Armbian images are now available for Rock 5b!

#7

The guy throwing out videos about Armbian doesn’t understand what he’s talking about :slight_smile:

It’s a build system relying on Debian-style tools and as such produces OS images that rely on either the various Debian or Ubuntu distributions: https://docs.armbian.com/#what-is-armbian

Of course it did: video acceleration and ‘libmali closesource shit’ especially for cheap Allwinner boards running on an ancient 3.4 kernel was what made Armbian popular half a decade ago. Maybe the project’s biggest mistake so far (attracting the ‘wrong’ target audience).

#8

Today I tried it an nvme SSD, and it seems like nvme boot is not working. Seems like it would need a special SPI image.

#9

I am using pretty much standard eMMC boot, NVME root without any issues. Trying to use it as a GitHub build runner. Its resourceful enough to assemble images, but compressing and signing is slow.

arm-04:~:% df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs            1609748     9800   1599948   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p1 960302804 18380108 893068236   3% /
tmpfs            8048732        0   8048732   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120        4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs            8048732        0   8048732   0% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk1p1  14906688  8182300   6541752  56% /media/mmcboot
/dev/zram1         47960      996     43380   3% /var/log
tmpfs            1609744        0   1609744   0% /run/user/1000
#10

In case you wanna run Docker, this is the workaround:

update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy
update-alternatives --set ip6tables /usr/sbin/ip6tables-legacy
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Anyone got Docker working on 5B with Debian/Ubuntu?
#11

Great news! Looking forward to trying it when I get my Rock 5b.

Does the Legacy in Armbian Legacy refer to it is using the Radxa BSP 5.10 kernel rather than a patched mainline kernel?

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#12

And for kubernetes on debian:

apt-get install iptables ebtables arptables

update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy
update-alternatives --set ip6tables /usr/sbin/ip6tables-legacy
update-alternatives --set arptables /usr/sbin/arptables-legacy
update-alternatives --set ebtables /usr/sbin/ebtables-legacy
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Running K3s on Rock 5B
#13

GUI locks up after a few mins of trying to use - so will try will have to try another disto

#14

@JB007

Does it work with Radxa images without freezing? The reason I ask is we have seen at least one Rock 5b development board on which the GPU doesn’t work correctly and does what you are describing in any GUI or when video framebuffer is used. Do you see any graphical glitching on screen as well? If it does work on Radxa’s images, then you should check the power supply you are using to make sure you have enough power, it would be best to run it at 12V+ for higher workloads and when using m.2 drives.

Cheers!

#15

or compatible nvme :slight_smile:

#16

Did not notice any glitches on screen when running Armbian
Running on Radxa Debian image and see not to freeze but I am seeing some graphic glitches
Not using m.2 drive at moment
Will double check power output
Cheers

#17

With the Radxa Debian images, I notice a lot of graphical issues myself, but I assumed that they were driver issues.

With Radxa Debian, opening Chromium and going to https://webglsamples.org/aquarium/aquarium.html works fine for a low number of fish, but when increasing it to higher numbers I see a lot of half-rendered frames and cases where time appears to go backwards. Is this something uncommon or is every board affected?

#18

I think there is something wrong with the build - Radxa Debian build ran good no issues,
But armbian when running hardinfo benchmarks first time it crashed / rebooted, 2nd time ok will do more testing, anything log wise that might be useful?

#19

Rebooted again when trying to sign in to google aaarrraahhh - going to try twistedOS and see how that fares

#20

We are building images with Rockpi 5 and it never crashed. Some devices are faulty …

You know how to change wallpaper? Do you think that will have any influence on functioning?

#21

Ha, ha just it seems that the TwisterOS (Armbian) does not even boot I assume older Kernel / Overlays etc
Will just keep using https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/linux/debian for now and alter the wall paper etc
I guess if the devices is faulty eventual it will crash with that?

#22

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maybe the devices is faulty look at the bad blocks around the windows!

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#23

我同样遇到了类似的问题,当我运行debian系统的时候

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#25

This is not the device broken, it is the mali driver that is broken. Everyone using this debian image experienced this.

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#26

Although that specific problem is not a hardware issue, you might still have broken hardware.

Go to https://webglsamples.org/persistence/persistence.html in Chromium while using the Radxa Debian and leave it running for a bit while opening some other applications. Do you get a system hang/reboot?

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#27

Limiting RAM frequency improves stability for me and stops the random hangs/reboots:

$ echo 1560000000 | sudo tee /sys/class/devfreq/dmc/max_freq