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Dear all, I got myself an Radxa Rock 5 ITX+ as I thought I'd saw that this board had premium support. After it arrived, I saw that only the ITX (non-plus) variant had premium support, which since latest Armbian release some days ago seems to has been downgraded to standard support. I cleared both the eMMC and SPI flash to make sure the preinstalled OS were gone and would not interfere with the boot up process. Then I built myself a latest image with trixie and vendor kernel but I realized that (after booting from sdcard successfully), the Nvme was never picked up. The ITX+ has two M.2 full-size slots instead of only one - and is missing the SATA controller instead. To make sure I did nothing wrong with the building process I grabbed myself some old images like e.g. Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img.xz Armbian_25.2.2_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img.xz but they don't show working Nvmes either. So I got myself the latest nightly Trixie build (Rolling releases images with Armbian Linux v6.1 / Build Date: Sep 6, 2025 / Debian Debian 13 (Trixie)) from https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5-itx/ and booted that, to also see that both populated Nvme slots are not picked up. lspci shows two Nvmes: 0000:01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Solid State Storage Technology Corporation NVMe SSD M.2 (rev 01) 0001:11:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Solid State Storage Technology Corporation NVMe SSD M.2 (rev 01) Bot dmesg shows issues during boot: [ 14.165404] pci 0001:10:00.0: Primary bus is hard wired to 0 [ 14.165410] pci 0001:10:00.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 01-ff]), reconfiguring [ 14.165514] pci 0001:11:00.0: [1e95:3500] type 00 class 0x010802 [ 14.165568] pci 0001:11:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x00003fff 64bit] [ 14.165794] pci_bus 0000:01: busn_res: can not insert [bus 01-ff] under [bus 00-0f] (conflicts with (null) [bus 00-0f]) [ 14.165901] pci 0000:01:00.0: [1e95:3500] type 00 class 0x010802 [ 14.166009] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x00003fff 64bit] [ 14.166147] pci 0001:11:00.0: 15.752 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x2 link at 0001:10:00.0 (capable of 31.504 Gb/s with 8.0 GT/s PCIe x4 link) [ 14.166379] cpu cpu6: l=15000 h=85000 hyst=5000 l_limit=0 h_limit=2208000000 h_table=0 [ 14.166699] pci_bus 0001:11: busn_res: [bus 11-1f] end is updated to 11 [ 14.166721] pci 0001:10:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0xf1200000-0xf12fffff] [ 14.166729] pci 0001:10:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0xf1300000-0xf130ffff pref] [ 14.166729] pci 0000:01:00.0: 15.752 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x2 link at 0000:00:00.0 (capable of 31.504 Gb/s with 8.0 GT/s PCIe x4 link) [ 14.166737] pci 0001:11:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xf1200000-0xf1203fff 64bit] [ 14.166785] pci 0001:10:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 11] [ 14.166792] pci 0001:10:00.0: bridge window [mem 0xf1200000-0xf12fffff] [ 14.168281] pcieport 0001:10:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 128 [ 14.168548] nvme nvme0: pci function 0001:11:00.0 [ 14.168576] nvme 0001:11:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 14.176536] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0xf0200000-0xf02fffff] [ 14.176542] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0xf0300000-0xf030ffff pref] [ 14.176546] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xf0200000-0xf0203fff 64bit] [ 14.176569] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01-ff] [ 14.176573] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0xf0200000-0xf02fffff] [ 14.177418] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 138 [ 14.177557] nvme nvme1: pci function 0000:01:00.0 [ 14.177582] nvme 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 14.181202] nvme nvme0: Removing after probe failure status: -19 [ 14.185702] cpu cpu6: EM: OPP:1008000 is inefficient [ 14.185716] cpu cpu6: EM: OPP:816000 is inefficient [ 14.185965] cpu cpu6: EM: created perf domain [ 14.190212] nvme nvme1: Removing after probe failure status: -19 ( full log: https://paste.next.armbian.com/labujaguke.yaml ) Any idea on how to fix this and get them working? That would be really lovely, Thanks a lot for all your support!

I installed Debian 12 (Bookworm)XFCE from the official Armbian website onto the NVME SSD of the board. Everything works fine except the 4 hard drives that are connected to boards SATA connectors. They do appear and work when i boot into the Debian provided by Radxa, so I know hardware isn't an issue. I think that they also worked during the very first boot of the system but after ``` apt update && apt upgrade ``` and reboot, they stop working. Any advice would be much appreciated. ``` rock-5-itx:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS mtdblock0 31:0 0 16M 0 disk mmcblk0 179:0 0 7.3G 0 disk mmcblk0boot0 179:32 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk0boot1 179:64 0 4M 1 disk zram0 252:0 0 11.6G 0 disk [SWAP] zram1 252:1 0 50M 0 disk /var/log zram2 252:2 0 0B 0 disk nvme0n1 259:0 0 476.9G 0 disk └─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 472.1G 0 part /var/log.hdd / ``` https://paste.armbian.com/qiwimusofo

hi there, I'm a complete Linux noob so please forgive my ignorance. But I do have 25+ years experience in IT so am relatively conversant with basic principles - so please be patient I did try to search for any previous threads but couldn't find any. I'm trying to setup a RADXA Rock 5 ITX with OpenMediaVault for my NAS. I have a 2TB NVMe m.2 SSD that I'll use for the OS. For the NAS storage I'm using 4x Western Digital 16TB SATA III drives. I downloaded the Armbian 25.2.2 bootable image from https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5-itx/ and used Balena Etcher (the legit version from Balena-io) to make my bootable microSD card. When I boot, I receive an error message of "failed to mount /dev/mount/mmcblk0p1 as root file system" I'm guessing this is because there is no emmc on this board other than what's provided for RooibOS flash? Do I just need to reconfigure the Armbian Bookworm setup script to use / look for the NVMe m.2 SSD instead of the emmc? If so, is there a way to do that on a Windows PC? If not, I may just have to go with the standard RooibOS install using Armbian Noble just to get a Linux system up and running, then edit the Armbian setup script, reflash the Rock 5 ITX and start again? Or is there something else I'm missing? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello. I want to try UEFI boot on this board. And I have one question. Can I use Rockchip vendor kernel with Armbian UEFI?

Armbian_25.2.2_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.99_gnome_desktop.img.xz I first tried this, as it was the first version offered at the top of the page. No matter what I tried, sound would *not* work. Not speakers, not HDMI, nada, zip. I then started trying earlier versions further down the page. Armbian_25.2.2_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img.xz And this one, sound *did* work, at least through the speaker jack anyway, but I suspect HDMI would too. I'm really suspecting something kernel related is going here (that "Rockchip BSP" note right above it makes me suspect that). In any case, I'd like to use the kernel where sound is working and put a gnome shell in front of it. Which I take means digging into the build system for armbian? I can figure that out on my own but before I get started on that, what I'm looking for from the forumistas, is an indication of which specific kernel I need to use to make sure sound works. What do I need to make sure to specify so I get the behavior of that second install that worked? And Cinnamon may be better or something, but gnome is what I'm used to.

I had this plan on utilizing the Radxa Rock 5 ITX+ as a Moonlight client device to stream games from my desktop computer to my living room TV, and using my 8BitDo Ultimate controller to play. On paper, the board has all the bells and whistles needed to do it, but I am having trouble getting hardware decoding of H264 and/or HEVC to work as expected. From what I gather, I need mesa-vpu support, but the documentation I find is very scattered, and repositories that once held the needed resources are no longer available. I am currently running Armbian_25.DBhsHKsx.2.2_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.99_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img (build date 21st of February, 2025), downloaded from Armbian.com. Hardware decoding does however not work, despite it being marked with "backported mesa". I've been at this for two weeks now with different images, including Armbian and Radxa OS, even going so far as trying to build Armbian myself from scratch. The image I am currently using is however the most stable I have experienced so far. Am I missing something? How do I get hardware decoding to work? Edit: Link to armbianmonitor output

I got a 6.1 noble minimal image installed with a latest kubuntu update to KDE 6. Was quite some work to get this all working. But some thing aren't working (e.g. audio?). 6.12 and later supports a range more peripherals. I tried the non-vendor images but no go. How do I install one of those? (Not using ROOBI, I hacked this to use my own)

Has anyone made (or bought!) an adapter that takes the 3 pin TTL-level console port and converts it to a DB9 or RJ45 port that can mount in a PCI bracket? If so, what did you use? And what port did you use to power it as the console port does not provide a 3.3V or 5.5V pin for power (there is a pin labeled "RSV" which seems to supply 5V and may be usable but I don't know its capabilities). I've done this before for other systems using these without too much trouble but when I tried with this board it's not working. Admittedly I haven't hooked it up to a scope to look at the signals, but I'm suspicious of the high baudrate being to blame. I have a couple USB adapters that work (so I know the console itself works), but I want to rackmount this box and wire it up to my console server. I need RS232 to do that.

Hi, I am currently using rock-5-itx to setup a NAS. Everything is working fine. uname -a: Linux amberbyte 6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx #1 SMP Thu Nov 28 03:16:11 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux Now, I wanted to update RKNPU version from 0.9.7 to 0.9.8. So, again I recompiled the image with the updated drivers. Using Pi-imager flashed it onto an SD card. When I tried to boot I am getting the following error message from the serial output: ./compile.sh build BOARD=rock-5-itx BRANCH=vendor BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes RELEASE=bookworm DDR 9fffbe1e78 cym 24/02/04-10:09:20,fwver: v1.16 LPDDR5, 2400MHz channel[0] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=16 CS0 Row=16 CS1 Row=16 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB channel[1] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=16 CS0 Row=16 CS1 Row=16 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB channel[2] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=16 CS0 Row=16 CS1 Row=16 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB channel[3] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=16 CS0 Row=16 CS1 Row=16 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB Manufacturer ID:CH0 RX Vref:26.3%, TX Vref:21.0%,21.0% CH1 RX Vref:27.1%, TX Vref:22.0%,22.0% CH2 RX Vref:27.1%, TX Vref:24.0%,21.0% CH3 RX Vref:27.5%, TX Vref:21.0%,20.0% change to F1: 534MHz change to F2: 1320MHz change to F3: 1968MHz change to F0: 2400MHz out U-Boot SPL board init U-Boot SPL 2017.09-armbian-2017.09-S2284-P8c48-Hfac6-Ve5ad-Bda0a-R448a (Nov 20 2024 - 17:06:35) Trying to boot from MMC2 spl: partition error Trying fit image at 0x4000 sector ## Verified-boot: 0 ## Checking atf-1 0x00040000 ... sha256(7612223b82...) + OK ## Checking uboot 0x00200000 ... sha256(af1962bdff...) + OK ## Checking fdt 0x00324010 ... sha256(e3b0c44298...) + OK fdt_record_loadable: FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC ## Checking atf-2 0xff100000 ... sha256(70505bb764...) + OK fdt_record_loadable: FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC ## Checking atf-3 0x000f0000 ... sha256(b2af21b504...) + OK fdt_record_loadable: FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC Jumping to U-Boot(0x00200000) via ARM Trusted Firmware(0x00040000) Total: 813.644/1063.106 ms INFO: Preloader serial: 2 NOTICE: BL31: v2.3():v2.3-868-g040d2de11:derrick.huang, fwver: v1.48 NOTICE: BL31: Built : 15:02:44, Dec 19 2024 INFO: spec: 0x1 INFO: code: 0x88 INFO: ext 32k is not valid INFO: ddr: stride-en 4CH INFO: GICv3 without legacy support detected. INFO: ARM GICv3 driver initialized in EL3 INFO: valid_cpu_msk=0xff bcore0_rst = 0x0, bcore1_rst = 0x0 INFO: l3 cache partition cfg-0 INFO: system boots from cpu-hwid-0 INFO: disable memory repair INFO: idle_st=0x21fff, pd_st=0x11fff9, repair_st=0xfff70001 INFO: dfs DDR fsp_params[0].freq_mhz= 2400MHz INFO: dfs DDR fsp_params[1].freq_mhz= 534MHz INFO: dfs DDR fsp_params[2].freq_mhz= 1320MHz INFO: dfs DDR fsp_params[3].freq_mhz= 1968MHz INFO: BL31: Initialising Exception Handling Framework INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services WARNING: No OPTEE provided by BL2 boot loader, Booting device without OPTEE initialization. SMC`s destined for OPTEE will return SMC_UNK ERROR: Error initializing runtime service opteed_fast INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world INFO: Entry point address = 0x200000 INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9 No valid device tree binary found - please append one to U-Boot binary, use u-boot-dtb.bin or define CONFIG_OF_EMBED. For sandbox, use -d <file.dtb> initcall sequence 00000000002b8500 failed at call 00000000002aaf6c (err=-1) ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ### I get the same error when I use the desktop image too: ./compile.sh build BOARD=rock-5-itx BRANCH=vendor BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED='browsers desktop_tools internet programming' DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=gnome DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes RELEASE=bookworm But when I use the image downloaded from the armbian website is getting booted up without any issue and it has updated RKNPU drivers. But I have to build a kernel because I want the LSI MEGARAID drivers enabled. Also when I want to make RKNPU driver modular <M> it is unable to finish building the image with an error saying it is unable to find rknpu.ko. So, why is this happenning and is there a way to update the drivers without going through building the kernel? Thank you in advance and any help will be helpful.

Hi, I can not get the back panel audio working, the HDMI analog audio to my display works, but changing the output to Analog out is not working. Any suggestions as to where I can start to troubleshoot? Thanks!

Hi, I am wanting to try running OPNsense under proxmox, but before that I wanted to setup the type-C port as a management port. I have added g_cdc in /etc/modules to load the kernel module and if I run a vendor kernel, it works fine. I plug my laptop in to the boards type-C port and it shows up as an ethernet adapter and I can SSH directly to the Rock 5 ITX. I however would like to use a mainline kernel instead as it generally runs better thanks to the amazing work of the community here. Running 6.12, this same functionality does not work and nothing appears in the network adapters on my laptop when plugging in. Looking on mainline-status, I see that the type-C support (ie USB-C (fusb302)), has been sent but not accepted yet. Once this has been merged and I update to the newest kernel, will the type-C port work like I hope? Any help or advice would be much appreciated!

Hello, I'm quite new to SBC and linux. On one hand I'm learning a lot, but on the other hand I'm struggling to make it work as I would like. I already have a low performance Zimaboard (just 2GB Ram) that I use as a NAS and I want the ROCK 5 ITX 8GB to be used as a general purpose apps server for home automation, streaming music, listening music, etc. One of my use case I'm playing with is the following: 1) music files are on the NAS 2) Music files are played from the Rock5 ITx via the speakers plugged into the headphone jack, 3) The music player is controlled remotely using Lyrion Music Server + Squeezelite. I've already tested the above using the official rock-5-itx_bookworm_kde_b3.output.img.xz image and it works: no rocket science . Unfortunately the vendor official image is not very stable: the docker containers crash randomly and even if the SATA drives are detected and mounted at boot time, the got disconnected randomly after some hours. That's why I decided to go experimental and now I'm playing with the following setup and 6 containers running: OS: Armbian-unofficial 25.05.0-trunk bookworm aarch64 ?******************; Host: Radxa ROCK 5 ITX '*n` .'`^,;;,^`'. ,cc. Kernel: Linux 6.15.0-rc1-edge-rockchip64 !^ ^^ ": Shell: bash 5.2.15 Itttt?' ~~]rr] `{tttt, Terminal: /dev/pts/0 \tttttt!""I_]r("""~tttttt1 CPU: rk3588 (8) @ 2.40 GHz '_tttttttttttt)ftttttttttttti. GPU: Rockchip rk3588-mali [Integrated] \*ztttttttttttttttttttttttttf**[ Memory: 1.80 GiB / 7.75 GiB (23%) l**c)tttttttttttttttttttttttt(z**, Swap: 0 B / 3.87 GiB (0%) .z*x.`tttttttttttttttttttttttt.`u*n Disk (/): 11.90 GiB / 232.35 GiB (5%) - ext4 >` (tttttttttttttttttttttt] "I Disk (/media/bidone): 44.76 GiB / 3.58 TiB (1%) - ext4 ,tttttttttttttttttttttt` Disk (/var/log): 5.31 MiB / 46.84 MiB (11%) - ext4 ./tttttfttttttttfttttt( Local IP (wlP2p33s0): 192.168.X.X 'I)))(\()(tt))|\()({;' Locale: it_IT.UTF-8 Coming back to the play-music-locally use-case, I've a problem with the sound card because I cannot hear the audio. Here the output from Armbianmonitor: https://paste.armbian.com/apaxoburiz I've both ALSA and PulseAudio. Alsamixer works: Hereunder other outputs, but I'm not expert enough to understand what's going on and why audio is not played by the speakers plugged to the board. No sound with "speaker-test" and "/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf" doesn't exsist. HDMI audio is not detected, but I can live without for the moment. cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [rk3588es8316 ]: rk3588-es8316 - rk3588-es8316 rk3588-es8316 sudo dmesg | grep 'snd\|audio\|firmware' [ 0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.1 detected in firmware. [ 0.150543] /i2c@fec90000/audio-codec@11: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /i2s@fe470000 [ 1.495212] /i2s@fe470000: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /i2c@fec90000/audio-codec@11 [ 1.495240] /i2c@fec90000/audio-codec@11: Fixed dependency cycle(s) with /i2s@fe470000 [ 15.623287] rtw89_8852be 0002:21:00.0: loaded firmware rtw89/rtw8852b_fw-1.bin inxi -A Audio: Device-1: audio-graph-card driver: asoc_audio_graph_card Device-2: rk3588-dw-hdmi-qp driver: dwhdmiqp_rockchip API: ALSA v: k6.15.0-rc1-edge-rockchip64 status: kernel-api Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: rk3588es8316 [rk3588-es8316], device 0: fe470000.i2s-ES8316 HiFi ES8316 HiFi-0 [fe470000.i2s-ES8316 HiFi ES8316 HiFi-0] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 alsactl init alsa-lib parser.c:2783:(load_toplevel_config) Unable to find the top-level configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'. alsa-lib main.c:1541:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use case configuration -2 Found hardware: "rk3588-es8316" "" "" "" "" Hardware is initialized using a generic method Thank you: advices are appreciated.

Hello, here with a Radxa Rock 5 ITX I experience endless loading at reboot after some system upgrades... But not always. Am I doing something wrong by using the command reboot from ssh ? instead of shutdown and power up ? In that case the system loads to rescue mode, asking for the root password and even if entered correctly does not identify. All comes back to working state with a shutdown and a reboot. Notice : I've made a donation to support the team. Please help.

I'm using a Rock 5 ITX and noticed after installing the latest rk35xx kernel image (6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx) that my system wasn't booting. So I connected to the debug console and observed a kernel oops being emitted. It dumps out a few pages of data, but the initial messages and call trace are: I have all the hex data if someone would use it but it doesn't seem worth including here. The boot flounders around in systemd for a bit but never gets to a login prompt - and I'm not that savvy with uboot to enter single user mode or otherwise dig in more. So I reinstalled from nothing, upgraded all my packages (including the vendor-rk35xx kernel), rebooted, and everything was ok - until I installed zfs-dkms and built the zfs module and rebooted - at which time I got back into the same busted position. And that's where I am now. I suppose I could go without zfs but I've been using it for a couple decades now and prefer it over the alternatives. As I'm not doing anything critical with this system yet, I don't mind futzing around and providing data or otherwise helping to debug what's up. At least for a few days. It does run my jellyfin instance, but I have plex running on another system so I'm too put out. A few months ago something similar (but different!) occurred after a rk35xx kernel upgrade but in that case, the system would at least boot to a login prompt eventually where I was able to downgrade the kernel and get it working again - and then the next version of the package fixed the problem. But in this case, it is effectively bricking the system for me (I'm sure someone that knows more about uboot could interrupt the boot and maybe recover things) to where I just reinstall - but that's not a good way to iterate and test fixes. I run the rk35xx vendor kernel because jellyfin has support for hardware transcoding when using that kernel - and as far as I know it does not when running against mainline - but this vendor kernel seems to be... less than stable! Any advice?

Hi, this week my Rock 5 ITX+ board arrived and I started installing Armbian with vendor kernel (now on 6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx). This board has slightly different hardware than the original ITX. It has two M.2 M-key (2-lanes) instead of one M.2 M-key and four SATA ports. I think because of the different hardware configuration the DTB has to be changed as no SATA controller is present on the board. With the ITX DTB I am experiencing problems with not regonizing NVME disks when activating ASPM in armbianEnv.txt. I have no experience in editing DTBs or applying patches, so I need help to figure out what to do to make things work. armbianmonitor log: https://paste.next.armbian.com/asoxunogeg Thanks Thomas

I I'm getting a 502 Bad gateway when I'm trying to run apt update on the http://apt.armbian.com/dists/noble/InRelease repository. I checked the forum and didn't see a server maintenance notice. And the arbianmonitor seems to fail to post the report too. Is there an infrastructure problem?

Hi there, I wanted to know if anyone know if there are any power limits from the SATA power ports, the question is can you power 1 or more 3.5" NAS disks at the same time? Or as a precaution, I take power from the PSU? Thanks, Dany