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| Linux 5.15 Kernel - openSuse |
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Posted by: mark1250 - 12-02-2021, 04:36 PM - Forum: Linux on Rock64
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Does anyone have kernel version 5.15 working on their rock64?
I've been running openSuse Tumbleweed on my rock64 for more than a year without issue. A recent update moved from kernel 5.14.14 to 5.15.3 and the rock64 will not boot. It doesn't see the eMMC.
Here is a link to the openSuse bugzilla: openSuse bug report
Thanks.
Mark
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| RTL8811AU usb wifi for pbpro |
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Posted by: vlut - 12-02-2021, 05:23 AM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories
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Hello Everyone,
I had a TP-Link AC600 T2U Nano (chipset REALTEK RTL8811AU) wifi usb dongle laying around and I wanted to use it with my PineBook Pro to improve a bit my wifi.
After a bit of time looking around I managed to find a solution to make it work so I decided to share the solution I found.
I will start by saying three things:
1: to anyone wanting to buy a USB WIFI dongle for use with any kind of linux device I would advise to read https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi . In particular I would advise AGAINST buying a usb wifi dongle that has a REALTEK chipset.
2: this is my first post on this forum, maybe I am doing it wrong but please be gentle.
3: this solution is very similar to https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14767 (which concerns a similar chipset : the RTL8812AU).
Solution:
Get the driver from https://github.com/morrownr/8821au-20210708
Follow instructions 1 to 7 from the README
Before executing #sudo ./install_driver.sh modify the Makefile as follows:
find the lines
Code: SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/)
ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH)
Code: SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/)
# ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH)
ARCH := 'arm64'
Then run
Code: sudo ./install_driver.sh
I had no errors and after a reboot my USB wifi was recognised and fully functionnal.
I hope this might help someone someday.
Note: this should work for similar wifi chipsets by replacing the driver https://github.com/morrownr/8821au-20210708 by the relevant one in https://github.com/morrownr .
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Pinephone Application Compatibility |
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Posted by: coolusername - 12-02-2021, 02:23 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone
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Hi
I'm new to Linux phone and want to know what i can do with pinephone as a daily driver.
I don't really use too many apps on IOS but some applications are important like messaging and maybe clients for forums like reddit, etc.
Can i install any mainstream messaging app on Pinephone? (signal, session, etc)
Can i install clients to open reddit or other forums?
Thanks in advance.
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| Screen has pixel-thin horizontal stripes that are black or get stuck in the past |
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Posted by: yasmi - 12-02-2021, 12:20 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware
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I don't know what this is called, the screen has a ghost of what it was showing before, rapidly flickering around ~0.5cm and ~2cm above the original position. On reboot it initially returns to being black, but by the time it gets to disc decryption, ghosts appear. Sometimes the unlock screen's clock can be striped over the phosh apps dashboard, sometimes it's just the apps dashboard split into two. Sometimes it goes back to black stripes.
This started happening on my second time booting the pre-installed Manjaro + plasma, when I was expecting the phone to boot into the SD card's PostmarketOS + phosh but didn't due to partitions being messed up. The problem persists in all successful PMOS boots.
I asked for help in the chats, got some advice on re-plugging the monitor ribbon cables, and I think I did that but nothing changed (it seemed to have made things worse at first, but maybe that was a placebo effect). I say I think I did that because I can't figure out which ribbon cable is the monitor one, so I just unplugged + re-plugged all ribbon-like ones that I saw.
I'm quite thrilled about everything that's working, if the screen can look stripe-free that would be just perfect.
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| How to transfer customised OS from SDcard to emmc |
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Posted by: quixote - 12-01-2021, 10:27 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook
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It's nice to play with OSes on sdcards, and then when you know what you want, move it to emmc. The only problem for this noob is I couldn't find a simple step-by-step. Flashing downloaded img files, yes. But not exactly how to transfer your customised OS. So this is what worked for me. If I did somethng stupid, please mention it in comments and I'll fix this first post.
1) Buy the usb thingy to carry the emmc so you can do this process on your other computer. (You're a linux fan. Of course you have several computers, right?)
2) Carefully! insert emmc into usb carrier, and then into usb slot on computer.
3) Remove your customised bootable SDcard from pinebook and insert into sd slot on computer.
[3a) you may want to mount and look at the contents of the emmc
if it's a new one you bought.
Mine had some stray files on it that I deleted.]
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to find the names of the devices. In my case the sdcard was:
/dev/mmcblk0 (this is the "input device" which sends info to the target)
and the emmc was
/dev/sda (this is the "output device")
Substitute your own device names, of course, as reported by fdisk.
Make absolutely sure you have the right names of the right devices, because the dd command used below just does what it's told. If, by accident, you tell it to overwrite your hard drive, it will.
5)Make sure both are unmounted:
Code: sudo umount /dev/sda
sudo umount /dev/mmcblk0
6) This is the actual copy using the dd command. The output device MUST be equal to or larger than the input device.
Code: sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/sda bs=1M status=progress
7) Resize the partition dd just copied to your emmc. It's an exact bit-for-bit copy of the sdcard, so it's the same size as that, and it's not using all the space on your larger emmc. I used gparted to resize, but I think any of the standard methods will work.
And that's it. Put the emmc with the transplanted brain into the pinebook, get the screws back into the backplate, and boot up.
I hope it works as well for you as it did for me!
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| Beta 17 Online Accounts |
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Posted by: dlarson - 12-01-2021, 10:12 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone
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I love the look and feel of the Manjaro Beta 17. The On line Accounts feature looks as professional as Android or iOS. I have connected to my Exchange Server and set it to use Mail, Calendar and Contacts. Everything appears to be correct but I cannot figure out how to get the data into any of the applications.
The Calendar application >> Manage Calendars >> Add Calendar feature circles back to On Line accounts but does not pull in the data.
Any pointers on how to correctly use the feature?
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Using PCF8574 I2C GPIO Expanders |
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Posted by: CounterPillow - 12-01-2021, 02:48 AM - Forum: Quartz64 Tutorials
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Hi all,
I've begun writing a guide on the wiki on how to use the cheap ubiquitous 8-lane PCF8574 I2C GPIO Expander with the Quartz64 Model A:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64_Mo..._a_PCF8574
It should also be more generally applicable to other boards, if you adjust the used I2C controller. You don't need to speak any I2C protocol to use this at all; the Linux kernel handles it all for you!
I encourage anyone to edit the wiki article if they find a mistake, and expand the guide as is reasonable. I believe that collaboratively we can produce great guides for the board.
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