12-10-2023, 10:32 AM
Fedora 39 is out now, and I have encryption and Widevine working on my Pinebook pro, so I'm very happy with this install. There were a few gotchas though.
The netinstaller, which you need to use if you want an encrypted install, works fine as long as you have Tow-boot installed and an ethernet connection. I almost sprung for a USB-to-ethernet adapter until I remembered that the Pinebook pro USB-C dock has an Ethernet port. It worked without problems.
When booting it still gives the efi errors mentioned above but boots without any obvious issues.
The only issue I have with encryption is that the prompt for entering the passphrase doesn't appear until I start entering the passphrase. Not intuitive. I just wait until the kernel messages stop then enter the passphrase.
The widevine installer installs via dnf, and on Fedora's raw image I got both Firefox and Chromium working with Widevine, but on my encrypted install only Chromium works. That's good enough.
The wifi drivers were installed automatically. As PoVoc mentions above, you have to unmute the left and right headphone mixers in Alsamixer to get sound working, but it took me a while to figure out how to get the full array of mixers to appear in Alsamixer. I had to press F6 and chose the es8316 sound device, even though it was the only device listed and was listed as the default device. Also not intuitive.
The netinstaller, which you need to use if you want an encrypted install, works fine as long as you have Tow-boot installed and an ethernet connection. I almost sprung for a USB-to-ethernet adapter until I remembered that the Pinebook pro USB-C dock has an Ethernet port. It worked without problems.
When booting it still gives the efi errors mentioned above but boots without any obvious issues.
The only issue I have with encryption is that the prompt for entering the passphrase doesn't appear until I start entering the passphrase. Not intuitive. I just wait until the kernel messages stop then enter the passphrase.
The widevine installer installs via dnf, and on Fedora's raw image I got both Firefox and Chromium working with Widevine, but on my encrypted install only Chromium works. That's good enough.
The wifi drivers were installed automatically. As PoVoc mentions above, you have to unmute the left and right headphone mixers in Alsamixer to get sound working, but it took me a while to figure out how to get the full array of mixers to appear in Alsamixer. I had to press F6 and chose the es8316 sound device, even though it was the only device listed and was listed as the default device. Also not intuitive.
