Hi, I'm new to Debian but more familiar with Ubuntu. In Ubuntu adding additional language and input method can be done via GUI. Is there a similar way in the built-in Debian? I added the locale (zh-TW-Big5 and zh-TW-UTF8) but neither Firefox and Chromium can display Chinese characters correctly and I couldn't find how to add Chinese input methods. Is there anyone can help please?

TIA!

After about 30 minutes of uptime my screen will start to glitch out and eventually remain "double imaged" and persist even through reboots until the laptop has been turned off for a while. Has anyone else experienced this? I have a support ticket in, but have not gotten a reply other than my issue is being forwarded to an engineer. Hope this can get sorted out soon because I waited so long for this thing.

I have a friend who's very interested in open-friendly hardware and wants a PinePhone, but is stuck deeply in Google's service ecosystem. Ability to use Android and Google Play Store is a make or break feature for him. He said he'll preorder a PinePhone if (and only if) that is possible. What should I tell him?

Is there some central place where outstanding issues are being tracked?

I received the laptop a few days ago and a few minor things aren't quite working and a few things remain unclear - but I don't know what's a known issue, an unreported issue, an issue with the OS, or an issue with my laptop is particular.

I'm unclear on whether I should be posting things here, on Github issues, or on the wiki

At the moment I'll post what I have here, but please let me know if there is a better place:

- Using a USB-C cable to connect a T3 Samsung SSD to the one USB-C port doesn't work. `dmesg` does show that a USB device is connected but no device shows up in the file browser. If I connect the drive with a USB-A to USB-C cable to a normal type-A port then the drive shows up correctly


- If I record in Audacity the microphones show up as stereo, but the two channels are identical (the dual microphone setup was a very welcome surprise - looking forward to it working)

- If you don't run X11 you can't adjust the screen brightness with the Fn keys from the console

- I've never had a machine with both USB-C and a power plug. If I unintentionally plug in the power cable while charging through USB-C - will this potentially fry the machine? Is this something I need to be watching out for? Or will this even charge my machine faster..? The laptop came with a wallwart, but it'd be nice to just only run off of ubiquitous USB chargers - I don't know if this is advisable

- In the default OS there is a a frequency regulator in the main panel. I've never seen a menu like this before on any other machine, but it seems potentially quite useful. In particular I'd like to do performance benchmarks of some software I'm working on and I'd like to avoid external factors like thermal throttling, "turbo" modes and whatnot, so running slower but consistent would be very useful for getting repeatable results- however there is not a lot of info in the Help menu. The different profiles don't have any explanation and I'm unclear on what will happen if I manually select a high frequency. Will this risk overheating and damaging the computer?

There is also the whole "big-little" architecture and I'm not sure how scheduling happens for that - is there some place I can find more info? Maybe a way to temporarily disable the little cores when running certain jobs?

Thanks for all the help, the great community and the fantastic laptop,
Really looking forward to where this is all going

I've been having trouble getting my Pinebook Pro's left-hand USB port, the large Type-A one with the blue interior and superspeed pins, to work at all. I can get power from it alright (though no data on whether negotiation is working yet), but nothing I plug into it enumerates or shows up in `lsusb`, nor does `dmesg` show any events. This applies to both USB-2.0-only devices, as well as those that support USB 3.0. The other USB ports - the Type-C one, and the 2.0 Type-A one on the right side, are both working just fine, so I'm suspecting the hardware here. I'm mainly posting this thread to ask if anyone else can confirm that their 3.0 port works, just so we can narrow it down to a spurious defect in my particular unit (one that I, confident with a soldering iron, might repair) or a more general design flaw or firmware bug that needs more professional attention.

So, does your left Type-A USB port work?

Noticing that the PBP emits a whine whenever video is playing.

The whine disappears shortly after the video is paused or stopped.

Anyone else noticing the same?

I'm posting this here because I just fixed an irritating issue on my Pinebook Pro and want others to be able to do the same if/when it affects them.

If you've put your Pinebook Pro to sleep and returned to it later, you may have noticed that there are sometimes things broken when it wakes back up. On mine, the keyboard layout modifications I've set using xmodmap (converting caps lock to a second escape, and the |\ key right beside left shift to be an additional left shift, since I'm used to the wider key provided on ANSI keyboards) all get reset back to defaults, and my trackpad stops responding to taps. Both of these were cramping my style enough that was just electing not to use suspend at all.

The solution to these problems is just to run two commands:

I measured the power usage over a day using the Mate power daemon. This is what it plotted.


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It seems that charging via USB-C is almost as efficient as using an actual charger. The suspend one is weirder: it uses energy as much as a charger can put in the battery. I entered suspend by clicking on the power button and then selecting suspend on the pop up menu. Obviously something is not being properly powered down. This is with the default Debian image.

In my quest to fix my sound, I happened to notice in alsamixer a bunch of settings and two of which happened to be LDAC and RDAC... Seems like it uses 2 DACS, one for left channel and one for right channel. in the name of the sound card/board, the first 2 letters state "es". I wonder, if it uses 2 ESS dacs, anyone know which brand DAC's the PBP uses or have a good picture of the motherboard ? Thanks

For those of you using the headphone UART cable:

If you toggle the eMMC enable/disable switch by mistake your Pinebook Pro may not power on.

To resolve this toggle the eMMC switch back towards the hinge to enable eMMC. And then press the reset button. The device should now power on.

You will now find these instructions in the wiki.