PineTab Mobian

[guenther]

Has someone also experienced the issue that the process "kworker/0:1+pm" eating up 100% cpu power? It happened after the latest update...
Don't know what do do except waiting for the next update. The PineTab is unusable at the moment :-(

[guenther]

I switched to previous kernel (5.9). Everything back to normal...

[fjord]

With Debian releasing Bullseye I was wondering what that meant for Mobian and found the announcement here: https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/20...e-release/

I'll wait a few weeks, as recommended, before attempting an upgrade to Bookworm.

Cheers,
fjord

[guenther]

Hi folks!

Has someone updated to kernel 5.10 or 5.13 yet? With that kernels  I can't connect to a pc or charge the Pinetab over the micro usb port (usb0). I measure 5V on the connector pins so I guess the usb0 is set to host permanently. Additional I get this message in dmesg:

Code:

musb_bus_suspend 2527: trying to suspend as a_wait_bcon while active

Edit: For the message above I guess I found the solution here but the Pinetab is still in host mode. Dmesg shows:

Code:

configfs-gadget musb-hdrc.2.auto: failed to start g1: -22

I'm really the only one with that issue?

Edit2: I flashed the latest nightly to SD...still the same issue with usb0 set to host.

[fjord]

I recently brought my Mobian Bookworm install up to date and auto rotate works!  Kernel version is 5.15.

[jiyong]

I downloaded the weekly image today (image of December 12th) and installed it on a micro SD card.
Login screen is in portrait mode, but it will auto-rotate after login.
Everything feels slow and at first I had some problems with the keyboard.
After enabling the screen keyboard, the physical keyboard also started working for me.
Audio isn't working for me.

When I play a YouTube video with Ubuntu (on the eMMC) I do have working audio.

I guess we still have a long way to go.

[guenther]

Auto rotation is nice, no doubt. But kernel 5.15 drains out the battery over night because of suspend issues, additional the wifi is not found after a while. Scrolling in Firefox 91.4.0 is sluggish as hell. (HW acceleration?)
From using Mobian from the beginning I know it's always 2 steps forward and 1 step back (guess it's the same on other distros). At the moment we are on the second.

As a non developer I don't get it, why the "fancy" things are implemented while HW issues still exist for so long. Maybe it lacks of a real HW developer "guru". I would help if I could, but sorry, I can't.

Anyway, I like Mobian...

[jiyong]

I installed the image of the 19th.
I noticed that the audio output is set to the microphone.
You can change this in the settings (Sound) and after that the audio works.
In general it still feels sluggish.

[jiyong]

Last Sunday no weekly image.
The Software app showed a System update.
At first I couldn't download it, because I got some error about a missing prepare update file, or something like that.
After a couple of retries it started downloading the update.
Perhaps the prepare update file took a while to download.

I think things are slowly improving.
One weird thing is that audio volume starts muted.

[fjord]

I see Mobian is using a new bootloader called Tow-Boot, this page https://wiki.mobian.org/doku.php?id=install-linux mentions PineTab but there is no PineTab specific image here: https://tow-boot.org/devices/index.html.

After the last round of Mobian updates the onscreen boot keyboard nor the physical keyboard work.