Bas

Thanks Roy, will take a look at that Xorg config file. As a webserver the OPI5 is pretty brilliant! As long as I leave de server running and don't log in with VNC and start doing heavy graphical Xorg stuff (or heavy JAVA stuff in VSC) it keeps working fine and stable. OPI5 with Ubuntu NodeJS server serves my iqthink.nl domain Site changes uploadable via FTP, very convenient Nginx reverse proxy server handles SSL and https It works extremely FAST, wow! I have an aluminium passively cooled OPI5 case, the thing is the size of a pack of cigarettes. See www.iqthink.nl 🙂 Bas

Totally understand your reply. My experience with Armbian has been very positive, especially WITHOUT hardware accel. In HW accelerated JR I regularly see segmentation faults in Xorg, which make me think whacky chinese mali code is the cause though I'm not sure. Shouldn't segmentation faults be a thing of the past anyway? It should not even be possible except for broken hardware... Bas

Hello OPI5 users. Running Joshua Riek's Ubuntu distro, I keep getting stability issues. Perhaps because I keep using Xorg. Perhaps because hardware acceleration is buggy. In the past I used super stable Armbian OPI5 distro's without hardware acceleration. Infact I still use Armbian on another RK3588 box, I don't think it has EVER crashed, running docker, Mosquito, HomeAssistant, and a buch of other things. Now that my Orange Pi 5 gets a slightly more serious use as webserver, I really like to get rid of the unpredictable Xorg crashes, and gladly would sacrifice HW acceleration for stability. My situation is this: Using JR Ubuntu Because I want to use headless RealVNC (runs only under Xorg) for several devices I switched off Wayland Using a slightly hacked RealVNC server originating from Raspberry Pi Want to use OPI5 as a NodeJS + Nginx webserver serving Node apps now Any suggestions for a super stable uncrashable distro for the Opi5, for server use but with gui? I kind of hate to set everything up again, especially with the internal M.2 sata quirks, but I gotta have stability now. Hopefully I can ask a second question: is there an easy way to totally turn off HW acceleration in JR Ubuntu? Maybe I should try that first... Kind regards, Bas

Hello people, Happily running Bookworm, because it was the mainstream download for OPI5 a few months ago, I now see that the main download for OPI is back to Jammy. Apart from hardware accceleration, Bookworm runs great for me. In fact HA is not crucial for my server usage, though it would be nice. Question: what is the reason the main OPI5 download is now back to Jammy in stead of Bookworm? And what would be the advantages of going back from Bookworm to Jammy? (Got the aluminium passively cooling case for the OPI5, so far it's been great, 10 minutes of stresstesting all 8 cores doesn't get above 70 degrees celsius. For reference my Meko 3588 box without any cooling reaches over 80 degrees. On that Mekobox I am running Portainer, Docker, HomeAssistant, MosquitoServer, very stable for months and months) Bas Hamstra

Hello folks, I happily run Armbian Jammy XFCE on my much beloved Meko box (with at least SOME hardware accel) and Bookworm on Orange Pi 5. Both run excellent, but Jammy/xfce is a bit more snappy. probably because of partly harware accell. On the Meko R3588 4Gb box I installed Docker, Portainer, MQTT server container, Home Assistant container. All is well. I operate my boxes via RealVNC, so that it also will work seemlessly when VPN is active. The containers are so extremely light that they hardly take a few percent CPU. Home Assistant container takes 0,5Gig or so, MQTT server takes 0.1Gig. My first encounter with docker is very positive! Next I will try to add open VPN and SABNZB containers if possible. So...these containers got me thinking...can we run QEMU on Armbian? Probably not, but I have to ask: would it be possible to: have QEMU working on RK3588 Armbian Run for example a windows VM in QEMU? Even if it would be slow? Just playing and experimenting...never used XFCE before, it grows on me, very snappy and no-nonsense...! And with dark themes these UI's look a lot cooler in the first place IMO. PS: I don't get that my plastic Meko box doesn't get hot, without ANY active cooling. I did a stresstest for 4 minutes, all 8 cores maxed, and sensor temps reach eventually over 80 degrees. Where does the heat go? The box never gets really hot and when the stresstest ends sensor temps go straight back to 60/50s almost instantly. I quite LIKE it's completely silent and without moving parts. It's got an EXCELLENT built-in wifi adapter too! So good that I don't even bother to plug the ethernet cable in, that says it all. Maybe I'll start loving my 8Gig Opi5 more when I get a passively cooled aluminium case for it. But currently it has moving parts and NO built-in wifi and an ugly transparent case 😉 Bas

For my Mekotronics R58 mini PC I downloaded and installed latest Armbian build "bookworm". When I want to execute the suggested scripts to add Mali PPA's for hardware acceleration, I get the error "no release file" for these PPA's. What to do? Wait until it gets solved? Download and install Jammy in stead? Would the PPA's then work without error? Or is there another workaround? Thanks for any pointers! Bas