Hello,

A few interesting patches by megi have made their way to the pine64 kernel lately, bringing improved drivers for the pinephone cameras.
With a couple of extra hacks on top of that, and an experimental build of gnome-camera, support for the back camera should be working "out of the box" with the next nightly build

This is far from perfect, and should be regarded as some kind of "technology preview": image resolution is 720p only, and the quality is really poor atm.
Still, I believe this is a major step forward!

You can test by first upgrading your system, then running the following command:

Creating repo: mkdirat: permission denied

Is there any way to fix this?

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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"