What's the GUI of Pi5 (Xorg or Wayland, and is it Xfce or other lib?). It's
Debian based and not I Ubuntu?

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 05:35 Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
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