Thanks to a lot of hard work from Ayufan and others, we have a working Bionic image that does sound, hardware video, suspend-to-RAM, and has good power efficiency. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work out of the box, so here are the tweaks I've used to enable and enhance my experience on Ayufan's Bionic LXDE 0.7.28.
Getting WiFi
Installing network-manager-gnome and gnome-keyring (used for storing configurations securely) permits connecting to all kinds of WiFi networks including WPA2-Enterprise.
Make sure to use wlan0 and not p2p0 as the interface.
BUGS: No icon in system tray; you just have to click in the tray area until you get it.
HiDPI Scaling
The 1080p display on the 11.6 inch form factor is very high-DPI and thus scaling may be desired. To enable this on LXDE, create a .Xresources file in the home directory and add
Xft.dpi: 130
Replace 130 with whatever DPI setting is desired. 130 is a sane default, if a little small for some.
Enabling GPU Acceleration
Ayufan makes available packages for the the sunxi / Mali drivers (run pine64_enablea_sunxidrm.sh and install), but in order to use them, the libMali.so binary (in /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/mali/) needs to be symlinked at /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1 and at /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2 and those libraries need to be entirely moved away or removed somehow.
Getting a Better Panel
XFCE4 provides very useful software for use with LXDE. Installing xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-panel, and xfce4-goodies gives you access to a much nicer panel and menu (Whisker Menu).
Edit .config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and replace the lxpanel line with a line for xfce4-panel, then log in and out and configure xfce4-panel to your liking.
PulseAudio Control
PulseAudio is installed by default, but you need pavucontrol to change settings in a sensible way.
To add keyboard shortcuts, you need xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin and lxhotkey-plugin-openbox. Install them and add the pulseaudio plugin to your panel.
Excellent post. Let me know if you'd rather have it moved to the tutorials subforum.
(11-17-2018, 09:32 AM)LeoLambda Wrote: Thanks to a lot of hard work from Ayufan and others, we have a working Bionic image that does sound, hardware video, suspend-to-RAM, and has good power efficiency. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work out of the box, so here are the tweaks I've used to enable and enhance my experience on Ayufan's Bionic LXDE 0.7.28.
Getting WiFi
Installing network-manager-gnome and gnome-keyring (used for storing configurations securely) permits connecting to all kinds of WiFi networks including WPA2-Enterprise.
Make sure to use wlan0 and not p2p0 as the interface.
BUGS: No icon in system tray; you just have to click in the tray area until you get it.
HiDPI Scaling
The 1080p display on the 11.6 inch form factor is very high-DPI and thus scaling may be desired. To enable this on LXDE, create a .Xresources file in the home directory and add
Xft.dpi: 130
Replace 130 with whatever DPI setting is desired. 130 is a sane default, if a little small for some.
Enabling GPU Acceleration
Ayufan makes available packages for the the sunxi / Mali drivers (run pine64_enablea_sunxidrm.sh and install), but in order to use them, the libMali.so binary (in /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/mali/) needs to be symlinked at /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1 and at /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2 and those libraries need to be entirely moved away or removed somehow.
Getting a Better Panel
XFCE4 provides very useful software for use with LXDE. Installing xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-panel, and xfce4-goodies gives you access to a much nicer panel and menu (Whisker Menu).
Edit .config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and replace the lxpanel line with a line for xfce4-panel, then log in and out and configure xfce4-panel to your liking.
PulseAudio Control
PulseAudio is installed by default, but you need pavucontrol to change settings in a sensible way.
To add keyboard shortcuts, you need xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin and lxhotkey-plugin-openbox. Install them and add the pulseaudio plugin to your panel.
I was wondering if you had a link to this image?
(11-17-2018, 03:49 PM)caps Wrote: I was wondering if you had a link to this image?
Yep! It's available on GitHub. Don't try the more recent builds; they both have broken suspend-to-RAM and sound (which is why they're marked prerelease).
To have a wifi tray icon is not needed to install network-manager-gnome, there is an applet in the lxde panel to show it (search for Manage Networks applet) and you can use nmtui in CLI to add new networks.
(11-18-2018, 06:36 AM)e-minguez Wrote: To have a wifi tray icon is not needed to install network-manager-gnome, there is an applet in the lxde panel to show it (search for Manage Networks applet) and you can use nmtui in CLI to add new networks.
Neither of these options support WPA2-Enterprise, so I can't use them to connect to my college's wireless.
Can't login. After I enter "pine64" password, screen blinks and returns to login screen.
The default user and password is 'alarm'
Enviado desde mi ONEPLUS A5010 mediante Tapatalk
i'm getting errors after I enable the accelerated driver following the guide above when i run es2_info
EGL_VERSION: 1.4 Linux-r6p0-01rel0
EGL_VENDOR: ARM
EGL_EXTENSIONS:
EGL_KHR_image, EGL_KHR_image_base, EGL_KHR_image_pixmap,
EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import, EGL_KHR_gl_texture_2D_image,
EGL_KHR_gl_texture_cubemap_image, EGL_KHR_gl_renderbuffer_image,
EGL_KHR_reusable_sync, EGL_KHR_fence_sync,
EGL_KHR_swap_buffers_with_damage, EGL_EXT_swap_buffers_with_damage,
EGL_KHR_lock_surface, EGL_KHR_lock_surface2,
EGL_EXT_create_context_robustness, EGL_ANDROID_blob_cache,
EGL_KHR_create_context, EGL_KHR_partial_update
EGL_CLIENT_APIS: OpenGL_ES
GL_VERSION: OpenGL ES 2.0
GL_RENDERER: Mali-400 MP
GL_EXTENSIONS:
GL_OES_texture_npot, GL_OES_vertex_array_object,
GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture,
GL_EXT_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_sub_texture, GL_OES_standard_derivatives,
GL_OES_EGL_image, GL_OES_depth24, GL_ARM_rgba8,
GL_ARM_mali_shader_binary, GL_OES_depth_texture,
GL_OES_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888,
GL_OES_vertex_half_float, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_OES_EGL_image_external,
GL_OES_EGL_sync, GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8, GL_EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture,
GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer, GL_OES_get_program_binary,
GL_ARM_mali_program_binary, GL_EXT_shader_texture_lod, GL_EXT_robustness,
GL_OES_depth_texture_cube_map, GL_KHR_debug,
GL_ARM_shader_framebuffer_fetch,
GL_ARM_shader_framebuffer_fetch_depth_stencil, GL_OES_mapbuffer
[xcb] Unknown request in queue while appending request
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
es2_info: ../../src/xcb_io.c:151: append_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_pending' failed.
Aborted
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when i reinstalled xcb related packages, it clobbered all the symlinks i made. any idea how to fix this?
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I fixed them again:
/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu$ ls -l libGLESv2*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 22 18:57 libGLESv2.so -> mali/libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 22 18:54 libGLESv2.so.2 -> mali/libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 22 19:07 libGLESv2.so.2.0.0 -> mali/libMali.so
/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu$ ls -l libEGL.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 22 18:56 libEGL.so -> mali/libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 22 18:55 libEGL.so.1 -> mali/libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 22 19:05 libEGL.so.1.0.0 -> mali/libMali.so
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this is my mali dir:
/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu$ ls -l mali/
total 1476
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Oct 24 08:32 ld.so.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libEGL.so -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libEGL.so.1 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libEGL.so.1.0 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libEGL.so.1.0.0 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libEGL.so.1.4 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libEGL.so.1.4.0 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libGLESv1_CM.so -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libGLESv1_CM.so.1 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libGLESv1_CM.so.1.1 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libGLESv2.so -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libGLESv2.so.2 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libGLESv2.so.2.0 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libGLESv2.so.2.0.0 -> libMali.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1507224 Oct 24 08:32 libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libgbm.so -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libgbm.so.1 -> libMali.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 24 08:32 libgbm.so.1.0.0 -> libMali.so
any advice on fixing this would be awsome, should I make the symlinks reflect the mali dir in the parent directory?
thanks
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