Hey guys, anyone tried using the Dolphin Wii/Gamecube emulator?

I have tried it on Android, Manjaro and Kali so far on the pinebook pro.  Android was not worth the time to use at all, too slow on this build.  I remember Manjaro also being slow too.  I tested it out with kali today and i was getting at least up to 30 fps (mario kart double dash), but it would drop to 7fps a lot of times.

i tried WADs (Final Fantasy 2 & 3) --> didn't work, very slow
Mario Kart Wii, was very slow
Mario Kart double dash, was playable
Star Wars force unleashed 1 & 2, also sluggish

This is an ok start, I would like to see this emulator get some more love on SBCs and Arm64 based hardware.

Hi,

I find it honorable here on the forums that moderators promote interesting projects/builds by marking them as important. However for my taste ,there are way too many threads pinned / marked as important at the moment. In some subforums, the ratio is about 2:1 between "important" and "normal" threads on the first page. Imho, a situation where "everything is important" undermines the idea of putting emphasis on the important topics.

I propose to define an upper bound like 5 or 10 "important" threads per subforum to keep things more tidy.

Just a quick heads-up about the new Fedora 32 release:

Announcement

Especially interesting for Rock64 and RockPro64 user:

Quote:Of particular note, we have improved support for the Rockchip system-on-a-chip devices including the Rock960, RockPro64, and Rock64.

Given the social separation we are keeping these days, much of our business is being conducted over Zoom, and the like, but almost all is Zoom.  

It would be great if the Zoom that now functions on Ubu Intel could be recompiled to run on Debs PBP?  Clearly no one has a lot of spare time, but it would be a plus for PBP to gain Zoom function!  

And similar pluses could be said for cross-compiles of Brave, Discord, Slack, and Sublime. 
:-) 

Is there a source for these that I have not found, or is there simply no source available please?

I recently fresh installed the new Manjaro i3, but strangely things are just running so much slower, and CPU usage is nowhere near 100 on any one core. What's going on? Never seen anything like this before. i3 should be much faster than Plasma but it seems multiple times slower even, I did switch to Mesa-git. Perhaps it's an issue with compton/picom on panfrost? Anyone have anything similar?

Hi,

  Kernel 5.6 is out and mipi-dsi is finally in there, so the pine lcd screen (feiyang) should now finally work with the mainline kernel.

  Can anyone say how to set this up?  Armbian is available with this kernel through build scripts and nightly builds, but I can't work out how to set up uboot, to initialize the mipi-dsi pipeline.

Any help greatly appreciated!

BR.

--Learnincurve--

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

Quote:irc.pine64.org/6667

Quote:irc.pine64.org/6697

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