orangepi5
By Efe Çetin / Desktop • General purpose / 0 Comments

Orange Pi 5

4K Video acceleration within Chromium works only in Jammy / Noble Gnome or KDE Neon desktop images with kernel 6.1.y

Enable AP6275P Wireless Module on Orange Pi 5:

Enable orangepi-5-ap6275p overlay from Hardware menu of armbian-config and reboot.

In order to run Kodi (sudo apt install kodi) with HW acceleration, you have to run kodi under gbm or wayland.

Armbian 24.11.1 Noble KDE Neon test report:

  • Flashed to SD card with USB imager
  • Boot ok, from sdcard, install to NVME and boot from
  • HDMI is ok, HDMI audio works
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit Etherner is ok, troughput ~940Mbit/s
  • 4K video playback works in Chromium (accelerated)
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended

Armbian 24.11.1 Bookworm minimal test report:

  • Flashed to SD card with USB imager
  • Boot ok, from sdcard
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit Etherner is ok, troughput ~940Mbit/s
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended
odroidm1
By Ricardo Pardini / General purpose • NAS / 0 Comments

Odroid M1

Installation instructions:

  1. Write image to SD using BalenaEtcher.
  2. Boot from SD by holding the recovery (RCI) button while powering the board.
  3. Release RCY button after the blue LED flashes once.
  4. Once booted, use armbian-install to write u-boot to MTD (SPI flash). This completely and irrevocably removes Petitboot, replacing it with mainline u-boot.
  5. You can also install to NVMe, USB, or eMMC. NVMe or eMMC is recommended.

Armbian Bookworm 24.11.1 minimal testing:

  • Boot ok, from sdcard
  • HDMI is ok
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit Etherner is ok
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended

Armbian Noble 24.11.1 with KDE Neon and Gnome:

  • Boot ok, from sdcard
  • HDMI is ok
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit Etherner is ok
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended
Picture of a Rock5B
By Lin Hanzhen / General purpose • Desktop / 0 Comments

Radxa Rock 5B

orangepi4-lts.png
By jock jock / General purpose • Desktop / 0 Comments

Orange Pi 4 and LTS

  • Images for non LTS version can be downloaded here

Ubuntu Noble 24.8.1 XFCE testing:

  • Boot ok, from both sdcard and emmc
  • HDMI ok, boot splash screen shows up
  • USB2 and USB3 ok
  • Gigabit ethernet ok
  • Wireless ok
  • Bluetooth ok (although a bit spotty and usual cohabitation issues with wifi)
  • Analog audio codec is ok
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended

 Debian Bookworm 24.8.1 minimal testing:

  • Boot ok, from both sdcard and emmc
  • HDMI ok
  • USB2 and USB3 ok
  • Gigabit ethernet ok, throughput is fine (~960mbps)
  • Wireless ok, throughput ok (~50mbps at 2.4ghz, but far from router)
  • Analog audio codec is ok
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended
orangepir1-pluslts
By Kat Schwarz / IOT • Networking • General purpose / 0 Comments

Orange Pi R1+ and LTS

  • Images for non LTS version can be downloaded here
  • There is currently a known issue that may affect this board on some IPv4 only networks. Symptoms are variable, from intermittent drop-outs and slow-downs to total loss of one NIC or total loss of networking. The issue can be completely eliminated by disabling IPv6. Don’t try to do this through armbian-config as this method does not work. IPv6 must be disabled by adding a line extraargs="ipv6.disable=1" to /boot/armbianEnv.txt
  • Device tree overlays to enable uart1 and i2c0 are available in Armbian 23.02.
station-m1
By Oleg Ivanov / Desktop / 0 Comments

Station M2

In case of troubles booting, read this topic.

Important. For the new images to work, it is necessary to update the u-boot in eMMC on M2\P2. The new version of u-boot is compatible with the existing official versions of Station and Ubuntu, which are released by Firefly. To upgrade to the new version of u-boot, you need to follow several steps.

1. Download a special version of the image from the link.

download link

2. Unpack, write to the SD card.
3. Start the system, perform the initial configuration (answer the questions).
4. to start the update procedure, run the command

sudo /vendor/m2-station-update-uboot

After completing the procedure, turn off the system and you can use the new images as usual, perform the installation in eMMC\NVMe\SATA using the standard nand-install-sata utility.

Please note that before installing the system in eMMC\NVMe\SATA, I strongly recommend creating a full backup of the contents of eMMC. To do this, all ArmbianTV images have a special utility “ddbr”. BEFORE starting the installation, you need to run the ddbr utility and select creating a compressed copy. This will allow you to easily return to the current state of eMMC in the future.

station-p2
By Oleg Ivanov / Desktop / 0 Comments

Station P2

In case of troubles booting, read this topic.

Important. For the new images to work, it is necessary to update the u-boot in eMMC on P2. The new version of u-boot is compatible with the existing official versions of Station and Ubuntu, which are released by Firefly. To upgrade to the new version of u-boot, you need to follow several steps.
1. Download a special version of the image from the link.

Download link

2. Unpack, write to the SD card.
3. Start the system, perform the initial configuration (answer the questions).
4. to start the update procedure, run the command

sudo /vendor/p2-station-update-uboot

After completing the procedure, turn off the system and you can use the new images as usual, perform the installation in eMMC\NVMe\SATA using the standard nand-install-sata utility.

Please note that before installing the system in eMMC\NVMe\SATA, I strongly recommend creating a full backup of the contents of eMMC. To do this, all ArmbianTV images have a special utility “ddbr”. BEFORE starting the installation, you need to run the ddbr utility and select creating a compressed copy. This will allow you to easily return to the current state of eMMC in the future.