I am interested in setting up a build environment for pinephone. I plan on using Manjaro/Arch. I'm thinking it would be nice to be able to build packages either from AUR or just source on a faster CPU.

I'm not sure the best way to set this up. I was thinking qemu but i have had no luck getting qemu-system-aarch64 to boot anything. Obviously i'm doing something wrong. What's a good guide on running say Arch arm using qemu?

I've tried just issuing this command

sudo qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -machine type=virt -m 2048 -cpu cortex-a57 Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-alpha2.img

is there another machine/type/cpu i should specify. All i get is a black screen with a qemu prompt. Maybe i need to specify other devices? Maybe i need to extract the image somehow and specify the kernel separately?

The other thing i thought of was using a chroot but that would not work since the host and target do not share the same architecture correct?

any help/kick in the right direction would be appreciated.

Hi there, first post here, so any recommendations are more than welcomed.

0. Context

I wanted a home server as minimalist as possible, to lower the maintenance burden, so I bought the RockPro64 and it arrived January 20th.

We use Kubernetes at work so I wanted something similar that is easy to operate and maintain. I found k3os a Linux distro that it's single purpose is to run Kubernetes. This will allow me to focus on deploying the Helm charts we need at home and keeping the data safe (redundancy, backups ...).

I open the thread to share my experience as I go through the process of getting everything up and running.

1. Installing k3os

As far as I understand the RockPro64 cannot be run using the upstream kernel (please correct me if I'm wrong.). So I decided to look for a distro that supported Docker out of the box (just in case). Thanks to @ayufan, there is a Ubuntu (Bionic) image with Docker support available here. So I decided to test it, burning it into the eMMC (the microsd card boots too).

Hello!
I just got my Pinebook Pro (ANSI) a couple of days ago.
I tried a few of the various OS images out there, and was really impressed with the performance.

I do like to run ArchLinux on my machines though, and since I am relatively new to the ARM architecture, I felt like I owed it to myself to at least try and get arch running on my pinebook pro!



Below is the process I used. There's probably a better way of going about this, but like I said, this is my first attempt at bringing arch up to an unsupported device.


1) Environment Setup

Boot from your SD card to any Manjaro image (I used the Manjaro XFCE one).

Hey all, I've just got Android 9 on my rock64 v2 up and running via burning it to sdcard. For some reason the 32gb img didn't agree with the board...

Anyway, is there perhaps a tutorial somewhere about getting Google services and stuff into the ROM?

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I'm a but stuck at the moment, wifi at work uses a captive portal to signin (or onboard to BYOD).

After some google-research, it looks like I need to do something with resolvconf but at present this is missing on my machine.
Did the trick with networkmanager & creating some [connectivity] settings... but no luck.

Any idea how to fix this?

Hello,

I am left-handed and an old-time Linux user.

As a left-handed, I'd like to switch primary and secondary button.

As an old Linux user, I'd like to have the select on single-finger double tap and paste on double -finger tap. The default configuration seems to link the single-finger tap and the double-finger tap to the primary button (button 1), and the triple-finger tap to the middle button (button 2). Once I invert primary and secondary buttons with 

Hello all,

I came across the Pinebook Pro and realized it is what I've been waiting for in a laptop.

Is there somewhere I can sign up to be notified when the ANSI edition becomes in-stock?

If not, I don't mind checking periodically.

Thanks,
MP

So, finally had the time to sit down and try to whip this thing into shape since getting it, so far solid hardware and no more issues than I would have expected with a product like this. But after getting i3 set up, I cannot get the status display to read the battery charge status. At first assumed it was just the normal issue with non-standard battery names, but after manually putting the path in the i3status.conf I'm now getting an error: 

no '%d' in battery path


Has anyone else had this issue/have a resolution? I've seen a lot of people playing with i3 setups on here, so hoping someone else's past struggles found the solution.

Hello PBP enthusiasts,


This is a very early basic design idea for an upgraded PBP housing.

Main features:

A few mm thicker bottom
Front facing speakers
Expanded width for hardware upgrades
M.2 Door
Integrated USB 3 hub
Easy customization 
3D printed on demand
Durable, recyclable
Future proof



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I was able to get Amazon Prime video working today on Chromium booted from an SD Card.  I used this script: https://gist.github.com/ruario/19a28d98d...42e5f8bf29

Extracted the .tgz file.  and copied the contents into the /opt/google/chrome folder of the partition labeled Root-A of the SD card which I have Chromium OS.

I have tested with Amazon Prime, but I don't have a netflix account. I imagine all widevine streams would work now.