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| Help - PineBook Pro won't boot! |
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Posted by: ThisGeekTweets - 11-13-2019, 02:20 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro
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Just over a week into ownership my lovely new PineBook Pro seems to have given up the ghost! When powering on, I am presented with an awful coil whine from the machine and a blank display (with backlight turned on). I've attempted disconnecting the battery and resetting using the switch on the device but to no avail! The whine seems to stop when I disconnect the display though! Any suggestions? Really disappointed that an otherwise brilliant machine seems dead to the world now!
For reference, this is the sound...
https://youtu.be/QexeIoJv6Hw
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| Boot menu? |
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Posted by: Solra Bizna - 11-13-2019, 01:57 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro
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I notice that extlinux.conf contains multiple entries, clearly organized as if I should be seeing some sort of menu at boot. Yet, I don't.
Three obvious possibilities:
- There's not actually a menu
- There's a menu, but it's not enabled
- There's a menu and it's enabled, but it goes out on the serial port
Is there a way to get a visible boot menu?
I looked into doing this with syslinux/extlinux on x86 and it seems that those methods involve adding executable things to /boot/extlinux. All the things I found were 32- or 64-bit x86, which obviously(?) won't work on the PBP.
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| Reinstall Firefox? |
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Posted by: sinistermrcream - 11-13-2019, 01:47 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro
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I've had the issues with Firefox crashing on every launch (updated the OS and ran MrFixIt's update). I tried removing it and reinstalling, but there doesn't seem to be a compatible Firefox that I can find.
Is the version in the default OS a customized version? Even if not, where do I get a version I can install?
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Posted by: DrYak - 11-13-2019, 12:30 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro
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update 2020.06.16: some recent kernel update has changed the naming of the wifi device - now fe310000.mmc. For those who like a compact one-liner:
Code: sudo tee /sys/bus/platform/drivers/dwmmc_rockchip/{un,}bind <<< "$(basename /sys/devices/platform/fe310*)"
TL;DR: use the two commands here to restart the Wifi driver after powering the Wifi again with the Privacy Switch for Wifi (Pine + F11) :
Code: $ echo 'fe310000.dwmmc' | sudo tee /sys/bus/platform/drivers/dwmmc_rockchip/unbind
$ echo 'fe310000.dwmmc' | sudo tee /sys/bus/platform/drivers/dwmmc_rockchip/bind
The full story :
(Moving to a more general thread, because currently my reply is burried in the middle of the Manjaro discussion)
Currently, the privacy switch for Wifi cannot put back Wifi on because soldered-on-motherboard SDIO modules aren't Plug'n'Play.
Here's what you normally see if you try the usual rmmod + modprobe route:
Code: $ sudo rmmod brcmfmac brcmutil cfg80211
$ modprobe brcmfmac
$ dmesg
[ 1299.511038] usbcore: deregistering interface driver brcmfmac
[ 1313.114017] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[ 1313.114781] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
[ 1313.132537] brcmfmac: probe of mmc0:0001:1 failed with error -110
[ 1313.133192] brcmfmac: probe of mmc0:0001:2 failed with error -110
[ 1313.133865] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
There is a way though:
You can find the actual soldered device that answers on the mmcn mentioned above and unbind and re-bind it.
Code: $ ls -d /sys/devices/platform/*.dwmmc/mmc_host/mmc0
/sys/devices/platform/fe310000.dwmmc/mmc_host/mmc0
$ ls -d /sys/devices/platform/*.dwmmc/mmc_host/mmc*/mmc*/mmc*/ieee80211
/sys/devices/platform/fe310000.dwmmc/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:0001/mmc0:0001:2/ieee80211
$ echo 'fe310000.dwmmc' | sudo tee /sys/bus/platform/drivers/dwmmc_rockchip/unbind
$ echo 'fe310000.dwmmc' | sudo tee /sys/bus/platform/drivers/dwmmc_rockchip/bind
$ dmesg
[ 1845.593897] mmc0: card 0001 removed
[ 1849.712047] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: IDMAC supports 32-bit address mode.
[ 1849.712707] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: Using internal DMA controller.
[ 1849.713307] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: Version ID is 270a
[ 1849.713840] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: DW MMC controller at irq 27,32 bit host data width,256 deep fifo
[ 1849.714799] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: allocated mmc-pwrseq
[ 1849.715321] mmc_host mmc0: card is non-removable.
[ 1849.728861] mmc_host mmc0: Bus speed (slot 0) = 400000Hz (slot req 400000Hz, actual 400000HZ div = 0)
[ 1849.777673] mmc_host mmc0: Bus speed (slot 0) = 148500000Hz (slot req 150000000Hz, actual 148500000HZ div = 0)
[ 1850.622467] dwmmc_rockchip fe310000.dwmmc: Successfully tuned phase to 47
[ 1850.627007] mmc0: new ultra high speed SDR104 SDIO card at address 0001
[ 1850.636215] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43456-sdio for chip BCM4345/9
[ 1852.731997] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43456-sdio for chip BCM4345/9
[ 1852.732808] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available
[ 1852.734049] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM4345/9 wl0: Sep 7 2018 14:33:37 version 7.45.96.27 (42b546f@shgit) (r) FWID 01-c958c084 es7.c5.n4.a3
[ 1860.053215] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Note -if I'm not mistaken : - the 'mmc0' numbering might change depending on how your OS enumerate its devices (see how /dev/mmcblk changes - on Manjaro the Wifi is on mmc0 and the internal eMMC is on mmc2, but on the factory shipped Debian - Wifi is on mmc2 and mmc0 has the external µSD)
- but fe310000.dwmmc is how this soldered MMC interface is mapped to the Rockchip and is fixed accross OSes (it is set in the .dtb)
the bind + unbind trick can also be used if the Broadcom Wifi chip has gone crazy and needs restarting.
(source: other people with similar problems of soldered MMC modules)
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| xfce |
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Posted by: ambein - 11-13-2019, 11:34 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro
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Has anyone configured xfce instead of mate? Any thoughts or recommendations?
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| eDP and dual display |
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Posted by: StefanH - 11-13-2019, 10:25 AM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64
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I want to drive a 3840x2160, 4-lane eDP display. Will this work with Linux (preferably Debian)? The exact display part number is BOE TV101QUM-N00. Backlight controls don't have to work (3D printer application), but still images should.
Also, ideally I'd want the option to connect a second, low-res touchscreen. Will this work?
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| PinePhone sample images? |
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Posted by: lispy - 11-13-2019, 08:12 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware
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Hi,
could anyone in possession of a working PinePhone post some sample images from the two cameras in different light situations?
My wife wants to retire her aging Jolla phone and was a bit underwhelmed when I told her the PinePhone had only 5MP as compared to 8MP on her Jolla.
Now I wonder how the quality of the shots comes out in RL.
Thanks in advance...
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