Hi folks!

Sorry for the noob question but what's the point of a cluster? Is it a 28 core, 14 GB RAM machine? Will an application e.g. firefox browser use the power/ram of all sopine modules together? Since the modules are connected over ethernet, how does this work?
I thought about an replacement of my x86 Intel i7 and don't know if this is the way to go for me? (just related to performance, I know about SW limitation on ARM)

Can you enlighten me?

大家好，我只是想将pinebook pro恢复为出厂默认设置，并且想擦除闪存，所以找到了以下命令：
flash_erase / dev / mtd0 0 0
我想知道的是，仅运行上面的命令即可将spi flash擦除为默认值？ 

如果有人知道，请告诉我。

谢谢。

I don't know whether to blame hardware or software.  I'm using Daniel Thompson's Bullseye, I've been running it a few months.

In the past week or so the numlock suddenly sticks on, and you can't type much because all the keys with little numbers in addition to letters will only type numbers.  I can't turn it off with F10/Numlock, it does nothing, other keys like brightness also don't work, there's probably firmware missing or something.  It's mostly minor, but when the numlock sticks I have to ssh in from another machine and reboot it.  It just happened for the 4th time.

Searching the PineBook Pro area of this forum for numlock doesn't seem to find anything, anybody else seeng this? Oh, I use the ANSI keyboard and that's up to date as far as I know.

I've seen this mentioned here in the forum. I'm interested in being able to mount the SD card from the phone to my Ubuntu desktop. I haven't seen how to install this software. It's not in the Software installer app and I don't see it when I try it via apt. Thank you.

Hello,

I have been trying to make hardware encoding and audio work on the PineCube under Armbian, but it does not appear that either is supported. For hardware encoding all gstreamer plugins and similar seem to rely on a 'cedarx' device which doesn't exist, and similarly no audio device exists in the tree either, even though the audio codec for the V3/V3s/S3 SoCs is supposed to be supported since kernel 4.12.

Is there a way to make these features work under Armbian, or are there alternatives that may work better?

Hi folks,

I would like to replace my Lenovo Y580 (Intel Core i7-3630QM, 8GB RAM, SSD) in the near future with an "open source" alternative. What do you think about the performance of the RockPro64 compared to my Lenovo in real live? 50%? I have no need for 3D gaming, rendering videos or something, but I would like to have a "snappy" experience. Will I be happy with the RockPro64?

What do you think?

PS: My first though was about a Sopine cluster, but AFAIK it's NOT just a 28 core, 14GB RAM machine, right?

Hi,

I'd like to install a standard mobian/debian distribution to use my pinephone as a very small desktop replacement with a fullsize BT Keyboard + Mouse but  I got many of small Problems which are real showstoppers right now....

- The Display is still vertical and I see no way how to configure it to be 'normal' horizontally orientated, even after modifying the xorg.conf (or wayland)
- despite the fact I uninstalled (purged) POSH  it still boots automatically into the "old" system - gdm3 is installed but is ignored anyway...
- I don't get any framebuffer bootscreen with the kernel messages as all other devices do... don't know why my parameters while booting are absolutely ignored, it seems?

Maybe it's the wrong way to take a mobian an uninstall all "unneccessary" stuff from it, maybe there is a better way to start off a 'minimal debian' image on the phone?

Thanks a lot!

Cheers

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Since we are buying an experimental phone and with the pogo pins the assumption is we will be using alternate DIY casebacks; what safe options do we have for attaching a 3D printed caseback with screws?

Specifically I would prefer a hardware model with extra threaded screw holes for say M1 machine screws but I doubt we can have that before the next hardware rev betas in 3-4 years. In the absence of an updated hardware design is it possible, safe, and wise to use some of the screw holes that hold the interior cover to the frame?  If so which holes, what size screws, and how deep can the screws safely enter the frame?

As a side question is there a PCB with a kapton ribbon and breakout for the pogo pins now?  it would make designing DIY casebacks easier if I could just use adhesive to attach the pogo interface and attach the back with screws.

For those who are not already 3D printing the hot plastic squirting types can make a reasonably strong plane in a few mm but the sidewalls will never be strong enough to 'snap' on as the stock caseback does, hence the screw attachment thoughts.

a recent update added a beautiful display to svkbd, menus, the statusbar, etc, but it also caused a lot of apps to scale terribly. Firefox renders half off the screen for instance.

as a workaround I added

With 5G coming online, I am wondering about a new MODEM coming out with 5G, and/or support for LTE bands 66 and 71.