Synaptics installed Python pip very well, but then pip fails to install Jupyter lab.  Jupyter notebook seemingly runs well, so lab failure is a mystery?  Is there a special set of commands for our ARM machine, or is lab not ready yet please?  

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Hi! I booted up my PBP for the first time, and I misunderstood the locale question, and selected the wrong one. So the whole system started in Arabic. I figured out how to change the locale in the settings manager, but it only changed about half of the text back to English. I literally have not done anything else on it yet, is there a way to redo the initial boot process? I feel like that would be the simplest option if possible.

(I'm fairly new to Linux and extremely new to Manjaro)

Hi,
As I had the experience of a Crucial SSD on a RPI 4  (for booting de OS) and was very impress with the result, I got a Crucial P2 NVME PCIe 2280 M.2 SSD of 500 gb.
What it took 45 minutes to install in RPI 4 turned out to be a week (of confinement) to get working on PBP. The result is very good and can be compared with RPI 4.
I have tryed to add this hardware to the nvme listing with no result, so I will post here, excuse my ignorance.

$ sudo nvme id-ctrl /dev/nvme0
NVME Identify Controller:

ps    0 : mp:4.50W operational enlat:0 exlat:0 rrt:0 rrl:0
          rwt:0 rwl:0 idle_power:- active_power:-
ps    1 : mp:2.70W operational enlat:0 exlat:0 rrt:1 rrl:1
          rwt:1 rwl:1 idle_power:- active_power:-
ps    2 : mp:2.16W operational enlat:0 exlat:0 rrt:2 rrl:2
          rwt:2 rwl:2 idle_power:- active_power:-
ps    3 : mp:0.0700W non-operational enlat:1000 exlat:1000 rrt:3 rrl:3
          rwt:3 rwl:3 idle_power:- active_power:-
ps    4 : mp:0.0020W non-operational enlat:5000 exlat:55000 rrt:4 rrl:4
          rwt:4 rwl:4 idle_power:- active_power:-


The on demand consumption is enabled by default and my attempt to use other setting ended up with less battery life.

I have managed to boot from MMC and have root pointed to the NVMe by label. The so is Ubuntu mate as I tried  Manjaro but found it complicated to tune to my test, I am an ubuntu user for many years at home and work.

Thanks and regards,
Carlos.

Here's the second article on the PineTime Companion App that we're building with Flutter for Android and iOS. 

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Hey folks,

A little background:  this is my first pine64 device.  I've flashed a few androids over the years, and long-time linux engineer.

My PBP arrived a couple weeks ago with Manjaro KDE and I've invested a bit of time getting it set up the way I like.  Currently all I'm doing is tarring everything to a file on USB drive.  But I really want to do an image backup.  Idea being I could flash a new OS, and then restore my image of customized Manjaro if I don't like it.  Or say I bork it bad and just want to revert to a known good state. 

It's always best to backup a quiesced filesystem (preferably unmounted).  I've done a little research here and on wiki and stuff and think I at least have a strategy.  Please let me know what you think:

First, I need to choose a linux distro which I can boot from SDcard.  Then insert a 64GB USB thumbdrive.  Boot the SDcard image.  finally dd the emmc to the USB.  poweroff, eject media and boot back to normal.    To restore, I do the above but dd the other way from USB to EMMC.

Is this a sound strategy or does it take me down a more aggravating path than one I'm not aware of, yet?
Is it better to boot from USB and dd to SD? (instead of the reverse as I described above)?
And where exactly does etcher come into play?  Burning the OS to the SDcard?

Many thanks,

Hi,

I power up my clusterboard with the pine64 power supply (15A).

The clusterboard leds of socket #0 and #1 lights up, but sockets #3 to #6 does not turn on.

I was able to access sopine boards connected in any socket with a USB-Ethernet dongle through SSH.

I use the sopine armbian-focal img and sopine armbian-bionic images, with a modified dtb file to include 'allwinner,tx-delay-ps = <500>;' following: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/9402-eth...ne-module/.

With this modification I was able to see eth0 device with ifconfig next to my usb-dongle, but only if I connect the Sopine Board on socket #0 or #1. In the rest of the sockets the SOPINE led is on, but not the corresponding clusterboad led and the eth0 device is not listed (only my usb-dongle).

I think my clusterboard is malfunctioning.

I will try with an ATX power supply in the following days.

Any clue what could be wrong?

Also even if I have eth0 interfaces up with a correct ip in socket #0 and #1, they can not ping each other through the internal switch.

I've been playing with my new Pro for a while couple of weeks now. I absolutely love it. I do have one minor problem though.

The up arrow on the keyboard doesn't work properly. I need to press very firmly or even wiggle my finger to get it to work. It's not something I would consider sending the unit back for, but if there's a known fix I'd be interested to know it.

Thanks PC

This morning, for the first time I can remember, the power light began flickering with noise. The noise sounds like a fluttering relay with some light beeping. I'm currently using Balena Etcher to flash an SD card. Disconnecting the AC power supply had no effect.

When Etcher finished, the noise stopped the flickering continues.....

Not aware of anything being mentiond about this particular event. Does anyone have an idea?

Many Thanks, Rick :-)

The Morph browser is giving me a really annoying issue on websites. It keeps giving me a connection untrusted pop-up. It's never for the actual site it's always for the ads like sometimes it's the Google ad domain giving me errors and other times it's other ad domains. 1. Has anyone else run into this I looked an never found anything about it 2. Is there a way to install another browser?

Solved: my pfblockerNG system was making it throw the errors. Although this should not be an issue since I don't intercept or break normal htttps encrypted ads and I never receive this message on other devices.
I fixed this by bypassing my DNS servers on the phone and the dns resolver on my pfsense box

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3857/set-dns-in-ut/9

Hey there

when opening the backcover you find in the upper left (seen from behind) a hole with a button in it with the description "reset".

What is this button for? What does it? I mean having the cover openend it is easier to pull the battery then finding some pencil to hit this button.

Does it have any further meaning than cuttung the main curcuit?

Thanks