fail install of xfce desktop on odroidxu4

[dev001]

Using odroidxu4.
flashed Armbian_25.8.1_Odroidxu4_noble_current_6.6.102 to eMMC
After odroidxu4 started, followed instruction to create accounts etc.
Installed xfce4 package

reboot. odroidxu4 booted to console prompt
Installed xfce4-goodies package

reboot. odroidxu4 booted to console prompt
Installed lightdm

reboot. The system becomes stuck at plymouth-quit-wait.service/start

 

Not much I could do after this as I could not look at log messages or use $ sudo systemctl status lightdm.service

Any insight greatly appreciated

Thanks

[dev001]

Made some progress.

 

after installing Armbian_25.8.1_Odroidxu4_noble_current_6.6.102 to eMMC

ran armbian-upgrade

Installed xubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop-minimal package

reboot

now i'm getting the greeter screen.  after login, I entered xfce desktop. functions ok

could only install firefox via snap. installed firefox via snap

ran firefox to view a video on youtube.

audio is not working.

install pulseaudio

reboot system

audio still not working when viewing a youtube video

 

any suggestions?

[laibsch]

Try pipewire instead of pulseaudio

[dev001]

Thanks. I got pulseaudio working

[laibsch]

please DO share what steps you took to get it working for the benefit of the next guy.

[eselarm]

For SBCs without own audio I use networked pulseaudio. I never got it to work in newly installed Jammy and Bookworm, also not in Bookworm upgraded in-place to Trixie. It worked in Buster, BuIlseye and allways worked in Opensuse Tumbleweed. I already had all pipewire user sockets and services disabled and pulseaudio enabled, also de-installed pipewire-pulse as that one is the problem I believe (but is more than a year ago I looked at it). Now it turns out that doing 'pactl load-module module-zeroconf-discover' did add remote audio sinks. GUI based paprefs in Ubuntu/Debian should do it, but that is all grey since years, cannot be selected nor changed.

So NanoPi-R6C with Armbian Trixie edge kernel now also plays audio via Armbian Trixie NanoPi-NEO SPDIF enabled with long simple wiring to an amplifier that takes coaxial SPDIF as input. I also had it working analog, but way too much issues with noise etc. 'the long simple wiring' is 1 lead of a low-quality twin analog audio cable, shielding=GND, core=signal. 

 

Edited 50 minutes ago by eselarm