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Another video you'd like to see.

I tried FEX-emu, but on our devices it's slower. It is optimised for snapdragon while box64 is more optimised for the lower-end SBC ARM-SOC. Here a video I once made about it. Things have changed a lot, fex-emu has matured at lot in this time. I didn't know it was build for steam back then so didn't test that. Also have no steam games that would run.

Here the link to the video. Thanks to Mike from Mekotronics. https://mekotronics.wetransfer.com/downloads/9a21fbbbd8123b75cb5119d632bb565020251208034519/a7c7d3?t_lsid=dd63b65e-c41d-4c4e-81ea-66eea92954d0&t_network=link&t_rid=YXV0aDB8NjE4ZTI0ZjkyMDYzZGYwMDY5Y2FhMmFh&t_s=download_link&t_ts=1765165519

More info, but not yet the video that shows what pins.

No. That's how to do it when the bootloader works. My memory is slowly coming back, there's 2 pins on the back you need to short. But what pins I don't know. Let me open one and see if I remember more...

I send them a mail to ask. Will let you know when I hear something, also asked someone who also got the video. This happened a lot to me when testing tons of images for these boards. But haven't been doing that lately, time to start again.

Hi. Forgive me for my memory is very bad. There is a video somewhere on how to unbrick mekotronics Rockchip devices. I've been searching for it the last half hour but can't find it. I know I've got it on my pc somewhere. Email mekotronics and they'll give you a link to it. If I find it I'll share it.

That's probably the boot partition in fat32. You can't read linux partitions in Windows without tools. So it's normal you can't read an armbian image in windows since it doesn't use fat partitions. Why it doesn't boot is another case. I would try to build my own image with either legacy or mainline kernel. I don't have the board so no idea what works on it.

It is nog normal desktop images are not available. You can always install a desktop to server images. I use taskset for desktops that need a lot of dependancies. sudo apt install taskset sudo taskset For the xu4 there should be not much difference with the armbian desktop images except for the background image.

Hi all. In this video I show how to use armbian-gamingX86. A script to install Steam, PPSSPP, Retropie and Xonotic on Armbian Jammy/Noble X86. Here link to armbian-gamingX86 : https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gamingX86 Here my video about it. Cheers, NicoD

Did you format the NVMe and create a partition? Simular behaviour happens when you don't create a partition.

@jrd6gBuilding your own images is easy to do. You need an x86 or arm64 device with Ubuntu 22.04/Armbian Jammy. Follow these 4 steps. apt-get -y -qq install git git clone --depth=1 --branch=main https://github.com/armbian/build cd build ./compile.sh https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/

Where did you get this image? To my knowledge there's no pi username on Armbian images. The first time you boot you should be asked to create a username + password. If that doesn't happen you need to login with 'root' pw '1234' I do know a lot of images from makers that have username 'pi' and pw 'pi'. And why the file attached? Looks fishy...

I was using xfce4 back then. You don't need wayland for panfrost to work. These days I use ubuntu-desktop (gnome) with wayland and it works just as well. There are issue's with kde desktop and wine not working. Only for ps2 emulation I still use an x11 desktop since it performs a little better.

There might be a package for Debian Bookworm server images. sudo apt install armbian-bookworm-desktop-gnome Or just install the default gnome desktop for any others like Noble or Jammy sudo apt install gnome-desktop I use the Ubuntu desktop on Ubuntu images sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop I think the only difference between default gnome and armbian gnome is the background image. So easy to adjust manually if you want.