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I'll start with an old one. I'd like to see it in the backgrounds folder replacing the one now because the one used now isn't correct.

I am submitting my **original artwork** for the Armbian Wallpaper Contest.
**Artwork Details:**

- **Title:** [Armbian in 3D of 2019]

- **Description:** [Blender render of 3D tux smooth in original background style]
I hereby confirm and certify that this artwork is an original piece created solely by me. By submitting this artwork to the Armbian Wallpaper Contest, I agree to release it under the [Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode) (CC0 1.0).

Why not buy an Armbian supported SBC? Most TV-Boxes are crap. Overheating and low-quality. For better quality you also pay a lot more. So then why not buy a good SBC?

RK3399 ain't that expensive and has great IO. RK3588 is high end so cost more, but it's future proof.
OrangePi5+ should be best value. I don't have it, so can't say much about it. 
NanoPi R6S/R6C isn't that expensive. The C has NVMe and USB3, and very fast CPU.
 
If you want to use full sized HDD's then look at the Odroid HC4. It has the S905X3. As powerful as RPi4(when not OC) and 2 SATA for full sized HDDs. But no USB3 or other IO. It does have HDMI.
 
RK3568 is also a SoC that has great IO and not too expensive. Not sure if there are Armbian supported boards with it.
RK3566 less IO but still better than any RPi.

I only had one ok TV-Box from a bunch. The Mecool KM6 with S905X4, but that doesn't have Armbian support. S905X3 should have better support. But you are never certain all hardware will work.
TV-box manufactures ofter use different components for the same model TV box. So some people might have wifi working, but others don't.

Why not buy an Armbian supported SBC? Most TV-Boxes are crap. Overheating and low-quality. For better quality you also pay a lot more. So then why not buy a good SBC?

RK3399 ain't that expensive and has great IO. RK3588 is high end so cost more, but it's future proof.
OrangePi5+ should be best value. I don't have it, so can't say much about it. 
NanoPi R6S/R6C isn't that expensive. The C has NVMe and USB3, and very fast CPU.
 
If you want to use full sized HDD's then look at the Odroid HC4. It has the S905X3. As powerful as RPi4(when not OC) and 2 SATA for full sized HDDs. But no USB3 or other IO. It does have HDMI.
 
RK3568 is also a SoC that has great IO and not too expensive. Not sure if there are Armbian supported boards with it.
RK3566 less IO but still better than any RPi.

I only had one ok TV-Box from a bunch. The Mecool KM6 with S905X4, but that doesn't have Armbian support. S905X3 should have better support. But you are never certain all hardware will work.
TV-box manufactures ofter use different components for the same model TV box. So some people might have wifi working, but others don't.

@balbes150Also works with Android on the eMMC. 

@NicoD To run from an SD card, after writing the image, add the boot.ini file to the root dir (exactly to the root dir, not to the subdirectory, i.e. it should be like this /boot.ini)
 
And so far, the UART log at this launch.
 
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/rYwlbXIDWg1gvQ

Tnx. I saw the reason what is missing to run Armbian if the default Android firmware is used. ^)

@Contributor/Maintainer 

- added missing Rockpi 4C plus
- enabled Mekotronic boards https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported&tx_maker=mekotronics
- added Orangepi 5 Plus
 
In case there is another missing or broken images, please report, here or to Jira directly https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1765 

You do have a way to power your HDD do you? Or is it an SSD?
A sata adapter only powers 2.5" devices. If it's 3.5" HDD then you need 12V. 
I would advice not to boot from HDD. If something goes wrong with the image on an sd-card then you just replace the sd-card without loosing anything from the HDD. 
Do use a good sd-card. Hard drives also aren't super fast, so no real speed benifit in using that. 
 

@MinhIt is not GPU hw acc but VPU you need.
Are you using the @amazingfate multimedia ppa?
 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa #Panfork GPU ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia #Multimedia ppa for VPU acceleration sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt install mali-g610-firmware rockchip-multimedia-config I suspect you might need gstreamer. That's included. My knowledge ain't great in these things, so maybe amazingfate or someone else can add to it.

GPU drivers have nothing to do with Armbian. Armbian can only show how to use them. We are not driver developers.
It is expected that the blob Rockchip driver runs way better than the open-source panfrost/panfork drivers. Panfrost might improve in time. N2/N2+/VIM3 at first also performed worse than RK3399 but after time it now outperforms RK3399 by a lot.
Both drivers are very useful to me.
You can use the blob by running in x11 and run your program with "malirun programname"
Not everything will work, but for example PS2 emulation works perfect like that.

Video playback has nothing to do with GPU drivers but VPU drivers. For that there is the multimedia ppa from AmazingFate. 

@BasThere are user built images from @monkaBlyat for the Mekotronics boards.
It has wayland GPU blob + panfork GPU driver + VPU acceleration + box64/86 and wine preïnstalled.
All info and links in the description of this video.
 

GPU drivers have nothing to do with Armbian. Armbian can only show how to use them. We are not driver developers.
It is expected that the blob Rockchip driver runs way better than the open-source panfrost/panfork drivers. Panfrost might improve in time. N2/N2+/VIM3 at first also performed worse than RK3399 but after time it now outperforms RK3399 by a lot.
Both drivers are very useful to me.
You can use the blob by running in x11 and run your program with "malirun programname"
Not everything will work, but for example PS2 emulation works perfect like that.

Video playback has nothing to do with GPU drivers but VPU drivers. For that there is the multimedia ppa from AmazingFate. 

Ok. I'll wait till things are fixed.
I did just test install to NVMe and boot from sd and it indeed didn't work as it should. Couldn't boot into x anymore. Install to eMMC does work. 
I'm already very happy to have this. I can have the same setup on my trip as I've got on my main desktop at home with the Mekotronics mini.
With a 1TB NVMe for movies. That's great
I was really let down by the FE images for it. Seems there's degression. The old R6S image was better than the new R6C Ubuntu. Big thank you!

@NicoD i think you should make a video after we get stable images. Currently something is broken 

Added to Armbian build system https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/fd6a6dec66839b8ceeea22fc3792a9fce1df9fde

Thanks to @Efe Çetin
 
 
Lets keep it in WIP section for awhile until we don't do more testings. I found out armbian-install doesn't work well so this needs to be fixes, perhaps something else ...

Download:

https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-r6s/
(unofficial WIP support)

Someone asked in a different thread how I got Dolphin to run so thought I'd start a thread so not to pollute the other one.
Basically it wasn't that hard especially if youve done some git'hubbing before.
 
I think I followed the 'Ubuntu' instructions here.
Make sure you get the dependencies and do all the steps correctly.
It should build without problems if you do.  (remember you have a lot of cores on Opi5 so can use 'make -j6' or even higher)
 
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/wiki/Building-for-Linux
 
 
You then want to set a config flag to make Dolphin use GLES instead of big brother OpenGL.
(you probably want to run it at least once to generate the config files)
 
nano ~/.config/dolphin-emu/GFX.ini
add a line:
PreferGLES = True
 
But when running one of the more common games I got a shader compilation error.
I hacked around that and also reported it on the Dolpin bug report site and it should be fixed soon when the 'PR' gets accepted.
In the meantime you can read here what to do,
 
https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/13198#
 
 
Note that in my youtube video I get a good fps but later on in the game when you get to the first village the transparencies in the central square bonfire completely kills fps.
The same happens in Metroid Prime when you have the large bluish holo walls in view.
Mario Kart runs pretty well most of the time. Mario Sunshine as well at least in the plaza area I have't tried further.
 
 
Cheers and Good Luck!
 
 

Interview with @rpardini.
 

Interview with @rpardini.
 

Hi all.
I'm working on a script that can install different Linux gaming tools like Box86, Box64, PPSSPP, ...
For now it can only install box86 and box64. There is also an issue installing wine, so this doesn't work either.
 
https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming
 
Download and unzip and run script : sudo /bin/bash ./armbian-gaming.sh When ready I'll make a video about it and give more info.
 
I've tested it on the PineBookPro with Hirsute.
With the Odroid N2+ you need to activate panfrost, install dependecies for N2+, and then install box86. Tho it didn't work as it should.
If "install box86" gives a build error, try the dependencies for N2+ and try "install box86" again.
 
Please let me know your experiences on other systems.
 

@NicoDVersion 20230219. No manual copying of dtb is needed anymore, all support is included in u-boot, i.e. after writing the image to USB\SD, you can use it immediately. The installation on eMMC has been checked.
 
ps All the necessary changes will automatically get into the official relise version, you can build your own version of the images