Having an issue where periodically Firefox latest will freeze up with only 1 or 2 tabs open in a single window and the only way to continue using the Pinebook is to restart by holding down the power switch.

Can't get to a terminal either by opening Konsole (or switching to an already open Konsole) or by dropping to a terminal out of the GUI.

I have a lot of synced bookmarks etc on FF, but might consider another browser on this PC if anyone has a good suggestion.
I have turned on hardware acceleration in FF :config. Seems a bit better but still happens with eh freeze.
Have also disables all non-vital plugins/extensions.

Anything else I can do to get FF to work better?


While we're here, why KDE neon as default on such a basic machine? KDE Neon doesn't even run that nicely on recent intel hardware in my experience (by recent I mean 5-6 yr old 64bit i7 with 4-8gb ram).
Surely something like the pinebook would benefit hugely from XFCE on a faster base distro?

I am going to try a couple of others, like the Debian one, and I will try to get Slackware arm working. Just need some microSD first.
Overall though, I am very pleased with the pinebook, and given some of the negative comments I had read about it I wonder what those people where complaining about! I like it a lot!

Hi.

I'm hoping someone can help as currently my Pinebook 1080 is not functional.

I hadn't used it for a while, and then updated it through the GUI (guessing I should have used CLI).
The update never completed, it froze during update, being not the most powerful system I left it for a good few hours just in case it was taking it's time.

However, no joy. The system was unusable. I've tried rebooting, it hangs at the KDE circle screen. Tried reflashing from SD to eMMC using a new image from the Pine Installer and this is what happens....



It freezes at 1%.

Any ideas how I can fix this??

Many thanks in advance

As title. I have a Logitech MX Ergo trackball mouse that connects via Bluetooth.
It works in other (Intelx 86-64) Linuxes including my main daily SalixOS (Slackware) but is known to work without problem on Ubuntu and derivatives too.

I cannot get it to pair at all to the Pinebook. Don't know if it is a KDE issue or the BT module hardware.

Anyone else have a similar issue? For what it's worth, I managed to pair an apple magic mouse but the cursor would not move (but ok, that was an apple device, but it did pair.) The Logi won't pair at all.

  Never liked BT as a technology, and now I have one more reason

Hi there. I can't find a link anywhere for this and searching "delete account" didn't provide anything useful either. So would an administrator here please be so kind as to delete my account? I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Hey pine community,

so i got my pinebook1080 yesterday. i ordered a 64gb emmc plus usb adapter, too but decided to first try the different OS on the sd card and only install the one i want to on the emmc before installing it in the pinebook. 

i tried almost all the OS on this page. first with the pine installtool, then by downloading them directly and flashing them with the pine installer or the "original" etcher.
got different errors on each os:

o4os: just a pinebook community build screen. waited 20 minutes. nothing happened. 5 tries all the same.
aosl sd version: just a black screen
archlinux: info task kworker/"different numbers here" blocked for more than 120 seconds. repeats multiple times. stoped working after about 20 tries and just had the shell for me.
dietpi: 3 different but mostly repeading errors 
- most times same problem as writen here about by another user: no ethernet found (ethernet doongle works fine with the preinstalled os)
- stops at "loading kernel"
- ** fs_devread read error - block
- ## executing script at 44000000
4644338 bytes read in 233 ms (19 MiB/s)

tried dietpi multiple times:
error 1 appeared 10 times, error 2 4 times, error 3 2 times, error 4 1 time.

only got 1 32gb sandisk microsd right now but its so many different errors that i am not sure if it is the sd i'm ordering a new one just to be sure but well that takes some days. anyone got any ideas whats wrong?

Best, Hobbit

I was not able to find this anywhere else. Could anyone advised the Android 7.1 build listed for the h64 model b on the wiki page the Android TV version or the tablet version? 
 If same is just the tablet version is there anywhere to get the Android TV version or can a build from another pine board be used? Thanks.

Hi all,

I'm interested in buying a RockPro64 and use it as a desktop computer. 
Would it be possible to use it with a dual monitor setup?

Thanks in advance.

Stupid question, will pinetab dual boot Linux and Android?

Thanks in advance 

Gary

Greetings.  This is my first post here.


I just received one of the latest batches of the Pinebook.  I expected that this laptop would not run Raspian, but did I make the bad assumption that there is no way to run 32-bit Linux applications on this computer?  I have searched the forum and didn't really find a satisfactory answer.

I wanted to make a review video and show VisualWorks Smalltalk and my own ARM version of Liberty BASIC running on the computer but I guess I am at least in the near term not able to do this unless there is some support for 32-bit either as a straight 32-bit Linux or as a way to install 32-bit support.

Maybe I'm in the minority but I think you will find it useful for Raspberry Pi users to be able to move smoothly to your platform by letting them bring their software with them.  :-)

Any suggestions welcome, and thanks.

-Carl Gundel, author of Liberty BASIC
http://www.libertybasic.com
http://libertybasiccom.proboards.com

I’m on board with the privacy and security arguments in favor of a (non-Android) Linux phone. That alone pretty much guarantees that my next phone won’t be Android..  

Another aspect of Linux that appeals to me is that it is more environmentally friendly. Rather than forced redundancy when the manufacturer of my devices decides to stop providing updates (bigger issue with phones than laptops/pcs), I can keep running Linux for much longer – thus reducing resource consumption, landfill etc. However, as relates to phones in particular – my understanding is that ARM devices often have custom kernels. Many of the distros for Pine SBCs have custom kernels rather than mainline Linux kernels.

So.. at long last, my question: is my understanding about custom kernels correct, and if so what does that mean for long term support for a device like the Pine Phone? (Of course, I hope Pine will be around for a long time!) I suppose, being open source there could well be community support for as long as people with the know-how remain interested..