Hey guys,

IRC has been moved to our cluster and linked to other chat protocols. If you're using a dedicated IRC client then connect to

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People,

I can't find a way of searching the fora so I will ask my first Q here.  I found this site because of a post on the Fedora Linux forum re the PinePhone - I am interested in all the devices here but the first Q is:  can any of the Pine64 devices conveniently talk to external GPU devices?

Thanks,

Phil.

I'm trying to get my RockPro64 onto a new SD card. Under Linux, as root I run:

7z x ./Armbian_20.02.1_Rockpro64_buster_legacy_4.4.213.7z
./balenaEtcher-1.5.70-x64.AppImage ./Armbian_20.02.1_Rockpro64_buster_legacy_4.4.213.img

When done, my SD looks like this:

root@mozart:/home/njc/dev/taz# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 14.9 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Disk model: Card  Reader    
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x019a33bc

Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1       32768 2899967 2867200  1.4G 83 Linux
root@mozart:/home/njc/dev/taz# 

I then put it into the RockPro64, power it up and I see nothing. I have no WiFi and the console doesn't spit out anything.

The old SD card that still boots (but with an OS that is very unstable) has:

njc@taz:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           388M  5.4M  383M   2% /run
/dev/sda2       1.8T   35G  1.7T   2% /
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p6  112M  4.0K  112M   1% /boot/efi
tmpfs           388M     0  388M   0% /run/user/1001
njc@taz:~$ 

Is this enough information to figure out what is wrong?

I've upgraded SDs with x86, Pi and Toradex but the RockPro64 is giving me no end of fits.

Hi everyone,

I am currently making the move from windows/ android over to Linux.

I have joined the UBports group and I'm currently researching Linux with the foundation.

I will be investing in various Linux based products, and hopefully leanring from you guys along the way, looking to buy the Pinephone soon.

Happy to be involved with the Pinephone / UBports project.

Stay safe.

Thanks for reading.

LinuxNew

Hello everyone,


I am very please to let you all know that many of our flagship devices, including key SBCs as well as Pinebook Pro and the Pinebook, now have official Debian support.
Download

Debian recently added support for the Pinebook Pro and RockPro64, adding to their existing support for the original Pinebook, Rock64, and Pine64 Plus! I haven't gotten the chance to try these yet but these are presumably based on the mainline kernel, given that Debian Unstable is now using Linux 5.5 with all the necessary patches for the RK3399 backported and Mesa 20.0.4. 

Images are being built everyday over at https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm6...rd-images/ where the readme has instructions for how to combine the device-specific partition table and u-boot with the device-independent partition.img.gz that contains the installer such that you can make a bootable SD card with them both.

After being booted, the installer "runs completely in the system's RAM and does not need to load anything from the SD card anymore, so you can delete all existing partitions and use the full card for installing Debian. It is recommended to use the 'guided partitioning' option in the installer to create a proper partition layout on the SD card."

Given that these images purely contain the installer, you'll definitely need an internet connection for it to retrieve the rest of the packages and install a full system. I also believe these don't contain any non-free firmware, so you may need to install over ethernet and then add the non-free repo and install any required firmware afterwards. I'm very interested to see what's currently functional and if there's any unexpected snags or hangups, and I'll definitely update this post with what I figure out after receiving my Pinebook Pro and trying to install this image on it! :)

Hey,

after testing Sway with PostmarketOS I was really bought into it. So I checked the official Manjaro ARM Installer repository (https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/a...-installer) for a way to get a custom Sway profile into it.

So I forked both repositories and added a sway configuration:

- manjaro-arm-installer (https://git.sr.ht/~appelgriebsch/manjaro-arm-installer)
- manjaro-arm-profiles (https://git.sr.ht/~appelgriebsch/manjaro-arm-profiles)

and did some test-runs....

The result is looking promising so far, and if you would like to check it out and give feedback, this would be very appreciated.

Hello I am having some trouble looking at sites from my android. I can access pine64 .org but not pinestore/ forum or anything else.
It gives me this message
Forbidden you don´t have permission to access /index.php/Main_Page on this server . Apache/2.4.18 (ubuntu) server at wiki.pine64.org Port 443
Have tried firefox, duckduckgo, chrome and brave some problem

Hey Pinephone community,

Does anybody know if hardware upgrades are to be expected between the release of the UBPorts edition and some later edition that is ready for the regular consumer market?

My concern is that if I buy the UBPorts edition, it will not be supported when a Linux mobile OS is finally ready for regular use down the road (Ubuntu Touch or any other OS).

Thanks!

Hi all, I've tried multiple distro's, most recently armbian for the rockpro64, and the thing keeps freezing. 

It could be days, sometimes a week, then it locks up. 

What can I do? Is this a known issue? 

It's the only thing keeping me from buying a pinebook pro right now. I'm not confident in the tech.

Please help.
John