Is it unusual to have a CPU temp for 45-50 C with no load on the rockpro?

Are there currently issues with Manjaro and USBC -> HDMI ?
I've got a USBC to HDMI (capable of 90Hz 4K). Connecting it to my monitor, nothing happens besides I get options of what type of video out I want (mirroring etc). When I try to plug it into the TV, the Pinebook pro screen starts to kind of flash and I also get the options on video out but the same result there, no video out.

I've ordered the USBC to HDMI cable just for the Pinebook, I've got no other devices to test it out on to ensure that there is no problem with the cable unfortunately.

Hey, anyone have mobile data up and running on there PP with SFOS???  Normally, there is an icon to toggle on/off just like the WLAN setting.  Any tips would be appreciated!

Thx

I would like to invite all of you to the site and repo we have created recently.
Having noticed that some privacy oriented software was not easily available, we started to prepare, build and provide some of it with this repository. This makes it easy to install and upgrade these applications without having to build them yourself.

As for now there is Ungoogled Chromium (caidao) and LibreWolf (librewolf) available. But stay tuned, there will be more.
More information (including how to use it) available on https://privacyshark.zero-credibility.net/

Ale the credits for the work go to @llsf with my little help.

Edit 01.08.2020

What we have now:

1. Caidao - ungoogled Chromium
2. LibreWolf - browser based on Firefox with more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings, patches.
3. Signal desktop.
4. Ferdi Messenger - more info at https://getferdi.com/.
5. Teams-for-linux - unofficial client for MS Teams - https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux.
6. lrzip-git - A compression utility that excels at compressing large files - https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip.
7. uhk-agent - https://github.com/UltimateHackingKeyboard/agent
8. Bitwarden - Open Source password Manager
9. Hamsket - Open Source and Cross Platform messaging and emailing app
10. Jitsi Meet Desktop - Open Source Video Calls and chat
11. Standardnotes - Open Source, and completely encrypted notes app

I installed manjaro on my PBP two weeks ago and it worked. Yesterday my computer crashed suddenly while I was using it. Then when I rebooted it froze sometimes. So I shut it down.


Since then, it cannot boot from any manjaro image (tried KDE, xfce and i3 and also the KDE eMMC installer). I tried all those from a microSD, and had KDE installed on the eMMC.

The screen just stays black (with no brightness) while the power led is first red then green. Basically I would expect the manjaro logo to show up. I also tried waiting 1 minute before pressing escape.
I opened the case and pressed the reset button then tried again.
I also tested the microSD cards and tried disabling the eMMC to force booting from microSD.


With the i3 image, I get some error messages (see https://forum.manjaro.org/uploads/defaul...x1000.jpeg)

I can boot on Debian from a microSD but the wifi works so bad I cannot use it at all. It used to work better last month (it was barely usable even with all the updates which is why I changed OS). When I tried today, it could connect to my wifi the first time then disconnected and now only shows "device not ready" (the privacy switch is not disabling wifi).

I would greatly appreciate any help to make any OS work with wifi as my main computer broke and I cannot get a new one because of the coronavirus lockdown in my country. Some people mentioned the possibility of using manjaro's firmware updates or kernel of Tobias Schramm with Debian, how would you do that?

I installed Manjaro to eMMC yesterday, and thought I'd try xfce edition today.

After downloading and booting the eMMC version of Manjaro Xfce, the Pinebook does nothing (only green power button is on).
I downloaded the Plasma version again and wrote it to the SD card, and it does nothing either anymore.

Its the same SD card I'm using now, as yesterday. What could be the problem?

Hi all -

I'm very interested in this project. I read on the main site that the Pinebook is (not Pro) not really a good choice if you're looking for a "daily driver," but am wondering whether it might serve the following purposes:


- learn/play with programming, particularly in Perl, Python, R, perhaps Ruby - and ARM assembly
- display PDFs with something lightweight like zathura (provided it's available for any of the ARM-ported OSs)

... a small form factor device that could do such things (and make many potential distractions unavailable ) would be of interest to me.

Thanks,

Glenn

Hey,

just received my Pinebook Pro yesterday and started to update and install some software on it. Looks like the stock Debian OS is still Debian 9 (and there seems to be some limitations with newer packages such as Flatpak) is there an official way to upgrade the stock OS from Debian 9 to Debian 10 Buster? Or would it better to reinstall from scratch with the unofficial Debian installer?

Someone experience with flatpak usage on ARM devices?

Thanks a lot,
Andreas

Hi all,

I'm finding there are things I do with Gnome-shell on Manjaro (I installed it by hand from the KDE installer for the internal drive) that will crash the shell.  Some are easy (trying to change the background image) and some are more complex (turning on the dash to dock extension).

Any suggestions on some tweaks I might have missed that will help the out?  If not, what troubleshooting data can I gather to help diagnose and correct the problem?  I'm like 4th and inches from having this machine set up exactly like I would like it so a big THANK YOU to everyone for their hard work!

Another alternative might be an Ubuntu installer for the internal drive.  That's probably closer to my final desktop than anything, although I've enjoyed being back in the arch world...

Thanks again!

So ayufan's kernels have a corresponding linux-headers package for download but MrFixIt's do not? Any chance of getting one, or do we have to clone the git repo & build the whole kernel, just to build WireGuard?

What about including WireGuard in the next update? It's small and easy to build, IF you have the headers. Smaller than some of those desktop background images. Remember to optipng -o7 before releasing.

OpenVPN is a pain on a laptop. Every time you suspend & resume it, you have to kill & restart openvpn, while wireguard just doesn't care.