Arch Linux Image for VisionFive 2

riley10 · February 7, 2024, 11:14pm

Hi, after sudo pacman -Syuu, I get slow desktop environments and everything is slow.It doesn’t seem to use xorg or wayland on gpu. Any new image that fixes that? I got 8 gb version visionfive v2.

Thanks.

cwt · February 8, 2024, 1:19am

Can you tell me which packages got updated on your latest pacman -Syu?

riley10 · February 8, 2024, 1:46am

Actually the base image doesn’t work when installing a DE for me even xfce4 on Xorg. I added fb0 to xorg conf but it’s really slow.

Thanks!

lzzhzh · February 9, 2024, 12:06am

hi , I agree with your choice of xfce4, xfce4 = Lightweight。only，I have tested and researched VisionFive 2：
Xorg = slow : xfce4, lxde, openbox, gnome(x11)…
Wayland = fast ：NO.1 Sway, NO.2 Wayfire, NO.3 Gnome(wayland)

(I’m very sorry, I don’t quite understand English. Watch videos ）

cwt · February 9, 2024, 12:41am

You are right, the X11 on this board is unaccelerated. Wayland is a lot faster.

@riley10 I will post a link to the how to set a Wayland desktop when I reach my office today.

lzzhzh · February 9, 2024, 1:23am

Thanks cwt。
“I will post a link to the how to set a Wayland desktop”
Please also provide me with a link, I still want to learn and study. Before I came into contact with CWT20, I didn’t understand archLinux.
Thank you.

cwt · February 9, 2024, 7:40am

@lzzhzh @riley10 Here

lzzhzh · February 9, 2024, 7:59am

Received, thank you cwt.

Today, the Chinese Spring Festival begins, and in a few days, I will study it. I also wish you a happy holiday!

lzzhzh · February 9, 2024, 8:15am

cwt， This link is about introducing Wayfire, but currently there is no Wayfire in CWT20. NO ‘wlogout’ , 'Waybar ’ incomplete。.
Wayland may only be Sway and gnome (Wayland)

Thank you, it’s useful to me.

It may not be useful for riley10.

stronnag · February 9, 2024, 8:36am

All the applications mentioned are in the Arch repo or AUR. That’s how Arch works.

lzzhzh · February 9, 2024, 8:53am

Thank you, although I don’t quite understand. After the Chinese New Year, I will study it seriously. I am a beginner in ArcLinux , I only have 15 days to study archLinux

Stronnag, thank you again

cwt · February 9, 2024, 9:02am

Good luck and the Arch Wiki is always your friend.

Cheers!

lzzhzh · February 9, 2024, 9:13am

Cheers!

riley10 · February 9, 2024, 2:46pm

Thanks a lot @cwt for the instructions. I had to use aur with Yay aur helper to build the packages.

riley10 · February 9, 2024, 4:46pm

I installed labwc instead. It works so good. Thank you.

riley10 · February 9, 2024, 9:32pm

Hi,
Sorry for the reply again but all electron apps and even pidgin chat app doesn’t display properly, they are black screen or flickering black. Any way to fix it? I think it’s a XWayland problem. I have xwayland enabled.

Thanks.

lzzhzh · February 14, 2024, 2:38am

thank cwt. arch_cwt20+vf2+gdm+enlightenment= beautiful ,flow
https://www.enlightenment.org/

lzzhzh · February 16, 2024, 3:44am

cwt,
cwt20 + hyprland

ioasiodf · February 20, 2024, 8:54pm

I have installed the latest image but gui is not working.

omac777 · February 22, 2024, 9:21am

@cwt mentioned this to me today.

If you are rust-lang fan, create this file:

cat .cargo/config.toml 
[net]
git-fetch-with-cli = true

[profile.release]
opt-level = 3
debug = false
lto = 'thin'
strip = true

[target.riscv64gc-unknown-linux-gnu]
rustflags = ["-C", "target-cpu=sifive-u74", "-C", "target-feature=+m,+a,+f,+d,+c,+zba,+zbb"]

It will help squeeze every last piece of performance generating VF2-specific binaries from your rust-lang compiler and cargo. If you haven’t tried rust, please do. It’s well worth it the investment in effort.

and

are great reference points on how to build great apps with rust.

czkawka supports many different gui sdks, and among them slint. Worth the read.