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    Odroid M1S Image Planned ?

    in Rockchip

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    5 hours ago, jiri said:

    Hello, another Odroid M1S owner and user here. I tried the Ubuntu image because I was curious about video acceleration in particular

     

    We only provide mainline based kernel, where video acceleration might not work. If you have a need for that, than use those hints:

     

    add DT here:
    https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-odroid-m1.dts

    enable vendor kernel 

    https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/odroidm1s.csc#L7

    build with ENABLE_EXTENSIONS="v4l2loopback-dkms,mesa-vpu" and desktop will work faster, video acceleration will most likely just work OOB.

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    N2+ Impervious to Timekeeping Applications

    in Odroid N2/N2+

    Posted

    On 12/1/2025 at 5:33 PM, Quantum said:

    and the answer is Armbian is obviously not the way to do them

     

    This is custom hardware world and Armbian is a build framework 1st. It is not Debian vs. Armbian vs. Ubuntu. Debian, Ubuntu and other labels means something in mainstream x86 world while here they mean nothing, they are abused to generate sales. If you go for regular Debian, you will do 1-2-3 steps back and if you are lucky, one step forward - to accidentally load kernel where feature you need, works. If i2c stack wasn't properly ported to mainline kernel or if there is some other trouble that prevents this working in standard world, you can only run firmware that is provided by vendor. This is quite common and there you will have other problems. 

     

    On 12/1/2025 at 5:33 PM, Quantum said:

    explain my stupidity with coding

     

    Problems you have are not simple to resolve or at least not in the "by the way" fashion. In order to help you - there are two ways and both are difficult - you are lucky and meet a person on this forum that knows rare technical specifics for this particular board from head or you meet someone that will invest few days to get down to this level ... People who are maintaining this place, don't have time to breathe :( and some are old too. It is impossible to focus into every problem that shows up as there is no capacity. And bugs are being re-introducted all the time. By everyone.

     

    On 12/1/2025 at 5:33 PM, Quantum said:

    I have much bigger things to do than bit-twiddling.


    In that case you would need to go for Intel mini PC. Custom hardware needs hard push sometimes to get something in order.

    I can assure you that Armbian works perfectly on Intel PC :) I use it for my desktop. 

    Many of boards we present here would be paperweight long time ago.

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    Debian Images

    in Orange Pi 5 Plus

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Robert Pace said:

    Why


    Previously we provided Cinnamon. Which we find out, few days before release, that is broken (beyond quick repair). I just delete already prepared images, nothing else could be done.

     

    General problem is that we don't have anyone keeping an eye on desktops. It is vanilla Debian - we only add branding. I personally use Ubuntu LTS Gnome and that's I fix in case something shows up.

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    Adding the edge kernel to Rock 2F/2A

    in Rockchip

    Posted

    7 hours ago, humanus said:

    but this won't be enough to make it boot, will it?


    You can try, worse case it won't boot. What's the problem with that ? :) 

     

    7 hours ago, humanus said:

    Any tutorials

     

    Only general.

     

    Switch to nightly repository and then switch to edge kernel:
    https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/System/#rolling

    https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/System/#alternative-kernels

    but if it won't work, you are on your own to find out why it doesn't work. Also some features won't work. We never supported EDGE kernels due to extreme costs associated with such operation.

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    New 'Armbian 25.11.1 Trixie Minimal / IOT' image is possibly corrupted

    in Odroid C2

    Posted

    3 hours ago, pbg said:

    the file linked for download was not correctly assembled.


    Aha. We only test one randomly picked image per board - not all of them. And nobody noticed small size of the file ... I see now. Probably runner starved for memory or some other problem. Logs were already deleted so I can't check, but have started new build.

     

    3 hours ago, pbg said:

    I should have been more precise.


    Indeed :) All clear now.

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    trying to set up a open media vault server on my radxa 4d

    in Rockchip

    Posted

    1 hour ago, elspuddy said:

    i did not validate the checksum both the SHA  ASC  are  404 file not found.


    You can find them here https://imola.armbian.com/cache/artifacts/ 

     

    In case you / someone want to help fixing this - this script https://github.com/armbian/armbian.github.io/blob/main/.github/workflows/generate-web-index.yml needs to be adjusted to add additional entries to the download JSON file for those three variants https://github.com/armbian/armbian.github.io/blob/main/.github/workflows/generate-web-index.yml#L140-L142

    Few months ago GitHub introduced limitations on number of artifacts per release to 1000. And in order to keep providing CLI + desktop combo - especially for - community targets, we had to drop uploading sha, asc and torrent files to GitHub release storage. Instead, they are moved to cache.armbian.com under predicted structure, but links are missing from JSON as they don't exists on the release page where current script is scrapping from.

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    N2+ Impervious to Timekeeping Applications

    in Odroid N2/N2+

    Posted

    16 hours ago, Quantum said:

    There is something missing in the most current stable Armbian.  I wish you would try it on an N2+.


    It might be related to Trixie (quick test is checking this on Ubuntu variant). We fix few bugs in user space - some packages were missing due to changes in their relations ... if we are talking about hardware RTC, then it is kernel related. Generic kernels usually have only basic support for most boards we are dealing with, but still, this specific function could work different or not at all. Depending of the version and time of build. Hard to say without investigation. I added battery to my N2+ a while ago and tested RTC functionality. It worked, but its a long time ago since I did that test. I will look into  this when possible.

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    Armbian Cinnamon without start button

    in Rockchip

    Posted

    On 11/21/2025 at 6:10 PM, Jorge Cury said:

    Can I get support for Cinnamon on Armbian distros???


    Armbian provides vanilla Debian (or Ubuntu) Cinnamon. In general, touch to the user-space part is minimal, so you are running plain Debian Cinnamon desktop, more or less. And as packages comes from there, bugs follow. Armbian team don't have resources for dealing with desktop. Minor problems only.

     

    And as it was already mentioned

     

    On 11/21/2025 at 7:13 PM, eselarm said:

    The missing start button might be complicated to fix

     

    Exactly. I saw this (recently introduced) problem but since I have absolutely no idea where to look, I removed Cinnamon images from upcoming release. We don't touch Cinnamon nor other desktops beyond installing wallpaper.

     

    Probably tasksel installed variant will likely be broken too.

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