Hi,

I played around with the H64 on the mainline kernel in Debian unstable (5.7) and the latest uboot (v2020.07). Unfortunately, it seems that neither eMMC storage nor the networking are supported in Linux. They get both detected in uboot and booting from eMMC starts successfully.

I guess this board is not supported yet in mainline, isn't it?

My Pinebook Pro arrived two days ago and it's great, however I have noticed that if I want to move the mouse pointer just a couple of pixels away from where it is that it's basically impossible.

Small movements don't move the pointer at all.

If I put my finger on the trackpad and very slowly move it in any direction it's like, nothing, nothing, nothing, it's moving!

Is this a configuration thing with Manjaro?  does it need a firmware update?

thanks DNJ

Greetings,

I was planning to try my phone as a USB host. I read here that the 1.2a revision fixes the USB CC pin issue. Is there any way to check the PinePhone hardware revision, either by inspecting the hardware or using software? I'd like to check whether I have revision 1.2 or 1.2a before I attempt a hardware fix, or (very unlikely but still) accidentally damage it by connecting a USB3 adapter.

My PP is the UBports community edition.

Regards,
R.T.G.

I have been reading about the new SMS replacement called Rich Communication Services (RCS), but I cannot find any projects working on implementing the standard for the various Linux-based phones. Does anyone know of a project working on it?

Additionally, I am not knowledgeable enough to figure out if the telecommunication providers will translate between the two message types if the receiving end does not have RCS enabled or implemented. Is it possible that as more people start using RCS instead of SMS, Pinephone users will not be able to receive  messages from them (excluding platforms like signal or telegram)?

Is anyone else thinking about this? I am desperately hoping group MMS messages will be implemented in Ubuntu Touch or Mobian sometime soon, but if the world is moving to RCS it seems like a lot of work for something that is going away soon. Not sure when or if the telecommunication companies will stop routing SMS/MMS. Does anyone know more or have thoughts about this?

Is there a build of debian for the pinebook pro that supports the gpu drivers in mesa. While also not breaking sound the brightness adjustment buttons?

I hate to ask this, but in Mobian, how does one make the screen brighter? I cannot seem to find anything setting for that function.

Here's the scenario in brief...

I recently got my Pinebook Pro.  Actually it came in the mail a month or so back but I wasn't able to get to it until yesterday.

I disabled the wireless privacy setting to enable wireless.  I connected to my home WiFi and everything was good.  Then I power cycled the Pinebook and haven't been able to connect to my home wireless again. 

I can connect to other AP's, even after reboot.  I've never had a single problem with my home AP and all other devices continue to work perfectly.

I've removed the AP and added it back, no change.  I've searched the entire filesystem for mentions of the name of my AP and removed the one I found.  In both cases I powercycled and no change.

This is pretty much making the pinebook pro useless and reinforcing my negative impression of ArchLinux which in my limited experience seems very brittle.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  It almost feels like something is being cached either somewhere on the filesystem or in the hardware itself and that the cache is corrupt.

Hey @a-wai just a quick question. Do you go back and turn down the RAM overclock that seems to be coming with uboot as of 2 months ago or are you using it as-is with the new crust update?

You seem to have the only stable build I have with phosh and I thought the others were putting in overclocks (which they were), but now it looks like it is built into the new uboot to 624MHz. So I'm trying to narrow down the problem, if it's still memory overclock or something else.

Thanks for your help!

Is there any distro that will run OBS Studio on the Pinebook Pro? If not, any alternative?

Hello everybody,

I have a few questions around ubuntu touch and I hope somebody can give me some answers:

1) I understand the desktop environment of ubuntu touch is called Lomiri. So, does Lomiri run on X11 or on Wayland? If on X11, when will it run on Wayland?
2) Why can we not run regular desktop apps like Libreoffice or Firefox on Lomiri? Is it planned to enable these apps and if yes, when will this probably be the case?

For question 2: I see that this is possible for PostmarketOS and Mobian, and I really really think that this is a must to be attractive to users in medium / long term.

I am curious about your answers!

Best,
Thomas