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.

Hello everyone,

We now have a utility to flash eMMC. Many thanks go out to @MartijnBraam @Danct12 and others who contributed to making this happen.


Here's how it works:
1) download the Jumpdrive image
2) flash the Jumpdrive image to a SD card
3) boot from the SD card
4) connect the PinePhone to your computer using USB-A -> USB-C cable.
5) flash the exposed (mounted) PinePhone drive with a chosen OS image as you'd flash any SD card
6) once the flashing process is complete, disconnect the PinePhone from your PC, power it down and remove the Jumpdrive SD card
7) boot into your OS of choice on eMMC


Download Jumpdrive

The store is one big sprawling page with some products shown multiple times. Could the store be converted into several pages or somehow better organized for a better experience?

Hey!

I installed PmOS with Phosh a couple of days ago. I was planning to install pmos+phosh on the emmc, so I already installed pmbootstrap and run the init command. After a reboot the terminal application in the app drawer was gone. I can't provide details to the installation or log files (it must have been the phosh release from two days ago). pmOs 1.17.0.


Settings / Applications show the terminal app as installed.

Without the terminal app you're stuck. I tried to use a keyboard shortcut to start the command prompt, but it's not working with the software keyboard. Next I will try to access the phone via ssh and reinstall the terminal app (when I've found out how it is called).

Before this happened I installed python-pip3, gparted (which is not working) and gnome-disk-utilitiy. I don't think that this bug is related to these installations, but who knows.

Maybe someone has an idea. At the end I will flash the sd card again.

Absolutely lovely computer and booting to the already installed system on eMMC works really well.
Its snappy and boots fast. I tried installing Manjaro/Plasma, but if feels very sluggish in comparison.
A few questions.

1) Is this something that can be fixed (or will be) in the future (sluggishness)? if anyone knows

2) I read in the March update news that Pine will be using Manjaro as the default moving on. Does this mean the (I guess its) Debian which comes pre installed will not be supported anymore, or not have as much support as Manjaro?

3) I was not presented with any installation to eMMC when booting Manjaro from SD, are there any tutorials available for installing to eMMC with encryption for the drive? Or at least just installing to eMMC?

4) This might be a stupid question, but when the Pinebook is booting there are no option for BIOS. This is normal for these SOC computers, correct?