[Unfixed upgrade issue]

if you sudo apt upgrade the firmware package for the q6a breaks wifi and i believe ethernet...

I do not have a concise fix for this i reflashed my device with the latest build after doing it originally to get wifi when validating the issue i had backed up the firmware etc for the default network drivers after upgrading broke the networking drivers had to restore firmware from previous build....

 

Would give a fix but aint that easy if you already upgraded you need to download the previous firmware put on usb stick and slap it on either that or figure out whats broken in the last one

 

this is kind of rambling but yeah just be careful upgrading 

[[Latest] Armbian Build HDMI Audio support Fix]

Fairly sure the current build either includes an incorrect or no ucm config for HDMI Audio support; I've seen other builds eg rock itx have this issue but I believe this may be a potential issue for the q6a build if anyone experiences there is a solution -

 

1. Install alsa-ucm-conf

sudo apt install -y alsa-ucm-conf

 

2. Download configs

 cd /tmp
curl -sL "https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz" | tar xz

 

3. Copy QCS6490 configs
 

sudo cp -r alsa-ucm-conf-master/ucm2/Qualcomm/qcs6490 /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/Qualcomm/
sudo cp -r alsa-ucm-conf-master/ucm2/conf.d/qcs6490 /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/conf.d/

4. Copy library & codec files

sudo cp -r alsa-ucm-conf-master/ucm2/lib /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/
sudo cp -r alsa-ucm-conf-master/ucm2/codecs /usr/share/alsa/ucm2

5. Restart PulseAudio

systemctl --user restart pulseaudio

 

6. Verify HDMI audio is detected

pactl list sinks short

 

If this did not work i probably just made your issue harder to fix; However if this did work congrats enjoy not having a mute computer.