Lubuntu 21.10 image for Starfive VisionFive V1

Salem · March 25, 2022, 11:32am

Maybe this is best distro for StarFive VisionFive

Houge_Langley · March 25, 2022, 12:35pm

I am so busy these days, please give some time to update kernel version

Houge_Langley · March 28, 2022, 2:02pm

I will test this one

Houge_Langley · March 28, 2022, 3:23pm

The Proble still here.

Houge_Langley · March 28, 2022, 3:36pm

The new one have been build

mackenzy · March 28, 2022, 4:32pm

Great, thank you. Gonna try it out in a couple of minutes

Houge_Langley · March 28, 2022, 4:55pm

The new one upload complete.

2022-03-29_00-55

Salem · March 28, 2022, 5:55pm

Great work, Thank you
I broke my lubuntu image 30 minute ago so I will use new image

and please can you remove other desktop environments and developer stuffs from lubuntu because it make the image size bigger and we as visionfive users will not use openbox, gnome or lxqt (lxqt environment not work for lightdm but lubunut work)

enthusi · March 28, 2022, 6:05pm

Hi, is there some sort of changelog available?
Thanks alot for your efforts!

Houge_Langley · March 28, 2022, 6:05pm

OK, I will try

Houge_Langley · March 28, 2022, 6:07pm

Oh, sorry, I just update system and kernel. So… Next time I will list some changlog.

enthusi · March 28, 2022, 6:48pm

Do you think that has any impact performance wise? Just wondering if updating to another card is worth it right now

Salem · March 29, 2022, 3:22pm

I have question about lightdm why you choose it
Is SDDM not work for rv64gc?

Houge_Langley · March 29, 2022, 3:56pm

For my test, sddm not working great, so, I have to choose lightdm.

The other reason is lightdm loading much fast.

mackenzy · April 15, 2022, 11:41am

@Houge_Langley I’ve some good news regarding the wifi issue
Seems there is a symlink missing in the firmware lib directory.

Out of the box after booting up the latest Ubuntu image:

$ sudo modprobe -vv brcmfmac
modprobe: INFO: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:365 kmod_set_log_fn() custom logging function 0x2abfcff954 registered
insmod /lib/modules/5.17.0-ubuntu-starfive/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko 
insmod /lib/modules/5.17.0-ubuntu-starfive/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmutil/brcmutil.ko 
insmod /lib/modules/5.17.0-ubuntu-starfive/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko 
modprobe: INFO: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:332 kmod_unref() context 0x2afcffb430 released

$ nmcli d
DEVICE   TYPE      STATE      CONNECTION         
eth0     ethernet  connected  Wired connection 1

I stumbled across a comment on Github: WIFI NOT working[brcmfmac driver] · Issue #41 · starfive-tech/Fedora_on_StarFive · GitHub
mentioning:

symlink it to brcmfmac43430-sdio.AP6212.txt

So that’s what I did:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.AP6212.txt /usr/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.starfive,visionfive-v1.txt

$ sudo modprobe -vv brcmfmac
modprobe: INFO: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:365 kmod_set_log_fn() custom logging function 0x2abdca8954 registered
insmod /lib/modules/5.17.0-ubuntu-starfive/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko 
insmod /lib/modules/5.17.0-ubuntu-starfive/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmutil/brcmutil.ko 
insmod /lib/modules/5.17.0-ubuntu-starfive/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko 
modprobe: INFO: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:332 kmod_unref() context 0x2ac5631430 released

And the result is:

$ nmcli d
DEVICE         TYPE      STATE         CONNECTION         
eth0           ethernet  connected     Wired connection 1 
wlan0          wifi      disconnected  --