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RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - danielt - 09-25-2020 (09-11-2020, 01:55 PM)xmixahlx Wrote: if it is the neon complier issue... are you using gcc 10? just step back to gcc 9.x. or use a git gcc (master is fixed). It is dependant on gcc version although its not the neon issue that is causing the trouble (since that is easy to workaround). I've seen gcc-9 builds that do work but I'm not willing to ship a kernel that doesn't compile with the default Debian compiler... the installer is supposed to be staying as close as possible to pure Debian (and already has a few too many hacks) and shipping code that cannot be compiled with the default compiler isn't good distro engineering. RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - Mangled - 10-15-2020 Hi, Just did a fresh install using Thompson Debian 11 installer to emmc. I noticed there is no hardware detected under sound preferences. Output=dummy sound. Does anyone know how to fix the sound? Ive tried to raise volumes/headphone via alsamixer terminal and still did not get anywhere. Everything else appears to be working great though. :: found answer here for audio fix: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9536&pid=63565#pid63565 :: followed the steps from link above and it did not work. No errors appeared. Sound just doesn't work. Any suggestions? RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - User 19975 - 10-17-2020 Help needed ![]() Forgive my noobiness, but I need some help. I want to make the move from Windows to Linux. I have used linux for a few years, but not seriously. Now I am getting serious! I was gifted a Pinebook Pro for my birthday and am trying to try out different distris. Machine was installed with Manjaro, but I wanted Ubuntu, so a friend of mine installed Armbian (on the emmc), which is really lovely, but I want to experiment with other distris on the sd. So, I cloned the Git repo for this script described here and it goes through the installation process, seemingly successfully. When I go to start my machine, it just starts Armbian and ignores the debian installation on the sd card. This is what I have done to test
I would really appreciate some guidance here RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - Mangled - 10-17-2020 Armbian has a fantastic nightly image of debian bullseye. If you are looking for a distro that works out of the box, its definitely worth checking out. RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - Humid Stylus - 10-19-2020 (10-17-2020, 07:02 AM)b1k3b0y Wrote: Help needed This u-boot stuff is quite new to me but based on https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=Pinebook_Pro#Bootable_Storage your problem might be that the PBP doesn't even try to boot from SD anymore. The default order for the chip seems to be eMMC then SD and as you have a valid image on you eMMC the SD is never tried. From what I gather you have two options: 1) Destroy your eMMC install making the chip boot to SD (probably not a good solution) 2) Convince the u-boot on your eMMC to boot from SD. It is not clear to me if it is possible to do option 2 for one time only like is common with the x86 bios "Select boot device" or if this is a more permanent solution like change a config, build a u-boot, install it to disk and from that moment it will always boot from SD if there is a bootable card in the slot. RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - wdt - 10-19-2020 I have found armbian's uboot a bit problematic, black screen, but not hard locked. Daily was OK The only selector uboot is samueldr's, but needs pwm patch for proper screen drive uboots can be changed, it's not all that hard But 1st, I would try another (different) distro to see if the problem is armbian uboot or debian install RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - ThatGeoGuy - 12-15-2020 (09-25-2020, 07:25 AM)danielt Wrote:If I'm on Debian sid and kernel 5.9 is available, would I be able to install that without any trouble? I've been using your pinebookpro kernel for Debian until now, but I really want to be able to use wireguard and for that it seems I need the 5.9 kernel based on the Debian package.(09-11-2020, 01:55 PM)xmixahlx Wrote: if it is the neon complier issue... are you using gcc 10? just step back to gcc 9.x. or use a git gcc (master is fixed). RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - danielt - 12-16-2020 (12-15-2020, 05:19 PM)ThatGeoGuy Wrote:(09-25-2020, 07:25 AM)danielt Wrote:If I'm on Debian sid and kernel 5.9 is available, would I be able to install that without any trouble? I've been using your pinebookpro kernel for Debian until now, but I really want to be able to use wireguard and for that it seems I need the 5.9 kernel based on the Debian package.(09-11-2020, 01:55 PM)xmixahlx Wrote: if it is the neon complier issue... are you using gcc 10? just step back to gcc 9.x. or use a git gcc (master is fixed). I haven't tried at this point, largely because I thought that graphics wasn't working out of the box... but I've not really checked any details at this point. RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - bryanpaget - 12-30-2020 (10-17-2020, 07:02 AM)b1k3b0y Wrote: Help needed I ran into the same issue and I have two solutions for you. 1. Open the laptop and physically remove the emmc module and boot the laptop from an sdcard. You'll have to reinstall the emmc module mid boot for the OS to recognize the emmc module (i.e. if you pop the emmc back in too soon you'll boot off emmc and if you wait too long the OS won't mount the emmc). Once you've booted from the sdcard you can flash an image to the emmc. You'll probably want to put an iso on a usb thumb drive for this purpose. I did this but I don't recommend this since my friend also had the same problem with Armbian and he did #2. 2. Boot the laptop (you'll be running the OS installed on the emmc) then using dd flash a disk image to the emmc. You are overwriting the running OS. Then reboot. Should work. Sounds nuts but it worked for him. RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - Quanifi - 01-12-2021 (12-04-2019, 03:34 AM)danielt Wrote: I've recently spent a little while hacking together a quick 'n dirty Debian installer for the Pinebook Pro. Daniel, thanks for your contributions to the Pinebook Pro forum. I am trying to update to Debian from Manjaro and I'm getting and error when trying to do the install. Says: "error: could not lock database; file exists, if you are sure a package manager is not already running, you can remove /vsr/lib/pacman/db/lck" ANy suggestions to get this installed....??? |