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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.
Looks like this might help: https://github.com/bengtfredh/pinebook-pro-copr
Unfortunately, can’t install the third-party WiFi/Bluetooth driver to test due to this issue with rpm-ostree:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/third-party-repo-error/20037/10
But posting this from Fedora Silverblue through ethernet via a USB dongle.
It runs amazingly well on it (and I have it installed on the stock drive, not an NVMe.) Even Firefox is snappy.
Would be amazing to have Fedora Silverblue install and run without issue on the Pinebook Pro. Just think of the uses for education alone…
Before you can install the third-party WiFi/Bluetooth driver on #Fedora #Silverblue on the #PinebookPro, you have to remove two #rpm repositories that come preinstalled that don’t have #ARM (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 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/aptupdate/pinebook-pro/build/3813654/ 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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I’m done with my #FedoraSilverblue on the #PinebookPro 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 #OFFDEM as I was planning to (to show Kitten* running on a $200 laptop).
Looks like it’s not just #Fedora either: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/no-more-usb-c-hdmi-out-since-linux5-18/119798
* https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
CC @PINE64
@aral can confirm that the same happens with the latest @postmarketOS v22.12 (https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1778); tried with two different hubs, the USBs get detected (`dmesg`) all right, but the HDMI is nowhere to be seen. @PINE64
@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.)
@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