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Question 1U Rackmount Case for ROCKPro64
Posted by: tuaris - 02-18-2021, 05:59 PM - Forum: RockPro64 Hardware and Accessories - Replies (3)

I like the current Metal Desktop/NAS Casing that's available, but it would be nice to have a 1U rack mount variant of it. 
Does anyone know of an online retailer that would be willing to design custom casing? or is this something Pine64 themselves can do?


  Amazfish on Manjaro/KDE
Posted by: pagesix1536 - 02-18-2021, 03:08 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (3)

Just spent 2 hours trying to install Amazfish on Manjaro. This is not a trivial thing.  The amount of dependencies needed to get it to compile from a fresh image of the distro on the phone is enough to make you give up.  pacman is in no way intuitive at all compared to yum/dnf or apt making it harder to figure out what magic switches you need to pass to it to make it update or install dependencies.

I got it to finally install and it runs, but still haven't been able to figure out how to pair a Pinetime with it successfully.  I can pair the watch to the phone, but Amazfish still doesn't see it.  I'm tired of wrestling with this for now, and will try it later.

This won't get any adoption if compiling from source and troubleshooting our own errors during compilation is how to get apps installed.  It needs to be packaged in a way that it can easily be downloaded and installed (like a deb or rpm package) or contained completely in an runable format (like an appimage, flatpak, or snap).


Information OpenWrt image PineCube
Posted by: JuanEsf - 02-18-2021, 12:34 PM - Forum: Development Discussion on PineCube - Replies (14)

Hello everyone. this is the first openwrt image for pinecube totally to test i dont think it is stable. enjoy...

- kernel 5.10.16
- u-boot 2021.04-rc1
- 1GB partition

github link:
https://github.com/juanesf/openwrt

gdrive image link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ttO29qZ...sp=sharing

ps: do not activate wireguard in menuconfig, it has a conflict since since kernel 5.6 wireguard is integrated in kernel and gives problems with the package in the openwrt repository.


  Strange SD Card Problems
Posted by: anhilde - 02-18-2021, 06:42 AM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (7)

Hi,

I have Problems with SD card flashing that I cannot explain. Basically I have run Raspis for years, am comfortable with command line (Developer), have written lots of images to SD cards and mostly things worked as expected. Up to my pinephone. Basically I download images and write them to a 16GB card with dd like such:

Code:
/mnt/cloud/images# dd bs=128K if=Manjaro-ARM-phosh-pinephone-beta5.img of=/dev/sdd conv=fsync status=progress

On this one 16GiB card that I have lying around I can successfully do this with Manjaro Posh/KDE Images, Mobian and Arch for Arm. All work as expected. Now I have a bunch of 32GiB cards I'd like to use. But writing to those cards with the same dd command will result in boot failure. The LED on the pinephone turns red and that is iit. I have tried zeroing out the cards before write, bought new ones. None of the 32GiB cards work. I tried using different SD card readers etc. Nothing works. Except the trusty old 16Gib Sandisk Card. The 32Gib Cards are SanDisk and Transcend cards. If I flash for example Manjaro KDE, I get sensible values (to me) when checking the card with sfdisk like:

Code:
sfdisk -uS -d /dev/sdf
label: dos
label-id: 0x198aa440
device: /dev/sdf
unit: sectors

/dev/sdf1 : start=      62500, size=      437501, type=c
/dev/sdf2 : start=      500001, size=    9617119, type=83

The start sector of looks to be a bit far into the card, but it is the same as in the image:

Code:
fdisk -l Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-beta2.img
Disk Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-beta2.img: 4.8 GiB, 5174722560 bytes, 10106880 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xdc868f53

Device                                        Boot  Start      End Sectors  Size Id Type
Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-beta2.img1      62500  500000  437501 213.6M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-beta2.img2      500001 10106879 9606879  4.6G 83 Linux

Any help or pointer would be really appreciated as to what could be the reason for this. Next stop is getting a UART Adapter so I can see what the bootloader is doing I guess.

Best Regards,

anhilde


  Quartz64 chat
Posted by: Luke - 02-18-2021, 05:39 AM - Forum: News - Replies (21)

Hey all,

Quartz64 chat has now been set up, and as always you've three protocols to choose from.
It doesn't matter which protocol you choose as a three-way bridge is in place.

Quartz64 on Discord
Quartz64 on Telegram
Quartz64 on Matrix
Quartz64 on IRC (#quartz64)

See you there!


  Sylpheed, Nextcloud Screensize not for Mobile
Posted by: Franze_m - 02-18-2021, 02:38 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (6)

Hello,
i installed sylpheed and nextcloud from the software-menu, but the programs are not usable, because the screensize does not fit
the mobile screen. 
I hope that i am right here.


Bug Wake up from charging problem
Posted by: j4n3z - 02-18-2021, 02:23 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (11)

Hello,
I am running latest Mobian on PinePhone Mobian edition.
In the evening (cca 22:00) I put phone with battery level at around 10-20% on 5V/2A charger. In the morning (cca 6:00) the phone is charged but not responding. Screen is black and device does not react to power button or display tap (the screen does not even light-up, just stays off).
To get the phone up and running I have to perform hard reset (PWR button press for 8s to turn off and then 2s to turn on again).
My guess is Mobian enters something like "deep sleep" mode, not sure if caused by system or Phosh.

I have auto sleep set only for battery and turned off for charger.

According to my observation this happens only when battery hits 100%. I tried to wake up phone during charging several times and last wake up was at about 96% battery charge and then few minutes later the phone did not wake up.

Do you have any idea what could cause the issue?
Can I prevent this? I did not try offline charging yet.

Thanks


Exclamation Pinebook Pro dead after dd
Posted by: crmcalls - 02-18-2021, 12:17 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

I booted my Pinebook Pro with a microSD card running Mankato and used it to download an image to flash to my EMMC, after doing so I shut it down and noticed the charging LED would turn off after about a 30 seconds I tried turning it on and was met with nothing, no power led on the top of the keyboard and no light from the barrel connector. I opened the back and hit the reset button but to no avail, I unplugged the battery, removed and disabled EMMC, tried using usb c to charge but still nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Edit: Got it to boot from microSD however I’m greeted with “give root password for maintenance or press control D to skip, pressing control D reads cannot read /dev/tty1 and it hangs. Any advice?


  Native apps using local mysql server or equivalent
Posted by: rbclemen - 02-17-2021, 05:55 PM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (2)

I have ordered a Pinephone and I am looking to experiment with writing apps for Linux devices. 

One question that I cannot seem to find any mention of in the forum--Would a program that relies on a locally running MySQL backend be at all practical?


  PinePhone Cross Compiler Install
Posted by: dgdimick - 02-17-2021, 11:44 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (2)

I'm trying to install a GCC cross compiler so I can write so really bad code for when my PhinePhone gets here; a 5th grader is probably a better coder then I am.

Anyway, I'm using these instructions, and it work just fine untill I try to install glibc

https://preshing.com/20141119/how-to-bui...-compiler/

Code:
make -j4 csu/subdir_lib
returns this
make[2]: *** [/home/dgdimick/PinePhone/CrossCompiler/build-glibc/sysd-rules:9: /                                                                                                            home/dgdimick/PinePhone/CrossCompiler/build-glibc/csu/libc-start.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
check_fds.c: Assembler messages:
check_fds.c:81: Error: no such instruction: `brk '
make[2]: *** [../o-iterator.mk:9: /home/dgdimick/PinePhone/CrossCompiler/build-g                                                                                                            libc/csu/check_fds.o] Error 1
In file included from ../include/errno.h:25,
                from ../csu/libc-tls.c:20,
                from ../sysdeps/aarch64/libc-tls.c:19:
../sysdeps/aarch64/libc-tls.c: In function ‘__tls_get_addr’:
../sysdeps/aarch64/nptl/tls.h:91:19: error: ‘__builtin_thread_pointer’ is not su                                                                                                            pported on this target
  91 |  (((tcbhead_t *) __builtin_thread_pointer ())->dtv)
      |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../sysdeps/aarch64/libc-tls.c:30:16: note: in expansion of macro ‘THREAD_DTV’
  30 |  dtv_t *dtv = THREAD_DTV ();
      |                ^~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [/home/dgdimick/PinePhone/CrossCompiler/build-glibc/sysd-rules:485:                                                                                                              /home/dgdimick/PinePhone/CrossCompiler/build-glibc/csu/libc-tls.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/dgdimick/PinePhone/CrossCompiler/glibc-2.29/cs                                                                                                            u'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:258: csu/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/dgdimick/PinePhone/CrossCompiler/glibc-2.29'
make: *** [Makefile:9: csu/subdir_lib] Error 2

dgdimick@Samba:~/PinePhone/CrossCompiler/build-glibc $



Any ideas? Or am I just doing this wrong, like there's already as package to install?

I'm running on an old laptop that has Ubuntu installed.