Orange Pi 5b 16 GiB / 256 GB: Which system to install, how to transfer my sustem to eMMC?

[SerW]

Hello guys!

I bought https://aliexpress.ru/item/1005005675856892.html.

As I know, there is no 3D acceleration in Debian Bookworm.

So, my desigion is to install Armbian Jammy Gnome desktop.

My questions are:

1) In what moment should I perform trick

Quote

If you are having a Orange Pi 5B variant, replace

fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588s-orangepi-5.dtb

in

/boot/armbianEnv.txt

with

fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dtb

?

2) Legacy is the only system I can install, or is it any way to install current system? I wish kernel v6 to be installed, but not the RC kernel.

My experience with SMB is Rapberry Pi 3 B and 4 B.

I used to install only Raspbian on that boards.

Wish me luck guys :-))

[NicoD]

1 hour ago, SerW said:

1) In what moment should I perform trick

Best to use a Linux system to read the sd-card after writing the image. Then open the sd-card and do what's mentioned.
Then you can boot the image.

For adding GPU and VPU drivers in Jammy.
 

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

To write the image to eMMC use 
 

sudo armbian-install

It can boot mainline but its not realy usable. Last time I checked HDMI wasn't working. It will take a few months to year for mainline to mature.

[octal8]

On 9/22/2023 at 2:43 AM, NicoD said:

It can boot mainline but its not realy usable. Last time I checked HDMI wasn't working. It will take a few months to year for mainline to mature.

 

NicoD, has this situation improved since then?