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  Pinebook Pro for sale in EU
Posted by: michael82 - 01-09-2020, 01:16 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - Replies (10)

Hi,

I am selling my two week old Pinebook Pro UK/ISO including the SSD-Adapter.
Unfortunately it seems that my eyes don't cope with the high-res or high contrast of the screen, as mentioned in https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8695

Overall price incl. VAT and tax was EUR 284,29 so I am giving it away for EUR 200,- / GBP 170,- EUR 180,- / GBP 155,-.

I am located in Austria so shipping will be
Austria: EUR 4,-
Germany: EUR 10,80
EU: EUR 12,80 / GBP 11,-

Please send PM if interested.

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  Bluetooth Debian Testing
Posted by: wasgurd - 01-08-2020, 07:01 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (15)

Hi there,

I'm using Debian Testing from Unofficial installer and bluetooth doesn't work for me.


Code:
$ blueman-manager
blueman-manager version 2.1.1 starting
blueman-manager 01.50.27 ERROR    Manager:118 on_dbus_name_appeared: Default adapter not found, trying first available.
blueman-manager 01.50.27 ERROR    Manager:122 on_dbus_name_appeared: No adapter(s) found, exiting

Code:
$ dmesg | grep bluetooth
[   20.854175] bluetooth hci1: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM4345C5.hcd failed with error -2
Code:
uname -a
Linux pinebookpro 5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 7 09:59:56 UTC 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux
Code:
/lib/modules/5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64/kernel/drivers/bluetooth$ ls
ath3k.ko    bfusb.ko   btbcm.ko    btmrvl.ko       btqca.ko  btrtl.ko   btusb.ko     hci_vhci.ko
bcm203x.ko  bpa10x.ko  btintel.ko  btmrvl_sdio.ko  btrsi.ko  btsdio.ko  hci_uart.ko


Yes, I need something like ap6256 firmware, but where I can get it? Any repository?


  Easily setting up Minecraft through MultiMC
Posted by: Nadia-h - 01-08-2020, 01:07 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Tutorials - Replies (1)

So I've been messing around with MultiMC for a bit on the PBP trying to set it up to use the ARM builds of the needed native libraries so the game would run, and I've found a pretty good way to do it that doesn't really require any manual setup and written a script to set it all up for you for a MultiMC instance.
I've only tested the script on Manjaro, but it should work fine on other distros and on a 32-bit userland. I don't know if the game will run with the binary Mali drivers as I've only tried using panfrost though. This setup only supports Minecraft 1.13 and newer, older versions use LWJGL 2 instead of 3 which will require a different setup.

Here's how to set it up:

  1. Install MultiMC (AUR), you'll have to compile it from source since they don't provide ARM binaries. Here are their build instructions for Linux.
  2. Make sure you have a Java runtime installed, they recommend Java 8 but newer versions also seem to work.
    Debian: apt install openjdk-11-jreManjaro: pacman -S jre-openjdk
  3. Open MultiMC, pick your preferred settings and select your Java installation.
  4. When MultiMC is set up, add a new instance with the version of Minecraft you want to play
  5. Download my script and place it in some directory, remember to mark it as executable.
  6. Open a terminal in the directory containing the script and run it with the name of the instance you created earlier as parameter.
  7. If everything goes right, you should now be able to start the instance in MultiMC and play Minecraft!
What the script does is to reconfigure the MultiMC instance to use a custom LWJGL version, it then fetches the checksums and file sizes for the libraries from the maven repository to generate a JSON file describing the libraries to be used by MultiMC. The libraries that will be used are the official builds from LWJGL that were published to maven.

Hope this can be useful to some of you here, happy crafting! Smile


  Question to anyone with entire system on NVMe
Posted by: as400 - 01-08-2020, 08:12 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (11)

How did you do it ?

Edit: to be more specific - how did you transfer the system to nvme ?


Information Working USB-C Adapter with HDMI, Ethernet and Power
Posted by: kito - 01-08-2020, 08:01 AM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - No Replies

After receiving my PBP and using it for some everyday tasks the only thing really missing to me
was a USB-C Adapter that could do HDMI and Ethernet. So I borrowed a generic
USB-C Adapter from a friend with

  • USB-C power input
  • HDMI (Up to 4k) and VGA out
  • Ethernet port
  • 2x USB port
  • SD/microSD Card reader
and started running some tests.

The first thing that I found really interesting was that the adapter only registered in one direction.
This seems to correlate to another post. Afterwards the Ethernet port and Power started working
and video did not work at all (Forgot to test the SD/microSD Card reader). This all happened on
Monday whilst running Manjaro Linux. Where this adapter really started to shine was after I
decided to switch back to Debian. After the switch video suddenly started working and now
everything works except the two USB ports and 4k Video(There is video output but right-hand
side of the display displays noise).

The most important takeaway for further research is that the adapter only registered in one direction.
This could be the cause of the USB ports and 4k Video not working correctly.

UPDATES:
  • HDMI Video only works with Power
  • Added wiki entry.

  Best distro with xfce
Posted by: jorgeortiz - 01-07-2020, 10:27 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - Replies (3)

Hi, everybody,

I don't have much experience with Pinebook. I want to use the xfce desktop in my Pinebook Pro.  I tried to install xfce on the default operating system, but the indicators on the panel gave me problems, as they did not appear. With which operating system can I have a stable xfce desktop? How can I install it?

Thanks,


  Article: Build and Flash Rust+Mynewt Firmware for PineTime Smart Watch
Posted by: lupyuen - 01-07-2020, 06:00 PM - Forum: PineTime Tutorials - Replies (8)

Hi All: Here's my new article that explains how you may download my prebuilt Rust+Mynewt OS image and flash it to PineTime using a Raspberry Pi...

Build and Flash Rust+Mynewt Firmware for PineTime Smart Watch


  New user!
Posted by: mhj - 01-07-2020, 05:46 PM - Forum: General - Replies (2)

Hi all, new here!

I ordered my PBP the day after Christmas and I can't wait to get it, plan to first try Debian and then use Manjaro. I know everything is still being very heavily in development, and I appreciate all the hard work everyone is doing to make this laptop and the software on it and the other devices a reality.

I like how open and transparent pine is with their development process, and I hope this continues. If I get my PBP successfully, perhaps sometime this May I would love to get either the phone or the watch as well.

I'm planning on starting a Linux User Group in my home city and I want to show off my pinebook there!

Anyways, nice to you meet you all!


  Can we get a latest camera fix in Debian?
Posted by: Krakatau - 01-07-2020, 05:31 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

Looks like rockchip devs few days ago have updated camera clock drivers.
https://github.com/rockchip-linux/kernel...58508e9b3d

I'm not an expert but can this potentially improve camera stability? Because currently with cheese it feels so slow.
And yeah, can we get this fix in a Debian update from MrFixit?

Thanks.


Exclamation Incompatible NVMe SSD - Silicon Power P34A60
Posted by: gandlers - 01-07-2020, 04:55 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Hardware and Accessories - Replies (6)

Not sure if there is an Incompatible SSD list, but if there is this one doesnt work:

https://www.silicon-power.com/web/product-P34A60

I bought the 256GB variant, it doesnt show up at all in DMESG and GParted fails to locate it. nvme list returns no NVMe drives conencted.

I've installed it in a USB3 caddy which proves the SSD isnt faulty and it connects as /dev/sda.
I know the NVMe adapter and the PBP are ok as I threw money at the problem and purchased a Toshiba OCZ RC100 240GB (on the Wiki as a confirmed working SSD) which is working fine.

So if nayone is thinking of a Silicon Power A60 NVMe SSD, don't it doesnt work in the PBP.



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