I need help, because i'm stupid...

I tried to install arch Linux on my Pinebook Pro.
I flashed the image from the wiki on a usb-stick, booted from it on the pinebook pro and followed a standard arch install routine (in order to that i was setting up a boot, swap, root and home parition), until i tied to run the pacstrap command and realized, that this woulden work.
i shut down the pinebook.
And now it boots from no usb stick anymore.(of cause not from the emmc either, because i wiped it).

I would be really thankful for help.

I unplugged my Odroid N2 because there's no acceleration for video, and plugged in my Rock64.  Sound is currently being done over HDMI because that's what worked best with the N2.  Actually my monitor has an audio output where it splits the sound off and feeds it out an analog jack to a pair of computer speakers.

It works fairly well if I'm playing a movie or something (haven't  tried a sound file).   But when nothing's playing there's this sound that's like digital noise, like if you get a radio too close to a computer.  It stops if I turn the monitor off.  It's like a high impedance input is sitting there open and picking up junk when nothing's being played.

Using Debian Buster from an Ayufan image, freshly loaded a few days ago.

I've been enjoying my PBP for the past week but I've been wondering if it was possible to switch the Fn and the left Ctrl keys? I've found a few options in the Keyboard->Advanced section but nothing on the Fn key.

Manjaro is completely new to me (not linux). My desktop runs with linux (dual boot) and I have been able to play with Rpi 1,2,3 over the years. But now an aarch64 pinebook pro laptop!
Spent the past 3 days to see what is possible on this laptop. Quite a lot, just miss DRM (netflix, prime, disney +).

I also notice that many community packages (AUR) do not work for aarch64 (only i686 and x86_64). So I immediately started to make them myself:

- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openarena-git/
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libxmp-aarch64-git/

But found out today that you can still edit the PKGBUILD files for the build. So you can easily add aarch64 to the list of architectures and a lot will work already.

Here with screenshots ...

Click on "edit build files" and add aarch64 click on "Save" and you're done!




I notice that not all "versions" work. You really notice that aarch64 is newer in the world. For example, nblood didn't work but nblood-git did (newer code I think) eduke32 worked, but ran into a few problems, now building eduke32-git

if a build succeeds and works, I immediately ask in the comment if they want to add aarch64.

Hi there. I booted into a Kali img from an SD card and then proceeded to try to flash a Kali img file to the eMMC. The flash crashed part way through and when I try to reboot I can no longer boot from either the eMMC or SD card. I tried flashing several OS's (Manjaro SD/eMMC img, Debian SD/eMMC img, etc) to an SD card and then rebooting, but no luck. My understanding is that both the Manjaro and Debian images also include the boot program, and the boot order prioritizes SD over eMMC, so I should be able to boot onto an SD img even if the eMMC is corrupted? All I get when I power on is a solid red power LED, but nothing boots. 

When I'm flashing the SD cards, I download the OS img and then use 'unxz -d osname.img.xz' to decompress the OS img and then use etcher to flash it.

I tried flashing the Kali img to eMMC with the following command: 'sudo dd if=kali-linux-2020.2-pinebook-pro.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress' when it crashed.

If anyone could let me know what I'm doing wrong or where to go from here that would be much appreciated!

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!