Rein

I am running a web page. I have a choice of a number of OSs on ssd cards (Debian , Ubuntu). They all work correctly on same video display and same cable 😊.

Here is a photo of my problem. The system has discovered the right display settings but the actual display is wrong. Another thing that may be related (?) : Every few seconds the display goes blank momentarily.

Hi Gunjan. The config.txt file does not have that line. I tried adding the line to the end of the config.txt file but this has not resolved the issue. Thanks for your reply anyway.

Hi, I've been trying out the jammy image for the raspberry pi. (Raspberry pi 4b) I found a problem with the display settings. I am using a Dell display of 1440x900 In the display settings it show the right monitor and the correct settings but the actual display shows a 5cm black band at the right-hand side. And whatever I do makes no difference Anyone have an answer?

Has anyone tried the desktop release ? Armbian 22.02 Jammy XFCE Kernel 5.15.y, Size: 1341Mb, Updated: Feb 28, 2022 There does not seem to be a means to change the desktop display resolution (mine would have to be 1440x900 for optimal display).

Thanks Igor for letting me know !

Thank you Igor, I’ll give that a go tomorrow. Thanks for your help. Rein. 👍

Thanks for all replies. I am quite happy with the simple solution. I am running my BananaPi 24/7 without display, keyboard, mouse. The only device plugged into one of the usb ports is a wifi dongle. Reboot and cold boot work fine, even after the latest system update. (armbian-buster-xfce). All control is done via ssh / vnc. At 89 I have to be a bit selective of what I spend my time on. So I leave some of the experimenting to others . Good luck ! Rein.

Hi, I had a look at the updating u-boot info on https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Recovery/ It seems quite involved. I have just discovered that it is easy to boot up by disconnecting the usb ports and reconnecting mouse and keyboard after the system has booted. I have replaced my old debian 'stretch' with debian buster-xfce. . because my banana M1 runs 24/7 rebooting will be quite infrequent. Maybe this solution is a way out for others until some clever armbian person can come up with a better image file for the M! Rein

Hi Igor, I seem to have the same problem. Any of the Debian Buster / Focal images refuse to boot up on my banana Pi M1 and go into a loop. Could you please expand on your solution. Apt update won’t work if I can’t boot. I can access the SD with a raspberry Pi . Maybe you can tell me what needs manually be changed to make the SD boot on my banana Pi M1 Regards rein

Thank you Lanefu.

Is there an armbian software distribution for the "Broadcom BCM2711" ? (rasberrypi 4)

Is it possible to have two operating systems on a SD card with provision to select the OS at bootup (e.g Grub), or selecting OS for next bootup at shutdown ? Rein.

I have recently updated to Armbian Focal (Ubuntu 20.04). My Banana Pi M1 is running an apache server + some digital amateur radio stuff. So upload speed is important. My average download and upload speed as measured with speediest-cli is 45Mb/sec and 18Mb/sec respectively (wired connection to modem) With Focal I get these speeds with Buster (Debian 10) the download speed is still 45Mb/sec but the upload speed drops to 3.4 Mb/sec. These results are not one off but consistent. The am64 version of Buster does exactly the same thing.. My question is : can I change this with programming or is it a fixture in the kernel ? Can someone enlighten me please ? Rein

Hi Werner, The armbian version I am using runs my web site and APRS software very efficiently. I have no reason to upgrade at present. Regards, Rein

Problem solved! Rein

Hi, how can I remove all files of desktop (GUI) after installing with armbian-config. I am running armbian 4.19.62 sunxi #5.92 on BananaPi M1 I can disable the Desktop but I require the space for the server. Regards, Rein

Sorry this problem should have been under A20 . Iam running a Banana M1 board,

Hi, I have a problem with an update notification that seems to be permanent. The following lines always appear when I log onto my system: Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.36 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 4.13.16-sunxi System load: 0.71 0.63 0.62 Up time: 1 day Local users: 2 Memory usage: 29 % of 995MB IP: 192.168.2.103 CPU temp: 42°C Usage of /: 60% of 15G [ 0 security updates available, 2 updates total: apt upgrade ] Last check: 2017-11-26 00:0012 After sudo apt-get update and upgrade the lines telling me that 2 updates are available are still there even if no updates were performed. Where can I find out what these 2 updates are?

Previously I was running 'lubuntu' which did not have this problem. I am only interested in being able to plug in a USB key and read or transfer the contents. I normally use ftp to transfer files.

The files I am dealing with are basic microsoft files .One of the hd is formatted for my mac system but can be read by another linux box i am using . I have internet connection because my banana pi with jessie runs my web site and is permanently on line. Output of fdisk -l with 2 hard drives connected to try out what's going on: Disk /dev/ram0: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram1: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram2: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram3: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 29.7 GiB, 31914983424 bytes, 62333952 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x249148a9 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/mmcblk0p1 2048 30253055 30251008 14.4G 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: E951B0B4-37B1-4EF4-AFE9-7962AF4A7CBD Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 40 409639 409600 200M EFI System /dev/sda2 411648 973064191 972652544 463.8G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3 973064192 1953523711 980459520 467.5G Microsoft basic data Disk /dev/sdb: 93.4 GiB, 100256292864 bytes, 195813072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: E028AA81-8EEC-48D1-A6A0-0E4F14A84377 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 40 409639 409600 200M EFI System /dev/sdb2 411648 195550887 195139240 93.1G Apple HFS/HFS+ Output of uname -a: Linux reica 4.11.6-sunxi #6 SMP Fri Jun 23 19:56:18 CEST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

Hi Igor, Output of ‘armbianmoniyor -u': /var/log/armhwinfo.log has been uploaded to gzip: /var/log/armhwinfo.log.1.gz: unexpected end of file curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer Please post the URL in the Armbian forum where you've been asked for. I have tried to untar this file to no avail. It is not just USB keys that can't be read. I've tried external hard drives formatted for HTFS and HFS+ They show up in fdisk -l as /dev/sda or /dev/sdb but do not appear in /media

Maybe a discussed problem. Using Armbian Jessie on Banana Pi M1. Using USB keyboard and Mouse. Can use usb wifi adapter but presently unused. Power supply standard PS for Banana Pi normal output from lsusb and lsusb -t But it won't read files from usb key. Why ? can you help?

Thank you, martinayotta, I'll try this today ! As I understand it I still have to make an imagefile of the full 16Gb before I can shrink it to below 4Gb. Maybe you can confirm this?

Hi, I am running Armbian Jessie (4.11.6-sunxi) on Banana Pi M1. For reading and writing SD cards I use linux dd cmd on another box. I do not have a Windows system. My question is this: My SD card is a 16Gb device. With gparted I can reduce the size of the system to a partition that would easily fit on a 4Gb device. But when writing the .img file dd will still see and write an image of 16 Gb There must be a way to make an image that can be written to and booted from a smaller device to save resources on the backup disk. Can anyone point me in the right direction ?