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I've also tried firefly's official systems, both Ubuntu and Debian. I can confirm that the fan doesn't stop completely on neither of them. It slows down enough to keep noise low, just like it does with latest armbian image (thanks for that balbes150's)

I've just tried waiting longer than 15 minutes but the lightdm screen didn't appear. Just the frozen mouse cursor on black background. Also tried switching to console (Ctrl+Alt+F2 right after boot) after setup was done, but nothing happened. It would just go again to the mouse cursor on black background. Also tried this key combination when the mouse coursor is on screen but no luck, as I didn't know when to input the Ctrl+Alt+F2 combination. Anyway, I've had the idea of using putty on my desktop PC and succeeded to access the M3's console. There I've typed sudo systemctl enable lightdm and rebooted. This worked. Thanks, I can now try the KDE!

Just tried GNOME Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Station-m3_jammy_legacy_5.10.110_gnome_desktop.img and it doesn't have this problem. I can access desktop without issues. I'd like to try the kde too, please help.

Hi, I tried two of the images today, the 20230219 Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Station-m3_jammy_legacy_5.10.110_kde-plasma_desktop.img and 20230217 Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Station-m3_jammy_legacy_5.10.110_kde-plasma_desktop.img But both of these images just stop/freeze after creating the user account, at "entering the desktop environment". I just have the mouse coursor frozen in the middle of the screen on black background. FYI, I'm using a USB wireless Logitech mouse. I have waited like 10 minutes to see if will go through and then unplugged power and booted again. Still the same after reboot. It just stops after mouse coursor appears on the black screen. The older images (the ones that had full speed fan) didn't show this issue. Can you please advise? Thanks in advance.

Firefly's support is not too helpful, at least on the M3. I gave up asking them for support. But I tried Firefly's Debian and Ubuntu images and those run the fan at normal/lower speed. I don't know much about this stuff and can't tell what drivers Firefly is using for that. Maybe you can take a look at their image as you know what to look for. I'd appreciate that. It could be useful for others as well.

Tried the image mentioned above and it boots OK. Problem is that the cooling fan is running at full speed and it's noisy as hell. Is there a solution to make the fan run at lower speed?

Thanks, will try Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Station-m3_sid_legacy_5.10.110_xfce_desktop.img

Hi, I've downloaded the latest two images from the links mentioned https://disk.yandex.ru/d/-zSW21XKN0pfIA/ArmbianTV/20230103-edge But none of them boot from SD on my M3 box. The only one booting is the image from this link https://redirect.armbian.com/station-m3/Bullseye_legacy_xfce But this makes the cooling fan on the M3 to always spin at full speed and it's not usable because of this (it's really noisy). How can I make the other images boot? Tried both Etcher and USBimager. Please help. Thanks.