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  Star64/Starpro64 kernel building
Posted by: global - 10-04-2024, 08:36 PM - Forum: General - No Replies

I'm running Debiaan Trixie userland on the Star64, from an NVMe, with a 5.15.131-star64 kernel built by one of the images which are available.

I was not able to find a tree with kernel sources for the Star64 though, has someone details? The "tun" kernel module is not available for the kernel I'm using.


  pin for postmarketOS
Posted by: glidingarrow - 10-04-2024, 07:38 PM - Forum: General - No Replies

I bought a PinePhone 5 months ago. It was horrible. 

Worked on it again recently. Was advised to get a microSD card, pick a distro and go. 

I chose postmarketOS. Installed it. It asks for a pin. I don't see any docs on having to have a pin, nor, know what it is. Seems I can't do anything without it. 

I found 147147 on an old post. That didn't work. 

Anyone know what the pin is?


  Having difficulty installing PostmarketOS on Pinephone Convergence Beta edition
Posted by: spazz - 10-03-2024, 11:56 PM - Forum: General Discussion of PinePhone Pro - Replies (13)

Hi all.
I made a reply about this issue to this issue in somebody else's thread started in 2021,
but it might be bumping a thread which is too old.
The original thread is this:

    https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13703


My essential problems are:

  •  When I decompress and then dd the PostmarketOS image to an SD Card, I cannot boot from that SD Card on the Pinephone.   

  •  Alternately: When I try to directly follow the PostmarketOS instructions for this: It also will not boot from that SD Card.
       
  •  When I try to dd an image of  "JumpDrive" (PostmarketOSbootloader / boot selection tool developed by PostmarketOS devs) to the same SD Card, this also fails to boot.

This is a BRAND NEW SD card out of the package.
The Pinephone does SEE the SD Card when I run lsblk on the pinephone, so it is mysterious to me why it cannot boot the images when I flash them. 

So, I am mystified and must consult the wise oracles and wizards on this forum and hope for assistance.
   
Further specific details about my attempts and links are below.   

Brand new SD card.
I have a Pinephone Convergence Beta edition.
Running lsblk on the phone, it actually sees the sd card.

However, no matter what I seem to try, I cannot boot it to either PostmarketOS as flashed to the SD card, or to Jumpdrive (developed by some of the Postmarket developers).

In the other forum thread: 
One of the repondents  [MtnSk8]   suggested zeroing the first few bytes of the SD Card.

    https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13703


Q.
    HOW do I zero "the first few bytes" of the SD card for this operation,
    and exactly how many bytes is "the first few"?
    1?  2? 8? 16? 512? 1024?

I took a gamble on this from pinephone documentation
[url
https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePh...structions
[/url]

and tried:
Code:
    sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[DEVICE] bs=8k seek=1 count=4

But have no idea if that's what I am meant to do.
Anyway, this didn't help.

For flashing the image, I have attempted the following:

I tried flashing using standard dd method  (having first run unxz to decompress the postmarket.img.xz file)

Code:
    sudo dd if=postmarket.img of=/dev/sdXX status=progress

and also tried to flash using the interesting method of decompressing postmarket.img.xz  piped through dd as described in postmarket documentation below


    https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/JumpDrive


Code:
    xz --decompress --stdout pine64-pinephone.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk... status=progress

In this case, I think the instructions are indicating doing this on the pinephone itself, but I am flashing it to the SD card using my linux desktop. 
So, in the instructions,

Code:
    /dev/mmcblk...

...in my case obviously becomes
Code:
    /dev/sdXX

I have attempted all these methods a few times, after my ignorant attempt at zeroing the first few bytes of the SD Card.
Still no luck or success at all. 
Thanks anybody for any help or advice.


  Pinebuds volume in each ear
Posted by: CaptSpify - 10-02-2024, 09:10 PM - Forum: General - No Replies

My pinebuds have different volume levels. The left is louder than the right
Is there a way for me to reset or adjust their volume levels to be the same?

Thanks


  Unable to switch from Wasp-OS back to Inifinitime using GadgetBridge
Posted by: Bruce Kissinger - 10-02-2024, 07:31 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PineTime - No Replies

I have installed the latest version of Wasp-OS on a new PineTime watch, however I would like to switch back to Infinitime.  I installed Wasp-OS using the latest version of GadgetBridge (v 0.18.0) on an Android phone and the process was really simple.  However, I have run into problems trying to switch from Wasp-OS back to Infinitime.  

The problem is that when I try to use GadgetBridge to install the Inifinitime Zip files, I get an error from GadgetBridge that states "FW/App Installer - Element cannot be installed".  GadgetBridge is successfully connected to the watch via BLE.  I've tried a number of different versions of the Zip files, but all return the same error.  

Does anyone have advice for how to get past this?  Thank you in advance


  Searching for a PinePhone Keyboard Case
Posted by: RubiksCube - 10-02-2024, 12:35 PM - Forum: PinePhone Accessories - Replies (1)

Hey there,

I am looking for an original PinePhone Keyboard Case as it is not possible to buy it from the official store (and sadly will maybe never be). If you have one for sale, just write me a pm with your price and location (and maybe a picture) and we will get this going. I am also willing to pay for international shipping.


Thanks!
P.


  Unable to use umlaut key combos
Posted by: ili - 10-01-2024, 12:44 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (4)

Hi guys,

the pinebook pro wiki says in the keyboard section it should be possible to type German umlauts by using key combos.

--------------
Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, ü

[AltGr]+'[' followed by [A], [O], [U], [a], [o] or [u
--------------

I think i tried everything but i can't get it working.

I used Manjaro ARM Flasher and installed

pbpro kde-plasma 23.02

Is there anything else i need to do?

I left all settings unchanged

Hardware is set to Gerneric 104-key PC


Can anybody help me?

Thanks in advance.


  Some Suspense.... Camerra App
Posted by: biketool - 09-27-2024, 06:25 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (3)

Ran updates today and noticed that there were system updates as well as the camera app, I am running Trixie on a Pinephone Pro.
Clicked the camera app just to see and unlike usual it asked me to authorize camera use, had a moment of hope before it prompted that there were no cameras found in the system.
Is there any tracking I could look at on the work being done to bring the PPP cameras front and back to use in Mobian Trixie?  Searching the Mobian wiki doesn't seem to help me.  It also doesn't lead me the the hacks I see mentioned to trick the system into using the cameras on the PPP.


  desktop and lockscreen
Posted by: biketool - 09-25-2024, 05:11 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (1)

Is it at this time possible to set a custom lockscreen and/or desktop/background on mobian Trixie?
There is the option in settings but it didn't change anything except under some loading apps where the load screen is not present.


  No HDMI Video - Anything To Check?
Posted by: angrymallard - 09-25-2024, 04:58 AM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCKPRO64 - Replies (2)

Hello all, I am working on a RockPro64 that seems to have a non-functional HDMI output but I'm trying to see if there's anything else for me to check before I RMA the unit. Everything else seems to be working, for example I can load the minimal Armbian image to it, boot it, and then SSH into it and see that the computer itself is working. But at no point is there ever any video output. There's no boot screen visible either. I've tried two different HDMI cables on two different monitors, confirmed these cables/monitors work with other devices, tried to hook up a USB-C hub, etc.

I've tried a few other images as well, LibreELEC (originally I planned for this to be a media center so this was the first one I tried), a few different Armbian images including the XFCE Debian 12 version, the Cinnamon Debian 12 version, the Ubuntu Gnome version, and DietPi. I can't verify that any of these work, although I am pretty certain that these have SSH access disabled by default and without video there's no way for me to enable that to check on these distributions. I also used the "flash_spi" image here https://github.com/sigmaris/u-boot/wiki/...oot-to-SPI to make sure that was working properly.

I also tried to add the kernel module from this guide https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/ROCKPro64#N..._on_Debian but it seems like my problem is happening before the kernel loads since there's no video output at all when it boots in the first place.

Since I can boot and SSH into the minimal Armbian install, is there anything I should check before I send this unit back? I don't currently have a serial cable but hope that since I can SSH into a terminal I won't need one for looking around at anything.