the halo effect is caused by the display driver on kernel 5.10. newer kernels don’t suffer the same problem.
ok, but what causes it? Is there a workaround for the original image?
not sure what causes it, to fix you could recompile the 5.10 kernel but use the fixed community driver.
This is a breaking bug, the stock image should be patched or removed.
Also lite with X uses 50% less CPU and has no tearing!
I can’t believe it took me one month to discover that you made a lite, after asking for more lightweight images for 2 weeks!
The mega/gdrive downloads are such a turnoff I actually never clicked on the links before!
I think waiting for stock images to be patched or removed will be a long wait. They really seem to just be basic tests of the hardware and not meant to be daily drivers, especially since they are out of date and have bugs like this.
For what it’s worth the same was true for Gameshell and Devterm, and the stock images for those were never updated sufficiently to be fully featured, or updateable/upgradable. I haven’t tried the stock OS on Gameshell in a long time, but unless something changed, it’s been broken for years as the APT repository info is out of date so the OS can’t be updated in the usual way, and packages can’t be installed. As in all these cases, if you have time and want to figure it out as a project, it might be a learning experience. But if you just want something that works, best to hit the forums and use someone else’s solution.
Thankfully, community OS releases and tools appeared, and became usable solutions. Clockworkpi makes cool hardware, and they have good support for it (if hardware issues occur) but they don’t really do much with the software except to show it could work. I vaguely remember their marketing for Gameshell was more along those lines – it was meant to be a platform that could be used to build your own custom emulation/gaming system. But at some point their website got flashier and started to imply they were selling “plug and play” products that would “just work”. Having owned one of each of them, I don’t think that’s ever been true. It’s not just part of the fun – tinkering with these things to get them working the way you want them to is kind of a necessity.
I mentioned the bookworm lite image on the discord, as for the download locations Gdrive/Mega are free and I wanted a place to store them permanently without having to worry about my servers uptime.
Ok, maybe github? Still MANGS (microsoft/apple/nintendo/google/sony) but atleast it feels more serious.
I correct myself about the 50%, lite + TWM uses NOTHING.
I will try with batteries eventually but I bet atleast 2x, probably 3x!!!
The full LXDE is so bloated it’s insane.
Now I’m dreading installing a browser… I might even make some stupid mpv proxy to browse on another bloated machine… or compile webkit myself or only use lynx etc. The browser is 100% dead, complete waste of time. Only Java Applet, Flash, HTTP/1.1 file upload and real-time comet-stream made the browser interesting and the first two are gone.
I have gotten everything to work on lite except the bluetooth OUYA controller… it worked out of the box on stock + LXDE
Also haven’t been able to change to the USB sound but apparently you have to do it manually with ALSA (pulse might be ok now but in stock it’s terrible)…
Funny that backlight was not working from keyb.
Time to underclock the CM4 until it crashes!