Install on Rpi 8GB

ARM General system
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X should be ok . Wayland on p4 + pinebook pro have issue ( like you say ) pinebook pro on 5.13 and same issue

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I am glad you have gotten things working. One cannot get a much more efficient computer as far as power. I pull 3 Watts at the 120 VAC outlet at idle and about 5 Watts at load. Measuring the power usage at the outlet includes any inefficiencies in the power supply. Most Ryzen devices waste more power than that just in power supply inefficencies.

My RPi 4b and my Odroid N2+ will handle 85 to 90 % of my daily usage. If I have something to do that is CPU or RAM intensive, I just fire up my Ryzen machine and git 'er done.

Pudge

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@ng0177
How old was the monitor that did not work?
There have been numerous versions of HDMI the latest of which is Ver 2.1

I wonder if RPi 4b is version sensitive? It should be backwards compatible, but who knows?

I was also having this problem on my x86_64 device with Gnome 40 on Wayland. I solved it by removing the Firefox package, then installing FIrefox as a flatpak. Has helped greatly.

On my RPi 4b 8GB RAM, I removed the Firefox package but Firefox flatpak for aarch64 was not available. However, Librewolf flatpak for aarch64 was available. Seems to have helped.

If you decide to play around with this, before removing Firefox
Ctrl+Shift+o (the letter o)
Click on ā€œImport and Backupā€, then ā€œBackupā€ and your bookmarks will be saved in a .JSON file. In Librewolf, do the same except click on ā€œRestoreā€.

Pudge

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yes firefox make problem for xwayland /wayland ATM on arm for me . zero problem on x86 yet!

EDitā€¦ new update may fix " xorg-xwayland-21.1.2-1 " who know :rofl: it all fun

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Thank you. Here some belated answers and comments:

  1. HDMI 1.4 for both monitors

  2. Wayland turned out to be more stable than X11 for me

  3. That said, it is the Gnome Shell that crashes in particular when touching the Dock. I am watching it with journalctl -xe -f

  4. I am quite happy w/ Chromium. I did not found a relation to crashes

  5. It crashes still to often to work with it. I trust the frequent updates to fix it one day

My wishlist includes:

  • audio on the external 3,5 mm socket by pipewire

  • webgl to use Scratch

It is nice that this thread does not get automatically closed after a few days.

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Thank you for the feedback. It, for the most part, mirrors my experience also.

Pudge