Cool Pi Cm5-Laptop Linux Quick Start Guide

petersen77

@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

Momo 0

@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"

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/607949/cannot-mount-exfat-even-installed-exfat-fuse-exfat-utils-in-kali-linux

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

petersen77

@Momo-0 Thanks, it's working now.

mainbord

@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.

george

@mainbord
Use the following command to generate a deb file and then install it.

./build-kernel.sh arm64

mainbord

@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?

petersen77

@george Can't finish the job. Btrfs module keeps sending an error when building the modules. The script doesn't finish.

mainbord

Tyied it
https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8275
from usb and from nand it does not boot.

Momo 0

@mainbord same here, sadly Armbian isnt booting or else i would already be using it instead of the supplied distros

george

@Momo-0
The official default configuration of ARMBIN's loadaddr and optee conflicts and needs to be modified to 0x200000

Momo 0

@george is this true even for the community made Genbook build?

mainbord

@Momo-0
I did it

change 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/Linux

wireless works

no sound
No usb-c

Momo 0

@mainbord too bad about the usbc and the sound, can i ask how you went about it? im not to deep into armbian.

george

@Momo-0
TYPEC is only related to DTS, and the main issue with the sound card is Tinymix configuration.