OK I found the first thing I would like, what do I need to do to connect to my uconsole using VNC? Is VNC installed or do I need to install it? Sorry away from uconsole right now.
Once you move the image to the nvme youāll be able to use the SD as a first boot option, if an SD is present with a bootable system on it itāll use that instead of the one nvme.
I think you need to install VNC
Just an FYI incase this comes up again. VNC is installed and all you have to do it to open sudo raspi-config and under interface options turn VNC on and reboot.
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Hi, @Rex , Iāve noticed some strange changes in your ClockworkPi-linux repo, I am unable to understand. There is a commit, update clockworkpi drivers , which adds duplicate code blocks to each file in question. Is it a mistake or some intentional magic I am unable to understand?
It is re-adding lines already there, the same for other files.
itās a safety feature in case if first block will be removed ā second still exists and works!
Each overlay is for its respective compute module. If youāre talking about the commit to update them or readd them is because RPi made a change that wouldnāt let me automatically merge their branch and instead of fussing around to get it to merge I just readded them from a base kernel.
I mean, for example, now, after this commit, Makefile contains the same āclockworkpi-uconsole-cm5.dtboā line twice:
On line 49 here: ClockworkPi-linux/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/Makefile at rpi-6.12.y Ā· ak-rex/ClockworkPi-linux Ā· GitHub
And on line55 here: ClockworkPi-linux/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/Makefile at rpi-6.12.y Ā· ak-rex/ClockworkPi-linux Ā· GitHub
The same there are duplicates of the same blocks in other files, introduced by the same commit.
Thank you for your work on this. I have the trixie image running on my cm5/uconsole. 1 problem Iām having, my 4g card no longer shows up in mmcli. I had it working previously on stock/cm4 and upgraded the firmware to 9011. I have tried running uconsole-4g enable. I can see it in lsusb and it shows 9011 as I would expect.
The problem is there is no /dev/ttyusb or usb network interface. Any tips on what I can try to get it to appear?
Oh I see, I must have accidentally applied them twice when I was re-commiting those changes. It will still compile fine, Iāll fix it here tomorrow.
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Not sure as Iāve never had a 4g card. Is the 4g script installed?
Yes it is. it runs, just doesnāt seem to do anything.
Iām a bit out of my depth, but it seems like the 4g script sets pins 24 and 15 to high.
Tinkeringā¦ I found that actually some changes may be needed to make the 4g script work on cm5.
If I change the sleep 5 after setting 24/15 high to sleep 2, I can see the modem power up. Maybe due to speed difference between the 2? Feels very fragile but it works.
update Doh. Someone did in fact already solve this, itās in the clockwork repo: uConsole/Code/scripts/uconsole-4g-cm5 at master Ā· clockworkpi/uConsole Ā· GitHub
@Rex Maybe there should be an update in your image to pick the right script based on the cm#?
How is Trixie KDE image going? I wanna use that image for daily-drive uConsole.
And If that image comes out, would I need to reflash the SD card or just updating current trixie install would be enough?
you would have to reinstall
Iām working on it but itās a little slow going. I want it to be just as complete as the labwc version, but Qt instead of GTK. I donāt want a user name and password by default, I want you to make your own. I thought somebody would already made a Qt usercreation wizard but I canāt find one. So Iām riding one from scratch and thatās taking a while. Iām learning the framework just to do it.
So I put out a KDE image when I get everything worked out and squared away.
You will definitely need to reflash it to use it.
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Wait, that is making a whole new distro!
Not really, itās just Trixie lite with all the KDE stuff installed. Iām just writing a new first run wizard in Qt. Trixie normally comes with labwc which is gtk. I donāt want to have all the gtk stuff installed just to have the pis normal first run wizard.
I guess maybe you could call it that though, the way Ubuntu has lubuntu, kubuntuā¦ But yeah Iām working on it itās just a bigger learning process than I first thought.
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Broā¦ You were really bewing whole new distro for uconsoleā¦ BTW, if you are pre-installing apps for your distro, could you include yakuake, too? You know, that thing is really good.
And Itās even better if you include korean fonts for your OS. Regular Raspberry Pi OS and spins donāt have that and all korean fonts become blank box when I choose korean locale in first setupā¦
I think including any cjk fonts in /usr/share/fonts directory would be enough.
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Iāll have to check out Yakuake but adding the locale is something I can add the the next release.
