Hey all.

I found the onboard Manjaro on my new Pinebook Pro to be a bit limited (a lot of needed yet missing software), so I've been trying to get Ubuntu running.  I've actually had really good results with ayufan's Focal Fossa build (0.10.12), however after banging my head against a wall trying to get LUKS encrypted root going, I figured I'd try downgrading to Bionic and see if I can get it running with a little less "beta-ness".

However, after downloading and flashing the image for Bionic (0.9.14) to SD card, it boots to a black screen.  I can see the backlight for the flat panel light up, but nothing is ever displayed.  I even get the login prompt sound, so I know it did actually boot, but no amount of key-pressing seems to wake up the display.  I can't even get to a text console with CTRL+ALT+F2.

I'm wondering if something may have changed between the last production run of Pinebook Pro and this one (just got mine at the beginning of June, so it should be the latest batch), something preventing Bionic from properly initializing the flat panel.  I figured before I broke out the serial cable and tried to hack the thing into submission, I'd check to see if anyone else had a similar experience and figured out a workaround.  Kernel option, maybe?  Something I can stick in extlinux.conf long enough to get it to boot, run updates, and hopefully fix the problem properly?

Looking forward to hearing a few ideas.

Eric

Hello, I was wondering if there was a URL to download the latest image available for Mobian.

I am building an application that auto downloads and flashes images onto the EMMC. In order to do this, I need a url that always points to the latest version of Mobian. Otherwise, I would have to update the application whenever there was an update.

Thanks in Advance
- PizzaLovingNerd

I boot ubports from the eMMC (preinstalled) and added a micro-sd to the system. If I mount the card manually, I get at least "read" access to the card. But there is no auto-mount happening of the sd-card. Does anyone have any suggestions to automatically mount the card and be able to write to it?

Requirements:

1. Must be compatible with Arch and ARM64 (Mega is not, Dropbox is not)
2. Must be E2E encrypted 
3. Fees not outrageous (I'm looking at you, Cloudberry, now something-something-360)

I'm willing to pay for a solution, but can't find one, really.

Pine, please don't ever change!

I know it's tempting to put a logo on the chassis, but I really love it being logo-less!

It's nice not seeing or feeling extra crap on the cover or palm-rests.  

I can add my own designs!  Or just leave it without tattoos or marks.

Feels more like "my" machine.  Very raw.

I ordered a RockPro64 plus accessories for it on Monday June 15 (4 days ago) with a "next shipping date" displayed of "June 19". After placing the order I received an email confirmation of the order. To date I haven't received a tracking number and there appears to be no order status capability on the Pine64 website. Should I assume that my order missed the June 19 "next shipping date"?

Thanks

I have tried to use Webber to make shortcuts to frequently used websites instead of having many tabs open in Morph Browser. The app gets to the "Exporting" step and then the shortcut never shows in the app drawer/Lomiri. Has anyone noticed this behavior, or is it just me? I last tried this on Stable #3 with no success.

Has anyone been successful installing RStudio on Manjaro? There is a straightforward installation for OpenSuse xfce, and a way to compile from source for Debian/Ubuntu (and apparently for Redhat).

Google searches indicate that it should be possible with `yay i rstudio-desktop-bin` but this returns the wrong binaries. Further google searches turn up that the app hasn't been updated for Manjaro or Arch for quite a while.

Hi All,



My son is a big fan of the Minetest game. The standard pacman package crashes on startup. I have it running in Manjaro Linux on the PBP and the performance is not terrible (not optimal either though) by compiling it from sources.



Here's how I did it:

Arwen,

This is not a complaint, only a suggestion, mainly for those PBP owners and users that are also new to the Linux operating system and programming language.  A personal note, I have found from past experience that social media forums are not always the best way to ask for assistance if/when any really big problem comes up when trying to use, or learn to use, a new product.  Social media forums can be of some use as a tool to address situations or problems that affect several users of a given product.  Some companies that I have done business with establish what that company terms 'tech support' or 'customer support' staff as a part if the basic business plan.  The main focus of the people in that section would be tasked with answering, or trying to answer, questions from those new users/owners that become frustrated almost to the point of attempting to demand a full and immediate refund of all charges the user/owner incurred while trying to get that new purchase to even start.  In my case, I had posted a few questions in the forums here about the Pinebook Pro that I recently received.  Generally, this laptop is a good quality item.  I have not been able to learn enough about it to say the laptop is a 'great' value for the cost involved.  To date, even after posting the qestions in some of the forums here, I have not seen or received any answer to my questions.  At present, my PBP is not boot-able.  When powered on, it will go to a screen or page asking for a password.  No matter what I might enter on that page, a message comes back: password failed.  My main question right now is: How can I either restore the original software on this laptop and start using it, or how could I load a different version of Linux on the laptop so that I would at least be able to use it?  Please help as my frustration is growing.
Thank you,
James Good