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  Conky - how to display Pinebook battery?
Posted by: jschall - 11-18-2018, 07:54 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook - Replies (3)

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?


  First Boot HDMI/USB problem
Posted by: reefer - 11-18-2018, 02:28 AM - Forum: Getting Started - Replies (1)

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?


  Screen halo?
Posted by: caps - 11-17-2018, 08:05 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook - Replies (7)

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!

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  DCOP communications error (Welcome screen)
Posted by: jschall - 11-17-2018, 12:22 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook - Replies (2)

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?


  Tips and Tricks for Ayufan's Bionic LXDE Image
Posted by: NoraCodes - 11-17-2018, 09:32 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook - Replies (8)

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.


  linux-4.20 PCIe Fixup
Posted by: ddimension - 11-17-2018, 06:29 AM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64 - No Replies

Hi,

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

Code:
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rockpro64.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rockpro64.dts index 1d35f5406b5e..b59b05ea1dc5 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rockpro64.dts +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rockpro64.dts @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ vcc3v3_pcie: vcc3v3-pcie-regulator { compatible = "regulator-fixed"; enable-active-high; - gpio = <&gpio1 RK_PC1 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; + gpio = <&gpio1 RK_PD0 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pcie_pwr_en>; regulator-name = "vcc3v3_pcie"; @@ -690,3 +690,18 @@ &vopl_mmu { status = "okay"; }; + +&pcie_phy { + status = "okay"; +}; + +&pcie0 { + ep-gpios = <&gpio2 RK_PD4 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; + num-lanes = <4>; + max-link-speed = <2>; + pinctrl-names = "default"; + pinctrl-0 = <&pcie_clkreqn_cpm>; + vpcie3v3-supply = <&vcc3v3_pcie>; + status = "okay"; +}; +

Have fun!


  slarm64 (unofficial slackware) ROCKPro64 RK3399 (aarch64)
Posted by: mara - 11-17-2018, 06:02 AM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64 - Replies (54)

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:

         site: fail.pp.ua
         forum: linuxquestions
         development: https://gitlab.com/sndwvs/images_build_kit


first release:
         README.TXT


  Screen Overscan Fix?
Posted by: NightCrawler504 - 11-17-2018, 05:09 AM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64 - Replies (2)

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


Code:
rock64@rockpro64:~$ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 HDMI-1 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 708mm x 398mm   1920x1080     60.00    50.00    59.94    30.00    24.00    29.97    23.98     1920x1080i    60.00    50.00    59.94     1280x720      60.00    50.00    59.94     1024x768      60.00*   1440x480i     59.94     800x600       60.32     720x576       50.00     720x576i      50.00     720x480       60.00    59.94     720x480i      60.00    59.94     640x480       60.00    59.94   DP-1 disconnected
Code:
rock64@rockpro64:~$ xrandr --prop Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 HDMI-1 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 708mm x 398mm EDID: 00ffffffffffff004f4d300001000000 101b0103806036780acf74a3574cb023 09484c21080001010101010101010101 01010101010108e80030f2705a80b058 8a00c48e2100001e023a801871382d40 582c4500c48e2100001e000000fc004c 45442054560a202020202020000000fd 00173d0f883c000a2020202020200129 020334f15105030112131416071f2022 02061115100426090707150750830100 006e030c002000004420008001020304 e30e60618c0ad08a20e02d10103e9600 c48e210000188c0aa01451f01600267c 4300c48e210000980000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000ec hue: 50 range: (0, 100) saturation: 50 range: (0, 100) contrast: 50 range: (0, 100) brightness: 50 range: (0, 100) hdmi_output_mode_capacity: 15 range: (0, 15) hdmi_color_depth_capacity: 1 range: (0, 255) hdmi_output_colorimetry: None supported: None, ITU_2020 hdmi_output_format: output_rgb supported: output_rgb, output_ycbcr444, output_ycbcr422, output_ycbcr420, output_ycbcr_high_subsampling, output_ycbcr_low_subsampling, invalid_output hdmi_output_depth: 24bit supported: Automatic, 24bit, 30bit   1920x1080     60.00    50.00    59.94    30.00    24.00    29.97    23.98     1920x1080i    60.00    50.00    59.94     1280x720      60.00    50.00    59.94     1024x768      60.00*   1440x480i     59.94     800x600       60.32     720x576       50.00     720x576i      50.00     720x480       60.00    59.94     720x480i      60.00    59.94     640x480       60.00    59.94   DP-1 disconnected hue: 50 range: (0, 100) saturation: 50 range: (0, 100) contrast: 50 range: (0, 100) brightness: 50 range: (0, 100) Content Protection: Undesired supported: Undesired, Desired, Enabled

This one in the bottom actually made me have to reflash sdcard, just broke the board:

Code:
$ xrandr --output HDMI1 --transform 0.80,0,-35,0,1.04,-19,0,0,1


maybe it can be manually configured somewhere else, just not so obvious for the layman.


  Boot from MicroSD
Posted by: ramboton - 11-16-2018, 11:36 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook - Replies (3)

New owner here, received my Pinebook yesterday, I wanted to try some of the other OS options but can not seem to get anything to boot from the MicroSD slot.  I have tried Android 7, Xenial and Q4OS.  I have written them to the MicroSD card with Etcher, and with the Pine64 version of Etcher, I have used 3 different MicroSD cards, 32g or less, one is a high speed card, nothing seems to work.  I power the unit on, the green power light comes on, the screen stays black, nothing ever loads. If I take the MicroSD card out the unit boots fine to the pre-installed OS.  What am I doing wrong?


  Netflix on KDE Plasma
Posted by: SoccerCrazed - 11-16-2018, 10:11 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook - No Replies

Is it possible to get Netflix running on the Pinebook in KDE Plasma?

I've tried just about everything I could find from Google searches, but it seems that all of the methods to get Netflix to work are either outdated or not compatible with the Pinebook. I've been unable to install Google Chrome for some reason, and I haven't been able to get DRM content to play in either Firefox or Chromium because I haven't been able to get Widevine to work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.