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I now have a working almost clean Bullseye release installed on my Pinebook Pro.

My starting point was daniel-thompson/pinebook-pro-debian-installer on the eMMC so my system would not boot from SD, I tried a few moves to work around this but failed leaving a borked system. Solution was to remove the eMMC and use a USB to eMMC adapter on another computer (I have the one from the Pinestore), to flash the SD install according to the README located in http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bulls...rd-images/

After reinstalling the eMMC in the PBP it will boot from eMMC and the installation can be completed from the built-in screen and keyboard. An USB-ethernet dongle is needed as WiFi doesn't work in the install.

Extra care needs to be taken at the partitioning stage as the Guided (without LVM) will overwrite the u-boot and result in a system that will not boot so the Manual option needs to be used. I resized the installer partition (16GB, ext4, use as /). Created a logical partition for swap (5GB), and a logical for /home (ext4, rest of disk). This leaves a blank space before the / partition where u-boot lives, / starts at block 32768.

After install completes it boots in to the newly installed system.

This method does not require a serial console but it is nice to have as it takes several seconds before the screen or powerled comes on.

Wifi
I git cloned https://gitlab.manjaro.org/tsys/pinebook-firmware and copied the contents of the brcm folder to /var/lib/brcm/

Sound
It was possible to get sound working by fiddling with alsamixer but it sounded awful, getting asound.state from https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/p...ound.state as outlined in https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...ting_Guide gave very good results.

The system works but I have had a few kernel ops:es that result in the network being lost.

I would like to try installing "Sound" paragraph you mention, but I am not Linux-sophisticated enough to understand how to implement the https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/p...ree/master "code."
Could you help me by providing step-by-step instructions?  I'm running Armbian 5.10.43-rockchip64 on my PINE64 14" PinebookPro Laptop.
My sound through the speakers is very weak and of poor quality.

Alsamixer shows two columns for <Headphon>, both of which have volume adjustment columns, and one column for <Speaker>, which has no column for volume display & adjustment.  I would paste a screenshot but can't figure out how to get Armbian to make one for me.

Thanks in advance.