Cursor Flicker

[David Markey]

Hey,

Was able to bring up a pretty smooth armbian installation for a lightweight desktop. Tips for others:

Underclock Memory for stability
 

cat /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
echo 1560000000 > /sys/devices/platform/dmc/devfreq/dmc/max_freq

For bluetooth blacklist the following modules:
 

blacklist pgdrv
blacklist btusb
blacklist btrtl
blacklist btbcm
blacklist btintel

 

 

NVME boot, use armbian-installer, but I had to manually change the firmware to this one: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/install/spi#Simple_method to get NVME boot to work

For GPU acceleration install panfrost. (See rock5b ambian page)

 

To get my widescreen monitor to work I needed to switch to the daily kernel.

The best browser experience seems to be the brave arm64 build.


One thing that is annoying is the mouse pointer is constantly flickering while using brave. Does anyone know a solution to this?

 

Edited February 12, 2023 by David Markey
Add nvme tip

[David Markey]

Switching to Wayland made the cursor flicker dissapear, it also made everything even faster!