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After like a week of trying to make my tinkerboard rk3288 play videos I finally found the holy grail: https://users.armbian.com/jmcc/output/ Find the latest version and install that with all his dependencies, all the dependencies are in the debian archive: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg] https://github.armbian.com/configng stable main deb http://apt.armbian.com buster main buster-utils buster-desktop I managed to play 4k hevc dolby atmos 5.1 movie streaming from my jellyfin server at my parents house using kodi-gbm and it worked flawlessly! I couldn't do the same with mpv yet. I hope this helps ppl with this ancient (2017) sbc.

Checked here?https://serverfault.com/questions/1042988/automatic-reboot-at-specific-time-if-automatic-upgrade-requires-reboot

ubuntu22 desktop Why does the system restart trigger at 3:30 every day？？ I used 'uptime'to check the changes in running time！ How to turn off the trigger！ sudo grep "3:3[0-9]" /var/log/syslog | grep -i "unattended\|reboot" Sep 19 03:30:53 armbian-ramlog[451]: unattended-upgrades/ Sep 19 03:30:53 armbian-ramlog[451]: unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log Sep 19 03:30:53 armbian-ramlog[451]: unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log Sep 19 03:30:53 armbian-ramlog[451]: unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log Sep 19 03:30:53 cron[604]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs) Sep 19 03:30:54 systemd[1]: Started Unattended Upgrades Shutdown. I have tried to experiment, but it still doesn't work： 50unattended-upgrades " Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false"; " Please help help Thank you.

Can I use the Armbian 25.8.1 noble XFCE thinkboard/S image for an ASUS ChromeBook C100P, which is no longer supported by Google, to convert in Linux Debian notepad?

I also upgraded from bookworm to trixie and saw this warning. I can confirm that Igor's suggested workaround addresses it: wget https://apt.armbian.com/armbian.key gpg --dearmor < armbian.key | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg > /dev/null apt is now happy with the armbian repo.

I flashed same image to a SD card and tried to boot from it. Following is the result of `grep mmcblk1p2 /var/log/syslog` 2025-09-17T09:52:44.015489+00:00 rock-5-itx armbian-resize-filesystem[947]: ### [resize2fs] Trying to resize ext4 filesystem on /dev/mmcblk1p2: 2025-09-17T09:52:44.015493+00:00 rock-5-itx armbian-resize-filesystem[947]: Running 'resize2fs /dev/mmcblk1p2' now... 2025-09-17T09:52:44.015508+00:00 rock-5-itx armbian-resize-filesystem[947]: Filesystem at /dev/mmcblk1p2 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required 2025-09-17T09:52:44.021891+00:00 rock-5-itx kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Quota mode: none. 2025-09-17T09:52:44.021891+00:00 rock-5-itx kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): unmounting filesystem. 2025-09-17T09:52:44.021893+00:00 rock-5-itx kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Quota mode: none. I will try booting from a different medium and running `fsck mmcblk1p2` too.

many thanks, JMCC but I couldn't, for the life of me get it to install. After trying to install whatever armhf .deb files I could, I got stuck with 3 missing deps. After more fiddling and basically copying every possible deb file to the apt cache, somehow I made it worse. I give up for today, it's been a couple of hours after my dayjob already. Wanted to use the tinkerboard a video streamer/lite computer for the bedroom but without acceleration for youtube, netflix and even my own movies, might as well get one of those crappy android sticks. I'm affraid that without some automagic script to run it all I'm lost this is what I succeded in getting: The following packages have unmet dependencies: media-buster-legacy-tinkerboard : Depends: qtmultimedia5-examples but it is not going to be installed Depends: qtgstreamer-plugins-qt5 but it is not going to be installed Depends: kodi-rk but it is not installable Depends: mpv-legacy but it is not installable Depends: librga2 but it is not installable

Sorry, it's working now.

Hi, In the documentation (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/#user-provided-kernel-config) it says: "User provided kernel config: If the file userpatches/linux-$LINUXFAMILY-$BRANCH.config exists, it will be used instead of the default one from config." Is there a way to define only the desired changes to the kernel parameters?

Hi! Now https://github.armbian.com/configng not working from RU. W: Не удалось получить https://github.armbian.com/configng/dists/stable/InRelease Невозможно инициализировать соединение с github.armbian.com:443 (2606:50c0:8001::153). - connect (101: Сеть недоступна) Невозможно инициализировать соединение с github.armbian.com:443 (2606:50c0:8000::153). - connect (101: Сеть недоступна) Невозможно инициализировать соединение с github.armbian.com:443 (2606:50c0:8003::153). - connect (101: Сеть недоступна) Невозможно инициализировать соединение с github.armbian.com:443 (2606:50c0:8002::153). - connect (101: Сеть недоступна) Не удалось соединиться с github.armbian.com:443 (185.199.111.153): время ожидания для соединения истекло Не удалось соединиться с github.armbian.com:443 (185.199.110.153): время ожидания для соединения истекло Не удалось соединиться с github.armbian.com:443 (185.199.108.153): время ожидания для соединения истекло Не удалось соединиться с github.armbian.com:443 (185.199.109.153): время ожидания для соединения истекло Upgrade armbian-config is not possible. Is there any mirror of this repo?

@SteeMan That is actually a good question, to which I do not have the answer. Here's a picture of the chip itself: I have not been able to find any information on that particular chip, so it may as well be nand...

@Qvy Are you sure you actually have emmc and not the older plain nand? Android kernels have support for raw nand. That support never was put into mainline linux as emmc became the standard. A lot of older TV boxes used raw nand as that was cheaper at the time. And sometimes identical looking boxes will have different components. For example I have TX3 Mini boxes that some come with emmc and some come with nand. And only those with emmc are supported by mainline linux kernels.

I did not get display before but just tested again, and indeed I do! I'm very surprised about it. I know that I do not require eMMC to work but it is much more reliable imo, and I think it would be a more complete build if I could get it to work

OK. I think workaround is to re-download / re-install armbian.key from repository. As key was already changed.

You can run Armbian just fine only from SD card, I do that on a Beelink box, you do not NEED emmc to work. Did you get picture on the monitor?

Hello good people, it's update time! I have made a bit of progress but got stuck again. Here's what I did : I have tested the pads I found next to the SDCard and indeed, they were serial connections. With a little bit of brain power and luck, I figured out that the one with the square pad is GND, and both in the middle are tx/rx. Please don't judge my deskmat... Once that was done, I was able to connect to the serial port through a terminal and armbian surprizingly booted. I was able to test the 3 different DTBs that are supposedly compatible with my board and all of them booted, though with no luck of getting the eMMC working. I then got the idea to find the dtb of the original android install and got to work. I was able to extract a dtb.img file, which after some work, got 2 dtb files out of it, supposedly for both 1G/8G and 2G/16G versions of the board, the later being mine. Sadly it does not work as is, but I believe that it gives me enough information to keep going. But here's the road block, no matter my attempts yesterday at trying to get the correct code inside of the dtb file, nothing would get the emmc to work. Otherwise everything works fine, the armbian install for that board is not the cleanest but after fixing a few things, I was able to ssh into it through network and work on it from there. If there's a kind soul out there with dtb manipulation skills, I would be grateful to get help from you!

@Igor is the case, I upgraded from bookworm to trixie

this can easily be answered with a quick web search or AI request for "disadvantage of LPAE on armhf". As expected, one of the drawbacks is increased use of memory when the benefit of larger addressable memory applies only to few installations and in a limited way.

OK, this is the line that is problematic. You need to find out why sda2 is mounted read-only. Go through the logs, for example "sudo grep sda2 /var/log/syslog". If you can, boot from a different medium and fsck sda2.

Certainly worth a look. It is also probably worth comparing the Armbian commit from when I last had it working until now, but it will need to be when I have a bit more time, and me remembering just when I first started seeing these issues.

I wonder if it'd be worth having a look instead at the Odroid stock kernel image and the vanilla kernel of the base same version; see what quirks are needed. I will have a look and see if that diff is less overwhelming than the massive gap you're seeing.

Hi pcduino2user, glad you are finding it useful. Maybe CMA Buffer size needs to be lowered during the kernel, which actually appears to get ignore anyway once the board has fully booted and replaced with 96mb based on the reserve memory node within the A10 DTSI. This is definitely needed if trying to run a desktop although I wouldn't recommend running a desktop on the Pcduino2. There are still some minor issues that I would like to address in future but I don't have as much time as I used to. For example the pcduino2 is actually booting from the Pcduino1 DTS although this problem is more cosmetic than functional. Both the Pcduino1 and Pcduino2 share the same uboot defconfig file but the Pcduino2 has a USB2 VBUS pin defined within its DTS and physically connected on the PCB. This is normally pulled high by a resistor so does not cause any problems with USB power being enabled. The build framework allows us to configure the kernel but there must be a way to customize uboot more dynamically as well? Now certain Armbian board configuration files appear to contain configuration data for adjusting the dram speed as can be found in the cubieboard.csc so I wonder if a similar setup in the pcduino2 configuration file to override the default device tree property to use sun4i-a10-pcduino2.dts instead of sun4i-pcduino.dts. Given the closeness of hardware it does not seem worth creating a separate defconfig file. Ryzer

Hi @Nick A, the armbian in afiftyp board just see 2GB to, at least it was this way in 2024 when he sent me his boot log. My board is very similar to afiftyp board, except of a number near the QC sticker, that looks like a version number. afiftyp number is 2336 and the mine is 2333. The amout of memory chips is identical to (8 chips), but tha labels is a litle different, but I cant found the label meaning. I use your image since very old one, so I don't think it is about u-boot update, but I could try an older one. About Secure Boot, A patch that you give me solved it and it isn't a problem any more (thanks again for it). @afiftyp, if I'm wrong and you already solve your rom amount in armbian, please let us know and if you could, explain us what you did to solve it, thanks.

Hi Ryzer, hi Igor, I was out of town for a while, but recently I could try out the new Armbian release v25.8.1, which incorporates the changes made by Ryzer. I chose kernel version 6.15 and did get an HDMI output on a Dell 21,5" monitor. So I managed to configure the pcduino2 for its purpose and I am using it again after many years. Excellent! Thank you so much for all your efforts! Great to be back as an Armbian user. Just as a side note: I was first trying with my Dell UltraSharp 34" monitor and there the HDMI output still does not work. I does work with the old Armbian 5.38 version for pcduino2 from the archives and also with Raspberry Pi 3 using a recent version of Raspberry Pi OS. Anyway, this is just for information. I do not think it is worth investigating this issue.