• Trackpad Sensitivity. The default sensitivity of the trackpad is too low to be usable. Click the KDE menu and type 'mouse' - click the mouse settings, which should be the first option that pops-up, and navigate to advanced. Increase the pointer acceleration and threshold to your liking. I am linking my settings, which I found to work well.
  
  
• Font and Display Scaling. The updated Pinebook rocks a high DPI screen for an 11.6" laptop. This means that all icons and text will appear tiny by default. Thankfully there is a simple fix to both the small font and icons, buttons, etc., Click the KDE menu and type 'fonts'; this is pretty self explanatory - select the size that you are comfortable with. The other important setting is scaling. To access it, open the KDE menu and type 'displays'. In the 'displays' menu navigate to -> 'Scale Display'. Here you will find a slider that will allow you to scale-up desktop components. N.B. You will need to restart the Pienbook after scaling the display. Picture for reference:
  

• Speaker Volume Settings. The speakers (and headphone output) on the Pinebook can be made somewhat louder. Navigate to the terminal by typing 'konsol' in the KDE menu. In terminal type
  alsamixer. Scroll using right arrow key to the far end of the extensive selection of options until you encounter 'speaker volume' setting. By default, its set to 74 but can be increased to ~85 without much distortion. Picture for reference:
   
  

• Wake from suspend issue (important). There is an issue related to screen locking that prevents the Pinebook from resuming from suspend. The solution to the problem is, at the time of writing, to disable screen lock on resume as well as screen locking after a preset period of time. To access the relevant menu type 'screen locking' in KDE menu and hit enter. You will need to uncheck BOTH 'lock screen automatically after: [time in minutes]' and 'lock screen on resume'. [edit] if you still experience problems please read rookieone's post here.This will make the Pinebook wake up as expected; picture for reference:
  
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(11-17-2018, 06:07 PM)Ricardus Wrote: On my Pinebook, which I received about 2 days ago, when I go to unclick the screen dimming buttons in the other thread, my changes are never saved after hitting reply. What's going on with that?

I mean, this is a serious issue? Is it being addressed? I know $99 isn't much, but I just paid 99 for a laptop I can't really use because it keeps going dark.

If there isn't a fix forthcoming I am going to contact my bank or Paypal, or however I paid and reverse the funds.

(11-18-2018, 07:38 AM)jschall Wrote:  I was experiencing the problem that so many people have been having. The screen blanking and not coming back to life using any normal means.

 So the first thread I saw on this was this one mentioning the problem:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6734

And in that thread he links to rookieone's message that mentioned changing set the "Screen Energy Saving" to a smaller value than the "Dim screen" one"

 It also mentioned just disabling both of those features by just UNCHECKING THEM, but with mine, unchecking them doesn't work. It's not persistent. When I uncheck them and hit apply, it makes you THINK it's to work, but when I close out that window and bring it back up the boxes are checked again.

But it does look like set the "Screen Energy Saving" to a smaller value than the "Dim screen" one works.

But those buttons being checked after I unchecked them is a bit concerning. Has anyone else seen that?


@Ricardus:

Please explain what your problem is.

What is "the other thread"?

Can you use this command in the terminal?
$xbacklight -set99

(12-31-2018, 10:54 PM)ame Wrote: Hi there. I have my 11" PineBook running KDE Neon. Unfortunately it's out of disk space. How do I expand the image to use all of my 16Gb eMMC? Thanks.

(01-01-2019, 10:47 AM)Wizzard Wrote:

(12-31-2018, 10:54 PM)ame Wrote: Hi there. I have my 11" PineBook running KDE Neon. Unfortunately it's out of disk space. How do I expand the image to use all of my 16Gb eMMC? Thanks.

I think you can just use the KDE Partition Manager app and it expands the partition to whole eMMC. If you installed it correctly, it should do it automatically.