Manjaro ARM 19.12 Official Release - PineBook Pro

[spikerguy]

Anyone tried out Wayland yet on Manjaro, yet? I just thought of this (or I would've installed it last night) while reading the linked article mrfritsche posted about Debos. I remember lima being okay, but usable on the Pinebook1080. I'm curious if Panfrost is any better. It would be great to have Night Light available, instead of Redshift/Geoclue2, which I've had nothing but problems with.

Yes I have tried Manjaro with Mainline Kernel, panfrost & wayland over KDE-Plasma, It seems to work fine, Panfrost is very much stable(Partially) though but its getting there. All you have to do is get a working Kde-Plasma Image and remove xf86-video-fbturbo-git then install wayland and switch to wayland on login screen.

Do share your experience with wayland on panfrost.

Can somebody confirm if KDE acceleration works?

I think the preview2-kde-plasma is having panfrost by default, And it have seem to work very smooth. Tried playing video on mpv & youtube it worked quite well for me. But you may try it yourself. 

The system crashed after last update.
I'm unable to boot into the system.
The problem seems to be related to Xorg not founding any display.

Please try to get into TTY2 and update again. If you're on KDE then there was a mis-match in kde apps & lib versions. Mostly an upstream issue but Strit have done a great job of downgrading them libs and got it to work.


UPDATE:
Strit have found the issue and have pushed an update to the repo.
Pushed a new update to the 

Code:

pinebookpro-post-install

 package that fixes it, but if you can't get in to update, you can get to a TTY and run:

Code:

sudo rm /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-touchpad.conf

Then reboot.

Please try the above and share your feedback.

UPDATE2: New Kernel release should fix the audio crackling, Once it is uploaded to the repo then please update the kernel by running

Code:

sudo pacman -S linux-pinebookpro

Thanks

I opened a TTY2, 
Logged in with my user.
Removed the 90-touchpad file.
Rebooted.
I were able to login from GUI this time.
I ran: sudo pacman -Syy 
And then : sudo pacman -S linux-pinebookpro

All better now, but I'm afraid to do any upgrades haha

`pacman -Syy` is typically considered dangerous, or at least unwise. You should always go with -Syu.

Why... out of interest? I’ve typically run `pacman-Syyu` when updating Manjaro on my other laptop. What should I be doing?

Yes the correct way to upgrade the whole system is 

Code:

sudo pacman -Syyu

I asked users to just sync the db repo using 

Code:

sudo pacman -Syy

as the new file was just uploaded to the repo and -Syy would sync the mirror and the local db.