06-07-2023, 03:08 PM
Hi!
New user. Bought the Pinebook pro in january. Very satisfied except for , as tiltle indicates: all linux distros I've tried freezes the computer with only option to long press power button.to get out No flashing light, just the green power-on. This normally happens within the first day of use on a new install. Typically second or third boot, and normally just after login to gui or when starting a web browser. I have tried different sd-cards, two different emmc. Distros tested: Manjaro, armbian, debian, postmarket as I remember atm. I have tried to bypass battery to run on power supply. I am currently testing memory with memetester which may not be very reliable since parts of the memory is occupied, but I dont know any better way to do it on an arm-computer. This have given one warning on bit-flip during 6 runs. I have btw installed tow-boot to spi which didnt make any difference.
Only time I experience a different behavior is when I install NetBSD. I never get lockup, but web browsers have a tendency to crash and sometimes this ends in a reboot. The boot process also crashes sometimes. I believe this may be related to known bugs in NetBSD but not sure so the whole situation is very confusing. (NetBSD 10.0 Beta seems promising btw)
I would be grateful if somebody could shed some light on this. At the moment i have a useless computer which I very much would like to start using as intended. As I mentioned I'm really enjoying this computer when it works.
New user. Bought the Pinebook pro in january. Very satisfied except for , as tiltle indicates: all linux distros I've tried freezes the computer with only option to long press power button.to get out No flashing light, just the green power-on. This normally happens within the first day of use on a new install. Typically second or third boot, and normally just after login to gui or when starting a web browser. I have tried different sd-cards, two different emmc. Distros tested: Manjaro, armbian, debian, postmarket as I remember atm. I have tried to bypass battery to run on power supply. I am currently testing memory with memetester which may not be very reliable since parts of the memory is occupied, but I dont know any better way to do it on an arm-computer. This have given one warning on bit-flip during 6 runs. I have btw installed tow-boot to spi which didnt make any difference.
Only time I experience a different behavior is when I install NetBSD. I never get lockup, but web browsers have a tendency to crash and sometimes this ends in a reboot. The boot process also crashes sometimes. I believe this may be related to known bugs in NetBSD but not sure so the whole situation is very confusing. (NetBSD 10.0 Beta seems promising btw)
I would be grateful if somebody could shed some light on this. At the moment i have a useless computer which I very much would like to start using as intended. As I mentioned I'm really enjoying this computer when it works.