Just got my pinebook 11.6 (1080p) a couple days ago.  Overall I am pleased with it but am having some issues with apt-get.  I am still running KDE neon which came on the pinebook.  I add repository key - get the OK response, then apt-get update -this seems to go like normal, but when I try to apt-get install <package> i get 'E: unable to locate package  <package>' I'm fairly new to linux in general and am really stuck on this issue.  I've tried sudo apt-add-repository multiverse  etc but am still getting the same error unable to locate package.  Should I try to flash a different os?  or am i missing something simple here?  I'd really appreciate any help with this.
Thanks!

Hello everyone,
I need help understanding the possibility of using the audio jack a serial connection. Specifically I want to know:
   1. How to enable this serial port
   2. What I can do with it

I've found at least 3 different ways to activate it: the guide pointed by the store (http://files.pine64.org/doc/pinebook/gui..._Guide.pdf), the pinebook_enable_uart.sh script (https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/linux-b...le_uart.sh) and toggling the switch inside the case.

Only the switch worked for me, and I was able to see the Pinebook boot logs and access a login shell. I was also able to open /dev/ttyS0 from the Pinebook and send characters to the other end, but I wasn't seeing anything I wrote from my other laptop (is it supposed to work like this? Only a login shell, not controllable thorugh other means?).

Now, if I had to open the case every time to switch back, I'm just going to keep the audio jack. I've eard on the Discord channel however that the soft switch should in fact work. Is that the case? Which method should I use then? None of what I've tried seems to work.

I would like to add a battery monitor to my conky.

I have tried ${battery BAT0} and ${battery BAT1}, but neither produce any display.

What am I missing?

Hi all, I just got my pine A64+ 2GB I followed the steps on flashing multiple OS and here are my results: 
archlinux-xfce-pine64-20181104 
xenial-pine64-bspkernel-20161218-1
xubuntu-xenial-mate-20161215-longsleep-pine64-8GB 
I connect my pine64 via hdmi Ethernet and a usb keyboard. It successfully loads into the login page but my keyboard does not power up. I'm stuck at the login page and I can't do anything.


I tried android-ver6.0-20170112-pine64-32GB.img as well and for this OS, the HDMI output does not show anything.
Any advice on how to make it work?

Hey.

I've got a new 1080p pinebook but mine is suffering from what I can only describe as a "screen halo". Is this normal, or does my pinebook have a defect?

It's on all four sides but the left and right sides are the most visible.

Thanks for reading!

Error message after login on Q4OS/KDE Plasma DE:

"DCOP communications error (Welcome screen)
There was an error setting up inter-process communications for TDE. The message returned by the system was:

Could not open network socket

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!"

How can I correct this error?

Thanks to a lot of hard work from Ayufan and others, we have a working Bionic image that does sound, hardware video, suspend-to-RAM, and has good power efficiency. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work out of the box, so here are the tweaks I've used to enable and enhance my experience on Ayufan's Bionic LXDE 0.7.28.

Getting WiFi

Installing network-manager-gnome and gnome-keyring (used for storing configurations securely) permits connecting to all kinds of WiFi networks including WPA2-Enterprise.

Make sure to use wlan0 and not p2p0 as the interface.

BUGS: No icon in system tray; you just have to click in the tray area until you get it.

HiDPI Scaling

The 1080p display on the 11.6 inch form factor is very high-DPI and thus scaling may be desired. To enable this on LXDE, create a .Xresources file in the home directory and add

Xft.dpi: 130

Replace 130 with whatever DPI setting is desired. 130 is a sane default, if a little small for some.

Enabling GPU Acceleration

Ayufan makes available packages for the the sunxi / Mali drivers (run pine64_enablea_sunxidrm.sh and install), but in order to use them, the libMali.so binary (in /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/mali/) needs to be symlinked at /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1 and at /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2 and those libraries need to be entirely moved away or removed somehow.

Getting a Better Panel

XFCE4 provides very useful software for use with LXDE. Installing xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-panel, and xfce4-goodies gives you access to a much nicer panel and menu (Whisker Menu).

Edit .config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and replace the lxpanel line with a line for xfce4-panel, then log in and out and configure xfce4-panel to your liking.

PulseAudio Control

PulseAudio is installed by default, but you need pavucontrol to change settings in a sensible way.

To add keyboard shortcuts, you need xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin and lxhotkey-plugin-openbox. Install them and add the pulseaudio plugin to your panel.

Hi,

for those of you testing the PCIe port of the rockpro64, you should apply the attached patch:

support for slarm64 for rockpro64 development boards (aarch64 unofficial port slackware)
the system can be assembled as armhf and aarch64, assemblies are made under aarch64


links:

So have some screen overscan and atm have a 1024x768 res cause it fits perfect in screen, when I change to 1080 there is too much overscan, cant see menu bar and all sides of screen are overscanned, Im no dev but have half a brain, with some simple instructions or pointing out where to go, I'm sure ill manage. ATM image is horrible, 1080 looks awesome but not at all functional, plz help

Already checked this page for fix, to no avail  lxrandr page

Already tried all settings in TV