Trixie 6.12.y for the uConsole and DevTerm

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 I’m using the fan header thats on the HackerGadgets CM5 interface board and a small fan (originally supplied with 1 of my raspberry pi kits) It’s 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 Rex’s 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 y’all can help me.

On a cm5 running rex’s 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 doesn’t 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 don’t 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