The RTL-SDR and the Pinebook Pro

[tllim]

I feel silly now: I tried building the rtl-sdr driver from source (using the AUR package) and it just worked right off the bat without a hitch. It's actually running better and dropping fewer samples than it does on my Thinkpad.

All I wonder now: what happened on the Manjaro ARM end of things to make it break so thoroughly in the binary release?

Anyway, if you happen to be running up against the same issue here (the RTL-SDR emitting a short loop of junk samples instead of real signals when run on the Pinebook Pro under Manjaro), try building the rtl-sdr-git package from the AUR. Given the silence in this thread, this isn't a particularly common issue, but I hope what I found eventually helps someone else.

Guess I should submit a bug report to the Manjaro maintainer?

Glad to know your RTL-SDR works now :-)