Pinebook is going the way of Betamax?
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Well, trying to flash the Armbian Bionic image to an SD card right now, see what results we get.

It's telling that this thread is months old and still on top in the topic list of this subforum, the userbase for this piece of tech is just incredibly small.
I find it a bit wry that the company has since moved on and is selling new tech with new and improved promises about what it could do when the previous product is in my eyes a bit of a failure. Software support is just very sketchy even if you are a bit of a tinkerer.

Addendum: Like I mentioned earlier, it's a non-stop issue fest.

I managed to nand-sata-install the Bionic Armbian install to the internal EMMC, but...

- The screen brightness is very dim. I cannot adjust it through hotkeys, there are no options in the menu to do so.
I tried doing it manually through XRANDR in the CLI but while my commands execute without error, nothing changes regardless of the value I set from 0,1 tot 1.

- The speakers give only static whenever audio is playing. You get the visual indicator in the volume control panel that audio is coming in correctly, but the speakers only hiss at you. That is on the mono output, the stereo output of course does nothing.


-- edit --

When you lower the volume (when playing back on mono) low enough (it was on 100%) to about 20% you get something other than static... you get the actual sound of the video I was trying out IN SLOW MOTION.
Seriously... how am I even going to begin figuring out what myriad of errors I'm running into here? See my point?


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RE: Pinebook is going the way of Betamax? - by trigger - 01-05-2020, 07:16 AM

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