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For larger compilations, like kernel modules/browser/bigger games, i had faults and complete crashes until i increased zram to a large amount and used a good quality SD card. It probably won't solve all problems, but it made a huge difference for me in being able to actually compile larger projects. # configuration values for the armbian-zram-config service # # enable the armbian-zram-config service? ENABLED=true # Zram swap enabled by default, unless set to disabled # SWAP=false # percentage of zram used as swap compared to physically available DRAM. # Huge overcommitment (300) is possible and sometimes desirable. See # https://forum.armbian.com/topic/5565-zram-vs-swap/?do=findComment&comment=61082 # and don't forget to adjust $MEM_LIMIT_PERCENTAGE below too. ZRAM_PERCENTAGE=300 # percentage of DRAM available to zram. If this amount is exceeded the zram # devices used for swap simply behave as if the device is full. You need to # adjust/increase this value only if you want to work with massive memory # overcommitment (ZRAM_PERCENTAGE exceeding 150 for example) MEM_LIMIT_PERCENTAGE=50 # create how many zram devices max for swap # ZRAM_MAX_DEVICES=4

How did you get this kernel version? My device on sunxi64 is on 6.6.72, and apt wants to update it to 6.6.75.

@robertoj I did not verify that it's hardware acceleration, but i assume it is because the playback quality is very acceptable. Also, the Android OS that comes on the EMMC could do hardware accelerated mp4 decoding. Even more, the Kickpi website provides a download link to a premade Ubuntu 24.04 image, but the performance is miserable compared to this Armbian, and it's on kernel 5.x or something. yes, that's all as it is from the desktop-armbian image. Nothing installed separately besides neofetch in that photo. this is what i used. (well not the March 6 build, it would have been one of the Feb 2025 ones) Also, keep in mind, i don't know it's exact power requirements - I have an Anker 200w USB C charger with 2 USB-A slots and 4 USB-C slots. So i power my Kickpi off one of the USB-C slots. It is happy with that. In armbian_zram_config, I have ZRAM_PERCENTAGE=30 otherwise it could crash/power-off while compiling bigger programs. I don't use the gpio or video decoding. I just use it for internet browsing, email, some retro emulators

@robertoj Regarding Kickpi K2B 1. Yes the wifi antenna was included in the package. 2. I only have Wifi 5 at home. I can't verify Wifi 6 operation. It does connect to the 5G Wifi network. 3. Stuff like x264/x265 plays ok in mpv, but webm is unusable, here is my uname -a. uname -a Linux orangepizero3 6.6.72-current-sunxi64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 17 12:36:27 UTC 2025 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

I installed IceWM, but when I boot Armbian GNOME Desktop, it still signs into GNOME automatically. What do I have to do to instead sign into IceWM automatically instead of GNOME? I didn't see this kind of option in armbian-config.

Hi, I've just loaded armbian on a SBC and the first thing I went to do was apt update apt upgrade apt install neofetch However when I went to run neofetch, I had the following error bash: fastfetch: command not found After installing fastfetch with apt, it worked as expected.

KICKPI K2b is working with the Armbian build for Orange Pi Zero 3 - ethernet, wifi, sound, etc all working well. bluetooth and IR not yet tested. Simply wrote the image file to a microSD card, and everything worked as expected. :-) [Edit: Not sure if it's working on Orange Pi Zero 3, but I had to disable suspend after 15 minutes in the Power settings since I wasn't able to get it to wake back up.] I noticed the PCB looked nearly identical to the Zero 3, though it has normal-size HDMI instead of micro-HDMI, as well as the IR module, more push buttons, and extra USB ports. I used Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.87_Orangepizero3_noble_current_6.6.72_gnome_desktop.img.xz