I am running KDE Neon from EMMC.

I want to add a new microSD card for added storage.

I inserted the card and opened Dolphin. The new card shows as "60.0 GiB Removable Media", and "/dev/mmcblk1p1", but Dolphin can't mount it.

I suspect I need to format the new card, but how?

I have searched here and elsewhere on the Web, but haven't found an answer.

How do I format and mount a new microSD card?

Hi all.

My Pinebook 11.6" 1080 just arrived and I thought it might be interesting to share my first impressions and maybe other can add theirs.

Unboxing

The Pinebook arrives with some slim but useful packaging. There is the Pinebook, the power adapter and some nice sticker with the Pinebook logo if you want to decorate yours.
The Pinebook arrived charged , in my case about 90% so you can start right away.

The Pinebook is white from the outside with logo or branding which makes it look really nice. My first test was to try a few keys on the keyboard and I actually like it. The layout for some keys is a bit unusual for some keys but in general what you expect. (e.g. the " key requires to press Fn as well as Shift, well..)

The touch-pad is on the smaller side, but I can say already that the later test showed that it is ok.

So that's all good. Let's turn it on.
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First use
As mentioned, the battery comes charged to a degree so the first good thing is that it turns on in first place. Brownie points.
The display brightness on my device what set to somewhat 50% which made it very dark. So the very first thing was to change that in the Settings in Power management.
Once that's done it turns out that the dispaly is actually really nice. It seems not to reflect at all and my first use was outside in the sun, which was possible.

Given the high resolution of the display the all text is on the small side. There is a pinned thread in this forum that explains a few recommended setup changes. So this was my next step.

The speed of the laptop is ok. It is probably worth to turn of some of the more playful functions of the window manager like fade in/out or translucency, with that the Pnebook gives a more snappy impression. I intend to write up all configuration changes later.

One thing I noticed is that the compositor uses software rendering and not OpenGL in the standard setup. But I will only try at a later stage if OpenGL works as I manged to lock myself out of KDE by playing around with that on a different system.

So far my impression is very positive. The general speed is very usable and the Pinebook has a good feel to it.

The next step seems to be to actually install the system completely. There is an Icon on the desktop to do that. I will try this now.

Hi, I have ubuntu Bionic 18.04 installed and I have correctly chosen the time zone but it gives me one more hour.

I try with ntp, with sudo date, but I do not change the time to the right.

What can I do to fix the problem?

I just got my rockpro64 2gb (board rev 2.1), and while it boots up fine, it isn't detecting my LSI HBA PCIe card.

lspci just gives no output at all, so I don't think it is simply a missing kernel module.

I'm using the debian stretch image off of the wiki.

I'm also getting errors in dmesg that may or may not be relevant:
[    8.566853] cdn-dp fec00000.dp: Direct firmware load for rockchip/dptx.bin failed with error -2
[   16.581959] cdn-dp fec00000.dp: Direct firmware load for rockchip/dptx.bin failed with error -2
[   32.584126] cdn-dp fec00000.dp: Direct firmware load for rockchip/dptx.bin failed with error -2
[   64.586143] cdn-dp fec00000.dp: Direct firmware load for rockchip/dptx.bin failed with error -2
[  128.588049] cdn-dp fec00000.dp: [drm:cdn_dp_request_firmware] *ERROR* Timed out trying to load firmware

I did do an apt-get update/upgrade and rebooted, and the issue persists.  uname -a output:
Linux chunk1 4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524 #1 SMP Thu Jul 26 08:22:22 UTC 2018 aarch64 GNU/Linux

That kernel doesn't look terribly fresh...

I'll also go ahead and confess that while I'm quite comfortable with linux inside and out, I rarely use debian-based distros, so please do list complete instructions (typically I use Gentoo) or provide links if you want me to do something like run a custom kernel.  

Any suggestions?

New Pinebook 11.6``. 

1 - Where are the apostrophe and the quotation mark?
2 - How can I adjust the screen brightness - is there a key combination?

Sorry, total dunce here.

I recently received a wifi BT adapter from Edimax and I need some help installing the driver. apparently I have to actually make the driver from the files? the directions are so sparse for a dummy like me.

the model i got was EW-7611ULB. The driver download is here.

[I was trying to get teh BT to work first. What I down understand is why the WiFi driver is buried in a tar.gz within a zip??]

any guidance would be most appreciated! 

When I get to make file I get the error in the attached image. Not even sure if i'm doing that right.

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hello, I've recently received my Pinebook with the 1080 screen. all was going well until I dimmed the screen too far in the plasma settings window. Now my screen is black when it is on. during boot I see things as the boot sequence clearly is not affected by the plasma setting. How can I fix this without being able to see anything? This is with the original install.

If the slider goes all the way to the left does plasma actually go black or is there some weakness with my screen in this Pinebook?

The PSU of my RockPro64 sometimes has a high pitched noise, coil whine. Do others have this issue too and can it be fixed?

Hello!

So, I have just got my wonderful RockPro64 and NAS enclosure going and I'm now starting to get the software set up. One thing I have noticed though is that after a while with no activity the RockPro64 (RP64) seems to go to sleep and no longer responds to an `ssh` login attempt.

Does anyone know if the RP64 can be set up with either `wakeonlan` or `eitherwake`? (I read somewhere about the BIOS needing to support this.)


I think I'll just give it a go but would be interested to hear from others if they think that is the right approach for a NAS/Docker setup. Perhaps not letting it sleep at all will be best. ?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Not sure if this is the right place for this but I'll try.

I got my new 1080p 11.6" pinebook yesterday, I'm typing this post on it. Fun.

It still has the OS it shipped with (don't even know what it's called).

IPv6 autoconfig is not working. I don't get a global address. It works on my Mac on the same networks (meaning I get a global address on it). I'm more of a BSD guy than Linux, so I'm probably missing something.

I wiresharked the router solicitation and advertisement. The solicitation is not the same as the Mac and I'm not sure if that matters. The advertisement from the router is the same one the Mac uses successfully though.

IPv6 does work, I can ping the link local address on other systems. Just no global address so I can get to the internet with IPv6.

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction?

Thanks.