I am still in early exploration phases, but I am pretty sure I was able to open and look around in Maps (the default program, which is apparently Gnome Maps) before.  But not lately.

I don't recall doing much (if anything) out of the ordinary.  Also I have been upgrading via terminal with apt update && apt upgrade (after reading of some problems updating via GUI).

Just curious if anyone else have also noticed this?

Hello all,

I would like to utilize the video decoding capabilities of the RK3399, but so far I had no success. Many people seem to underestimate how difficult this is and just assume it works without effort.

Here is how to verify whether it works, using mpv, chromium and firefox:
(the pictures are taken on my x86_64 PC)

1. mpv
CTRL + H toggles hardware decoding. If it can't use cuda/vdpau/vaapi then it will just say 'no' all the time.

2. chromium
open the developer panel with F12, open the Media tab

as you can see, VDA is hardware accelerated. Other decoders (Vpx, Dav1d, FFmpeg) are used for the VP9, AV1, and Theora codecs. Neither my Radeon nor the RK3399 have hardware support for these codecs.

3. firefox
run

So far my major complaint is the touch pad, really keeps me form using it more, largely the need to really press the right/left click buttons (I'm used to ez/soft touch buttons) but the sensitivity's not been something I've been able to dial in to be happy either, 

I've had wireless issues as well, lots of connectivity/dropping and poor streaming, but I don't know that that's not software related

Just feedback I hope helps with future developments 

Number one dislike for me on the hardware is the speaker is too close to the mic, good speaker, but on speaker phone I have to keep the volume pretty low so the caller doesn't hear themselves echo, if the next version chosen could employ a different design, speaker located at the top for instance, that would be great 

Hi,

since I haven't found a tutorial on how to use a usb smartcard (like f.e. Nitrokey/Librem Keys) to unlock the Luks encrypted volume on a Pinephone, I had a look at it myself and found a way to do it (at least on Mobian).
If someone else wants to try this, I've modified the Luks gpg fde configuration script from Purism (https://source.puri.sm/pureos/packages/s...d-key-luks) to automate the configuration on the PinePhone with Mobian.

Feel free to have a look: https://github.com/sam-m7/smartcard-luks-osk

It works by using a modified version of the gnupg-sc keyscript (/usr/lib/cryptsetup/scripts/decrypt_gnupg-sc). The modified version uses the on-screen keyboard (osk-sdl that is also used for normal fde) and forwards the output to gpg (PIN). After 90 seconds there is a fallback and the keyboard pops up, also if no smartcard was detected. You can then type in a passphrase from a different keyslot (without gpg being called). But there is no feedback (at least not on the screen, a little bit on the serial console).

The recognition of the USB Device sometimes takes long. As far as I would say there is a problem with the anx7688 kernel module, because if it doesn't work, this is printed in the serial console (UART adapter) all the time (not only in the initramfs stage):

Now that we have working LAN, we can link this image here

https://github.com/manjaro-arm/quartz64-...s/releases

The image is updated weekly.

With

• LAN
  
• PCIe
  
• USB2
  

• USB3
  
• SATA-Port
  
• HDMI
  

Quote:If there is no battery plugged into the board, the jumper labelled "ON/OFF_BATT" must be in place. If this is set wrong, stability issues such as failures to boot will occur.

I'm just at the beginning of my testings. But I can confirm that it is possible to hear at least the OS itself sounds from pinephone, when I'm using mumble and doing volume up volume down one a pinephone it is possible to hear those volume adjustment beeps on the other end while mic is supposedly switched off by hardware switch.

KDE Manjaro CE

I am having trouble with the Twinkle SIP application.

I am able to use Zoiper on my laptop, but Zoiper won't run in PinePhone. (If I am wrong, please send me a link so I can install.)

For the Zoiper app, I use the following information:

username (123456)
password (135790)
and the SIP server sip.companyname.abc

I put these in Twinkle and when I try to connect, I get an error:

Failed to create a UDP socket (SIP) on port 5060

strerror_r is not available: 98

I am also not sure where I should be putting the information I have into Twinkle in order to log in correctly. Twinkle has many, many options and I did my best, but it just won't seem to connect.

Does anyone know what to do?

hello, I need a beginners help or a tutorial, to learn sxmo's user scripts, please

1) I am too stupid to be able to ssh to my pinephone (from OSX)
2) installed Thunar and found my empty unserscripts folder
3) would like to locate userscripts and copy them to my userscropts folder
4) on edit userscripts and ../ I get a list of contacts.tsv, hooks/, userscripts/, xinit of course, none of these menus does anything, probably because my userscripts folder is empty.

Now if I could locate some scripts in the internet, download them, and copy them into the userscripts folder (with firefox and thunar), I imagine that might be a first step. Later do the same via ssh. Are there any helpful links for shell scripting and sxmo scripts?

On https://git.sr.ht/~mil/ I see much about scripting but very few that I can understand ;(
There seems to exist a script to sleep the phone after a while. I would like to install it and see what it does.

Has anyone gotten "Librewolf Browser  to work on their PBP? If so let us know.