06-06-2022, 03:04 AM
(06-03-2022, 04:27 AM)zltpxqhp69o2 Wrote: True that — I run all the things off an SD card anyway.I just updated mobian this morning, no change in the kernel and the keyboard is still not being seen by the PinePhone.
Disappearance of keyboard from power sources and lack of keyboard functionality is in line with what I have observed with the kernel that misses the drivers.
If «sudo lsmod | grep kb151» finds nothing and «sudo modprobe kb151» says the module is not found, I think you can be pretty sure you have the software issue, which does not exclude a hardware issue but puts its chances to the baseline.
About Mobian just fixing things — the unstable kernel package might indeed end up being promoted to bookworm in some time. A week or two maybe? Or has almost enough time passed already anyway? Not sure if this topic would change the timing. Maybe report the bug in their tracker and post the link here?
I flashed the mobian-phosh image from 20220116 to an SD card and after the the phone booted the keyboard started working. This iteration of the OS does not have seperate bars in Settings->Power so there is no information about the charge of the keyboard battery. However, on pressing the button on the right hand side of the keyboard the "charging" symbol appeared in the phone's battery icon. I'm assuming that this means that the keyboard battery is providing power to the phone.
Anyway, it seems to confirm that the current version of mobian (stable?) is broken and that it is not a hardware issue.