My wife was wondering as well if I am making something I shouldn’t 
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I couldn’t get it running on KDE, runs on Labwc though so it’s not a kernel issue. Also V3D works in KDE but not Labwc, so still not kernel related. 
Mine is running in KDE. 
I followed this to the letter:
CM4 8GB. Running the lite version of your image Rex with KDE installed.
Also have 256gb SD and made sure all partitions have plenty of breathing space.
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Might be something with the CM5 and KDE then that’s what @Kirou has has also.
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Hi Rex, thank you so much! I have updated the kernel to 6.12.18, but still has a problem with the hard reboot. I can not turn it off when it gets frozen by holding the power button, still has the dim green light. I am using CM5 Lite 8GB. Thanks Rex!
If it’s frozen the power button won’t do anything as of this time.
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charging lamp back now after updating kernel 6.12.18… thanks @Rex
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Rex, thanks so much for all your work here. With your help, I now have my uConsole fully working with the CM5 and working well. I added the Sleep 1.2 functionality and did pretty much all of the tweaks you and others suggested. Keep up the great work. It is appreciated.
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What is this “Sleep 1.2 functionality”?
We need a wiki where all the suggested tweaks can be posted.
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My guess: uConsole-Sleep v1.3
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After hours of relentlessness, and litres of sweat later, that’s it! Waydroid works! I passed the kernel in 4k pages… thank you @Rex for the additional information, which helped me a lot for the rest of the configuration.
And wine works too.
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I just want to confirm that manually upgrading from older (Kernel 6.6.x) images works on a CM4 uConsole. Running a quite tailored to my needs Bookworm lite image that I installed last summer, I did not want to loose the install and tried upgrading instead.
apt install clockworkpi-kernel clockworkpi-cm-firmware
did the trick while removing clockworkpi-CM4-kernel. It is now proven that this can work but it will of course always depend on your personal installation and configuration.
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I have a program that i used to use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out with. Is this functionality already built in or do i need to customize my keyboard file?
That’s part of the keyboard firmware. Check out the updated ClockworkPi uConsole firmware in their GitHub or the community made QMK firmware.
So I figured out whats wrong, it was a mesa update. I made the current image the day after that update came out so a reflash won’t fix it but I used the script here someone made to fix the problem. I used it but did have some extra stuff on my system and borked it good. 
On a fresh flash I used that script and downgraded mesa and now glmark2-es2-wayland works as intended.
I’m sure there will be a update to fix it in a day or so from Raspberry Pi. So no need to run out and start putting stuff on hold.
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Did some testing of my battery mod and CM5:
On average - 3h of runtime on very high load (medium brightness, 85% CPU, and SDR++ listening to FM radio).
Max load with full brightness - 2:20h.
Everything is stable.
Charge time with the new charge board is around 3 hours. It pulls 12-15W at 5v from the charger.
The battery indicator is useless as expected. It will decrease and show 5% for a long time. It will reset only if the battery pack low voltage protection kicks in (basically disconnecting power to the main board entirely).
As soon as there is a fix to GPU usage - will retest Youtube playback and general usage time on battery.
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Hi @Rex,
I’d like to thank you for your continued contributions to this community.
I flashed your latest image using RPi imager on my uConsole with CM5, and it works flawlessly. Appreciate all your efforts to make this possible.
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Hi @Kirou , I face the same problem of waydroid on CM5 Lite. Could you please share how did you make it work? Thanks.
By default with the CM5 you’re using a 16k page size. You need to change to the 4k page size kernel. I guess they just haven’t added support yet. To change all you have to do is add kernel=kernel8.img too the [all] section in /boot/firmware/config.txt
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@Rex said it all! I used the barbarian method, I installed Wine with PiApp, which automatically switches the kernel to 4k. I’m still a noob who learns 
Thank you for giving the right method, Rex. She is much better!
EDIT : I have no problem with 4k pages kernel. No issues to boot, reboot or other bugs.
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