My charge LED has suddenly started working when the uConsole is powered off and I plug it in??
Rex, did you fix something?
Edit:
Never mind, think I figured it out.
Noticed my battery was pretty much flat when it should have been nearly full from yesterday.
I installed RetroPie image on a separate SD yesterday and that was the last thing I was using.
I must have shut down by pressing the power button which it looks like that doesnât fully shut the uConsole down, even though it appears that it has. Must be like a standby mode.
If I go into the RetroPie menu and shutdown system from there it shuts down fully and no charge LED when charging.
Hello, Rex. Iâm trying to use the CM5 version of bookworm 6.12.y. I put CM5 on the extension for my first try. After normal startup, the mouse and keyboard cannot be used. Does this have anything to do with my baseplate? Or do you have to use the uconsole motherboard to work with an external mouse and keyboard?
I have most of the USBs and the onboard ethernet disabled in my kernel. They are unneeded in the uConsole. While the image will start in most carrier boards, most stuff wonât work because itâs optimized for the uConsole.
Finally recieved my CM5, only took a month because of âLost Shippingâ. But, anyway⌠Installed Rexâs Bookworm and Parrot on two different sd cards. I ran into the random display not showing anything but lit, and the lightly lit green power led too. I see about shutting down via a âblind shutdownâ. and some others have removed the batteries (ran into that). Has anyone figured out the problem with this?
Since you got the lite CM5, did you do the eeprom edit in the OP? Not all SD cards work right away with the CM5. You can try booting it with a HDMI connected to see if you get a SD card error. if so youâll need to do the edit to get it to work.
Youâll need a to test a few to find one that works. If you donât have one that you can boot with I have test this one in the 128gb version and it works without the edit. once you get booted make the edit then all SDs will work.
Sorry, I did not explain this well. It boots and all, actually using the teamgroup sd, for both OS. I was just looking to see if there was any update on the random blank screen issue, and the light green led that I see others have had an issue in the past with. I am seeing the same problems.
Uconsole and yes, the latest as of last night. CM5, Lite, 8gb. Bookworm I worked with until I updated the keyboard with QMK and upgraded the firmware. Then moved to parrot OS, latest, onto an SD card. After about 30 min, battery charging. the screen went blank, keyboard was still lit. Shut it down, (button held worked). Then, when i started it the keyboard and screen where lit but no information. then I tried to hold the power button and it went dimmer but never actually shut off. That is when I went on ahead and pulled the batteries. I have read others have had this issue.
With parrot screen blanking is enabled by default, so the screen going blank could be normal. Did the screen come back at all after rebooting? Did you do any kind of forced update?
It was like the display wenât out, and it wasnt coming back. After I forced the shutdown, powered back on, the screen was lit but nothing was on display when I rebooted. If itâs a parrot issue, I have no problem loading what I use into the rasp-pi image. It just saves a lot of work If the parrot os worked haha, has most of the tools I use. I did check for updates, it was all up to date. Kinda odd, I was watching the CPU temp, thinking maybe that was it⌠but it never wenât over 60c.
Iâd be tempted to take it all apart, disconnect the screen and battery module then refit everything, just to make sure all hardware connections are good.
normal updates should work, itâll even get my custom kernel updates. if you do a dist upgrade itâll replace the custom kernel with the stock one but then the backlight wonât even work.
Iâd recheck the connections like @Talos said, sometimes when you take the back off the thermal pad will pull the CM out of the socket a bit. If that doesnât work flash the image again to another sd card and see if it works.
even if youâre using the teampro+ card and it works, iâd do the eeprom edit to make sure everything is more reliable during boot.
Amazing work, Rex! I got the latest image working beautifully on my CM5 Lite last night (wow the 8GB CM5 is a HUGE speed improvement over the 4GB CM4), until I sleepily installed Wireguard along with a mainline kernel via apt, and obviously broke it
Iâm reflashing now (for a third time), and sorry for the noob question, but does anyone know if thereâs a way to prevent apt thinking it needs mainline kernel as a dependency in cases like this? I tried messing around with equivs but apt still insisted it needed a different kernelâŚ
I didnât have this problem with Wireguard on one of Rexâs earlier Bookworm builds, and canât figure out whatâs different. No Wireguard is a bit of an issue for my use-caseâŚ
Thank you I appreciate it! Iâll look tonight and see whatâs up with wireguard, I might have to add something to the provides info of the kernel package. Iâll let you know if I find anything.
Wireguard requires enabled flag âCONFIG_WIREGUARDâ in kernel to work and it sometimes creates issues, like when you want to use it on some hosting.
