Hi all, if anyone can help me, that would be great!

I am having all sorts of trouble writing to my sdcard on 2 different pinephone ce editions, on two different sdcards (both using mobian, from the encrypted installer).

The most I have been able to achieve it to create a new folder on one, using sudo, but even then I could not copy files into it (even using sudo), getting errors like "you dont have permission..."

As the normal user, there is no hope of anything being written, and I have tried a number of file managers, ie: the console-based midnight commander, nemo, nautilus, Pcmanfm and thunar.

I also, using sudo in the console or to run the others, cannot change the ownership of the folder that I created (root).

Please someone tell me the silly mistake I am making? Thanks!

In case this is helpful to others, I thought I would just provide a "heads up" about what seems to be a surprisingly well-behaved program which has solved my calendar and email needs, -thunderbird.

I have tried several programs for these 2 needs, and always run into problems for my desired use, and had also initially dismissed tb too, but after much trial and error, I finally found that tb is surprisingly suitable for me, if tweaked in certain ways, and also fairly robust.

disclaimer: I am no computer expert, my experiences here are just provided "as-is" and completely at your own risk.

I installed tb from the terminal using:

sudo apt install thunderbird

then, to make if fit the screen:

scale-to-fit thunderbird

then, to increase some text sizes (including my homescreen, which changed to 3 columns):

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Cantarell 15'

(it was previous set to 'Cantarell 11')


I ran tb (from a new icon which appeared), and setup an email account, then setup a calendar (I use caldav).

Here are some tricks I had to discover:

If I cant see an off-screen option, try swapping to landscape to get to it.

If I cant see the keyboard, button at bottom-right will bring it up, and also get it back out of the way.

If my keyboard doesn't have arrow keys visible, press round symbol at bottom, second from left for a few seconds, and a menu pops up, I press the "terminal" option, and then you can access arrows, del, ctrl, alt esc, f1-f10, and many more.

I permanently enabled the menus on tb, as they only take a few millimetres of height.

To get to the menus first time, I bring up keyboard, press second from right bottom button which looks like this >_ and then press F10, -however I then have to navigate the menus via the keyboard arrow keys untill the menus are permanently enabled for the first time (selecting: View-Toolbars-Menubar), as touch wont operate them till then.

On the menu of the email page, I choose View-Layout-Wideview, which make the messages go full width across the screen.

I reduce the width of the folders colunm to the least that it is workable, -this can take patience, and can crash tb, but it seems to recover just fine.

I can increase the size of individual email messages by using CTRL +  (ie: choose numbers on the keyboard, then toggle the Ctrl key to on, then press the + till the text is big enough.) -I have to remember to toggle the Ctrl key off again afterwards, or I cant type anything!!! -that's tricked me a few times...

If I need a right-click menu, I can achieve this via the >_ button of the terminal, where I have found a "Menu" key.

In the "subject" pane, the last tiny option on the right of "Date" gives the option of unticking various symbols on that line, ie: "threads" etc, giving more room to see the subject of emails.

In the calendar tab, I select month view, and strectch the window above it to about a third of the screen height, and set it to display all future events.

I also switch off the long window on the right side which gives an overview of today's appointment, as it takes too much space.

I also go to the preferences menu and choose to display short-dates, and also increas the font size to about 20 or 30.

Regarding the scale-to-fit function, I noticed that it is good to enable the calendar, as this seems to trigger the scaling to fit the screen better, for the email tab as well. The scaling can take a few seconds to catch up when the program is first started.

I find that though the detail is quite small, with the tweaks I make it works pretty well for me, -however I do have quite good sight at close range.

Regards all, hope this is helpful to someone!

Hi, guys.
I tried to flash image from wiki.
It's named STOCK.
But it not stock, it is TV version.
Do you have a normal stock version of Android 9 ?

I just wanted to say thanks for the full disk encryption capability, it has bumped this distro into "daily driver" capability for me. Much appreciated!! Now I am working my way through deciding which programs to use.

Hi,

I have a A64 1GB Board with the ZWave Plus IO Card which is running Armbian Focal by default. I'm trying to get see if the ZWave module is working and to test this I installed openzwave and libopenzwave from the apt repo's.

After rebooting, I tried to verify that the ZWave module is working by running "sudo MinOZW /dev/ttyS2" but I get the following error:

Hello,

I am using rockpro64 board.

RK3399 supports spi slave mode accrording to datasheet of RK3399.

My question: Is it possible to use slave mode on RockPro64 board?

Thank you.

does it work?:

https://betanews.com/2021/01/05/new-windows-95/

Hello Pine64 community,
I recently booted MrFixit's Debian image off of sd, and I noticed that the Power LED was able to blink to indicate disk activity. I have Manjaro XFCE installed on my emmc, and I'm curious to know if there's any way to enable this feature there too. Thanks.

So I followed here what they mentioned 

https://youtu.be/FD67UPVFouM?t=562



Settings > Update > Update Settings then select the latest kernel.

After about 20, or so tries,  was finally downloaded.

Now to install, it needs you to press the "Install" button, and then a popup comes saying

"The device needs to restart to install the system update"
"Restart & Install"
"Cancel"

I press and "Restart & Install" and the popup disappears. I have also tried manually restarting, but getting nothing.

Hello, extremely new to Linux in general, had lots of help in figuring things out with my PBP. Wanting to try out Debian on my SD card and ran into some troubles. Got the installer script completed, but when I load up again I get a black terminal screen, with a login/password. I set up my username in the install but it did not ask me for a password. Is there a default for this? Unable to load up any kind of start screen, so maybe something went wrong with the script?