So, reading through the wiki, if my reading comprehension is where it should be, it appears to me that is
1. the RK3399 searches to boot from SPI flash first
2. there is spi flash presentt
3. it is unused or it's use is undocumented

I ask, because this would be the obvious place for a more complex bootloader (i.e. coreboot) instead of relying on the hardcoded boot order, potentially adding support for SSD boot without any hacky drive leapfrogging stuff.

Apologies if this has been talked about before, couldn't quite find anything though.

EDIT: I was so eager to be helpful I didn't even look at the pinned posts, lol.

Hi,

I'm sure that I'm in the same boat as other folk that made orders, but is there a place to check order-update status? Or should just wait until the end of the month before doing anything like contacting the sales people directly?

I placed an order in early December for an ANSI Pinebook Pro and only received the the paypal transaction email, no kind of direct Pine64 confirmation email.  I don't even remember what the particular email address I used for the order, so I don't even know how to look that up.

Thanks!

To adjust the brightness in i3w on Manjaro or Arch:

1. 
   
   Code:

   sudo pacman -S brightnessctl
   
   
2. Add this keybindings to your config:
   
   Code:

   #Adjust Brightness with brightnessctl
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec --no-startup-id brightnessctl -q s  +1
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec --no-startup-id brightnessctl -q s  1-

I did this to have battery-status on the i3bar:

Hello!

On default OS: I can browse samba shares, but not open files.

After installing vlc-plugin-samba, I can read files with vlc :

smb://share/music/sweet_sms.mp3

but no:

smb://[2a01:e0a:185:7630:9eb7:dff:fe6c:1e86]/music/sweet_sms.mp3

No other program can read any file. After installing the samba plugin, vlc is the only exception.

In Windows, open shared files works normally.

Have you ever thought that you would get away with mobile UI and live with TTY? Well, it looks like the dream came true. 

Manage to get the system to carry out upgrade to LXDE version 0.8.3 but on reboot the boot sequence runs and then the screen goes blank with the cursor flashing. Reboot gives the same result. Any help please.

This is probably obvious but I am not brilliant on linux but how do I enable the 64bit JVM for java?  I don't want to just follow some random instructions on the internet due this not been an intel device!

Hi, I've managed to get Baldur's Gate II running on Pinebook Pro with Manjaro. In order to achieve that you need to use the GemRB open-source engine. I've published a script which achieves that. Before running, you need to download the latest release from https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb/releases/tag/v0.8.6. Baldur's Gate is bundled with it's enhanced edition on GOG. You can extract it using innoextract, available in Manjaro repositories. I had issues with the git version, though it might have had to do with bad cmake flags. Please note that the script doesn't install the dependencies - check out the sources.
https://bitbucket.org/brzegorz/pinebookp...l_gemrb.sh

Sources:
http://gemrb.org/wiki/doku.php?id=installation

Things I had to correct in order to get it to work:
- Your installation should be in a folder without spaces, e.g. "BaldursGateII" instead of "Baldurs Gate II"
- cmake .. -DDISABLE_WERROR=1 -DSDL_BACKEND=SDL2 -DOPENGL_BACKEND=OPENGL -DSTATIC_LINK=enabled
    - I haven't checked if DISABLE_WERROR and SDL_BACKEND make a difference
   - OPENGL_BACKEND=GLES caused segfaults when starting the game for me
    - STATIC_LINK=enabled is needed for the game to compile. It might have to do with my Python installation, but, well, it works 
- My gemrb.cfg: https://pastebin.com/LvcwRhzw. The annoying thing is that the one which is copied from build dir has wrong paths
- to run: gemrb -c gemrb.cfg

I'm working on the widescreen mod and testing how it actually works right now.

EDIT1: I've freed my friends and won an epic battle with Mephits on 640x480. Stuff seems to be working just fine.

EDIT2: I've added a script to install the widescreen mod. Mephits die twice, everything works: )
https://bitbucket.org/brzegorz/pinebookp...escreen.sh

With new uboot you can boot from PCIe NVMe SSD

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...2#pid55832

After installation you must resize the root partition. For this Kamil has an script under