<![CDATA[PINE64 - Linux on Pinebook]]>

<![CDATA[PINE64 - Linux on Pinebook]]> https://forum.pine64.org/ Sat, 16 May 2026 10:37:18 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Irradium (based on crux linux) Pinebook A64 (aarch64)]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19610 Sun, 05 Jan 2025 11:30:39 +0000 mara]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19610 irradium - source based Linux distribution CRUX adhering to ideology keep it simple, has its own package system, also supports the port system.

packades

installation README.TXT
kernel 6.12.8

mirror 1, mirror 2, mirror 3

irradium-3.7-aarch64-core-pinebook-6.12.8-build-20250105.img.zst
irradium-3.7-aarch64-core-pinebook-6.12.8-build-20250105.img.zst.sha256
irradium-3.7-aarch64-xfce-pinebook-6.12.8-build-20250105.img.zst
irradium-3.7-aarch64-xfce-pinebook-6.12.8-build-20250105.img.zst.sha256]]> irradium - source based Linux distribution CRUX adhering to ideology keep it simple, has its own package system, also supports the port system.

packades

installation README.TXT
kernel 6.12.8

mirror 1, mirror 2, mirror 3

irradium-3.7-aarch64-core-pinebook-6.12.8-build-20250105.img.zst
irradium-3.7-aarch64-core-pinebook-6.12.8-build-20250105.img.zst.sha256
irradium-3.7-aarch64-xfce-pinebook-6.12.8-build-20250105.img.zst
irradium-3.7-aarch64-xfce-pinebook-6.12.8-build-20250105.img.zst.sha256]]> <![CDATA[Bluetooth on PineTab]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19253 Sun, 26 May 2024 17:35:04 +0000 MicroCenter]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19253
I'm working on getting the Bluetooth connected. The page Wifi and Bluetooth on PineTab 2 mentions the command

Code:
hciattach -s 1500000 /dev/ttyS1 any 1500000 flow nosleep

but I get the following errors.

Code:
Can't get port settings: Input/output error

Can't initialize device: Input/output error

Any suggestions on how to get the Bluetooth working on Pine Tab?]]>
I'm working on getting the Bluetooth connected. The page Wifi and Bluetooth on PineTab 2 mentions the command

Code:
hciattach -s 1500000 /dev/ttyS1 any 1500000 flow nosleep

but I get the following errors.

Code:
Can't get port settings: Input/output error

Can't initialize device: Input/output error

Any suggestions on how to get the Bluetooth working on Pine Tab?]]> <![CDATA[Armbian broken sometime in the last few months]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19252 Sun, 26 May 2024 11:17:53 +0000 acruhl]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19252
I installed the latest Armbian onto another MicroSD and it doesn't work either.

So their image for the Pinebook became broken probably in the last few months.

I tried an earlier image from 2023 and did an "apt dist-upgrade" on it and it broke too.

Sucks. That is a nice OS.]]>
I installed the latest Armbian onto another MicroSD and it doesn't work either.

So their image for the Pinebook became broken probably in the last few months.

I tried an earlier image from 2023 and did an "apt dist-upgrade" on it and it broke too.

Sucks. That is a nice OS.]]> <![CDATA[Orignal PineBook]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18474 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 16:29:01 +0000 jwp1000]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18474 I turned it on today. I am using the 4QOS.
I updated my Wifi password.

Opened the console did sudo apt update which could not find some things. Then sudo apt upgrade which did not a thing.

So I said it sat too long. I got the new Armbian - but the jammy and xfce on an SD card - it booted

How do I get it over to the EMMC?

Thanks

JWP]]> I turned it on today. I am using the 4QOS.
I updated my Wifi password.

Opened the console did sudo apt update which could not find some things. Then sudo apt upgrade which did not a thing.

So I said it sat too long. I got the new Armbian - but the jammy and xfce on an SD card - it booted

How do I get it over to the EMMC?

Thanks

JWP]]> <![CDATA[Broke pinebook GUI, what to do, fix or install new?]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18473 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:59:07 +0000 acruhl]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18473
I know Neon has been out of style for a while so I don't know how much effort I should put into fixing it, or should I just put something else on it?

I'm noticing that there isn't a nice list of "mainstream" Linux operating systems for it like there is for the Pinebook Pro, which sucks.

Is there an OS I can install onto it without it being to hacky to get it working? I just want something I can use instead of having to tinker with all the time.

At the moment I'm using NetBSD from a SD card but I have to use a different WiFi adapter.

Thanks!]]>
I know Neon has been out of style for a while so I don't know how much effort I should put into fixing it, or should I just put something else on it?

I'm noticing that there isn't a nice list of "mainstream" Linux operating systems for it like there is for the Pinebook Pro, which sucks.

Is there an OS I can install onto it without it being to hacky to get it working? I just want something I can use instead of having to tinker with all the time.

At the moment I'm using NetBSD from a SD card but I have to use a different WiFi adapter.

Thanks!]]> <![CDATA[Change console resolution (Armbian/bookworm)]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18397 Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:00:44 +0000 jcgraybill]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18397 Armbian "bookworm" cli-only Linux image on my Pinebook, which overall works great, except that text is extremely small on the 1080p LCD display. I've seen other folks with lower-resolution modes for console, but can't figure out how to change it.

I've tried updating disp_mode in /boot/armbianEnv.txt to no avail. No setting I've tried for this has had any effect. I've had slightly more luck adding extraargs=video=1280x720p@60 to this file: the screen goes black during boot, so at least something is getting passed to the kernel, although it seems to be an invalid resolution, and I haven't been able to find a valid one through trial and error.

Does anybody have any ideas? It looks like there are configuration utilities available if you add a desktop environment, but I'd really rather avoid that if possible.

Thank you!]]> Armbian "bookworm" cli-only Linux image on my Pinebook, which overall works great, except that text is extremely small on the 1080p LCD display. I've seen other folks with lower-resolution modes for console, but can't figure out how to change it.

I've tried updating disp_mode in /boot/armbianEnv.txt to no avail. No setting I've tried for this has had any effect. I've had slightly more luck adding extraargs=video=1280x720p@60 to this file: the screen goes black during boot, so at least something is getting passed to the kernel, although it seems to be an invalid resolution, and I haven't been able to find a valid one through trial and error.

Does anybody have any ideas? It looks like there are configuration utilities available if you add a desktop environment, but I'd really rather avoid that if possible.

Thank you!]]> <![CDATA[Pinebook no longer boots]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18128 Tue, 11 Apr 2023 23:20:00 +0000 rjtanner]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18128
Any advice or guidance, or forum posts or other resources I should reference to get this laptop back up and running?

Thank you.]]>
Any advice or guidance, or forum posts or other resources I should reference to get this laptop back up and running?

Thank you.]]> <![CDATA[Will they ever be selling any new ones?]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17230 Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:25:28 +0000 zapper]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17230
Aka, 10.1 inch, not the 14 inch one.

Just curious

I don't expect it to be blazing fast.]]>
Aka, 10.1 inch, not the 14 inch one.

Just curious

I don't expect it to be blazing fast.]]> <![CDATA[Armbian 22.02 Release Announcement]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16185 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:02:25 +0000 TRS-80]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16185 https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbia...ouncement/]]> https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbia...ouncement/]]> <![CDATA[Write image to eMMC - Pinebook 11.6"]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15662 Sun, 02 Jan 2022 04:27:08 +0000 irongarment]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15662
As far as I can tell there are two steps.

1 Download an image and write it to an SD card, and boot the Pinebook from it.
2 After booting, download another image (same or different- but basically the one you want on the eMMC) then use dd to write to of=/dev/mmcblk1

Then power off, remove SD card, power on. The Pinebook should boot from the image that was written in step 2. Is that basically it?

I just got the 1080p image from here:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_So...Neon_Image

I flashed it to my SD card using dd, and it boots. I've "set it up" but I realise that that has only affected the SD card image. My guess is I have to dd the image again (as I said) and then reboot and set it up (again).

Thanks.

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As far as I can tell there are two steps.

1 Download an image and write it to an SD card, and boot the Pinebook from it.
2 After booting, download another image (same or different- but basically the one you want on the eMMC) then use dd to write to of=/dev/mmcblk1

Then power off, remove SD card, power on. The Pinebook should boot from the image that was written in step 2. Is that basically it?

I just got the 1080p image from here:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_So...Neon_Image

I flashed it to my SD card using dd, and it boots. I've "set it up" but I realise that that has only affected the SD card image. My guess is I have to dd the image again (as I said) and then reboot and set it up (again).

Thanks.

]]> <![CDATA[Big thanks to Armbian!]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14987 Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:32:12 +0000 soupbowl]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14987
I've tried and got the following:

KDE Neon - Nice enough, but all of a sudden stopped updating and working for me. Was support dropped?
Manjaro - Not for me. Works well enough but I'm not a fan of Arch (personal preference) and I found it to be slower than Neon.
Q4OS - Omg, they have an XP theme that's super close! My leading choice at this point and really easy and comfortable to use.

And then I tried Armbian Hirsuite... I love my Pinebook all over again!

Hisuite is based on 21.04, so is surprisingly bleeding-edge for a laptop branch others consider legacy. But powered with XFCE4, it suddenly feels super speedy like it did when it first came out!

To give a familiar look and feel refresh, I installed the Chicago95 theme. The theme dev has worked really hard on this and it definitely shows as it feels like I'm running some kind of Plus! pack on Windows 95!

The only thing I've come across so far is the sound doesn't work? But at this rate I'm usng the Pinebook for productivity not entertainment purposes. It also boots via a UEFI solution so I think it also suffers from the Manjaro charging issue too sadly, so I'm planning on installng aufan ubuntu to the emmc if that becomes a problem (charging while using seems to work well).

Now don't get me wrong, you open an Electron app or Chromium and you can see the system visibly slow down, however I was able to run Visual Studio Code at a bearably slow speed! Impressive considering how chonky of an app VS Code is. And I mean with lots of extensions (I write PHP, Python and Java).

So a big thanks to the Armbian devs for keeping up support for this fantastic little cheap laptop. You guys really made me fall in love with it all over again.

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I've tried and got the following:

KDE Neon - Nice enough, but all of a sudden stopped updating and working for me. Was support dropped?
Manjaro - Not for me. Works well enough but I'm not a fan of Arch (personal preference) and I found it to be slower than Neon.
Q4OS - Omg, they have an XP theme that's super close! My leading choice at this point and really easy and comfortable to use.

]]> <![CDATA[Stock Debian on original Pinebook]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14341 Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:18:16 +0000 moonwalkers]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14341
I used https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm6...rd-images/ to create a Debian installer SD card. Generally installer worked, but letting it do it's own thing hands-off resulted in a system that's not bootable without an SD card. To make it bootable 16MiB free space is required in the beginning of the eMMC (I didn't try using SPI flash). So I partitioned eMMC manually, creating a single ext4 partition that starts at 16MiB mark and takes all of eMMC - I didn't want the hassle with any special partitioning. After that I went through the installation, and in the end installed u-boot-sunxi and ran `u-boot-install-sunxi64 /dev/mmcblk0` (make sure you got the right device number) to install u-boot. One thing to note though is I used u-boot-sunxi from experimental - it seems the version in Unstable is not yet able to boot from ext4 partitions. After that the system boots fine on its own, but doesn't have any WiFi. To get WiFi working I cloned https://github.com/Icenowy/rtl8723cs, installed basic build dependencies (build-essential, linux-headers-arm64), cd to the folder, `make && sudo make install && sudo modprobe 8723cs`. After that I installed the rest of the packages and got a full working system. For KDE Plasma QML not to glitch all the time I had to set QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL to 1 (I added `QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL=1` line to /etc/environment).]]>
I used https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm6...rd-images/ to create a Debian installer SD card. Generally installer worked, but letting it do it's own thing hands-off resulted in a system that's not bootable without an SD card. To make it bootable 16MiB free space is required in the beginning of the eMMC (I didn't try using SPI flash). So I partitioned eMMC manually, creating a single ext4 partition that starts at 16MiB mark and takes all of eMMC - I didn't want the hassle with any special partitioning. After that I went through the installation, and in the end installed u-boot-sunxi and ran `u-boot-install-sunxi64 /dev/mmcblk0` (make sure you got the right device number) to install u-boot. One thing to note though is I used u-boot-sunxi from experimental - it seems the version in Unstable is not yet able to boot from ext4 partitions. After that the system boots fine on its own, but doesn't have any WiFi. To get WiFi working I cloned https://github.com/Icenowy/rtl8723cs, installed basic build dependencies (build-essential, linux-headers-arm64), cd to the folder, `make && sudo make install && sudo modprobe 8723cs`. After that I installed the rest of the packages and got a full working system. For KDE Plasma QML not to glitch all the time I had to set QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL to 1 (I added `QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL=1` line to /etc/environment).]]> <![CDATA[E: The repository 'http://pinebook.kde.org.uk bionic Release' no longer has a Release]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12901 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:15:37 +0000 pixelpaperyarn]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12901
I'm starting the fix by trying to run updates (I'm on some 18.* release of Ubuntu under the hood) but I'm getting:

`E: The repository 'http://pinebook.kde.org.uk bionic Release' no longer has a Release file.`

It looks like the files I need to point to are here: https://files.kde.org/neon/images/pinebo...eredition/

But when I try to edit my sources.list all I see are the two main Ubuntu ports (bionic and bionic-updates).

Does anyone know where I can find and edit the `http://pinebook.kde.org.uk bionic Release` entry?]]>
I'm starting the fix by trying to run updates (I'm on some 18.* release of Ubuntu under the hood) but I'm getting:

`E: The repository 'http://pinebook.kde.org.uk bionic Release' no longer has a Release file.`

It looks like the files I need to point to are here: https://files.kde.org/neon/images/pinebo...eredition/

But when I try to edit my sources.list all I see are the two main Ubuntu ports (bionic and bionic-updates).

Does anyone know where I can find and edit the `http://pinebook.kde.org.uk bionic Release` entry?]]> <![CDATA[pinebook.kde.org.uk no longer has release file??]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12835 Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:28:03 +0000 supermassive]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12835
I got this error when I've tried to update repository.
When I access to http://pinebook.kde.org.uk there is No file.
What should I do?]]>
I got this error when I've tried to update repository.
When I access to http://pinebook.kde.org.uk there is No file.
What should I do?]]> <![CDATA[Kali on SD does not Detect EMMC]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12730 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:35:37 +0000 marianobilli]]> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12730
It should be displayed as `mmcblk2` when running command `lsblk`but it only displays the sd card which is `mmcblk1`

Any ideas?]]>
It should be displayed as `mmcblk2` when running command `lsblk`but it only displays the sd card which is `mmcblk1`

Any ideas?]]>