I have a Magicsee N5 Max X4 TV box (Amlogic S905X4). Has anyone tried this with this model? I tried removing the # S905X4_Generic symbol, but it still gives an error when booting. Could you please help me? Thank you!

On https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5-itx/ there are several things wrong. 1 is a desktop image has stated size of 260.1 MB, that is certainly wrong. Then below there are several filenames Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx* in a sort of test report list. Note sure if that makes sense, more than 1 year old images. Also 6.1.75 vendor kernel had a few issues for me, although other RK3588 SBC. 1 year old versions of images might rely on older non-KMS HDMI init of a HDMI-monitor (done by older U-Boot), while newer U-Boot fails to init HDMI-monitor and also newer kernel and the current KMS might do things in a different way. I have that for my NanoPi-R6C and a certain older Medion HDMI monitor. Sometimes the KDE login screen just pops-up in 640x480. When login, the normal desktop goes correctly to 1080p60 (fullHD). A soft reboot also keeps it then in 1080p60, but the 2026.x versioned U-Boot does not manage to init the HDMI (maybe on-purpose, I have not looked in build config etc). I have not tried restarting displaymanager via ssh as the 640x480 came eventually, but did it several times in the past (from 2019 till 2024 or so until not using it with HDMI anymore) for 2 RPI4, also different monitor and also with or without a HDMI switch in between. A method is to put a video= statement on the kernel commandline with the desired mode. Earlier via RPi firmware in config.txt. I also looked into journal for the NanoPi-R6C issues of course and various failures w.r.t. HDMI after kernel 6.16.x or so, but all not fatal. So in the end it works and now properly working with kernel 6.18.2 edge kernel (Armbian Trixie KDE6). I went back to other bootloader (EDK2-UEFI v1.1) as that manages to init the HDMI monitor before kernel load and that is what I need, else always other computer needed (serial console) to select a different kernel or kernel config. I have never used video= statement with Armbian (yet), maybe I'll try just to know if and how it could work. So @Bobbox, can you post what image it is (exact filename and sha256sum) ? Even better is also kernel version and U-Boot version (exact UUID build strings), but a better human readable version will also give some hints already. And maybe upload armbianmonitor log, but that is maybe for later.

Hey!! Of course, I will test that one. Let me know (here or in a PM) what can I do for you. I only have a RV2 8GB RAM, but both M.2 slots are filled up (a 256GB nvme on the 2230 and a 512GB on the 2280) so I could test those as well. Everything I can learn will be welcome. Personally I would love to create a musl based, systemd free distro (alpine, void, etc.) for this little thing, but my knowledge is out of that league, I've only got some experience with OpenWRT on old routers Thank you!!

It is not recommended to match ZFS with vendor kernel(s). In general. Use mainline based current / edge kernels. Here v6.18.y we also might not have suitable ZFS yet as the kernel is too fresh. But if not today, it will be avail within days / weeks.

We have hundreds of releases and multiple per version per board hard to tell from this which kernel or which exactly i make a wild guess and the kernel you tried is 6.12.y which isn't good for desktop. try 6.1.115 (with mesa-vpu extension, not sure if there are pre-made ones) or 6.18, 6.19 mainline kernel.