Will there be any Accessories offered for purchase when we pre-order our Brave Heart Phones  ?

There are several things I tend to do, making client systems listen on fewer external services. And not run un-needed local services.

What do you do?

Here is my list, (a work in progress);

SSHD - Disable Root login
File - /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitRootLogin no
Service - systemctl restart sshd

NTPD - Don't allow others to use me for time source
File - /etc/ntp.conf
restrict 127.0.0.1 nomodify nopeer noquery limited kod
restrict [::1]
interface ignore wildcard
interface listen 127.0.0.1
interface listen ::1
Service - systemctl restart ntpd

Chromium browser
Launcher change: --password-store=basic

SMBD - Disable Samba services
systemctl stop smbd
systemctl disable smbd
systemctl stop nmbd
systemctl disable nmbd

Avahi service
systemctl stop avahi-daemon.service
systemctl stop avahi.daemon. socket
systemctl stop dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service
systemctl disable avahi.daemon. socket
systemctl disable dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service

I finally received my PBP. And broke it already... I run the default linux Open Sesame, as it comes from the factory.

As I could barely read the small letters with the HD / 1920x1080 resolution, I choose to reduce the resolution.

I changed it from the display settings from 1920x1080 to something like 1360x786 or so.
I clicked apply system wide, and apply.

After a reboot, I get the login prompt. When I login, the screen goes blank and stays blank.

How can I restore the original settings, or boot to rescue mode, or reset factory defaults, without having the GUI? From the console prompt? Or any other option?

My apologies if this has been already discussed and I admit that, with the imminent release of the Pinephone, I am hoping that some kind person may be able to help.  If it all lines up I am hoping to purchase a Pinephone when they are released.

I have looked and can't find any information about the phone with regard to bands/freq that it will cover.  In regional Australia the important band is the B28 band.  I have been monitoring the Librem 5 for a while and that phone, at least so far, will not cover that band making the phone only usable really in major centres, which is no good for me.

So are there perhaps any Australians here who may have investigated this and be prepared to fast track my knowledge?

Thanks for any help that my come forth.

Has someone tried using a M.2 to PCIe x4 riser card on the Pinebook Pro for shit'n'giggles ?

Did you manage to get something else than an NVMe recognized?
(Sata card/Network card/other PCIe card? Or let's be even more over-optimistic: some PLX (as Rockchip doesn't handle bifurcating) and *multiple* PCIe cards or a GPU ?)

I don't really think of any real-world use case that couldn't be handled by using USB 3.0 or does even make sense (a discrete GPU on this low-power chromebook-like laptop), but probably somebody is going to try this "for the lulz".

What keyboard is this? It is not standard North American, as I thought it would be.

What "layout" is it. It will be frustrating as it is to have a different layout, but even more if this odd layout is mapped incorrectly.

Thanks.

Gnome network manager is installed and running. 

No auto detect of networks. Manual entry of SSID and psk doesn't help: wlan0 is down. 

Based on other fora topics regarding wifi config of network/interfaces.d and wpa_supplicant.conf have been entered.

ifconfig shows only an lo device

dmesg|tail shows dhd_ioctl_entry: Interface is down

Most documentation stops at the configuration files and network manager, but says nothing beyond.

Maybe I wrote over the proper interfaces.d and wpa_supplicant.conf settings??? Can some one send me the defaults?

Any other suggestions?

Hi all,

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Hello Everybody, I´m new here and ask for help in this matter.

I have a Rock64 4G v2 and a tried it with many different Ubuntu bionic and Debian os, as:
-   Armbian_5.69_Rock64_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.167
-   Armbian_5.90_Rock64_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.182
-   Armbian_5.98_Rock64_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.192
-   Armbian_5.98_Rock64_Debian_buster_default_4.4.192 (last one).

With all those os I get the same errors after dmesg: pls compare https://pastebin.com/0bxG6RC1

Do you think it is an hardware (memory) problem?

After normal boot and a while it get stuck and lost ssh or Ethernet connections.

I really don´t know what can I do with this SBC. Could yoo please help me?

Hello,

I just came accross Debos (from https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/08/08/...r-wayland/) which creates (debian) OS Images from scratch and applys patches/ tweaks. Since the example creates an IMG with Wayland/ Weston for the RockPi, it shouldn't be too hard to create an yml file for the Pinebook Pro (depends on the definition of "hard").

Since life happens right now, I probably can't play with it too soon, but if anyone here can, I thought I might share.