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1. Pinned topics

2. apt-get update fails with public key errors 1 2

   By flot010, September 10, 2022   

   • Other/unspec
   • 45 replies
   • 68.2k views
   • 
   • nexusguy59
   • February 28

3. Take control of your data with Nextcloud on Armbian! Set up your personal content collaboration platform for seamless file sharing and management.

4. Running self-build image on QEMU arm64

   By AlexK, April 29, 2024   

   • Other/unspec
   • 3 replies
   • 5.3k views
   • 
   • eselarm
   • January 16

5. Understanding Hardware-Accelerated Video Decoding 1 2 3

   By P.P.A., March 3, 2021
   • 80 replies
   • 68.4k views
   • 
   • dreamlayers
   • December 27, 2024

6. Linux OS with DRM enable & GPU hardware accelerated – How to

   By 2020, December 4, 2020
   • 7 replies
   • 22.8k views
   • 
   • NickB
   • March 20, 2023

7. Which are the differences between Bullseye CLI and Minimal?

   By freezr, December 8, 2022   

   • Other/unspec
   • 2 replies
   • 9.5k views
   • 
   • freezr
   • December 9, 2022

8. Tutorial How to provide and interpret Debug output

   By tkaiser, November 20, 2017
   • 4 replies
   • 48.1k views
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   • jupiter8
   • September 10, 2020

9. Other topics

10. Read Armbian sd card with Windows

    By paulted, April 18   

    • Other/unspec
    • 4 replies
    • 874 views
    • 
    • MaxT
    • 14 hours ago

11. SBC headless setup without LAN access

    By NickD, yesterday at 01:46 AM   

    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 3 replies
    • 277 views
    • 
    • NickD
    • 20 hours ago

12. How to manually DISABLE kernel update?

    By laurentppolx, Saturday at 10:12 AM   

    • Orange Pi 5
    • 1 reply
    • 181 views
    • 
    • eselarm
    • Saturday at 11:11 AM

13. Rasberry PI 5 Bluetooth Pairing Failure

    By Rikus, Thursday at 07:42 PM   

    • Raspberry Pi 5
    • 3 replies
    • 369 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • Friday at 04:36 PM

14. No display when trying to install Minimal Trixie on R6S

    By Chad Skeeters, July 20   

    • NanoPi R6S
    • 4 replies
    • 516 views
    • 
    • Chad Skeeters
    • Thursday at 08:02 PM

15. storage via usb plugins out of order

    By gene1934, August 3   

    • Other/unspec
    • 13 replies
    • 973 views
    • 
    • gene1934
    • Tuesday at 07:08 AM

16. KVM CPU host-passthrough

    By tanodzh, March 26   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 7 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • cemzafer
    • August 4

17. The repository 'http://apt.armbian.com bullseye Release' no longer has a Release file.

    By Sandeep, July 27   

    • Helios 4
    • 7 replies
    • 257 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • August 2

18. Ethernet throughput issues on armbian (at high latency)

    By Mike H, July 28   

    • NanoPi Neo 4
    • 7 replies
    • 689 views
    • 
    • Igor
    • August 1

19. Raspberry 5 - NVMe in USB-C case not detected

    By Chris007, July 30   

    • Raspberry Pi 5
    • 3 replies
    • 497 views
    • 
    • Chris007
    • July 31

20. Anyone using OnePlus 8T?

    By Tarik-Celik, July 30   

    • Oneplus Kebab
    • 4 replies
    • 626 views
    • 
    • Tarik-Celik
    • July 31

21. TI SK-AM62A7 Armbian support

    By Sahil Usmani, July 30   

    • Other/unspec
    • 2 replies
    • 392 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • July 31

22. Very Unusual Request - ZeroDesktop MiiPC M1140

    By fss-hacks, July 1   

    • Other/unspec
    • 6 replies
    • 791 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • July 31

23. How do I display the nice SSH login info again?

    By snow, July 27   

    • Orange Pi 5
    • 4 replies
    • 474 views
    • 
    • Werner
    • July 28

24. Can't build box86 or box64 on Orange pi zero 2w

    By QuowLord, July 13   

    • Orange Pi Zero 2W
    • 5 replies
    • 814 views
    • 
    • QuowLord
    • July 28

25. hostapd err on orange pi zero 3

    By JIN PRO, July 25   

    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 9 replies
    • 885 views
    • 
    • JIN PRO
    • July 28

26. Radxa-Zero3 Minimal IOT build overheating

    By fvig2001, July 26   

    • Radxa Zero 3W/E
    • 1 reply
    • 643 views
    • 
    • Igor
    • July 26

27. Trying to install Armbian onto an oDroid M1, but I can't get it to update the bootloader.

    By coredumperror, July 22   

    • Odroid M1
    • 1 reply
    • 318 views
    • 
    • usual user
    • July 22

28. 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   

    • Frequently asked question
    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 1 reply
    • 408 views
    • 
    • Werner
    • July 21

29. Boot without uImage

    By Ulrich, July 19   

    • Odroid C4
    • 2 replies
    • 389 views
    • 
    • SteeMan
    • July 19

30. move to armbian with Supervised HA

    By smartguy, July 17   

    • Odroid N2/N2+
    • 2 replies
    • 425 views
    • 
    • smartguy
    • July 19

31. QPC2 (win QL+SMSQ/e emulator) on OrangePi Zero3 using armbian and hangover/wine

    By 7alken, July 14   

    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 1 reply
    • 320 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • July 18

32. UART won't connect no matter what I do

    By devmichelcastilho, March 16   

    • Orange Pi 3 LTS
    • 8 replies
    • 1.6k views
    • 
    • devmichelcastilho
    • July 14

33. 6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx Kernel panic

    By eselarm, December 18, 2024   

    • Radxa ROCK 3A
    • 9 replies
    • 3.7k views
    • 
    • eselarm
    • July 12

34. boot + system incl. OMV from eMMC - howto transfer existing system from ssd to eMMC incl. configuration?

    By greg396, July 11   

    • Helios 64
    • 4 replies
    • 669 views
    • 
    • greg396
    • July 11

35. Switching Wifi Regions Fix and Question

    By Dandaman46, July 4   

    • NanoPi NEO
    • 3 replies
    • 651 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • July 9

36. OrangePi5Plus not booting on Armbian 25.5.1 noble gnome (Blinking Green no screen)

    By StingyMaker, July 5   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 1 reply
    • 475 views
    • 
    • Werner
    • July 6

37. Remote backup of SD card for an Orange Pi?

    By Geoffrey Schaller, June 27   

    • Orange Pi 3
    • 10 replies
    • 1.4k views
    • 
    • kris777
    • July 5

38. NanoPi neo AIR no avalible COM port when connect to PC after update

    By Aknot, March 11, 2024   

    • NanoPi NEO
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    • 
    • Dandaman46
    • July 4

39. Bananapi-R1 (lamobo-r1) Images

    By dravida, April 5, 2022   

    • Lamobo R1
    • 6 replies
    • 4k views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • July 3

40. can't boot with image Armbian 25.5.1 Bookworm

    By leos12, June 29   

    • Orange Pi Zero 2W
    • 7 replies
    • 737 views
    • 
    • ang
    • June 30

41. btrfs replace fails with rockchip64 edge kernel

    By eselarm, June 20   

    • Radxa ROCK 3A
    • NanoPi R6C
    • 4 replies
    • 719 views
    • 
    • eselarm
    • June 21

42. What is the latest version of the RTL8189FS driver?

    By Kevin Hoang, June 6   

    • Other/unspec
    • 6 replies
    • 1.2k views
    • 
    • Igor
    • June 19

43. Please repair readonly/overlay. It’s not working anymore

    By Jelly Jeleva, June 5   

    • Orange Pi PC
    • 1 reply
    • 597 views
    • 
    • Werner
    • June 5

44. Odroid HC4 Petitboot Flushed, system booted to SD, can't continue, no keyboard function.

    By Sagman33, June 3   

    • Odroid HC4
    • 2 replies
    • 574 views
    • 
    • Igor
    • June 4

45. Unable to Fully Disable rk_crypto2 in Armbian Build for RK3588

    By chapai, June 2   

    • FriendlyElec CM3588 NAS
    • 0 replies
    • 494 views
    • 
    • chapai
    • June 2

46. DKMS: Exec format error

    By Johnny on the couch, May 31   

    • Longan Pi 3H
    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 11 replies
    • 1.7k views
    • 
    • ag123
    • June 1

47. installation problem on setting timezone manually

    By Guest, November 14, 2023   

    • Le Potato
    • 6 replies
    • 4.2k views
    • 
    • samtab10.2000
    • June 1

48. beta.armbian.com expired certificate

    By ScoreABSM, May 29   

    • Radxa Zero 3W/E
    • 3 replies
    • 809 views
    • 
    • ScoreABSM
    • May 29

49. orange pi kernel not init spi

    By timmymg, May 29   

    • Orange Pi PC
    • 2 replies
    • 755 views
    • 
    • going
    • May 29

50. Armbian cannot install to hard drive

    By yoha, May 27   

    • Other/unspec
    • 1 reply
    • 602 views
    • 
    • Werner
    • May 27

51. Odroid N2+ doesn't boot server image v6.12

    By rosenrot00, May 25   

    • Odroid N2/N2+
    • 9 replies
    • 1.2k views
    • 
    • usual user
    • May 25

52. Autologin step-by-step manual for user pi, Armbian_noble_ubuntu-server

    By dr.vovanrus, May 1   

    • Banana Pi
    • 1 reply
    • 783 views
    • 
    • dr.vovanrus
    • May 24

53. Orange Pi 5 Bricked?

    By diafebus, February 19   

    • Orange Pi 5
    • 22 replies
    • 6.8k views
    • 
    • MaxT
    • May 20

54. Is it possible to build a custom image with a prebuilt kernel?

    By doragasu, May 19   

    • Raspberry Pi 4B
    • 2 replies
    • 582 views
    • 
    • doragasu
    • May 19

55. Cannot get orange pi 5 plus with AVX210 work.

    By saddestboy, April 25   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 2 replies
    • 834 views
    • 
    • AlbertoJ1
    • May 19

56. Incorrect information about the installed version

    By Bororo, April 18   

    • Orange Pi Zero
    • 4 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • AlbertoJ1
    • May 19

57. Using Zero 3W with Pi DAC/AMP Hat

    By Guest, May 18   

    • Radxa Zero 3W/E
    • 0 replies
    • 495 views
    • 
    • Guest
    • May 18

58. Unable to make it to work: RTC module ds3231, BPI M2Z and ARMBIAN Bookworm

    By Ed van den Enden, April 22   

    • Banana Pi BPI-M2 ZERO
    • 27 replies
    • 3.5k views
    • 
    • djurny
    • May 15

59. Issues using the build framework

    By Сергей Гладченко, May 14   

    • Banana Pi BPI-M1
    • 4 replies
    • 661 views
    • 
    • Werner
    • May 14

60. hw 125 + orange pi r1

    By Kovach, May 13   

    • Orange Pi R1
    • 0 replies
    • 456 views
    • 
    • Kovach
    • May 13

61. Can no longer login on any account

    By concor789, January 20, 2024   

    • Odroid C2
    • 4 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • GicaContra
    • May 12

62. Orange Pi Plus 2e USB ports not working.

    By catotinha, May 5   

    • Orange Pi Plus 2E
    • 5 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • Pilinha
    • May 9

63. orange pi lite is overheating

    By Backloz, May 8   

    • Orange Pi Lite
    • 1 reply
    • 577 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • May 9

64. OrangePi 4 LTS and UART Pins

    By shellz, April 29   

    • Orange Pi 4 LTS
    • 2 replies
    • 743 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • May 8

65. Workflow for building custom packages?

    By doragasu, April 21   

    • Raspberry Pi 4B
    • 2 replies
    • 686 views
    • 
    • doragasu
    • April 21

66. first try of latest armbian uefi-x86 on amd ryzen7 8845hs mini system, comments

    By 7alken, April 11   

    • UEFI x86
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views
    • 
    • 7alken
    • April 20

67. why are we still using uInitrd?

    By wn2t, April 14   

    • Other/unspec
    • 0 replies
    • 562 views
    • 
    • wn2t
    • April 14

68. Does BTRFS wear down eMMC/SD card quickly (like ZFS)?

    By abceleung, April 1   

    • ROCK 5C
    • NanoPi M6
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views
    • 
    • hexdump
    • April 13

69. /etc/resolv.conf how to get just two entries

    By dolphs, March 29   

    • Documentation
    • 2 replies
    • 769 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • April 13

70. Wifi setup

    By Eloy Bote Falcon, September 8, 2024   

    • Banana Pi M4 Zero
    • 18 replies
    • 27.1k views
    • 
    • c0rnelius
    • April 10

71. Recent versions of ZFS related packages on Armbian Jammy fail to work

    By Gunwoo Gim, March 12   

    • Odroid HC4
    • 14 replies
    • 2.5k views
    • 
    • Igor
    • April 4

72. [FIXED] Firefox starts with message "failed to read the configuration file"

    By specs, March 17, 2024   

    • ROCK 5B
    • 3 replies
    • 3.4k views
    • 
    • gerstavros
    • April 2

73. Copying an image file to emmc on RockPi-S

    By Meestor_X, March 31   

    • ROCK Pi S
    • 2 replies
    • 675 views
    • 
    • Meestor_X
    • March 31

74. User device overlays don't load after upgrade to 25.2

    By grixm, March 18   

    • Radxa Rock S0
    • 1 reply
    • 872 views
    • 
    • grixm
    • March 28

75. Dual wlan RTL8822CE on Debian/minimal/IOT for NanoPi 5RC

    By KaimZX, March 28   

    • Other/unspec
    • 2 replies
    • 702 views
    • 
    • KaimZX
    • March 28

76. Now starting desktop environment... Does not display hdmi output

    By spyda_mayn, March 26   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 7 replies
    • 1.3k views
    • 
    • spyda_mayn
    • March 28

77. Where has enabling things like I2C moved to ?

    By Björn Eiríksson, March 26   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 2 replies
    • 779 views
    • 
    • Björn Eiríksson
    • March 27

78. Cloning SD card to eMMC and then changing boot device

    By Meestor_X, February 15   

    • ROCK Pi S
    • 7 replies
    • 2.3k views
    • 
    • Torte
    • March 27

79. PCIE device compatibility

    By Andrea Cerfoglia, March 26   

    • Orange Pi 4
    • 0 replies
    • 503 views
    • 
    • Andrea Cerfoglia
    • March 26

80. ODROID N2+: Cannot install ZFS

    By Nicola Zilio, November 24, 2024   

    • Odroid N2/N2+
    • 16 replies
    • 3.8k views
    • 
    • Gunwoo Gim
    • March 23

81. patch u-boot

    By Ian Goodacre, March 4   

    • NanoPi R2S
    • 10 replies
    • 2k views
    • 
    • Ian Goodacre
    • March 21

82. GPIO pin assignments

    By Rob Tapp, March 21   

    • NanoPi NEO
    • 0 replies
    • 586 views
    • 
    • Rob Tapp
    • March 21

83. Can't find old version Armbian for Nanopi neo air

    By Serhii, March 20   

    • NanoPi NEO Air
    • 2 replies
    • 764 views
    • 
    • Werner
    • March 20

84. armbian-build, dts patch, can't find file to patch at input line 9...

    By Murat Demirtas, March 17   

    • Orange Pi 4 LTS
    • 8 replies
    • 1.8k views
    • 
    • Murat Demirtas
    • March 19

85. Hyperpixel screen

    By SymBiioTE, March 19   

    • Orange Pi Zero 2W
    • 0 replies
    • 487 views
    • 
    • SymBiioTE
    • March 19

86. armbian-config won't install docker engine

    By devmichelcastilho, March 17   

    • Orange Pi 3 LTS
    • 1 reply
    • 864 views
    • 
    • devmichelcastilho
    • March 18

87. Cubietruck Ubuntu 6.6.75-current-sunxi crashing at midnight

    By rcr, March 8   

    • Cubietruck
    • 3 replies
    • 1k views
    • 
    • rcr
    • March 17

88. Armbian-config eMMC install shows no space (not even zero) available

    By devmichelcastilho, March 16   

    • Orange Pi 3 LTS
    • 6 replies
    • 1.3k views
    • 
    • Igor
    • March 17

89. Armbian on an X86 multi boot PC

    By SleepyD, March 16   

    • UEFI x86
    • 0 replies
    • 643 views
    • 
    • SleepyD
    • March 16

90. armbain-config file not found

    By phantom0600, March 16   

    • Orange Pi Zero Plus2 H3
    • 1 reply
    • 583 views
    • 
    • Werner
    • March 16

91. motd not showing

    By Meestor_X, January 6   

    • Radxa Rock S0
    • ROCK Pi S
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views
    • 
    • konsD
    • March 15

92. NanoPi R2S Plus WAN port

    By Ian Goodacre, February 27   

    • NanoPi R2S
    • 10 replies
    • 2.2k views
    • 
    • Ian Goodacre
    • March 13

93. release testing process documentation

    By bsammon, March 11   

    • Documentation
    • 0 replies
    • 535 views
    • 
    • bsammon
    • March 11

94. "WSL2 Terminal does not support UTF-8" when building

    By grixm, July 16, 2024   

    • ROCK Pi S
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    • 
    • adjective-object
    • March 9

95. Slow boot without monitor plugged in after v25.2 update

    By Holgi, February 28   

    • Banana Pi M5
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • Holgi
    • March 4

96. Odroid HC4 not able to reboot

    By berobispo, February 28   

    • Odroid HC4
    • 8 replies
    • 1.5k views
    • 
    • c0rnelius
    • March 2

97. Orange PI 5 Plus not booting

    By Shad, January 28   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views
    • 
    • nexusguy59
    • February 28

98. How to change default window manager (GNOME -> IceWM) ?

    By dr_toggleswitch, February 23   

    • Banana Pi BPI-M3
    • 1 reply
    • 895 views
    • 
    • eselarm
    • February 23

99. no audio and other probs - Pine A64 2G

    By BlackMage, February 20   

    • PINE A64
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • BlackMage
    • February 20

100. 502 Bad Gateway on apt update

     By ThermonuclearBowlOfPetunia, February 18   

     • ROCK 5 ITX
     • 4 replies
     • 1.6k views
     • 
     • VerAS
     • February 19

101. Orange PI PC Plus compile MT7921au driver

     By ducs4rs, April 30, 2023   

     • Orange Pi PC Plus
     • 1 reply
     • 1.6k views
     • 
     • fvgenn
     • February 19

102. Recovering RAID5 array

     By pegamonstro, February 2   

     • Helios 4
     • 2 replies
     • 916 views
     • 
     • nexusguy59
     • February 17

103. avaota A1 how to start from SD card

     By constantius, October 15, 2024   

     • Avaota-A1
     • 8 replies
     • 153.4k views
     • 
     • thanh_tan
     • February 12