The steps below worked for me in getting Amazon Prime Video working in firefox. I'm assuming they'll also enable Netflix, but who knows. It's possible some subset of these instructions is enough, but I'm just going to spew out everything I did before it started working. If someone else wants to figure out what subset of these steps is needed to get it working, be my guest.

I've basically borrowed liberally from this how-to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comment...plugin_to/


..and borrowed values as needed from the widevine files on my Windows desktop machine. Not all of this may be necessary. e.g., Rather than put in the incorrect version number for widevine (I have no idea what version is on my system), I'm just using 0. Likewise, x-cdm-codecs is taken from my windows machine so it could be completely wrong for the platform..

Steps:

1. Make sure widevine is up-to-date and working in chromium on your PBP, because we're going to 'borrow' those libs.
2. Figure out what your mozilla profile directory is (aboutupport, see "Profile Folder")
3. Open a terminal and change to that directory.
4. mkdir -p gmp-widevinecdm/0/ && cd gmp-widevinecdm/0/
5. cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libwidevinecdm* .
6. create a file called manifest.json, and fill it with:

{
    "name": "WidevineCdm",
    "description": "Widevine Content Decryption Module",
    "version": "0",
    "x-cdm-module-versions": "4",
    "x-cdm-interface-versions": "10",
    "x-cdm-host-versions": "10",
    "x-cdm-codecs": "vp8,vp9.0,avc1",
    "x-cdm-persistent-license-support": true
}

7. Open firefox, and open about:config. Create the following entries:

media.gmp-widevinecdm.version - string - "0"
media.gmp-widevinecdm.visible - bool - true
media.gmp-widevinecdm.enabled - bool - false

and then change the following already-existing entries:

media.eme.enabled - true
media.eme.encrypted-media-encryption-scheme.enabled - true


8. Open about:addons. You should now see an entry for Widevine. Click on the drop down on the right, and select Always enabled.

The kernel is compiled for aarch64 but all the os related software appears to be armhf (the 32bit instruction set on arm). Was this intentional?

Also, is there a way to switch all the software to use arm64?

Thanks

I shut my Pinebook Pro off a week or so ago,  (real busy working time right now, no time to play)
Went to power her back up this evening, as I've three days off,  and wanted to start playing,  and the battery is dead, dead, dead.

Is there a parasitic power drain when the machine is powered off?
If so,  is there any way to defeat it?


One of the main reasons for a PineBook pro for me is battery life.  I've got four different laptops, two phones, and it's a pita to keep them all 'topped up', so I'd like to be able to power it down, and not worry about the battery for a week, or so.


I've only drained the battery once,  and have re-charged it from ~40% once since getting it, if that matters. 
running the default oldstable debian.

Thanks. It's a great device, and I'm hoping to make it my 'daily driver' soon.

I've been looking for am answer, but I can't seem to find one. Does anyone have "disable trackpad while typing"working?

I ordered some PBP accessory items.  I am curious how long it usually takes before these type of items get shipped?

I know the team is busy so don't want to bug them yet. 

How long from order date to ship date have others seen for accessory only orders from the store? 

Thanks!

I received my PineBook Pro this week and so far it's living up to expectations, and it is good value for the price.

I have encountered one problem, and that is while typing in a text field on any app or in a Mate Terminal, the application has a habit of losing focus after I type a few characters. I'll be typing away and the window hides under another application, and I loose subsequently typed characters. I then have to stop, find the window I was typing on and bring it to focus and continue. I've been careful to keep my hand away from the track pad, but have not yet figured out what is causing this. Any advice?

Has anyone had trouble with WPA2 wireless networks? I seem to be getting a driver crash after authentication. Wifi works fine on my home network and an unsecured network on the same access points as the failing WPA2 network. This is danielt's Debian Bullseye image, which I believe is using the tsys kernel.

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Hi folks, I tried to install Homebrew on Linux on my Pinebook Pro, and I got stuck at installing Portable Ruby. It says:

Greetings all,

It's been almost a year since I spent any serious time working with my Clusterboard.  I'm wondering what developments have been made in the meantime, if there is a "go-to" distribution, etc.

Specifically, I'm interested in network booting the SOPINE modules from a single head node (A separate PINE64 board connected via Ethernet that will serve as a gateway between the Clusterboard network and the LAN).  Previously I had installed SD cards and O/S images on each SOPINE and I'd like to avoid doing that again if possible.

Has anyone successfully set this up, and/or can point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

I just received my Pinebook Pro.  The trackpad seems very frustrating to use:  It seems to keep moving for a few pixels after my finger stops moving (I just spent about a minute trying to resizze this browser window because I could not get the pointer precisely on the window border!)  I've tried fiddling with the sensitivty/acceleration settings, I can see that the settings are applying but they do not help me be any more precise with the touchpad. I also updated the trackpad firmware to no avail.  Any other suggestions to make the trackpad more usable?

Also, when scrolling using two fingers, the direction seems unintuitive to me.   I'm used to the trackpad on a MacBook Pro (but I think I may have also reversed the scrolling direction there).  Any way to reverse this on th PineBook?