The problem: I cannot start an Xorg server with startx or xinit, and I never get past Xorg being unable to find a screen to display to.

Hardware: SoPine64, 7" LCD(https://store.pine64.org/?product=7-lcd-...reen-panel)
OS(output of uname -a): Linux sopine 3.10.105-bsp-1.2-ayufan-140 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 30 14:21:35 UTC 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
Downloaded from https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/linux-b...tag/0.7.30 > assets > bionic-minimal-sopine-bspkernel-0.7.30-140.img.xz

I am using this specific OS because this is the only one I could find that enables using the 7" LCD with Linux

What I can do:
I can connect the display to the DSI port, connect a keyboard via usb and access the terminal on the lcd screen after enabling the lcd display via /boot/uEnv.txt
But I cannot start an Xorg server

Log file after running startx 
~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log

Hi,

As far as I understand the pinebook pro is running on a pineboard. I was wondering that if you can make it upgradable? If it is not already... I mean for this, to be able to replace the board in the Pinebook Pro 64 for a new Pineboard that is more powerful and can keep the demands. In this way, I can unplug the board, install the new one, plug everything on the board and I have an instant powerful upgrade! In the worst scenario, can you make the SoC chip upgradable? I am just saying!

For me it is important to evolve the laptop, without requesting a new one with the new board inside. It is better for me and better for the planet!

Please let me know if this is or it is not the case already. 

Thanks and regards,

This was so funny, but I'm guessing I may not be the first to see this issue. But wanted to mention here in case no one else has.

This morning on my way to airport I was using in the Taxi and noticed every time his car vibrated the mouse shifted a lot on screen. 

I try to replicate now by jerking it with my hands but does not. Something about the vibrations in the car were different. Even with hands off the laptop the mouse moved all over the place. 

I enabled the disable while typing feature but does not affect.

Hopefully this is an easy fix with a patch or something to ignore vibrations or as I'm leaning toward a simple brain fart moment....

THAT SAID: I will test one more time later today to make sure that my wireless mouse was not turned on. Because it usually times out and turns off itself overnight but who knows, that would be a good explanation, because I cannot repeat the issue with shaking laptop. lol

Either way I'm loving my PBP. Today it has replaced my work laptop officially. I've had no crashes in about a week of uptime. (standy only no shutdowns) and fiting nicely into 4GB of RAM even with 40+ tabs open and other apps.

EDIT: You can read my initial review here: https://haydenjames.io/pinebook-pro-my-f...etup-tips/
...I will update this shortly and include some more tips and tricks.

I've tried Debian, Manjaro, Ubuntu and Armbian and I highly recommend sticking with Debian and Armbian and hope that PBP team don't get too caught up into the Manjaro coolness factor. Debian is worth the effort to keep as the official distro at first boot.

Hello I was wondering how the Bluetooth radio can be configured so it is off by default every time the system starts up? Thanks.

Howdy, I've been working on finding a way to get the SteamLink software up and running on the PBP with no luck. I'm very much a Linux beginner, so I'm hoping that someone can help me out with this as I don't know where to turn next. 

I've tried to compile the software from Valve's github with no luck. I'd really like to be able to use the PBP as a SteamLink - the hardware should do it fine since the actual Steam Link was an ARM board and they've also ported the Steamlink software to the Raspberry Pi and phones.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I appreciate the help and patience!

Hi - the Pinebook is showing as out of stock at the moment. Does anyone know when the next manufacturing run is scheduled to take place? I'm interested in getting a Pinebook

Update 20 Feb 2021:
The wasp-os project is proud to announce the release of wasp-os v0.4. Wasp-os is a firmware for smart watches that are based on the nRF52 family of microcontrollers, and especially for hacker friendly watches such as the Pine64 PineTime. Wasp-os features full heart rate monitoring and step counting support together with multiple clock faces, a stopwatch, an alarm clock, a countdown timer, a caclulator and lots of other games and utilities. All of this, and still with access to the MicroPython REPL for interactive tweaking, development and testing.


During the v0.4 development cycle our focus was on improving the watch/phone integration whilst also taking steps to improve the general fit and finish. This release introduces a new clean-and-simple analog watch face, new button, checkbox and spinner widdgets to make UI more consist, new customization options such as a theming engine and a configuration tool that provides access to most of the new goodies without having to write a line of Python code (although Python is still fully available to those that want to make very deep customizations).

In this development cycle we have worked with the Gadgetbridge project to add wasp-os support to the latest versions of Gadgetbridge. For more information on how to obtain Gadgetbridge (hint: don't use the Play store) take a look at the appropriate wiki page.

As usual documentation is an important part of making wasp-os awesome so you can read up on how to install wasp-os and take look at all the new apps and features right now at: at: https://wasp-os.readthedocs.io

You can also see many of the new features in action by looking at some of the most recent wasp-os video blogs:


A tour of the new applications for wasp-os


Step counting and heart rate monitoring on Pine64 PineTime

Hi there!

As a long-time debian user, and being quite impressed with the looks of the Librem 5 software, I've been hacking a debian-based image for the Pinephone.
It uses phosh as the UI, packed with a few apps (not all are usable on the phone's screen)

Don't expect more from it than any other Pinephone distro out there can deliver, most features don't work yet and the phone feels really slow, but I believe this is a good starting point, as the display, touchscreen and wifi work (mostly) fine

For those wanting to try it out, just click on this link.

Default username is "debian" with password "1234"; default root password is "root".

@harvey186 has started a list of working/non-working apps, you can view and edit it here.

More details (and the debos recipes used to build this image) can be found on gitlab.
Contributions are more than welcome

Finally, kudos to the "low level software" team for the awesome work on the kernel and bootloader!


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I am unable to run Chromium. Every time I try to start it it seems to go through the loading and then immediately shuts down. Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong? It worked on first boot but when I tried to do sync a couple of times it presented with the previous symptom. Is there a way to reload with the default config? I tried loading with synaptic but still the same problem. Thanks for any help.

Teaching Embedded IoT with FOSS has interesting challenges... Here's what happened the first week I taught PineTime Smart Watch...

My First Week As Embedded FOSS Advocate