UPDATED (June 2021): 17-distro multi-boot image for Pinephone (incl. 3GiB variant)

[Diagon]

Arch produced the same results for me (terminal logon) in the last two multiboot releases. I can plug a USB keyboard into my dock and logon to the terminal and try some things but startx doesn't work. Maybe wayland needs to be started. Here are a couple of links but I ran out of time for the effort for now.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3121...mmand-line
https://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/run-wa...rch-linux/

Probably should search the Arch wiki too.

I've tried a couple of Arch (single boot images) and they both worked and booted to the desktop, as has arch-dreemurrs from the multi-boot selection screen. Mobian still works the best for me though and I've tried just about everything.

I haven't checked Ethernet on the dock with Mobian lately, but it used to work. I never got my MX-Linux Samba server working reliably though--even to another MX-Linux system Samba client. Ping always worked to and from the PinePhone though, for whatever that's worth. Many years ago I used Samba heavily but I read in various forums that it's become a PITA to get working these days! I gave up for now. mtp is all I need and it works well on the PinePhone.

Hey, thanks. 

On a cursory check, Manjaro seems to be working ok.  At least the Phosh flavor.  And the dock + power does work there. 

UBPorts has the same problem with that dock as Mobian - so it may be a Debian issue as it's in Devuan/LuneOS and KDE Neon, too.  Regardless, I'd have to say UBPorts looks pretty nice.  Though I'm not able to update it, or even change to another update channel, so I think it may need to be installed separately.  (At first I made the mistake of using apt-get to update, but you actually need to wait for an "OTA" in the update manager in Settings, or use `system-image-cli`; though I find the latter crashes on attempted update.)

I think those two and Mobian are the ones I'm going to work with.  Though I will get out a USB keyboard and see what I can do with Arch.  Thanks for that. It should probably be possible to get it working at least as well as Manjaro, no?