Hi everyone,

I just got my Pinebook Pro on Friday and have really been enjoying setting it up and playing with it.

One question: How do I activate middle-mouse-button clicks with the trackpad? I use that a lot for unix-style cut-and-paste and to open links in new tabs in Firefox. I got it work once by accident, but I don't know what I did, and haven't been able to repeat the feat.

Is there some trick, or a setting I need to change? I'm using the default Debian-MATE image which came with the laptop.

     Please:

      When will the replacement power ports be available ?
       ( I would purchase one today,  just in case I may someday need it)

* I remember it was said that the  "avarage user with a phillips screwdriver can replace this port
    in just a few minutes"   but   ?    (first you need to purchase it)

  They are developing a keyboard for the Pine phone, so hopefully that will be available soon ?

  An assortment of different exterior cases would sure be nice. !

  I am sure there could be a wide range of Pine Phone products others would like to purchase.

How well does the RK3399 SOC handle video decoding and playback?  I have an archaic laptop that I use for primarily for GoPro playback but would like to replace it with something a little lighter / more portable.

I have a Seagate 2.5" external drive formatted to NTFS.
When I connect the drive, nothing seems to be happening on the PBP.
lsblk does list the drive, but that's it.
df doesn' t see it.
GParted starts scanning, but never seems to finish.

When I look in Package Manager, ntfs-3g is already installed.
Any suggestions?

Hello!

I am working on a bare metal JIT translator for M68K instruction set. The translator is aimed at maximal speed of translated code and works on the hardware without any operating system. So far it has been developed and tested in 32-bit mode on RasberryPi.

Since now I'm a happy owner of PineBook Pro I have started to port it. I am moving from AArch32 to AArch64 and try to learn how to do a good bare-metal coding on PineBook/RasPi. So far I haven't found any interesting resources regarding bare metal coding for Pinebook, so I have started collecting them by myself. I will put that knowledge on the wiki of my Emu68:

https://github.com/michalsc/Emu68/wiki/AArch64

Soon I will add some information about preparing the bootable Emu68 files on microSD, accessing UART etc. I hope it will be helpful to anyone

PS. If you like my effort, don't hesitate pressing the "Sponsor" button there

Hi Everyone,

I just figured out how to get Open Arena working on the Pinebook Pro yesterday - turns out ioquake3 is broken in Debian/ Ubuntu repos.
Being somewhat of an arena-shooting fan   I wanted to suggest we have a community play throughout the weekend (and potentially beyond), fragging like its 2001 again.

Also, if someone has ever set up a dedicated Q3 or OpenArena server please let me know - it could spare me a lot of learning how to set a server up. The server will be running on a RockPro64, which I assume will be sufficient for this task.
I'll edit this post with server details and how-to-connect information once I've set it up.

There is only one rule:  you have to play on a PBP (or Rockpr64)

Something you may want to consider also, apparently the game runs much better on Manjaro than default Debian - so you may wish to use that instead. I am not providing instructions for installing Open Arena on Manjaro however, someone else may wish to do that in this thread.

[Edit 14/01/2020] Server details

Quote:185.54.207.135
Port: 22222
arena.brixit.nl

Password: PINE64

Hello all,

I'm a new Pinebook Pro owner, new to this forum and this is my first post.

My PBP is connected to an LG 32UD89-W monitor via USB-C cable.

The cable goes direct from the PBP's USB-C port to the monitors USB-C port.  The USB-C cable is new and came included with the monitor.

It works but I'm limited to 1920x1080 resolution and unable to select the monitor's native 4k resolution.

This LG monitor is the only monitor I have that has a USB-C input (as well as HDMI inputs), and the PBP is the only device I have with a USB-C output.  My other devices (PCs and a Raspberry PI) have HDMI outputs and run this monitor OK at 4k.

The monitor is:
https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-32UD89...ed-monitor

The PBP is running the default Debian OS plus MrFixit's updates as of 10 Jan 2019.

During boot the open sesame splash screen is mirrored on both the built-in panel and the external monitor, and so also is the login/ greeter screen that appears a couple of seconds later.

Once logged into the desktop the monitor resolution is only 1920x1080, not the native 4k/3840x2160.

Control Center->Displays, and xrandr report the resolution as 1920x1080, but do not offer any higher options.

I have turned the built-in panel off so the only output is the external monitor.

I can change resolutions of the monitor from a maximum of 1920x1080, though 1280x720 and 1024x768 to a minimum of 720x480.

However the resolution I want to use, 4k (3840x2160), is not available as an option.

xrandr shows the same mode options as the "Control Center" UI

Hi everyone,

After waiting patiently for a few months, I opened my (ANSI) PBP and ran through the routine of updating it and patching the trackpad. No problems. Then I was cloning a github repo and the UI desktop locked up... no responsiveness at all. The mouse stopped moving, no keypresses were recognized. I long-pressed the power button to shut it off, and put it on the charger.

I came back to the system about an hour later and tried to power it on. The green LED on the keyboard lights up, but there is no sign of life on the monitor... it appears to be completely dead. I've tried several more times (eight to ten), there is no change. The keyboard LED lights up when I press the power button, but the screen is 100% black, with no flicker of activity whatsoever.

Please let me know what my next steps are.

Hi,

First post!

In this page, there is a link to the prebuilt trust.img: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCKPr..._Developer

Iam wondering if there is an official uboot provided by rockchip for the rockpro64? I have built uboot from the rockchip uboot repo. all seems well. However, I would like to have an official uboot, since it would really help ruling out problems with local builds.

TIA

for anyone wishing to use upstream uboot/atf, here's a guide on how to do that: https://eno.space/blog/2020/01/pbp-uboot.

behaviour of this version should be similar to the BSP uboot, no changes to the boot.txt files are necessary.

for the curious:

• boot order is SD, USB, eMMC
  
• atf and uboot used were very recent at the date of posting
  
• baudrate is 1500000, like BSP uboot
  
• LEDs light as soon as uboot starts running