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  zram is awesome! PBP is awesome! zram on PBP is awesome^2!
Posted by: moonwalkers - 03-20-2020, 09:34 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (5)

This basically puts the amount of memory used at about 9.5GiB (used + DATA - TOTAL), that's on a system with only ~3.7GiB RAM available!


Code:
$ free -h; zramctl
total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          3.7Gi       3.5Gi        34Mi        84Mi       224Mi       114Mi
Swap:          14Gi       7.9Gi       7.0Gi
NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE  DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 lzo-rle      14.8G  7.9G  1.9G  1.9G       6 [SWAP]

And the system is still surprisingly responsive for a low-power CPU.


  Manjaro/XFCE4: spontaneous screen locking
Posted by: rossk - 03-20-2020, 05:49 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (3)

When I'm using qutebrowser or Chromium (but not firefox), my screen will spontaneously lock. Sometimes this happens when I click a link, enter a URL, switch tabs, or scroll down to reveal new content.

I took two incredibly boring videos, that demonstrate the problem. 

Chromium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC1qPaECD6E

Qutebrowser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGs_ediL5XU

Does anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Or, what the problem might be?


  Center touchpad under typing keys in future versions?
Posted by: Damon - 03-20-2020, 05:03 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (3)

Hello, I'm trying to retrain myself to hold my wrists higher and not accidentally move the cursor with the base of my thumb, but I realized that I only do it with my right hand, and then l Iearned that some laptops center the touchpad under the spacebar, or the g and h keys for this reason. The PBP centers it on the device, leaving it to the right of the lettered keys and probably contributing to accidental touches.

I think moving it to the left to align with the center of the typing position would be a good solution to reduce accidental touches, but I know some people like touchpad more on the right since they use it with their right hand. I use it with both hands, so wouldn't be negatively impacted if it was further left.


  Upper USB slot not working on FreeBSD
Posted by: Pbowen - 03-20-2020, 05:01 PM - Forum: BSD on PINE A64-LTS / SOPINE - Replies (4)

I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed onto SD card for the Pine64-lts. I boots fine so I installed X and Open-Motif, and they work fine as well. The only problem I have at the moment is the upper USB slot is not working for things like dongles for wireless keyboard/ mouse, or WiFi adapter, or flash drive. It works fine for all of those things under Armbian, so I know it's not a board issue. Is there a way to configure "something" to get it to recognize the flash drives and stuff?

Thanks,
Patrick


  Does #pinebook channel exists?
Posted by: oxoocoffee - 03-20-2020, 02:43 PM - Forum: General - Replies (3)

Looking at https://www.pine64.org/web-irc/ it is listed but getting list from freenode does not show it

Cheers


  New NVMe adapter showed up today!
Posted by: bceverly - 03-20-2020, 01:49 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (4)

Hi all,

Is there some sort of step by step on how to install this?  I have my NVMe drive and the new adapter but when I took the bottom plate off (using the nice guide) I wasn't sure where to put the thing.

Any help (esp with pictures) would be appreciated!  For example, do I somehow remove the existing storage in the upper right-hand corner (looking down with the hinge at the top) and attach the adapter's cable?  Where do I physically attach the adapter?  There doesn't seem to be a female screw attachment point on the adapter (just a hole) to hold the NVMe drive in place.

Thanks!


  Wi-fi: "Device not managed" in Network Manager
Posted by: gfoty - 03-20-2020, 01:14 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (5)

Hi all—my PBP has been offline for most of its life, but recently I've started seeing "Device not managed" in the Network Manager menu where my wifi connections should be. I understand this to mean that Network Manager thinks some other system is managing the wifi interface, but I haven't been able to find out what.

I've run through the steps in the wiki under https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...iFi_issues but come up short—nothing changes. Advice I've seen on other forums hasn't helped either.

Here's my /etc/network/interfaces:

Code:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

(/etc/network/interfaces.d is empty.)

Here's /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf:

Code:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=true

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

Do you know where I can start looking to troubleshoot this? I see some wifi-related messages in `dmesg` but I'm not enough of a Linux networking guru to make sense of them.

Sadly, I do not have `ifconfig` or `iwconfig` or any such tools available, since they don't come in the stock install and I can't get online to install them.


(Last, semi-related thing: could someone let me know so I can edit the wiki to clarify which state of the wifi privacy switch is which? It says "2 blinks = enabled, 3 blinks = disabled", but I don't know if "enabled" means "the privacy switch is enabled" or "the wifi adapter is enabled". I've had to trial and error it.)


  Pinebook Pro won't turn on when unplugged
Posted by: decisivedove - 03-20-2020, 12:49 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (7)

Hi,
I just received my pinebook pro. It was working fine until recently.
It will not turn on without the power adapter being plugged in, anymore. The green power indicator will light up but nothing shows up on the screen. When I try to power it on when plugged in, it boots just fine and I can unplug it and it works perfectly.
My battery is at 62%.

Thank You


(03-20-2020, 12:49 PM)decisivedove Wrote: Hi,
I just received my pinebook pro. It was working fine until recently.
It will not turn on without the power adapter being plugged in, anymore. The green power indicator will light up but nothing shows up on the screen. When I try to power it on when plugged in, it boots just fine and I can unplug it and it works perfectly.
My battery is at 62%.

Thank You

I am using Manjaro if that has to do with anything. The first time the default Debian started correctly. Even after I had just installed Manjaro, everything was working perfectly. Could it have anything to do with the update?


  This board
Posted by: ab1jx - 03-20-2020, 10:35 AM - Forum: General - Replies (7)

1. Doesn't have a search feature, or it hides.  Maybe I found it once.  I'd like to look up references to u-boot on the PBP because now that I have all the hardware to install my new SSD I have no idea how.  I'd like to use grub-uboot and have the boot menu select Linux and OpenBSD (the PBP should be a mainstream OpenBSD platform as of about OpenBSD 6.7).

2. It doesn't email me, ever.  I can subscribe to a topic and specify that I want emails on replies, I never get any.  My email address in my profile is correct.  I get emails from the Pine Store OK.

3. Posting pictures is weird and doesn't seem to work, even when I put them on Imgur and link them here.

These might be just configuration options in the board software.  I'm sort of used to having them work on other boards.


  Manjaro won't boot (again)
Posted by: mr.angeli - 03-20-2020, 01:46 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (5)

Hello everybody,

just received my pinebookpro yesterday: a rapid glance at the default OS: all works well.

Then I installed Manjaro ARM KDE edition 20.02.1 with the emmc installer. Everythin is OK, but after a shutdown the new system doesn't start.

Here's what I do:

  • push the start button
  • the led turns orange for a while
  • becomes green but nothing happens: the screen is black.
Very strange behaviour indeed!

To be honest, the pinebookpro started for another time with manjaro. So, just to try, I rebooted: it started again. Then I shutdown. Now I can't restart again.

What would you suggest?

Marco