In these days, I play around with different kernel configs and patches. While doing so, I collected data about the star64's speed.

Build time Fishwaldo's kernel 5.15.107:

Hi guys,

So I had Manjaro installed on my eMMC for a while now and I wanted to switch to Fedora.

I went to the official Wiki which redirects us to a blog post from 2021 which I followed.
I flashed the firmware to the micro SD Card

There are quite a few possible variants of the installation process. Below instructions do not require a serial console. All steps are performed on a linux pc and not on the star64.

• If you have a 8GB board, apply the patch from here https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18263
  
• If you want full GPU support then apply the patch from https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18301 and also follow the firmware installation step (possibly after a first boot into the star64)
  

Sad reality, but video out on pinebook pro was regressed on all major distros

this includes default factory os manjaro

Found some info that kernel patches needed to allow video out were dropped since were hard to maintain



I guess with years interest for PBP dropped, as well as support for basic functionality from developers.

For example, cannot believe that in 2019 there was mrfixit debian build with all the working functionality that you could easily flash to sd card, while now 4 years later you cannot connect pbp to external monitor or tv


Any suggestions how to make it work again would be appreciated

I have read that one can use telnet and ssh to access the Pinefone on a network. That is by command line. Is it possible to make the folders and files of the external microSD card available as shares using Samba or similar so that complex file management can be done using the GUI file management tools of a laptop OS? If so, how does one do this? If not, what options are there?

What i would like to do is view documents on the Pinephone and sort then into folders which i would then transfer back to a laptop for further management. The included file manager in Phosh Portfolio does not allow easy moving and sorting of documents. Are there other file managers that are phone friendly that provide the described workflow? I have thousands of documents to sort and doing some of this on the Pinephone when i am traveling without my laptop would help save time.

Hi,

i dont know much about Linux but i tryed anythink i could find, but with no sucsess...

I want to use Windows XRDP Remote to connect but it only works with root. Why

This is the log from  XRDP and Sesman, firstr try is a user, second try is root

Quote:xrdp:
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] Socket 12: AF_INET6 connection received from ::ffff:192.168.1.145 port 49328
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] Using default X.509 certificate: /etc/xrdp/cert.pem
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] Using default X.509 key file: /etc/xrdp/key.pem
[20230524-20:56:31] [ERROR] SSL_read: I/O error
[20230524-20:56:31] [ERROR] libxrdp_force_read: header read error
[20230524-20:56:31] [ERROR] Processing [ITU-T T.125] Connect-Initial failed
[20230524-20:56:31] [ERROR] [MCS Connection Sequence] receive connection request failed
[20230524-20:56:31] [ERROR] xrdp_sec_incoming: xrdp_mcs_incoming failed
[20230524-20:56:31] [ERROR] xrdp_rdp_incoming: xrdp_sec_incoming failed
[20230524-20:56:31] [ERROR] xrdp_process_main_loop: libxrdp_process_incoming failed
[20230524-20:56:31] [ERROR] xrdp_iso_send: trans_write_copy_s failed
[20230524-20:56:31] [ERROR] Sending [ITU T.125] DisconnectProviderUltimatum failed
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] Socket 12: AF_INET6 connection received from ::ffff:192.168.1.145 port 49329
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] Using default X.509 certificate: /etc/xrdp/cert.pem
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] Using default X.509 key file: /etc/xrdp/key.pem
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] Connected client computer name: DELLG515SE
[20230524-20:56:31] [WARN ] Received [MS-RDPBCGR] TS_UD_HEADER type 0xc006 is unknown (ignored)
[20230524-20:56:31] [WARN ] Received [MS-RDPBCGR] TS_UD_HEADER type 0xc00a is unknown (ignored)
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] xrdp_load_keyboard_layout: Keyboard information sent by the RDP client, keyboard_type:[0x04], keyboard_subtype:[0x00], keylayout:[0x00000407]
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] xrdp_load_keyboard_layout: model [] variant [] layout [de] options []
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] TLS connection established from ::ffff:192.168.1.145 port 49329: TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] xrdp_caps_process_pointer: client supports new(color) cursor
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] xrdp_process_offscreen_bmpcache: support level 1 cache size 10485760 MB cache entries 100
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] xrdp_caps_process_codecs: nscodec, codec id 1, properties len 3
[20230524-20:56:31] [WARN ] xrdp_caps_process_codecs: unknown codec id 5
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] xrdp_caps_process_codecs: RemoteFX, codec id 3, properties len 49
[20230524-20:56:31] [INFO ] Loading keymap file /etc/xrdp/km-00000407.ini
[20230524-20:56:31] [WARN ] local keymap file for 0x00000407 found and doesn't match built in keymap, using local keymap file
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] connecting to sesman ip 127.0.0.1 port 3350
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] xrdp_wm_log_msg: sesman connect ok
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] sesman connect ok
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] sending login info to session manager, please wait...
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] xrdp_wm_log_msg: login successful for display 10
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] login successful for display 10
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] loaded module 'libxup.so' ok, interface size 10296, version 4
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] started connecting
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] lib_mod_connect: connecting via UNIX socket
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] Socket 12: AF_INET6 connection received from ::ffff:192.168.1.145 port 49873
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] Using default X.509 certificate: /etc/xrdp/cert.pem
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] Using default X.509 key file: /etc/xrdp/key.pem
[20230524-20:59:54] [ERROR] SSL_read: I/O error
[20230524-20:59:54] [ERROR] libxrdp_force_read: header read error
[20230524-20:59:54] [ERROR] Processing [ITU-T T.125] Connect-Initial failed
[20230524-20:59:54] [ERROR] [MCS Connection Sequence] receive connection request failed
[20230524-20:59:54] [ERROR] xrdp_sec_incoming: xrdp_mcs_incoming failed
[20230524-20:59:54] [ERROR] xrdp_rdp_incoming: xrdp_sec_incoming failed
[20230524-20:59:54] [ERROR] xrdp_process_main_loop: libxrdp_process_incoming failed
[20230524-20:59:54] [ERROR] xrdp_iso_send: trans_write_copy_s failed
[20230524-20:59:54] [ERROR] Sending [ITU T.125] DisconnectProviderUltimatum failed
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] Socket 12: AF_INET6 connection received from ::ffff:192.168.1.145 port 49874
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] Using default X.509 certificate: /etc/xrdp/cert.pem
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] Using default X.509 key file: /etc/xrdp/key.pem
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] Connected client computer name: DELLG515SE
[20230524-20:59:54] [WARN ] Received [MS-RDPBCGR] TS_UD_HEADER type 0xc006 is unknown (ignored)
[20230524-20:59:54] [WARN ] Received [MS-RDPBCGR] TS_UD_HEADER type 0xc00a is unknown (ignored)
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] xrdp_load_keyboard_layout: Keyboard information sent by the RDP client, keyboard_type:[0x04], keyboard_subtype:[0x00], keylayout:[0x00000407]
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] xrdp_load_keyboard_layout: model [] variant [] layout [de] options []
[20230524-20:59:54] [INFO ] TLS connection established from ::ffff:192.168.1.145 port 49874: TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
[20230524-20:59:55] [INFO ] xrdp_caps_process_pointer: client supports new(color) cursor
[20230524-20:59:55] [INFO ] xrdp_process_offscreen_bmpcache: support level 1 cache size 10485760 MB cache entries 100
[20230524-20:59:55] [INFO ] xrdp_caps_process_codecs: nscodec, codec id 1, properties len 3
[20230524-20:59:55] [WARN ] xrdp_caps_process_codecs: unknown codec id 5
[20230524-20:59:55] [INFO ] xrdp_caps_process_codecs: RemoteFX, codec id 3, properties len 49
[20230524-20:59:55] [INFO ] Loading keymap file /etc/xrdp/km-00000407.ini
[20230524-20:59:55] [WARN ] local keymap file for 0x00000407 found and doesn't match built in keymap, using local keymap file
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] connecting to sesman ip 127.0.0.1 port 3350
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] xrdp_wm_log_msg: sesman connect ok
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] sesman connect ok
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] sending login info to session manager, please wait...
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] xrdp_wm_log_msg: login successful for display 10
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] login successful for display 10
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] loaded module 'libxup.so' ok, interface size 10296, version 4
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] started connecting
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] lib_mod_connect: connecting via UNIX socket
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] lib_mod_log_peer: xrdp_pid=2133 connected to X11rdp_pid=2591 X11rdp_uid=0 X11rdp_gid=0 client_ip=::ffff:192.168.1.145 client_port=49329
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] connected ok
[20230524-21:00:04] [ERROR] SSL_write: I/O error
[20230524-21:00:04] [ERROR] xrdp_sec_send_fastpath: xrdp_fastpath_send failed
[20230524-21:00:04] [ERROR] xrdp_rdp_send_fastpath: xrdp_sec_send_fastpath failed
[20230524-21:00:04] [ERROR] libxrdp_set_pointer: xrdp_rdp_send_fastpath failed
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] lib_mod_log_peer: xrdp_pid=2564 connected to X11rdp_pid=2591 X11rdp_uid=0 X11rdp_gid=0 client_ip=::ffff:192.168.1.145 client_port=49874
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] connected ok
[20230524-21:00:05] [ERROR] xrdp_iso_send: trans_write_copy_s failed
[20230524-21:00:05] [ERROR] Sending [ITU T.125] DisconnectProviderUltimatum failed




sesman:
20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] Socket 8: AF_INET6 connection received from ::1 port 33556
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] Terminal Server Users group is disabled, allowing authentication
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] ++ created session (access granted): username test2, ip ::ffff:192.168.1.145:49329 - socket: 12
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] starting Xorg session...
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] Starting session: session_pid 2134, display :10.0, width 1920, height 1080, bpp 24, client ip ::ffff:192.168.1.145:49329 - socket: 12, user name test2
[20230524-20:56:43] [INFO ] [session start] (display 10): calling auth_start_session from pid 2134
[20230524-20:56:43] [ERROR] sesman_data_in: scp_process_msg failed
[20230524-20:56:43] [ERROR] sesman_main_loop: trans_check_wait_objs failed, removing trans
[20230524-20:56:44] [INFO ] Starting X server on display 10: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :10 -auth .Xauthority -config xrdp/xorg.conf -noreset -nolisten tcp -logfile .xorgxrdp.%s.log 
[20230524-20:56:54] [WARN ] Timed out waiting for X server on display 10 to startup
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] Session started successfully for user test2 on display 10
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] Starting the xrdp channel server for display 10
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] Session in progress on display 10, waiting until the window manager (pid 2151) exits to end the session
[20230524-20:56:54] [WARN ] Timed out waiting for X server on display 10 to startup
[20230524-20:56:54] [ERROR] There is no X server active on display 10
[20230524-20:56:54] [ERROR] A fatal error has occured attempting to start the window manager on display 10, aborting connection
[20230524-20:56:54] [WARN ] Window manager (pid 2151, display 10) exited quickly (0 secs). This could indicate a window manager config problem
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] Calling auth_stop_session and auth_end from pid 2134
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] Terminating X server (pid 2152) on display 10
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] Terminating the xrdp channel server (pid 2437) on display 10
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] X server on display 10 (pid 2152) returned exit code 1 and signal number 0
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] xrdp channel server for display 10 (pid 2437) exit code 0 and signal number 0
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] cleanup_sockets:
[20230524-20:56:54] [INFO ] ++ terminated session:  username test2, display :10.0, session_pid 2134, ip ::ffff:192.168.1.145:49329 - socket: 12
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] Socket 8: AF_INET6 connection received from ::1 port 45346
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] Terminal Server Users group is disabled, allowing authentication
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] ++ created session (access granted): username root, ip ::ffff:192.168.1.145:49874 - socket: 12
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] starting Xorg session...
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] Starting session: session_pid 2574, display :10.0, width 1920, height 1080, bpp 24, client ip ::ffff:192.168.1.145:49874 - socket: 12, user name root
[20230524-21:00:03] [INFO ] [session start] (display 10): calling auth_start_session from pid 2574
[20230524-21:00:03] [ERROR] sesman_data_in: scp_process_msg failed
[20230524-21:00:03] [ERROR] sesman_main_loop: trans_check_wait_objs failed, removing trans
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] Starting X server on display 10: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :10 -auth .Xauthority -config xrdp/xorg.conf -noreset -nolisten tcp -logfile .xorgxrdp.%s.log 
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] Found X server running at /tmp/.X11-unix/X10
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] Found X server running at /tmp/.X11-unix/X10
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] Found X server running at /tmp/.X11-unix/X10
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] Session started successfully for user root on display 10
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] Starting the default window manager on display 10: /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] Session in progress on display 10, waiting until the window manager (pid 2590) exits to end the session
[20230524-21:00:04] [INFO ] Starting the xrdp channel server for display 10

There is a lot of dated information on this forum and elsewhere. The information below is current as of this posting.

I bought a Pinephone beta edition within the past few weeks and had multiple hurdles before i had a working phone. The included version of Manjaro OS is dated so upgrading the OS is mandatory. Found that the JumpDrive tool can be useful to erase and prepare the internal eMMC storage from a laptop. I was able to use a MacBook Pro with macOS to make boot microSDs and manage things, did not need Linux. Current versions of Mobium, PostMarketOS, and Manjaro do not need a boot manager installed such as Tow-Boot, they will install on their own and boot. Mobium and PostMarketOS have Tow-Boot functionality at boot with the correct button combination which exposes the eMMC storage as a USB device. It would be good workflow if this functionality can be extended to the external microSD so one can perform complex file management from a laptop. Be careful inserting and removing SIM cards, the slot is delicate. Expect to do a lot of microsSD and SIM card inserting until you find out how to make things work.

The swapping of an activated SIM card from another phone does not work with Tracfone anymore, calls are blocked although one can receive text messages. When attempting to make a call you will get a pre-recorded message saying something like the phone device does not match the activated SIM. With any further calls nothing happens. Tracfone support looked up the phone IMEI and said the carrier that permits the Pinephone is T-Mobile. Tracfone said that in order to use Tracfone service one must use a T-Mobile SIM and they will accommodate the SIM. They said that Tracfone still uses T-Mobile as one of their service carriers until sometime next year ( probably until contracts run out and then Verizon only). Verizon acquired Tracfone a few years ago, so Verizon is not permitting the Pinephone on their network.

At a local T-Mobile store, the rep used a test SIM to see if the phone could connect to the T-Mobile network. It took around 10 minutes for the phone to finally connect. During troubleshooting i rebooted the phone, rep checked settings, rep explained that data must be turned on in order to get everything working. The phone has current version of Mobian with Phosh. I will note that PostMarketOS with Phosh is also good. Manjaro with Plasma had some show-stopper bugs athough the UI has some good design ideas that should be migrated to Phosh, such as showing apps as a single list, hiding the search app box, closing apps with a close button, and more. After that i paid for a service plan, inserted the T-mobil SIM card and.... phone does not recognize the SIM card, get question mark icon. Took the phone home, played around a bit and the phone starts recognizing the SIM and working, no explanation. I will likely have to change phone numbers as the number assigned is already getting junk calls and texting. T-mobile has low cost pre-paid plans and do not require any information to be provided for service except a PIN number that is used to make payments for service. Although i do not have the need for this kind of anonymity currently, the information may be useful to others.

I have Mobian installed on my PPP and when I plug in the USB, it often doesn't come up with the charging indicator. I have to unplug it and then plug it in again for the indicator to come up. Then, after a few minutes, I'll hear a click sound and the charging indicator will be off again. Does anyone else have this issue? Is there some work-around?

Hi,

Have Manjaro Phosh Beta 30 installed on PPP (with keyboard). Overall, works pretty good.

Have a few issues I would appreciate input on.

1. Phosh Updating

I see there is now Phosh Beta 32 available.

Do I need to update via new image file or can it be done using Pacman or ?

If can be done either way, is there advantage to doing it one way or the other?


2. Battery Charge Indicator

I use Keyboard unit with the PPP, what percentage  should I see next to battery icon? (100% or 200%)


3. Jittery Display - Settings

Most of the time, the display looks OK. However, when I try to change the display settings, the settings window is very jittery (jumpy looking). As a result, I can not change the display settings!

I have similar issue with changing setting preferences in Firefox browser and think it happened in some other situations.

Any way to fix thing this? This is a big problem in usability of PPP.


4. Display Usability

In some situations there is too much space above and below a window or app. This is really impacts usability of display when you use PPP with Keyboard and display is in landscape orientation.

Any ways to improve this?


Thank you for any and all input.

Mark