hello dear pinecil comunity, i just unpacked the beautiful iron and tried out functions. i've put it in sleep mode by pressing minus-button on start screen some seconds (iron-crossed-icon on screen) and now i don't find the way back out. powering off and factory reset did not help. hope it's a stupid/easy question which can be solved by pressing the right buttons .. can anyone help? thx in advance!

Hey all! First post here.

I'll keep it quick, but before I start I want to say that I have a workaround and I'm OK with it, although I'd like to have a "cleaner" solution in place if possible.

Long and short of it: Just received my Pinebook Pro a few days ago with Manjaro ARM. All was well until I found out that the version Manjaro I had didn't support external monitors at all, due to patch not being in mainline. Tried different monitors, different cables, rotating cables, etc. No dice.

So I switched to a custom kernel to fix that problem, however that knocked out my WiFi. OS wouldn't even acknowledge that hardware was there. I thought it may have been hardware failure until I starting finding errors about loading Broadcom firmware in dmesg.

I tried the usual suspects such as ensuring /boot was properly mounted, cold booting, privacy switch, etc. Nothing. Reverting back to the original kernel made no difference either.

After many hours of trial & error and searching for answers, I found a set of firmware files which worked when placed in the proper location, but it wasn't "plug-and-play" so to speak. Every time now when I want to use WiFi after booting, I have to use that "(un)bind" trick:

i would like to link my pine phone to PC/tablet some how.

it would be nice if I can hot spot or connect to home wifi and open up a web panel for me read phone and txts


is there any app that can do with pine phone?


and small bouns that dont thing is a thing is linking it to discord bot so all my text messages are forum channels and i can make phone calls from discord or drag other friends into it


if i cant find anything does we know python interface for the pinephone modem

Hi all,

I have a few suggestions for improvements to the Pine Store.

1.  More photos. 
     More photos with more angles, and in relation to other products.  Like the Pine Dock with the Pinebook Pro.
     Images showing sizes/dimensions.  i.e. the length/width/height of a product with lines showing thus
2.  More robust descriptions.
     A lot of the products have very spartan descriptions.  Some just it's aspects and no hint at what it actually does. I suspect this is under the assumption that those who are looking at Pine products know what they are looking for.  Which I'm sure is true for a large segment of those purchasing stuff, but for example, me, I kinda know what I'm looking for, but I've had to ask questions here and on Matrix to clarify some aspects.  Like that the Pinecil needs to be plugged in to work.  Obvious once you think about it, but you have to think about it.

That's my two cents.

Since 2023 Genode publishes an early version of Sculpt OS for the PinePhone.

Here is the general page:
https://genode.org/download/sculpt

And here is goes to the download image:
https://depot.genode.org/genodelabs/image/

Genode is the framework and Sculpt OS is the OS implementation.

Features

* CPU architectures: x86 (32 and 64 bit), ARM (32 and 64 bit), RISC-V
* Kernels: most members of the L4 family (NOVA, seL4, Fiasco.OC, OKL4 v2.1, L4ka-Pistachio, L4/Fiasco), Linux, and a custom kernel.
* Virtualization: VirtualBox (on NOVA), a custom virtual machine monitor for ARM, and a custom runtime for Unix software
* Over 100 ready-to-use components

HDMI doesn't work with any Kernel except the Kernel 4.4 from Rockchip (it also doesn't work with xorg) i tried out all kernel configs from rockchip and ayufan always same error:
[    4.030085] printk: console [ttyS2] enabled
[    4.031672] rockchip-vop ff370000.vop: Adding to iommu group 1
[    4.038101] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: bound ff370000.vop (ops 0xffffffc0108c27d8)
[    4.038924] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: failed to bind ff3c0000.hdmi (ops 0xffffffc0108c5f30): -517
[    4.040292] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: master bind failed: -517

With Kernel 4.4 from Rockchip (ayufan) HDMI works:
[    3.167892] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    3.173651] [drm] Rockchip DRM driver version: v1.0.1
[    3.174380] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: devfreq is not set
[    3.175647] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: bound ff370000.vop (ops 0xffffff8008d86950)
[    3.176798] i2c i2c-4: of_i2c: modalias failure on /hdmi@ff3c0000/ports
[    3.177487] dwhdmi-rockchip ff3c0000.hdmi: registered DesignWare HDMI I2C bus driver
[    3.178358] dwhdmi-rockchip ff3c0000.hdmi: Detected HDMI TX controller v2.11a with HDCP (inno_dw_hdmi_phy2)
[    3.180400] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: bound ff3c0000.hdmi (ops 0xffffff8008d7afa8)
[    3.181186] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[    3.181851] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[    3.182495] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: failed to parse display resources
[    3.402118] rockchip-vop ff370000.vop: [drm:vop_crtc_enable] Update mode to 1280x1024p60, type: 11
[    3.469911] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
[    3.503468] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: fb0:  frame buffer device

Xorg-log:
X.Org X Server 1.20.5
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 4.14.89-0-vanilla aarch64 Alpine Linux
Current Operating System: Linux localhost 5.4.2 #1 SMP Thu Dec 12 03:04:42 CET 2019 aarch64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.2 modules=loop,squashfs,sd-mod,usb-storage modloop=/boot/modloop-5.4.2 extra_latent_entropy1
Build Date: 31 May 2019  06:21:31AM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.38.4
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jan 21 10:28:08 2016
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
MESA-LOADER: failed to open rockchip (search paths /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri)
failed to load driver: rockchip
MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast (search paths /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri)
failed to load driver: kms_swrast
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri)
failed to load swrast driver
couldn't get display device
(II) modeset(0): Initializing kms color map for depth 24, 8 bpc.
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Unsupported high keycode 372 for name <I372> ignored
>                   X11 cannot support keycodes above 255.
>                   This warning only shows for the first high keycode.
> Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym XF86MonBrightnessCycle
> Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym XF86RotationLockToggle
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
(EE) /usr/share/libinput: failed to find data files
(EE) Failed to load the device quirks from /usr/share/libinput and /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks. This will negatively affect device b.
/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
<stdin>:0: warning: Unknown encoding: C.UTF-8
    xfce4-session: No GPG agent found
xfce4-session: No SSH authentication agent found

(xfce4-session:2231): xfce4-session-WARNING **: 10:28:10.365: xfsm_manager_load_session: Something wrong with /home/admin/.cache/sessions/xfc?

(xfwm4:2278): GLib-CRITICAL **: 10:28:19.096: g_str_has_prefix: assertion 'prefix != NULL' failed

(xfsettingsd:2284): GLib-CRITICAL **: 10:28:20.459: g_str_has_prefix: assertion 'prefix != NULL' failed

(xfsettingsd:2284): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:28:20.721: g_value_get_string: assertion 'G_VALUE_HOLDS_STRING (value)' failed

(xfsettingsd:2284): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:28:20.800: g_value_get_string: assertion 'G_VALUE_HOLDS_STRING (value)' failed
Error relocating /usr/bin/Thunar: pango_attr_insert_hyphens_new: symbol not found
xfsettingsd: No window manager registered on screen 0.
xfce4-panel: No window manager registered on screen 0. To start the panel without this check, run with --disable-wm-check.
No window manager registered on screen 0. To start the xfdesktop without this check, run with --disable-wm-check.
xfce4-panel-Message: 10:28:33.334: Plugin "statusnotifier-7" was not found and has been removed from the configuration
xfce4-panel-Message: 10:28:33.338: Plugin "pulseaudio-8" was not found and has been removed from the configuration
xfce4-panel-Message: 10:28:33.377: Plugin "notification-plugin-10" was not found and has been removed from the configuration

** (wrapper-2.0:2315): WARNING **: 10:28:36.247: No outputs have backlight property

(wrapper-2.0:2315): xfce4-power-manager-plugin-WARNING **: 10:28:36.920: Xfce4-power-manager: The panel plugin is present, so the tray icon g.

(wrapper-2.0:2315): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:28:37.092: Negative content width -3 (allocation 1, extents 2x2) while allocating gadget (node button,)

(xfdesktop:2311): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:28:46.065: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
^Cxinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down ^VGdk-Message: 10:28:59.978: xfdesktop: Fatal IO error 38 (Function not implemented) on X server :0.

Gdk-Message: 10:28:59.978: xfsettingsd: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.


I boot with extlinux.conf: The kernel starts only without console bootparameter: When i insert console=tty0 as boot paramter the kernel dont start.

Does anyone know what the problem could be.
Thank you in advance for your help

Hello noob here,

I'm looking for a lot of space!

Simple question; what is the max number of drives I can get the rockpro to use? and how might I best go about that? I assume I can use x2 SSD's in the USB ports, but what else can I plug into?

edit: could not find this question answered, as simply as it is :p

Hello to the community,

I'm trying to install u-boot on a microSD card from a serial connection using a USB to TTL adapter CH340 (exactly this one).

First I built u-boot from my Debian laptop using the board-specific official documentation, then I flash it on the microSD with the appropriate `dd` command : `

I found a really nice hack that bull dog clip handles fix in the pine time slot and seems lock in tightly

I used this to make my own wrist strap 

if anyone is looking make custom strap I found that this working so far the best i used epoxy to get the clip attached to the nylon


   

   

Bare Metal Programming on a RISC-V SBC (Single-Board Computer) sounds difficult. Thankfully we can get help from the OpenSBI Supervisor Binary Interface! (A little like BIOS, but for RISC-V)

In this article, we boot Apache NuttX RTOS on Star64 JH7110 RISC-V SBC to experiment with OpenSBI:
(1) Print to the Serial Console
(2) Set a System Timer
(3) Query the RISC-V CPUs
(4) Fetch the System Information
(5) And Shutdown / Reboot our SBC

Check out the article:
Star64 JH7110 RISC-V SBC: Experiments with OpenSBI (Supervisor Binary Interface)