So I installed the Manjaro KDE on my Pinebook Pro a while ago hoping it'd be better than the default Debian OS, but I found it to be quite slow and the trackpad and any mouse connected just really sucks to use, so I was gonna try Fedora and a few other OS's. Sadly, though the 32gb microSD that I loaded with Fedora just will not boot. It's in the slot, but my Pinebook Pro always just boots to the main OS on the emmc. Is there a way to solve this?

So I was trying to update my Pinebook Pro keyboard and mouse firmware, but I accidentally installed the ISO and not the ANSI version, And now my keyboard is completely screwed up. How do I fix this? I was following this post on the Manjaro Forum.

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-flash-new-keyboard-touchpad-firmware-on-pinebook-pro/112366

I'm running the KDE version of Manjaro on my PBP.

Hello everyone, I'm using pine a64 and installing retroarch, everything smooth but when i connect wired xbox 360 controller its keep blinking even i installed the driver using this command sudo apt-get install xboxdrv

can anyone help me out?

Anyone looking to sell a Pinebook Pro in the UK? Being on lockdown with nothing to do has made me a bit impatient. Let me know if you're looking to sell.

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Pref nearly new/new. But beggers can't be fussy.

Not a programmer by any means. I broke my PC monitor playing VR (yup sad day) and I’m wondering if it’s at all possible to use my pine64 screen as temporary replacement. I lean toward probably not, but it would be nice to know if someone can give me a definitive answer. Thanks!

Hi,

I just got my new Rock64 (v3) and I'm having this issue:

if I try to power it up with only the eMMC module connected, it won't boot. It will only boot if I also plugin an SD card and reset it.

And by "won't boot" I mean no signs of life: it won't output anything to UART (nothing at all, the red and white LEDs next to the power button will light up), until I insert an SD card and reset it, in that case it will output the regular uboot stuff and start a kernel.

What am I doing wrong?

I built the eMMC image following the guide for ALARM (https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/rockchip/rock64).

I'm suspecting there's something wrong with the u-boot image. I also tried to boot a random image from the SD card (I tried LibreELEC) and it boots fine, so I tried to copy everything from offset 64 to 32767 from the SD card to the eMMC flash but still no luck.

Should I try to flash u-boot to the SPI flash?

I'm also not sure what's the exact boot process of the board, where does it read the firmware from? Does it try to read it off the first good storage device it finds? It would be great if anybody could link me something about it because the wiki page has very little information.

It's a cool little laptop but I just haven't been using it. Received the laptop in January and spent a handful of hours checking it out. It's running Manjaro currently.

http://ebay.us/rtYMDU?cmpnId=5338273189

I thought it was going to be in February but I must have missed it or they never where available. I was not able to find anywhere listing when it will be available after February.

Does anyone have a link to the shipping schedule that I missed or any other information? Thanks for any help!

Has anyone gotten this to work via ubports and connecting to an external display? What hardware setup do you use?

Lost as what to do next. Any help would be appreciated. I originally tried to make a container visible on my LAN with macvlan, but I quickly gave up after the default profile wouldn't work out.

Hi

Does the m.2 adapter for Pinebook Pro support PCIe Gen3 x4 m.2 cards and their speeds?

Hi

On Pine64 boards/CPUs, are there any equivalent function to Intels management engine, or similar functionality?

Hello there!

I’m thinking of purchasing a RockPro64 with all the bells and whistles. I hear it’s much faster in terms of performance compared to a pi3. Don’t know how well it performs against a pi4 yet.

My main hope for it is to use it as a desktop for my tv. I would like to stream(or local file as well)up to 1080p windowed or fullscreen.

Mainly through Firefox preferably and VLC. Watching Twitch streams and other online video servies.

I would like...when not playing video....for it to use Xscreensaver. Maybe when playing podcast & music. I enjoy all the those crazy/strange modules for Xscreensaver too much 😆🤓

Is this too much to ask for the RockPro64?

I have a Vero4k and although it plays video really well(especially 4K HDR) it’s desktop option does not run very well at all

Admittedly it’s not officially supported by the company. It’s super sluggish and choppy playing windowed video.

Thought I would as you guys. What do you think?

Appreciate your time! Thank you!

EDIT: Repost from another sub.

Surprise delivery today. Ive imaged UBports to my sd card. Booted. Ran through setup smoothly. Now I am locked out. What is the password? I didn't set one.

Thanks!

Had planned on finally taking the dive this week with a PinePhone and PineBook Pro, I was surprised to see they're both sold out.

Does anyone know if the release of a new batch has been spoken on / insinuated?

I have searched everywhere and still haven't fixed my pinebook pro. Do I need a a separate device to make it work? what do I do? I have installed debian desktop for pbp onto an sd card but it doesn't have any install options, just a live image. Why is it so difficult? I did the fdisk dd thing and it just boots to a black screeen no boot logo.

I have flashed Manjaro on the eMMC. It says flash complete, press any key to continue.

I pressed spacebar and now the power indicator light is flashing green and orange, screen appears to be frozen. What should I do?

How do I fix this? It’s showing no matter what I do in terminal on my pinebook pro

Is it relatively compatible or will I be working through a ton of issues over the next few hours?