Cool Pi Cm5-Laptop Linux Quick Start Guide
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Hi help me please to find firmware for laptop, I Flashed ubuntu-24.04-preinstalled-desktop-arm64-coolpi-0926.img from google and it does not boot.
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@mainbord for me currently only the Debian image works
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@Momo-0 said in Cool Pi Cm5-Laptop Linux Quick Start Guide:
@mainbord for me currently only the Debian image works
Thanks, 11 debian booted. Because this is an old image.
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@mainbord Debian 13 is also working, but no EXFAT support in the kernel, so it's a little bit inconvenient copying files (e.g. my Camera is using EXFAT) or making backups
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@petersen77 i got around this with installing exfat-progs and exfatfuse i think, after installing i needed to create a symlink like this "sudo ln -s /usr/sbin/mount.exfat-fuse /sbin/mount.exfat"
but yeah being able to compile the kernel or have this and some other features (vpn, filesystem encryption) in the kernel from the beginning for example would be better
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@Momo-0 Thanks, it's working now.
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@mainbord
I boot from ubuntu 24.04 hdmi and usb 2.0 works. Usbc wi-fi and lcd do not work. This image not for laptop. Latest kernel source not for laptop too. -
@mainbord
Use the following command to generate a deb file and then install it../build-kernel.sh arm64 -
@george said in Cool Pi Cm5-Laptop Linux Quick Start Guide:
Use the following command to generate a deb file and then install it.
It was hard. Now it works but without wi-fi and sound
How to install mainline kernel 6.18?
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@george Can't finish the job. Btrfs module keeps sending an error when building the modules. The script doesn't finish.
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Tyied it
https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8275
from usb and from nand it does not boot. -
@mainbord same here, sadly Armbian isnt booting or else i would already be using it instead of the supplied distros
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@Momo-0
The official default configuration of ARMBIN's loadaddr and optee conflicts and needs to be modified to 0x200000
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@george is this true even for the community made Genbook build?
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@Momo-0
I did itchange address 0x200000
build
burn it to emmc
profit
Linux coolpi-genbook 6.18.0-edge-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 1 01:42:10 MSK 2025 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linuxwireless works
no sound
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@mainbord too bad about the usbc and the sound, can i ask how you went about it? im not to deep into armbian.
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@Momo-0
TYPEC is only related to DTS, and the main issue with the sound card is Tinymix configuration. -
@georgecould you elaborate on how to build and change the Kernel from the current github repository?
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git checkout 6.1.75 ./build-kernel.sh arm64The deb file will be generated in the higher-level directory of the code and copied to the machine for installation.
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Armbian use this file from linux kernel
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588-coolpi-cm5-genbook.dtsGeorge use this
https://github.com/coolpi-george/coolpi-kernel/blob/linux-6.1-stan-rkr5.1/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588-cpcm5-notebook-v20.dtsI found instruction how to build my own dts
https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian_overlays/But i can't build even the linux kernel dts file
sudo armbian-add-overlay rk3588-coolpi-cm5-genbook.dts