Hi!

Has anyone tried the PINEBOOK Pro USB-C Docking Deck under FreeBSD.
Ethernet is not detected on me.
What chipset is used in the PINEBOOK Pro USB-C Docking Deck?

This will walk you through installing Chromium on Mobian and Arch Linux. Chromium won't run yet on Manjaro or Postmarket OS. I think after you make these tweaks and use Chromium you will see it has quite a few advantages over Firefox.

Positives: Faster, seems to be better optimized. Scales better. Works excellent with full window Web apps with desktop shortcuts. Pretty much as good as real apps. You can use a lot of extensions, my VPN has one and it works very well.

Negatives: Keyboard has to be manually throttled up and down through the keyboard icon in the bottom right corner. Some keys on the touch keyboard don't seem to work like capital  C, and the @ symbol. No idea why. Work fine on the keyboard docked.

Here is a step by step walk through for installing and tweaking it.
It has to be installed through Flatpak, The Chromium apps in the Mobian and Arch software repository don't seem to work. I suspect it's a Wayland or X11 problem.

Add flatpak to Mobian from the terminal:

While on this 2GB cheaper version with KDE Manjaro CE edition (I havent manage to buy 3GB version in time) KDE Manjaro seems very sluggish out of the box, after an upgrade it became nearly as fluid as any fdriod, but it still feels a little bit overweight for 2GB ram as it would be on any other computer running KDE while having as much ram.

As I've never used manjaro itself and I've only used KDE on computers that at least has 4GB ram which is only not sluggish when its 8GB ram I was just thinking maybe someone has some tips for tweaking it ? Or could share their experiences

Si it might be only my ignorance that I expected some charger to be packed with phone. ofc I've ordered in a separate package battery charger itself, but getting to the point

upon first boot battery showed something like 30%
plugging it with that USB-C red cable to an ultrabook instantly shows it to be 40 or 50% something
unplugging it after few seconds shows like 47% percent which after a while resets to some other number

So I was just wondering if its just me not having a proper charger has such issues, maybe a battery is bad ?

I'm not refunding or whatever, but given such limited supply of components for phone in a package itself (talking of 2GB version) its a bit worrying. in a week or so I should get a package with more cables and docker and such, but this battery % status on KDE Manjaro UI is a bit worrying.

I've been switching between two SIM cards just lately, but I find it difficult to get them out

According to an Armbian forum post about Rock64:

Quote:Rock64 has many hardware problems, that is the reason why we don't support it anymore.

LXDE seems to be a viable option for Mobian on PineTab according the information at the bottom of this page. https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...vironments 

The sequence of steps is not too clear so I installed LXDE to start which after reboot results in a black screen with a mouse pointer.  Also while ctrl+alt+f1 brings up a console, it disappears within seconds.

I'll try installing xinput first and configuring xorg.conf and then LXDE and report back.

Any help would be appreciated.

As the title suggests, I got the new replacement boards that were on sale for ubports/braveheart users. I installed it, and now it vibrates when it turns on and continues to vibrate indefinitely. As it happens, I can actually boot mobian just fine off of the sd card. It just vibrates, regardless of what it is or isn't booting.

To confirm whether this was an installation mistake or not, I pulled out and put the board back in several times, making sure I got all the connectors. As far as I'm aware, the proximity sensor is installed correctly, as there is no red light. I went back and re-installed the old board just to be sure, and it works fine (although the touch screen wasn't working, but that might be because of some other factors; I dunno). 

To some, I suppose that could be a feature, but it's just kind of strange. I do have a tendency to be a little to ginger with my electronics, so, maybe, I pushed one of the pins in while sticking the board in the chassis? Maybe something's short. I've screwed in the frame but that didn't make a difference.

Hey All,

Running Pinephone Manjaro-Arm

I am unable to get my phone out of the box to update.  Going into software it says "no plugin could handle get-updates.  Try to update in terminal, however, shows "error:  failed to update core  (unable to lock database.  This happened with extra and community.  failed to Sync all databases.

Hi guys. So, i played a little with my pinebook and now selling it. Notebook is from second batch with iso layout. For me layout makes no difference, i just installing ansi layout. So, i am selling it only for people, who lives in Ukraine