Sigma7

@KanexMarcus probably your board is a r29 and you need to enable the led-conf7 device tree overlay in /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Unfortunately it is a manual procedure that has to be done manually from the multitool.

@Sigma7 Here are the Libreelec and Armbian that I have used, you don't actually need to download the libreelec if you have access to a linux machine, because you can just download the .dtb file above and put them into the armbian image flashed to the sd card (replace the file /boot/dtb-6.6.18-current-rockchip/rk322x-box.dtb with the rk322x-box.dtb from the libreelec image), I think it should work on other armbian images (I suggest you to try the latest stable Armbian build) note that I use the images without desktop environment because I mainly use for servers, if you want grab a xfce desktop image and should work as well.
Let me know if it worked for you.

@jock thanks, It worked, I just added the line "overlays=led-conf7" to /boot/armbianEnv.txt

I have successfully booted the  Armbian_community_24.5.0-trunk.93_Rk322x-box_bookworm_current_6.6.18_minimal.img on my new MXQ PRO 4k rk3229, first I use the MultiTool to flash the armbian to internal storage (if it doesn't find the internal storage reboot the device in the menu), then download the LibreELEC-RK322X.arm-11.0-nightly-20240218-d7324fb-rk322x.img and flashed to an sd card, I booted on this sdcard and use the SSH to copy the rk322x-box.dtb to the internal storage, then it boots just fine, here is the .dtb file I use rk322x-box.dtb

Under Ubuntu when you install using BTRFS and Debian when you install to BTRFS using the Calamares live GUI installer, both installers create a subvolume called @home for the /home directory and another subvol called @ for the rest of the filesystem. This layout enables users to use timeshift to easily (and automatically with timeshift-autosnap-apt) create BTRFS snapshots and restore them using the command line or the timeshift GUI and restore their OS whilst optionally keeping users files stored under /home intact.
 
I would like to see the armbian installation script configure BTRFS in this same manner.

Hey man. I have not tried again... Nothing I tried worked for the box I have (it is 100% the H313 chip, yes). I tried stuff for H616 too, but I may be too noob to figure out how or what to do in this case. Still really looking forward to a solution! So, thanks for quoting me and if you know anything, let me know. I can share my knowledge/attempts with you, but again, it is very basic stuff.

What exactly do you mean by this?  If you are looking to run the exact image you deploy to a SBC in a virtual environment, you can't really do that.  If you are looking to run an armbian build that has the same linux kernel and user space environment as an SBC/TV Box build, that you should be able to do.  A virtualized environment is really a specific virtualized set of hardware which will be different than the hardware for any specific SBC/TV Box.  So the low level uboot and hardware environment (i.e. dtb files) will be different between the SBC build and the virtual environment build.  But from that level up (kernel and user space) everything can be the same.  Armbian has a build target for the QEMU environment (Virtual QEMU) and automated builds for that here: https://github.com/armbian/community/releases
 

I found a very good article:
linux Kernel Compilation how to customize your operating system by Uli Middelberg, page 10.
https://www.mclibre.org/descargar/docs/revistas/odroid/odroid-25-en-201601.pdf
 
 

In this video I show how to use armbian-gaming.
 

Hi all.
I'm working on a script that can install different Linux gaming tools like Box86, Box64, PPSSPP, ...
For now it can only install box86 and box64. There is also an issue installing wine, so this doesn't work either.
 
https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming
 
Download and unzip and run script : sudo /bin/bash ./armbian-gaming.sh When ready I'll make a video about it and give more info.
 
I've tested it on the PineBookPro with Hirsute.
With the Odroid N2+ you need to activate panfrost, install dependecies for N2+, and then install box86. Tho it didn't work as it should.
If "install box86" gives a build error, try the dependencies for N2+ and try "install box86" again.
 
Please let me know your experiences on other systems.
 

@jock
Yes, for moment kernel v5.18 system run from 5h46 without freeze under 1.08ghz
Seems to be stable at 1.08ghz..

UPDATE!!
 
Hello, I'm pleased to announce that rk3318 CSC configuration has been accepted into mainline kernel!.
This means that next Armbian release (probably August) will provide regular kernel upgrades offered by Armbian ecosystem via normal apt upgrade command.
Until then, please stay stick to the usual manual upgrade!
 
But there is something more: new update for the rk3318/rk3328 images!
Most important changes:
Kernel upgraded to version v5.18.6 Memory clock set to 667 MHz (was 333 MHz), providing a nice boost in general, desktop and GPU performance; despite this works fine on my board I always warn you to test images first via sdcard Introduces MGLRU patches from @yuzhaogoogle (you can read about here and search google for more details), which should provide much snappier experience especially on low-memory devices You can find the images and deb packages for upgrades browsing the directory pointed on first page as usual.
 
You can visit the Armbian MGLRU topic, if you have questions about the features or kernel issues (like crash dumps which involve kswapd, for example)
 
 

@jock
I have just tried to erase the eMMC, and then re-installed the latest Armbian 22.08 trunk build from scratch.
 
1) Unfortunately, it appears the latest edge Kernel 5.18.6 is unstable, at least for my TV box -- which is a H96 Max+ 4GB RAM/32GB EMMC model.
Running rk3318-config and after reboot, the system produced some sort of error similar to previous screen, as in attached (I chose unlisted for led option).
 
2) By comparison, I fell back to previous Armbian  22.05 trunk build ( 5.15.35 current kernel ), on the same TV box.
Running rk3318-config and after reboot, the system did not produce any error and running fine (I chose unlisted for led option).
 
 
I guess it's either my H96 Max+ TV box sucks, or the 5.18.6 edge Kernel is pushing too far for my hardware configuration (ie. my TV box still sucks 🤣 ).
Anyway, I fallback to the previous CSC Armbian version for now.    Thanks.
 
 

@jock : you did a great job, congratulations! 👍
I tried the new image today and (I think thanks to the clock change) I saw a 20% increase in speed during the operation of the box.
I was hoping that the new image, with its many minor fixes, would also help my Wi-Fi connection problem.
Unfortunately, I have not seen any improvement in this area. The relevant part of the dmesg output is:

[   10.099047] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio for chip BCM4334/3
[   10.099438] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
[   10.100554] brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio.rockchip,rk3318-box.bin failed with error -2
[   10.304233] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio for chip BCM4334/3
[   10.304394] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available
[   10.304865] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM4334/3 wl0: Jul 24 2019 12:58:36 version 6.10.191 (TOB) (r) FWID 01-b049404e
 
 

This is great news!

Great thanks @jock and  CO !!
| _ \| |/ /___ /___ // |( _ ) | __ ) _____ __ | |_) | ' / |_ \ |_ \| |/ _ \ | _ \ / _ \ \/ / | _ <| . \ ___) |__) | | (_) | | |_) | (_) > < |_| \_\_|\_\____/____/|_|\___/ |____/ \___/_/\_\ Welcome to Armbian 22.08.0-trunk Jammy with Linux 5.18.6-rockchip64 HA is up and ruing with ZHA and one Open Thread border router and looks working OK 😘
(upgraded production Ubuntu 22.04 with new kernel on eMMC without testing on SD-Card)

I may remember not so well because rk3318 received little attention lately, but it should be enable and provided via opensource Lima driver.
You can check if AccelMethod is set to "glamor" (enabled) or "none" (disabled) in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-serverflags.conf
As usual, it is wise to disable compositing for a bit better performance in a typical desktop usage.

I use @jock's great job (Armbian_22.02.0-trunk_Rk3318-box_bullseye_edge_5.15.16_minimal) in my H96 Max box.
I would like to clone this content of box to another two H96 boxes.
I do the backup with multitool and then use the restore function on the other with the same tool.
Unfortunately, the result is not what I expect, it doesn't start at first:

 
What to do or write to get started?

@paradigman The error is quite self explanatory: the destination eMMC is smaller than the source eMMC, hence the cloned partition is truncated.
On the destination machine I guess that you should use fdisk to resize the partition an then use resize2fs and/or fsck.ext4 to correct the filesystem size (much more the second one).
You can do that from a bash shell either with multitool or from the intramfs emergency shell.

i did full git clone, not --depth 1
git clone https://github.com/paolosabatino/armbian-build.git cd armbian-build git checkout -t origin/rk3318  

I have new problems with my H96 Max (rk3318):
1. I successfully installed kde-full, it seems to run smoothly, but there are no close, minimize, and maximize icons in the windows. The solution I found out there would be to make changes via decor app, but unity-window-decorator seems unavailable, even for installation. Problem solved! First I installed the kubuntu-desktop package, and then it includes the application to change the window menu, and then I installed kde-full to get all kde apps;
2. Another problem is the snap apps not working. It seems to be missing some graphical connection, as they are installed via Terminal. In this case I installed Chromium, Firefox and Snap Store. Message appears that "cannot change locale", "mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': permission denied", "no protocol specified", "unable to init server" and finally "error: cannot open display: :.0". In the case of Chromium, there is a suggestion to run with --no-sandbox, but the same error messages appear, with "error:ozone_platform_x11.cc(247) Missing X server or $Display" and "The platform failed to initialize. Exiting". For now the only working web browser here is Falkon. Problem solved! Debian: Chromium works; Ubuntu: no! 

No. The Snapdragon 7c is different from the RK3318/RK3328. You'd have to find an image for the Snapdragon 7c. 

@gounthar - if you are looking for arm laptops for use with linux, then you should also consider arm chromebooks. best supported are the mediatek mt8183 based kukui and the snapdragon 7c based trogdor devices - nearly everything is working for them with mainline with only very few to no patches required and they are available used or new really cheap (by a factor lower than any other arm laptop option). both have 8 cores, 4gb (some 8gb) ram and 64+/-gb fast emmc. performance wise they are above odroid n2 level. if you can get (not easy due to supply issues) or build (there are a few docs with instructions online) a suzyqable you even get features like a serial console on a laptop which you usually never get. the build quality and reliability of such chromebooks is usually way higher as for average sbc's and with mainline on the above mentioned series you get: panfrost gpu support, working suspend/resume and power saving modes, working wifi, bt, sound and for most of them even camera(s). maybe have a look at cadmium: https://github.com/Maccraft123/Cadmium or my linux on arm chromebooks page: https://github.com/hexdump0815/linux-mainline-on-arm-chromebooks to get started.
 
the best supported other arm laptop is the a few years old lenovo c630 (not the chromebook version) and it is still missing some basic functionality here and there (sleep/suspend etc.). another option - the pinebook pro - is in a different performance and quality league (sadly downwards).
 
best wishes - hexdump

You're probably going to need to be a little more hands on with the tool you choose.    
 
I like borg and borgmatic.