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.
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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

I have KDE Plasma desktop installed. I think the testing repos bork my system, I would like to remove them. What file contains this?
I looked around in /etc/ for repo lists, but didnt find one.

As a temp fix, i blocked the testing repo on my network. its a dirty hack, but seems to work. I'd like to know how to do it proper.

Hi all,

I purchased one of the original PBP with 128 eMMC and ISO keyboard. It's currently running Manjaro ARM 20.04 and I've had absolutely no issues with it at all. Unfortunately, I've just not found much use for it at our house. I want to see it go to someone who can use more than I. I have most/all of the original packaging and will include, of course, the laptop and power.

I'll sell for $150 + shipping. I'm in the US in IL. Don't mind shipping to wherever.

Let me know if you're interested!

Would it be possible to add Qi charging to the production model? It is an open standard, so it will fit nicely with the open source nature of the project.

I found a Qi coil on DealExtreme that is 4cm X 2.8cm. If it was just a bit more square it would probably fit

Hi all,

While i am waiting for the PBP to arrive (just ordered yesterday) i looked up the display that it had and while it isn't horrible for a 200 laptop i am thinking that an upgrade might be in place.

If i do decide to go that route http://www.panelook.com/NE140FHM-N61_BOE...38601.html seems to match all the power specs needed and such and the dimensions are close.

Apparently this display was used on some t4x0 series laptops  for Lenovo and luckily for me i have a t460s that has this panel.

I will test it out see if it works when i get my PBP