uConsole A06 OS and shutdown question

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Hi all.

Got my uconsole 2 days ago. Put the stock clockwork image on it. Setup the OS the way i like it, but there is an issue with power management (or i am just looking in all the wrong places).

I know the A06 does not support suspend. So i go into powermanagement and tell the thing to stay on forever. Does not seem to work. after 10min idle, the thing goes black, and only the convienient 15sec powerbutton press brings it back to life.

Wondering if that is an OS image issue. Are there any other distros for the A06? Most things i find seem to be for the CM4/CM5.

If anyone has any advise/hint, would appreciate it.

Beside that seious snafu, i am pretty happy with the device so far. The only software I installed that was not working is Warp (terminal), it caused the system to freeze/have a really slow, erratic mouse cursor. But Tabby works, so that’s ok.

Frank

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Fixed this for myself by turning of the display power management. All i have now is “screen go dim after 1min to 15%”. So this thing just stays on until i shut it down. Good enough for now. Still would be interested to hear about other OS distributions for the A06, if there are any at all?

Frank

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I haven’t seen any. 20characters..

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A04/A06 kinda dead, everyone moved to CM5 so the best option is to buy adapter board from clockworkpi and cm5

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Not everyone, I’m staying CM4 until they make a hardware change for the power supply on the adapter board. Mine just works, pretty much no hardware based issues for the type of work I normally do.

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same, CM4 is good enough for me for now, and I’ll wait and see if there will be hardware fixes for the remaining CM5 issues

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welp. me too, but if it’s a new order – I’m not sure I would buy a cm4

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Thanks. Was afraid that A06 is limiting. Ordered a CM5, let’s see how that goes. With the newest Motherboard (new order, so I assume I have it), are some of the CM5 issues fixed by now?

Frank

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you also need adapter board: https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/rpi-cm4-adapter-for-devterm-cpi-v3-14

as you can’t insert cm5 directly into the motherboard. but they should send it quickly.

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hope you ordered a proper CM5: with wifi and without emmcs :slight_smile:

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there are 2 motherboard versions, the original devterm v4 one and the uconsole v5 one, the v5 fixes a cm3 shutdown issue, but there is no v6 yet that is actually designed for modern compute modules

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Sure did. A quick brown fox jumped over 20 characters and lived happily ever after

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I believe that the cm5 problem is on the adapter board. The cm3 is a 3.3 volt device, the cm4 and 5 are 5 volt devices. There is a small boost converter on the adapter board, very likely too small for the current that the cm5 needs. This could probably be fixed with an adapter revision.

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Got the CM5, installed, booted ubuntu, and yes, ubuntu complains that the 3.3 is not enough to power external peripherials.

Running in power saving mode and the vcgencmd measure_temp reports 40.5 degrees after 2 hours of straight installation. Speed is much improved vs the A06, but that might also be due to the larger ram.

I am actually running warp (terminal) on it. freaking cool.

Frank

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