I am using Pinebook Pro, but I also think about buying some RockPro or similar SBC. The main purpose would be some server together with some retro gaming. I don't want to use some precompiled image like Lakka or Recalbox, cause I also want to use it as a print server, mpd server etc. So I prefer running clean Armbian or similar up to date distro. And now there is a problem. Does RockPro OS support OpenGL/ES out of the box? Or do I need to mess with building drivers like on Banana/Orange Pi?

Also, is it fine to use RockPro or some RK3399 derivative like RockPi, Orange Pi 4 etc.?

Hi there,
I'm very new to Linux and using a Pinebook (before this I have only used a PC with Windows 10), so I really don't know anything more than a few basic commands in the terminal for viewing files. I've just recently upgraded the eMMc module to 128gb and booted the computer with Ubuntu. I have found however an issue where the computer doesn't like to go into a suspended or sleeping mode, but instead directly powers off after a short amount of time. I've gone through the settings and haven't found anything that would fix this and I'm not exactly sure how to change something like this through the terminal (although I assume it is possible).
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

I am not very linux savy. I tried to connect a printer but my laptop froze and I had to force shutdown. Now Manjaro wont boot past the initial logo. The mouse cursor shows up but the login screen doesn't and the white manjaro logo remains. Accessing tty to try to update works but nothing changes when I reboot. I use this thing for basic work stuff but now its useless to me becsuse I bought a product I don't know enough about to fix. Any help is much appreciated

some news from the team developing geary:

Adrien Plazas has been working on the responsive UI for mobile-sized screens, and Chris Heywood has been looking into improving data management for mobile-sized storage. Some of that will land in 3.38, and more will come in latter releases.

As always, Geary is a community project, so if anyone is experiencing mobile-specific problems, please report the issue and feel free to dive in with fixes and improvements: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Contribute

on the Fediverse for news and updates : @geary@floss.social

I am trying to get wifi and ssh working on the image without needing to interact with the phone itself to do it.

How do people like @ayufan compile OSes for the Pinebook Pro? As far as I have been able to figure out so far it is simply magic   .

I can sure understand wanting to avoid Google.  But I'm trying to find a solution for someone who does want Google.  I've tried several versions of Google Play Services on Android 7.1 to no avail.  I do understand that Google does "not support" this version of Android anymore.  But is there any way to get any version of Google Play Services working on this version of Android now?

This is a minor issue , but logs a lot.

Seems like PP DHCP client tries to renew every minute instead of on "Half lease time"

Hi!

I am tring to boot my custom non-linux kernel on the PineBook Pro. I've downloaded an image with archlinux and written it on SD card. I can successfully boot archlinux from it. I've tried to put my kernel on the SD card, set the path to my (stripped with bitnutils) kernel in extlinux.conf, but after reboot, I get my default Manjaro system.

Most likely it is not an issue of kernel itself. Otherwise I think that main system won't boot. I think that extlinux can't read/boot the kernel and returns the execution to the main loader.

I've tried to enable menu prompt for extlinux but can't see an effect.

I also have a serial cable connected, but the output during boot looks like mess, don't know why. Linux shell works just fine. See photo 

What I am missing? Is there a way how to see extlinux boot information on the PineBook Pro?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

So I bought an OG ISO Pinebook Pro and then bought an ANSI keyboard when it became available. Yesterday, I had time to transplant everything from the ISO top case to the ANSI top case.

Everything appears to be working, but I am getting crazy keycodes back from the new ANSI keyboard.

q>nil, w>w, e>s, r>e, t>d, y>r, u>f, i>t, o>y, p>h, [>j, ]>-
a> nil, s>nil, d>q, f>z, etc.

Is there anything I need to do to flash something on the board to get this working correctly? Is the ribbon not installed properly (although I'm pretty sure I did it correctly).

I'm using Chromium at the moment, fwiw.

Thanks.