Hello,

I've finally managed to build a stub for the PineTime using the NRF52-DK board. This allows me to run the same code on the NRF52-DK and on the actual PineTime HW. There are some limitations (no HR sensor, no vibrator,...) but it allows to do some test, debug and developpment.

I've documented the build in my repo : https://github.com/JF002/Pinetime/blob/m...Nrf52DK.md.


Happy hacking

  
    How do I load an OEM Debian from mrfixit on to a eMMC  ?

 Can I install it the same as an sd card ?

  Using a eMMC to usb adapter from the Pine Store  ?

  Just use etcher to install it from a download on another computer  ?

            Thanks  BC

hello,

I get my PBP.
I want to add Chinese support.but when I goto Control Center-->Look and Feel,I can't find Languages.

How can find the Language?

thanks.

Excuse me, is the 128GB upgrade for the Pinebook Pro still available today, stated in this page?https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093 If so, how to state this in my order?

OK, so I got my Pinebook Pro this week, and ran into a strange network configuration issue (with the default Debian OS): I can only access part of the internet ... a couple of the hosts I can't get to are slashdot.org and github.com (!)

I have a hidden (non-broadcast) wifi router with manually configured hosts (no DHCP) so I set up the PBP the same as every other device on my home network (had to create the connection first, the go back and edit the IPV4 setting since I don't use DHCP). I can get to some things (google, youtube, pine64,.org, ... haven't tried alot) but other destinations like github are "Destination Host unreachable" when I ping by name or IP.

When I type "netstat -rn" I see an extra route for 169.254.0.0 I think is associated with "link-local" (IPV6?) Don't know where that's set or how to get rid of it. I removed the entry by hand using the route command, but it didn't fix my problem.

I tried the latest debian build (dated 12/26) from an SD card with the same issues (not surprising). I also tried manjaro from and SD card, and things worked fine from there. No difference in how I set up the network, but the routing table was correct  and I seemed to be able to ping or connect to all of the hosts I tried.

Anybody have any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions?

two days in and it's already bricked! D:

after flashing a custom-built manjaro image to emmc, the pbp won't boot any more. not from emmc, but also not from sdcards (tried multiple) or usb sticks (tried multiple), neither with the default debian image nor with a stock manjaro image, regardless of whether emmc is enabled or disabled via the hardware switch (or even present). power led stays off, whether a uart cable is connected or not (or the uart is even enabled via switch).

looking at uart logs it seems that the chip doesn't even reach uboot. when booting with emmc disabled it comes out of DDR init just fine, but the boot stage isn't happy:

does the pine64 2gb have sterio output on the 3.5mm audio jack?
i only seem to have 1 side playing with a known good 4 pole headset and mic

Hi everyone!
I just recieved my new pinebook pro; last one was already stolen from me, just a few days after it came by mail! Crazy story. If anyone sees a pinebook pro on sale around Paris, please let me know; might be mine.

Anyway, I am now finally able to hack on this beauty again.

I'm running Manjaro for now, but I would much prefer a more minimalistic approach. How could I install Arch linux (Arm) ?
I have seen there has been quite some work to get Manjaro running on PBP, so I guess it will be harder than simply installing Arch linux arm - pine64 version (https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8...ner/pine64) . Or is it that simple? If it is not; which hurdles can I expect and clues on how to fix thoses? I guess many distros will have to do this work in the coming weeks; is there a place to document theses procedures? 

Even Minimal Manjaro could work for a period; but I did not succeed at booting it from an SD card using this install script: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/a...-installer . I suppose it is not supported yet; seeing there are no prebuild minimal images for the PBP; just XFCE and Plasma images.
https://manjaro.org/download/#pinebook-pro . But it could also very well be a wrong manipulation on my side. has anyone successfully run the minimal Majaro install on the PBP ?

Thanks to everyone for any info, and thanks to the Pine team for such an amazing hardware.

Best of luck for 2020.

Opening this thread up for anybody interested in sharing their howtos for beginners to get going and playing some games on their Pinebook-Pro
I usually post fresh stuff on my twitter account https://www.twitter.com/astr0baby

Part1 of the Howtos is here
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2020/01/...ng-part-1/
Part2 OpenArena - Manjaro
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2020/01/...ng-part-2/
Part3 Half-Life 1 - Debian
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2020/01/...ng-part-3/

Currently I have compiled and successfully ran the following games so far 

- Doom3 (via dhewm3 https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3 )  - performance is poor, getting about 4-7 FPS   - already as a .deb package in repositories
- OpenRA (Open Red-Alert  https://www.openra.net/ ) - performance is kind of ok, but slow on full HD resolution 1920x1080
- Ultima 8 (pentagram http://pentagram.sourceforge.net/ ) - works well
- Dune2 (Dune-Legacy https://sourceforge.net/projects/duneleg...cy/0.96.4/ ) - works well
- Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife (via chocolate-doom https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom ) - works well
- gzdoom ( https://github.com/drfrag666/gzdoom ) - works well
- Diablo 1 (devilutionX https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX ) - works well
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein ( https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw) - works ok
- Quake3 ( ioquake https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3 ) - works well
- OpenArena ( https://github.com/OpenArena/) - works extremely well
- Quake 1 ( quakespasm http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/ ) - works well
- Quake 2 ( Yama Quake 2 https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2 ) - works well
- Duke Nukem 3D ( eduke32 https://github.com/svn2github/eduke32 ) - works well
- Baldur's Gate I & II + Icewind Dale I & II ( gemrb https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb ) - works well
- Jagged Alliance 2 ( https://github.com/ja2-stracciatella ) - works well
- Alephone Marathon ( https://alephone.lhowon.org/ ) - works well
- Half-Life 1 (https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d) - works well
- Elder Scrolls 3 - Morrowind ( OpenMorrowind https://github.com/OpenMW ) - works well (will upload howto later on)
- Caesar 3 ( Julius https://github.com/bvschaik/julius) - thanks @hectorzg for notifying, works well

I will add the generic howtos here as my time allows it for others to replicate the effort and confirm it works for them



Quick rule on building the source code on Linux is to first get all the necessary building tools like compilers etc in place

For Debian aarch64
===============================================
Core packages
# apt-get install build-essential cmake git

And additional libraries headers
# apt-get install libsdl2-dev

For Manjaro Linux (if you will be using this then you probably know what you are doing )
==============================================
Most of the packages needed are already present in the image, normally one uses
pacman to install stuff (there are no DEV packages in Arch linux)

Searching for packages
# pacman -Ss sdl2
Installing then the needed one
# pacman -S sdl_ttf

Hello,
can i bulid in a 512GByte SSD in the Pinebook Pro? What is the mac. size of a SSD?

Best Regards
weakbit