Wayland not working with Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.12 (KDE Neon)

[Rui C]

Hi there

I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) KDE Neon image from may 26, 2025.

 

After download this image and installing it, Wayland was working fine, not problems at all.

Then, after a system upgrade, if i choose Wayland from session manager, the system freezes and i can't boot with Wayland, only X11...

Before the update, the system was smooth, now it's really laggy....Like i said, i'm using Desktop image with Armbian Linux v6.12 KDE Neon (Ubuntu 24.04)

There's something wrong with the update 

 

Anyone knows why is this happening, and any turnaround to use Wayland again?

Edited Monday at 01:17 PM by Rui C

[Werner]

55 minutes ago, Rui C said:

v6.12

Expected. tl;dr: use vendor or edge kernel and retry

[Rui C]

Hi, 

 

 Thanks a lot for your help. 👍

 

Indeed i'm using 6.12...

Where can i find vendor or edge kernel? 

In another PC's i use mainline kernels without problems, but i think that can't be used on arm system...

 

Once again, many thanks

[Werner]

Just now, Rui C said:

but i think that can't be used on arm system...

Well yes and no. This depends in board family and how well support is matured. In case of rk3588 support is very basic. This is also an LTS kernel which means no new features will be available and only security fixes will be applied. Enhanced hdmi support is available in edge kernel and also in rockchip bsp which we call vendor.

 

If the system is accessible via terminal or ssh, use armbian-config to switch kernels. Otherwise - if available - download an image matching DE and kernel or use the build framework to build your own.

[Rui C]

Hi, again, 

 

Once again, thanks for your help.

 

Well, change to edge kernel, and no joy... Gonna try a vendor kernel...

 

Don't know if the problem is kernel related or files, since this happened when i just received the update...

[Werner]

Well other option is the upstream broke somehow. KDE neon is based on their testing branch so if there is a faulty package uploaded desktop breaks.

Though we won't dive into this since KDE is no officially supported desktop environment by us. We mostly do GNOME and XFCE only. We don't have resources to deal with more while we wish we would/could.

[JFL]

Device: Opi5-Plus

Armbian Image:  Armbian_25.5.1_Orangepi5-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_kde-neon_desktop.img.xz

 

Upgraded successfully and reboot up with no issue on Wayland session.

 

Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × ARM Cortex-A55, 4 × ARM Cortex-A76
Memory: 15.6 GiB of usable RAM
Graphics Processor 1: Mali-G610
Graphics Processor 2: Mali-G610
Graphics Processor 3: llvmpipe
Product Name: Orange Pi 5 Plus

 

[Михаил Шестаков]

Hurray Wayland is fixed! Thank you very much! You have no idea how important this is! I for example use this setup on a permanent basis: Web surfing, Text editors, etc. This is my main system. And you know how upset I was when the Wayland subsystem broke.