Hello all. I got my PineTab 2 last week and it's been pretty fun so far. It's definitely not a replacement for the PineBook Pro.

I'm typing this on the PineTab 2 right now, pretty cool.

Questions:

1. Does anyone know of a case or device that makes this tablet "feel" or work more like a laptop? Meaning, I want to put it on my lap and I don't want the keyboard flopping around. I want it to open and work more like a real laptop. I've been looking and I can't find anything.

2. Is there a such thing as a supported WiFi and bluetooth adapter which is combined into 1 device? I use bluetooth pretty often. I have an adapter that should work, I just don't want to use a hub so I can have both devices active at once.

3. Is there some way to get packages from elsewhere? For example, there is no qemu package in the default repository. I don't know Linux well enough to know if I get packages from somewhere else if that will fundamentally break this. From BSD, an architecture is pretty much an architecture and the packages work on everything that has a given CPU.

Thoughts:

It's not super duper fast, but pretty reasonable for light tasks. I'm enjoying it. It's only just a bit slower than the PineBook Pro.

I had issues with Plasma when I pinned programs to the task bar. For example, if I pin Firefox to the task bar Plasma has issues when I log out and log back in. I don't know if that's a Plasma problem or a PineTab 2 problem.

I wish the battery life was longer but maybe this will get better over time with better hardware support.

Kinda wanting the RISC-V one now...

Has some played around with smartphone-specific USB-C gamepads? I don't mean classical wired PC/Game console controller (e.g.: anything my Logitech). I mean the one specifically built for smartphone, where you dock the phone inside and the controller wraps around, reminiscent of Nintendo Switch's joycons (e.g.: Gamesir, .

The reason I am asking is that the one I've tried is a bit more complex that your garden variety PC gamepad.
They usually show up as two different USB HID device: A game pad and a touchscreen, and use an Android app in order to map inputs and gestures to the various buttons (this makes it possible to support games that only work with on-screen taps and swipes and don't support a controller) - (e.g.: the one I've bought by default maps one of the analog sticks as screen swipe).

So did someone try such gamepad and find a good way to map them on Linux?

Step one: If you don't have alsamixer installed do so with the following command:

So I am reading over on UBPorts about updating the firmware which results in a different boot loader. Going from Uboot to Tow-boot


https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news...e-pro-3889.

Is this a problem for any other distros out there for the PinePhone?

(06-09-2023, 08:59 AM)dachalife Wrote: @ Schlucker

It seems to me that you did not understand or fully comprehend what “the OS is still in Beta” meant; it is in the testing phase.

WiFi, cameras and blue-tooth are certainly not the most basic core capabilities of an OS as you stated, they are “comfort” extras. A simple example of core capabilities would be a working input and output device.

I have never seen anyone say/state/claim that the PineTab 2 is a superior piece of hardware, it’s in Beta testing for god’s sake, quit trolling.

I have most of the dependencies sorted but have now come across 

Will the original Raspberry Pi AC Adaptor work?
15.3W 5.1V 3.0A

We have created an LVGL App that runs in a Web Browser and on PinePhone…

1. We compiled LVGL Library from C to WebAssembly with Zig Compiler

2. We wrote our LVGL App in the Zig Programming Language (instead of C)

3. Exact same code runs in a Web Browser and on PinePhone (with Apache NuttX RTOS)

4. Which is super helpful for prototyping LVGL Apps

Check out the details in this article:

“NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Feature Phone UI in LVGL, Zig and WebAssembly”

How it looks on PinePhone:



And how we tested in a Web Browser with WebAssembly:

Hi there, I received my pinetab2 this week. It seems that the provided keyboard is not working for me, while it is detected (Plasma interface resizes itself when connecting). Any idea how I could diagnose this ?

Hi,

Running Manjaro Phosh on my PPP.

There's a little very tiny blue indicator light in the upper left corner of the display. It is blinking.

What does this mean?

And is there a way to have it stop blinking?

Very annoying.

Thank you for any input!

Mark