An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro
Just wanted to note that firefox-esr 68.4.2-1esr has migrated from unstable to bullseye/testing, so you no longer need to add the unstable version to work around the 'illegal instruction' crash. The packaged Firefox works fine now.
(02-03-2020, 05:20 PM)Jeremiah Cornelius Wrote:
(02-03-2020, 01:55 PM)jpakkane Wrote: I have the same thing. Probably caused by a bug in the kernel and/or Mesa. I also got a message saying something like "unable to load firmware for rocksomething" in my old install using Gnome. I reinstalled xfce and that message is gone but starting X still does not work.

It's not just X11. This is true of my two installs of Debian with Wayland. One was working great for a couple of weeks, and a recent update blew this. No GDM3. I have a working SD on Buster, but there's no Plymouth and I get the firmware failure messages.

these issues sound really annoying. I have zero issues with kernel 5.5, mesa-git, and sway-git... it actually works very well. is anyone else using this setup?
(02-03-2020, 11:14 PM)xmixahlx Wrote:
(02-03-2020, 05:20 PM)Jeremiah Cornelius Wrote:
(02-03-2020, 01:55 PM)jpakkane Wrote: I have the same thing. Probably caused by a bug in the kernel and/or Mesa. I also got a message saying something like "unable to load firmware for rocksomething" in my old install using Gnome. I reinstalled xfce and that message is gone but starting X still does not work.

It's not just X11. This is true of my two installs of Debian with Wayland. One was working great for a couple of weeks, and a recent update blew this. No GDM3. I have a working SD on Buster, but there's no Plymouth and I get the firmware failure messages.

these issues sound really annoying. I have zero issues with kernel 5.5, mesa-git, and sway-git... it actually works very well. is anyone else using this setup?
A bunch of mesa/gl packages updated in Bullseye today, and everything is back to "normal".

This is my speediest, and otherwise most reliable installation with Gnome3, with the original @danielt installer. I'm sticking with it on nVME, and keeping a parallel test instance on SD, to test changes with u-boot/mesa/etc.
— Jeremiah Cornelius
"Be the first person not to do some­thing, that no one has thought of not doing before’’
— Brian Eno, "Oblique Strategies"
(02-04-2020, 03:22 PM)Jeremiah Cornelius Wrote: A bunch of mesa/gl packages updated in Bullseye today, and everything is back to "normal".

There's a crash when you push Fn + F1, F2.... F12
PBP ISO / Debian Bullseye (unofficial installer)
(02-04-2020, 03:29 PM)wasgurd Wrote:
(02-04-2020, 03:22 PM)Jeremiah Cornelius Wrote: A bunch of mesa/gl packages updated in Bullseye today, and everything is back to "normal".

There's a crash when you push Fn + F1, F2.... F12

I'm on Sid with mesa from experimental, not seeing any crashes. Though for now OpenGL compositing in KWin is unusable, have to fall back to XRender.
(02-04-2020, 03:29 PM)wasgurd Wrote:
(02-04-2020, 03:22 PM)Jeremiah Cornelius Wrote: A bunch of mesa/gl packages updated in Bullseye today, and everything is back to "normal".

There's a crash when you push Fn + F1, F2.... F12

I can't repro this.

(02-05-2020, 08:37 AM)moonwalkers Wrote:
(02-04-2020, 03:29 PM)wasgurd Wrote:
(02-04-2020, 03:22 PM)Jeremiah Cornelius Wrote: A bunch of mesa/gl packages updated in Bullseye today, and everything is back to "normal".

There's a crash when you push Fn + F1, F2.... F12

I'm on Sid with mesa from experimental, not seeing any crashes. Though for now OpenGL compositing in KWin is unusable, have to fall back to XRender.
What's up with gparted?
It never renders right, eventually crashing the graphical session - X11 and Wayland.
— Jeremiah Cornelius
"Be the first person not to do some­thing, that no one has thought of not doing before’’
— Brian Eno, "Oblique Strategies"
I just ran an update, but no mesa packages got updated. Still broken in the same way. Sad
(02-05-2020, 04:40 PM)jpakkane Wrote: I just ran an update, but no mesa packages got updated. Still broken in the same way. Sad

Hmnn. Buster or Bullseye? arm64 or armfh?

My Buster Bullseye is doing well.
— Jeremiah Cornelius
"Be the first person not to do some­thing, that no one has thought of not doing before’’
— Brian Eno, "Oblique Strategies"
gparted works for me. no graphical issues. no function key issues.
I saw some of the comments about broken graphics.

I haven't seen these before so I fired up a fresh install on an SD card and that worked just fine.

However when I rebooted back into my daily driver and the display manager (gdm) wouldn't start. Once it had crashed enough times for systemd to give up restarting it I was able to get over to a console and run an apt upgrade. The package list didn't look very promising (well... a new libreoffice is nice but I didn't expect that to fix anything). However after a reboot all seems to be well again.

Does the problem reproduce reliably. In other words does anyone think the upgrade has fixed it or do you think I spot it again in a couple of days time?
PineTime: wasp-os and MicroPython, Pinebook Pro:  Debian Bullseye


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