I do not understand the decision to ship the Pinebook Pro with a 3A charger.
If it is a financial constraint in order to meet $200 price point - fine. However, my workflow ends up constantly draining the battery, which I suspect is the result of the low current output of the charger.
I would like to buy a powerful charger (something closer to 5V x 30A) in order to compile in peace of mind, but I don't know anything about the electronics' ability to cope with such an out-of-spec current draw.
I am selling my two week old Pinebook Pro UK/ISO including the SSD-Adapter.
Unfortunately it seems that my eyes don't cope with the high-res or high contrast of the screen, as mentioned in https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8695
Overall price incl. VAT and tax was EUR 284,29 so I am giving it away for EUR 200,- / GBP 170,- EUR 180,- / GBP 155,-.
I am located in Austria so shipping will be
Austria: EUR 4,-
Germany: EUR 10,80
EU: EUR 12,80 / GBP 11,-
So I've been messing around with MultiMC for a bit on the PBP trying to set it up to use the ARM builds of the needed native libraries so the game would run, and I've found a pretty good way to do it that doesn't really require any manual setup and written a script to set it all up for you for a MultiMC instance.
I've only tested the script on Manjaro, but it should work fine on other distros and on a 32-bit userland. I don't know if the game will run with the binary Mali drivers as I've only tried using panfrost though. This setup only supports Minecraft 1.13 and newer, older versions use LWJGL 2 instead of 3 which will require a different setup.
Make sure you have a Java runtime installed, they recommend Java 8 but newer versions also seem to work.
Debian: apt install openjdk-11-jreManjaro: pacman -S jre-openjdk
Open MultiMC, pick your preferred settings and select your Java installation.
When MultiMC is set up, add a new instance with the version of Minecraft you want to play
Download my script and place it in some directory, remember to mark it as executable.
Open a terminal in the directory containing the script and run it with the name of the instance you created earlier as parameter.
If everything goes right, you should now be able to start the instance in MultiMC and play Minecraft!
What the script does is to reconfigure the MultiMC instance to use a custom LWJGL version, it then fetches the checksums and file sizes for the libraries from the maven repository to generate a JSON file describing the libraries to be used by MultiMC. The libraries that will be used are the official builds from LWJGL that were published to maven.
Hope this can be useful to some of you here, happy crafting!
After receiving my PBP and using it for some everyday tasks the only thing really missing to me
was a USB-C Adapter that could do HDMI and Ethernet. So I borrowed a generic
USB-C Adapter from a friend with
USB-C power input
HDMI (Up to 4k) and VGA out
Ethernet port
2x USB port
SD/microSD Card reader
and started running some tests.
The first thing that I found really interesting was that the adapter only registered in one direction.
This seems to correlate to another post. Afterwards the Ethernet port and Power started working
and video did not work at all (Forgot to test the SD/microSD Card reader). This all happened on
Monday whilst running Manjaro Linux. Where this adapter really started to shine was after I
decided to switch back to Debian. After the switch video suddenly started working and now
everything works except the two USB ports and 4k Video(There is video output but right-hand
side of the display displays noise).
The most important takeaway for further research is that the adapter only registered in one direction.
This could be the cause of the USB ports and 4k Video not working correctly.
I don't have much experience with Pinebook. I want to use the xfce desktop in my Pinebook Pro. I tried to install xfce on the default operating system, but the indicators on the panel gave me problems, as they did not appear. With which operating system can I have a stable xfce desktop? How can I install it?
I ordered my PBP the day after Christmas and I can't wait to get it, plan to first try Debian and then use Manjaro. I know everything is still being very heavily in development, and I appreciate all the hard work everyone is doing to make this laptop and the software on it and the other devices a reality.
I like how open and transparent pine is with their development process, and I hope this continues. If I get my PBP successfully, perhaps sometime this May I would love to get either the phone or the watch as well.
I'm planning on starting a Linux User Group in my home city and I want to show off my pinebook there!
I'm not an expert but can this potentially improve camera stability? Because currently with cheese it feels so slow.
And yeah, can we get this fix in a Debian update from MrFixit?
