well that was a ride. im now commenting from my uconsole. my cm5 would NOT boot from the m.2 even though it is a supported unit no matter the config/eeprom settings. some minor work but ive mapped /home to it and got the aio all setup and tested. thank you rex for all your hard work. noq to get the cooler back shell printed and installed.
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do you have a waveshare spacer under the CM5?
No I chose not to use one, instead Iâm using the fan header thats on the HackerGadgets CM5 interface board and a small fan (originally supplied with 1 of my raspberry pi kits) Itâs working well, average CPU temp is 25-30c. under load it peaked at 43c.
i found that less than 50% of my NVME drives that currently work in other pi 5 units work with this kit so just keep working through different drives until you get one that boots
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possible yes. but currently a non issue so call that a bridge to cross later
maybe a dumb question, but i got my console booted on Rexâs older 6.1 radxa image, but will this image work th the radxa cm5?
No this image is only for the Raspberry Pi CMs.
GQRX configuration for direct sampling mode:
File > IO Devices:
Device: Other
Device string: rtl=0,direct_samp=2
Input Controls:
No limits: checked
can we sticky this thread?
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Hoping yâall can help me.
On a cm5 running rexâs debian Trixie.
My trackball is awful, ordered a new one but want to try i3wm in the meantime.
Got i3 installed fine.
First issue is that the boot window manager doesnât allow you to select another wm.
To fix this I changed /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, I changed greeter-session to lightdm-gtk-greeter
This works but the screen is now rotated.
Question: can I set the default greeter to let me pick the wm or can I fix the screen rotation issue somehow?
you can just tell lightdm the screen needs to be rotated
the uconsole screen is a native portrait screen, so rotated is the default orientation
Why donât you got for the newer trackpad grab a front A model cover and black keyboard set and your good no stock yet but around March time.
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ooh, what is this?
looks neat
hank you, got it working. i bricked my os doing something so i reflashed and am just using stock
It would be nice if you could find a proper HTTP mirror so we could simply curl http://server/uconsole-trixie-6.12.img.gz | gzip -cd | doas dd of=/dev/sdx like other distros.
Surgeon Generalâs warning: This convenience reduces safety. Check your sums.
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what a time! people stream internet directly to flash drives!
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Which distros recommend this? so I can avoid touching them?
Iâve looked around and it costs to much. Iâm constantly already hitting the bandwidth cap on mega and I even hit it once with Google drive.
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Could you get away with using Github Actions to generate the images, and host them on the Releases page in the repo? Or directly uploading the images to the Releases page? There are a lot of hosts who specialize in redistributing FOSS build output; MEGA and Google Drive are strange options in the sense that they are some of the few file hosts that arenât built as labors of love but as probably-deniable âintellectual propertyâ sharing. Along with GitHub consider other code forges like Sourceforge, Sourcehut, or even try the Internet Archive which will automatically generate torrents for your images which you could share.
i would use github but most the images are hand done because ones like dragon donât have their stuff on github. github wonât let me upload file that are several gigs. i currently have about 30gbs worth of images for the uconsole. this was the cheapest way to host all the images for me. i only have to pay $1.99 a month to host them on google.
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