Thank you very much. Thanks to your detailed guide—as well as the one by "Chiều Nhạt Nắng"—I successfully installed Armbian on my TV box. I had struggled for a long time previously, following outdated instructions without fully understanding them; I kept unplugging and replugging the power cable, which ended up damaging the power IC (so now I have to use the USB port for power). However, thanks to your specific guidance (user 0757), I followed the steps and finally succeeded. Thank you!

Honestly, I've already forgotten what the problem was there. Most likely, I used the Armbian installer and specified where to install the distribution in the automatic image download mode. Before that, I had tried writing it manually. Besides that, I found an important nuance — if you install software through armbian-config, for example GNOME and Chromium, the Plymouth splash screen will be automatically configured at boot, and hardware video decoding will be enabled in the browser, which for some reason does not get enabled when installing manually.

Can I ask how did you fix it? I have the same problem but cannot get it to make it work.

moved to off-topic neither a supported device nor about Armbian.

Hi all, I'm running DietPi on an Orange Pi Zero 3 (H618, sunxi64), which repackages the Armbian current-sunxi64 kernel. I use a USB DVB-T2 dongle (HanfTek Astrometa RTL2832P, VID/PID 15f4:0131) with tvheadend for over-the-air TV. After a routine update the dongle stopped working entirely, and I tracked the root cause down to missing kernel modules. ## Problem Starting from kernel 6.18.x (package linux-image-current-sunxi64 version 26.05.0-trunk-dietpi1 and all subsequent builds through dietpi5), the following modules are absent from the kernel package: - dvb_usb_v2 - dvb-usb-rtl28xxu - dvb_core The USB device is correctly detected at bus level (lsusb, dmesg) but no driver ever binds to it and /dev/dvb is never created. lsmod | grep dvb returns nothing, and find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -iname "*dvb*" only shows RC keymap files (e.g. rc-dvbsky.ko.xz), not the actual DVB subsystem drivers. lsusb output: Bus 004 Device 003: ID 15f4:0131 HanfTek Astrometa DVB-T/T2/C FM & DAB receiver [RTL2832P] dmesg shows the device is enumerated but no driver binds: usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=15f4, idProduct=0131, bcdDevice= 1.00 usb 4-1: Product: dvbt2 usb 4-1: Manufacturer: astrometadvbt2 (no further DVB-related messages) ## Verified affected range I downloaded and inspected each linux-image-current-sunxi64 .deb from the DietPi apt repo without installing them, extracted with dpkg-deb -x, and searched for dvb_usb_v2.ko / dvb-usb-rtl28xxu.ko inside lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/. Results: 26.05.0-trunk-dietpi1 through dietpi5 (kernel 6.18.x) → DVB modules ABSENT 26.02.0-trunk-dietpi8 (kernel 6.12.76) → DVB modules PRESENT 26.02.0-trunk-dietpi1 through dietpi7 (kernel 6.12.58–6.12.74) → PRESENT 25.11.0-trunk-dietpi1 through dietpi3 (kernel 6.12.43–6.12.57) → PRESENT The regression is introduced exactly at the 26.02→26.05 branch transition (kernel 6.12→6.18). ## Kernel config comparison (confirmed) In kernel 6.12.76 (/boot/config-6.12.76-current-sunxi64), the full DVB-USB subsystem is present and compiled as modules, including: CONFIG_DVB_CORE=m CONFIG_DVB_USB_V2=m CONFIG_DVB_USB_RTL28XXU=m CONFIG_DVB_USB=m (plus ~40 additional DVB USB driver modules) In kernel 6.18.29 (extracted from linux-image-current-sunxi64_26.05.0-trunk-dietpi5_arm64.deb), grep for DVB_USB and DVB_CORE returns NO output at all — the options are not present in the config file, not even as "# CONFIG_DVB_USB_V2 is not set". This confirms the entire DVB-USB subsystem was dropped from the sunxi64-current kernel config when the 6.18.x branch was opened, not selectively disabled. ## Hardware Board: Orange Pi Zero 3 (Allwinner H618, sun50i-h618) Dongle: HanfTek Astrometa DVB-T/T2/C FM & DAB receiver [RTL2832P] VID/PID 15f4:0131 Kernel broken: 6.18.29-current-sunxi64 GCC 13.3.0 (aarch64-linux-gnu), build date 2026-03-05 Kernel working: 6.12.76-current-sunxi64 USB device descriptor (from lsusb -v): idVendor 0x15f4 HanfTek idProduct 0x0131 Astrometa DVB-T/T2/C FM & DAB receiver [RTL2832P] bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 astrometadvbt2 iProduct 2 dvbt2 bNumConfigurations 1 bNumInterfaces 2 MaxPower 500mA ## Workaround Downgrading to linux-image-current-sunxi64=26.02.0-trunk-dietpi8 restores DVB support. Package pinned with apt-mark hold to prevent auto-upgrade. Note: the downgrade via apt-get install --allow-downgrades correctly swapped the kernel image and initrd, but did NOT regenerate the /boot/dtb-<version>/ directory nor update the /boot/dtb symlink — it was left pointing to the now-removed newer kernel's dtb directory, causing a boot failure. The dtb files had to be manually copied from /usr/lib/linux-image-6.12.76-current-sunxi64/allwinner/ and the symlink fixed by hand. This may be worth a separate look at the postinst/postrm scripts for the kernel downgrade case on sunxi64. ## Requested fix Please re-enable CONFIG_DVB_USB_V2=m, CONFIG_DVB_USB_RTL28XXU=m, CONFIG_DVB_CORE=m and their dependencies in linux-sunxi64-current.config for the 6.18.x branch. These were present throughout the entire 6.12.x series and there is no apparent reason to drop them. Thanks for the great work on Armbian!