PinePhone will soon support the rendering of graphics on the LCD Display… When we boot the official release of Apache NuttX RTOS!

We’re building the NuttX Display Driver for PinePhone in small chunks, starting with the driver for MIPI Display Serial Interface.

In this article we’ll learn…

1.  What’s needed to create a Complete Display Driver for PinePhone

2.  How our driver for MIPI Display Serial Interface fits into the grand plan

3.  How we’re building the missing pieces of the PinePhone Display Driver

4.  Why most of the Display Driver is in the Zig Programming Language


NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: MIPI Display Serial Interface

Hi there!

My PineBook Pro (PBP) does not work anymore after a SW misinstallation (I have used 'pip' to install SW. After the installation, just trouble...).
Now I wanna to install (from the scratch):
1. Manjaro-ARM-minimal (Manjaro-ARM-minimal-generic-22.10.img.xz)
or
2. Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma (Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-generic-22.10.img.xz).

But... I do have NO IDEA how to create an installation USB (in my case, probably, a bootable microSD) and how to proceed to install the new OS on the PBP. 

I do need "expert" help... Please make me happy.

Ta-ta, IOS

If you care for a stroll on the bleeding edge, A 6.1 kernel for the Pinephone has landed.

Download the deb, do a "sudo dpkg -i linux-image-6.1-sunxi64_6.1+sunxi64-1_arm64.deb", then reboot and you should be good. Do "uname -a" to check. The install doesn't overwrite anything related to the 5.15 kernel but will add a stanza to /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf for the 6.1 kernel as the default entry. If you want/need to switch back to 5.15, changing the default selection should do it.

I'm hoping this might fix, or at least reduce, the "fail to wake" problems and perhaps take care of the spontaneous reboots as well. In any case, it sounds like 6.1 will be the kernel released in bookworm.

I've only been running it a couple hours but have gone through my usual post-upgrade checklist with no new issues. I haven't tested any bluetooth stuff.

Hi Pinebook Pros,

Really old nerd here who's programed in PL-1, Fortran, Pascal, C, and a plethora of other languages. My at-home computers have been Amiga, NeXT, and then anything that would host a Linux OS. I was probably in on of the first 100k users of Linux. I don't do Windoz or Applez.

I found the Pinebook Pro and was able to finally get one about November 2019.  It's been great for these 3 years!  I was able to use the Manjaro Linux and it's been fine, however, I'm more of a gnome or mate guy. Now I have been trying to upgrade for the future.  Many problems!

Let me just say I am a not touch-pad friendly old guy.  That's why I found the thinnest rechargeable bluetooth mouse I could and it was so great I have 2 of them now.  Now for my problem.

First I tried Armbian 22.11 xfce and then gnome. The xfce looked nice. I got networking and ssh'ing working right away. Then I tried the bluetooth.  Everything about bluetooth crashed and burned.  Let's just say I burned and re-burned the microSD with both versions many times to try to configure every way possible.  Translates to "MANY HOURS!"

Next I tried Manjaro 22.10 Mate.  I don't think they had this Mate version 3 years ago. OMG, it installed wonderfully and looks beautiful to me.  Now for the test of bluetooth.  WOW, it works!  I got my, thinest I could find, bluetooth speaker to work right away.  Now for the big problem. No matter what I do, it doesn't see my mouse.  I've re-burned, re-loaded, and re-configured every way I can think of with no luck.

Where do I go from here?


My toy

I've found this on Chinese taobao https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=633955322505 - claiming that they are pinecil v3. Are they fake or something happened? Please let us know...

Hey, 1st time I'm getting in doubt of using my pinephone anymore...................
...........it is getting serious now!

........no more recieving SMS
........when a call comes in as soon as I'm accepting it the screen is turning black/grey for some seconds, coming back, as soon as I touch the pad it disappears, somehow blinking.........totally weird............the sender can here me, but I can't hear anything..........

...........having researched the forum, can't find anything like that...........

using mobian, phosh

Linux 6.1 kernel is supposed to have features accomodating the Pine Phone keyboard:

"Also, the PinePhone Pro is now able to run off the mainline Linux 6.1 kernel, as can a suite of older Android smartphones including the Sony Xperia 1 IV, and the Samsung Galaxy E5, E7, and Grand Max. Additionally, there’s now an input driver for the PinePhone keyboard case."

Any rough guesses how long it may be before mere users like me might see an update or new build of one or more OSes?

Source of the quote:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/12/linu...w-features


sandspur
lesser wizard

Hi. I once used pinebook pro with emmc installed armbian without any problem.

but I actually burn motherboard a littlebit as there was kind of electical fault on charging, so I bought new motherboard for pinebook pro and replaced.

and now, It became never booted.

Once Armbian logo and circle appears, it suddenly stucks after few times of circulation.

A funny thing is that when I re-assemble BURNT mainboard again, it boots normally again.
(Only problem is that I can't charge pbp.)



I even tried to install new OS with microsd, but the result was same.

Manjaro, I could only see the splash logo and never booted.

I think I met a little luck, so I actually once succeed on microsd boot, but that was all.

After first-boot setting up, I couldn't do never boot again.


I think I have received a fault production... right?

Ah, I have re-used eMMC module that I used before.

Hello,

I notice when I run Armbian on Pinebook Pro,  if I'm playing Youtube music and I close the lid, I can still hear the music, I  prefer this.

For Manjaro  KDE I have installed on EMMC right now  when I close the lid,  it seems to shut off.  no music nothing. then when I open the lid,  it does not come back on, i have to press the power button several times to power it back on.

Does anyone know a way I could make manjaro like Armbian where closing the lid does not turn it off? 
To be clear, I don't want it to go to sleep or to shut off. I am testing the speakers and want to be able to Close the lid fully and it still plays music/youtube. This was possible when I had Armbian for PBP installed just normally. but Manjaro behaves differently.


thanks