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  bes2600 driver
Posted by: mshelby - 07-16-2023, 09:59 PM - Forum: PineTab Hardware - Replies (63)

Hoping someone here can aggregate the info on the bes2600 wifi/bluetooth driver in development and offer a step by step set of instructions to at the very least, download the  from gitlab and get it compiled. Currently, as of kernel version 6.4.2 it does not build using 'make.'

There is some info about applying a patch, but the info is presented in such a way that the newbie (who just bought the device and wants to download a driver) could do it.

a note for the Devs: please provide setup and install info of the driver that is free from insider jargon and assumptions. Yes, I know it is a development release tablet, but that doesn't mean that everyone knows how to patch a file (what file?) to get a kernel module to build with make.


  Mouse moves without me touching the touchpad
Posted by: jbreese - 07-16-2023, 07:40 PM - Forum: PineTab Software - Replies (1)

My pinetab 2 keeps on moving sporadically without any sort of input. I have tried removing packages and configuration with the -Rn option. So far I have removed xorg, wayland, libinput, and qt5. I even tried running clamscan, but I didn't get any hits. Please assist.


  Switching to LXQt for better performance [HOW TO]
Posted by: IPXFong - 07-16-2023, 02:39 PM - Forum: PineTab Software - Replies (5)

I love KDE Plasma it's beautiful and functional but it is fairly resource intensive and tends to bog down on the PineTab2. If you don't need the features, switching to LXQt can make things feel a lot snappier. The installation is pretty straight forward but it doesn't work exactly as the documentation suggests it should. So, let me lay it out for you.

First install LXQt with the command :

Code:
sudo pacman -S lxqt
There are a bunch of packages that contain lxqt, the system will ask if you want to install them all, hit enter to accept. Once the install completes, got to the KDE network configuration. Choose your main Wi-Fi connection and, under the Wi-Fi Security tab, Save this password for all users. (There's probably a better way to do this but this was the first solution that worked so I ran with it ;-D) Now, logout and choose LXQt Desktop from the drop down menu at the bottom of the login screen. LXQt doesn't set the screen rotation correctly for landscape mode so go to the App menu and choose Preferences -> LXQt Settings -> Monitor Settings and under the Advanced tab set the rotation to Right. Hit the Save button and you should be good to go.

Hope this helps!


  Battery issues
Posted by: user641 - 07-16-2023, 01:21 PM - Forum: PostmarketOS on PinePhone - Replies (3)

Hello, I installed pmos on my pp yesterday, the phone recognizes battery empty at 15% and sutsdown, tested on 3 cycles. What can i do to fix it?


  Star64: jtag debugging?
Posted by: bluepill - 07-15-2023, 10:29 PM - Forum: Getting Started - Replies (1)

I'm thinking of getting a Star64 to do some practical learning about operating system development and I haven't been able to find some clear/simple information about compatible equipment and the process for setting up a jtag debugging environment. Please note that my experience is mostly with software and I am really, really new to working so close to the hardware.

The Star64 schematics show GPIO pins 0 to 4 for debug trace and pins 9 to 13 for jtag HIFI4 (audio DSP). From the very little that I know about jtag this is the minimum number of pins - so minimum amount of jtag functionality.

I have been looking at the Segger J-Link Edu because it has support for the U74 and E24 SiFive cores in the Star64, but I'm not sure if it is a good choice.

Has anyone setup jtag debugging for the Star64? What hardware/software are you using and can you recommend a beginners guide that can get me started?


  My Waydroid Manager call for testers / assistance
Posted by: MadameMalady - 07-15-2023, 02:16 PM - Forum: PinePhone Pro Software - No Replies

I just pushed an experimental update to My Waydroid Manager that added a Gtk 4.0 / libadwaita ui, along with options to install on Mobian, ubuntu, and manjaro currently.

I'm not a senior developer, so it's kinda hacky, and any help polishing it would be definitely appreciated!


https://github.com/MadameMalady/My-Waydroid-Manager


  eMMC upgrade
Posted by: EuvzO8 - 07-15-2023, 02:08 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (5)

Has anyone tried to replace stock eMMC (16Gb or 32Gb) with a bigger eMMC (in a phone repair shop for example)? Is it possible? What models are compatible?


  Lots of problems with pinebuds
Posted by: elix - 07-15-2023, 09:25 AM - Forum: General - Replies (1)

I got my pinebuds yesterday and out of the box they didn't work correctly. They continuously cut out making them unusable. I tried resetting them and they wouldn't even reset. I hit the reset button in the middle, the charging LEDs flash, close the lid and nothing.  

I tried flashing new firmware in a docker on my pinebook pro and couldn't because its not arch64. Which I find ironic that I have to have a windows machine or a different type of computer other than a pine64 product but I digress. 

I'll try it on my desktop later but has anyone else been able to successfully reset them?


  Will sudo pacman -Syu brick the PineTab2?
Posted by: cgbarros - 07-15-2023, 06:21 AM - Forum: PineTab Software - Replies (10)

Right after I got my PineTab2 one of the first things I did was to run a sudo pacman -Syu to update the system. But after that I bricked the thing. Luckily it comes with the UART board and I saw that the kernel wasn't working (I think it was not finding it? Don't remember exactly).

I reinstalled the factory image and it's all good. But now I'm afraid of updating the system again. Is updating everything with pacman like this not recommended? Anyone had the same issue or I just got unlucky that time?


  Access to system directories from flatpak
Posted by: lagrang3 - 07-15-2023, 05:53 AM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (2)

I've started developing an app for the Pinephone, my app would be deployed with a flatpak.
My application needs access to system directories to read the device camera.
Doing some testing I've discovered that a native Pinephone application called megapixels doesn't launch if I package it into a flatpak. The error is related to not being able to read a system directory `/sys/firmware/devicetree/base`
In order to diagnose the problem I've run a python terminal inside the container and I've verified that neither `/sys/firmware` nor `/dev/video*` are visible from within the container:

Code:
mobian@mobian:~$ /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=master --arch=aarch64 --command=python3 com.lagrange.myapp
Python 3.11.4 (main, Jul 13 2023, 12:52:58) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.listdir('/sys')
['devices', 'dev', 'class', 'bus', 'block']
>>> os.listdir('/dev')
['console', 'ptmx', 'pts', 'shm', 'core', 'fd', 'stderr', 'stdout', 'stdin', 'tty', 'urandom', 'random', 'full', 'zero', 'null']
>>> exit()

they are there, just not visible from the container:

Code:
mobian@mobian:~$ ls /dev/video*
/dev/video0  /dev/video1  /dev/video2  /dev/video3
mobian@mobian:~$ ls /sys
block  bus  class  dev  devices  firmware  fs  kernel  module  power

Even though I've built the flatpak with `"finish-args": ["--filesystem=host", "--filesystem=host-os"]`.
What am I missing?

Any help will be much appreciated.