Hi all,

I'm trying to get microphone input working, but I'm not having any luck. Even with a alsa config which I believe should work, my recordings (with arecord) are empty. Anyone having any luck with this?

I've been exploring the possibility of running Manjaro on the eMMC but with a BSP kernel on the SD card. Not totally stable yet but wanted to see if anyone has thoughts on this.

Why

I love the overall experience in Manjaro ARM a lot (up-to-date packages, AUR etc). I've installed it to the eMMC and use it on a daily basis. The included mainline kernel has come a long way and mostly works well, but I'm still running into a few issues compared to the BSP kernel in mrfixit2001's Debian and ayufan's Ubuntu images:

• Redshift doesn't work. This is a big problem for me as I use the laptop mostly in the evenings at home.
  
• Sound from the speakers is fairly quiet even at max volume.
  
• S3 sleep: wakes up a few seconds after closing the lid.
  
• (minor) Power LED indicator doesn't change color during sleep.
  

• Write ayufan's Bionic image containing BSP kernel to SD card
  
• Change the kernel boot flags on SD card to use the Manjaro partition on the eMMC as rootfs
  
• Copy over BSP kernel modules and firmware from Bionic image to Manjaro partition on the eMMC
  

• Note that with the mainline kernel in Manjaro, mmcblk1 is the SD card and mmcblk0 is the eMMC storage, but with the BSP kernel in Bionic it's the other way around where mmcblk0 is the SD card and mmcblk1 is the eMMC storage.
  
• Say the Manjaro root partition is /dev/mmcblk1p1 in Bionic and is mounted at /mnt. The default Manjaro eMMC installer sets a label of "ROOT" on the partition, which you can confirm with "ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/".
  

• The line to be edited is the first line that starts with "append". After editing, the first few lines of my /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf looked like this:
  
  Code:

  timeout 10
menu title select kernel

label kernel-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310
    devicetreedir /boot/dtbs/4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310
    append rw panic=10 init=/sbin/init coherent_pool=1M ethaddr=${ethaddr} eth1addr=${eth1addr} serial=${serial#} cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_memory=1 cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1 root=LABEL=ROOT rootwait rootfstype=ext4

• I located the necessary modules by looking through the "linux-image-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310" and "board-package-pinebookpro-0.9-182" packages:
  
  Code:

  dpkg -L board-package-pinebookpro-0.9-182 linux-image-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310
• Ultimately, here are the files I copied over:
  
  Code:

  sudo cp -a /lib/modules/4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310 /mnt/lib/modules/sudo cp -a /usr/lib/linux-image-4.4.190-1233-rockchip-ayufan-gd3f1be0ed310 /mnt/usr/lib/sudo cp -a /vendor /mnt/sudo cp -a /lib/firmware/rtlbt /mnt/lib/firmware/[/list]

My unit hasn't arrived yet but a friend was kind enough to trade me his for mine whenever it comes in.

I've had a few days to distrohop and play with the hardware so I feel like I can give some feedback in that regard. I also wanted to post some early wishlist items for the next version.

Build Quality 9/10 - Does NOT feel like a $150 phone in the hand. I've handed it off to a few apple users and they were shocked at the price. Chassis does have some flex but that's to be expected when you don't have the rigidity benefit sandwiching your hardware between 2 sealed pieces of glass.
Screen 7/10 -  One of the better IPS panels I've seen on a phone, coming from a nexus 5 it's a huge upgrade.
Loud Speaker Quality 4/10 - The biggest weakness I've found so far. Hands down the worst speaker I've heard on a phone yet. It does the job, but you cringe a little every time you use it for music. It's fine for vocal clarity.
Earpiece Speaker Quality 8/10 - Not quite as loud as my pixel 4, but it's perfectly fine even in somewhat noisy environments (I have 20 3d printers operating in my office)

I haven't evaluated the cameras or the headphone jack/dac quality yet. Trying to get FLAC playing has been an exercise in futility. I'll post pics in this thread of the camera once I figure out how to get it working (just haven't gotten around to it yet).

Now on to the wishlist for the next version, and yes I realize it's early but it's not stuff that's gonna change between brave heart and final. So it would need to be a new version.

Socketed EMMC - Being able to upgrade storage size in the future as well as the ability to have multiple backup EMMCs with different distros would be killer. Though I do admit I have no idea how much that would up the cost or increase the overall footprint of the device.

A better loud speaker - Honestly the biggest weakness of the current phone is it's loud speaker so far.

UHS-II Support on the Micro SD slot - The 50MB/s transfer rate limit is killing me. There are UHS-2 cards that rival and even exceed emmc speeds. Would make the device significantly more relevant as a general computer (convergence etc). With this, I can live with a non socketed emmc (though I'd prefer both for different reasons)

Software still has a ways to go, but im amazed at the progress being made every day. I'm still trying to decide what I wanna settle down on and see about contributing.

https://hackaday.com/2020/01/30/sma-q2-s...-hackable/

Hi,

I switched from Mac to PBP for privacy reasons and I appear to be way over my head.  Therefore, I will sell my PBP for $248 ($199 [purchase price]+ $33 [DHL from China] + 15 [Priority Mail from Arizona]).

The laptop doesn't seem to have any issues i see on the forum.  There are no dead pixels.  Since I'm new to Linux, I didn't realize there was a difference between ARM devices and x86 devices for software installation.....  Either way, it's still a great laptop, just not my cup of tea for now until the software progresses for ARM.

Price will be for $248 for US based purchases.  For international, I will recalculate price from my house.

Thanks!!

Matt

Here is a dropbox link with pictures.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xrv1y64ejpdaq...JyKKa?dl=0

The factorytest EG25 is failing on my PinePhone.  What is that error for, and is it fixable?

so i'm not super techy and i've postmarketos on a 32gb sd card

but it seems like i have the image allocated only to a partition of the sd

i tried so many commands (that i found on the internet) but i keep getting lack of storage space messages.

does anyone know the right command that wil work in the terminal of pmos?

i can recall i did something like resize2fs one for my retro single board computer

but that doesn't seem to work eather. i really want this fixes so i could clone some repos to my phone.

thanks!

How do you turn the LTE modem off without corruption on the latest UT build?
For pinephone braveheart?

I read the thread Luke made about the NVME adapters, and I'm unsure of which I received in the mail today. That post was made in October and this one says it's a V.2 from November but I'm still unclear. I have no problem cutting it down, just don't want to if it's not needed.

Here's a pic of the board along with a usb adapter and 128gb chip. If I had to guess, I'd say the SD card adapter writes image faster but it doesn't take long either way.

Is this the new model or the old and if old, should I wait for whatever parts will be shipped.

Thanks

https://imgur.com/6fUK2PB

Following these instructions:

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Gnome_Setup

I managed to install Gnome 3 on PMOS. From what I can see, it looks good and might work. My problem is that the Wiki does not give me the default password for "Linux User" (this is what the login screen presents me with). Does anyone know what that might be?

I would love to see Gnome running.