Understood that Zoom is a controversial and for-profit company--but unlike when I'm working on my own projects, sometimes I need to work with other people and accommodate their software choices. Yes, ideally we'd be using Jitsi or some other open source software.

Is there any way to participate in a Zoom videochat session from a Pinephone or Pinephone Pro running Mobian? This is currently the only reason why I still keep an Android phone lying around. I used to use Zoom's Linux client, but that was before I switched to Arm and Zoom does not support Arm. I tried using Zoom's web client (admittedly on PureOS + Phosh on the Librem 5 -- I haven't tried on Mobian on the Pinephone yet), but that was a read-only experience: despite giving Firefox permissions to use the camera and microphone, I could only see and hear but not be seen or heard.

Hi, I build a carrier board for soquartz, I also have a custom hdmi display board which is missing EDID chip, now how can I force HDMI out by using the kernel command line, i tried using this line in the manjaro arm

NetBSD 10.1_RC1 boots fine from SD after Manjaro, but if I shut it down and then boot it again - two NetBSD sessions in a row - the second session goes to a black screen after the first green boot print page.  In at least one case I was able to log in, blind, so this seems to be entirely a display issue.  To get back, I have to pop the SD, boot to Manjaro , reseat the SD and restart.  I don't have to do anything in particular during the NetBSD session - just log in as root and shut down, and I've used up my NetBSD quota of 1.

Hello folks,
This is probably known by many but I used a cell phone gaming device fan holder (don't know proper name) and this works fantastic with PPP.
I can use wifi-BT, modem on all at the same time while searching the internet and even playing videos and the PPP remains COLD. Streaming video usually generates plenty of heat but the PPP is actually cold after 1 hour of use. I plug in the power to PPP and the device cooler is separately powered. While doing this I was also using the dock with HDMI.
The end result is a a PPP that can be used very much like a regular computer.

I installed DietPi from https://dietpi.com/downloads/images/Diet...orm.img.xz onto a 32GB SD card and it booted successfully. The system had a 32GB eMMC module installed so using the instructions found in https://dietpi.com/blog/?p=1236 I copied the running SD card image to the eMMC.

The system will not boot from the eMMC but gets a Kernel Panic. Inserting the SD card doesn't help. If I remove the eMMC module, I can boot from the SD card again.

Obviously, the method I used to copy the system from the SD card to the eMMC was wrong. First, I'd like to erase the eMMC module so I can get back to a running system with the eMMC installed. Second, I need better instructions on how to successfully install DietPi on eMMC.

I have Pinebook Pro that's new as of Nov 2023.  I can run NetBSD 1.0 from the image at http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/



(NetBSD 9.3 and NetBSD 9 daily don't run - power light comes on and eventually goes off, followed several seconds later by a blink from the the other two lights, and that's it.)



But I can run it only as long as the battery lasts, because while I'm running NetBSD, the USB-C cable apparently doesn't charge the battery.  Eventually it runs down and crashes, and Linux shows the battery at 0%.



envstat shows only voltage, all other parameters are 0;  I could presumably infer charge state from voltage - looks like when we get down to 3.5V it's time to go back to Linux, but that could stand more research.



Is there a charging method that NetBSD supports?

[ edit ] Stuck my hand down in the paper bag packaging, and lo - I have a DC charger!  And it seems to be holding a charge now under NetBSD.  That is, still isn't getting charged, but I can run off the DC charger at 3.9V.  When I pull it out, the voltage drops to 3.5V, and percent to about the 68% it was when I left Linux, and dropping.
[ /edit ]

Some people might be affected by some driver bug where the camera:

• does works right after boot of the PinePhone Pro.
  
• But after suspend, the camera stops working.
  

I succesfully opened the pinetab2 very carfully and replaced a front screen. Put it all back together and...... Everything works, except the keyboard. I was really carful with the ribbon cables. The keyboard cable doesnt appear missalined or broken anywhere.

i'm assuming the cable must be broken internally.
i thought maybe i put the docking connector back in, reversed, so maybe the pins are in reversed order? It looks like theres only one way to screw down the ribbon cable end with the connector pins into the casing.

so im assumin i need a new ribbon cable. Can i buy one specifically sized for that keyboard? Is that kind of ribbon cable a standardized thing?

short of that, does anyone have a suggestion on why the keyboard may not be responding?

is there a way via command line or by kde info center where i could see if the keyboard hardware is present or not?

thanks in advance,

I've been trying with some small success to make use of an SOQuartz with both the Pine64 Model A baseboard and a Waveshare CM4-to-Pi3 baseboard, although things are extremely messy and I have no idea where to look to be able to figure out how to fix things.

It seems a lot of the distros available on the software releases page supposedly use the CM4 baseboard, and while it works and I can get video on HDMI, even a graphical console using the latest Manjaro image from June 2023, the USB ports do not work. I have no idea how to get them to work and searches have not turned up any useful information.

I also attempted to use DietPi, Manjaro, and Plebian on the Model A baseboard, and have noticed a lot of oddities. The Pine64 wiki page on software releases for the SOQuartz instructs one to change extlinux.conf to use the model-a.dtb but doing this results in failure to boot. I don't yet have the time to hook up one of my FT232s to this thing to dig deeper. I forgot to change the DTB file once however that resulted in the Model A booting properly. However, I don't think I like Manjaro very much and would much prefer a Debian-based one, and in any case, getting system upgrades fails badly. Plebian boots, however it has no support whatsoever for the built-in WiFi or any of the WiFi dongles I have, making it a non-starter since I then have to plug the thing into a network port somewhere and do a headless install and that's too tedious to do with the way I have things set up now, and then I have no idea how to get any of the wireless modules working. DietPi works and I'd been able to get it to run, however I noticed that it runs very hot, temperature peaking at 71°C, which is very bad. I have some CM4 heatsinks on the way but I also noticed that the linked DietPi image uses the cm4 DTB, and I suspect this might partially be to blame for the thermal issues.

So I have several questions:

1. What do I need to do to get the USB ports on the Waveshare CM4-Pi3 board to work? Has anyone else experienced this issue? It is possible that I have a bad board given that I got mine suspiciously cheap (~US$5), but before I try to buy another one I want to know if this might be a known issue.

2. What do I need to do in order to get the built-in wireless networking on the SOQuartz to work? I take it we need some kind of firmware files which none of the linked distros include for whatever reason.

3. What's with these DTB files? Is it really safe to use the CM4 DTB even if you're using a Model A baseboard?

Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can give.

For reference the Waveshare board I have is this one

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/CM4-to-Pi3-Adapter

I would like to run several sudo commands in a terminal, which requires me to enter my password. But I was never prompted to enter a password, is there a default password? My pine phone came preinstalled (Manjaro-ARM, Release 21.03).