Hi there,

thanks for this nice board. So far I have a working NAS setup with a Quartz64 model A, using the Startech 8 port SATA board plugged into the PCIe slot.

I am now trying to switch between battery powered "low power" mode and the "regular" 12V power supply. I know from reading the Wiki

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64_Mo..._a_battery

that the PCIe slot is powerd down while using the battery.

Now comes the challenge: how to properly reengage the PCIe slot when switching back from battery mode to the "fully powered" mode?

So far I tried:

- unmount all drives before disconnecting the 12V main power supply
- remove the PCIe slot via "echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:00.0/remove"
- switch off the 12V supply

So far so good. The system keeps on running, the NIC is still powered, everything seems to work as expected, I am still logged in via ssh after disconnecting the 12V supply.

Now, when I reengage the 12V supply, I try to resurrect the PCIe bus via

echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan

This makes the PCEe bridge reappear. But the SATA-controller plugged into the slot is not reinitialized. I tried also

echo 1 >  /sys/devices/platform/3c0000000.pcie/pci0000\:00/pci_bus/0000\:00/rescan

But this does not seem to have an effect. The output of "lspci" still only reads:

root@nas:~# lspci  
00:00.0 PCI bridge: Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd RK3568 Remote Signal Processor (rev 01)

but should be something like this

root@nas:~# lspci  
00:00.0 PCI bridge: Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd RK3568 Remote Signal Processor (rev 01)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
02:01.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
02:02.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
02:03.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
02:04.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X2G608GP PCIe2 6-Port/8-Lane Packet Switch
03:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
42:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
81:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
c0:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061/ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)

I would be kind of cool (for power-saving reasons) if it would be possible to dynamically switch between battery and 12V main power supply. Is there any knowledge in this forum how to achieve this?

Kind thanks in advance for any comments, best

Claus

Hello

On October 1, 2024 I have ordered PinePhone from pine64.com
Order Number 357282 PayPal Transaction ID 2RY52872NE788445V
Can you please give me a little more info about my order ... Shipping Update etc please???
My order is accepted or is not accepted?
If accepted - what is about delivery, how long delivery takes?
If its not accepted - why I have any notification yet or why you did not full refund it?
Just to confirm - I want PinePhone I have ordered
Thank you in advance

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.

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?

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.
  

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

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

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.

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.

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.