No HDMI With Cinnamon

[criageek]

I'm trying to get Cinnamon to work with my Le Potato and have had no success.  I don't know what data is needed to troubleshoot this so please let me know what info you need.  Here are the details that I have.

 

Le Potato AML-S905X-CC-V1.0-A

 

I've tried two different methods to make this happen.

 

Method 1

I tried installing this image:  Armbian_24.8.1_Lepotato_bookworm_current_6.6.47_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img.xz

 

Method 2

I tried installing this image:  Armbian_24.8.1_Lepotato_noble_current_6.6.47_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz

 

and then tried installing Cinnamon with apt.

 

In both cases, when I got logged in to the Cinnamon desktop, HDMI output went away.

 

I can ssh into the machine and do whatever, but no video on the monitor.  Please let me know what you need if you think you can help!

 

Thanks,

Rich

 

 

[Dina]

Same here with Bananapi M5, Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.6, Debian 12 (Bookworm) CinnamonMESA / VPU: https://dl.armbian.com/bananapim5/Bookworm_current_cinnamon-backported-mesa

 

On installation screen goes dark after Locale setings, after reboot screen goes dark after login.

[Igor]

3 hours ago, Dina said:

On installation screen goes dark after Locale setings, after reboot screen goes dark after login.

I assume standard 1080p monitor? Can you grep logs for errors? Will try to reproduce when I find time.

 

@TonyMac32 When was last time you hooked a monitor to Lepotate or similar device? 

[TonyMac32]

Sorry I didn't notice this post earlier, notifications get buried fast  👀.

 

I haven't tested cinnamon on anything with a Mali450, TBH that GPU just isn't up to doing anything useful since it's target audience was 720p devices.  That's not to say it *can't*, I just didn't expect anyone *would*. All of my tests have been with xfce and have been fine.  Let me do a quick Cinnamon build (is this a download option now?)  Rich, or @criageek, needed to provide an armbianmonitor -u or at least a dmesg.

[UPDATE]:  Built/tested a new 6.12 edge image with cinnamon, worked out of the box with no issues.

[Igor]

1 hour ago, TonyMac32 said:

Built/tested a new 6.12 edge image with cinnamon

Did you perhaps tried CURRENT, 6.6.y ? ... here is more to check if 3d rendering works, which is needed at Cina / Gnome. Performances are as they are, its an old horse.

[TonyMac32]

5 hours ago, Igor said:

its an old horse.

And it's running the wrong race if you're trying to get fancy with desktop environments.

 

The current 6.6 also works just fine, no HDMI issues with Cinnamon.

[Igor]

9 hours ago, TonyMac32 said:

And it's running the wrong race if you're trying to get fancy with desktop environments.

 

This logic:

https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/.github/workflows/recreate-matrix.yml#L185-L201

determines section. "slow-hdmi" is reserved for armhf by default, but I guess we could extend this for several entry level arm64, just how?
https://github.com/armbian/os/blob/main/userpatches/targets-release-standard-support.yaml#L108

and those "slow-hdmi" only gets XFCE desktop.

[TonyMac32]

8 hours ago, Igor said:

 "slow-hdmi" is reserved for armhf

Eh, it's a logic that can't be properly managed.  The XU4 and Tinkerboard (both armhf) have GPU's that run circles around RK3328, S905(X), H5, etc.  I'd say leave it alone, after all the experience should be up to the user anyway.  Because then you also need to start talking about RAM, and it just gets out of control.

[Igor]

1 hour ago, TonyMac32 said:

and it just gets out of control.

Yes, this automation is certainly not accurate, but cuts away some nonsense such as building Gnome or KDE Neon images for entry level sbc, regardless of memory. While XFCE is always there ... I don't mind in any way, its just optimisation of ready-made images.