I have been using Youtube and the sound was working.  However, when I later tried to play a video the sound setting was at the max setting on YT and on the computer which caused the sound to quit working.  Now I can no longer get sound on anything neither with the headphones nor the speakers.  I did reboot the machine but that did not help.  The speaker test in the sound preferences did not work.  It seems as though the sound has been blown out.

Is this a hardware issue?  This is my first day with this machine and I was beginning to really like this machine.

Any help would be greatly appreciate.

I have been trying to troubleshoot this for awhile now but I am unable to connect to the school wifi as the captive portal page on chromium isn't working and displays a blank page and doesn't load. I am brand new to linux and would appreciate any help

On my pinebook pro, the idle SOC temperature is 41 deg Celsius. When I put it under load with make -j6, it rises to 70 deg Celsius.

My wife's pinebook pro arrived and the idle SOC temperature is just 33 deg Celsius. When we put it under load with make -j6, it rises to 61 deg Celsius, only.

With idle, I mean just being logged into Mate without running any programs.

What are your's SOC temperatures?


Why is there a difference? Maybe the thermal paste sits sometimes better/worse on the SOC?

I was changing the appearence of the top menu, when the wifi icon had disappeared and I'm not able to show it again.

I can connect the wifi, but I have no access to the manager in order to enter to new wifi...

Could someon help please?

Thanks!

Hi,

Does anyone know why the rockchip-linux u-boot repo doesnt have rockpro64 support? https://github.com/rockchip-linux/u-boot

I see the support exist in the https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git/ but that repo doesnt have all the rockchip tools.

Thanks for the help.

This is a silly question which nobody else found necessary to ask (I've looked), but anyway here goes:
How do install the Pine64 Installer utility?
Do I do this?: sudo apt-get install git
then:
git clone https://github.com/pine64dev/PINE64-Inst...0.0-beta.3?
Sorry for opening a new thread just for this. Feel free to move it elsewhere if there is a better place for it.

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.