An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro

[jazzmans]

i use pinebookpro-post-install from manjaro and brightnessctl +brightness-udev, then map the buttons in sway

translate that into non-geek, or old-fart-forgetting/systemd-changes-everything-speak would you?

[moonwalkers]

i use pinebookpro-post-install from manjaro and brightnessctl +brightness-udev, then map the buttons in sway

translate that into non-geek, or old-fart-forgetting/systemd-changes-everything-speak would you?

Check the row before the last one in the table on this page: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo..._Installer

[jazzmans]

i use pinebookpro-post-install from manjaro and brightnessctl +brightness-udev, then map the buttons in sway

translate that into non-geek, or old-fart-forgetting/systemd-changes-everything-speak would you?

Check the row before the last one in the table on this page: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo..._Installer

Thank you!   I knew I'd read something about it, but forgot where.  
It worked,  and bluetooth works after following instructions on the same wiki page.

a couple of oddities still.

for one,  ping is refused unless I run it as sudo,
ping: socket: Operation not permitted




and I still have no idea how to create a true root user instead of relying on sudo.
This was always part of the initial install of debian.


Thanks for all the hard work y'all!

[e-minguez]

i use pinebookpro-post-install from manjaro and brightnessctl +brightness-udev, then map the buttons in sway

translate that into non-geek, or old-fart-forgetting/systemd-changes-everything-speak would you?

Check the row before the last one in the table on this page: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo..._Installer

Thank you!   I knew I'd read something about it, but forgot where.  
It worked,  and bluetooth works after following instructions on the same wiki page.

a couple of oddities still.

for one,  ping is refused unless I run it as sudo,
ping: socket: Operation not permitted



and I still have no idea how to create a true root user instead of relying on sudo.
This was always part of the initial install of debian.


Thanks for all the hard work y'all!

ping uses raw sockets so it needs either have cap_net_raw enabled (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Capabilities for instance) or setuid root (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions...permission)

The root user is already created, it is a regular root user, but it doesn't have password. If you want to enable password for the root user you just need:

Code:

sudo passwd

It will ask your password first (for sudo), then the root password that you want twice.
I still prefer use sudo, you can have a full root login shell using sudo -i
My 2 cents

[altacus]

I've been using this installer and it's been great. The only issues I've run into have been documented issues which I am looking forward to updates to resolve them.

After using this installer, is there anything I need to do in order to ensure the latest patches/firmware/etc are applied to the PBP? I know there was mention that a 5.6 kernel was ready and I was wondering when we can actually expect kernel upgrades to better support suspend, etc.

Thanks again!

[xmixahlx]

there are several updates you can do, including updating systempartions (p1-3), wifi/bluetooth firmware, alsa-state, function keys, etc.

i wrote update scripts for myself and i'll share them in another thread.

[v-man]

One week ago I got my brand new PinebookPro shipped from Hongkong to Germany.

Thanks to this script I managed to install Debian on it. The script initially failed with some "path not found"s. This seems to be because in chroot you still have the same PATH as before. So what helps is:

export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH

before calling install-debian.

(In addition my first boot failed, I landed in some initrd shell. I removed quiet and splash from the kernel command line in extlinux - and from the second boot on I had no problems with that anymore).

I installed Debian on the internal eMMC (/dev/mmcblk2), having booted Manjaro from an SD card. To accomplish that I had to update U-Boot and clone Manjaro... quite a challenge.

My main grief with Manjaro was how MySQL support in DigiKam did not work - a rather exotic use case. This works out of the box in Debian. Graphics performance is similar (with the output of glxinfo being identical!). Video playback on Youtube seems a little better on Manjaro Chromium, though - probably due to the newer kernel (5.6 vs 5.5) or some tuning. I'm pretty impressed with how well Debian works. Thanks for the installer script!

[crypt17]

I been loving running debian on the PBP but war wondering if there is any news of a new kernel.

[moonwalkers]

I been loving running debian on the PBP but war wondering if there is any news of a new kernel.

Well there is 5.6 kernel in Debian Sid and 5.7-rc5 in Experimental, but neither is usable. You can try using xmixahlx's script to build your own kernel, but my own attempt at 5.7 didn't yield much improvement over the linux-image-5.5.0-1-pinebookpro-arm64 by danielt, with PBP still freezing/panicking at every opportunity it gets if I actually use the GL acceleration.

[xmixahlx]

i dont have any stability issues at all, and both speed and usability are vastly improved.

even moreso with an nvme ssd (minus suspend not working with nvme...)