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There was a devicetree related pull request sent for the audio issue on another board two months ago. It hasn't gotten any action since it was made: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8568

You can install firefox. Not sure why you're not seeing it. If you're using Ubuntu Noble, firefox has issues. I think it normally installs from an Armbian repository, and last I installed it in Armbian Noble (just a couple days ago), it didn't work at all, so Armbian's firefox is, at present, non-functional. However you can install Ubuntu's, but their version is only available as a snap rather than a debian package. In my experience snap applications are slower to start up, plus they invade your home directories with a snap folder. Snap applications are also not necessarily open-source behind Cannonical's wall. Armbian desktop images also come with a Microsoft program: Visual Studio Code. And a Microsoft repository is added to the apt repositories specifically to handle updates for that program. You can, of course, uninstall it. The package name is just called code. Then you can go it: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and delete the microsoft file (using sudo), if it's still there. That will remove its repository. Then apt update. If there's no microsoft file there, then it's already been done. Not sure why it's taking 30 minutes to run apt update??? There is an Armbian repository that's usually slow, but it's I've never experienced it being that slow. If you really want an OS created by those who are more trustworthy, I would recommend Debian over Ubuntu. In Debian, firefox works without issue. Although the Armbian firefox hijacks your home page to keep returning to Armbian's site, despite your settings. There's a settings file somewhere that they modified to do that, you can delete their modification to stop that. I'm not sure which file it is though. I looked it up once, but never kept the info. But Ubuntu does seem to run better, and it has many more software options in its repositories, but those extras tend to be closed-source. But in Debian, there are a couple of software GUIs you can used to install snaps and flatpacks if you want to. Apparently snaps are maintained by Cannonical (Ubuntu) and tend to be closed, whereas flatpacks are openly-maintained and are apparently more efficient - though I don't have much experience with either. I prefer straight debian (.deb) packages when available.

I retried that image now but with a different installation method, booting into OOWOW (?) via the Function+Reset button, control via serial debug console. I then wget the image from my local server and dd out to /dev/mmcblock0. Subsequent boot was indeed successful.

Thanks for the information, everyone. I transferred the OS to the EMMC as recommended by CryBaby, and all is running well. I am slowly finding my way round Armbian - not too difficult, due to the similarities between Armbian and Linux Mint. So far, the only thing I really dislike is the Chromium Web-Browser. Not Chromium per se, but its infested with Google, and if there is one thing that I have always considered detrimental to any computer is Google (and Microsoft). I've been looking for another browser to install, but no luck so far - any recommendations, anyone? - as a Linux user, I would like Firefox, but so far, haven't found it. The software cache seems very slow to update - Its been about 30 minutes so far, and has not even reached 50% - I'm comparing again to Linux Mint, which usually updates the cache in 2 or 3 minutes (I have a fibre-optic internet connection, with 948 Mbit/s upload/480 Mbit/s Download, and its connected by cable, not wireless, so not slow). It looks as though I will have to stop using '-' as a connector between parts of my text - I just read somewhere that it has been hi-jacked by the AI wallies to indicate that a particular text is generated by AI. I may make mistakes and be slow, but I'm definitely not Artificial Idiocy (I know - you're Natural Idiocy.....😉 Seriously - thanks for all the help you provided - I've got from a pricey little brick to a useable computer with your inputs - thanks again, Keith

sorry, no idea 🤷‍♂️

@laibsch That first one you posted is one of the ones I boot tested a week ago. It is still in my Download dir. Booted for me.

Thank you, @c0rnelius. I might do that. But I believe that in fact, the images are faulty (and hence should be replaced). Can you confirm to boot successfully from any of the ones I marked as broken?

You should try erasing the eMMC or re-flashing U-Boot to it. I don't see why that would be necessary, as it wasn't for me. But I did read somewhere on their wiki at one point that in some use cases erasing the eMMC is a work around when getting boot fails.

Today's Khadas-supplied Armbian Trixie image works but gives out a warning that it is intended only for developers and not for production. sha256sum: f4a3038ce2f3b67151ceab10d6cb075939262956995038d23d1527fe74fd08d9

Thank you for your reply. Could you please direct me to the appropriate section for my problem? @jock

@samircobra Did you try multitool? You can find it in the first post; also read carefully the first post, it contains very useful informations, for example the hint about the failing eMMC on these rk3318 boards. Probably your box has a failing eMMC. Also another important thing: we don't talk about "firmwares" here, we talk about Armbian, so if you have questions not related to Armbian, this is the wrong place.

Audio out of HDMI works for me out of the box. Kind of. I flashed a kernel 6.15 (that I had lying around) Cinnamon image, because all the recent Gnome images I have fail and just boot to initramfs. I then installed Gnome and enabled Wayland. I then used armbian-config to upgrade the kernel to 6.16 something. Sound test in Gnome settings work. I think this should just work with my kernel 6.15 too iirc. But also I seem to remember having problems when not using Gnome.

I tried several methods, but when I attempt to flash the firmware, an error message appears stating "Update failed %2". I kindly request assistance from experts to find the appropriate firmware for this device.

Yes, the more recent Khadas-supplied image also fails to boot. The unit came with Android flashed from the factory and that image worked fine (but was ugly and I do not know which one it was exactly). Trying to install an Android or Ubuntu image via their OOWOW service also failed but at the time I did not log it via serial console. Maybe it is to do with the changes in VIM4 New? Maybe it is a Ubuntu issue? At this point, I cannot say for sure, yet. I believe I can say with a fair degree of certainty that recent images from both Armbian and Khadas are broken. Other users have reported similar experiences. I am currently going through all kinds of images to see if they work or not. @c0rnelius was kind enough to provide me with a trixie-based, self-compiled image and that one worked, too. He also did not have any issues with other images, but I believe he did not try Android or Ubuntu images, but only Trixie and Coreelec ones. I believe I tried at one point a self-compiled Ubuntu image and that also did not work. Again, I did not get a serial console log for that one.

The three holes could be access to a serial console if necessary. Ground Transmit Receive. If you want to try this, baudrate is most likely 115200 like all Allwinner SoCs.

I think the easiest would be to get/build an image with mesa-vpu extension enabled. Unfortunately there is no automated way to do the stuff this extension does while building, in a live system. In general there are two ways to get hw acceleration: panthor or proprietary mali blobs. Former is from my feels better for general desktop usage and latter for hw encoding/decoding. Both cannot co-exist, no idea why. Latter needs vendor kernel branch. This would give you a Noble Gnome desktop image with Panthor driver enabled: ./compile.sh BOARD=youyeetoo-r1-v3 BRANCH=vendor BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED='browsers desktop_tools internet multimedia' DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=gnome DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base ENABLE_EXTENSIONS=mesa-vpu KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=noble Feel free to test: https://testing.armbian.de/Armbian-unofficial_25.11.0-trunk_Youyeetoo-r1-v3_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz

edge = 6.16.y vendor = 6.1.115 Which kernel do you actually use? Also isn't panthor the backported gpu driver for rk35xx?

So besides Armbian a more recent image from khadas themselves also fails to boot?

Yes, this is quite common that feature xy has been implemented but the device trees don't get necessary updates. Often this is fixed by inheritance but sometimes adjustments on board level are necessary. Feel free to compare and send a PR to fix this until edge is bumped to 6.17 or even 6.18-rc1

This is severely outdated. Use this one instead: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/

@AHMEDLORI

the current filogic kernel has no info [in github] for where it was forked from, and trying to apply incremental patches from kernel.org I found it contains pieces of 6.14 in an ostensibly 6.12 branch. @chainsx might you be able to divulge where you forked it from?

The device is not working how install ? thanks for support

PR Has been merged. I rebuilt on commit 1cf20837d27a3c09d93395f075cc305c81b4663f and things look good. Build instructions remain the same as my last post on this /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ ___ / _|/ _(_)__(_)__ _| | / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \___| || | ' \/ _ \ _| _| / _| / _` | | /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_| \_,_|_||_\___/_| |_| |_\__|_\__,_|_| v25.11 rolling for Odroid C1 running Armbian Linux 6.12.49-current-meson Packages: Debian stable (trixie) Support: DIY (custom image) IPv4: (LAN) 192.168.1.95, 10.8.0.1, 10.10.0.1 (WAN) ww.xx.yy.zz IPv6: 0000:1111:2222:3333:444:555:6666:7777 Performance: Load: 2% Uptime: 23:36 Memory usage: 8% of 986M CPU temp: 49°C Usage of /: 15% of 6.9G

@Igor is probably in the best position to answer when a new image for your board might be available. This is actually fairly easy to do by building your own image: "git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git;cd build;./compile.sh" https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Building-with-Docker/ https://evilolaf.github.io/docupreview/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcEFsXEJEE