# Any new and working images for Devterm with CM3?

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**Category:** DevTerm\
**Created:** [April 4, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/any-new-and-working-images-for-devterm-with-cm3/22045 "2026-04-04T02:23:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Greg\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Greg\_E](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Greg_E)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/any-new-and-working-images-for-devterm-with-cm3/22045/1 "2026-04-04T02:23:19Z")

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Any one have an image for the Devterm with CM3 with a working screen? I dragged mine back out and trying to see what I can do with it to get something like Trixie and XFCE since there is small amounts of ram on this board.

I still can’t bring myself to buy a cm4 for this device.

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**Author:** ![1337p337](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/1337p337/32/8689_2.png) [@1337p337](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/1337p337)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/any-new-and-working-images-for-devterm-with-cm3/22045/2 "2026-04-04T03:06:10Z")

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> [@Greg\_E](#):
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> I still can’t bring myself to buy a cm4 for this device.

Why’s that?

> something like Trixie and XFCE since there is small amounts of ram on this board.

I have the R-01 (also 1GB RAM; everything works fine except a browser, which is not a problem for me) and I just run Slackware ( [Slackware image for DevTerm R01](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/slackware-image-for-devterm-r01/11516) ) with ratpoison on it. I think the regular Armbian stuff will work on the CM3, though.

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**Author:** ![Greg\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Greg\_E](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Greg_E)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/any-new-and-working-images-for-devterm-with-cm3/22045/3 "2026-04-04T04:45:34Z")

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The display doesn’t work on most things newer than kernel 6.0 unless stuff has been fixed. If Armbian was fixed, I can try it again.

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**Author:** ![Greg\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Greg\_E](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Greg_E)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/any-new-and-working-images-for-devterm-with-cm3/22045/4 "2026-07-10T01:35:55Z")

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I finally broke down and put a Pi4/4g in this, updating Trixie now. I did have to fool around with the display, loader text was correct, but OS was sideways. The old xrandr tricks didn’t work, but I managed to just use the gui to rotate it (with external mouse).

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**Author:** ![white-round-square](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/white-round-square/32/10385_2.png) [@white-round-square](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/white-round-square)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/any-new-and-working-images-for-devterm-with-cm3/22045/5 "2026-07-10T07:07:47Z")

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> [@Greg\_E](#):
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> The old xrandr tricks didn’t work,

switch back to `x11` or use some wayland way _(seems like gui wai is a wayland way as it DE/WM implementation depended)_