Just got my PBP! I love it, it's sleek as hell and a bajillion times lighter than my old HP.

One problem though: it decided to lose its backlight. I could just barely make out the shapes on the screen, but it was far from usable until I started looking around and found an interesting file: /sys/class/backlight/edp-backlight/bl_power

This might not work for you, but it did help me:

Hello everyone

UPDATE: everything necessary for a full release should now be packaged. After tidying up stuff and providing up to date tarballs, we should officially be out of beta!

Today marks the beta release of my Gentoo install script. This is NOT an image you flash to an SD but rather a script that modifies a Gentoo tarball for the Pinebook Pro. You'll have to do the usual setup yourself as is Gentoo tradition, but the Pinebook Pro specifics like Kernel and Firmware are (mostly) handled by the script.

Instructions are in the GitHub README, please report bugs and questions here. You can also find me on the PINE64 Discord.
The script takes about 20 60 minutes to run on the pbp, compiling the kernel is another ~90 minutes. This means you should have a working Gentoo install after less than three hours, plus some time spent reading the Handbook.

Link to GitHub: https://github.com/Jannik2099/gentoo-pinebookpro


Status of this release:

Most things should behave the same as in Manjaro since this uses the Manjaro Kernel. This means we have working wifi, bluetooth, GPU acceleration.
The mali blob drivers are not supported since the dts is incompatible, this uses panfrost.

Tested Desktop environments are KDE Plasma and sway. Both work without issue.
There's no reason to believe that other DEs might be broken, I simply don't have the time to compile all of them.
This script is compatible with both systemd and OpenRC tarballs.
This script is compatible with glibc and musl tarballs.

The Qt libraries are configured to use the gles2 backend, this is significantly faster and more stable in my experience. However Krita and Digikam are unavailable as a result. You can use them if you disable the gles2 backend.


A huge shoutout to the Manjaro team for their help and insights, this project would not have been possible without you!

With that being said, enjoy and please report all bugs, suggestions and nitpicks!

Netflix stopped working for me in my install, complaining that it could not find the widevine plugin, I am running on Bionic and with KDE Neon on top.  Here is the simple way I fixed it, seems it is down to the latest version of Chromium not playing nice and downgrading to version 78 fixes this.

First thing is to nip to mrfixits github and grab the versions of the browser and codecs from there.  Current link below.

https://github.com/mrfixit2001/updates_r...filesystem

Remove the current install of chromium-browser and chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

Install the downloaded versions, the easiest way is to chuck both files in a directory, cd to the directory and 

Hi. Could anyone please suggest thermal compound (tape) to apply to the aluminum case?  Primarily, i am just interested in the tape thickness, but will be grateful for the links to concrete models. Unfortunately i can't measure thickness by myself, the box is running 24/7.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,

I just got my Pinebook Pro on Friday and have really been enjoying setting it up and playing with it.

One question: How do I activate middle-mouse-button clicks with the trackpad? I use that a lot for unix-style cut-and-paste and to open links in new tabs in Firefox. I got it work once by accident, but I don't know what I did, and haven't been able to repeat the feat.

Is there some trick, or a setting I need to change? I'm using the default Debian-MATE image which came with the laptop.

     Please:

      When will the replacement power ports be available ?
       ( I would purchase one today,  just in case I may someday need it)

* I remember it was said that the  "avarage user with a phillips screwdriver can replace this port
    in just a few minutes"   but   ?    (first you need to purchase it)

  They are developing a keyboard for the Pine phone, so hopefully that will be available soon ?

  An assortment of different exterior cases would sure be nice. !

  I am sure there could be a wide range of Pine Phone products others would like to purchase.

How well does the RK3399 SOC handle video decoding and playback?  I have an archaic laptop that I use for primarily for GoPro playback but would like to replace it with something a little lighter / more portable.

I have a Seagate 2.5" external drive formatted to NTFS.
When I connect the drive, nothing seems to be happening on the PBP.
lsblk does list the drive, but that's it.
df doesn' t see it.
GParted starts scanning, but never seems to finish.

When I look in Package Manager, ntfs-3g is already installed.
Any suggestions?

Hello!

I am working on a bare metal JIT translator for M68K instruction set. The translator is aimed at maximal speed of translated code and works on the hardware without any operating system. So far it has been developed and tested in 32-bit mode on RasberryPi.

Since now I'm a happy owner of PineBook Pro I have started to port it. I am moving from AArch32 to AArch64 and try to learn how to do a good bare-metal coding on PineBook/RasPi. So far I haven't found any interesting resources regarding bare metal coding for Pinebook, so I have started collecting them by myself. I will put that knowledge on the wiki of my Emu68:

https://github.com/michalsc/Emu68/wiki/AArch64

Soon I will add some information about preparing the bootable Emu68 files on microSD, accessing UART etc. I hope it will be helpful to anyone

PS. If you like my effort, don't hesitate pressing the "Sponsor" button there

Hi Everyone,

I just figured out how to get Open Arena working on the Pinebook Pro yesterday - turns out ioquake3 is broken in Debian/ Ubuntu repos.
Being somewhat of an arena-shooting fan   I wanted to suggest we have a community play throughout the weekend (and potentially beyond), fragging like its 2001 again.

Also, if someone has ever set up a dedicated Q3 or OpenArena server please let me know - it could spare me a lot of learning how to set a server up. The server will be running on a RockPro64, which I assume will be sufficient for this task.
I'll edit this post with server details and how-to-connect information once I've set it up.

There is only one rule:  you have to play on a PBP (or Rockpr64)

Something you may want to consider also, apparently the game runs much better on Manjaro than default Debian - so you may wish to use that instead. I am not providing instructions for installing Open Arena on Manjaro however, someone else may wish to do that in this thread.

[Edit 14/01/2020] Server details

Quote:185.54.207.135
Port: 22222
arena.brixit.nl

Password: PINE64