Hello,

I've been trying to set up Gentoo on an SD card in my Pinetab2 since I received it a few weeks ago. I am generally more comfortable with Portage than pacman, and I would also like to test and possibly provide support for Gentoo's arm64 binary packages. This means that I have built a partition table up from scratch on the SD card, rather than duplicating an existing installation image. It's a very simple partition table:

mmcblk1p1: EFI boot partition mounted at /efi, FAT32
mmcblk1p2: swap
mmcblk1p3: root partition, ext4

The Pine64 RockPro64 entry on the Gentoo wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PINE64_ROCK...bootloader indicates that whoever wrote it had success using a standalone build of Grub on an EFI system partition to get the RockPro to boot, but I am not having the same success on the Pinetab. Should I instead be installing U-Boot to the boot partition? Or flashing it to the first sectors of the SD card? I am still unsure about the normal procedure for using U-Boot or where it should be installed. 

At what point might I also want to consider the rk2aw bootloader? This person had success using it with Fedora: https://www.jistr.com/blog/2023-11-27-fe...-pinetab2/

It also seems like the tablet is now not booting at all with the SD card inserted, which was not the case before I formatted the SD card with the boot partition. But it could be possible that it is actually attempting to boot but I just have no video output/keyboard backlight, since the stock Gentoo binary kernel probably doesn't have drivers for these. I can attempt to use the Danctnix kernel patches and build my own kernel, but I am curious, exactly what devices does it patch in support for? 

The bes2600 wifi driver is not important to start with, as I have a USB-Ethernet adapter that has Linux kernel support. I plan to install the wifi driver after I have a properly booting system, and also write a Gentoo ebuild for it.

Hello dear PineNote users,

has anyone tried using Joplin on the PineNote yet? Joplin has a built in drawing function and I am curious on how that works with the stylus and the overall experience of Joplin on the PineNote.

Best regards,

Don

Hello everybody here,

This is my first time developing for pineTime, this is my code (over 1.10.0)
https://github.com/MiguelIrusta/InfiniTi...leezScreen

I have tried with this https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniT.../README.md

But when I try to update siglo or nrfConnect in android starts and then it disconnects or puts my pineTime blocked in Firmware update 0%.

Can you help me? is something I am missing out?

Many thaks and sorry for the disturbances,
Miguel.

Hello PineBook Pros,

I have had my PineBook Pro for five years now.  Ordered November 2019.  It's been a useful lightweight laptop for me which I've carried all around the US and even Europe, and Africa.  A few months ago I thought it was dead because, even plugged in, the power would not come on no matter if fully charge and pressing buttons.  A couple weeks ago I came back to it and miraculously just turned right on.  Oh well, here's my problem now.

It wouldn't pair with my bluetooth mouse anymore.  I deleted the device and tried to re-pair it.  Now it wants a PIN code!  There never was any PIN code for this mouse. Here are the details:

  Manjaro ARM Linux, 24.03
  Fenifox Bluetooth Slim Mouse (I love it and have 2 of them)
 
Any ideas on how to get it to stop asking for a PIN? I'm not good with fingers and trackpads. 

getHello,

I just received my Community Edition PineNote today   I accidentally removed the default Debian Trixie entry from `/etc/apt/sources.list`, and was hoping someone could post theirs for me?

Before I removed the entry, `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` was working correctly and showing 0 new updates available after I did my initial upgrade on the first boot.

After the entry was removed, when I use the standard Debian naming convention for the Trixie sources list I'm getting this error:

Najlepsze hity do jesien polecacie? Zapraszam do dyskusji!

Did a routine pacman -Syu, and halfway through, the terminal spit out some error message. Then the tablet shuts itself off and could never turned back on again regardless the duration of time I hold the power button. No led blinking. No slightest hint of backlight turning on. No text on screen. Nothing. As solid as rock. So off it went to the recycling center.

boa noite  gostaria  de  compar  ROCKPro64 4GB  estou no brasil  e  nao  estaou achando  alguem pode me ajudar.

Having a bit of a time trying to develop bluetooth on the PineTime under wasp-os 0.4.

There is little documentation about this from what ive seen, but Ive figured out that I need to use ubluepy, and set up and advertise a service. I can do this, but it nukes the Nordic UART Service, leaving development from that point problematic. Ive tried adding the NUS service and characteristics using the UUID's found in pynus, but the app fails to load when I do so with very little information about whats wrong.

Any ideas on how to move forward?

Hello, All

Could you please name the package manager that comes w this port of Arch Linux that comes w pinetab2? I searched for "pacman" and "pamac" but to no avail. How can I alleviate this issue?

Many thanks,

Deckard