Raspberry Pi 4 - flickering screen

Today I follow the nix.dev tutorial again.
This time I also updated the bootloader, using the Raspberry Pi Imager method.
The screen kept flashing/flickering.
What I changed:

  • rpi4 4gb & rpi4 2gb
  • 5 hdmi-microhdmi cables
  • 3 psu
  • 2 sd-card & 4 usb-sata adapters & 6 ssd

The older Nixos image worked without flashing: https://hydra.nixos.org/build/134720986/download/1/nixos-sd-image-21.03pre262561.581232454fd-aarch64-linux.img.zst
The Raspberry Pi OS worked without flashing.

1 Last change, The TV:

  • Loewe Art 32, keeps flashing.

Now I tried with a recent Medion TV. It works.
I don’t know why… Older hdmi spec ?

tldr: The tv is the cause of all these problems.

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