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  OpenWRT + Intel I350-T4 + 1x1 Dual Band WIFI
Posted by: pi64 - 11-17-2020, 04:25 AM - Forum: RockPro64 Hardware and Accessories - No Replies

Hi,

i want to substitute my current AP with a RockPro64, a quadport Intel I350-T4 PCIe card and the 1x1 Dual Band Wifi Module. It should run the current OpenWRT version.

  • Is this setup/configuration stable or will it encounter the PCIe controller hardware error handling bug?
  • Does the official OpenWRT release run out of the box with this setup or do i have to compile it by my self?
  • Does the quadport card fit into the NAS case?
Many thanks in advance for your replies.

Sincerly
  pi64


Lightbulb Calendar and syncthing
Posted by: cybercow - 11-17-2020, 12:46 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (1)

I'd like to be able to (automatically) share my calendar using syncthing but unsurprisingly this isn't going well by just syncing the "calendar.ics" file since this resumes in file conflicts.

Now the question: is there already a solution for that?

If not:
has anyone a good overview over software(libraries) for working with .ics files?
I thought if I automatically (by cron job or on creation) write new events into a separate file
which I than sync instead of calendar.ics and get the evolution calendar server (which the calendar app seams to rely on) automatically import events of the synced file
than this would be find. Is anyone out there who knows more about all all that puzzle parts and is willing to help?

Thanks.


  Random crashes
Posted by: ab1jx - 11-16-2020, 11:20 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (3)

I'm using the mrfixit stretch on the eMMC that it was shipped with (in January).  Twice today I picked it up and it had shut down and rebooted.  Once I was typing something and it happened so I got to see it.  It froze for a couple seconds then rebooted.  I have it set to boot to a command line so if I leave it in X and come back to a command line something happened.

Using the original power supply but the battery is still in it and working, shouldn't be that.  It seems to always reboot and come back up, it doesn't turn off.


  How to edit PHOSH icons/shortcuts
Posted by: tonyvr - 11-16-2020, 09:41 PM - Forum: Manjaro on PinePhone - Replies (1)

I want to modify my Aisleriot icon/shortcut to prefix the 'sol' command with my desired locale ('LANG=en_US.utf8').
Where do the shortcuts triggered by the icons reside in PHOSH?


  SoEdge v. SoPine
Posted by: ian-s-mcb - 11-16-2020, 08:10 PM - Forum: SOEdge Hardware - Replies (2)

I'm having some trouble understanding the wiki for the soon to be released SoEdge. How do the SoPine and the SoEdge compare in terms of performance and features? From the wiki, it seems like the SoEdge is less performant, which is odd because it's newer. Maybe I'm a bit daft, but I think the wiki can use some revising and I'd like to help.

I've read on the wiki that the SoPine has a Allwinner A64 SoC (Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Processor@1152Mhz), where as the SoEdge has Rockchip RK1808 SoC (Dual Cortex-A35 up to 1.6GHz).

Here are the SoC spec pages:
http://www.allwinnertech.com/index.php?c...index&id=9
https://www.rock-chips.com/a/en/products...9/989.html

Here is how I compared the CPUs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison...v8-A_cores

Thanks for your time.


Question PinePhone power issues
Posted by: Andrewjneumann - 11-16-2020, 02:49 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (3)

I have a UBports Edition, and the phone is having issues staying powered on. It'll run 5-60min then hard power off (on battery or cord or battery+cord). I have to remove from power (including battery) wait 5-15 min "rest period" then usually it'll only turn back on when power plug is inserted without battery. I'm suspecting something with power or heat, modem is a bit warm, would not call it hot. Has ran fine up until ~3 weeks ago (owned since April?).

I can't keep in on long enough to troubleshoot... I'm working on making a SD card image, but have experienced this issue with UBports and Manjaro.

Anyone experiencing? Anyone have suggestions?


  Screen touch issue
Posted by: docofkult - 11-16-2020, 02:15 PM - Forum: PinePhone Hardware - Replies (2)

So even though I didn't really play much with the Braveheart model, I decided to get the upgraded board. After the installation I started noticing that the left side of the screen acts a bit strange to touch events. I can't recall having this issue prior to the board swap but now it is the same for both the old and the new board. 

I have been running Manjaro and first noticed that something was a miss when I could not tab the leftmost keys on the virtual keyboard. However, events where still detected but for the key to the right. I'm not sure what to think as the rest of the screen are accurately detected so it doesn't seem like a calibration issue? 

I have tried reseating the cables and also tried postmarketOS where the issue was reproducible. This of course will not rule out a software issue but then I would believe that I would be more widely reported?

Have anyone experienced the same or have any ideas to how to fix it?


  Flash firmware - Bloody beginner tutorial needed
Posted by: jojuma - 11-16-2020, 01:41 PM - Forum: PineTime Tutorials - Replies (9)

Hi there,

I purchased a set with three PineTimes. They're really cool devices. Since I'm a bloody beginner, they actually do nothing more but show the time. I managed to set the time with "nRF Connect" app on an Android phone.

The november update now says "PineTime firmware can now be upgraded via Gadgetbridge!"

Would it be possible, to provide a step by step tutorial for people who are not deep into that? Or is there already one, someone could point me to?

Thanks!!!


  No wifi icon on desktop and no connectivity
Posted by: motezart - 11-16-2020, 12:52 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

TLDR; I recently had a failure installing i3 that has caused my wi-fi to stop working. I've cross-posted this https://forum.manjaro.org/t/no-wifi-icon...vity/37966 

I recently tried to install i3 window manager and it caused some serious problems. I was unable to uninstall it with help from here https://forum.manjaro.org/t/will-not-boo...tall/37473 but afterwards the internet did not work. Actually it did not work while i3 was still installed so I think this installation failure caused the issue, not removing i3. This i3 thing really screwed things up.
I read this post https://forum.manjaro.org/t/unable-to-fi...ns/17232/2 and it seems I have the same behavior, on the same machine. But I do not get the errors when trying to reinstall drivers or restart the NetworkManager, but instead nothing happens. There is output with --verbose but I mean there is no change in the operation.
There is no wifi icon on the desktop and I can’t figure out how to get to the networking stuff. I’m new to Linux. From the desktop is there anything I can search? The only networking thing that comes up in Network Interfaces which I don’t know how to use. Where can I see network connections?
I’m not able to get 

Code:
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host
 file since I cannot get the file from the pine book since it’s offline but I can give shorter responses (or is there a way I can get it from one machine to another w/o wifi? I don’t have a USB unfortunately). I’ll post anything else that could help here.
PS - I’ve tried several times to make sure this not the wi-fi kill switch https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo...y_Switches  by trying both what I think is on and also off, then rebooting. This does nothing.
PSS- The battery icon has also disappeared.


  Slarm64 on PinePhone [Unofficial Slackware ARM - 64 bit]
Posted by: acid andy - 11-16-2020, 12:15 PM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (40)

After reading about @mara  (a.k.a. sndwvs) making the excellent Slarm64 unofficial port of Slackware to ARM64 and that member @KRT (a.k.a. shelldweller) got it working on the Pinebook, I just had to see what I could do with it on my new PinePhone!

I'm excited to say that, with a lot of tinkering, it works rather nicely.

  • I downloaded a disk image of Slarm64 for the Pinebook with XFCE and the 5.9.3 kernel, as provided here.
  • I used GParted to move the root partition and add a boot partition (it turned out that step may be unnecessary).
  • My Pinephone is the 3GB Manjaro CE edition and I got Slarm64 running by emptying the Slarm64 /boot/ folder and copying in the boot files from Manjaro, including the Manjaro kernel, version 5.9.1-4 (initially I put these files on the boot partition, but u-boot seems to pick them up from the root partition first, I guess because mine has a lower number).
  • I also copied the kernel modules into /lib/modules
  • I updated /etc/fstab to reflect my partitions.
  • I used the dd command to write the u-boot image that came with Manjaro at the correct 8kb location on the SD card.
  • I had to alter /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf, mainly because when u-boot boots from the Slarm64 root partition, the kernel Image and initramfs file are found in the "/boot/" subdirectory rather than the root of the boot partition so I had to fix the paths. It just gives up and boots Manjaro if they're wrong.

I was then delighted to see Slarm64 boot right up to a nice XDM login prompt and when I plugged in a keyboard I was able to log in and play with XFCE!  Big Grin

Regrettably I don't have the time or resources to offer an image for the PinePhone currently, but if anyone else wants to give this a go I'm happy to answer questions or offer my own experience and would love to hear how you get on with it.

Since I tried out XFCE, I've spent most of my time getting the SDDM display manager to work, which it finally does on my PinePhone. I wanted that because it can support an on screen keyboard, or, if I can't get that going [Keyboard now works. See Update.], automatic log on, so you won't have to plug in a keyboard just to get to the desktop!  Rolleyes Once on the desktop I'm currently using a virtual keyboard called Florence (just don't click on Alt, because Alt stops clicks getting through to the window so it gets stuck unless you disable that shortcut in XFCE's settings).

When I first installed SDDM, it wouldn't start unless I stopped the ConsoleKit2 daemon or uninstalled it, but those workarounds cause XFCE's reset and power-off buttons to be grayed out (amongst other things I think). I had to patch the SDDM source to get past that (I can provide more details to anyone that needs to do this) and then those buttons are still grayed out. That problem is finally resolved by editing /usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop with the line:

Code:
Exec=startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

XFCE is fast and pretty on the PinePhone. It started in the correct resolution first time. The window buttons and menus are obviously a little small to navigate with the touch screen but it doesn't bother me too much. I made the text a little bigger with the DPI settings. Currently double clicks and right clicks aren't working for me on the touch screen [Double click can be made to work. See Update], for some reason (I think it's normal for right click not to be supported but the double click is another matter).

Various programs seem to build and work right away. Youtube worked in Firefox and the sound works if you muck about unmuting things in alsamixer (but take great care as it can suddenly blast very loudly from the headphones-don't ask me how I know! Shy ).

You can find a lot more information on Slarm64 on KRT's Pinebook thread or the project site.

Disclaimer: This may break your phone and I am not responsible for any loss or damage arising from your use of this. I'm not affiliated with the project and, to quote @KRT :

(03-16-2020, 08:24 AM)KRT Wrote: I do not think that Slarm64 has received the official blessing from either Pat Volkerding or Stuart Winter, so I do not think this is "official" Slackware in that sense.

Have fun! Smile

Update: The QT virtual keyboard on SDDM is now working on my PinePhone. I actually find it easier to use than the Florence keyboard so I'll have to see if there's a way to run it on its own. It must have come bundled with the Slackware packages or with SDDM.

Update November 15 2020: I got double-clicking using the touch screen working in XFCE. The default settings make it almost impossible to double click because you have to tap twice in a very small area of pixels. However, if you open Settings Editor, find Channel xfwm4, and increase double_click_distance to at least 40, the double clicks are then easy to do.

Update November 16 2020: I've just moved this post from my original thread because that one was invisible due to not being under one of the PinePhone Software sub-forums! Blush

Slarm64 is working really well on my PinePhone. Lately I've been tweaking the panel layout, text sizes and DPI, and looking into modifying one of the XFCE themes to make the windows easier to resize with the touch screen. The Default-hdpi and Default-xhdpi themes help a bit, but I prefer the colors and look of Kokodi.

The Florence keyboard is OK, but its default layouts can't fit all the keys I need on the screen at once without making them annoyingly small, so I need to look at making a custom layout or trying to get an alternative to work. It also seems to crash out a little often.

Later I'll look into getting the camera, phone and flashlight / torch working from this distro as well.