Hi guys,

I'm running Manjaro on my PBP. Loving the device so far. They keyboard is amazing (backlight would have been nice, but I'm not gonna niggle about a $200 laptop) and the screen is pretty WOW.

I'm able to play 1080p30 video in youtube, but 1080p60 video turns into 1080p12 (or thereabouts — tons of dropped frames) in youtube, mpv, and vlc.

I'm running the latest Manjaro.

Has anyone managed to figure out 60fps 1080 video? I believe none of the players I've tried support hardware decoding. Is there any trick to this, or is it just a limitation of the FLOSS video drivers?

Thanks!

Hello!

I received my Pinecil in the mail yesterday.

When turning it on for the first time the screen flashed a message No USB-PD IC detected.



When powered from DC5525 the Pinecil works, but it emits strange crackling noises from the rear end where the power connectors are located.

Has anyone here experienced anything similar?

Thank you in advance,
JS

I can't seem to get the dock to consistently send a signal to my dell monitor.  Sometimes I turn it on and it works, others it doesn't.  I have come back to the machine a couple times when it was working to be greeted with the flashing red/green led. 

I flashed PCM's spi flash to boot off of a NVME drive.  It's a Mushkin 250 Drive.  

My system is Linux pinebookpro 5.13.4-1-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP Tue Jul 20 18:40:45 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux

I am using the official Pine64 dock.  I am using a powered HDMI to DisplayPort Adapter.  Plugged into the dock i have power, ethernet, mouse, keyboard, and HDMI.  I have tried using a VGA cable instead with similar results. 

I am aware of using the "linux-pinebookpro" package available from Manjaro, but I really want this to work using an up to date Kernel.  I could be wrong, butI believe the up to date kernel is more optimized. It feels that way.  

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

I cannot boot from the SD, and apparently I need to do that to flash the eMMC. Pinephone Beta, convergence model, came with Manjaro.

The first time I tried to insert an SD card, it wouldn't go in right. I looked into the slot, and two of the contacts did not look like the others.  My son took it apart and was able see they were bent up.  He was able to bend them down, and I managed to insert an SD with Mobian and boot from it. Now I want to flash Mobian to the eMMC, so I put Jumpdrive on another SD, but now no matter how I insert either SD, it won't boot from it. 

Oddly enough the phone does recognize the SD card after booting from the eMMC! lsblk shows mmcblk0 size 59.9G when the card is inserted, but it won't boot from the SD card it can see after boot!

Two questions:

The SD slot is damaged. Is this repairable?  

The phone does see the SD card after booting, is there a way to make it boot?

Hi folks,

Community Edition: I ran Mobian off of an SD Card.  Mainly used to tinker and play with different distros, never used as a daily driver. It works fine with AT&T mobile carrier in US.

$170 (includes flat rate postal shipping in US).

Our development main board consists of  Rockchip RK3399 Processor and Debian9/10 OS and we are using  fn-link 6222D UUC WiFi + Bluetooth 5.0 combo module in our IoT Application.

             But Bluetooth is not working in our custom Debian Linux. Please guide us further to solve this issue and send us the appropriate driver for Debian Linux.


PAF..,

I just updated Mobian today on my PinePhone, and now suddenly the keyboard quit working on the disk encryption screen.  I'm unable to enter my password.  Is there anything I can do?

I can see the keyboard, but I can't tap on any of the buttons.

Hi, just wanted to let you know that after flashing Tow-Boot to SPI I've got working suspend. Steps are described in updog's response here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/..._pinebook/

The instructions worked for the first release. I haven't checked out the new one yet since it requires a SD card

One of the things that people seem to like about the Librem 5 is the kill switches.

However, it seems like the Librem 5 will not be delivered until 2022 at the earliest.

If the next version of the PinePhone came out with kill switches for the modem and WiFi I suspect that it would generate a lot of sales for the PinePhone.

Of course, a faster processor and more RAM would be interesting as well, but the Kill Switches might be the Killer feature!

A computer repair shop tells me my PBP's mainboard needs replacing. Since they cost $99 + P&P on the official store, and they're currently out of stock anyway, I'm planning to get a new machine instead.

The problem I brought the machine in with was that, after a minute or so of a whining/buzzing noise one evening, all inputs - keyboard, mouse and USB - stopped working simultaneously. The machine could power on and off, and load the login screen, but I couldn't interact with it.

On opening it up, the repair guy spotted an area of discolouration, possibly some melted plastic, and a blob of solder on a chip, which he interpreted as signs of a component having blown. I'd been charging the machine from a power supply rated with three ratings, of which one was correct (5v, 3a) and the other two were not; and he guessed that the machine had sometimes been switching to off-spec ratings, as its power usage went up and down, and that over time this had caused damage and eventually failure somewhere in the motherboard.

If the guess is right, then I guess this is a caution not to use power supplies with multiple ratings.