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1. How to enter to u-boot enviroment ?

   By BlackS, November 6, 2025   

   • ROCK 5B
   • 10 replies
   • 2.1k views
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   • BlackS
   • November 7, 2025

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3. How to extend /var/log handled by log2ram

   By Don Pedro, March 6, 2018
   • 6 replies
   • 6.6k views
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   • Don Pedro
   • March 9, 2018

4. How to extent the amount of text I can paste into the terminal.

   By Joelh, November 3, 2021
   • 4 replies
   • 2k views
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   • TRS-80
   • November 8, 2021

5. How to fix a locale setting warning from Perl?

   By Malikz, January 20, 2019
   • 2 replies
   • 1.7k views
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   • Z11ntal33r
   • January 26, 2019

6. How to force-reinstall the Armbian desktop environment the way armbian-config did?

   By linuxfan, September 25, 2021
   • 1 reply
   • 3.7k views
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   • Werner
   • September 26, 2021

7. How to get a verbose startup with Armbian

   By op1tjaap, April 7, 2016   

   • Other/unspec
   • 5 replies
   • 9.8k views
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   • op1tjaap
   • April 8, 2016

8. How to get Armbian running on a X86_64 with multiboot?

   By gounthar, March 23, 2022
   • 14 replies
   • 6.4k views
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   • TRS-80
   • August 1, 2022

9. How to get nice (Ubuntu) icons on Armbian 23.02 Jammy Gnome?

   By fadedbee, March 15, 2023   

   • Orange Pi 3
   • 1 reply
   • 2.5k views
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   • Igor
   • March 15, 2023

10. How to get older Linux-headers

    By baerenbisch, October 31, 2019   

    • Other/unspec
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
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    • baerenbisch
    • October 31, 2019

11. How to get past "Raising network interface"

    By arjepsen, March 17, 2021
    • 4 replies
    • 2.3k views
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    • arjepsen
    • March 18, 2021

12. How to get unique ID of some component on PCB

    By Robert LabTeam, October 8, 2017   

    • Other/unspec
    • 1 reply
    • 2.5k views
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    • martinayotte
    • October 8, 2017

13. How to grow a RAID5

    By vspeed, May 24, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
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    • vspeed
    • May 24, 2019

14. How to Increase CMA Size on Armbian

    By sigourneyanderson, September 24, 2024   

    • Orange Pi 3B
    • 0 replies
    • 974 views
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    • sigourneyanderson
    • September 24, 2024

15. How to install "numpy" on Pine a64 1gb?

    By Shubhanshu, January 29, 2021
    • 4 replies
    • 3.7k views
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    • Shubhanshu
    • February 2, 2021

16. How to install a compiled kernel on armbian

    By Salvador Liébana, June 20, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 1.7k views
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    • lanefu
    • June 22, 2019

17. How to install Arabian Focal onto the eMMC?

    By Clownfish, October 28, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 2k views
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    • Werner
    • October 28, 2020

18. How to install Armbian in Banana pi M2 zero with headless

    By Settouf Mostafa, April 25, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 15.1k views
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    • NicoD
    • April 25, 2021

19. How to Install Box86-Box64 Wine32-Wine64 Winetricks on Arm64

    By rna, December 17, 2021
    • 17 replies
    • 98.6k views
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    • Tino Scoglio
    • September 25, 2024

20. How to install ffmpeg?

    By alexparser, February 15, 2016
    • 2 replies
    • 10.3k views
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    • alexparser
    • February 17, 2016

21. how to install Linux on Allwinner A20 MBOX103C ?

    By Bangliang Shen, January 30, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
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    • Bangliang Shen
    • January 30, 2019

22. how to install OpenCL on headless Rockpro64 ?

    By Kivka, June 29, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 2.6k views
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    • ning
    • July 1, 2020

23. How to install the latest version?

    By Suxsem, August 16, 2016
    • 12 replies
    • 4.6k views
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    • Suxsem
    • August 16, 2016

24. How to install Xorg on armbian server

    By matrasa, January 7, 2018   

    • Other/unspec
    • 0 replies
    • 7.8k views
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    • matrasa
    • January 7, 2018

25. How to install zabbix server on armbian?

    By Joaobvn, September 2, 2021
    • 2 replies
    • 4.9k views
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    • umiddelb
    • September 8, 2021

26. How to install, enable and start watchdog in H3 1 2

    By sovking, November 17, 2016   

    • Other/unspec
    • 35 replies
    • 45.4k views
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    • megusta
    • October 30, 2019

27. How to keep serial connection alive?

    By Osiris, July 8, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
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    • Osiris
    • July 8, 2018

28. How to make (early) cryptdisks ask for a password on Ubuntu

    By xnyle, February 2, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 2.8k views
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    • xnyle
    • February 3, 2018

29. How to make a bootable armbian sd card for firefly rk3399?

    By Somebody, November 13, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
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    • martinayotte
    • November 13, 2019

30. How to make installed armbian smaller?

    By jessicajung, September 5, 2017   

    • Other/unspec
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
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    • lanefu
    • September 5, 2017

31. How to make partitions. Gparted doesn't work.

    By Lothar, March 9, 2016
    • 1 reply
    • 4.9k views
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    • Tido
    • March 9, 2016

32. how to make SD card bootable on Odroid HC2?

    By mortee, February 26, 2021
    • 2 replies
    • 2.4k views
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    • Igor
    • February 26, 2021

33. How to make sound via HDMI connection work

    By D_el, December 23, 2022   

    • Orange Pi 4 LTS
    • 1 reply
    • 6.9k views
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    • SoSie
    • January 23, 2023

34. How to make unattended-upgrades working?

    By AZ8, May 24, 2019
    • 10 replies
    • 8.2k views
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    • Henrik
    • March 22, 2020

35. How to manually DISABLE kernel update?

    By laurentppolx, August 9, 2025   

    • Orange Pi 5
    • 1 reply
    • 1.5k views
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    • eselarm
    • August 9, 2025

36. How to manually edit or obtain HDMI timings

    By markjeronimus, April 12, 2017   

    • Other/unspec
    • 2 replies
    • 2.7k views
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    • markjeronimus
    • May 2, 2017

37. how to modify MOTD

    By g00d, October 31, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 8.6k views
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    • g00d
    • October 31, 2021

38. How to modify the default HDMI output to 1280 * 1080 and modify the default audio output to HDMI?

    By Ken, December 13, 2021
    • 3 replies
    • 3.3k views
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    • Ken
    • December 21, 2021

39. How to modify uboot locally for compilation

    By sakesm, April 19, 2024   

    • Orange Pi Zero 2
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
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    • sakesm
    • May 7, 2024

40. How to overclock H3 CPU ???

    By mrxbox, January 31, 2018   

    • Other/unspec
    • 4 replies
    • 6.1k views
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    • mrxbox
    • February 2, 2018

41. How to overclock Orange Pi boards.

    By Aditya, November 18, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • Aditya
    • November 18, 2019

42. How to port Armbian to a new RK3399 SoM

    By GEB, May 18, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • GEB
    • May 18, 2020

43. How to prepare official image NOT to prompt root password and initial user? Ethernet connection with DHCP but no HDM / mouse / keyboard.

    By laurentppol, July 21, 2025   

    • Frequently asked question
    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 1 reply
    • 723 views
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    • Werner
    • July 21, 2025

44. How to prevent main branch or external dependencies changes from breaking local build?

    By JGWD, October 24, 2023   

    • Radxa Zero
    • 2 replies
    • 1.8k views
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    • Igor
    • December 8, 2023

45. How to put QT project running into OrangePi 4

    By carlosinacio, November 3, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 2.2k views
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    • Werner
    • November 5, 2020

46. How to Re add Ambian repostiory

    By johnnyde94, August 4, 2021
    • 4 replies
    • 2.5k views
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    • lanefu
    • August 4, 2021

47. how to re-install wifi driver after installing to Pinebook pro's eMCC?

    By pinebook, February 8, 2022
    • 8 replies
    • 3.2k views
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    • pinebook
    • February 16, 2022

48. How to read the motd / Wheres the data from

    By Daniel Jørgensen, May 2, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 2.9k views
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    • Igor
    • May 3, 2017

49. How to Recover the Contents of the /boot Folder

    By Volo, July 28, 2024   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 3 replies
    • 2.6k views
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    • Volo
    • August 10, 2024

50. How to reference Armbian OpenCPN build documentation

    By svkatielee, April 16, 2016   

    • Other/unspec
    • 2 replies
    • 2.6k views
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    • Igor
    • April 18, 2016

51. How to reload splash screen and change some settings within it?

    By thegaem, September 3, 2022   

    • Odroid HC4
    • 0 replies
    • 1.8k views
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    • thegaem
    • September 3, 2022

52. How to remove / kill / forget WiFi AP ?

    By mistofeles, September 30, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
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    • mistofeles
    • September 30, 2021

53. How to remove /tmp from tmpfs

    By Akhilleus Uggo, October 24, 2021
    • 5 replies
    • 8.3k views
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    • armdran
    • May 10, 2023

54. How to replace the welcome message at login?

    By alexparser, December 14, 2017
    • 3 replies
    • 16.5k views
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    • Igor
    • January 27, 2018

55. How to return Orange Pi Zero from power saving mode?

    By Qwalcon, July 27, 2019
    • 19 replies
    • 15.6k views
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    • lxde-OSIREN
    • July 31, 2019

56. solved How to rollback to previous kernel?

    By AZ8, September 8, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 4.4k views
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    • Werner
    • September 8, 2020

57. How to run just the custom-image script on an already built image

    By dkebler, January 12, 2023   

    • ROCK64
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
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    • dkebler
    • January 12, 2023

58. How to run LitecoinNode?

    By tryme, January 6, 2017
    • 0 replies
    • 1.9k views
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    • tryme
    • January 6, 2017

59. How to run SoftFloat based binary in OrangePiPC ?

    By ManikandanP, November 3, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 2.3k views
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    • xwiggen
    • November 4, 2020

60. How to securely modify OrangePiH5orangepi.dts

    By eyatsko, January 5, 2019   

    • Other/unspec
    • 9 replies
    • 3.2k views
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    • martinayotte
    • January 5, 2019

61. How to select a good board, processor?

    By Kris, June 2, 2017
    • 7 replies
    • 4.6k views
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    • pfeerick
    • June 25, 2017

62. How to select kernel 4.x while building armbian

    By Roman Lazoryshchak, December 30, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 1.7k views
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    • Roman Lazoryshchak
    • December 30, 2019

63. solved How to send yes/no with dialog box in bash shell

    By kimwida, September 10, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 2.8k views
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    • kimwida
    • September 10, 2020

64. How to set up NFS

    By soerenderfor, January 25, 2020
    • 12 replies
    • 7.8k views
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    • guidol
    • February 4, 2020

65. How to set up the time?

    By AndrewPayton, September 3, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 2k views
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    • Werner
    • September 3, 2020

66. How to show hostname instead of ip address ?

    By divide, April 13, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 3.1k views
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    • Gravelrash
    • April 17, 2018

67. How to specify a Kernel to be loaded on armbianENV.txt??

    By Salvador Liébana, June 15, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 1.9k views
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    • Werner
    • June 15, 2020

68. how to speedup booting

    By coollofty, September 4, 2018   

    • Other/unspec
    • 3 replies
    • 4.8k views
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    • tkaiser
    • September 5, 2018

69. How to start gparted on Xfce over a VNC connection? It wouldn't start and says "cannot open display: :1.0"

    By linuxfan, January 11, 2021
    • 3 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • _r9
    • January 14, 2021

70. How to stop Armbian from sleeping on its own?

    By Zach Jeffries, August 14, 2023   

    • Orange Pi 3 LTS
    • 1 reply
    • 2.4k views
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    • TRS-80
    • August 14, 2023

71. how to stop losing GPIO interrupts due to bursty processes

    By Dennboy, February 11, 2021
    • 2 replies
    • 1.6k views
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    • Dennboy
    • February 12, 2021

72. How to stop sleep mode, hibernation mode

    By Glenn Cindy Plummer, October 22, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 6.3k views
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    • Igor
    • October 23, 2020

73. How to stop sudo PAM messages in auth.log for a specific user

    By Miguel, December 5, 2018
    • 5 replies
    • 4.1k views
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    • sfx2000
    • December 7, 2018

74. How to switch H6's ARISC (CPUS) core clock source? :)

    By MX_Master, May 16, 2021
    • 2 replies
    • 1.8k views
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    • jernej
    • May 16, 2021

75. How to switch OS install from one model to another? [OPI 4 -> OPI 4 lts]

    By Turbine, June 29, 2022   

    • Orange Pi 4
    • Orange Pi 4 LTS
    • 3 replies
    • 1.8k views
    • 
    • Werner
    • June 30, 2022

76. how to switch to GBM on Armbian?

    By Salvador Liébana, March 12, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 1.6k views
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    • Salvador Liébana
    • March 12, 2021

77. how to take full backup

    By GB_linux, October 29, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 4.4k views
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    • Adoby
    • November 4, 2018

78. how to test gpu on armbian

    By wszgrcy, January 14, 2025   

    • ROCK Pi 4B
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
    • 
    • Werner
    • January 14, 2025

79. How to test wayland on armbian?

    By jock, March 30, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 3.5k views
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    • Myy
    • March 30, 2019

80. How to turn off zram

    By SERG_V, January 19, 2024   

    • SiFive Unmatched
    • 3 replies
    • 3.6k views
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    • Werner
    • January 20, 2024

81. How to unable the UART or serial connection in Armbian OS with Banana Pi Zero ?

    By Ram, June 6, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 2.5k views
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    • Ram
    • June 6, 2018

82. How to unbrick the system?

    By phuongdv, August 8, 2018   

    • Other/unspec
    • 2 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • ag123
    • August 14, 2018

83. How to update MPV to latest version?

    By RobertF1, January 20, 2019   

    • Other/unspec
    • 1 reply
    • 1.9k views
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    • ning
    • January 21, 2019

84. How to upgrade [: No end-user support: built from trunk ] from Focal to latest version

    By Dombo 71, February 4, 2022
    • 4 replies
    • 6.3k views
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    • Dombo 71
    • February 19, 2022

85. How to upgrade 3rd party software installed through armbian-config (eg: pi-hole)

    By miclass, June 13, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 2.5k views
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    • MacBreaker
    • June 14, 2020

86. How to use GPU connected through m.2 on Orange Pi 5 Plus with Armbian?

    By General TJ, October 19, 2023   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 2 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • Michael Robinson
    • July 16, 2024

87. How to use I2C DS1307 RTC early in boot?

    By JeremyA, December 8, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 2.3k views
    • 
    • usual user
    • December 8, 2020

88. How to use ILI9341 in armbian

    By Azily, August 23, 2023   

    • NanoPi K2 S905
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    • 
    • Azily
    • August 23, 2023

89. How to use microusb port on OrangePi Lite?

    By Christian_, April 12, 2020
    • 5 replies
    • 3.7k views
    • 
    • Christian_
    • April 12, 2020

90. How to use OrangePi 5 Plus's NPU for Image Generation?

    By Johson, December 4, 2025   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 2 replies
    • 1.7k views
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    • usual user
    • December 5, 2025

91. how to use serial library in python

    By golpesar132, July 1, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 2.1k views
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    • martinayotte
    • July 1, 2017

92. how to use the GPIO to use SATA devices ?

    By Ozebe, September 23, 2017   

    • Other/unspec
    • 9 replies
    • 6.8k views
    • 
    • Ozebe
    • September 23, 2017

93. How to use the kernel source to cross compile an .ko kernel module?

    By Yuanyi Wu, September 16, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views
    • 
    • Yuanyi Wu
    • September 16, 2021

94. How to use the SKIP_BOOTSPLASH build option?

    By jimt, May 4, 2023   

    • Vision Five 2
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
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    • jimt
    • May 4, 2023

95. How use armbian-add-overlay on latest armbian 22.08

    By iamdrq, September 1, 2022   

    • NanoPC T4
    • 3 replies
    • 9.2k views
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    • balbes150
    • September 2, 2022

96. How use csi ov5640 with OrangePi Pc ?

    By ivan_nsk, October 2, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 3.7k views
    • 
    • Werner
    • October 2, 2021

97. How-to install Asterisk/FreePBX or Elastix Server on Armbian OPiPC+ ?

    By aberean, October 19, 2016
    • 11 replies
    • 15.8k views
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    • Igor
    • December 1, 2018

98. HOWTO : NFS Server and Client Configuration

    By Gravelrash, June 25, 2016
    • 10 replies
    • 32.3k views
    • 
    • trohn_javolta
    • March 2, 2017

99. Howto apply user u-boot patch to legacy branch

    By Juriy Rood, May 20, 2024   

    • BIGTREETECH CB1
    • 0 replies
    • 880 views
    • 
    • Juriy Rood
    • May 20, 2024

100. HowTo create software Wireless Access Point?

     By Shamanches, June 6, 2016
     • 4 replies
     • 4k views
     • 
     • jernej
     • September 25, 2016

101. HowTo install Firefox in Armbian?

     By Shamanches, April 25, 2016
     • 2 replies
     • 14.7k views
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     • Toast
     • April 25, 2016