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  Installing Docker on Pinebook Pro - update 1/18/20
Posted by: SuperXkoodA - 01-15-2020, 02:49 AM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Tutorials - Replies (4)

Follow directions on the official Docker site here and use the armhf set of instructions. This is confirmed to work for me on MrFixIt2001's build of Debian at this time. 

The remainder of this post was hastefully written by me on my first night owning my PBP. The excitement must have gotten the best of me and can be ignored. It may still be useful if someone decides to use a distro that is configured for aarch64 and thus not supported by docker in a packaged form at this time. I am changing the repo name from being specific for the pinebook to being more generic as I feel it is misleading as it stands.

The steps taken in a nutshell are as follows

  1. Choose from one of the available versions on docker.com and download the tarball
  2. Extract the tarball to somewhere in your path. eg /usr/local/bin
  3. Create the docker user group and add yourself to it.
  4. Don't reinvent the wheel download both docker.service and docker.socket located here https://github.com/docker/docker-ce/tree...it/systemd and modify to your needs. Specifically make sure the ExecStart directive in the file matches the path you installed dockerd to.
  5. Copy these files to /etc/systemd/system/
  6. Enable docker via `systemctl enable docker` so that the docker daemon starts at boot.
  7. Be sure to log out and log in for the group changes to take effect.
  8. Enjoy docker!
You could skip steps 4-6 if using systemd is not your thing.

https://github.com/superxkooda/generic_docker_installer can do all the above steps for you.

This was all done on the base Debian install that comes with the Pinebook. I do not see why it wouldn't work for other distributions as is or with some modification. Please let me know if there is anything that is unclear!


  Swapping Fn and L Ctrl keys
Posted by: altacus - 01-14-2020, 09:08 PM - Forum: Accessories - Replies (1)

Just curious if it's possible to swap the left control key with the fn key?

On the OS Level, the FN key doesn't even register so remapping on this level is not possible.


  ANSI PBP Keyboard Mapping for Tilde character
Posted by: appdev46 - 01-14-2020, 08:27 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (3)

I noticed the tilde character is not mapped correctly. Also I noticed the double quotes and at symbol are swapped.           

Can this be mapped somewhere to be corrected or is it in the ANSI keyboard firmware?


  Hardware video decoding question
Posted by: sgx2 - 01-14-2020, 07:01 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (1)

Well, my PBP (ANSI) arrived yesterday! Smile

It's been great fun to use so far -- I've even updated the keyboard and trackpad firmware (after finding an external keyboard after step 1 and a panicked moment), then discovered that my 5V power supply seems to be dead -- so I am borrowing a 3A USB power supply with a USB A to C cable and charging (sloooowly - about 1% an hour) through USB-C.

So - to my question - I've been reading that there are some kernel options to enable VPU decoding, but they don't seem to be configured with the kernel that shipped with the unit (or, rather, then one the Mr.Fixit script updated me to).  Is this still an important step in maximizing performance?  If so, what are the best next steps?

SGx2


Music working play/pause media keys in Manjaro KDE
Posted by: clover - 01-14-2020, 06:46 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Tutorials - No Replies

I noticed that the default keyboard shortcuts for playing and pausing media does not work on Manjaro.

This is useful to have if you are like me and have headphones that have a play/pause button or a keyboard with media keys.
This works with my Razer Hammerhead USB-C Headphones and Logitech Craft Keyboard

First step is remove the default keyboard shortcuts.

Global Shortcuts -> Other Shortcuts -> Media Controller -> Play/Pause Media Playback. Set this to None. It doesn't work so
we are getting it out of the way.

Interesting to note that volume up and down work out of the box. Less work for us!

xbindkeys allows you to map any key to any command...

Code:
sudo pacman -S xbindkeys

playerctl is a client that automatically finds media sources and allows you to play/pause them, go forward/backward, etc...

Code:
sudo pacman -S playerctl


add this to .xbindkeysrc (you need to create this file in your home directory)

Code:
"playerctl play-pause"
    XF86AudioPlay

now start xbindkeys program


Code:
xbindkeys -p


make it permanent if you want by adding it to Autostart:

Autostart -> add program -> click the folder and find it in /usr/bin/xbindkeys -> make it executable and that should be it!

Enjoy your new ability to quickly play and pause media from peripherals. Even works on Youtube videos in Chromium! Don't think it works in Firefox though.
Should work for Spotify, vlc, and other media players... untested though.


  micro SDs card for Pinebook Pro
Posted by: Der Geist der Maschine - 01-14-2020, 05:57 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (16)

I want to buy 2 micro SD cards for running of alternative OSes.

The faster the more expensive Smile. What speed class may be a sensible tradeoff?


  Renaming home folder
Posted by: inkslinger - 01-14-2020, 05:19 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (22)

After renaming the default user rock, I followed the instructions on the wiki to rename the home folder, using the following command in root terminal:


Code:
usermod -d /home/rock -m NewUser

I get the message returned:

Code:
usermod: no changes

How do I rename the default rock folder, so that my home folder name and user name match? I'm running the default Debian MATE OS.


  Virtualization on the PinebookPro
Posted by: astr0baby - 01-14-2020, 01:43 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (25)

Starting a thread on Virtualization technology possible on the PinebookPro 

Wrote a summary on how to use

KVM accelerated qemu-system-aarch64

Non aarch64 qemu-system-xxxx   (powerpc, powerpc64 ... can be anything else really  like i386 and x86_64)

SimH (VAX - OpenVMS and Ultrix UNIX + 4.3BSD)

Hyperion - Hercules (SystemZ Mainframes )

https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2020/01/...alization/
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2019/12/...64-part-1/


Thumbs Up how can i purchase a PinePhone?
Posted by: moon - 01-14-2020, 12:08 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (5)

i am planning to make PinePhone working with ubuntu,let's make friends if you have the same idea


  Triple (middle click) tap
Posted by: as400 - 01-14-2020, 11:05 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (7)

Does anyone got this working ? Especially on Manjaro ?