Hi good people

My pinebook pro does not turn on today.
I have charged it for several hours now. Tried both the standard 5V charger and a USB-C charger. The red led next to power input is on.
When I press the power button on the keyboard there is a short green pulse on the power led. That is all. Screen is black.
I run the standard Debian on EMMC. I tried to burn Manjaro image to SD-card. No change, no boot.

I have the serial to usb cable, but nothing seems to be written here.

What is next to try?

Regards

Does anyone know whether it's possible to boot Debian from an SD card on the Pinebook Pro, then insert the eMMC card and mount it? I briefly tried, but had no success.

A while back I messed up uboot on the Manjaro installation on my eMMC card. Afterwards, the Pinebook Pro wouldn't boot from eMMC, or from any other Linux distribution on an SD card if the eMMC was attached. If I remove the eMMC, which I currently have, I can boot from the SD card, but if I re-attach the eMMC card after boot I can't work out how to make the system mount it.

I've ordered a eMMC-to-USB adapter from Pine64, but I was wondering whether there was any other way of mounting the eMMC on an already booted Pinebook Pro.

Hi there,

I would like some guidance on how to change the dns with the default Debian install on the Pinebook Pro.
Changing it within the GUI doesn’t seem to stick.
I’m trying to point the PBP to my pihole address.
I have also noticed “ip route” lists two wlan.

Just wondering if the machine is capable of running a nearly 2 decade old game.

Some others I have thought of as well:

Halo CE
Red Alert 2


etc.

Thanks!

collecting information and projects regarding hardware acceleration in mainline kernel, ffmpeg, and vaapi.

STATUS:
drm hwaccel working with hantro (mpeg2, vp8, h264) and rkvdec (vp9, h264 8+10bit, h265 8+10bit)
ffmpeg 4.2.3 with v4l2-request-hwaccel-4.2.2-rkvdec patch working well, except decoders listing is broken (i.e. mpv and others will be broken)
kodi supports all hantro and rkvdec hwaccel, including plugins (youtube and jellyfin confirmed) *see kodi-git thread*
gstreamer supports vp8 and h264 via v4l2codecs in gstreamer-plugins-bad
vaapi hwaccel working with hantro (mpeg2)
firefox 75 supports initial vaapi on wayland, v76 expands vaapi support to all supported codecs, no X11 support
chrome supports vaapi with unofficial patch that will never be upstreamed, but included in some linux distros (fedora, etc.)

PBP-TOOLS

pinebook pro tools, including installation scripts, patches, and configs, now on git. also see forum thread.
https://github.com/xmixahlx/pbp-tools
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10190

REFERENCES

linux patchwork - linux-media:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/list/

linux patchwork - linux-rockchip:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/lin...chip/list/

libreelec/kwiboo mainline kernel patches:
https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.t...ux/default

libreelec/kwiboo mainline kernel testing patches:
https://github.com/Kwiboo/LibreELEC.tv

kwiboo's rockchip-linux repos:
https://github.com/Kwiboo/linux-rockchip/

bbrezillon's rockchip-linux repos:
https://github.com/bbrezillon/linux/

ph5's libva patch:
https://github.com/intel/libva/pull/332

libva-v4l2-request;
https://github.com/bootlin/libva-v4l2-request/

ph5's libva-v4l2-request patches:
https://github.com/bootlin/libva-v4l2-request/pulls

kwiboo's ffmpeg v4l2-request branch:
https://github.com/Kwiboo/FFmpeg/tree/v4...ccel-4.2.2
https://github.com/Kwiboo/FFmpeg/tree/v4...2.2-rkvdec

gstreamer v4l2codecs:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer...uests/1141

gstreamer vaapi:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer...quests/171

firefox vaapi:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610199

chrome vaapi:
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com...c/+/532294
https://github.com/saiarcot895/chromium-...an/patches
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi/

OTHER

allwinner cedrus hwaccel project:
https://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-Cedrus

LibreElec - Early Mainline Images for <...> RK3399:
https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/17540-...nd-rk3399/

LibreElec - Not Official LE Version for <...> RK3399
https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/20823-...28-rk3399/

Armbian - early VPU work:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/4806-the-vpu-driver/

Armbian - Mainline VPU
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/13622-mainline-vpu/

Did anyone manage to get cube desktop on KWin or compiz on the Pinebook Pro? If so, how did it perform? Was the performance usable?

Hi,

I was playing around with the phone for a bit and left it charging over night. I was already wondering why there is no indication of charging. Today I eventually noticed that the battery level hasn't changed.

So I hooked the USB cable onto my lab power supply, to check whether there is current or not. Indeed there was - right at the limit ... which was set to 2 amps. So I guess a short or something...

I narrowed the issue down to the daughter board (ZQ01_SUB_V10). I disconnected everything except the flex board to the speaker. Still, the current limiter of my PSU 
immediately kicked in as soon as the USB cable was connected.

Any idea how to fix this or getting a replacement?

Cheers, ya

When I SSH into my PBP everything runs like it is in super slow motion.  Logging in is slow, but where the lag really stands out is even a single keystroke takes 10-30 seconds to register after logging in.  This is the case ssh'ing in from both my linux desktop and using an SSH client on my android tablet.  From the web searching I've done I gather that the issue is usually due to the local network.  However, I don't have the same issue ssh'ing into my raspberry pi on the same network, or to my linux desktop from my tablet.  After poking around for a while, I've narrowed it down some.  I made a bootable SD card with Manjaro (Manjaro-ARM-xfce-pbpro-19.12.1.img.xz).  Using Manjaro I can connect to the PBP via SSH with the PBP connected either via wifi or via a usb to LAN adapter and I don't experience the lag.  I've also found that the lag goes away in the factory version of Debian if I am connected via usb/LAN.  

Interestingly, I can SSH into the PBP running Debian over wifi if the PBP is also connected to the USB/LAN adapter*.  For example, with the PBP disconnected  from the USB/LAN adapter, I can SSH into the IP address for the PBP wireless connection.  The connection has the normal lag, until I connect the USB/LAN adapter.  Then after the PBP is connected to both network connections, SSH responds normally, without the extreme lag.  If I disconnect the USB/LAN adapter, the SSH connection remains open, but the lag returns.  

I was able to duplicate the issue booting from an SD card with a fresh image of the latest Debian stock build (pinebookpro-debian-desktop-mrfixit-191123.img).  I booted from this image and without making any changes hand typed in my wifi password to connect it to the network (to rule out if my using a wired connection first was part of the issue).  The lag was there when I connected from my linux desktop.  Here is the output from when I did this.  Obviously it doesn't show the lag, but it shows that I'm connecting via the wireless IP address of the PBP, confirmed by the output of "ip a" (Note, I've replaced my desktop user name with "redbeardsdesktop"):

Has anyone experienced problems connecting an external displays to their PBP in KDE?  Mine just mirrors the desktop and I don't see any options to extend it or change the resolution.  Is there any applications I can install on Manjaro to make configuration of the second (or third) display easy?

Thanks,
Karl

After several days of juggling SD cards, I feel it is time to make a decision (at least for now, I can always change my mind).
It is just not sustainable that I have to open and close my phone all the time. With hindsight, we might have been better off with an external card slot.

Here are my impressions of the different OS options:

Ubuntu Touch
Admittedly the most advances OS. I like the fact that they even have a little app store running already. But it is also the slowest software. I find it unacceptable that it takes 3 minutes to start my Pinephone up and 1 whole minute to start a simple application such as Calculator or Settings. Unless they can do something to speed things up, I may conclude that my Pinephone is just not powerful enough for this.

Manjaro Plasma
I may be wrong, but this feels more like a tinkerer's OS than a user's one. I'll be watching it.


Sailfish
Much talked about, but I find the installation procedure too awkward. Most other distributions can easily be installed on an SD card using Linux Mint's "USB Image Writer". If I want to enlarge the partition, I can do so with GParted (it will end with an error message, butthis doesn't cause any problems).

LuneOS
This comes as a WIC file and I have not found out yet how to install it.

Neon Plasma / Postmarket Plasma
Somebody commented that these look quite "polished". But look a bit closer and you'll find they are mostly just just mock-ups. I am not interested in fancy screen elements, backgrounds etc. I want functionality.


AND THE WINNER IS...

Postmarket Phosh
First of all, I am quite impressed with the speed of it. The system will start up in 30 seconds and simple apps such as Calculater and Settings take an incredible 3 seconds to load (Compare that with Ubuntu!). PM Phosh also can already do things that the others can't, such as switch from portrait to landscape, handle SMS and even run Firefox. I don't mind the simple screen layout, this is all I need.
Where it falls short at the moment is that the moblie data modem is always on, draining the battery, and some screens have not yet been adjusted to the Pinephone screen size, leading to situations when essential buttons such as "Done" are off the screen. But I am sure over time these issues will be addressed.


I will of course keep an eye on the other options, but for now, PM Phosh stays in my phone until the next version comes out.