Pi 5 - Armbian Gnome Desktop --- Goal: hdmi audio, obs w v4l2loopback, bluetooth audio...

[Jay Tolleson]

Hello all: My name Is Jay and i am new here - 

 

I buy a new pi, now with pipewire, and more and it has some consistant letdowns on the OS.  When i install across all types ---even kdePlasma the same thing happens!

 

no audio - still needs a profile or something????

no loopback -- linux kernel header issue

no bt audio -- libspa will work

no screen sharing -- ....i just have a cursor now when i share it...

 

So, i made an input to fix this..... a terminal input:

echo -e "hdmi_group=1\nhdmi_mode=16\nhdmi_drive=2\nhdmi_force_hotplug=1\nhdmi_force_edid_audio=1\ndisable_fw_kms_setup=0" | sudo tee -a /boot/firmware/config.txt > /dev/null && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-headers-6.12.19-current-bcm2711 linux-headers-current-bcm2712=24.2.1 alsa* pipewire* vulkan-tools mesa-vulkan-drivers xdg-desktop-portal-gnome gnome-remote-desktop libspa-0.2-bluetooth qv4l2 v4l2loopback-dkms obs-plugins obs-studio && snap install chromium && sudo apt install flatpak && flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo && flatpak install flathub com.saivert.pwvucontrol

 

 

The outcome was a good start, however, some issues remain.

 

 

Mainly i am struggling with pipewire or something?   Likely i need and alsa audio profile for hdmi audio.

 

 

Any suggestions as far as enableing audio?

 

Btw: This is obs running in the term with       sudo MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3 obs

it has v4l2loopback working now.

[Jay Tolleson]

OMG....Guys!

The Goals are achieved.  Mostly....HDMI audio is very complicated.

Here is my new script:  Great Look - 

 

 

#!/bin/bash

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install sddm

echo -e "hdmi_group=1\nhdmi_mode=16\nhdmi_drive=2\nhdmi_force_hotplug=1\nhdmi_force_edid_audio=1\ndisable_fw_kms_setup=0" | sudo tee -a /boot/firmware/config.txt > /dev/null && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt update -y && sudo apt install linux-headers-current-bcm2711 linux-headers-edge-bcm2712 && sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install sddm qgnomeplatform-qt5 qt5-image-formats-plugins qt5-qmltooling-plugins  libpam-kwallet5 qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin qttranslations5-l10n libqt5svg5 qt5-gtk-platformtheme qtwayland5 alsa* pipewire* pavucontrol vulkan-tools mesa-vulkan-drivers xdg-desktop-portal-gnome gnome-remote-desktop libspa-0.2-bluetooth qv4l2 v4l2loopback-dkms obs-plugins obs-studio snapd && sudo snap install chromium && sudo snap install rpi-imager && sudo reboot

 

 

 

 

 

Remember i am on the standard Download of Armbian Gnome Bookworm

 

 

anyway, Installing SDDM works like a charm for the screen issues and you can keep GDM aswell.2025-03-17 04-55-22.mkvgnome.sh

[Jay Tolleson]

Hello all, I have returned to my topic with a righteous update!!! I started with Armbian Server Noble.

This is my PI5.....It needs camera support and libinput/weston for touch.  However, I have run this .sh script

#!/bin/bash

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install lightdm && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt update -y && sudo apt install linux-headers-current-bcm2711 linux-headers-edge-bcm2712 && sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install gnome* ffmpeg qgnomeplatform-qt5 qt5-image-formats-plugins qt5-qmltooling-plugins qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin qttranslations5-l10n libqt5svg5 qt5-gtk-platformtheme qtwayland5 alsa* pavucontrol vulkan-tools mesa-vulkan-drivers xdg-desktop-portal-gnome libspa-0.2-bluetooth qv4l2 v4l2loopback-dkms obs-plugins obs-studio gnome-tweaks rpi-imager

to produce my media script aswell as edit

config.txt after flashing.

 

 

Touch and Camera next friends....

Edited April 15 by Jay Tolleson

[Jay Tolleson]

Well, i have jumped ship on gone to every os i can think of that will run on RPI5 and now IM BACK!!!!

 

Hello again, Jayson Here -

And i have decided that Arbian 25 Noble Gnome may be the smallest-strongest multimedia build i can find...so its what i will choose to finish my PI 5 with. 

 

I am still wrestling with the sony IMX477 as to produce video.

 

I have just ordered a usb mount for uvc-video rather than csi/cam0-cam1  b/c i cant get it working.  at all and need to advance... to the touchscreen which is still just HDMI w/o touch. on the new download of Armbian.

its downloading now.

 

 

I will put pics of the device and more tomorrow.

Jay T.

[Jay Tolleson]

Hello… Jayson here ...and I have installed the image of Armbian Gnome Desktop for RPI5.  Next I get up to par with this command:

sudo apt install linux-headers-edge-bcm2711 alsa* pavucontrol pithos  vulkan-tools mesa-vulkan-drivers xdg-desktop-portal-gnome gnome-remote-desktop libspa-0.2-bluetooth qv4l2 obs-plugins obs-studio pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire-audio-client-libraries pipewire-bin pipewire-pulse gnome-shell gnome-shell-common gnome-shell-extensions gnome-shell-extension-manager libpipewire-0.3-* gnome-remote-desktop gnome-settings-daemon* x11* git qgnomeplatform-qt5 qt5-image-formats-plugins qt5-qmltooling-plugins qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin qttranslations5-l10n libqt5svg5 qt5-gtk-platformtheme qtwayland5 xdg-desktop-portal-gnome qv4l2 rpi-imager gnome-tweaks snap && sudo snap install chromium && sudo apt install inux-headers-current-arm64 linux-headers-current-bcm2711 linux-headers-current-bcm2712 && sudo apt install v4l2loopback-dkms

Then obs will work with:

MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.2 obs

 

 

More soon!!!

[Jay Tolleson]

What do you think....?

still needs touch and  cam.