A couple of weeks ago I took delivery of an Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 H3 it has the form factor I wanted, eMMC support and HDMI which implied I could run a desktop; the H3 was also the variant that seemed to have the best support. Since then I have been trying to get a stable usable desktop environment working. I tried the latest version of Armbian legacy server specifically for this board and that works fine as far as the server version goes so then I tried to add a basic desktop but that didn't work the xOrg driver said there were no screens present and everything I tried after going to Google University failed. Then I tried a couple of distros from the Orange Pi website but none of them were really usable. Next I returned to Armbian and tried the legacy desktop image for an Orange Pi Lite and the desktop worked but obviously the AP62612 and the eMMC were not found. Finally I tried the desktop image for the Orange Pi PC Plus. The desktop works well and I can copy the image to eMMC using the Armbian script but still the AP6212 could not be initialized. Finally I tried a Realtek USB/Ethernet dongle with this image and it worked "out of the box" all I had to do was put in my SSID & WPA password. That is the setup I am working with now, but I really would like an Armbian desktop image for this board. Actually don't care if it is H3 or H5 and also don't care if it is legacy or mainline; so the simple question is are there any plan to release a desktop image for the Zero +2 or does anyone know how to install a simple desktop on top of the Armbian legacy server image?
One other observation with the current arrangement the eMMC seems slower than the MicroSD I originally copied the image to but I suspect (hope) this is because I I am not using the correct image for this board. Thanks in advance. BTW you may have gathered I am not a Linux guru and think that recompiling kernels is a bit beyond my capabilities at the moment.
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A couple of weeks ago I took delivery of an Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 H3 it has the form factor I wanted, eMMC support and HDMI which implied I could run a desktop; the H3 was also the variant that seemed to have the best support. Since then I have been trying to get a stable usable desktop environment working. I tried the latest version of Armbian legacy server specifically for this board and that works fine as far as the server version goes so then I tried to add a basic desktop but that didn't work the xOrg driver said there were no screens present and everything I tried after going to Google University failed. Then I tried a couple of distros from the Orange Pi website but none of them were really usable. Next I returned to Armbian and tried the legacy desktop image for an Orange Pi Lite and the desktop worked but obviously the AP62612 and the eMMC were not found. Finally I tried the desktop image for the Orange Pi PC Plus. The desktop works well and I can copy the image to eMMC using the Armbian script but still the AP6212 could not be initialized. Finally I tried a Realtek USB/Ethernet dongle with this image and it worked "out of the box" all I had to do was put in my SSID & WPA password. That is the setup I am working with now, but I really would like an Armbian desktop image for this board. Actually don't care if it is H3 or H5 and also don't care if it is legacy or mainline; so the simple question is are there any plan to release a desktop image for the Zero +2 or does anyone know how to install a simple desktop on top of the Armbian legacy server image?
One other observation with the current arrangement the eMMC seems slower than the MicroSD I originally copied the image to but I suspect (hope) this is because I I am not using the correct image for this board. Thanks in advance. BTW you may have gathered I am not a Linux guru and think that recompiling kernels is a bit beyond my capabilities at the moment.
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