Hi,

Is the Pinebook Serial Console usable with the Pinebook Pro?

On mine PBP, when I used the Pinebook serial console, it seems to lead to eMMC not responding: when plugged-in from cold boot, I got DDR initialization then it hangs; if I plug the jack after DDR initialization, I got eMMC timeout.

Here is a sample serial output, from a cold boot:

For google, following generations and me in a few months:

The Citrix ICA Client won't install on an armhf system with an aarch64 kernel. 

Use "dpkg -i icaclient_19.10.0.15_armhf.deb" - installation fails. The do "sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/info/icaclient.postinst". Go to line 2213, replace

Hi,

I just received the PBP with preinstalled Debian + Mate. everything is more or less fine, except that the sound doesn't work at all:
 - neither on speakers, nor on headphones
 - in Alsamixer no setting helped me, when trying to set output to default, the Alsamixer aborts and I can't rerun it
 - I tried checking sound from "control panel", I think there is no connection to Pulseaudio (but Pulseaudio is installed)
 - when I play a song (no sound ofcourse), one setting in volume control says that there is no app playing the sounds, although it's playing.

I haven't tried to update anything, I don't know the commands.
I don't know if I need maybe to set that UART switch if set to off, but I need to open the laptop for that. (as in thread https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8231)
I haven't tried it on HDMI, I don't see that port, only UCB-C, if it is meant for HDMI, I have no adapter to try..

I am pretty much a noob in Linux, so any help with an elaborated answer (links to explanations like "how to install or try out a new OS") would be appreciated 

Hi,

I recall in one of the videos/updates that it was mentioned that Firefox was less stable than Chromium, and that it would crash regularly. I'm not sure whether or not it's a useful observation, but I've noticed that the crashes almost always appears to be down to changes to the PBP's network interfaces, i.e. switching WiFi networks or connecting/disconnecting a VPN.

Ben

Some users has experience boot problems with chromium os R77-12371.7.104.g78f88d6

When you burn into emmc you lost ability to boot from sd card.

So you need to extract emmc chip outsite pinebook pro and reburn with a usb emmc dongle.

Hello Everyone,

I am please to inform that Manjaro ARM Team have officially released 19.12

Kindly check the Official post of Manjaro Forum.

Manjaro ARM 19.12 released!

Manjaro ARM Preview1 for Pinebook Pro!

manjaro ARM Preview2 is Release
Link: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-...=spikerguy

Known Issues:

• No Bluetooth.
  
• Unstable Wifi (might crap out after around 10 minutes) - Fix have been worked out.
  
• No audio cards.
  
• Brightness and Volume function keys do not work.
  
• Does not power off completely from software.
  
• Suspend does not work.
  
• To show the OEM setup on the XFCE edition, wait until the bootsplash has run for 10-15 seconds, then press
  

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