Hello!

I would like to know can I use Libre Office Writer etc. on Pinetab2? I don't mean review versions because I want to use writer version. I don't have yet Pinetab2 but I'm considering to buy it.

I'm currently testing a #Mobian kernel patch to improve battery life on the #PinephonePro and it's looking promising (about 3 hours of continuous use instead of 1 hour). If you'd like to try it out, assuming you are running Mobian, download the linked deb file onto your phone, install it, then shutdown your phone and remove battery, wait 10 minutes (to reset the battery meter), then boot into the new kernel. I recommend using this with Megi's uboot bootloader as you can then choose which kernel to boot into (6.16 is my patched one, 6.12 is the current Mobian one).

Note that suspend doesn't work in this kernel, I am looking into this. One additional bonus with this kernel is that if you uninstall the default Camera app, then install Camera from Flathub, it should work fine with both front and back cameras, you can take photos and scan QR codes and the image is not inverted on the back camera.

Let me know if you try it out.

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I see on the Manjaro forums they have a thread for every ARM Unstable Update.
https://forum.manjaro.org/c/arm/100

They say that only ARM Unstable is maintained anymore, but Testing seems to be getting updates too.

This Testing update arrived around 07.26 (Sat). Videos that used to play fine in mpv started getting debilitating amounts of audio dropouts with a buffer underrun message each time.

At first I thought it was due to video decompression getting less efficient and eating all the CPU, but playing the same files with --no-video and top running showed the system lightly loaded (~8% CPU), and yet the audio dropouts occured in the exact same places.

I tried updating to the Megi 6.15 kernel and rebooting. mpv no longer said "Audio device underrun detected" but the dropouts still occured, and pulseaudio was now hanging all the time and needing to be killed & restarted.

Start reading through this loooong page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAu...leshooting

Try running with pulseaudio -v, notice that it seems to be suspending too much.

Section 4.8, unload-module module-suspend-on-idle

And that fixed the problem completely.

(I had tried various other things since 07.26 like turning timer-based scheduling on and off, and adjusting buffer sizes, and so far none of it had helped.)

So pulseaudio suspend-on-idle is currently completely broken, at least with the default config. It thinks it's "idle" while it's playing back a video and the laptop is actively being used.

Next problem was pulseaudio sometimes starts endlessly spamming to the console,

My Pinetab 2 has been sitting unused for months at this point and I am considering selling it because it simply does not have any use case for me, it’s far too slow to be convenient for most tasks when I have access to my desktop PC most of the time and the clunkiness makes me want to avoid using it for Anki flashcard reviews when I am away from the PC. Has the Bluetooth been fixed since I last tried it? If it has then I could maybe consider using it as a portable media machine with my Pinebuds Pro. Thanks

Hello,
I recently got my PINETAB-V. I connected the USB-C power cable and pressed the power button for exactly 2 seconds, as instructed in the manual.

It looked like the OS was about to boot, but the following message has been repeating for over 4 hours:

`[21966.202233] [WARNING][BB]Skip gain error setting in scan status`

According to the documentation at [https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTab-V/\_full/]
> The 2nd batch of PineTab-V devices ship with a Debian Bookworm image from StarFive.

So I was expecting the OS to be pre-installed — is that not the case?

Hello

I tried to enable the serial console on my RockChip RK3399 to inspect what happens as soon as FreeBSD boots. This is the tutorial that I'm following :

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6387

This is the adapter that I'm using :

Hello,

I was working on linux on the Radxa Zero 3W. Unfortunately, I am having  some issues getting CPUFreq up. It complains about  missing OPP tables.
While I dont ask for help with fixing the Zero 3W, since this will be offtopic, I would just like to know how the CPUFreq  system  works on Quartz64.

Does CPU Frequency scaling work on the Quartz64(especially with mainline 6.12.35)?
Does it use the mainline cpufreq-dt driver or does it require some rockchip patches?
Are the OPP tables supplied by the DTB or is there something like rockchip-opp to supply them?

Thank you.

I lost my current pinephone, and looking to purchase another one. anybody had a luck getting the pro recently, like as within the past couple of weeks?

Hello, I am a newbie in Linux and I have a problem with login to Manjaro linux.
I bought pinebook pro Pine64 in Canada and I can use it normally. After I transfer to Thailand I cannot login to Linux screen and screen turn on as shown below.

Welcome to Manjaro-Arm
Website : https://manjaro.org
Forum :
IRC:
Matrix:
Last login: 

(Xxx@xxxx)$

How can I fix this?
Please help.

Hi

After 

Quote:- deleting symlink /lib64 
- apt update ; apt upgrade
- reboot