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  Pine Desktop PowerSupply wont power on
Posted by: BSharp - 04-23-2023, 01:43 PM - Forum: General - Replies (6)

Anyone else have a dead desktop 120W power supply?  It would occassionally flicker when I first got it, but seemed stable enough (dumb, I know).  Now its just kaput.

I dont know if anyone has had one die and got it back running again?  I love the little unit was great for my Pinebook and Pi/Arduinos.

Wondering if I just got a bad unit that I should have returned?  or worth fixing?

Thank!


  PSA to PostmarketOS team
Posted by: GhostLegion - 04-23-2023, 03:43 AM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (2)

Your wiki has been vandalized and I don't know how or if I am allowed to edit it. I'll link the page but be warned it has racial slurs. Please someone let them know. I just started googling and I don't know who to reach out to.


https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE6...ephonepro)


  GPIO on Ayufan 0.9.14 Build
Posted by: Thisone - 04-22-2023, 11:16 AM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64 - Replies (7)

Hello

I'm trying to use the GPIOs on the Ayufan Ubuntu Build (bionic-mate-rockpro64-0.9.14-1159-armhf), but can't seem to get it working.
Apperently the libgpiod uses /dev/Gpiochip0, which is not on this version.

Problem is, that i have to use a Desktop Image, which supports the Pine Touchdisplay, for the Rest of the Program, and i can't seem to get the other Versions (like focal-mate-rockpro64-0.10.12-1184-armhf) running. 

So is there a way to use the GPIO pins on the 0.9.14 Version?


  star64 bootable images, u-boot, sbi, forum?
Posted by: hexdump - 04-20-2023, 11:55 PM - Forum: General - Replies (5)

now that the star64 can be ordered from time to time: are there any bootable linux images around somewhere? are there any u-boot and sbi trees around somewhere? to me it looks like the software support state currently is the same as for the pinetab v: you basically buy a brick as there is no software around for it at all - at least i was not able to find anything or any information anywhere. the only thing i was able to find was the icenowy star64 kernel tree with the last commit from january of this year. and while i'm at the star64: how about an own forum section for it now that it is out?

a lot of thanks in advance and best wishes - hexdump


  I'm booting from NVME but I want to switch back to eMMC
Posted by: acruhl - 04-20-2023, 06:33 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (4)

These are the rough steps I took to get where I am:

1. Started with Manjaro working fine from eMMC
2. Installed NVME disk
3. Copied eMMC to NVME (using dd)
4. Installed tow boot to SPI
5. Booted, interrupted boot and chose NVME

This worked. However, now I want to boot from eMMC again. I rebooted and chose the eMMC option in tow boot, but it doesn't work.

I now have /boot mounted from the eMMC and / mounted from the NVME.

I used blkid and noticed that the UUID for my eMMC partitions and my NVME partitions are the same (because they would be, I copied form eMMC to NVME) and I assume this has something to do with my problem.

What should I do to boot from eMMC where / is also mounted from the eMMC?

I have thought of:

1. Physically removing the NVME disk
2. Using dd to wipe out the NVME disk

But I'll wait for an answer.

(I booted Fedora on a MicroSD to type this, this works fine.)

Thanks.


  yocto for RockPro64
Posted by: Fide - 04-20-2023, 06:16 AM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64 - Replies (1)

Hello,

I just ordered my RockPro64 board today and want to create a poky reference image for it.

But I wonder whether meta-rockchip metalayer here supports it? 

I saw couple of similar questions in the forum but they are very old.
Nowadays we use yocto-dunfell or kirkstone and wonder RockPro64 is directly supported by them.


Thank you.


  verifying the serial console
Posted by: js0000 - 04-19-2023, 05:33 PM - Forum: BSD on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

hi

i have been trying to install openbsd on my pinebook pro (currently running a manjaro-i3 combo) and an at the point of verifying the serial console.

when i look on my linux (debian) box, i can see the usb connector (?)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1a86:7523 QinHeng Electronics CH340 serial converter

and can see it in dmesg (ttyUSB0)

the problem is actually sending something over- i have been unable to see anything with minicom on the other end
when i run a command like this (as root on the pinebook), i get nothing on minicom:
echo "console output" > /dev/console

and it just hangs on the pine box.

also (as i got my pinebook some time ago) it came with a cable, that i read was supposedly bad ... i tried that too, but nothing happened. the cable i am using was bought from the pine store, maybe a year-ish ago ...

i also opened the back and flicked the switch for the serial console out of headphone jack.

i guess what i'm looking for is how to verify that the link is working
or someway to know that my pinebook does not have fried hardware of one kind or another (diagnostic commands ok)

any help would be welcome

thx


  Jumpdrive broken? eMMc broken
Posted by: Uturn - 04-19-2023, 04:19 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (5)

hullo, I try to flash a fresh OS to my PinePhone's eMMC via jumpdrive, I flash from e Mac with Etcher, the Pinephone looks ok, but zero success wiht Manjaro Plasma Mobile (stays black), little success with Manjaro Gnome Mobile (stuck at manjaro splash screen). Is it possible the eMMC is damaged, or did I screw up somenthing with Jumpdrive? Manjaro Plasmal Mobile from card starts up normal.


  Accidentally updated Ubuntu/ Revert possible?
Posted by: Thisone - 04-19-2023, 12:03 AM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64 - No Replies

Hello,

I'am using the Ayufan Ubuntu Mate desktop package, and (because I'm new to this and didn't know what I was doing) I accidentally updated Ubuntu to from 18.04 to 20.04 and now everything looks wrong. Is there any way to revert the changes without reinstalling everything?


Question Always Use Mobile Data
Posted by: DingDangDoong - 04-18-2023, 11:54 AM - Forum: PostmarketOS on PinePhone - Replies (4)

Hello there Everyone,

I am messing around with using the PP to send myself email message reports with metrics from some yard equipment that are all connected on a WLAN.

I'm running into an issue where the PP will not use mobile data for internet access while it is connected to my WLAN, even though the WLAN itself is not connected to the internet.

Does anyone know of a way to set the PP to always use mobile data for connecting to the internet while also still being able to talk to other devices on a WLAN?


(04-18-2023, 11:54 AM)DingDangDoong Wrote: Hello there Everyone,

I am messing around with using the PP to send myself email message reports with metrics from some yard equipment that are all connected on a WLAN.

I'm running into an issue where the PP will not use mobile data for internet access while it is connected to my WLAN, even though the WLAN itself is not connected to the internet.

Does anyone know of a way to set the PP to always use mobile data for connecting to the internet while also still being able to talk to other devices on a WLAN?

I got it lol Big Grin 

For some reason I thought the wireless data connection would be handled differently from other internet connections but when I ran "ip route list" it was there!

I added the ip address from the mobile data connection as a default with "ip route add default via xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx dev wwan0" and now I can use WLAN and connect to the internet via mobile data!

-Doong