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If you want to upgrade the userspace flavor on top (like Jammy to Noble for example) it is indeed recommended to start from scratch. If you want to upgrade the Armbian core components like firmware, kernel and boot-loader, these upgrades are shipped as regular apt package.

Hi, Thanks, I've tried both working image on my h618 Transpeed tv-box. I have some newbie questions: - On the miniarch image: I managed to upgrade + setup the wifi, and it works, but I cannot install any desktop environment. I've done every steps and tried a lot different desktop environment, but no luck, it won't start, remains in the text console. Is it possible to install a (simple, like xfce4) desktop environment? How? - On the Armbian image: everithing works fine (I used an usb hub+usb wifi+bt, internal not working), and there is a working desktop environment, which is great! But I've tried to upgrade (apt update + apt upgrade) and the upgrade maybe messed up the boot somehow, the device won't boot since the upgrade. Is it possible to upgrade the Armbian image? How? Thanks, Sidha

I answer myself: the overlays are here: https://github.com/radxa/overlays/tree/main You need to take the desired overlay, compile it using dtc and put it in the /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay folder. Next, turn on the overlay in armbian-config and voila root@proc01:/home/victor# ls /dev/ | grep spi spidev1.0

So, if I want to upgrade the Armbian version, I have to do an installation from scratch and migrate everything, right? Thanks

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For Armbian updates regular code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } apt update && apt upgrade will be sufficient. If you however want to change your userspace (like Jammy to Noble) this is out of scope of Armbian and upstream tools (like do-release-upgrade in case of Ubuntu) have to be used. Armbian firmware and userspace are two pair of shoes. Armbian cannot handle userspace upgrades by itself simply due to lacking of both human and financial resources for development and testing lots of various scenarios. This is also the reason why doing this is not recommended and therefore entirely unsupported by us.

Good morning I don't quite understand everything. I understand that do-release-upgrade is not the right way to upgrade Armbian. So what is the right way? Thanks

root@proc01:/home/victor# cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 extraargs=swiotlb=1024 overlay_prefix=rk3308 fdtfile=rockchip/rk3308-rock-pi-s.dtb rootdev=UUID=cc500ad0-fef5-4af1-8ed7-68c3db5f4a19 rootfstype=ext4 console=serial overlay=spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=1 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u victor@proc01:~$ ls /dev/ | grep spi victor@proc01:~$ dmesg | grep spi victor@proc01:~$

Hello everybody! I need help: I can't turn on the SPI interface in any way so that /dev/spidev0 or /dev/spidev1 appears. In armbian-config, there are generally only 7 lines in the hardware section, in which there is nothing interesting, an attempt to register spidev in armbianEnv.txt it also does not help, in dmesg and journalctl - silence... Where did the interface go?

Hello, thanks for the guide and such, I was able to successfully use the rkdeveloptool method to flash the R29-5G-LP3-v3.0 (MXQ-5G-Pro) I guess there is no way of using the Wifi device of this board? Thanks anyway ❤️ edit: I have run already the rk322x-config and the hdmi is working, just wondering about the wifi ❤️

I have a question ❓️ If I found driver ethernet I can Install on miniarch I don't need to install endeavouros

Could you help me This is my first time using it Thank you

You need install lightdm manually, welcome to Arch world, everything need medium/advanced knowledge in linux... 😅

Thank you friend Usb thetering done Install done After installing endeavouros How to boot to os

Hello, both the versions you used share exactly the same kernel, so it is unclear to me the reason only the Jammy image boots. Actually, I don't understand why you did not use the multitool to install the armbian image and doing maintenance, but however... You can actually edit /boot/armbianEnv.txt and set verbosity=7 to have more kernel logging and perhaps something will pop up. Hint: dmesg log is basic stuff to do debugging, if you can provide it, it could be very useful.

So it just boots directly to oowow. There is a menu item for shutdown or reboot. Reboot tells you to remove any sdcards beforehand. So I didn't. And the sdcard booted. It has installed, and reboot works. I installed to emmc and nvme. So far so good. Tried the ts1040 screen once. It might ve not been plugged correctly. Dead computer. I need to try the other direction. Copper down.

I guess the older bootloaders does not work at all with eMCP chip, if I remember correctly you need at least ddrbin v1.09 when you have an eMCP. It could be that your board came with an even newer ddrbin or something a bit customized. I guess you should ask the vendor for the original firmware and install it again to solve the issue if the command rate switching did not change anything.

Hello, thank you! I tried changing this bit in multitool-1.11 but the result is the same. I could not locate the bit in the older bootloader, the one that ran one step further. The bootloader is RK322XMiniLoaderAll_V2.47_MarcosTvBox.bin mentioned here in the last message:

Reverified the sdcard image. The board boots directly into oowow. I dont see an obvious way to tell it to boot from sdcard. Holding the function button on power up does nothing.

Description In an effort to reduce wifi driver burdens AR-1745, I went through the 6.10 kernel to check if any third party wifi drivers can be removed. The following drivers are part of the mainline kernel as of 6.10: RTL8723CS (driver: RTW88) RTL8811CU and RTL8821C (driver: RTW88) RTL8192EU (driver: RTL8XXXU) To give them some more time in the oven, use them not from 6.10 but from 6.11 onwards. I went through the Armbian forums, Atlassian and GiHub issues to see if anyone had used those drivers for these chips in the past and had reported issues. But I haven't found anything yet. RTL8723DS is also supported by RTW88, but I have not touched that driver since it is still required for the RockPi-S wifi to work properly as reported by @brentr Jira reference number AR-1745 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build success: ./compile.sh BOARD=nanopc-cm3588-nas BRANCH=edge RELEASE=trixie EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no [ ] Mainline drivers should be tested LOOKING FOR TESTERS: Drivers for RTL8811CU, RTL8821C and RTL8192EU are available also in 6.9, so if you have a device with those chips, it would be very nice if you could test them with their respective kernel driver (RTW88 or RTL8XXXU). You may have to enable them in your board's kernel config. If you have a board with a RTL8723DS chip, please test the RTW88 driver. If RockPi-S is the only board which broken RTL8723DS driver, we could switch most other boards to RTW88 for this chip. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

I am wondering how to install this. I've installed armbian on a nanopc, and edge V which is now a brick after a brief use as an armbian machine. But never successfully to a vim 3. I have a fresh out of the box vim3 that fails on boot with the current image on sdcard. The first vim4 was a doorstop on arrival. I finally have a second vim 4 that does seem to work if I push the function button 3 times it goes to oowow. But so far nothing that I've read works to boot from sdcard. "Holding the function button while power on." I havent found any instructions here about an install process other than insert the sdcard and power on, which does absolutely nothing. I have the latest cli image on sdcard. Also, I take it that vim4 only supports legacy? Any help is greatly appreciated

Figured it out - somehow my /lib/modules/5.10.x were not compatible with my boot image that I pulled from the latest 24.2 image. I copied the /lib/modules/5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx from working armbian image to my system and wifi is back

I upgraded my 5.10 install to 6.1 kernel got everything working including wifi using armbian-config - change kernel but after I noticed that video acceleration was broken with vlc I decided to rollback. The initial rollback somehow failed, after some tweaking, I've been able to boot the system again and run kernel 5.1 but now I don't have my ap6275 working anymore and the video acceleration modules from 5.x seem to be gone. I have the overlay for the ap6275 but it is not loading any module. What am I missing?

Dear Armbians, Armbian point releases are times when our entire team works diligently to stabilize our highly complex ecosystem. We understand that, despite our best efforts, there will always be some issues that may not work perfectly. We estimate that resolving bugs and adding new features for each release takes thousands of hours to be completed. This is what the Armbian and its community contributes on top of the vanilla Linux code, which is aggregated at common points, usually referred to as mainline. The code, contributed by many individuals, is intended to be stable. However, given the complexity of the Linux kernel and its maintenance by a diverse group of people, there are no uniform standards, and code quality can vary. Nevertheless, it remains the best we have. Stay Updated with Nightly Builds We are not far from the previous point release, and if you wish to stay updated with daily changes, you are welcome to do so. To switch to nightly automated builds, follow these steps: Run sudo armbian-config Select System and then, Nightly Please note that this is not recommended for production environments, as these builds are not thoroughly tested. However, in most cases, they should work well. Before making this switch, we recommend checking our automated tests. If they are passing, you should be in a good position. Some features might still have issues, and we encourage you to engage with our developer community to help resolve them. Our team is too small and will always remain too small to address all issues alone, we can’t fix problems arising from the contributions of thousands of people. Only with your assistance we can achieve this. If you require a specific feature to work or if you want to take some of our burden away, consider sponsoring our developers, who are professionals dedicated to this work. Switch to Recent Kernel Versions If nightly builds are not sufficiently current for you, you can switch even further – to the most recent kernel versions. This option is only for those willing to take risks: Run sudo armbian-config Select System and then, Other This will provide options for kernels that you can switch to for your hardware. For example, most hardware in the previous release came with kernel v6.6, and here you will be able to roll back to the previous 6.1 or try the most recent 6.9.y / 6.10.y. Please be aware that you are entering a bleeding-edge area where stability may be compromised, but you might find that everything works well. Happy hacking! Best Regards, The Armbian team The post Armbian Leaflet #25 first appeared on Armbian. View the full article

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