I bought the Pinebook Pro and was just running the Manjaro Linux default operating system. I installed all of the most amazing programming tools and games and it was running fine....until today. I was trying to install the updates using the default graphical package manager that appears on the desktop. However it just froze during it and I could not even close it or get other things working. So I tried to force a shutdown by holding the power button. Then when I booted it up again and hit enter, it completely froze. I could not login to KDE Plasma anymore. However I had installed the Gnome Desktop environment last month so next time I selected the Gnome session and then entered my password and hit enter. It successfully booted me into Gnome. So I know the problem probably lies with something in KDE.

For now I have a workaround. I ran these commands to disable the default login screen and replace it with gdm.

systemctl disable sddm
systemctl stop sddm
systemctl enable gdm
systemctl start gdm


So I can successfully log into Gnome but only a few of my installed programs load at all. I can browse in firefox, run commands in a terminal, and open the file manager to move files around, but other programs don't open at all from the menu. I'm not sure what went wrong and I spent two hours trying things before giving up for the night. Has anyone else encountered similar problems? I think I may have a half installed update because the crash seemed to happen when I first installed the updates. I broke something and I'll try again when I have the strength. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how to get things back the way they were.

pressing on Display in settings cause a return to empty desktop, no display settings.

known issue? fix?

new Manjaro 3Gb 32Gb version , updated with software app.

Hello 

I am new to Linux world and looking for help in installation of Ubuntu

Do we have step by step instructions on how to install Ubuntu on Pine book pro. i dont want to mess up things so thought to ask  

Thanks

Hi All, I just received my Pine64 laptop. Nice machine!

Unfortunately, I have not been able to get internet access working. I have xfinity wifi, and I am connected successfully to it with a Windows laptop. I tried to enable WiFi using the Network Management icon on the right side of the taskbar. Networks shows the available Wifi access points correctly. When I click Connect, it displays "configuring I/F" for a few seconds, then displays "setting network address" for about a minute. Then it reports, "Connection failed", followed by "Wireless Interface (wlan0) IP configuration was unavailable".

I found a post that advised turning on "IPv4 required for this connection" in System Settings -> Connections. I tried this but got the same error.

Thanks for any advice. I am vi competent, and have no trouble changing settings in /etc/long/twisty/path/to/somewhere/* ...

(uname -a reports (in part): 5.7.2-1-MANJARO-ARM )

I received a Pinebook pro recently and it arrived with the touch capacitive sticker on the trackpad containing air bubbles and creases (please see picture). This sticker is required for the trackpad to work. I realize it looks like a protective film, but if I remove a portion of it and use my finger on the trackpad, the pointer does not move.

Could someone please inform me about the material I need to buy to replace the sticker please?

Greetings,

Do you know if the PinePhone is compatible with the 5G please?

Also, is Tethering something that will work, please?

Cheers,
Jimmy

I've been using Debian on my Pinebook Pro for quite a while now, going through some iterations:

1. A few days after receiving my Pinebook Pro in early 2020, I installed Debian on a microSD card using the script from https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pineb...installer/, disabled eMMC, and used only the microSD card
   
2. A few weeks later I installed an NVMe SSD in my Pinebook Pro and copied over the installation from the microSD card, but kept u-boot and /boot on the microSD card
   
3. Again some time later I finally flashed u-boot to the SPI flash and could boot directly from the NVMe SSD, so I got rid of the microSD card. Time for a fresh installation I thought and tried the very latest (daily) SD card image for the Debian Installer, leading to
   
4. installing Debian using the serial console as the Pinebook Pro's display did not turn on when booting the Debian Installer. However, I could install Debian on the NVMe SSD (/boot plus encrypted /), remove the microSD card with the installer and boot the fresh installation. Serial console only, so I grabbed https://github.com/xmixahlx/pbp-tools and compiled kernel 5.7, booted it and finally the display turned on.
   

I've been really liking the pinephone, but I installed manjaro kde edition on a 64GB sd card, and everything worked fine. Then I updated a lot of packages and now I can't make phone calls, write text messages and use mobile data.

I'm surprised as it works well on the other two editions of manjaro even after an update, but I don't really like the interfaces and those environments seem to be really slow compared to the kde edition.

My kernel is 5.10.1-1-MANJARO-ARM
The verison of ofono is 1.31-4

Also ofonoctl throws a python error, even with sudo
Any help would be really appreciated!

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Use dietpi-software to quick and easy install Ready to Run & Optimised applications for your system. DietPi will do all the necessary configurations, including starting the services.

DietPi images are available for PINE A64, PINE H64, Pinebook, ROCK64 and ROCKPro64.

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