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  Printers?
Posted by: mspohr - 12-07-2019, 01:20 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (9)

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).


  Best Pinebook Pro power supply choice for Argentina
Posted by: LaCaradeculito - 12-07-2019, 11:39 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (4)

Hi.

I'm about to order a Pinebook Pro but still not sure about the power supply option, which is EU or US formats. My country is Argentina. We use 220v. As for the plug, I guess I'll need an adapter anyway: it's the type used in Australia.

Does it make any difference to choose one or the other?

Thank you very much.
M.

Pd.  I'm new to the forum. Sorry if this is not the best place to post it, or if there's already a thread for this topic. I couldn't find useful information after a search.


  RockPro64 as PATA/SATA bridge?
Posted by: Count Omega - 12-07-2019, 07:41 AM - Forum: RockPro64 Projects, Ideas and Tutorials - Replies (1)

Hi all,

I´ve been wondering about some time now if it is possible to build a PATA device to SATA jack bridge via the RockPro64. I know this would run at very slow speeds and there are already adapters. How can the GPIO pins be utilized? I want to do this to learn more about how to work with single board computers.

Best regards

Count Omega


  Availability
Posted by: DShimoda - 12-07-2019, 06:42 AM - Forum: General - Replies (1)

Hi all!
I'm new to the forum.
I'm from Italy and I'm very interested into this project :-)

My questions are:
Is the brave heart edition fully functional?
Does the pine64 installer utility provides OSes for the brave heart edition including and not limiting to vanilla Android images?

There are istructions to install personalized images and/or how to hack them?

Thank you very very much.
Yours.
M.


  Problem with launch Pinebook Pro
Posted by: Wawe - 12-07-2019, 03:31 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (5)

Hello there,

Finally came my Pinebook Pro Smile, I read this post https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4632  and charged him. But after I pushed power button 5-10sec nothing is happen. I found that during charging, red diode shone something around 3 min and then turn off until I plug out charging cable and again plug in. I repeat this procedure couple days and red diode shone a little bit longer but still the notebook doesn't work.

Can you help me please?

Thanks


  Impulse buy, super excited.
Posted by: noomi - 12-07-2019, 03:16 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Just got my order in, very exited to get tinkering with this thing in Janurary (or... maybe they will come even sooner?). Curious if there's any waterproof cases in the works... also curious if pinetime is going to be waterproof. I'd eventually like to replace my apple watch and iphone with these for my outdoor activities as soon as the platform is ready. I love kayaking/camping/hiking and I want to create a distro custom tailored to my outdoor activities.

What is everyone else around here excited to experiment with? Anyone been doing any 3d printing of accessories? I'm excited to try out GNURadio out on the phone with my hackrf one too...

Anyway I hope this project becomes a huge success.


  Running Panfrost?
Posted by: ab1jx - 12-06-2019, 03:09 PM - Forum: Linux on Rock64 - Replies (5)

Or ultimately Vulkan.  I've been going in circles for a week or so between my Rock64 and my Odroid N2 trying to get the Malis to do anything remotely like acceleration or being controlled by a language like OpenGL ES or Vulkan, under X11 anyway.  ARM/Mali only supports Wayland (and Android) at least from some point on.  Panfrost is supposed to work with the older 2Mali families, not Bifrost but Utgard and Midgard.

So Panfrost https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/ attempts to change that.  I have Panfrost installed on my Rock64 but there's one catch:

Quote:Use a mainline kernel version 5.2 or later with CONFIG_DRM_PANFROST enabled


If I run es2gears it runs at about 200 FPS but it's also using 120% of the CPU because it's doing software emulation instead of using the Mali.  When I first got this Rock64 about a year ago I thought es2gears ran at about 600 FPS.  Then something broke, it sat for 6 months, I reloaded with Ayufan's Buster image, and now it's slow.  The kernel part of a Mali driver is free and open source https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-soft...ard-kernel  I'm not sure if I need to try to get Ayufan's kernel config and set up a kernel or not.  I have a /dev/dri and /dev/mali  and /dev/fb0.

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OK, I just tried Lima too, it's about the same.  There are some Mali userspace drivers at https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-soft...user-space but it's hit-or-miss.  The Rock64 has a Mali 450mp2 which is an Utgard family so Lima should work.  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima

My dmesg shows "mali-utgard" like it's a driver name or something and  locate "drivers/gpu/arm" finds
Code:
/lib/modules/4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/kernel/drivers/gpu/arm /lib/modules/4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/kernel/drivers/gpu/arm/mali400 /lib/modules/4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/kernel/drivers/gpu/arm/mali400/mali /lib/modules/4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/kernel/drivers/gpu/arm/mali400/mali/mali.ko /lib/modules/4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/kernel/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard_for_linux /lib/modules/4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/kernel/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard_for_linux/midgard_kbase.ko /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/Makefile /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/Makefile.kbase /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/platform /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/platform/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/tests /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/tests/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/tests/kutf /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/tests/kutf/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/tests/kutf/Makefile /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/tests/mali_kutf_irq_test /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/tests/mali_kutf_irq_test/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost/tests/mali_kutf_irq_test/Makefile /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost_for_linux /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost_for_linux/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost_for_linux/Makefile /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost_for_linux/Makefile.kbase /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/bifrost_for_linux/platform 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/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard/tests/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard/tests/kutf /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard/tests/kutf/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard/tests/kutf/Makefile /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard/tests/mali_kutf_irq_test /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard/tests/mali_kutf_irq_test/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard/tests/mali_kutf_irq_test/Makefile /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard_for_linux /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard_for_linux/Kconfig /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard_for_linux/Makefile /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard_for_linux/Makefile.kbase /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard_for_linux/platform /usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard_for_linux/platform/Kconfig


lsmod shows a mali module loaded, I have a /dev/mali, so how come it doesn't work?  (or is it?)

When I'm running es2gears lsof doesn't list /dev/mali as being open.


  Could There Be An LTE Module For the Pinebook Pro?
Posted by: CuriousTommy - 12-06-2019, 02:13 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (6)

I noticed that the PineTab is going to offer an optional LTE module. I was wondering if the Pinebook Pro is able to have a similar option as well.


  Are there plans for the Pinebook Pro to support LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service)?
Posted by: CuriousTommy - 12-06-2019, 01:53 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (8)

Hello everyone,

About a week ago, I made a reddit post asking about support for LVFS. I am not sure if the Pine64 developers look at the Reddit threads often, so I decided to make an account here to bring awareness on the issue (plus I didn't get a response when I asked on twitter).

I hope you would consider uploading the firmware files to LVFS. This could make checking and updating firmware stupidly easy. Plus the maintainer of the website is willing to help get this working if you send him an email.

Thomas A.


  Sms apps and signal messenger
Posted by: boggle - 12-06-2019, 08:07 AM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (8)

What OS's on the pinephone will allow sms messages? And what app would be use for that? 

Better yet, is there anyway to use signal messenger for sms as well? Currently the desktop Linux version of signal is only for communication to other signal users using mms. Would an android like implementation work, where signal can also send sms messages?