Thanks for the tip. Installation went fine, although I needed to install the fonts separately. Instructions were at the end of install. I’m prompted for a password on first run of ‘vncserver’ and am notified that I will need to login afterwards. OK, fine.
But, I’m unable to start a remote session from the RealVNC viewer on Windows 10. Worse than that, I can only log into the Rock Pi desktop as ‘root’, using the TightVNC password. Hardly anything runs under this logon. No Chromium, Volume Control, nor ‘Users and Groups’.
Before I reimage a 3rd time, what am I missing?
Check your Windows firewall. Also, if you run “sudo vncserver” it will be a VNC session for the root user. If you are logged in as linaro just run “vncserver” without the sudo and it will run as that user.
I’m using TigerVNC and VNC Viewer on Windows 10 without any issues (now) I did, however, see some of these issues when my XFCE4 configurations had errors. I had to log on locally and manually correct some of the configuration errors which were reported in the VNC logs in the vnc folder. After cleaning my errors (yep, I made them) the desktop and VNC server came up fine. it works perfectly now. I suspect it was your VNC xserver desktop configuration that caused your problems.
There has been issues with Youtube video, mostly some residue after exit from playing full screen video for relatively long, not sure if there will be a fix. I blamed Chromium, Openbox etc, but I’m now inclined it’s the CPU/GPU related since it’s not happening on my x86 running the same software combination, could be the driver or simply overheating, will see after installing the bigger heatsink.
I’m not sure about tearing, maybe that’s normal for SBC? This is my first Pi device, anyone has Raspberry Pi 3B+ or other alternatives I’d like to know.
I believe, that the libGL error is due to Mali is not supporting OpenGL, but only OpenGL ES.
So you need to use the OpenGL-ES API instead of OpenGL. You can try to set the environment variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
Yes, that works for me, too. But, the problem is that the HDMI playback disappears if the video is paused for ~a minute or if Chromium is closed & reopened. Only ‘System Sounds’ appears in the ‘Playback’ tab. When another video is played, the setting goes back to rockchip…codec. It simply won’t retain the 'HDMI-CODEC…" setting.
It occurred to me that I have been using the default linaro account, which may not have rights to change the config/startup files for Pulse Audio. That would explain why I’m the only one having this issue. So, I changed linaro’s password and tried adding it to the adm and sudo group. Still no joy with the audio.
The GUI for ‘User & Permissions’ only allowed me to change linaro’s password and group membership. (this was also the case with armhf, until I changed linaro’s password) Today, I learned how to do it from the terminal, but the behavior is the same, even though I added the new users to the ‘adm’ and ‘sudo’ groups.
Finally, I tried playing a .mp4 file, but of course there’s no media player.
Meanwhile, my USB-C connector is about to break off, I need to swap my SSD board for the shorter one, and customize a generic aluminum case for this beast. That, I can handle.
I don’t know what caused it but seems one (or more) of the audio daemons dead needed restart. Maybe when it happens check dmesg and try to grep audio or HDMI.
Sorry to hear the USB-C connector is loosen. If you have to replug it every time to reboot I guess that would be expected soon or later. I got the power strip from Amazon has switch button for individual outlets, I hope that will reduce the risk.
case “arm64” in
amd64|x86_64) WIDEVINE_ARCH=x64; WIDEVINE_SUM=866f1ae68dae1133ed70768c2e7d3ff98b4a5b88a6fa0c474d5ebbe2d5548a77 ;;
i386) WIDEVINE_ARCH=ia32; WIDEVINE_SUM=6f08217b276eabf35ca0a32dec4477cd7e7af9a47edbcfd898eb75f071a09a9c ;;
arm*) echo “This script does not support ARM. See https://help.vivaldi.com/article/raspberry-pi/#drm-and-flash for more information” >&2; exit ;;
esac
They depend on Google for widevine too, so the ARM64 version of Vivaldi doesn’t support widevine, unfortunately.
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