Got in my Pinebook Pro a week ago and have been using it here and there.  I like it, but there's a problem.  Sometimes when I turn it on, so does the screen, but more often, the screen doesn't turn.  The light is orange for a few seconds then green, but no video output.  Anyone have insight on this one or do I have a faulty unit?  It's only warranted for 30 days so if there's a problem I'd like to get on it quickly.  If it's something I can handle by opening it up and doing something inside, I'm very comfortable with that sort of thing.

Are we supposed to peel off the thin plastic cover from the touchpad?

So reviewing the specs for the Pebble, I found:
[*]Pebble Original & Steel Processor: ARM Cortex-M3, up to 80 MHz with 512 KB of on-chip storage all in STMicroelectronics' STM32F205RE6 SoC (System on a Chip)


And for the PineTime, this site
https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Low-...e-wireless
shows that the nRF52832 only has 32/65k RAM.

Yet it also shows the nRF52840 has 512K RAM.

If we could get a nRF52840 in a PineTime, then Rebble OS might be an easy port giving us access to more applications.

Does anyone know if the cpu is user replaceable.  Yes I know bga and all.  Just wondering if its impossible or just really hard.  That being said I have no idea if the nRF52840 and nRF52832 anre pin compatible.

Has anyone had success with nomachine?
If so, which version did you install?

Thanks.

Are there any ARM builds of Firefox available that enable the global application menu? Being able to have application menus in the top panel is one of my favorite features of KDE, but it looks like the build of Firefox that ships with Manjaro KDE on the Pinebook Pro has not been modified to enable that feature.

I know that there are a few different builds of Firefox in the repositories that are meant to solve this, like firefox-kde-opensuse or firefox-appmenu, but I don’t think any of them are compiled for ARM. Does anyone know of any way to make this work? Thanks!

Just received my Pinebook Pro yesterday and am excited to be using it! However, I am having two issues configuring Virtual Desktops on the stock Manjaro KDE build:

1. I cannot create more than one row of desktops. I click the button, but either kwin crashes or it just doesn’t save properly.
   
2. I cannot use the Meta + Ctrl + arrow keyboard shortcuts to navigate between desktops or the Meta + Shift + arrow key shortcut to move windows between desktops. The don’t work as the default shortcuts, and it seems like I cannot create any shortcuts using the arrow keys. I’ve tried manually creating the shortcuts and also imported my shortcuts from my desktop system (Kubuntu) and neither works.
   

Hello,
  Are there instructions for flashing a Focal Gnome image to the EMMC?  Apparently the Pine Installer does not work for these images.

I need a sanity check here.  I'm a novice on my recently received Pinebook Pro, but I was hoping that if a software package is compatible with a raspberry pi ARM architecture, that it would also be compatible on the Pinebook.  Am I wrong here? 

As an example, I installed Calibre from the software center and the program won't start.

Can I add repositories meant for the Pi and have them run on the Pinebook? Clearly I'm in over my head but I'm hoping to at least get a couple pieces of software running to keep learning. 

I should mention I'm running on the recent default Manjaro installation based on kernel version 5.6.0.2.

Hello Pine Community

I just got my PBP delivered yesterday, everything went fine from booting and latest updates from pacman. This morning when I turned on the laptop it won't connect to WiFi. I tried deleting the WiFi connection and adding it again but no luck. It keeps asking for password authentication. I even tried using the privacy switch to disable and re enable it with a restart, but no luck it won't connect my WiFi. Tried connecting through the phone hotspot and it connects perfectly fine. Please help.

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Salutations Everyone,

I just purchased my pinebook pro recently and just received it yesterday. I am so excited to finally have a linux operating system as up until this point i've only ever used Mac and Windows. I've never dabbled in Linux before so this will be my maiden voyage.

I've been trying to read the wikis and information on Google but unfortunately I do not have the time to go through all the documentations just yet. I had a few questions:

1. I want to install Thunderbird the email client from the makers of Mozilla firefox do I install with a package manager or outside a package manager. Since I'm new to Linux I must ask what is the package manager and how to do I access it?

2. I wanted to download Discord for my pinebook pro when I went to their site and clicked Download for Linux, two options appeared. deb and tar.gz , I briefly searched these two on Google but there as not beginer to Linux information easily found for what these are and which one I should click on for my pinebook pro.

Regards,

Sanjev Rajaram