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  Wifi on Manjaro
Posted by: User 19517 - 09-14-2020, 06:53 PM - Forum: Linux on RockPro64 - No Replies

Hi guys, new RockPro64 user here. I love my board and have been using it with Manjaro for some time. Yesterday I finally got the WiFi/BT module but so far I only managed to get the Bluetooth working. I know there are some issues when it comes to something called SDIO and PCIe bus, conflicts and stuff and that’s why the WiFi has been intentionally disabled in manjaro. (It works perfectly in Debian but I like manjaro better and also pacman is the boss). Do you happen to know how to make this work or if there are any planned updates to make this WiFi board available? The last thing I found about this being mentioned dates back to 2018.
I have been told to use a USB stick but I don’t know what to buy and honestly I’d rather get this board working. Thanks a lot.


  Incorrect keyboard behavior for X11 apps (like Java)
Posted by: Saliency - 09-14-2020, 05:14 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - No Replies

When I run Java-based apps or apps other frameworks under Phosh/Xwayland, the keyboard input doesn't work as expected.  For example, in a Java JTextField, the backspace key generates an "=" symbol, and many keys do nothing or result in punctuation marks.

Does anyone know what the problem is, and how to solve it?


  Pinebook Pro with 2GB RAM
Posted by: gos007 - 09-14-2020, 02:59 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (7)

Unfortunately, I received my Pinebook Pro with only 2 GB of RAM. So far, I haven't looked at whether there's a 2 GB chip or 4 GB because it's under a shield. Anyone else with a similar problem? Won't there be a need to set something up via the serial console? Or will a new mainboard be needed?


  Reboot, and halt and boot, are not the same
Posted by: regivanx - 09-14-2020, 02:20 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - No Replies

Hello,

My PBP doesn't reboot: the screen are black with gray vertical lines on the left.

But it can halt and boot: so the system boot normaly.

Why?

I have two partitions, a boot partition, and an encrypted partition: would it try to boot from the encrypted partition? In this case, why does it make the error only on reboot?


  Pinebook Pro Support
Posted by: robheaton - 09-14-2020, 01:21 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

Are the Pine64 Support people working at the moment?

I received a Pinebook pro last week, but it's screen is faulty, I've opened a support ticket, but I've not heard anything.


  MAC address change
Posted by: user0258 - 09-14-2020, 01:18 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (2)

Hi all, I have a advanced question that might challenge some of you.

How would you go about changing the default wireless mac address? permanently .. not spoofing either!
why you ask? well why not Smile


  ssh not enabled, by default?
Posted by: RodMyers - 09-14-2020, 11:40 AM - Forum: Mobian on PinePhone - Replies (6)

Did a fresh install of mobian. Trying to ssh into the phone.

following the wiki -> https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...f-password <- it seems that the ssh_server is not installed and running.

From within the phone & gui , I do not see anything to do with the ability to log into the phone.

What program(s) need to be installed to be able to ssh into the phone?

thanks


  Arch, Plasma desktop and wayland
Posted by: peperjohnny - 09-14-2020, 10:15 AM - Forum: PineTab Software - Replies (49)

Hey pals,
I somehow got plasma-desktop on wayland with arch running and some people asked for a write-up so here we go. Please consider that this is all work in progress and that performance might not be best, especially if you run from sd card. Also you should not mindlessly copy paste commands from the internet, but you know that, don't you? Wink
With that said, let's rock on.

First of all get an image for arch https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pi...h/releases
Get the barebone-image with your favourite tool on a SD card and put it in your tab.
You'll be greeted by a screen that is rotated by 90° because that's the default orientation for the panel as I heard. Login with the provided creds. You can connect to a  WLAN with the tool nmtui. After that I recommend turning on ssh and doing most of it over ssh as that simplifies quite a lot with copy pasting and so on.
The command is 

Code:
sudo systemctl enable sshd
sudo systemctl start sshd

If you want to turn off ssh at some point or after you're done with the config
Code:
sudo systemctl disable sshd
sudo systemctl stop sshd
Depending on how old the image is, you should upgrade first
Code:
sudo pacman -Syu
Let's get the groundwork for plasma done. This may take some time, because a lot of packages are installed. I did not test a minimal build yet.
Code:
sudo pacman -S fakeroot git make gcc go binutils qt5-svg knotifications kdbusaddons kservice kcmutils purpose cmake breeze breeze-icons plasma-framework sddm qt5-wayland plasma-wayland-session plasma-meta qt5-virtualkeyboard iio-sensor-proxy sddm-kcm
After everything is installed there's some work to be done, for plasma to automagically start.
Code:
sudo systemctl enable sddm
Because sddms wayland support is experimental and it won't show you anything beside the cursor, I went the way of autologin. First you create the folder for the sddm config and then you create the file for the login itself.
Code:
sudo mkdir /etc/sddm.conf.d/
sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf.d/autologin.conf
Put the following into the file
Code:
[Autologin]
User=alarm
Session=plasmawayland.desktop
If I haven't forget something you can reboot now and should be greeted with a gui for the first time.

Plasma does have some issues still. Your display is still rotated and it doesn't rotate automatically like you want to. Go to systemsettings -> Display and Monitor -> Display Configuration and unmark the "Only when in table mode." after an apply you're able to rotate the table as you like.
Something that helped me too was to activate tap-to click under input devices-> touchpad.

If you're familiar with arch you may have noticed that you installed stuff for compilation too. That is because I wanted to use the plasma mobile apps and some of them are on AUR and can therefore be compiled.
As an example the plasma browser angelfish
Code:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/plasma-angelfish.git
cd plasma-angelfish/
nano PKGBUILD
change the x86_64 to aarch64
Code:
makepkg -si
Obviously this takes some time but afterwards the package is installed.


  Pine64+ power button
Posted by: PaddyChan - 09-14-2020, 09:55 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PINE A64(+) - No Replies

Just receieved my pinea64+ 1gb in the mail, came with a power button but the holes i am supposed to put it in are blocked. Is it ok to just punch through these with something?


Question Graphical Glitch in Settings
Posted by: sciolus - 09-14-2020, 09:04 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (4)

New PineBook Pro user. First post. Happy so far.

I've noticed a strange graphical glitch, and I've searched the forums and elsewhere for tips with no luck.

In the setting dialog, there's an odd pixelated highlight around the current and under-mouse theme options, as well as a pop-up over, that appears to be a faulty animation or transparency.

Link to Screenshot

Any tips on what this is and how to make it go away?