Everything posted by Werner
- OPI 4A - Allwinner T527
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How to enable sound on a server version of Armbian
short version: switch to vendor kernel. long version: mainline support for rk3588 is far from being feature-complete. Audio probably hasn't been mainlined yet. Check https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md If you need most things to work vendor is the way to go for now which is based on Rockchip SDK.
- Using the Armbian Build Environment
- My installation became crazy after a 222 packages update on OPI5-Plus.
- new armbian-config (NG) and overlays
- My installation became crazy after a 222 packages update on OPI5-Plus.
- Can't flash Armbian to EMMC on Orange Pi 5B
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My installation became crazy after a 222 packages update on OPI5-Plus.
This doesn't tell much. This below does Providing logs with PASTE_SERVER_HOST=paste.armbian.de armbianmonitor -u helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed. Anyway DE is userspace. These packages come from KDE directly. If it worked before but broke after upgrade, there isn't much we can do since we don't control these packages. Since I have an opi5+ with KDE6 as well I'll try to upgrade later to see what happens.
- Rock 3C not booting after upgrade
- Using the Armbian Build Environment
- Using the Armbian Build Environment
- What happened in august?
- how to test gpu on armbian
- Enable eMMC on NanoPi R2C Plus
- What happened in august?
- switched kernel meson64 to sunxi and it's not booting anymore
- Orange pi 5 allow only 4 VLANs on Ethernet port
- HDMI-CEC on Orange Pi 5 Pro
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Upgrade to desktop from 6.12.7 ambian edge-rockchip64
Check with armbian-config if this is implemented already or https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=debian+install+desktop+environment I won't recommend desktop with your unknown rk3588s device since hdmi and other related things are not fully implemented in mainline yet. Best desktop experience gives you vendor kernel.
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alsa - no hdmi devices
I am pretty sure you have been warned before switching to beta that this might break things. Anyway, overall the only thing I can say about all of this is 'welcome to the world of cheap SBCs'. This is the kind of stuff we are dealing on daily basis where stuff randomly breaks and under-staffed to fix things in reasonable time and vendors flood the market with devices, some better, some worse, some downright ugly. We're both frustrated, you're not alone. If you want something on arm architecture that just works an behaves like x86 you have to spend a lot of money (Ampere Altra system for example or anything with proper UEFI implementation). But for cheap SBCs you pay for hw only, not for sw. Latter is left to hobbyists and projects like Armbian (which consists mostly of hobbyists) to take the burden of software maintenance. To get back to the actual problems. I think NVMe support broke at some point with vendor but should be good again with latest sdk. I have an opi5+ with that running from NVMe just fine. I built an image from the most recent sources here for you to try: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/.testing/Armbian-unofficial_25.02.0-trunk_Rock-5b_bookworm_vendor_6.1.84_minimal.img.xz
- Orange Pi 5 Max builds?
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Build for rpi5b - cannot install armbian-firmware-full from customize-image.sh
That's a good question. I would probably try things like comparing dmesg output after boot from the board with and without and check for differences. If you're lucky the name is right there. If so I'd try to extract the blob and place it manually where it would be if the firmware package would be installed and see if it works.
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alsa - no hdmi devices
In short: yes In long: yes, but.... Here is a small explanation about following the development efforts of what we call vendor and edge: When and if Rockchip provides a new version of their bsp we may adapt it unless it severely breaks things. Also occasionally various developers contribute to this code to fix things. Kernel updates will be provided with such. Current will stick to 6.12.y since it is an LTS kernel release until a new LTS version is released upstream. There won't be new features but the usual LTS bug fixing. These fixes will be pushed every few versions unless there is a critical issue. Edge will follow mainline kernel which is 6.13.0-rc at this time. Kernel updates also here of course but breakage is much more likely in comparison to current and vendor. Bleeding edge to say Having a SoC well matured upstream takes years. So not sure how long you plan to wait but for now, if you want a nicely working desktop experience, vendor is a good choice.
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alsa - no hdmi devices
Mainline kernel which is still under heavy development. HDMI sound might not be implemented yet. I suggest to try a vendor kernel (6.1.y) based image instead. This kernel is a customized variant of the rockchip sdk kernel which should be close to feature-complete. You can follow mainline efforts here: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md
- correct procedure to disable kernel updates