Thanks! I think it will be a little bit of work, but I agree that it would be the best way forward. So I'll attempt to start again with a fresh install. Really appreciate your help!

So I have tried all the different images for the Opiz3 from the Orange pi website with the dts, I have tried 2 of the desktop images for the opiz3 from armbian. All of them result in the desktop environment not booting correctly. with Armbian I even got to the point where there are no errors in the lightdm logs, yet still a black screen. However with all those different images, a simple manual restart of lightdm (systemctl restart lightdm.service, will fix it and make the desktop show up.

If you have X11 installed, then boot with only the LCD and try: sudo systemctl stop lightdm (the greeter, which requires X11) sudo startx Show me what errors you see If you have Trixie, boot with only the LCD and: sudo apt install labwc labwc (as a regular user) Large language models are just google on steroids. They can only give good answers, if hundreds of people have typed and published solution similar to your problem.

Does this happen if you are running from an SD card also? Or is it specific to running off of emmc?

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