I broke down and ordered a Pi5, along with the Pimoroni NVMe Back. Being most comfortable with Ubuntu, I've loaded it with 23.10 desktop version for the Pi5. I have it driving a couple of 1080P displays. Setup was fairly straightforward, with a couple of exceptions.
1) After a period of inactivity, the displays fade to black - but they do not power down. I can't imagine that's an intended behavior, but after extensive searching, I find no information on how to get them to power down. The setup GUI is certainly no help. 2) The NVMe board isn't working. I populated it with a Samsung 980 drive of 500 GB capacity. The drive works fine in a different enclosure on another computer, but even with NVMe enabled, the Pi doesn't see it. lsblk shows the microSD card, but not the NVMe drive. The flex PC board that connects to the Pi is paper-thin, as Jeff Geerling has noted, but I'm sure it's properly seated in both connectors. Pimoroni has not responded to the ticket that was filed over a week ago. As a general comment, the Pi5 as a desktop computer is very responsive. The PWM fan in the active cooler cycles on and off when running the desktop. At idle, the SOC runs about 113ºF/45ºC, and when playing YouTube full screen 1080P videos it's still comfy at around 131ºF/55ºC. Oddly, I can't get it to play 1080P MP4 videos without major stuttering. For just about any other task, it's superb. Does anyone have a magic wand to get those displays to power down when the computer is idle? Thanks, Curt -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CADPPtrqkmsW8ANTOhX8HW951i0Y6nNDQ3heR27EvE_xqbY4JPg%40mail.gmail.com.
