Ok, I'm not very tech savvy but I'd like to learn. I am learning Ruby and I find it incredibly hard and frustrating to get started on my windows computer.  I would like to learn a Ruby and possibly Python and attend hackathons/workshops with the Pinebook Pro. Eventually, I'd like to make games but that's way later. I just want to be able to learn the basics of programming with this laptop and hopefully do some basic other things like:

• Dual boot Android/chrome - Honestly, I just want to play a few games from the google play store, lol. This part is super optional.
  
• Do schoolwork:  Access my classes on the website, download/read PDFs, view videos.
  
• Use apps like Mudlet.  I enjoy playing text-based games (MUDs) sometimes and I think Mudlet has a linux verison. A few games have browser based options, too.
  
• Bonus points if I can learn about Arduino. My kids may be interested in those.
  

I received my PBP this week. On startup I recognized some backlight bleeding.
But the main problem is that my eyes badly hurt when looking on the screen for 5 mins or longer.
I changed DPI from 96 to 120 - didn't get better

Screen resolution:
Changing screen resolution in MATE and terminal with xrandr other than 1920x1080 resulted in black screens

Gamma:
try to change with xgamma and xrandr - nothing happens

Only thing I can change is brightness via keyboard function keys.

Any ideas how to adjust screen settings on factory OS?

Hi. Received my new Pine64 Pro a few days ago and very happy with it buuuuuuut!

I installed Brother 2130 Laser Printer drivers from the Brother website after installing CUPS.

Nothing prints to the printer and only rubbish via PDF, it all looks good except the results.
http://localhost:631/printers/HL2130  shows everything OK.

Any help please?
I'm a bit of a newbie so if via terminal I details please.
TIA

Hey
I'd like to switch from Debian to Manjaro. I tried to flash the KDE and the XFCE eMMC installer as well as the sd card versions to sd cards. The eMMC version always gets stuck in the startup screen. Same things happens after installing the sd card versions onto the sd cards. Is there anyone having the same problem and knowing a solution?

Hi, 

i managed to get Ayufans 5.4 Mainline Kernel to run.

The Kernel option for CONFIG_TMPFS needs to be activated prior compiling.

Besides that u can follow this guide https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6799

I also increased ramdisk_addr_r in the uboot shell and   since this https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/PINE64_ROCKPro64 Guide mentioned something about it but i am not sure if it is necessary. 

Btw with this fix it still needs ages to boot since the dtbs is missing and some other stuff is very unoptimised. i also need around 2 min to login and couldnt get a keyboard working on the board directly.

Greetings Khaosgrille

Hello,

I tried to install lxqt on the default OS of the pinebook pro (Debian 9).

Firstly it's complicated: you have to install openbox in addition to task-lxqt-desktop, which doesn't install by default (!), And you have to go through lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings to add a session selector. In addition, the default configuration is very poor: there are almost no icons.

Second, lxqt modifies the chromium configuration folder, so that it is impossible to connect to your Google account, because the browser is not "secure" (!?)

Fortunately I had synchronize my profile in the Google cloud.

So to solve the problem:

Hi and happy new year for all..
I want to buy a H64 model B, What i want to know does is support opengl 3.3 ?
Thanks in advance

Good morning everybody,

I tried to get steam link running on my rockpro6. So far I was able to bypass the cpu check put get stuck at the pint where steam link tries to install libpeg62 and some raspberry libs ( since the .deb package is ment for rapsberry pi).
Install libpeg wasn't an issue but the program still wont wrong and stops with :

shell: error while loading shared libraries: libbcm_host.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

libcm_host is a rasp file (https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/...opt/vc/lib) which most likely can't be used on rockprp64 --- or am I mistaken ?

Is there any other chance to get the program up and running by linking a rock64 lib (.. stupid question ... I know) ?

Cheers
Andi

I would like to say a big thanks to all involved with the Pinebook Pro and MrFixit for a fantastic product.


I live in New Zealand and I can't save my time setting. I have gone from the desk top calendar to the edit button and set my city and the time. However later after a shutdown, when I turn my Pro on, I find that the time has gone back to GMT rather than the GMT+13. I have tried altering the time from both Rock and Root profiles. I then had a look at the debian help and when I tried the command "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" in terminal I got the command not found message. Uncle Google wasn't forthcoming either,so here I am.
I am a newbee so I will need step by step instruction. My only other linux experience is with a Raspberry Pi and I tend to stick with desk top although I am starting to understand the terminal.

Thanks for any help in advance

I have an early version of ayufan LXDE and have tried to update it to a later version using apt-get update but all I get is a number of errors. So for a relative beginner can you tell me how to achieve an update. I have loaded a later version on another micro sd and there are some improvements to the graphics performance but I have some software that I have bought and cannot run this on an entirely new system.  Thank You