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Create DevTerm CM4 OS image from scratch

GNU edited this page 2024-06-03 02:24:44 -07:00

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Start a chroot env
• Inside chroot
• console rotation
• Now quit the chroot env
• Flash the image to SD card

Intro

The image based on raspberry pi os
for raspberry pi cm4 with devterm cm4 adapter
and it is better to run a Ubuntu 21.04 in a VirtualBox to do all the jobs
The entire operation requires a certain experience in linux
be careful

Start a chroot env

wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_full_armhf/images/raspios_full_armhf-2021-05-28/2021-05-07-raspios-buster-armhf-full.zip

unzip 2021-05-07-raspios-buster-armhf-full.zip

sudo losetup --show -f -P 2021-05-07-raspios-buster-armhf-full.img #assume loop0
sudo mount /dev/loop0p2 /mnt/p2
sudo mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt/p2/boot

cd /mnt/p2
sudo mount --bind /dev dev/
sudo mount --bind /sys sys/
sudo mount --bind /proc proc/
sudo mount --bind /dev/pts dev/pts
#sudo mv etc/ld.so.preload etc/ld_so_preload
sudo chroot .

Inside chroot

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clockworkpi/apt/main/debian/KEY.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/clockworkpi.asc

echo "deb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clockworkpi/apt/main/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/clockworkpi.list

sudo apt update && sudo apt install devterm-thermal-printer-cm4 devterm-fan-temp-daemon-cm4 devterm-kernel-cm4-rpi devterm-audio-patch devterm-wiringpi-cm4-cpi -y

sudo apt install -y devterm-thermal-printer-cups

Config xrandr

sudo bash -c 'cat << EOF > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/100custom_xrandr
xrandr --output DSI-1 --rotate right
EOF'

config lightdm

/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

greeter-setup-script=/etc/lightdm/setup.sh

sudo bash -c 'cat <<EOF >/etc/lightdm/setup.sh
#!/bin/bash
xrandr --output DSI-1 --rotate right
exit 0
EOF'

sudo chmod +x /etc/lightdm/setup.sh

Modify /etc/dphys-swapfile

CONF_SWAPSIZE=512

Change the default wallpaper
The following files changed

• /etc/xdg/pcmanfm/LXDE-pi/desktop-items-0.conf
• /etc/xdg/pcmanfm/LXDE-pi/desktop-items-1.conf
• /etc/lightdm/pi-greeter.conf
• /home/pi/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE-pi/desktop-items-0.conf

Delete wallpaper address temple.jpg,change the desktop_bg color to #202020
change /etc/hostname to clockworkpi
in /boot/cmdline.txt ,add fbcon=rotate:1, remove quiet

Screen rotation
change

/etc/skel/.config/monitors.xml 
/home/{pi,rpi-first-boot-wizard}/.config/monitors.xml 

to be like

<monitors version="2">
  <configuration>
    <logicalmonitor>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <primary>yes</primary>
      <monitor>
        <monitorspec>
          <connector>DSI-1</connector>
          <vendor>unknown</vendor>
          <product>unknown</product>
          <serial>unknown</serial>
        </monitorspec>
        <mode>
          <width>480</width>
          <height>1280</height>
          <rate>60.000</rate>
        </mode>
      </monitor>
      <transform>
        <rotation>right</rotation>
      </transform>
    </logicalmonitor>
  </configuration>
</monitors>

for uConsole, replace 480 to 720 in above monitors.xml

console rotation

/boot/cmdline.txt add fbcon=rotate:1 in the end of

console=.........  fbcon=rotate:1

Now quit the chroot env

exit
#sudo mv etc/ld_so_preload etc/ld.so.preload

sudo umount /mnt/p2/dev/pts
sudo umount /mnt/p2/dev
sudo umount /mnt/p2/proc
sudo umount /mnt/p2/sys
##clear bash 
sudo rm -rf root/.bash_history
#sudo rm usr/bin/qemu-arm-static

cd -
sudo umount /mnt/p2/boot
sudo umount /mnt/p2
sudo losetup -D /dev/loop0 #assume loop0

Flash the image to SD card

• Linux sudo dd if=2021-05-07-raspios-buster-armhf-full.img of=/dev/sdX bs=8M status=progress