Awesome! I’ll let you know how things work out when I load the SD card tonight.
I had it working (sometimes booting up) without batteries… just got brand new batteries in now and it won’t work. It’s like the backlit is always on and I can’t turn it off. Is only solution to pull the batteries and try again? Maybe they are not charged enough? Any other ideas?
I’m running an image I grabbed last week. So I’ll try the latest version.
great work @Rex . So cool to be able to run the CM5. If I had more time I’d love to try to help.
If you have access to an HDMI monitor and a micro-to-full HDMI cable/adaptor, you should try hooking up to that external display with the port next to the usb-c.
There have been several times when my device fails to initialize the uconsole screen but the external screen works fine. And then whenever I get an issue with the bootloader, I can only see those errors on the HDMI screen.
The device is just blank with the backlight on. I don’t know any way to turn off the device when it has a boatload error other than removing power. The device button don’t do anything.
Not a solution, just something that helps diagnose.
CM5 installed, changed the config file. It powers up but so far no sign of life on HDMI or the screen. I couldn’t help but notice that the latest images on either google drive or mega drive were dated the 25th of January. Not sure if I need to SSH my way in and add the repository and apt-update.
I’m about to upload a new image here shortly (hour or so) fully updated with new firmware and kernel 6.6.78.
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@Rex if the image does not auto expand then curious what size card did you make it for?
Thanks again! downloading and trying it out now.
It’s only like 5.6gb, flash it to whatever card you want after booting and setting up an account. In the terminal enter sudo raspi-config and in (6)Advanced Options do (A1)Expand Filesystem then reboot.
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so far no luck, I’m reflashing the image without custom settings this time, and see if that makes a difference.
–nothing yet, the green light is on and it’s drawing power but nothing else. I’m using an official Raspberry Pi SD card, supposedly tested for the 5
@Rex worked good on first time boot up. Ran for an about a hour. sound worked. all good.
then rebooted and can’t get it back. screen kept coming up blank with no signs of life (other then backlight seemed to be on)
Then hooked to external monitor and started seeing some little cursor flashing. And saw the clockwork logo. But thats it.
I’ll try the sdhci.debug_quirks2=4 to you cmdline.txt in the morning.
Any logs or anything I can send that would help? let me know.
(running 6.6.78 on uConsole CM5 lite wifi)
noticed that the devterm-cm5 overlay file was missing from the image so I downloaded it from github but still no screen or hdmi
-edit:
just realized my thinking on this is wrong, I’m new to github, but the raw file from there doesn’t equal the properly formated overlay file 
-edit 2:
poking around on the github, and I see that clockworkpi-devterm-cm5.dtbo is missing from the makefile in ClockworkPi-linux/arm/boot/dts/overlays
I’d compile a new image myself but honestly its something I’ve never done before, and don’t know where to start.
sorry about that here the file just put it in the overlay directory.
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Was able to boot into the setup options with an 8GB CM5 but after that I have only been able to restart after the batteries are completely drained however only the backlight comes on and it never actually boots into the OS.
are you using the lite model? if so have you tried different sd cards? have you seen what the out put is on an hdmi?
I’ll be able to test it when I get home from work, and report back. I’ll also make a dedicated post tonight for my devterm case design once I get some good photos, looks really cool in transluscent smoke plexi.
yes using the lite version. I will see if I can scrounge up another SD card to try. For reference, I was using a Samsung 256 EVO select in case that information is needed down the road.
Is there a recommended SD card brand/type that has known compatibility?
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I know one user says these work good with the CM5.
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doing sdhci.debug_quirks2=4 to you cmdline.txt didn’t do anything for me.
I got 6.6.78 working on first boot up. walked through the steps of creating user and setting up wifi. And it all working great. Sound was good too. Then shut it down and restarted. And now I can’t get back. It’s usually just a black screen. But if I hook up the external monitor then sometimes I see the clockwork logo then it goes blank. But I can click the power button twice and the shut off sequence works. Is that all hardware or is in that in the kernel?
(running 6.6.78 on uConsole CM5 lite wifi)
do you see a screen that looks like this with hdmi hooked up?
the panel while better then it was is not 100% but it seem like the cm5 has a problem with a lot of sd cards. if you get the error message pictured it’s not recognizing the sd. what sd card are you using?