Comments on: Radxa Rock 5B Software

By: tdunteman

tdunteman — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 05:00:09 +0000

In reply to Hans.

Moving your install image from one media to another should be as simple as running dd to copy the contents of the SD to SSD. I haven’t tested this specifically on the Rock 5B, but will give it a shot in the future. From some searching it looks like Zoom doesn’t have an ARM64 client install (https://devforum.zoom.us/t/zoom-client-for-arm-based-systems/21980/19). Given that the Rock 5B has a more powerfull CPU and (depending on your system) more RAM, you may be able to get by with the web based version. The biggest downside to ARM based computers is a lack of software support.

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:48:19 +0000

Hi,
Thank you for this its a very great help and followed your instructions.
Can I please ask for help because I have followed your instructions and I got the desktop working but I have the OS installed on my SDcard. Is there a way to transfer this to SSD?
Also, one other program that I need to use is Zoom. How do you go about installing this based on your setup? I tried installing flatpak but it doesn’t work.
For a regular desktop user, all you really need is firefox, libreoffice and zoom I think. Zoom is just the one that is missing.
Thank you.
Hans

By: tdunteman

tdunteman — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 03:01:41 +0000

In reply to Gerry Manley. I haven't seen an issue with the mouse pointer previously. Is this connecting via RDP to a Rock 5B running XRDP, or is this locally on the console?

By: Gerry Manley

Gerry Manley — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 07:12:36 +0000

Hi ,
A big thank you for the tutorial
I followed your instructions and everything works except mouse pointer disappears but mouse action still works.
To get mouse pointer back I have to power-off and restart.
Mouse pointer disappears when:
1 – on blank screen – power saving (no set to never)
2 – if no screen activity (have to check this further)
Have I msised something?

/Gerry