New debian 13 version?

Orion Series
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When will the upgraded debian 13 version for orion 6 be available?

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Take a look at Sky1 Linux. Generic Debian Trixie will boot fine, and you can use the Sky1 repo to get GPU support etc

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I have the radxa image, sky1 image and your iso . with sky1 I miss the gpu dkms . The last radxa bookworm image is faster with glmark benchmark. I guess entropi missed out some cx parts. Thanks for your iso.

regards

Uli

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Apart from Trixie, what is missing is hardware acceleration on apps other than chromium.

On Radxa debian, firefox doesn’t have it. I wasn’t able to use entropy repo to easily rebuild firefox..

I also wanted to use Sunshine/Moonlight, but it doesn’t have it either. Probably also needs to be modiified & rebuilt.

Like any other app I suppose..

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CIX might release in March, and Orion6 might release in April.

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It is curious that radxa never names the year of an release.:enraged_face:

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Cix ppa Debian13, You can try

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v7rc (the one which is open source) didn’t work for me on O6N.

I reboot and then get to “initramfs” because it’s unable to start.

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can you please put a imagefile into the radxa dl repo. I am struggeling with your description. I always get an imagefile error with the 6.6.89 and the 7.0.0-rc5 image.

Thanks in advance

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I am following the Debian 13 instructions from Debian 13 | Radxa Docs but during the Partitioning step of the installation I am getting: “The efi file system creation in partition #X of /dev/nvmeXn1 failed.”

The same issue but on a different Cix machine: https://www.reddit.com/r/MINISFORUM/comments/1sl8x9f/debian_13_on_msr1_the_efi_file_system_creation/

Any ideas?

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What exactly did you run to partition the disk? Some script?

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After some time and multiple attempts, I was able to make it work.

It is necessary to :

  • Upgrade firmware to version v1.2.1. Note that this version isn’t available on radxa website, but on their github.
  • Enable ACPI SCMI option in bios (this is a new option, unavailable in previous bios version)
  • Install Debian 13
  • Setup Kernel v7 and drivers using CIX PPA repository and given script.

I was greatly helped by this work, for which I thank the author.

Hardware Acceleration globally works, with a way more recent and open source kernel (v7), which is great ! But some problems still persist, some even are new :

  • Fullscreen video or game often doesn’t work, it blinks non-stop
  • I can’t get any sound through HDMI. It worked with original radxa iso. I only have “dummy audio output” available, so I’m forced to use a bluetooth speaker for now, which works.
  • SBC cannot yet be used as a server, it sometimes freezes and becomes unresponsive, be it on screen or ssh. This means you need to physically plug it off and then on.

This is working but not stable yet.

Hopefully, CIX will update the kernel soon to make it better..

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I am observing the exact same things with my Orion O6N.

Adding cpuidle.off=1 to grub seems to fix that issue. My board is running more than 10 days without any freeze.

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If anyone wants a very simple step-by-step, this worked well for me:

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Hi LaurentD, thank you for the tip, it did work for me (on the ‘buntu image, I didn’t rollback to trixie for now).

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curl -fsSL https://archive.cixtech.com/cix-repo-community.sh | sudo sh

does not work anymore.

any advise?

uli