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 > > -- > -- > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CADPPtrqkmsW8ANTOhX8HW951i0Y6nNDQ3heR27EvE_xqbY4JPg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- 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/CA%2BKhHxKBz%2BMNgr2QywEUaUAY3U-P-TrMcbsWcZuOZR4pgTQptg%40mail.gmail.com.
