I installed the rhino image file on the internal chip. It booted well enough, very showy compared to Mobian. (I have the PinePhone Keyboard installed.)

On reboot, the status panel was not present, neither was the virtual keyboard. I could not adjust the screen magnification from 100%, or add a Bluetooth mouse. With work, the Linux console could be quite usable. I did not have the knowledge of XFCE4 to recover the panel, virtual keyboard, or mouse.

This update command works:
$ pacstall -Up

With the help of these two references, the console is usable with the PinePhone Keyboard, and the combination has the symbol row working with the Pinecone Key.

ludgate's help on the console

Modify the two files as ludgate describes.

xnux's help on the console symbols

For the symbol row, make the file ppkb.map:

Not sure when I first read that the PT2 would be constructed to allow for expansion for, among other options, the capacity to install celular (LTE) data modules - but it was definitely something talked about as "in the plan." I was disappointed when I casually inquired about it when I was finally actually ordering my unit, and whoever was returning email at the time stated that no, there was no LTE. I went ahead with my order anyways, because I wasn't sure if that person really understood the question, or knew tne right answer. So I want to post this here publicly to see if any other forumers had any experience upgrading to LTE, or whether it's even possible. My cell carrier offers a special unlimited data tablet rate of $15/mo which is why it interests me so much.

I'm trying to install wasp-os without much success. It doesn't look like the project is very current, but it's an attractive alternative because everything is written in Python. I'm going to detail the steps I've taken and where it's going wrong.


I installed watchmate on my Linux system from the repositories. The repository version seems to be current. It works great, and I updated InfiniTime to version 1.13 without incident. Such an intuitive and easy to use program.


I installed the latest ARM gnu toolchain and added the 'bin' directory to my PATH environment variable.


I also used the following steps to download and build wasp-os. This is exactly what's shown in the installation guide and it works fine.

So im going to put this out there, but i think and im not a security researcher but would it be possible for somebody who is to go over the wifi and bluetooth code and look for any exploits that say might allow a hacker to access the wifi and or bluetooth chipset when the wifi or bluetooth is turned on and not connected to any network. 

I mean this as say when you turn the wifi or bluetooth on but dont connect to any network and use a hacking tool like airmong or something different in say kali or custom build tool that looks for signals in the air and allows the tool to connect to that wifi or bluetooth signal in the air and exploits that chipset to make a connection to that device. 

Also does for my knowledge right now when the wifi or bluetooth is turned off or it appears to be off, is the chips still on giving off a signal when it should be off, there might be a malfunction there that allows the chip to appear off when it is not.

Note: OS is arch. 

I thought i would bring these issues to the forum for somebody who is a security researcher to check them out. Thank you

Hello everyone

I have a problem.

A two years ago I created an application for Raspberry Pi 3 in Python and Tkinter.
Recently I bought a PinePhone64 and I would like to transfer this application to this device. I installed Mobian with Phosh there.

After researching the subject, it turned out that the RPi has an X11 display server, and the PP64 has a wayland.

Is there any possibility to run my application on PP64 without rebuilding the GUI?
How to do it?

I tried to install X11 server.

We’re building a HDMI Display Driver for Apache NuttX Real-Time Operating System on Star64 SBC, but the JH7110 Display Controller isn't documented!

In this article, we decipher the Linux Driver for JH7110 Display Controller and figure out how it works...

(1) What’s inside the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) Driver for JH7110
(2) How it controls the Display Registers
(3) To handle the Display Pipeline, Display Planes and Framebuffers
(4) And how it talks to HDMI and MIPI DSI (Display Serial Interface)
(5) How we might implement our NuttX Driver


RISC-V Star64 JH7110: Inside the Display Controller

I'm a big noob, bought the laptop to learn.
After update, firefox won't open, internet cycles through connected/disconnected, application launcher fails and shows
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contenst/ui/kickoff.qml:18:1:
plugin cannot be loaded for module
"org.kde.plasma.private.kicker": cannot load library / usr/lib/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/private/kicker/libkickerplugin.so: (/usr/lib/libappstream.so.4:
undifined symbol: g_string_free_and_steal)

add/remove software fails and shows
Process org.manjaro.pamac.manager exited with status 127

solitaire won't launch

server authentication - the KDE crash handler
the server failed the authenticity check (bugs.kde.org).
The host name did not match any of the valid hosts for this certificate
The certificate is self-signed and untrusted

kded5 - The KDE Crash Handler
We are sorry, kded5 closed unexpectedly.
You cannot report this error because kded5 does not provide a bug reporting address.

I cannot boot from another drive plugged in externally, it doesn't recognize anything plugged into any of the USB ports. I know only the USB 2.0 on the left side is bootable, but it doesn't show anything is plugged in to any port.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have installed Abiword on a PinePhone with PostmarketOS. I have also installed PcmanFM. With PcmanFM I can see Abiword files which I stored on an external SD card. I was not able to open them from there with PcmanFM to this date.

So I tried to open them from Abiword. With PcmanFM, I can see my external SD card. But if I try to open files with Abiword from my external SD card, I cannot find the SD card. It is not listed somewhere. Where can i find it?

I have installed Abiword and PCManFM on a Raspberry Pi4 with LeepspsvideoKDE plasma which runs on Raspberry Pi Os. I have stored Abiword files on an external SD card. If I view the external SD card with PCManFM on this setup, I can see the Abiword files on the external SD card. If I mark an Abiwordfile and hit return, Abiword starts and opens this file, which is great.

I have also installed Abiword and PCManFM on a PinePhone with PostmarketOS. As in the example above, I can see the Abiword files on the external SD card. But if I mark an Abiword file and hit return, PCManFM opens a dialogue box and ask to choose an application. But there are no applications listed which I could choose.

The second option  PCManFM offers to open a file is to enter a custom command line. I can also browse there and search for an application. I am looking for the Abiword application.

I am a Linux beginner, so I changed back to my Rasperry Pi 4 where it is easier for me to find files. Abword is also installed there. I searched with PCManFM for «Abiword». I found some files. But which file do I have to select to start Abiword?  With none of the files I found it was possible to start Abword. How can I do this?