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Hello, I have owned the Orange Pi PC for quite a while now, but I have been unable to solve a problem. The problem is that I can never quite manage to get the GPU drivers to work perfectly. They will often crash when using certain software like Chromium. Here is what I have tried doing so far: - Build and install the helper modules (libdri2,libump) - Installing the sunxi-mali driver - Building the video driver (xf86-video-fbturbo) - Build glshim -- Doing the following does not seem to have an effect on glxgears -- - Update arm-linux-gnueabihf configuration <-- Doing this breaks certain applications and games Can anybody provide any solutions to the problems I am having? Or link a confirmed working tutorial? Thanks.

Hello. I added overlays=pwm to /boot/armbianEnv.txt and reboot system. $ cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 logo=disabled console=both disp_mode=1920x1080p60 overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3 rootdev=UUID=3d863bb3-b616-4229-94e7-8c92ac95501a rootfstype=ext4 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u overlays=pwm Armbian can't boot-up. ** Unable to read "/boot/boot.env" from mmc0:1 ** Failed (-5) In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 230454 bytes read in 23 ms (9.6 MiB/s) starting USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 USB1: USB OHCI 1.0 USB2: USB EHCI 1.00 USB3: USB OHCI 1.0 USB4: USB EHCI 1.00 USB5: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus 2 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus 4 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found Autoboot in 1 seconds, press <Space> to stop switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3708 bytes read in 18 ms (201.2 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 43100000 U-boot loaded from SD Boot script loaded from mmc 214 bytes read in 15 ms (13.7 KiB/s) 5104363 bytes read in 264 ms (18.4 MiB/s) 6985408 bytes read in 359 ms (18.6 MiB/s) Found mainline kernel configuration 32108 bytes read in 60 ms (522.5 KiB/s) 884 bytes read in 130 ms (5.9 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT overlay sun8i-h3-pwm.dtbo 4179 bytes read in 127 ms (31.3 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (sun8i-h3-fixup.scr) ## Executing script at 44000000 Warning: Disabling ttyS0 console due to enabled PWM overlay ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 43300000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 5104299 Bytes = 4.9 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000 Loading Ramdisk to 49b21000, end 49fff2ab ... OK reserving fdt memory region: addr=43000000 size=6e000 Loading Device Tree to 49ab0000, end 49b20fff ... OK Starting kernel ... System information $ cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=orangepipc BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi PC" BOARDFAMILY=sun8i VERSION=5.65 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi BRANCH=next ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage Can't I use sun8i-h3-pwm.dtbo?

Hello guys! I'm beginner of Armbian. The problem is: Install Armbian Stretch mainline kernel 4.14.y on my device(Orange_Pi_PC),But I don't know how to enable UART1 . I tried to select UART1 & UART2 & UART3 on armbian-config,now i can see 'overlays=uart1 uart2 uart3' in /boot/armbianEnv.txt Connect serial device with P40(RX) P39(GND) P38(TX) . when i check serial device on ssh, i can see this info: uname -a Linux orangepipc 4.14.84-sunxi #3 SMP Sat Dec 1 07:18:41 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux ls -l /dev/ttyS* crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 64 Dec 4 20:24 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Dec 4 20:36 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 Dec 4 21:08 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 Dec 4 20:33 /dev/ttyS3 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 68 Dec 4 20:24 /dev/ttyS4 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 69 Dec 4 20:24 /dev/ttyS5 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 70 Dec 4 20:24 /dev/ttyS6 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 71 Dec 4 20:24 /dev/ttyS7 dmesg | grep tty [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=3d863bb3-b616-4229-94e7-8c92ac95501a rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=1920x1080p60 panic=10 consoleblank=0 loglevel=1 ubootpart=c0dd9a77-01 ubootsource=mmc usb-storage.quirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u sunxi_ve_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_g2d_mem_reserve=0 sunxi_fb_mem_reserve=16 cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1 [ 0.000198] console [tty1] enabled [ 1.796248] console [ttyS0] disabled [ 1.816398] 1c28000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1c28000 (irq = 42, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A [ 1.816450] console [ttyS0] enabled [ 1.839525] 1c28400.serial: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1c28400 (irq = 43, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A [ 1.862474] 1c28800.serial: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x1c28800 (irq = 44, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A [ 1.885408] 1c28c00.serial: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x1c28c00 (irq = 45, base_baud = 1500000) is a U6_16550A [ 4.746240] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice. setserial -g /dev/ttyS* /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied /dev/ttyS1, UART: undefined, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 43 /dev/ttyS2, UART: undefined, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 44 /dev/ttyS3, UART: undefined, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 45 /dev/ttyS4, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0 /dev/ttyS5, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0 /dev/ttyS6, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0 /dev/ttyS7, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0 When I saw this doc: https://docs.armbian.com/Hardware_Allwinner/ but there is no bin file in /boot: ls /boot armbianEnv.txt boot.scr initrd.img-4.14.84-sunxi vmlinuz-4.14.84-sunxi armbian_first_run.txt.template config-4.14.84-sunxi overlay-user zImage boot.bmp dtb System.map-4.14.84-sunxi boot.cmd dtb-4.14.84-sunxi uInitrd boot-desktop.png dtb.old uInitrd-4.14.84-sunxi I tried to use UART1 with Python3: #!/usr/bin/python #-*-coding:utf-8-*- import serial my_printer = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS1',9600,timeout=1) if my_printer.isOpen(): pass else: my_printer.open() my_printer.write(b'\x1b\x40\x12\x54') but it doesn't work. BTW: serial device can work on Windows.

Hello everyone. My OP-PC is dead, with NO HDMI signal, NO console output, NO network output (LEDs off), only 1 LED is on which indicates SD card inserted (if SD card removes, it off). when use newly created SD card with Armbian, SDcard OS partition not resized. when connect to power supply, I can hear current noise. before it dies, it runs armbian server image with mainline kernel (4.14), it doesn't look like thermal fail, due to it runs very well during summer. I guess it is shorted some place, but I can't find where! so which hardware test point could I use to detects hardware failurtes.

I have OrangePi PC and I'd like to use HC-12 serial communications device. I've successfully used it with RaspberryPi Zero with these instructions: http://dev.drun.net/2017/05/10/reading-hc-12-from-rpi-and-sending-to-domoticz/ I've found this useful info: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/1524-orange-pi-one-how-to-enable-uart/ I've connected the HC-12 to OPPC as follows: VIN – Connect to 3.3 (PIN 2) GND – Connect to GND (PIN 6) RX – Connect to (PIN 8, UART0_TXD) TX – Connect to (PIN 10, UART0_RXD) I've got Putty connected to OrangePi. command "ls /dev/tty*" shows that I have /dev/ttyS0. I've tried to use it with Minicom: sudo minicom -b 9600 -o -D /dev/ttyS0 ..to no avail. "uname -a" command shows "Linux orangepipc 3.4.113-sun8i #68 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 19 10:23:30 CEST 2018 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux" I opened the script.fex and it shows: ...etc. I have no clue what these mean. The first useful info above mentions that I should modify them. What should I try next?

compiled https://github.com/armbian/build debian. uname -a Linux orangepipc 4.14.73-sunxi # 1 SMP Mon Oct 1 11:55:35 +04 2018 armv7l GNU / Linux apt update apt-get install -y build-essential linux-headers -uname -r` Reading package lists ... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information ... Done E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.14.73-sunxi E: Could not find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.14.73-sunxi' E: Could not find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.14.73-sunxi' what is the problem??? PS: the problem decided.

Hi I have an Orange Pi PC running "ARMBIAN Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i". Can I update to Armbian Strech kernel 4.14 directly without lose of data and configurations? How can I do it? Thanks.

Hello, My OPi PC runs headless as a web and file server, I don-t need sound, gpu, video/hdmi, IR, microphone... only Ethernet and USB. Are these things that can be shut down to save power and perhaps memory too? How? Thanks,

Where are the old-ish Armbian Jessie downloads for the Orange Pi PC? I can't find them anywhere!

After a (sudo) poweroff, the ethernet port leds turn off, the usb sockets' power supply too, but the green led remains on. I would like the green led to turn off after a sudo poweroff. How can I do that? What's the best way to do it? It's an Orange Pi PC with ARMBIAN 5.60 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i Thanks.

I've been trying to learn how to do that by looking at the [leds_para] in https://linux-sunxi.org/Fex_Guide#.5Bleds_para.5D but the [leds_para] in the script.bin of my Orange Pi PC are very different: [leds_para] leds_used = 1 green_led = port:PL10<1><default><default><1> green_led_active_low = 0 red_led = port:PA15<1><default><default><0> red_led_active_low = 0 I'm lost... Can you help me? It's an Orange Pi PC with ARMBIAN 5.60 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i Thanks.

We are trying to install wifi driver for Xradio Xr-819 and also for D-Link Wifi Adapter in Mainline Image of Orange Pi PC. We have tried for xradio by https://www.cnx-software.com/2016/11/10/allwinner-h2-linux-android-sdk-and-allwinner-xr819-wifi-driver-released/ and https://github.com/fifteenhex/xradio. Also, we have tried by installing u-boot https://notsyncing.net/?p=blog&amp;b=2016.orangepi-pc-custom-kernel. We have tried for D-Link by https://github.com/xk/rtl8812AU_rtl8821AU and http://www.philipzucker.com/getting-goddamn-wifi-on-the-goddamn-orange-pi-pc/. Also, we tried to made modifications in file /etc/network/interfaces but that file shows in Read Only Mode but nothing works out. Need help ASAP.

For some reason the reboot command doesn't appear to reboot the H3. Is this because it doesn't have a PMIC in the same way that the A20's do or is it just a case of the correct assembly instruction not being called?

I've tried both revisions (Bionic and Stretch) for this board located at: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-pc/ Both have the same issue. When I boot from sd card, run armbian-config, and attempt to transfer armbian OS to emmc I get an error 'no target'. I know that there is indeed built 8GB flash, because when I pull the sdcard, and power the board it boots into the pre-configured android OS. Here is a picture I took of the board: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5ELPTTnPbZXAybhe9 Any advise would be helpful. Thank You.

Hello! Sorry, I can't speak english well! A year ago, I buy my Orange Pi PC, and download last image of Armbian, and it work's well. But yesterday, I update my system through apt-get, and notice that there be some kernel packages. There was packages, with "sunxi" or "sunx7" in his names, don't remember well. After this, my Pi stop to working. No SSH, no image from HDMI too. I download new images from https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-pc/ try both Bionic and Stretch. But both of them don't work. There was an old image, Xenial with kernel 3.4. It works well, but my wifi adapter doesn't work with this kernel. But this adapter, worked with that, old image, that I download a year ago (December 2017). And I think, in that old image was kernel never than 3.4 but older than 4.14. Where can I get that image?

I have a device based on an Orange Pi PC. I want to add a 7 inch touchscreen display in a case. This is the kind of thing I'm looking for, but I'm not wedded to that one. I just want something that's known to work reliably. Thanks in advance for suggestions or guidance.

Hi Experts, I have a strange issue while Armbian installation to my Orange PI PC boards. So there are two SD cards with the same parameters: 1. smartbuy 8gb sdhc class 10 2. OltraMax 8gb sdhc class 10 The problem is that when I use smartbuy card I can install Armbian and it works fine. But when I use OltraMax card I can install Armbian but after first login it asks me the following: Warning: a reboot is needed to finish resizing the filesystem Please reboot the system as soon as possible Ok, I do a reboot and Orange PI PC can't boot Armbian after. Moreover as can I understand I get a boot loader (u-boot) console where I can type some commands. An interesting thing is that if I install Armbian using smartbuy card and then I make an IMG (full image) from it and write this IMG to OltraMax card so Armbian works fine from OltraMax card! So I started an investigation and collected logs from both SD cards by the following plan: 1. Write IMG (Armbian 5.59 Debian Stretch) to SD card 2. Run Orange PI PC and install Armbian 3. Reboot Armbian 4. Login Armbian and shutdown (only with smartbuy card I can do that step). Than I compared both logs and found some strange messages for OltraMax board: Picture above shows first execution logs (in compare mode), OltraMax output contains messages about a "bad MBR sector signature". Than when I installed both and did a first login using root 1234 I find another artifact: Take a look at Usage of values. Seems like smartbuy extended it's FS size while installation but OltraMax no, it's still 1GB. And OltraMax have a message I mention above (reboot for fs resizing). Than I did a restart and faced a current issue: As I understand something wrong with FS resizing on OltraMax card probably because of "bad MBR sector signatures" So can anybody heIp me? I do want to understand why it happens and find a workaround because I bought about 14 OltraMax cards for my Orange Pi PC cluster. I may attach both logs if it's needed. Thanks, Kornev

Hi, Tried a new Armbian build for OPiPC today, legacy (3.4.113) and seen that only Debian 9 is available (not showing Debian 8), so build fails since Debian 9 cannot work with legacy. So, is Armbian dropping legacy kernels (3.4.113) on Debian? Need Debian 8 console/server with legacy, so what can I do ? [ error ] ERROR in function source [ configuration.sh:90 ] [ error ] Building Debian Stretch images with selected kernel is not supported [ o.k. ] Process terminated

My orange PI PC was working flawlessy but now it wont boot and via serial I can get this: U-Boot SPL 2016.09-armbian (Oct 23 2016 - 17:08:22) DRAM: 0 MiB ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ### Then it stops there. What can I do?

Hi, Today I encountered for the second time a strange behavior on my Orange Pi PC running Armbian 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.18-sunxi and decided to ask here. The OPI PC is working properly for a few weeks (one to three, typically) and suddenly I cannot access it via SSH or UART anymore. When trying to connect with SSH, the connection hangs after entering the password and after a while the connection timeouts. Tried SSHing from regular Linux shell and from PuTTY under Windows. I regularly use a key to log in the Opi PC, but it doesn't work, too. Trying to connect with the UART (via minicom in Linux or PuTTY in Windows) produces a line or two of console output and then stops responding at all. Reconnecting doesn't help as nothing is displayed anymore. I tried with another USB<->UART converter, same result. I haven't tried to change the cable (~80cm long) because the connection works properly once I reboot the Pi. I use the Pi as a small web and file server. The strange thing is that all services seem to work properly while I cannot reach the Pi via SSH/UART. The uSD card is a Samsung Evo+ 32GB, the PSU is 5V/2A and seems to work correctly, at least when running stress -c 4 or operating under high load. The maximum temps during stress test are all under 45°C (I installed a heat sink + fan). Has anyone exhibited similar behavior? Is there a log which can point the root cause out? How can I log any errors in the future for debugging purposes? Thank you in advance!

Hi!!! I am planning to buy Orange Pi PC but I saw that it has thermal issues because of overclocking/overvolting. My question is, Is armbian able to fix this problem??? ------Sorry...I am new to Single Board Computers----- Another thing, If Armbian isn't helpful about it, Does Orange Pi PC2 differ from it's predecessor??(I mean in thermal issues)... Thanks To You!!

OrangePi PC H3 UsbTV kernel driver causes complete system freeze on Armbian OrangePi PC kernel 4.14. Did anyone observed similar issues? I already reported a bug against the USBTV repo, but not sure if this is the right place. [Update: After quick response of Federico Simoncelli from the USBTV repo, I reported this bug to the kernel bugzilla as a new bug there] On x86_64 platform it works well. Is it the bug of Armbian or USBTV?

Hi. I am having this issue with Orange PI PC. If it boots up when the TV it connects to over HDMI is off, I am getting blank pink screen. I guess it is because it chooses different video output when TV isn't detected. Raspbian forums suggest disabling "HDMI hotplug" by editing /boot/config.txt , but Armbian hasn't got this file. Please share your suggestions as this TV is on the wall in my kid's school at 2m height - and if it reboots due to short power failure, it needs a ladder to get fixed. Please help me before school year starts

Hello all, just new to here, I bought an Orangepi PC board and grabbed lastest Armbian pre-built image with legacy kernel. I test my code that dynamically change the HDMI output resolution, by something like this: ioctl(disp, DISP_BLANK, true) ioctl(disp, DISP_DEVICE_SWITCH) ioctl(disp, DISP_BLANK, false) and then update fbvar by ioctl(fb0, FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO) I can see output actually changed, everything goes well until I try to map framebuffer from /dev/fb0, it failed with errno EINVAL. After check drivers source code I think it's because the display driver, it forget to notify the system to update framebuffer parameters, but I can't figure out the actual problem of the code. If I use h3disp, after reboot I can map framebuffer as well, but I need to change it dynamically. Does anyone have a solution for this? Thank you very much!

my opi pc only hosts smb/nfs/transmition, very hot at summer. Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i System load: 0.23 0.23 0.22 Up time: 68 days Memory usage: 28 % of 1000MB IP: 192.168.2.99 CPU temp: 65°C Usage of /: 26% of 7.2G when I change cpufreq gov, find no cpuidle driver, is that true? upstream status about cpuidle driver? I have to disable 2 cores to cool down, and also change cpufreq to ondemand.