Can’t remember when it started. I believe after a mesa upgrade but do not know what it is doing on stable. I never checked if it was fixed. I pretty much do not care.
Right I guess I’ll have to find out with my testing tho I think we should care to make sure the experience is fixed and working properly and gives the user the best possible experience to best take advantage of the hardware.
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So when can we expect an official release for Pi-5? I do not see it among the options when i select ARM in the download section.
Yeah I noticed the mouse flickering graphical issue at times, defiantly something that needs to be fixed
Here is a good exapmle to install manjaro on pi-5 (rapsberrypy 5).
But you should have pi-4 (rapsberrypy 4).
I have installed manjaro to my pi-5 this way a few days ago.
I am using hyprland and it works fine.
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=367491
The key to me was update manjaro software stable rpi4 first and change to unstable branch later and then install software.
outline of this method.
0. I have manjaro-arm rpi4 on SD-card in my pi-4.
1. update pi-4.
2. move to unstable branch.
3. install kernel & some pkgs etc.
4. modify some setting parameter; overclock etc... if you need.
5. set updated SD-card to pi-5 and run.
If manjaro already supports pi-5, please let me know…
I would say the easier way is to use the manjaro-arm-installer tool to create the SD card for the pi 5 at least until they provide the img files for the pi 5 for a out of the box experience.
https://github.com/manjaro-arm/rpi4-images/releases
The only difference is that you must install eeprom for rpi5 or rpi4 for updating the bootloader. By default the img install the 4K and 16K kernel and auto_initramfs=1 choose the right one unless you force linux-rpi4 (4K) with kernel=kernel8.img in config.txt
Maybe it’s time for renaming the img and for the kernel too like arch
linux-rpi-16k
Linux kernel and modules (RPi Foundation fork) with 16k pagesize for bcm2712/RPi5 ONLY
linux-rpi
Linux kernel and modules (RPi Foundation fork)
linux-rpi-16k is the equivalent of linux-rpi5 just for rpi5
linux-rpi is the equivalent of linux-rpi4 but is compatible with rpi5 4K and rpi4 (kernel=kernel8.img)
Thank you.
install eeprom for rpi5 or rpi4 for updating.
I am not familiar with eerom…
In case, I made a mistake, will it detroy rapsberrypi ?
eerom for pi4 is follows ?
How can I run & use eeprom on Manjaro ?
Your way means like follows…
- install eeprom on rpi4 & update eeprom.
yay -S rpi-eeprom-git sudo rpi-eeprom-update - reboot
- install new kernel automatcally or manually ?
- open “/boot/config.txt”
- confirm “auto_initramfs=1”
- set updated SD-crad to rpi5 and boot.
Could you show me good expamle or other reference pge, if above is not correct ?
I find a following page on “Raspberry Pi Documentation”.
But it seems to work for Raspberry Pi OS, not Majaro.
Another is an exmaple ruuning on Manjaro from this page to use eeprom, but this seems to be not related to what you mention.
And sorry , this page is writen in Janpanese.
Follwoing is reference for me.
First only install the img. No need to edit configt.txt unless you known what you do or to install rpi5-eeprom.
The eeprom is just for upgrading the bootloader (rpi5-eeprom or rpi4-eeprom). It’s independent of manjaro or OS. And there’s no urgent need to worry about it.
release-notes of rpi5-eeprom
The only particularity of manjaro is that you have to edit
sudo nano /etc/default/rpi-update
to choose between default and latest.
Check if an update is available:
sudo rpi-eeprom-update
Install the update:
sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a
sudo reboot
If you are not intolerant of gnome, gnome/wayland is a good choice 
PI5 better move to PiOS, Alarm stop update again wait python update/rebuild, it might take months.
Thank you, tartanpion.
It seems to be very easy.
I just modify /etc/default/rpi-update of my rpi4.
Is that correct ?
vim /etc/default/rpi-update
- default
+ latest
I like hyprland than gnome… 
I like i3, too…
hyprland need gcc-13 to build, so its dead.
btw, its 0.40 now.
yes. Take whatever you like with the current limitation of arch/manjaro with arm. The more people, the more fun
I have made the switch from a RPIOS+Plasma setup to Manjaro recently on a RPI-5 and i have absolutely no regrets. Everything works perfectly. HW acceleration is there (at least with X11). Chromium is snappy. Widevine can be installed easily. Being a KDE fan, arch is absolutely a delight, at last it is possible to have the latest packages. Debian based distros leave so much to be desired.
I have the 4GB version. I would assume that an 8GB version would literally “fly” with Manjaro.
So if any Pi users out there looking for some other OS option that works out of the box and looks good, this is it. I hope it continues to be maintained.