(02-07-2022, 02:02 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: Per that FAQ you need to install the keyboard utilities package (link is in the "Troubleshooting" section).

(02-07-2022, 02:44 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: It's supposed to be "firmware and tools".  It looks like you have to clone the source tree with git and then build from source. (On Mobian to get the C compiler, make, etc., you need to "sudo apt-get install build-essential". Not sure on other distros.)

Code:

git clone https://megous.com/git/pinephone-keyboard

Then you cd into the resulting pinephone-keyboard directory where there's a Makefile which has a target to build the tools/utilities. So if you have the prerequisites installed the following would build everything, or just build the tools, respectively:

Code:

make            # Build everything

make tools      # Build tools/utilities only

However, it appears that one of the prerequisites is php, when running either make command the following diagnostic is issued because that's not installed:

Code:

php keymaps/map-to-c.php keymaps/physical-map.txt keymaps/factory-keymap.txt build/kmap.h
make: php: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:21: build/kmap.h] Error 127

The problem is that "apt-get install php" wants to drag in a bunch of other stuff including the apache web server and I really don't want that. (Though I could install all that stuff, build the tools, then remove it all afterwards.)

(02-07-2022, 03:35 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: You should be able to copy the executable file to /usr/local/bin and as long as that's in your search path (I think it usually is on Linux) it will be picked up when you invoke it on the command line.  Or you could define a bash alias, which might not be a bad idea anyway to make shorter and easier to type command out of it without actually changing the name of the executable file.

I don't want to get into installing Apache on my eMMC installation, so maybe what I'll do is boot up on a Mobian sd card and build the tools which can then be copied to the eMMc.

(02-07-2022, 04:55 PM)ragreenburg Wrote: So I got it running but it seems like I may need to shim my keyboard because the charger status is always at "idle" and it doesn't seem to be charging my PPPro. Plus the voltage hasn't changed in the last 20 minutes or so.

(02-07-2022, 05:09 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote:

(02-07-2022, 04:55 PM)ragreenburg Wrote: So I got it running but it seems like I may need to shim my keyboard because the charger status is always at "idle" and it doesn't seem to be charging my PPPro. Plus the voltage hasn't changed in the last 20 minutes or so.

I found with mine that with the keyboard attached, the Phosh charging indicator displays but the percentage of charge doesn't budge. I left it all hooked up to a charger with the phone turned off until the charger display showed no more current draw (presumably fully charged) and now the phone shows 100% charged. So it looks like the battery level is maintained when the phoneis turned on but for charging to take place it needs to be turned off.