If you install this package on Manjaro as required by some qemu+wine x86 tutorials on rpi, you will break your system and have to recover through chroot.

If you tend to follow RPI tutorials, or attempt to, to accomplish things, this one can have some bad consequences.
I'm not familiar with it so obviously as a rule don't run stuff if you don't know what it does, but I have been doing that a lot on PBP. It somehow made the system act like every binary was the wrong architecture, so not even basic commands like ls, cd, etc worked immediately after install.

Hi,

I'm playing with my Pinephone for few days. I'm mainly trying Ubuntu Touch for now.

I have not found a better place to ask questions so I do it here.

I have a problem with wifi which, for some reason, stops working.
Once it has stopped working, the only solution I've found is to reflash the SD card. Then, it works again untill it stops again.
When the wifi is not functionnal, ifconfig shows only loopback interface.
Any workaround ?
Maybe a console command to reinit software ?

Regards,
Nicolas

greetings,

included is a kernel build script, and dependencies debian-based systems (and you can modify for other systems easily... ).

this fetches the tsys/manjaro *v5.7* branch from the manjaro git, applies a config of your choice, preps, builds, and debianizes a custom kernel. build time is about 90min for the pbp, or ?min via crossbuilding. (for me is ~10min.)

you can also choose any branch in the manjaro git by changing the VAR.

enjoy!


SCRIPT
script now part of pbp-tools. see other forum thread for details.
https://github.com/xmixahlx/pbp-tools
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10190

What should be done when Chromium ask to upgrade? Ignore notification and wait for apt update to show new version?

Does anyone know if there's a way to configure the wake-up conditions for the PBP when in suspend mode?

I'm using the PBP with the default Debian MATE, and I'll often pull my PBP out of the laptop bag only to discover that it's on and the case is quite warm. I'm not sure if this wake-up is triggered by loss of DC power (when I unplug and grab it off my desk earlier) or some sort of magnetic relay that's being tripped by an adjacent device, but I want to disable it. Ideally, the only thing that should turn the PBP on is a tap of the power button.

Debian MATE has software options in the power applet for configuring when it goes to sleep, but nothing for when it should wake up. I'm hoping there's some way to configure this in software? Anyone?

Good afternoon,

I replaced the EMMC on the pinebook with  the optional 128 EMMC sold by Pine64.
After installing  the EMMC the Pinebook will not  boot. I keep getting a power light that blinks green and red. I reinstalled original 64gb emmc and still get the blinking power light when attempting to boot/install to the  emmc. 

I can boot from the sd card however and run an OS from the sd card.
I cannot write to emmc from the sd card and then install an OS.  
I would really appreciate assistance/advice about this.
I was unable to find any information on this issue.

I'm hoping to resurrect the Hellaphone project (Inferno OS on smartphones, worked on it on an Android phone back in 2012) on Pinephone. One unfortunate caveat of Inferno is that it is currently cannot compile as a 64-bit binary (386 and armhf only, not amd64 or arm64). According to the postmarketOS IRC channel, pmOS doesn't support multiarch, so that seems to be already off the table.

I'm looking for a Linux distro I can use for testing/developing this rather weird application. I would like to be able to compile *on the device*. I don't care about any UI because Hellaphone uses the framebuffer for its own UI, I just need to be able to interface with wifi / sms / audio / calls via either command-line tools or daemons or /dev.

UBPorts seems like a reasonable option but in reading their forums a little, they seem kind of hostile to the idea of people treating it like "just a Linux box". Would perhaps Manjaro be more appropriate? I'd appreciate any thoughts.

Hello,

I'd like to know if the A64 I2S interface on sopine can support 8 channels of audio ?

Thanks for your answer.
Denis

Hi,

Luke told us in a previous message that a tab had been put in place to prevent the phone from accidentally turning on during transport.

The thickness of this tab pushes on the connectors and therefore once removed the contact between the connectors and the battery are no longer properly made.

This is really a big problem because the end user won't necessarily be a handyman...

@+ Christophe

Hello!
I'm a CS student getting into experimenting with Linux and have found myself in a difficult situation. After messing up my factory Debian install on the Pinebook Pro, I went to flash a fresh install of that exact image onto the eMMC again from an SD card, but this resulted in a boot loop, so I just decided to flash Bionic MATE onto the eMMC instead. I've found that I'm not the biggest fan of Bionic, and want to try other distros on the eMMC, but Bionic seems to have messed with the file(s) that tell the machine how to boot and caused it to skip over the SD card slot in looking for a bootable image. 

Now, if I boot with the eMMC disabled with the hardware switch, I can't make changes to the eMMC, even if I turn the switch back on after booting to the SD card. If I boot with the eMMC switch on, though, it always skips the SD card and boots to the eMMC, which means I can't make changes to what's installed there. 

I could really use some help in figuring out how I could circumvent this mess as I recognise that I'm pretty new to this whole scene and would love to get back on track in making and breaking Linux. 
Cheers!