In the page at https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ put a link to the page at https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebook_Pro

Assuming editing (and spamming) isn't available to the general public.  The wiki page is a go-to for fairly in-depth information.  If you're the sort that always downloads a manual before buying something it's much better than the advertising-type stuff on the promo page.

Assuming there's a large drive, probably NVMe, with space enough to install multiple alternative operating systems.  It would be nice to boot to a GRUB menu asking which to boot. It might also be able to offer eMMC vs SD options.

But I don't know if GRUB is at all compatible with ARM and u-boot.  My guess is that if done right each GRUB choice could replace having u-boot for that choice.  The GRUB installation might not know how to set that up, it might need doing manually.

hey all,

just loaded 23 feb 2020 latest omg of ubports.

having an issue where the demo , long swipe from left edge is not working , the screen does nothing.

if i power off and back on then everything is working until the demo long swipe from the left edge with the white screen loads after a few seconds.

Hey,

I'm having trouble registering on a network with my Pinephone. I already opened a thread about this but still no answer after two weeks, so I guess I'm on my own.

I'd like to try my SIM card on another Pinephone, and a working card on my Pinephone.
Is anyone in Paris and want to go grab a beer or whatever sometime to do a couple of tests?

Thanks in advance!

I've modified pinebook pro with internal LCD.

code in: https://github.com/korneliuszo/ILI9341/tree/st7789

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I am trying to record the screen of the Pinebook Pro with audio from the webcam mic.
I tried Kazam, but it can only record in AVI (huge file and audio died after 30 seconds!) and not with h264.

I'm testing with FFMPEG, but I get audio drops and the image quality is not what I hoped for.
This is the command I'm using at the moment:
ffmpeg -video_size 1920x1080 -framerate 30 -f x11grab -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 -c:v h264_rkmpp -thread_queue_size 32 -f alsa -ac 2 -i hw:0 output.mkv

Anyone has a working solution for recording the screen, or knows how to tweak FFMPEG?

I also installed the package x264 from the Synaptic Package Manager.

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/