No display when trying to install Minimal Trixie on R6S

[Chad Skeeters]

I downloaded Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopi-r6s_trixie_current_6.12.32_minimal.img.xz and used unxz to uncompress it.  Then I wrote it to a flash drive using:

 

    sudo dd if=Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopi-r6s_trixie_current_6.12.32_minimal.img of=/dev/rdisk4 bs=4194304 status=progress

    sync

 

When I put the SD card in the slot, the heartbeat LED runs, the keyboard initializes, the LED light for the connected LAN lights green, but I get nothing on the monitor (HDMI).  The SD cards are amazon basics 64GB Class 10 U3 A2 cards.  I tried two different cards and got the same results.  I just tried Debian from FriendlyElec, and that worked using the same cards and method, and that worked.  Is there a trick to getting these images to work?

 

I'd much prefer to be on the mainline kernel with Trixie (which I know will be released soon).  Please advise.

[Werner]

expected. HDMI or hw support in general in 6.12.y is very basic and I am often impressed that hdmi actually works on some boards with this kernel.

tl;dr: use vendor or edge kernels If need stuff running. current won't receive any further feature updates but security fixed only.