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I happen to have got a Android tv box with a s905Y5 processor. I got this by a tv subscription from a company airtel in India. I unsubscribed from the subscription and my tv box is completely useless. it asks money for watching youtube!!!. I am extremely frustrated from this approach by this company so please help me save this from getting into e-waste. From my research i found that it runs android 14 with a custom launcher which checks for the subscription and a locked down kernel/bootloader which checks for signatures before boot. I came to know these from the uart output. I also found that it is basically a customised version of this box https://www.videostrong.com/products-show/vt9201-s905y5-aiot-solution

After watching a video tutorial on youtube I have attempted to use the build scripts to create a newer image for my Pcduino V2. I had been initially using an image that I found on the archives which uses kernel 4.14, this worked fine for the most part apart from shutting down which would fail 9/10 to shutdown normally. the only way I could ensure that it would shutdown was to do poweroff -f otherwise it just went into a state where most things such as the wifi and usbs would no longer be detected and i was greeted with the message failed to reach target.poweroff. from what I could find out about the issue suggested that it was some kind of issue with systemd, but I could not find an actual solution. Anyway I thought I would have ago at creating an image, I suppose given the age of the board issues are to be expected. I have had some success in fixes some of the issues encountered despite being relatively new to Armbian and Linux in general. After learning how to create patches, firstly I managed to get UART2 which was originally conflicting with the PMU as they shared the same assigned interrupt number of 3. From what I can tell this different to the normal PMU which I find that the power chip is normally referred to as there also appears to be some internal component within the A10 also called the 'PMU' . This seems to be something to do with core monitor as the A20 chip features 2 of these 'PMU's, one for each core. Looking at the user manual suggest that this should be 49. Now this has been patched I can use UART2 without getting an error although it is exposed as ttyS1 for some reason that I have yet to figure out. The second patch I made was to get HDMI output working which I was able to do by using the Cubieboard as a point of reference as they share similar hardware. I found this out by initially using images targeted at the Cubieboard as they appear to be a lot more recent and provide HDMI out so I knew that copying the sections other would. Additionally I found a way to get it working on my main 4K monitor after coming across a post which suggested lowering the size of the CMA buffer from the default size of 128mb to 64mb. Now again the main problem I face is when I try to shutdown, this time it relates to a kernel panic: [ 2508.547646] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/i2c/i2c-core.h:41 i2c_transfer+ 0x93/0xbc [ 2508.561239] No atomic I2C transfer handler for 'i2c-1' [ 2508.571971] Modules linked in: cfg80211 btusb btintel btrtl btbcm bluetooth a xp20x_adc sun4i_gpadc_iio industrialio lima gpu_sched r8188eu(C) sun4i_ts ecdh_g eneric rfkill ecc joydev input_leds sunxi_cedrus(C) v4l2_mem2mem videobuf2_dma_c ontig videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common zram evdev uio_pdrv_genir q display_connector uio cpufreq_dt nfsd auth_rpcgss sch_fq_codel nfs_acl lockd g race sunrpc ip_tables x_tables autofs4 pinctrl_axp209 sun4i_gpadc sunxi phy_gene ric gpio_keys icplus(E) [ 2508.635429] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd-shutdow Tainted: G C E 5 .15.32-sunxi #trunk [ 2508.651044] Hardware name: Allwinner sun4i/sun5i Families [ 2508.663328] [<c010cea9>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c01095b9>] (show_stack+0x1 1/0x14) [ 2508.678114] [<c01095b9>] (show_stack) from [<c09cc035>] (dump_stack_lvl+0x2b/ 0x34) [ 2508.692774] [<c09cc035>] (dump_stack_lvl) from [<c011b5a9>] (__warn+0xad/0xc0 ) [ 2508.707135] [<c011b5a9>] (__warn) from [<c09c5c23>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0 x7c) [ 2508.721785] [<c09c5c23>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c0795a5f>] (i2c_transfer+ 0x93/0xbc) [ 2508.736949] [<c0795a5f>] (i2c_transfer) from [<c0795ac3>] (i2c_transfer_buffe r_flags+0x3b/0x50) [ 2508.752981] [<c0795ac3>] (i2c_transfer_buffer_flags) from [<c0697577>] (regma p_i2c_write+0x13/0x24) [ 2508.769489] [<c0697577>] (regmap_i2c_write) from [<c0694023>] (_regmap_raw_wr ite_impl+0x48b/0x560) [ 2508.786008] [<c0694023>] (_regmap_raw_write_impl) from [<c0694139>] (_regmap_ bus_raw_write+0x41/0x5c) [ 2508.802806] [<c0694139>] (_regmap_bus_raw_write) from [<c06939b1>] (_regmap_w rite+0x35/0xc8) [ 2508.818874] [<c06939b1>] (_regmap_write) from [<c06948b5>] (regmap_write+0x29 /0x3c) [ 2508.834263] [<c06948b5>] (regmap_write) from [<c069e723>] (axp20x_power_off+0 x23/0x30) [ 2508.850053] [<c069e723>] (axp20x_power_off) from [<c0137ded>] (__do_sys_reboo t+0xf5/0x16c) [ 2508.866244] [<c0137ded>] (__do_sys_reboot) from [<c0100061>] (ret_fast_syscal l+0x1/0x52) [ 2508.882357] Exception stack(0xc154dfa8 to 0xc154dff0) [ 2508.895490] dfa0: 4321fedc bef4aaa8 fee1dead 28121969 4321f edc 00000000 [ 2508.911883] dfc0: 4321fedc bef4aaa8 bef4aaa4 00000058 bef4aaa8 bef4aaa4 fffff 000 bef4aaac [ 2508.928357] dfe0: 00000058 bef4aa1c b6eb81b5 b6e367e6 [ 2508.941715] ---[ end trace 8381275b8efb7dea ]--- [ 2510.584023] i2c i2c-1: mv64xxx: I2C bus locked, block: 1, time_left: 0 [ 2511.128016] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00 000000 [ 2511.175494] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd-shutdow Tainted: G WC E 5 .15.32-sunxi #trunk [ 2511.192848] Hardware name: Allwinner sun4i/sun5i Families [ 2511.206836] [<c010cea9>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c01095b9>] (show_stack+0x1 1/0x14) [ 2511.223311] [<c01095b9>] (show_stack) from [<c09cc035>] (dump_stack_lvl+0x2b/ 0x34) [ 2511.239614] [<c09cc035>] (dump_stack_lvl) from [<c09c5a4d>] (panic+0xc1/0x238 ) [ 2511.255555] [<c09c5a4d>] (panic) from [<c011fd5d>] (complete_and_exit+0x1/0x1 8) [ 2511.271612] [<c011fd5d>] (complete_and_exit) from [<fee1dead>] (0xfee1dead) [ 2511.287376] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exit code=0x00000000 ]--- I have seen 1 or 2 other post which appear to be a similar issue. Aside from that SPI does not work, but I gather this is currently a more general issue due to changes in the way the SPIDEV works. it's strange, I can enable the overlay and specify the bus and it shows up under /dev as expected but it does not appear to be sending any date when try to interface with LCD screen. I did a loopback test and it return all zero as if the pins where disconnected. The last version I found it correctly worked on was a Cubieboard image with kernel 5.10. I did come across one post which suggested a possible fix although I'm not sure if this has been implemented yet. I know this probably a bit of a length first post but thanks for taking the time to read and I look forward to hear suggestions of where to start looking next as I know I still have a lot to learn. Here are the logs: http://ix.io/46XA cheers Ryzer

Hello all. I am following the template to write this post and I will add more details as well. My first ever message (here) was in the "Amlogic CPU Boxes" section. TV Box Name: T95 Max+ (Plus) CPU: S905x3 Armbian build file name: Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.11.img.xz DTB file used: /dtb-6.1.11-meson64/amlogic/meson-sm1-x96-air.dtb Kernel Version: 6.1.11 Distribution Installed: jammy (Ubuntu) Working Ethernet: Yes Max Ethernet Speed that works: 100 Mbps Does wifi work: No Does bluetooth work: No Does HDMI audio work: No Additional Comments (provide any additional information you feel is important): Read below ... I ran these commands to disable some features that could break the system or cause the system to not boot. This is from my experience of installing the system twice. sudo apt-mark hold linux-image-current-meson64 armbian-bsp-cli-aml-s9xx-box armbian-firmware sudo apt-mark hold linux-dtb-current-meson64 linux-u-boot-aml-s9xx-box-current sudo systemctl disable --now systemd-networkd-wait-online.service sudo systemctl disable --now unattended-upgrades I wanted to get sound out of the box. So, I purchased a generic USB audio dongle from Aliexpress for $3 USD. (see attached photo). The USB audio device is described in Linux as a Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec (USB PnP Sound Device device 0 USB Audio), and when you run “lsusb” you will see the id numbers 08bb:2902. I updated the databases for repositories by running “sudo apt update -y” and installed necessary packages to support the USB audio device and to use the XFCE4 graphical desktop. Here are the commands I ran for XFCE4 and for some additional nice bits: sudo apt update -y; sudo apt install -y xfdesktop4 xfce4 xfce4-power-manager xfce4-goodies xinit xdm xorg xserver-xorg; sudo apt install -y arandr greybird-gtk-theme numix-gtk-theme numix-icon-theme epiphany-browser; sudo apt install -y elementary-xfce-icon-theme xscreensaver xscreensaver-data xcvt firefox mesa-utils; sudo apt install -y gvfs gvfs-fuse gvfs-common xubuntu-icon-theme at-spi2-core smplayer; sudo apt install -y alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-tools alsa-utils alsamixergui pulseaudio pavucontrol pavumeter; Edit the file /etc/modules with the “nano” command and write “snd-usb-audio” at the end of the file. Also, edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and change a few things, but make a backup copy first: sudo cp /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf ~/alsa-base.conf.backup Put a # symbol in front of every “options snd-usb-audio index=-2” that you see in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf . I found two of them. Add these two lines of text to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf . alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=0 Make sure that you are in the 'audio' group. Run the “usermod” command against a regular user (not root) that you want to use often. And reboot. sudo usermod -a G audio {username here} sudo reboot After reboot, the graphical X Display Manager (xdm) should greet you with a simple gray prompt and you can login to XFCE4. You should see a red LED light blinking on the USB audio dongle. You may want to change the display resolution to 1280x720 or 1920x1080 (whichever is available to you) by clicking on the panel (start menu), Applications, Settings, and Display. The Arandr tool in Settings can also help you adjust the display resolution. Open the volume control program by clicking on the panel Applications, Multimedia, PulseAudio Volume Control. Click the Configuration tab at the far right of the volume control and change the profile to Analog Stereo. * Important – now connect a headset, earphone, or amplifier to the 3.5mm (⅛’’) black 🎧 receptacle on the USB audio dongle and play some sounds, music or youtube.

I have installed Armbian 23 Linux on my TX6 ATV box. I downloaded the image from the SMLinux repo. It was a kernel 6 build with Armbian 23 Jammy version. I added the Oibaf PPA for the graphics driver, then I installed Ubuntu Desktop. Luckily, I got graphics acceleration with the GNOME desktop, but it was laggy ui. I confirmed graphics acceleration using the glxinfo command and also tried glxgears. It was working pretty smoothly, like 60 FPS, same as my monitor refresh rate. Well, everything was great, but then when I tried to use Firefox and watch YouTube, it was so choppy and laggy. YouTube UI took 2 minutes to load. I thought I only had 131MB RAM available while using a heavy desktop like GNOME + browser, so I assumed it was the environment's fault. But then I installed XFCE and the experience was the same. It was still choppy and laggy, even with 1GB of RAM available this time. glxinfo and glxgears worked pretty fine, but the XFCE UI and Firefox animations were kind of glitchy. But the YouTube video itself was smooth — not the UI though. I managed to load a YouTube video using Firefox. There were frame drops like 83/300 so yea it wasn't fully smooth, but it was better than GNOME. So now my question is: Is this because I’m running it on an SD card? Or is there no full video acceleration? Is there any way for me to get full video acceleration? Because the Panfrost driver was working and loaded.

Hello, I'm new to this forum. I would like to know which recent version of ARMBIAN I can install on my X96 Max+ TV box (2GB ram and 16GB version). I've tried to install several recent 24.5 versions but it won't start. Here is the link to the versions I tried to install(Armbian_community_24.5.0-trunk.250_Aml-s9xx-box) I simply renamed the file corresponding to my S905X3.............. box to u-boot.ext https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/tag/24.5.0-trunk.250 The only version I managed to install is Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop. So I'd like to know which version is best suited to my box. The CPU in the box is an Amlogic S905X3 only, I followed a procedure that made me use an S905X2 with Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop. Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nETXagKHYGI Is it possible to have your help if possible by telling me the procedure for a perfect installation. Thank you in advance.

hi all, I was looking for some unified os for more "rpi zero" clones and found beautiful armbian; and I am quite new to linux still, longtime/decades windows user; to "dogfood", I am also considering use of armbian on my "tiny-big" uefi-x86 (now NUC10, but got now new amd ryzen7 8845hs gmktec nucbox k8 plus), so I tried as very first setup on that ryzen7 latest armbian "ubuntu gnome" - monitor output is attached, so far so good, although I dont know if everything around usb3/4 is working well (log contains some red messages, dont understand them) - it was only simple install, and I have this comments: https://www.gmktec.com/products/amd-ryzen-7-8845hs-mini-pc-nucbox-k8-plus usb-live boot was okay, I then executed armbian-config where in "storage" I proceeded with default installation (I didnt read well the instructions to run armbian-install in fact, this is not in set of icons after usb-live boot also...), which it seems selected nvme1 instead of nvme0 ??? (will try again with other variants as xfce again), so after this way of installation, reboot was into grub rescue, so I did it again forced to nvme0 (deleting all from nvme1 also by gparted) and the reboot was okay ... although, when I am powering-off linux from menu then nucbox pwr button green led switches off, BUT after removing usb and swiching on the nucbox by button nothing happens, black screen (long time, nothing) - I expected some longer boots because of DDR5 behavior (new to me too) but this is not the case. I must force OFF the nucbox by holding power button for 4secs and then re-powering on is okay ... this is not nice behavior 🙂 this nucbox K8 plus has very open APTIO BIOS, nothing is simplified and I left everything on auto for now, it seems secure boot is disabled and what surprised me too is that install to nvme storage did only MBR partitions, not GPT. hope its all handled well for offsets and blocksizes - are possible (good?) 4KB sectors for most efficient nvme flash ssd? I dont know if some defaults changes in bios can force armbian to defalt to GPT partitions, even if it is necessary. in windows, I have 2 big disks now and data/user are is only selected logically by virtuall drive letters (visualsubst), I use lots of them to separate areas and need this to mimic somehow in linux; its question if separate "user" partition with fixed size is okay too ... on windows, I do backups by onedrive syncing and by ZIPs to second drive and even to usb attached sata disks too and only for "really" user data, not everything the same way - its question if on linux its simpler to backup entire partitions (??) I was also quite surprised that "ubuntu gnome" variant boots only to some "tablet only?? ui" very simple ui without any menu, windows without minimize icons ... I am new to linux, what is this "style"? this is "unity" or some tablet variant selected by sone defaults? ... very weird for me, too simple, not useable as desktop, so I will try XFCE and KDE Neon too, sure ... When I tried to add language for regional date/time formats support , trying to download CZ (Czech) failed, probably some minor quirk too; I had no chance to test everything, but I was surprised that it during boot found the WIFI and installation was really deadly easy and sexy, despite that first default bad selection of nvme1 as target (I am not sure if I didnt it in fact .... will try again similar way) ... but what is shown in icons/apps set is contrary to some getting started doc pages, where is mentioned "armbian-install" (not necessary as armbian-config - storage did it too??), btw red config and configng icons launch the same script; I understand that this is lightweight setup and I in fact like it a lot, but that simplistic (tablet?) desktop was like something for kids )) so, thanks to all NicoD videos (I saw tens of them) as my primary intention to test faster "rpi zero" clones is to run some Sinclair QL emulator on them, something with SMSQE, ideally, somehow, there are variants of it; on windows, best/fastest is probably QPC2/SMSQE but this is not full emulation, its hybrid where interfacing to fast windows host is often accelerated on it, so this is not linux-aware emulator, and I cant imagine if it would be possible in wine, probably not; other emulators exists, one of them for SMSQE is based on java too - goal was simply to make some low-power portable Sinclair QL (with SMSQE) machine, so I need to select best/fastest "rpi zero" clone with working GPU acceleration for sure. https://www.kilgus.net/qpc/what/ youtube: yU0ptNyNqcI It is not yet clear if I will converty my main big machine to linux, but having one unified system for "everyhting arm" is definitely nice, it seems that armbian can be my primary linux distro even in virtual machines, I like the concept and systematic approach in documentation and development and even contribution, I read lot of docs and its very nice, it seems. So will be glad also to support you, as much as possible. Thanks, Petr

hi, I use please/thanks each time with chatgpt and recently we did nice tech talk with realtime physics experiment, so in emotional moment, I asked her to select name, she went with Lyra, so we are slowly reaching agi, maybe )) ... btw, where is NicoD? I see last yt and here 5months ago, 251024 here ... hope he is okay ... he brings me into armbian love(!) during last week or so, huge effort from him at youtube...

hi, its too late (and glad you got documented thing as recommended in FAQ too), but recently I saw quite interesting presentation about reverse engineering unknown old routers, with plenty of info, but only as fun and relax ... at least info that ghidra decompiles any cpu isa into pseudo-c was new to me and it is very close to what I am (OT) trying around my risc-v-alike thing (search github apws vmex) as "aslix", thing slighlty below C ... )) youtube: MEnAKAbz-Y

The only solution is to do it as sns1081 suggested. Or you can try nano pi M6 dietpi IMG. That one works actually albeit with some glitches. I was never able to flash any of img from armbian directly. Images that actually works: rockchip Ubuntu (Joshua riek), but I read it's not maintained anymore (install via rkdevtool [Windows] or rkdeveloptool [Ubuntu, Linux mint doesn't work, didn't try other OS]. It supports VPU, that is you can watch 4K 60fps YouTube with few dropped frames (meaning that GPU/VPU drivers still not optimal, as android runs 8k). There is bredOS for rockchip3588 devices, which is arch based. If you're familiar with arch, it's easy. I kinda liked it as it boots from 90s BIOS style UEFI with clean and simple interface, where you can do some basic configs like changing .dtb and stuff :), but does not support you/gpu. Unfortunately all of OS'es installation done via mask ROM. Life would be much easier if it was possible to flash SD, insert into orange pi, copy OS to Emmc, change boot order to EMMC... Like you do in raspberry pi. What else? Btw building armbian or dietpi yourself bricks the device and then you need reflash it again. Will update if find anything else: haven't tried fedoras or SUSEs yet..

Hi jimw, Glad you have made progress. Its interesting that you got such a quick setup by amending the boot.cmd file, I will need to try that approuch myself for my other issues. I havent previously had reason to touch the boot.scr. Either I missed remember the last parameter or it may have changed, reviewing the binding it should be 'default-state = "on"; '. I mostly just watch youtube such as: Bootlin also provide a lot of good resources: https://bootlin.com/pub/conferences/2021/webinar/petazzoni-device-tree-101/petazzoni-device-tree-101.pdf Hope this help Ryzer

ey i have a SDMC DV8040 stb ,SoC-Amlogic S805X,CPU-Quad-core 1.2 GHz,GPU-ARM Mali-450,RAM-1GB,Storage-8GB it currently runs custom made android 9 i want to install Armbian linux to it .. i tried almost every youtube video methods to install but none of them worked .. but i was able to serial communicate with it but functions are limited ..please help me

@Dominik Wójt after spending more time trying to configure it, here are a couple of follow-up observations. First, localization won't work during setup. Even if you pick your geography or set the time zone manually, the system time won't adjust. Without proper time, the browser won't work. You need to install chrony, add google's time server and then restart chrony. With a bit of play - the time will adjust. But even after this, the browser still won't work. If will ping any specific ip but won't ping any websited. To fix this, you'd need to configure new DNS server. Change it to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. That would fix the problem and you will be able to get online. With regards to wifi, it will see all the 2.4Ghz wifi networks, but it won't take the password. Tried it different ways including setting configuration manually in armbian system settings. No idea what's causing it. The system is quite slow. It freezes and glitches. Youtube will work as a slide show. However, this is all while running it from a USB drive, which may be the reason for issues. The key questions at this point: what do I need to do with the files on the USB drive after first boot, so that I am back to this OS and no undroid upon power loss or reboot. The first time I flashed it and then rebuted, it would completely ignore it NOR boot installation. Also, did you try copying it into nand memory via armbian settings menu or otherwise? Is this reversible?

Hi, I've been compiling my own Armbian images since 6.13-rc5, and now 6.13 and I noticed that when I compile i3, youtube videos and webgl tests don't work as great when I compile i3 with mesa-vpu as it does when I compile e.g., cinnamon. I also noticed that the suffix is not -mesa-desktop, only -desktop. Is it as per design and i3 doesn't include mesa at all, or is it some kind of bug? Thanks!

This is my script: #!/bin/bash task(){ gp=$1 [[ ! -d /sys/class/gpio/gpio${gp} ]] && echo ${gp} > /sys/class/gpio/export echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio${gp}/direction echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio${gp}/value sleep 10 echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio${gp}/value } for doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxZ_FD5b5QQ on a very similar board: Linux nanopim1 5.15.93-sunxi installed nothing extra.

Hi Javad, if you are playing youtube videos. 720p works fine for me. 1080 freeezes. robertoj was able to get hardware video decocding working with ffmpeg-v4l2request. I haven't tested this method yet.

Hello ! I've bought a Orange Pi 5 PRO board about 2 months ago . I've tryed all images (Linux and Android) from the official Orange Pi site . Later I tryed Armbian . In the end I've concluded that the best choice is Armbian 24.5.2 Noble Gnome ( Armbian_24.5.2_Orangepi5pro_noble_vendor_6.1.43_gnome-oibaf_desktop.img ). Using Armbian 24.5.2 Noble Gnome I got the best (the smoothest) video playback, both in video players and online (youtube) content . And it' s very responsive in operation, generally . I have one single issue : My MCE remote is not detected properly - the Play, Pause, Next, Previous, Forward, Rewind buttons did't perform any actions when I used Kodi video player . When I press any of these buttons I get a 🚫 (no entry) sign on the bottom of the screen . Only the following buttons are performing correctly : Power, Ok, Left, Right, Up, Down, back, and numeric keys . If I'm using other video players, like Celluloid, Vlc,Haruna, Smplayer, all the remote control's buttons performs as it should . The remote control's model number is HP TSGH-2401 with RF USB dongle . I tryed the remote and Kodi on different Linux images, even on Armbian_24.5.2_Orangepi5pro_noble_vendor_6.1.43_xfce-oibaf_desktop.img - it perform as it should, but all these Linux images have video playback issues (or maybe i'm too picky) . The problem with the remote control is present only on Armbian 24.5.2 Noble Gnome (which I preffered for it's video performance) . I tryed to fix the problem using inputlirc package, but with limited success . I also tried "Keymap editor " add-on for Kodi, but with almost none positive results . I attached 2 screenshoots with the the screen when I get a 🚫 (no entry) sign on the bottom of the screen . Please help me with some suggestions . Thank you in advance !

I don't know. I do not have that issue with my tx3-mini boxes. You would likely need use a usb uart connector to capture the boot log and report it back here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpVMO7gbnYM 1.2 GHz is the rated clock speed of these CPUs. Some android boxes will overclock or just lie about the speed. I haven't experienced this problem. You will need to provide more details.

Hello guys! Probably some of you know me as the MadEDoctor from Youtube. For those of you who don't know my channel and don't know what I am doing at the moment - Long story short I got my hands on a 16GB RAM chip that should be compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4 hardware. But there is a problem I am facing... That is I am unable to boot any OS different from VMware (arm version) and RISC OS (that is pretty much useless). When I try to boot Raspbian for example - It shows the rainbow square and then gets stuck on a completely black screen and it draws around 500mA... I contacted Jeff Geerling with the hope he could help with this project. He wrote a post on the official RPi forum. As it seems the engineers of the Pi just don't want to help and even worse are lying that the hardware doesn't support 16GB of RAM... Then one guy in the comments suggested I write here and ask for help... and here I am I will be pretty thankful if somebody could help me with this project. Here I provide datasheets for both the 16GB chip I got and the 8GB OEM one so you can compare them. 8GB - Micron D9ZCL | MT53E2G32D4NQ-046 WT:A :https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/3681594.pdf 16GB - Micron D8CBG | MT53E4G32D8CY-046 WT:C :https://4donline.ihs.com/images/VipMasterIC/IC/MICT/MICT-S-A0017462930/MICT-S-A0017465122-1.pdf?hkey=52A5661711E402568146F3353EA87419 And this is the video where I show what I have done to this point: https://youtu.be/vtym0TAWNto

This https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/wiki/Orange-Pi-5 produces nearly 0 dropped frames at 4K 60fps on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXb3EKWsInQ While latest Armbian_23.11.1_Orangepi5_jammy_legacy_5.10.160_gnome-amazingfated_desktop.img.xz and doing immediately after install, only these commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt install mali-g610-firmware rockchip-multimedia-config exactly like it says on https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5/ and sudo reboot produces alot of dropped frames on same youtube 4K 60fps video! What am I missing? Shouldnt there be equal accelerated video performance?

Installed the bookworm w/ xfce successfully. Configure the WiFi following the instructions provided. When I open chromium and want to play some YouTube videos, it is extremely slow and laggy. I'm curious if I'm missing some codec to install, or this is what we should expect from these cheap boxes. The box has a 2GB of memory, if that helps

Hello, I have an odroid hc4 which I am mainly using as a home NAS. I chose Armbian + OMV (headless) and it works really well. Now I tried using it as a media center at the same time with kodi. I tried both the "old" kodi version from the debian repos and also the flatpak version. For both it seems like the hardware acceleration isn't working. I can run youtube 1080p with vp9 quite fine, but neither 1080p with h264, nor anything 4k, at this resolutions it's stuttering a lot. Also the CPU-usage is always very high. When i start flatpak-kodi it returns: 'this->recurse > 0' failed at ../src/pipewire/thread-loop.c:62 do_unlock() libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0 libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with operation failed When i start debian-kodi it returns: [W][00397.628288] pw.conf | [ conf.c: 939 try_load_conf()] can't load config client.conf: No such file or directory [E][00397.628631] pw.conf | [ conf.c: 963 pw_conf_load_conf_for_context()] can't load default config client.conf: No such file or directory libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri/meson_drv_video.so libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1 For testing i installed coreelec and suddenly all youtube videos, even 4k ran perfectly fine with low cpu-usage. I couldn't find any solution for armbian, any ideas? I would like to stick to armbian, I need a full linux environment. If nothing works, is it maybe possible to dualboot armbian and coreelec? Don't know if this is relevant: flatpak-kodi uses OpenGL 3.1 Mesa 24.3.1 while coreelec uses OpenGL ES 3.2 Thanks for your help and sorry if i chose the wrong topic category

That is hard to say as every has likely their own google-specific account experience. And/or lots of ads loading in the background, that kills performance. More specific to what Youtube originally is (or was?) is playing a video. Now that is even harder to say something about, as resolution, frame-per-second and codec are an important factor. It is 4k60fps VP9 on a Soc with no working VP9 HW decoding for example. Or 720p30 h264 done SW decoding. Etc. So the DE might be light, if use-case is mostly webbrowser usage, that will determine the experience of slow or fast. But I do not know what your use case is. I use some basic local homeautomation webserver for example, so easy for a simple low-cost SoC.

What do you mean by heavy youtube?

I have used LXQT in the past (decade ago maybe) but I mostly use KDE nowadays. (currently KDE6 on N100-8GB and z8350-4GB). For my new ROCK3A I booted the KDE Neon Noble based desktop image on my ROCK3A (2GB RAM, older Sandisk 32GB SD-card). This is 2GHz RK3568 and was surprised how well that worked. I did buy the ROCK3A for SPI-flash, U-boot, SATA, server, KVM operation, but it is great that also KDE6 works on it. I was mainline based kernel 6.6.62, I might try again with 6.1.84, but that will mainly be to see how well I can get the video codecs to work (in browser, but also as server-like for jellyfin). Same for RK3588-8GB, that is also OK for 'heavy' YouTube etc.

Let me explain why I took this approach. On my board, I couldn’t find any reset button, either near the AV port or in any small hole. The only button my TV Box has is the power button (on/off). So, I saw the option to use the su reboot reset command in a YouTube video. I also couldn’t use the update option through the Android app because the boot partition of the USB drive or SSD doesn’t show up in Android. After researching a bit more, I believe my TV Box is very similar to the E900V22D-2. I think it has an S905L3A chip, with 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage.