CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards

[Vinicius Guastala]

On 4/17/2026 at 8:15 AM, digital said:

But wifi does not work, although armbian-config sees my wifi network and saves password for it. rk322x-config shows Wifi device: unknown - Device ID: 024c:b723. 
dmesg:

r8723bs: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown...

r8723bs: unknown parameter 'rtw_enusbss' ignored

lsmod shows module as unused:
r8723bs 405504 0

Could changing led-confs help?

 

 

@digital, there is not a lot of info about the 024c:b723 device you mentioned on linux-hardware.org, but there is a lot of people claiming it works on debian 10+.

 

Some boards have alternate pins for wireless chips, hence there is an specific wifi overlay for those scenarios (attached pic). However, I would not recommend to add this overlay for now, until we find the exact wifi chip model from your board... Can you share more details form your board? Brand/Model would be a start, but pictures from the board, and specially the wi-fi chip would be the best.

Also, please share the output of the commands below with us:

1- lsusb
2- lshw (install it with sudo apt install lshw)
3- dmesg | grep -iE 'wlan|wifi|wireless|80211'

4 - ip a

5 - nmcli

 

[Vinicius Guastala]

On 4/9/2026 at 5:31 PM, Tavares R said:

3D Graphics Acceleration on T95N (A98X Jackbox) - RK3229 with 2GB RAM / 16GB eMMC - Educational Project for Schools

 

Hi,

I’m working on a project using a specific TV Box model (A98X Jackbox) to repurpose these boxes as low-cost computers for schools. The goal is to provide students with a platform to use AI tools and basic productivity, but I need better browser rendering.

 

Hardware Specs (Confirmed via board teardown and logs):

• Board ID: T95N-RK3229_512X4_V1.5
• CPU: Rockchip RK3229
• RAM: 2GB (Confirmed via free -m)
• Storage: 16GB eMMC (SanDisk SDIN9DS2-16G)
• OS: Armbian 21.08.8 Bullseye (Legacy Kernel 4.4.194-rk322x)

 

What I have done so far:

1. Installed the Minimal image and set up LXDE with LightDM.
2. Optimized the system (Governor set to performance, swappiness set to 10).
3. Ran glxinfo -B which confirms it's currently using llvmpipe (Accelerated: no).
4. Tried searching for Mali drivers via apt, but armbian-config is not available in the repositories for this specific build/architecture.
5. Verified Wi-Fi functionality (working fine with LED config 2 via rk322x-config).

The system is stable and surprisingly fast thanks to the 2GB RAM, but the CPU is struggling with 100% spikes during browser rendering (Epiphany WebKit) because it lacks GPU acceleration.

 

Question: Is there a way to enable Mali-400 MP2 drivers for X11 on this Legacy 4.4 kernel? Are there any specific packages, blobs, or workarounds to get hardware acceleration working and replace llvmpipe?

 

I’m available to run any tests or provide further logs if needed.

 

Thanks for this amazing project!

Hi @Tavares R

You should definetly check the "Media framework installer v0.1" by Jock, on this link -> https://forum.armbian.com/topic/34923-csc-armbian-for-rk322x-tv-box-boards/page/10/#comment-102655

 

Also, this other link contains a repo to install some patched libs to at least use decoded video -> https://forum.armbian.com/topic/32449-repository-for-v4l2request-hardware-video-decoding-rockchip-allwinner/ 

 

Hope it helps, but reality check is the rk3229 is just too weak to properly handle a full DE running a modern browser... 

Something also worth trying is to enable the "cpu-hs" overlay. it will "overclock" the rk3229 from 1200Mhz to 1400Mhz, giving some extra performance, but keep low expectations...



PS: Are you brazillian by any means? Tavares is a very common last name in Brazil.