Trixie 6.12.y for the uConsole and DevTerm

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Debian 13 Trixie Now Available!

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Features: ClockworkPi-Trixie-6.12.y

  • Desktop and Lite images available.
  • Image built using Pi-Gen.
  • Dark mode for all screens (first boot, login, desktop)
  • Sane charging defaults applied.
  • Kernel updates though my APT repo.
  • External WiFi antenna already set in config.txt.
  • A few clockworkpi images for wallpapers.
  • Activate 4g card by uconsole-4g enable and uconsole-4g disable
  • linux-headers included with kernel
  • Works with both DevTerm CM4/5 and uConsole CM3/4/5.
  • Auto-expanding file system
    • On first boot system will boot expand FS then reboot.
  • Updated driver overlays - easier config.txt management.
    • Just follow the instructions at the bottom of the config.txt

If you have a CM5 lite and are having problems with the sd card booting. You need to edit your EEPROM and your CM5 lite has to have updated firmware that was released after 2025-01-06. Check using vcgencmd version to update sudo rpi-eeprom-update
sudo rpi-eeprom-config -e To edit the eeprom.
backup current config, then replace with:

[all]
BOOT_UART=1

# Switch off PMIC outputs on HALT
POWER_OFF_ON_HALT=1

# Default BOOT_ORDER for provisioning
# SD -> NVMe -> USB -> Network
BOOT_ORDER=0xf461

# Try boot on SDCard repeatly
SD_BOOT_MAX_RETRIES=2

# Slow down SDCard SDR Mode on bootloader
SD_QUIRKS=1

Raspberry Pi Imager will cause image not to boot if you apply custom settings.

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I have added a few working/testing images and kernels with the *.deb files to install in the mega folder if you want for different OSs.

Google Drive link for the main image if Mega doesn’t work for you.

Drime file hosting for if the first two links are out of bandwidth.

Here’s my Github with the rpi-6.12.y branch if you’d like to compile yourself. All the ClockworkPi drivers are pre-marked to compile in bcm2711_defconfig or bcm2712_defconfig. Also the APT repo with kernels and hardware scripts for ClockworkPi devices

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Thank you for confirning the trouble with the hackergadget package. I tried upgrading twice a few weeks ago and it hung at the same place each time. I was suspecting that it was dependency issues with your absolutely spectacular hackergadgets AIO package. I will wait patiently, or even try to contribute in some small way to get the dependency resolved.

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so for right now it looks like we’ll be waiting on meshtastic to update their software to work on trixie.

meshtastic is requires libgpiod2 and libyaml-cpp0.7 but trixie ships with libgpiod3 and libyaml-cpp0.8, even if i manually remove or bump the requirements meshtastic fails to start.

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Hey @Rex when you will update to Forky?

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why not Duke? 15 > 14

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Thanks for making Trixie available! I’ll wait for the HackerGadgets tooling to be in better shape, but I’m happy to see the upgrade will be an option in the future.

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A couple of the dependency issues I can fix but meshtastic hardcoding a dependency to a exact version will need to be fixed by them.

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Time to upgrade. Thanks again Rex.

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Ok first bug… when I plug in a second screen via hdmi I get a “the specified directory ‘/ home/rex/Desktop’ is not valid. What should I be editing to fix this?

Clean install btw.

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Really? Damn I’ll have to look into that real quick.

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Honestly wouldn’t have thought to do this. I just plug a second screen in after a reinstall to make sure I set up my preferences to have the taskbar jump to the hdmi in case of screen initialization failure.

CM5

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lite version install with cm5 and working well so far, cheers for the great work.

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just tried with a fresh install with a different username and same thing. hdmi worked i just got that message. i didn’t change how i build the image just added the new trixie stuff. i’m going to try something and rebuild the image and test.

@modoxvx Thanks!

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I think I found the problem rebuilding the image now to test.

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Fix the problem will be uploading new images.

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I’ve uploaded new copies to all the links.

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Should I just do a clean reinstall?

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no, just delete the line with /home/rex/Desktop in ~/.config/pcmanfm/default/desktop-items-DSI-2.conf

let me know if that fixed it for you.

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Working. I’ll report anything else I find.

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Hi, Rex, the latest image is work! and hackergadgets AIO package is on board now. but it seems no audio output of sdrpp. is there any way to fix this issue?