I shut my Pinebook Pro off a week or so ago,  (real busy working time right now, no time to play)
Went to power her back up this evening, as I've three days off,  and wanted to start playing,  and the battery is dead, dead, dead.

Is there a parasitic power drain when the machine is powered off?
If so,  is there any way to defeat it?


One of the main reasons for a PineBook pro for me is battery life.  I've got four different laptops, two phones, and it's a pita to keep them all 'topped up', so I'd like to be able to power it down, and not worry about the battery for a week, or so.


I've only drained the battery once,  and have re-charged it from ~40% once since getting it, if that matters. 
running the default oldstable debian.

Thanks. It's a great device, and I'm hoping to make it my 'daily driver' soon.

I've been looking for am answer, but I can't seem to find one. Does anyone have "disable trackpad while typing"working?

I ordered some PBP accessory items.  I am curious how long it usually takes before these type of items get shipped?

I know the team is busy so don't want to bug them yet. 

How long from order date to ship date have others seen for accessory only orders from the store? 

Thanks!

I received my PineBook Pro this week and so far it's living up to expectations, and it is good value for the price.

I have encountered one problem, and that is while typing in a text field on any app or in a Mate Terminal, the application has a habit of losing focus after I type a few characters. I'll be typing away and the window hides under another application, and I loose subsequently typed characters. I then have to stop, find the window I was typing on and bring it to focus and continue. I've been careful to keep my hand away from the track pad, but have not yet figured out what is causing this. Any advice?

Has anyone had trouble with WPA2 wireless networks? I seem to be getting a driver crash after authentication. Wifi works fine on my home network and an unsecured network on the same access points as the failing WPA2 network. This is danielt's Debian Bullseye image, which I believe is using the tsys kernel.

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Hi folks, I tried to install Homebrew on Linux on my Pinebook Pro, and I got stuck at installing Portable Ruby. It says:

Greetings all,

It's been almost a year since I spent any serious time working with my Clusterboard.  I'm wondering what developments have been made in the meantime, if there is a "go-to" distribution, etc.

Specifically, I'm interested in network booting the SOPINE modules from a single head node (A separate PINE64 board connected via Ethernet that will serve as a gateway between the Clusterboard network and the LAN).  Previously I had installed SD cards and O/S images on each SOPINE and I'd like to avoid doing that again if possible.

Has anyone successfully set this up, and/or can point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

I just received my Pinebook Pro.  The trackpad seems very frustrating to use:  It seems to keep moving for a few pixels after my finger stops moving (I just spent about a minute trying to resizze this browser window because I could not get the pointer precisely on the window border!)  I've tried fiddling with the sensitivty/acceleration settings, I can see that the settings are applying but they do not help me be any more precise with the touchpad. I also updated the trackpad firmware to no avail.  Any other suggestions to make the trackpad more usable?

Also, when scrolling using two fingers, the direction seems unintuitive to me.   I'm used to the trackpad on a MacBook Pro (but I think I may have also reversed the scrolling direction there).  Any way to reverse this on th PineBook?

Hello,

I am trying to cross-compile for rock64 on fedora31 on x86.
libfdt-devel i686   1.4.7-2
aarch64-linux-gnu-2.30-6.fc29.x86_64 (why is this appearing ??)

What I get are multiple copies of fdt which seem to be behind :
/usr/include/libfdt_env.h:71:30 : error conflicting types for fdt64_t
  typedef uint64_t FDT_BITWISE fdt64_t;

The above disappears when /usr/include/*fdt*.h   "disappear" as per a
thread suggestion:
https://github.com/m01/rock64-arch-linux-build/issues/3
leads to this:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...bug=888789
tools/libfdt_wrap.c : 149:11: fatal errorython.h :no such file or directory
#include <Python.h>



Thx in advance,
blocked contractor

Hello,

Currently I am using my Pinebook Pro with the default Debian Desktop installation - without any encryption. I am moderately paranoid about
security (an occupational hazzard I guess) and would like to run the Pinebook the way I run my other notebooks - with an encrypted LVM configured in the same
way the official Debian installer sets it up. I have not yet bought an SSD for the Pinebook, but I would like most buy the intel SSD listed as compatible. 

Is anybody already using a similar setup and could describe how he/she got it working? I guess without an installer one would have to set up the SSD with cryptsetup manually, debootstrap an operating system on it (Debian) and then configure grub. So in theory it should be possible already. But these are a lot of steps and this setup would not include the customized builds from Mr. Fixit. What I would like (User Story, meant as a suggestion for improvement) would a repository which I could simply add to my apt-sources and then install and update via that repository. 

Yours sincerely
Stefan