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Attempting to install Fedora Silverblue on my Pinebook Pro…

🤞🤓

Hmm, it installed* and is running, and GNOME 43 seems rather snappy on it but no wifi :(

* with Tow-Boot. During installation it says something like “your system won’t be able to boot… EFI… blah, blah.” Just ignore that and keep installing.

Before you can install the third-party WiFi/Bluetooth driver on on the , you have to remove two repositories that come preinstalled that don’t have (aarch64) support and thus make the rpm-ostree install command fail.

You can’t do this using rpm-ostree (you’d win the game too quickly, where’s the fun in that, amirite?) so you have to edit the _copr_phracek_PyCharm.repo and rpmfusion-nonfree-steam.repo files to set enalbed = 0 in /etc/yum.repos.d/

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… then download ap6256-firmware-2020.02-5.fc37.aarch64.rpm from copr.fedorainfracloud.org/copr and run the rpm-ostree command to install it:

sudo rpm-ostree ./ap6256-firmware-2020.02-5.fc37.aarch64.rpm

(I couldn’t get remote install from a COPR repo to work.)

When done, reboot. And your WiFi and Bluetooth should be working. If WiFi isn’t working press Pine Key + F11 until it blinks only two (not three) times. Two blinks means WiFi is on. Restart the machine again. WiFi should work now.

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copr.fedorainfracloud.orgBuild 3813654 in aptupdate/pinebook-pro

I’m done with my on the experiment (see thread).

It mostly works (& well).

I don’t have audio from the speakers (layering pinebookpro-audio-2-1.fc37.aarch64.rpm via rpm-ostree didn’t help) but, most importantly, I don’t have HDMI out via USB-C so I can’t use the laptop to present at as I was planning to (to show Kitten* running on a $200 laptop).

Looks like it’s not just either: forum.manjaro.org/t/no-more-us

* codeberg.org/kitten/app

CC @PINE64

Manjaro Linux ForumNo more usb-c hdmi out since linux5.18is there a patch missing for usb-c/hdmi out since linux 5.18 1-4 for the pinebook pro? once i roll it back to 5.17 hdmi out works like charm

@aral This is awesome, extremely like this idea!

@aral Perhaps a custom image with everything you need right on it so there's no need to hit up 3rd party repos?

Do you have the steps you did somewhere? I can take a stab at it.

@jorge Thanks, I was thinking that might be an idea too. Will document it when I get a moment today :)

@aral try @librewolf much quicker than Firefox with more privacy from the start.

@Andyleaflinux @librewolf Yep, tried it and have it for testing but there was some reason I couldn’t make it my primary. Don’t remember what now. I periodically go back to check so I might just do that again this week :)

@minkiu Well, I guess they don’t want people standing in front of roomfuls of people with them – found a post from past me reporting the issue on the Pine forums three years ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(I don’t think I’ve ever seen HDMI out working from my PineBook Pro on any OS.)

@postmarketOS @PINE64

@aral reading this is giving me flashbacks to when I was trying to get Linux (Gentoo) running on an Intel Centrino laptop, back in 2002/3