In order to get best possible support status, please help us with testings. This last testing phase is a final check to see if devices boots and if basic functions work.
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Armbian 23.02 (Quoll) Rock 5
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just wondering if hardware acceleration is a basic function? 
No. This is anyway not installed by default and outside our power to fix. In case its broken, its broken on all other distros too.
Posting my experience here:
I tested the Jammy xfce/gnome and bullseye cli image. It works on my Rock 5B with both microSD card and NVMe (following instruction from here https://forum.armbian.com/topic/26311-nvme-boot-successful/?_fromLogin=1).
Both HDMI display works, wifi works (with RTL8852, will test other adapters later) but bluetooth seems not working, at lest not out-of-the-box.
There were some intermittent HDMI audio issues. It did not show up initially but after I reapplied some settings it works. Not sure what exactly is going on.
Tried to add liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa and liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia following the command on Armbian page. it seems to consume more energy so you need stable supplies. Also the mouse icon is blinking a bit after that, but it is not too severe.
Thanks for the great work of the Armbian team!
What other basic function should be tested?
The bootloop is gone, but quite often during boot I get “ALERT: /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist.” and the “initramfs)” prompt.
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So nothing new ? cause thats what we have on the stable version. Wifi works BT not… needs excluded nano codes nothing new… bit of flickering mouse.
I haven’t tested any ubuntu builds but I know from at least Jan 1 - now that Debian with 6+ kernel will not boot at all. I have tried all debian 6+ builds. I don’t want the spyware and auto management from ubuntu (snaps, gnome packagekit, etc, etc) and the debian legacy builds iptables kernel configuration doesn’t include some basic settings to enable proper wireguard support (addr_type match or something), so Armbian is still a no go for me.
If Armbian doesn’t work good enough, use something else that does. I am sure Radxa, Armbian and broader community developers do what they can, even their “customers” are almost completely ignoring their sacrifice.
Armbian on PC proves there is nothing wrong with Armbian … 6.2.y kernel boots, but it was clearly noted “almost nothing works, for preview only”. This means there is no video driver, no pci driver, … all this costs/takes thousands of hours each to get working and then some care to keep it that way. Since this is all open source, perhaps joining efforts? Even small fix helps: git clone --depth=1 --branch=main https://github.com/armbian/build …
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