Last Updated on April 21, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Herman Õunapuu is Software Developer at Concise Systems
- Here he share his experience:
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/02/28/lattepanda-v1/
- As with many homelab experiments around 2022/2023, it all started with Raspberry Pi-s being either out of stock or absurdly overpriced.
- The LattePanda V1 seems to have a display connector on board.
- However, in Linux it turned out to be an annoyance as the system always presented a 1024×768 display being connected to the system.
- Booting into a Fedora Linux liveUSB environment will lead you to staring a blank view with only the wallpaper present.
- Playing with settings in UEFI did not lead to any improvements.
- What works is adding a kernel parameter: video=DSI-1:d
- With Fedora Linux, if you apply this fix in GRUB when first booting into the liveUSB environment, it will persist after the installation is done.
- Once I had Fedora Linux booted up, I did not have a good time. The display flickered when I dragged the mouse near the edges and the performance was awful. It didn’t take long for the desktop session to crash.
- One of the main reasons I wanted to experiment with this setup was the low power usage of this board.
The LattePanda V1 idles at around 3 watts, and under a high CPU load generated with stress -c 4 I could get it to 5-6 watts.
- Do we have a good example for Fedora running on a SBC?
- We have an example for the Raspberry Pi 4:
- But do we need a full desktop on a SBC, can we not do with a lightweight installation?