On my PBP, Chromium crashes every time I try to go to settings if I'm not running it as a superuser.  So I cannot enter my Google Passpharse to sync all my bookmarks.

It works fine if I run "sudo chromium-browser", but that seems to use a different profile.  The passphrase takes there, but when I go back on as a regular user, it's not synced.

I really don't want to run chromium as a super user every time.  Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Is there any chance to see Chromium OS 78 on Pinebook Pro any time soon?

Good day everybody

I tried to compile librespot for the rock64 unfortunately it throws me an error that it can't be compiled :


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 = note: /tmp/cargo-installPJfUds/release/build/byteorder-e6b6a6b0fb32eb88/build_script_build-e6b6a6b0fb32eb88.build_script_build.d7wzi3u7-cgu.0.rcgu.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
          collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
          

error: aborting due to previous error

error: could not compile `byteorder`.
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: failed to compile `librespot v0.1.0`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/tmp/cargo-installPJfUds`
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I haven't figured out would the problem might be (noob programmer, so to say). I also tried to install the raspberry binary which caused the system to overload - so that didn't work either.

Good news:
I found a project that ported the lib into java :

https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot-java
.... and it works (nearly) perfect. Just install java, set the option mixerSearchKeywords = "default" int the config.toml file .... that's it

Enjoy

Helium

Hello

By accident I put inverse  polarity at rockpro64 and these chips near power supply were burnt, can anybody send me the parts names so as to try to replace them?

I just ordered the Pinebook Pro and the NVME board for it. Can i install the OS on the NVME and it boot or do i have to use the eMMc to run the OS?

The internal speakers are secured to the palm rest with adhesive. Additionally there is adhesive on the foam attached to the speakers facing the bottom magnesium cover.

When disassembling the bottom cover from the palm rest the speakers pull off the palm rest, sticking to the bottom cover. Although this is not a huge problem, this exercises the speaker wires more than I like.

The solution I devised way to apply plastic wrap (common food wrap, not cellophane) to the foam on the speakers. I then used a pair of scissors to trim the plastic wrap around the outer perimeter of the foam. Then I carefully cut a slit within the inner perimeter of the foam and then used the scissors to trim the plastic wrap within the inner perimeter of the foam.

This prevents the speakers from attaching to the bottom magnesium case. They remain attached to the palm rest and the speaker wires remain undisturbed when the bottom case is removed from the palm rest.

The sound quality of the speakers remains the same as before the fix, but in full disclosure I have old man ears with specific frequency impairment in one ear. My good ear can not discern any difference.

Update: 17 DEC 2019:

This has been an effective solution. To improve the adhesion of the speakers to the palm rest assembly I used a dab of silicon adhesive under each speaker.

Im a new user of pine phone, indeed my phone has yet to arrive.
Im just wondering what my OS options are, I think it would be handy if there was a list of functional and tested OS builds to choose from.
Is there such a thing already? Have I simply missed it?

Here is a guide to some of the hardening you can do on your Pinebook Pro's OS and applications. Each post will be dedicated, (and edited for corrections and updates), for a specific type of hardening.

Hello all,
I have tried to build Rockpro64 bootloader..

But I am still confused with the methodology/ tools used..

I am using ATF mainline + u-Boot..
But it seems that the boards uses OPTEE Trusted Execution Environment instead of ATF?

Is this scheme bellow correct?

Didn't seem to have any printer configuration in the default distribution.
I used Synaptic to install CUPS and this found a few network printers. However, no way to configure them so they mostly print blank pages.
I installed system-config-printer but it won't  authenticate. When I go to add a new printer, it asks for username and password (I only have the default) but tells me "not authorized".
Any suggestions for getting printing to work (obviously a newbie here).