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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
   • 65.3k views
   • 
   • nexusguy59
   • February 28

3. Keep an eye on your SBC’s performance with Armbian’s Monitoring guide. Set up powerful monitoring tools easily for optimal system health!

4. Running self-build image on QEMU arm64

   By AlexK, April 29, 2024   

   • Other/unspec
   • 3 replies
   • 4.7k views
   • 
   • eselarm
   • January 16

5. Understanding Hardware-Accelerated Video Decoding 1 2 3

   By P.P.A., March 3, 2021
   • 80 replies
   • 66.4k views
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   • dreamlayers
   • December 27, 2024

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

   By 2020, December 4, 2020
   • 7 replies
   • 22.6k views
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   • NickB
   • March 20, 2023

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

   By freezr, December 8, 2022   

   • Other/unspec
   • 2 replies
   • 9.4k views
   • 
   • freezr
   • December 9, 2022

8. Tutorial How to provide and interpret Debug output

   By tkaiser, November 20, 2017
   • 4 replies
   • 47.9k views
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   • jupiter8
   • September 10, 2020

9. Other topics

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

    By QuowLord, Sunday at 07:45 AM   

    • Orange Pi Zero 2W
    • 2 replies
    • 334 views
    • 
    • QuowLord
    • Yesterday at 04:47 AM

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

    By 7alken, Monday at 06:45 PM   

    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 0 replies
    • 118 views
    • 
    • 7alken
    • Monday at 06:45 PM

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

    By devmichelcastilho, March 16   

    • Orange Pi 3 LTS
    • 8 replies
    • 1.4k views
    • 
    • devmichelcastilho
    • Monday at 12:56 PM

13. 6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx Kernel panic

    By eselarm, December 18, 2024   

    • Radxa ROCK 3A
    • 9 replies
    • 3.3k views
    • 
    • eselarm
    • Saturday at 06:50 AM

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

    By greg396, Friday at 07:06 AM   

    • Helios 64
    • 4 replies
    • 501 views
    • 
    • greg396
    • Friday at 03:33 PM

15. Switching Wifi Regions Fix and Question

    By Dandaman46, July 4   

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

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

    By StingyMaker, July 5   

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

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

    By Geoffrey Schaller, June 27   

    • Orange Pi 3
    • 10 replies
    • 1.2k views
    • 
    • kris777
    • July 5

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

    By Aknot, March 11, 2024   

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

19. Bananapi-R1 (lamobo-r1) Images

    By dravida, April 5, 2022   

    • Lamobo R1
    • 6 replies
    • 3.9k views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • July 3

20. Very Unusual Request - ZeroDesktop MiiPC M1140

    By fss-hacks, July 1   

    • Other/unspec
    • 4 replies
    • 539 views
    • 
    • laibsch
    • July 3

21. can't boot with image Armbian 25.5.1 Bookworm

    By leos12, June 29   

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

22. btrfs replace fails with rockchip64 edge kernel

    By eselarm, June 20   

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

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

    By Kevin Hoang, June 6   

    • Other/unspec
    • 6 replies
    • 973 views
    • 
    • Igor
    • June 19

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

    By Jelly Jeleva, June 5   

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

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

    By Sagman33, June 3   

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

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

    By chapai, June 2   

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

27. DKMS: Exec format error

    By Johnny on the couch, May 31   

    • Longan Pi 3H
    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 11 replies
    • 1.6k views
    • 
    • ag123
    • June 1

28. installation problem on setting timezone manually

    By Guest, November 14, 2023   

    • Le Potato
    • 6 replies
    • 4k views
    • 
    • samtab10.2000
    • June 1

29. beta.armbian.com expired certificate

    By ScoreABSM, May 29   

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

30. orange pi kernel not init spi

    By timmymg, May 29   

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

31. Armbian cannot install to hard drive

    By yoha, May 27   

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

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

    By rosenrot00, May 25   

    • Odroid N2/N2+
    • 9 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • usual user
    • May 25

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

    By dr.vovanrus, May 1   

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

34. Orange Pi 5 Bricked?

    By diafebus, February 19   

    • Orange Pi 5
    • 22 replies
    • 5.9k views
    • 
    • MaxT
    • May 20

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

    By doragasu, May 19   

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

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

    By saddestboy, April 25   

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

37. Incorrect information about the installed version

    By Bororo, April 18   

    • Orange Pi Zero
    • 4 replies
    • 955 views
    • 
    • AlbertoJ1
    • May 19

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

    By audius, May 18   

    • Radxa Zero 3W/E
    • 0 replies
    • 425 views
    • 
    • audius
    • May 18

39. 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
    • 3.2k views
    • 
    • djurny
    • May 15

40. Issues using the build framework

    By Сергей Гладченко, May 14   

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

41. hw 125 + orange pi r1

    By Kovach, May 13   

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

42. Can no longer login on any account

    By concor789, January 20, 2024   

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

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

    By catotinha, May 5   

    • Orange Pi Plus 2E
    • 5 replies
    • 1k views
    • 
    • Pilinha
    • May 9

44. orange pi lite is overheating

    By Backloz, May 8   

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

45. OrangePi 4 LTS and UART Pins

    By shellz, April 29   

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

46. Workflow for building custom packages?

    By doragasu, April 21   

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

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

    By 7alken, April 11   

    • UEFI x86
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • 7alken
    • April 20

48. Read Armbian sd card with Windows

    By paulted, April 18   

    • Other/unspec
    • 2 replies
    • 672 views
    • 
    • Werner
    • April 18

49. why are we still using uInitrd?

    By wn2t, April 14   

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

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

    By abceleung, April 1   

    • ROCK 5C
    • NanoPi M6
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • hexdump
    • April 13

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

    By dolphs, March 29   

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

52. Wifi setup

    By Eloy Bote Falcon, September 8, 2024   

    • Banana Pi M4 Zero
    • 18 replies
    • 24.8k views
    • 
    • c0rnelius
    • April 10

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

    By Gunwoo Gim, March 12   

    • Odroid HC4
    • 14 replies
    • 2.3k views
    • 
    • Igor
    • April 4

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

    By specs, March 17, 2024   

    • ROCK 5B
    • 3 replies
    • 3.2k views
    • 
    • gerstavros
    • April 2

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

    By Meestor_X, March 31   

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

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

    By grixm, March 18   

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

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

    By KaimZX, March 28   

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

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

    By spyda_mayn, March 26   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 7 replies
    • 1.2k views
    • 
    • spyda_mayn
    • March 28

59. Where has enabling things like I2C moved to ?

    By Björn Eiríksson, March 26   

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

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

    By Meestor_X, February 15   

    • ROCK Pi S
    • 7 replies
    • 2.1k views
    • 
    • Torte
    • March 27

61. PCIE device compatibility

    By Andrea Cerfoglia, March 26   

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

62. KVM CPU host-passthrough

    By tanodzh, March 26   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 0 replies
    • 609 views
    • 
    • tanodzh
    • March 26

63. ODROID N2+: Cannot install ZFS

    By Nicola Zilio, November 24, 2024   

    • Odroid N2/N2+
    • 16 replies
    • 3.5k views
    • 
    • Gunwoo Gim
    • March 23

64. patch u-boot

    By Ian Goodacre, March 4   

    • NanoPi R2S
    • 10 replies
    • 1.8k views
    • 
    • Ian Goodacre
    • March 21

65. GPIO pin assignments

    By Rob Tapp, March 21   

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

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

    By Serhii, March 20   

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

67. 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
    • 1.4k views
    • 
    • Murat Demirtas
    • March 19

68. Hyperpixel screen

    By SymBiioTE, March 19   

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

69. armbian-config won't install docker engine

    By devmichelcastilho, March 17   

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

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

    By rcr, March 8   

    • Cubietruck
    • 3 replies
    • 949 views
    • 
    • rcr
    • March 17

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

    By devmichelcastilho, March 16   

    • Orange Pi 3 LTS
    • 6 replies
    • 1.2k views
    • 
    • Igor
    • March 17

72. Armbian on an X86 multi boot PC

    By SleepyD, March 16   

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

73. armbain-config file not found

    By phantom0600, March 16   

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

74. motd not showing

    By Meestor_X, January 6   

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

75. NanoPi R2S Plus WAN port

    By Ian Goodacre, February 27   

    • NanoPi R2S
    • 10 replies
    • 2k views
    • 
    • Ian Goodacre
    • March 13

76. release testing process documentation

    By bsammon, March 11   

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

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

    By grixm, July 16, 2024   

    • ROCK Pi S
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    • 
    • adjective-object
    • March 9

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

    By Holgi, February 28   

    • Banana Pi M5
    • 2 replies
    • 976 views
    • 
    • Holgi
    • March 4

79. Odroid HC4 not able to reboot

    By berobispo, February 28   

    • Odroid HC4
    • 8 replies
    • 1.4k views
    • 
    • c0rnelius
    • March 2

80. Orange PI 5 Plus not booting

    By Shad, January 28   

    • Orange Pi 5 Plus
    • 2 replies
    • 940 views
    • 
    • nexusguy59
    • February 28

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

    By dr_toggleswitch, February 23   

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

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

    By BlackMage, February 20   

    • PINE A64
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    • 
    • BlackMage
    • February 20

83. 502 Bad Gateway on apt update

    By ThermonuclearBowlOfPetunia, February 18   

    • ROCK 5 ITX
    • 4 replies
    • 1.5k views
    • 
    • VerAS
    • February 19

84. Orange PI PC Plus compile MT7921au driver

    By ducs4rs, April 30, 2023   

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

85. Recovering RAID5 array

    By pegamonstro, February 2   

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

86. avaota A1 how to start from SD card

    By constantius, October 15, 2024   

    • Avaota-A1
    • 8 replies
    • 145.7k views
    • 
    • thanh_tan
    • February 12

87. Firefly Station M2\P2 + EDK2-UEFI\Grub

    By balbes150, November 30, 2022   

    • Station M2
    • Station P2
    • (and 1 more)

       Tagged with:

      • Station M2
      • Station P2
      • UEFI arm64
    • 8 replies
    • 4.2k views
    • 
    • Max Gao
    • February 10

88. possible to install armbian with dd?

    By bsammon, February 8   

    • Pinebook Pro
    • 3 replies
    • 1.6k views
    • 
    • Werner
    • February 9

89. Problems with armbian coding.

    By Sasha1998, February 8   

    • Banana Pi BPI-M2
    • 0 replies
    • 541 views
    • 
    • Sasha1998
    • February 8

90. How do I install Armbian on my MXiii Android Box

    By MiniSkoot32, February 7   

    • Frequently asked question
    • 1 reply
    • 612 views
    • 
    • Igor
    • February 7

91. RTC ds1307 is not connecting rockpi4c+

    By Rúben Ferreira, February 6   

    • RockPi 4C+
    • 6 replies
    • 880 views
    • 
    • Rúben Ferreira
    • February 7

92. Mekotronics Rk3588 mini pc

    By Mini pc, November 26, 2022
    • 12 replies
    • 4.2k views
    • 
    • balbes150
    • January 31

93. Egress working fine, but no ingress

    By lumio, January 25   

    • Orange Pi Zero 2W
    • 4 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • lumio
    • January 30

94. Network takes a long time to initiate after boot

    By grixm, January 13, 2024   

    • ROCK Pi S
    • 5 replies
    • 1.8k views
    • 
    • Igor
    • January 27

95. Boot stays on SD card after installing and moving boot to SSD

    By rcr, January 19   

    • Cubietruck
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • pet
    • January 25

96. Odroid XU4 / HCx: No armbianEnv.txt, but download page instructs to edit it?

    By Tiedemate, January 21   

    • ODROID-XU4
    • 4 replies
    • 1.1k views
    • 
    • Igor
    • January 24

97. Overlays not loading at boot - ROCKPRO64 on Armbian

    By rookieone, September 27, 2021   

    • ROCKPro64
    • 3 replies
    • 1.9k views
    • 
    • technik007_cz
    • January 22

98. Do we have armbian for Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC HDK 8550/SM8550/sm8x50

    By Sergey Black, January 22   

    • Other/unspec
    • 4 replies
    • 1.3k views
    • 
    • Sergey Black
    • January 22

99. Trouble using a Orange Pi Pc Plus with both Ubuntu and Debian images

    By yaminocrow, January 21   

    • Orange Pi PC Plus
    • 0 replies
    • 670 views
    • 
    • yaminocrow
    • January 21

100. Boot from USB or SD with eMMC

     By Meestor_X, January 5   

     • ROCK Pi S
     • 5 replies
     • 1.7k views
     • 
     • Meestor_X
     • January 20

101. K-worker problem on A20 based boards 1 2

     By Sigge, June 27, 2018   

     • Other/unspec
     • 38 replies
     • 20.8k views
     • 
     • wahlm
     • January 16

102. Building Custom Armbian FirmWare for BananaPi M2 Berry

     By Calvin Ronksley, January 15, 2024   

     • Banana Pi BPI-M2U
     • 6 replies
     • 2.6k views
     • 
     • bananenkuchen
     • January 14

103. how to test gpu on armbian

     By wszgrcy, January 14   

     • ROCK Pi 4B
     • 1 reply
     • 880 views
     • 
     • Werner
     • January 14