We are looking for a #FreeBSD committer who would be willing to mentor and help getting our changes regarding #PinephonePro support into CURRENT.
If you want to have a look, the repo is located at https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro
We are looking for a #FreeBSD committer who would be willing to mentor and help getting our changes regarding #PinephonePro support into CURRENT.
If you want to have a look, the repo is located at https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro
I've been working on porting #FreeBSD to the #PinePhonePro and happy to report that I am releasing a developer build that you can try out! If you are a FreeBSD developer, the image contains the kernel source and build tools for development on-device.
FreeBSD developer build for PinePhone Pro https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro
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Some more great progress by @tobykurien who is porting #FreeBSD to the #PinephonePro in the project sponsored by us:
After getting #X11 running a short while ago, he now implemented #touchscreen support.
Ok, so check this out. I raved about how magical #FreeBSD #linuxulator is, but it gets even better! In my Ubuntu linux jail, I downloaded the source for the #mobian kernel, installed cross-compiling tools, compiled the kernel and modules, copied to an sdcard, and booted up the kernel on my #pinephonepro So, on my amd64 FreeBSD, I used a translation layer to load up Ubuntu Linux, used it to cross-compile a Linux kernel for arm64, and booted that up on a device! How unbelievable is that?!?
I got #X11 running on the #PinephonePro under #FreeBSD ! Shown here running my favourite #icewm window manager. Super exciting! Now to get the touch screen working
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#SailfishOS 5.0 images for the @PINE64 devices are now available via the flash-it script. #pinephone #pinephonepro #pinetab #pinetab2 https://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevil/documentation/wiki/Installation
Working on the @PINE64 #PinephonePro camera using @libcamera . Progress is slow but steady!
- What?! I exclaimed to myself when the 1st post in the glorious newsletter from Vermaden was this:
"Porting FreeBSD to Run on PinePhone Pro."
https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro
Years ago a port was began for OpenBSD, but it stalled. Check out the super blog: exoticsilicon.com (https://research.exoticsilicon.com/series/pinephone_openbsd)
https://vermaden@bsd.cafe.wordpress.com/news/
@vermaden@bsd.cafe@bsd.cafe@bsd.cafe #pinephonepro #RunBSD #ExoticSilicon #FreeBSD #OpenBSD
Progress!! I managed to get the #PinePhonePro screen working on #FreeBSD Long way to go yet, but this is a massive step forward for making FreeBSD usable on the device.
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@csepp also there's the #PinePhonePro which has an attachable keyboard. :)
How was the sound quality? Ages back I did a few calls on the #PinePhone and #PinePhonePro. All connected, but almost every one had audio problems with people not being able to hear me, or it having massive echo, or sound distortion.
To be fair, this was long ago and I believe a lot of work has been done since on the modem and sound systems... which is why I'm interested how it sounds now. :)
HA
Music via #bluetooth on #Mobian on my #PinephonePro no longer sounds like it's being played underwater
Secret seems to have been editing /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
Line 65 was set to off (I assume by default??), instead of multiple
Moderately heavily tagged because either I'll look for this again, or because it'll help someone else. Both would be good though
#linux #linuxMobile #linuxPhone #pinePhone #pinePhonePro #postmarketos #FOSSPhone
To summarise my mobile linux experience in one sentence it would be:
“How windows users think switching to linux desktop will be.”
Still enjoying it though c:
Outgoing call quality is terrible. "Sounds like you are standing next to a waterfall". Tried following this and this advice and modified /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/PinePhonePro/VoiceCall.conf
:
cset "name='IN1 Boost' 0"
cset "name='IN2 Boost' 0"
cset "name='IN3 Boost' 0"
That didn't work so I tried reducing mic volume in sxmo menu to 5%. "I still hear static but it is a lot better. I can hear my own voice echo back to me".cset "name='ADC Capture Volume' 0"
Still having background static noise as well as echo. Very odd as I would have thought setting capture volume to 0 would have had zero input but it is still picking up too much.Trying to set up location services on the #pinephonepro, using satellite I can get a fix and everything looks good but using #gnomeMaps, #PureMaps or google maps through firefox, they can’t find my location.
#linuxhelp #pinephone #postmarketos
This thread will be about my experiments with my new #pinePhonePro.
I got it yesterday and had a few minor hurdles out of the gate. I followed instructions on the wiki but couldn't get it to boot into #sailfishOS. I don't remember what I did differently but after a few attempts it booted fine. I immediately wanted to replace sailfish but first checked that sms and calls worked fine and it did (though took a while to receive the first call).
I flashed #postmarketOS with #PlasmaMobile to an sd card and tried booting from it but quickly realised I had missed a step . The wiki said I had to install #towboot to the SPI so I did that. After following the instructions properly this time I installed the OS successfully. I found Plasma extremely sluggish and unresponsive so quickly moved on. The next OS I flashed was postmarketOS again but this time with #sxmo and I immediately fell in love with the interface.
After that I went to sleep as it had been a long day and was getting late. This morning I flashed postmarketos with sxmo to the eMMC and will be tinkering with it today. Ill update this post with comments about my progress.
#linuxphone #linuxmobile #FOSSphone #FOSS #OpenSource #tilingWM #pinePhone #pine64
I got my #pinephonepro today. I installed #postmarketos with #sxmo onto it. Tomorrow I’ll publish notes on my tinkering
#linuxphone #linuxmobile #pinephone #pine64
In other news my phone broke today. It was going to cost more to fix than to replace so I will replace it with a PinePhone Pro. Any recommendations for OS?
#PhoneOS #Pinephone #Pinephonepro #Pine64 #FOSS
Oh good, I wrote instructions last time I installed #Mobian on the #PinePhonePro so that I could figure it out again if I needed:
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (20/2024): #Phosh 0.39.0 and a #postmarketOS report