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42 minutes ago, GmP said:
Still not clear why HDMI not working, However VFD display based n FD650 is working. Attached the vfd.conf file for openvfd: clock , USB, ETH,WIFI and COLON working.
Very weird HDMI is not functional in both armbian and multitool: they use very different kernels. Multitool uses the 4.19 vendor kernel, which should be supposed to provide "best" compatibility.
The dmesg error is highly related to the missing HDMI, but in a way I can't recognize.
About the VFD driver, I guess you're using OpenVFD driver. Latest kernels (both 6.12 and >= 6.16) come with tm16xx driver which is by far much much better and candidate to be upstreamed in the mainline kernel. Here is the github project reference; the driver is already compiled in the kernel, but you may need to edit a device tree overlay by yourself to let it work with your board.
To try some debugging, the complete dmesg output and the original device tree of the stock android firmware would be very useful.
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2 hours ago, robertoj said:
I would rather stay with trixie and low fps, because it seems easier to solve my other problem: need 100% wayland and 0% X11 due to a LCD driver problem.
AFAIK bookworm is fine with wayland (weston, kde, ...)
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13 hours ago, robertoj said:
Can you confirm that you use the patch in mpv PR1460, or something else?
I compiled mpv 0.40.0 and the commits from this PR. Results are mixed and situation is messier than before, so if you need hardware acceleration, it is better to go gstreamer or revert to debian bookworm for now.
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One suggestion I can give you is to try a fresh image from https://github.com/armbian/community/releases. Make a backup of the eMMC and clean it up (multitool can do both things), then try to boot from sdcard with the new image.
Newer images come with u-boot v2025.10-rc5 and a "fix" to reset the VOP before entering the kernel. Some people on the other thread reported that disabling u-boot HDMI made the HDMI work once in Linux. With kernel 6.17 this issue hit my box and I could arrange a fix, perhaps this fix will address your problem too (for reference: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8674/files#diff-70c2c867b6e2024080868c0d5c3230d58be2d2c4b88a24291b0469c7d2229629)
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39 minutes ago, robertoj said:
Which github project and branch/release are you trying?
mpv official github repo. v4l2request commits are in a pull request.
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I compiled mpv 0.40.0 on Debian Trixie with the patches for v4l2request, but the outcome is messy at best. There is a new hwdec v4l2request, but also two new gpu-hwdec-interop v4l2request and v4l2request-overlay. It works with acceleration when launched from a terminal, but in wayland/weston v4l2request refuses to work. I don't know what happened, but it looks like a big regression from 0.39. Better use the old mpv version IMHO.
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You're welcome @Hqnicolas 👍
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@samircobra Did you try multitool? You can find it in the first post; also read carefully the first post, it contains very useful informations, for example the hint about the failing eMMC on these rk3318 boards. Probably your box has a failing eMMC. Also another important thing: we don't talk about "firmwares" here, we talk about Armbian, so if you have questions not related to Armbian, this is the wrong place.
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On 9/29/2025 at 5:28 AM, JaydenWithaWhy said:
Even with the new version,I am still running into the same error
Don't know what to tell you, it is running fine on my boxes and dmesg is clean.
Also I cannot see what is your build version since the screenshot is missing the top line of the screen. 🤷♂️
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@JaydenWithaWhy I rebuilt and uploaded again a new copy of the multittol. Please download and try again, I tested successfully on a tvbox of mine and worked fine.
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7 hours ago, JFL said:
Don't have experience to compile or build packages for Linux. Experience Armbian users and developers might be able to build the mpv-full-git for Debian Trixie.
"Regular" mpv coming in Debian Bookworm works perfectly fine, as Bullseye did also. There should be no need for custom mpv builds, unless some features have been removed.
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@JaydenWithaWhy ok ,the source is right. The multitool should leave a dmesg log in the MULTITOOL partition of the sdcard; that log could be handy to understand what's wrong. Also you can access via SSH and run the multitool from there, so you may get some clearer output and some more details about the error. A last note, I never tested it with a 128gb sdcard; it should work but bugs are around the corner...
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2 hours ago, robertoj said:
Has anybody had success with ffmpeg-v4l2request under Debian TRIXIE?
From my tests, ffmpeg works fine with hardware acceleration under Debian Trixie, but packaged mpv (AFAIR it is v0.4.0) does always fails hardware decoding.
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@JaydenWithaWhy Multitool is supposed to resize the partition to the whole size of the media as soon as you run it for the first time on the box.
About the "command not found" and black box issues, I'm not aware about. When you see the Terms, you can scroll up and down and Enter key will just proceed to the main menu. Where did you download the software?
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4 hours ago, Kiranmoy Saha said:
How can I run rk322x-config in this situation?
login via ssh
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7 hours ago, Kiranmoy Saha said:
Could you please guide me on how to debug this?
Open the box, read the silkscreen on the board, run rk322x-config and configure according to silkscreen name.
Probably you have a r29/h20 board
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22 hours ago, MX10.AC2N said:
I've tried a reboot by disabling the overlay line in armbianEnv.txt and I've got one of my 2 LEDs back. It seems that ledconf-3 is no longer working for me.
Hello!
You should really look to the board name in rk3318-config rather than relying to led-conf numbering; also your dmesg is showing a very bad error which is probably due to an unstable system rather than a bug
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15 hours ago, sam6o9 said:
@hexdump hey mate , do you know if new armbian image still uses an offset of 8192 sector ? i'm trying the workaround you proveded in first page for linux hanging excatly after 60 seconds , but it only worked with multitool.img . with new armbian images it doesn't even boot after applying the trick 🙁
rk322x armbian images never used the offset of 8192 sectors, only the multitool has such offset to increase compatibility with stock images
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On 8/28/2025 at 8:32 AM, Afsa Jahanara said:
R-TV Box S10 – I realize this is an older topic, but I’m trying to fix an S10 box for an old colleague.. After an update, it no longer boots, stuck on the startup animation, and won’t load Android. I can’t seem to find any firmware download. Thanks in advance.
You realized the wrong thing: the topic is actual but this is not a forum where to discuss about Android or stock firmwares
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This remembers me a recent set of changes to the DWC3 driver for RK3399 to fix exactly these kind of issues exposed here, including the single-orientation problem, plus some more issues with the displayport over usb type-c functionality.
The PR had a lot of comments but finally it got merged because both the author and me tested the whole apparatus and it proved to improve significantly the situation on rk3399: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8271
Patches should address some issues in the dwc3 driver in general, and I see from the device tree that rk356x uses the snps,dwc3 compatibility string, so probably also rk356x benefits from them as well. It would although require some device tree tinkering: I tested on Orange PI4 LTS board and the device tree fixes are within this hunk; rk356x-based devices can probably share several declarations but that depends upon the rk356x capabilities. I would start from changing dr_mode to otg and removing regulator-always-on; property from the vbus supply. -
@MattWestB According to /boot, your box should boot 6.16. I don't know though if you have other eMMC/sd/USB devices which may interfere
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3 minutes ago, MattWestB said:
Is the libc-dev also needed or optional then installing the kernel files ?
Normally not if you have a recent distribution. Beware not to test that kernel in a box that does something useful though!
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@MattWestB@Thiên Thư Lục In this directory I have put an experimental kernel with a kernel patch that should fix some USB3 issues. If may want to try and experiment if it works for you. It is based upon kernel 6.16. You only need to install the image and dtb packages, headers are only if you need to compile some thirdy party drivers.
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Yes, or at least there should be less chances to hit some corner case that reduces the compatibility. LibreELEC is using the mainline kernel only for years though, so it is really strange you have issues with both armbian and multitool. I may wonder there is something odd in the device tree, but it would be odd that a misconfiguration in the device tree causes a kernel fault in the DRM code and in particular in the wait for vblank function 🙄