Additional ARM Packages

I did not push it and looking above it does not seem any one was pushing it. Seems you had a pkgbuild to build it.

How about Etcher?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/etcher-git
There is a AUR package that is reported to work with the PinebookPro.

As an alternative usbimager is mentioned:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/usbimager/

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I always forget I have etcher installed and end up using dd, but +1 for the suggestion. Would like to see it in the repos.

The Etcher AUR package seems to work on my Raspberry Pi 4 too.

When I try the etcher-git package on my Pi 400 I get this error:

make: *** No rules for generating the “webpack” target. (I’m translating it to English so some terms may not be fully accurate :slight_smile: )

Am I missing something?

I used the GUI Pacman to install Etcher from AUR. It works fine and is a pretty painless way to install stuff. Just remember to change the arch=() line in the PKGBUILD to include aarch64 for the Pi.

I used this guide to figure out how to install from AUR - how-to-install-a-package-from-aur-on-manjaro-linux.

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Hi @Pak0st
Have you used obs on arm? It seems to crash on latest stable branch.

Segmentation fault.

Anyone else tried obs on arm?

I created just a small 1080p video on the PBP with OBS (needs qt5-base && Panfrost’s gl3 flag). I have no idea how it would behave for longer video capture.

I should try with at least 3-4 minute one.

Note - I sould try again on stable (I keep living on unstable :sweat_smile:). Did you try with the PBP or some other SBC?

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Yes amlogic and PBP both throwing segmentation fault. will try with gl3 flag. Can you share the flag please.

That would be PAN_MESA_DEBUG=gl3 (usually I place it in /etc/environment )

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Thanks it works will try recording something on it later tomorrow.

I was having qt5-es packages which might be causing the segmentation fault.

Thanks.

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What does this do? Should we ARM-folk all have it?

That’s an experimental flag to enable GL3 functions. For most things, you won’t need it.

The two most prominent items that require it for me are Godot ES3 renderer (artefact of how Xorg gets es3 context) and OBS. I’m sure more examples could popup - maybe with emulators?

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Should not be needed on Mesa 20.3 and above, as far as I know?

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Did they enable it by default?

I’m sure gles3 has been but I haven’t seen notes about gl3

I think I saw a commit in mesa repo that mentioned it some time ago.

EDIT: Just checked. It was another PAN_MESA_DEBUG flag I was thinking of. Sorry.

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Wow, this became an active thread! I hope this is still the best place for this sort of chatter.

Has anyone considered porting Manjaro-Printer package to the ARM world? I noticed it in documentation @ Printing - Manjaro, but doesn’t seem to be available (“error: target not found: manjaro-printer”). Sure looks like it would make things easy.

I’ve been struggling to get a network printer up and working. Attempting to piecemeal my print config by installing Cups, Printer-Config, building aarch64 version of driver via AUR, etc. Probably one of those desktop things that should be easier!

// Good job on Arm/Plasma, btw - Keep at it! Manjaro/RPi4/SSD is now my primary system, working great //

lightdm-settings
lightdm-slick-greeter

Both are in the official Manjaro repo, but not in the ARM repo. But there seems to be a bit of breakage in the lightdm-slick-greeter install. See here

While that may be true, unfortunately, neither are in the Arch Linux ARM repos. Are you able to make/get a PKGBUILD that works on aarch64 for each? Had a quick look around and I couldn’t find any. Are the PKGBUILDs architecture-agnostic by nature? They’re also not in the Arch Linux x86_64 repos, so I’m guessing they’re maintained by the Manjaro x86_64 Team.

Out of interest, are the PKGBUILDs that Manjaro use for the packages in their own repos publicly available anywhere? Looked around a bit & haven’t been able to find them. All I can find is this.

I have them installed and working properly from the AUR. I don’t recall for sure, but I may have needed to add aarch64 to the PKGBUILD of lightdm-slick-greeter.