PinePhone Keyboard need troubleshooting guidance

[MNtinkerer]

I have been using an older image for Mobian and been updating it for the last six months or so.  Got my Pinephone keyboard today and it doesn't work at all.  I downloaded the latest weekly build off the Mobian site (mobian-pinephone-phosh-20220109.img.gz) and installed this.  It works!

I imagine that this new image is based on Debian Bookworm maybe?  If that's the case maybe all we needed to do was an apt dist-upgrade

I'll go back to my old image and give it a go.  I hope this helps folks though.

This was the fix that I needed. I believe Debian Bookworm was the trick. To future-proof your solution I will provide the link to Mobian builds and a quick tutorial. Again, thank you again!

To have a working PinePhone-keyboard with the PinePhone using Mobian, use a current image from Mobian's weekly build, or at least at the time of this post, an image based on Debian Bookworm. Weekly images can be found:

https://images.mobian-project.org/pinephone/weekly/

In order to flash the image to the eMMC of the PinePhone, it is necessary to use a tool like JumpDrive available here:

https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Ju...e/releases

All a user has to do is have a spare SD card and flash the ~43MB JumpDrive file to the SD card. Then insert the SD card into the PinePhone and boot. Attach a USB C data cable from the PinePhone to the computer AFTER THE PINEPHONE BOOTS and flash the Mobian (or whatever OS) to the PinePhone. Power off the PinePhone and remove the SD card, then reboot the PinePhone. For Mobian the initial password is currently 1234.

I used a command line and the dd utility being careful to write to the correct drives.