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

TL-DR:
No matter what medium is inserted, my PBP does not turn on.

Yesterday, when my PBP arrived, I was trying to install Manjaro on it. Because I only had an 8 GB microSD card around, I put the Manjaro installer on it, which contains an archive of an image of a working Manjaro install. That image is too big to fit on the microSD-card next to the archive. So while having booted the installer SD-card, I created a new partition table (GPT) on the eMMC-Disk (mmcblk2) and created one single ext4 partition, where I moved the archive, extracted it and copied the Image back to the microSD-card. To continue with the installation, I tried to reboot the PBP while still having the SD-card inserted, but sadly had to see, that my PBP would not turn on anymore.

What I have tried (and basically all combinations):

* Pulling the battery plug and putting it back in
* Pressing the reset button
* Booting it with a known-good microSD-card (and without one)
* Booting it with eMMC enabled / disabled
* Booting it with the eMMC-Module removed
* Booting it with and without the power adapter attached

What I noticed doing that:

* The Power LED does not turn on (which makes sense, because it's software controlled, as a user on the IRC pointed out)
* The Screen stays blank (backlight does not turn on)
* No Output on the serial console (Controlled by Linux)
* No Coil whine at all
* (I am not sure about this) the SoC felt slightly warmer than the rest of the device

I have asked in the IRC for help. Another user seems to have the same problem, their PBP was also in the same batch as mine (2019-12-24, ISO)

As I do not have much money (I am a student) and bought this laptop as my daily driver, I am very, very hesitant to do any hardware measurements / modifications as I am not especially talented doing that and can't risk this laptop.

Has anyone else seen this before or even recovered a PBP from this state?
I would be very glad to hear from that.

Greetings, Waweic

I am new to the Pinebook Pro, but not Linux in general, and wanted to share some first thoughts on some tests I have made. Please note these are offered in the spirit of wanting to help, not as criticism. I am not in need of help to fix these things.

At first boot, I ran the updater. it shows 0 updates needed. This seemed unrealistic, so I ran sudo apt update in a terminal; it showed 90 updates available. I ran the updater again, but it still showed 0. I updated successfully anyway from the terminal.

Launching Chrome showed the Keyring request - potentially confusing for a newcomer?

I tried opening some standard testing files I use:

• Graphics files opened in Nomacs as expected
  
• Video files opened in SMPlayer, although there was a message warning the version of SMPlayer was out of date
  
• A PDF file tried, but failed, to open in LibreOffice Draw; it seems there is no app for PDFs installed
  
• MP3s open in SMPlayer, not RhythmBox. I was able to change that.
  

• Attempting to play video opened SMPlayer, but it crashed
  
• Graphics files (PNG and JPG) tred to open Firefox, but failed. Forcing Nomacs works for the first image, but not subsequently
  

• Install system-config-printer
  
• Install cups
  
• From the run (Alt-F2) dialogue, run gksudo system-config-printer. (I subsequently modified the menu entry to run it as sudo)
  

Hello,

I have many questions about my new pinbook Pro.
The first is the command to active power of the NVME. sudo nvme id-dtrl /dev/nvme0 is not found on my computer. 
The seconde is about the network connection. In fact, I'm connecting in my box, I have a good connection on my other computers, but on Pinbook Pro it's not possible to realise a network research on chromium or firfox.

Thank you for your help 

NetBSD über-hacker Jared McNeill started working on the Pinebook Pro. In the previous hours, he posted a series of Pinebook Pro related posts on his twitter account  https://twitter.com/jmcwhatever showing the boot up and even running xorg.

It's gotta get good

Hi,

I got my Pinebook Pro 2 days ago and so far I appear to get slightly less than 2 hours of battery life. I have seen others write that they get 8-10 hours so I am wondering what can be done. energy-rate is between 15-20 W when ony doing light web browsing with the screen at a very low brightness. I have attached a upower -d log. Thanks.

Hello
 I need help. I have received my first PinePhone device (not dev-board).
I've used pmbootstrap to create and burn an image on a SD card for the device.
I selected pinephone as the vendor and pinephone as the codename.
I tried the following UI options: Phosh, plasma-mobile, hildon.

In all three cases, the phone powers up, and the PostMarketOS Logo Splash comes up, and it is suck there.
In the up left side of the screen, a console login prompts appears.
But, nothing else happens.
Can someone help me to figure out what I am doing wrong?

Thanks
Danny

I'm unable to get the fan to work on the RP64 v2.1 in the NAS case with the fan from Pine64 store. Not sure what I'm missing?

The fan is working when supplied with 12V directly. The fan does not work when plugged into the Fan port on the board.

/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/pwm1 exists, echoing any value from 0-255 does not have any affect. I read ATS source code to see if maybe I'm missing something. It doesn't appear so.

Attempted to get the fan to work via PWM with the following images from ayufan:
bionic-minimal-rockpro64-0.9.14-1159-arm64.img.xz
buster-minimal-rockpro64-0.9.14-1159-arm64.img.xz

Also tried vanilla arch linux (the pwm-fan is under /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/pwm1 on linux-aarch64 (5.4.6)).
And built latest ayufan linux-mainline for arch linux. No functioning fan there either.

A multimeter at the base of Q2110 shows absolutely nothing no matter what I write to /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/pwm1 - my oscilliscope is currently not working so I'm unable to see if there is any PWM present on FAN_CTL_H yet - I suspect nothing.

This build is using a SATA card and two SSDs powered from the RP64's 12V header (the cables supplied with the NAS case). To rule out a power issue, I eliminated the SATA card and power to the SSDs - so only the DC power, FTDI cable, and fan are plugged into the RP64. Fan still inoperable on all images listed above.

I read every thread regarding the fan I could find on this forum - and all of them mention ATS. ATS does not work, obviously, because writing the values to /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/pwm1 has no effect. And yes, I'm logged in as root.