Hi,
I am trying to connect my thinkvision m14t touchscreen to the rockpro64. For the life of me, I can't get it to work.
Here is what i did:

I connected the screen to an external usb-c power source. Then connected to the rock. The wacom input source is recognized (until the screen goes into standby), but no Display is detected.

I tried

- Armbian
- Debian
- Manjaro generic
- Manjaro rockpro64 (gitlab)
- Manjaro with the old 5.7 Kernel for the pinebook pro (link) (this Kernel specifically has a patch to make DP-Alt mode work, and boots just fine on the rockpro64)
- Manjaro pinebook-pro image does not seem to boot.

I also flipped the usb-c wire multiple times.

What actually worked:
A mysterious wire from club3d (bi-directional usb-c to hdmi) actually gave the me video output from the rocks hdmi port. However, the screen needs an additional power source from its other usb-c port. The rock can't provide enough power from usb. So there was no way to make the wacom input available.

What i am thinking to do:
- Can i inject external power into an usb-c wire to power the rock and connect it to the rock at the same time? I already tried to do this with an usb-c dongle connected to the rock, which has external power. (Power is passed on, but no wacom input recognized by rock)
- Could i use a PCI- thunderbolt like the Gigabyte GC-TITAN Ridge to power and connect everything with a single usb-c wire? (I have a feeling the gpu won't send the video to the card, if the card were even to be supportet)

I also bought a Pinebook Pro. I thought i read about someone having connected the thinkvision m14t to it. But i could not get it to work either (tried many distros)

Thanks for any Info on this.

Hello!

I'm working on an interactive installation where I want some audio to react to visitors heart rate and activity. I am planning to stream realtime (or every ≈0.5 sec?) the heart rate and accelerometer data to a computer or Rasperry Pi or similar device via Bluetooth. That should be done for several hours a day.

I'm trying to find the perfect smartwatch to do it. Is something that can be done in a Pinetime? From my overview of the device, there should be no problem, but there may be some stuff that I missed. Those more experienced in the platform can advise me on any foreseeable issues?

Thanks!

Hi, I have observed online that Arch on the Pinephone Pro has access to a Software app - faciliting the download of software, similar to the same function on the Mobian OS for Pinephone. However, I have noticed that it is not immediately accessible when Arch is installed.

Could anyone please advise me on the method to find and enable this function (the Software app)?

Thanks.

I just received a Star64 RISC-V board and, after some issues, was able to boot it. Other people may be interested in experience and tricks so I wrote a small article: https://www.bortzmeyer.org/star64-first-boot.html

When I launch Weather from the list of applications, I am prompted to "Search for a city or country". However, I am unable to enter text into the search field that pops up: once I tap any key, both the search field and the on-screen keyboard disappear. Are other people having this problem? How can I get around it? Unfortunately, I cannot plug a USB keyboard into the first-generation version of the Pinephone that I have.

I have tow-boot on my SPI... I previously had Manjaro Plasma on the eMMC (I flashed it on there last year).

I put PostmarketOS on there (thinking it would fix the close lid, won't wake up issue) but has the same problem.

I try to put Manjaro 23/22 back on the eMMC (and SD card) and it is just stuck at the blinking cursor.

Wondering if anyone has dealt with this recently vs. from 2020.

tried 22.06 thinking older may work, this one flashing cursor as well and alternating green/red led

I've been playing with my PinePhone for a couple of months. 
I flashed a few different OSs, and settled on Postmarket/Phosh. 
Well, I hate the backend, so I wanted to switch to Mobian, and back to the Debian environment I'm used to. 

Whelp, instructions on getting tow-boot installed are... wanting. 

I downloaded the pine64-pinea64 tow-boot package to flash. 
There's only one included img, shared.disk-image.img

 I've used the various ways I know of to burn said image to the SD card. 
Nothing seems to do anything, regardless of how I burn the image to the card. 

One piece of info tells me that the phone came pre-installed with tow-boot or the like preinstalled, 
but burning the Mobian install weekly file and attempting to reboot with that in place, just sends me into postmarket. 

HELP!

NemoMobile made progress on the Weather app, Qt *.prf file compilation issues, and device orientation functionality. NemoMobile was also featured in a Lightning talk at the LinuxAppSummit conference.

https://fosstodon.org/@jmlich/110286687938101438

Hi guys,

I'm using Debian from years and years and I'd like to do install it also on my Pine Phone Pro.

I did it but there's Posh desktop and I'd like to use Plasma Mobile, I followed a lot of guides but I'm not able to replace Posh with Plasma!

Should I recompile the kernel?

GabrieleMax

I have an older Pine64 build (2016 from the original Kickstarter.) I have an image for it of Ubuntu 16.04 that functions with a touchscreen (NOTE: Just Ubuntu with KDE desktop. Not Pinephone, or Pinetablet.) the Ubuntu 16 is struggling to install my wireless USB dongle. I honestly have no idea where I got the image. I don't recall configuring it myself. I think I found it as an existing downloadable IMG file. 

QUESTION: Is there an Ubuntu 18 or 20 image for this Pine64, that also works with the touchscreen out of the box? 

Alternative: Or instructions for installing Ubuntu 18/20 including configuring the touchscreen?

Thanks!