PinePhone, brand new, manjaro, phosh, unstable.

Beta10 is out.

cat /etc/manjaro-arm-version
pinephone - phosh - beta8

scratched head, switched to unstable, updated mirrors using:
pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 
did packman -Syyu

above version file didn't change.

Did I screw something up or is version file lying to me?

(new to manjaro, 30 years of unix CLI you can use big words)

I browsed Allwinners homepage and there seems to be new 4GB alternatives to A64 still with 32 bit memory addressing. Any development towards fitting one of these  (4GB RAM is much more than 2, and power consumption seems to be going downwards ) to the A64 sopine baseboard? 

Also would be cool to participate in work with a more mature SOC for implementing automotive security features towards smart devices,
(IE Pinephone 1.0) in regards to financial integrity and privacy regarding personal health applications.

Good day everyone. 

I'm in need of some assistance.  I have my pinebook pro attached to the Pine 64 docking deck and having some trouble with the deck's ethernet port.  I have USB-C power going into the docking deck along with an external HDMI monitor plugged into the HDMI port. I then have the deck's ethernet port connected to my network switch.  The problem i'm haviing is that when I power up the pinebook pro, the ethernet port doesn't activate and connect to my network.  This happens more time then not.  Once in awhile it will connect on power up, but mostly I will put the pinebook to sleep and then wake it up and then the ethernet port will activate.  Does anyone have a solution?  Thanks.

/Mike

Are the Allwinner SOCs unique in persisting default boot from SD cards
 or are there SOCs from other manufacturers with similar features?

Thought this video could be of interest to the forum, demonstrating something interesting you can do on your Pinephone (using a well known encryption front end called Zulucrypt).

Luks encryption is a standard on Linux. However did you know if your phone is hacked or stolen while powered on/unlocked, that data becomes retrievable by potential thieves?

Howto: create a hidden encrypted volume inside a video file. Allowing you to store especially sensitive files/data such as for example:
cryptocurrency keys, banking information, journalist notes/source information, and anything else that needs to stay encrypted/discreet (most of the time).

Anytime you unlock this encrypted volume inside a video file, that volume acts as a normal block device: you can read it, write to it etc. Unmounting locks the hidden volume back into a video file.

Video: https://youtu.be/87yg8peq3kw

I gave vivaldi a try.  it seems reasonably responsive.
However it displays web pages only using the left half the screen.  The right side is some sort of what looks to be a vivaldi supplied background image.

vivaldi itself, its menus, and such all seem properly placed, but when I visit a web page it only populates the left half of the display area.  The scroll bar is basically in the middle.

Left / right scroll works but only within the 1/2 screen.

Also, the exit dialog pops up a confirmation model and the okay button is off the screen.

Switching the phone vertical to horizontal orientation and back fixes the screen layout and allows one to get to the exit button  also.

I went into the default chat app and was surprised to find the send button for the text message off the screen to the right.

Switching the phone to horizontal gave me access to the button.

Hi all,

I've just installed Mobian Phosh on my Pinephone flashing it on my SD card. I find it incredibly useful, fast and easy to use, but waiting for improves to come.

I find a problem now when I try to update the Operative system or when I try to install any other software. I can't do it because, as it notifies me, executing dpkg was interrupted, and I have to execute it manually "dpkg --configure -a" to fix the problem.

The other problem I have, is that I can't find terminal to try to fix that, and I can't install it because of the same issue.

Thanks a lot for helping me,

Gon.

Hello,

I have an up to date manjaro-arm plasma-mobile system and even pre the latest update when I open the terminal all goes well for a while inputting characters to bash then i will suddenly see my input in the 'auto-complete'(?) top part of the virtual keyboard? Pressing enter will still run the commands sometimes but soon no characters are input anywhere, bash, or the auto-complete section. Closing the terminal from the gui and starting it again solves the problem temporarily until the cycle repeats. Also is there any way to run the terminal in landscape mode and increase the font size? Thanks.

Hi folks!

Has anyone who uses mobian tried to connect to a wifi access point with WPA3 (SAE) enabled? My PineTab cannot connect, although "WPA3 personal" is set in the network manager. "WPA2/WPA3 mixed mode" works fine...