Hi Everyone.
I'm one of those insane people who dared compiling everything on PBP. It actually hasn't been too bad. I've built the Manjaro kernel and everything I need. The problems were pretty much the same as those other people experienced here. However, I'm not sure about these:
1. Linux kernel load time is pretty long. dmesg indicates a 1 minute delay prior to executing
"cryptd: max_cpu_qlen set to 1000".
2. WiFi issue is present, although I wasn't able to associate it with high CPU load. For now I'm using a USB Ethernet adapter.
3. Sound issue - present, but I haven't tried the recent DTS fix yet. What I tried was using a USB sound interface (a 10 years old iMic). It worked fine. No noises or anything.
4. The main issue: flickering widgets in XFCE (checkboxes, especially). I thought it was only relevant to GTK applications, but Firefox appears to be ok. I'll continue playing with it. Another thing: upon launching Libreoffice, xorg begins using 100% CPU (single core) and the app becomes very slow and pretty much unusable.
5. Another one: the clock gets reset on every reboot.
6. Not sure if hardware video acceleration works. Does anyone know how it works? Does Panfrost have it implemented?
My software is:
Kernel 5.4.0-rc6-MANJARO-ARM
Mesa-19.2.4 (I did specify VIDEO_CARDS="panfrost" in make.conf)
Xorg-server-1.20.5
xfce-4.14-r1
Libreoffice-6.3.3.2.
If anyone tried to do what I did, please share your experiences
I'm one of those insane people who dared compiling everything on PBP. It actually hasn't been too bad. I've built the Manjaro kernel and everything I need. The problems were pretty much the same as those other people experienced here. However, I'm not sure about these:
1. Linux kernel load time is pretty long. dmesg indicates a 1 minute delay prior to executing
"cryptd: max_cpu_qlen set to 1000".
2. WiFi issue is present, although I wasn't able to associate it with high CPU load. For now I'm using a USB Ethernet adapter.
3. Sound issue - present, but I haven't tried the recent DTS fix yet. What I tried was using a USB sound interface (a 10 years old iMic). It worked fine. No noises or anything.
4. The main issue: flickering widgets in XFCE (checkboxes, especially). I thought it was only relevant to GTK applications, but Firefox appears to be ok. I'll continue playing with it. Another thing: upon launching Libreoffice, xorg begins using 100% CPU (single core) and the app becomes very slow and pretty much unusable.
5. Another one: the clock gets reset on every reboot.
6. Not sure if hardware video acceleration works. Does anyone know how it works? Does Panfrost have it implemented?
My software is:
Kernel 5.4.0-rc6-MANJARO-ARM
Mesa-19.2.4 (I did specify VIDEO_CARDS="panfrost" in make.conf)
Xorg-server-1.20.5
xfce-4.14-r1
Libreoffice-6.3.3.2.
If anyone tried to do what I did, please share your experiences