So… Have tested the Mainstream yet? I flashed it myself but it ended up being empty like a fresh installation of Ubuntu. The image itself is also smaller in size too.
The afterimages until this one was filled with useful applications. Maybe I did something wrong.
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I actually havent but this one is not the afterburner its just a clean version on mainline with some issues…
According to monka this is the way to go:
https://monka.systemonachip.net/rock5b/current/
“to get the GPU working on the current kernel images : install a desktop , dont reboot , wget https://monka.systemonachip.net/opi5/mesa_23.2.0-devel-1_arm64.deb , sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite mesa_23.2.0-devel-1_arm64.deb , reboot and enjoy”
If its empty just run NicoD script to install the the most important stuff…
Thanks a lot. I directly rebooted after the desktop install.
Would you also a have a link for the NicoD script?
In at the bottom of the guide man 🤦 should I delete this tutorial if nobody reads it?
Sorry, I read it when I first asked about Steam, and have been skipping it ever since…
I will be sure to read it from the very beginning today!,:-!(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃
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Its all good. I havent been on my good days lately. His script is easier to install steam and other cool stuff for our boards plus he keeps it updated.
I have fixed the links to the Afterburner ones my bad for posting the newest ‘multimedia’ ones which require sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop.
But would have been the same. Now hassle free images are on post number 1.
Hello, thank you for the image.
I am unable to get the output to runat 4K60Hz. I have tried RebornOS/BredOS as well and they are stuck at 4k30hz. Also, do you know how to enable Wayland. I edited the /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and enabled wayland but when I restart and the System Info still display X11.
The Autologin toggle also doesn’t work. It goes back to disabled on restart.
The Dark Styling (Appearance) also doesn’t work. The only thing that changed when I switch between the two styles are the background image.
Log out change gnome manually to ubuntu wayland then on your user on settings just enable auto login and that should be it to stick to wayland every time.
Otherwise its monka image that is not well ‘constructed’ but I believe in this last version he fixed that.
Regarding the resolution and refresh rate… I cant help… I use a 2k monitor at 130 Hz and it works.
thank you for the quick reply.
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Worked. Needs to run Wayland for 4k60Hz to work properly.
Thank you.
U sure your monitor does that? or that you have type C using to your display instead of the hdmi? is it the rock 5B right?
Yes this is the Rock 5B and running from HDMI with HDMI 2.1 cable. This is super strange. I have the 55" TCL Roku TV.
Also, do you know why AetherSX2 or Duckstation crash when I tried to run a game? Tried both Vulkan and openGL.
PPSSPP works with OpenGL.
U will have to ask that to monka directly on radxa discord. I personally dont use those apps. Sorry 
Hi
I plan to develop an Qt Quick/QML application(with GPU support) for my Rock 5a board running this image. so I decided to compile (cross compile) Qt6.5.2 on Ubuntu 20(and also 23) host(x86) system.
followed these two tutorials:
Downloaded latest version of ARM GNU toolchain for aarch64 linux and place it in /opt/arm-gnu-toolchain directory. set directory for cmake files and config parameters.
Qt for host(x64) compiled without problem. but when I want to cross compile it for my board, aarch64, I get this errors:
CMake Error at /snap/cmake/1329/share/cmake-3.27/Modules/CMakeTestCXXCompiler.cmake:60 (message):
The C++ compiler"/opt/arm-gnu-toolchain/bin/aarch64-none-linux-gnu-g++"is not able to compile a simple test program.
It fails with the following output:
mTC_f9681 && :
/opt/arm-gnu-toolchain/bin/…/lib/gcc/aarch64-none-linux-gnu/12.3.1/…/…/…/…/aarch64-none-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
/opt/arm-gnu-toolchain/bin/…/lib/gcc/aarch64-none-linux-gnu/12.3.1/…/…/…/…/aarch64-none-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
/opt/arm-gnu-toolchain/bin/…/lib/gcc/aarch64-none-linux-gnu/12.3.1/…/…/…/…/aarch64-none-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lm: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
and sometimes another error that says something like:
Could not compile simple OpenGL program
Any suggestion? should I even compile Qt by myself or there are other solutions?
Is it possible to build image with Qt6 qml module and compiler inside it from scratch?
Thanks…
Anybody know why ETA PRIME in his video mentioning Vulkan-backend multiple times? I thought Vulkan support was limited to Android at this stage for this board?
Perhaps because he knows rock 5b has an pci 3.0 slot which will mean that in the future an external gpu will work with it.
Because ETA PRIME doesn’t know what he’s talking about (and doesn’t care, more videos more money).
Can you do better than him at least ? With a camera showing off products and telling accurate stuff and only accurate stuff? Sure he might fail at some things but… going rocky balboa on the guy outside his space is just madness … he does what he does. I do actually like his click baits tbh fun stuff 
I’d prefer not to have the discussion and yeah, some of the videos are useful but
- don’t assume it’s just himself making these videos (I think the editing must be outsourced) and
- they are very low effort, repetitive (recording himself unboxing, then playing a few games). Anything just to make the algorithm god recommend them.
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