's often the case in x86_64 worlld. You can then including it's decoding in vulkan if you want. Don't know wich version of kernel/mesa/video decoder you use. The best, is to remove all dedicated package, and use system one, today, everything work fine with standard linux kernel, as armbian one, standard video tools, rockchip specific libs/video tools was used with rockchip made tools, until everything was mainlined. I don' use VLC, that needs specific libs, but mpv, or several other video players (including firefox one), and everything plays fine.

I dont know how to do that, sorry!

Thanks Robertoj All the documentation for the board is here https://github.com/zharijs/zmxxxp-re But the LCD is not an himax-hx8394. The screen is a "MTF0397SWI-06" using the chip OTM8019A. It just that I am starting from this driver to port the sunxi driver: sl698ph_720p. I will now look at your links.

Tried this with a Ubuntu PC today, and have the same result. lsblk shows one partition.

I followed your tutorial, and it works! I did it with a server image instead. But I was not able to make Wifi work. Did you manage to connect to the Wifi?

Thanks! This fixed the issue!

Try installing qemu-user-static package via apt

Hi again, So sorry to have left this hanging, due to lack of time. I have been trying successive updates since posting this, without the issue being resolved, but have now confirmed that this is kernel or device-tree related. Using armbian-config to load kernels, I can say that the problem originated some time between kernel 6.1.104 (02/02/2025) and 6.6.750 (03/02/25). dmesg output looks similar with and without the problem, as does /proc/device-tree, but I can post any specific output here if anyone can suggest what to look for. 6.6.750 keeps the backlight and a noisy/gray screen, while the screen is black (with backlight showing in the corners) with later kernels, suggesting a further change around 6.12 (tbc) Unfortunately I can't see where to find any armbian intermediate kernels / device-trees, so would be very happy if someone could point me at a repo. where they might be available. Failing that I can try to locate kernels from alternative sources, or compile my own, but it would be good if I could keep as much the same as possible (including any Armbian patches and the armbian dt packages.)

Hi, I'm trying to build the Armbian for Rock64. Host machine is Ubuntu 24.04 AMD64 (but it is running in VirtualBox under Windows). Build fails with the following error: [🐳|🌱] Deploying qemu-user-static binary to chroot [ qemu-aarch64-static during image-early ] [🐳|🔨] '/usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static' -> '/armbian/.tmp/rootfs-232e77ba-e6ab-4067-8029-afd44bd1d0b9//usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static' chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory [🐳|💥] Error 127 occurred in main shell [ at /armbian/lib/functions/rootfs/distro-specific.sh:276 create_sources_list_and_deploy_repo_key() --> lib/functions/rootfs/distro-specific.sh:276 extract_rootfs_artifact() --> lib/functions/rootfs/create-cache.sh:130 do_with_logging() --> lib/functions/logging/section-logging.sh:81 get_or_create_rootfs_cache_chroot_sdcard() --> lib/functions/rootfs/create-cache.sh:90 build_rootfs_and_image() --> lib/functions/main/rootfs-image.sh:14 full_build_packages_rootfs_and_image() --> lib/functions/main/default-build.sh:36 do_with_default_build() --> lib/functions/main/default-build.sh:42 cli_standard_build_run() --> lib/functions/cli/cli-build.sh:25 armbian_cli_run_command() --> lib/functions/cli/utils-cli.sh:136 cli_entrypoint() --> lib/functions/cli/entrypoint.sh:208 main() --> compile.sh:50 The /bin/bash (/armbian/.tmp/rootfs-232e77ba-e6ab-4067-8029-afd44bd1d0b9/bin/bash) seems an ARM64 and this might be the reason for "failed to run". Is this a known issue? Can I fix it? I've tried to avoid using chroot in this line, the build goes forward but fails with similar error later.

Furthermore, today I built an Ubuntu desktop PC, and flashed a build onto an SD Card. The resultant installation has only ONE partition. No Windows involvement whatsoever Same with a USB flash drive (to eliminate the SD card adapter). So where do we go from here?

I think I have a partial success but I'm struggling to get anything but white on the red display! Will update when I have more results. panel-mipi is loading, and Card-1-SPI appears under /sys/class/drm/ which is very promising. Verified that /lib/firmware/panel-mipi-dbi-spi is still present, still patched with Kungfupancake's init, and is loaded according to lsmod (as well as dmesg) My current DTS: Edit: I installed XFCE to test, and strangely this has caused dmesg to throw errors related to panel-mipi. I had these same errors when panel-mipi was missing from /lib/firmware but it is still present there.

I tried the edge kernel, but the image became distorted. With extended use, it produced kernel artifacts.

Thank you! I've been unable to give this a crack over the last couple of days, but I'm hoping to try this weekend. I'll post back here with how I go

FWIW, on my rk3588 devices the NPUs are working with recent mainline releases: [ 5.967316] [drm] Initialized rocket 0.0.0 for rknn on minor 0 [ 5.975499] rocket fdab0000.npu: Rockchip NPU core 0 version: 1179210309 [ 5.978652] rocket fdac0000.npu: Rockchip NPU core 1 version: 1179210309 [ 5.985602] rocket fdad0000.npu: Rockchip NPU core 2 version: 1179210309 This script runs the Mesa example with the latest available working versions: And with this script, the Mesa example runs, with a small adjustment, also with the TFLite successor LiteRT: A MediaPipe sample can also be set up easily: But unfortunately, the MediaPipe framework does not support the extended delegate functionality of LiteRT (TFLite). And therefore no NPU support. classification-3.11-tflite.logclassification-3.13-litert.logobject_detection-3.12-litert.log

you may actually want to extract the dtb file on the android side of the tvbox you have just to get the OS to get recognize that chipset (but may not work due to missing driver).The odds for this kind of tv box to have a working wifi chipset is a lottery, most likely you better off not waste that effort and just buy a USB WiFi dongle instead, at least it works far better than a SDIO based wifi chipset like that.

hdmi audio doesn't work with the latest linux kernel 6.16.8 (edge). OS: Armbian Bookworm, latest build (v26.2.0-trunk.32). revert to 6.15.4 helps. Test Output (aplay -l): Kernel 6.16.8 (BROKEN): card 0: Codec [H616 Audio Codec], device 0: CDC PCM Codec-0 [CDC PCM Codec-0] Kernel 6.15.4 (WORKING): card 0: Codec [H616 Audio Codec], device 0: CDC PCM Codec-0 [CDC PCM Codec-0] card 1: HDMI [HDMI], device 0: ahub_plat-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0 [ahub_plat-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0] P.S. I am using the edge kernel branch because support for the analog audio jack on H616/H618 requires kernel 6.13 or newer. Currently, kernel 6.15.4 is the latest working version that provides both analog and HDMI audio.

I'll try. So far, just booting the board did not work. I suppose it does need mainline uboot. Need to figure out this fdt stuff somehow too...

you need linux kernel >=6.13 (you can use edge kernel)

Wonderful.