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@anarsoul anarsoul released this 25 Dec 23:04
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20171225
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New Archlinux release, this time with mainline kernel and Xfce4 installed.

Login/password: alarm/alarm, root/root

Crossed out issues are fixed in new kernel -- run 'sudo pacman -Syu' to update kernel

Known issues:

  1. WiFi driver on Pinebook uses random address. Please assign some address using following workaround, run following commands in bash console as root:
# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.40.229  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.40.255
        inet6 fd93:780:a272:0:6267:20ff:fe4f:abe6  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 fe80::6267:20ff:fe4f:abe6  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 02:81:c1:55:17:0a txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 1106670  bytes 123096708 (117.3 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1886151  bytes 2784407853 (2.5 GiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

# // pick address from ether and change first octet to 00, i.e. 02:81:c1:55:17:0a becomes 00:81:c1:55:17:0a
# echo 'options 8723cs rtw_initmac=00:81:c1:55:17:0a' >/etc/modprobe.d/8723cs.conf

And then reboot.

  1. choose 'desktop: xfce session' on first login, it won't login with 'default'
  2. Brightness settings are inverted on pinebook. Will be fixed in next releases.
  3. Audiocard number may change across reboots. Select necessary audio device (HDMI or analog) using pavucontrol
  4. Speakers and HDMI on Pinebook do not work on this release. Will be fixed in next releases.

Use 'alsamixer -Dhw:0' to control speaker volume, control name is 'Line out'

  1. Reported battery level isn't accurate. Will be fixed in next releases
  2. Suspend doesn't work. That's upstream kernel limitation since it doesn't use ARISC core. Won't be fixed until upstream kernel devs fix it.
  3. WiFi applet doesn't ask for password and fails to connect to network. Go to Applications/Settings/Network Connections, edit your network (press 'gear' button), go to WiFi Security tab and enter your password there.
  4. Cursor is flickering. Go to Applications/Settings/Window Manager Tweaks, switch to 'Compositor' tab and disable display compositing here (uncheck 'Enable display compositing')
  5. No audio capture (i.e. mic doesn't work). Will be fixed in next releases.
  6. No HDMI audio on Pine64. Will be fixed in next releases
  7. Root partition is not resized on first boot. Will be fixed in next releases. As a workaround, download this script and run it as root on your device: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anarsoul/linux-build/mainline/package/root/usr/local/sbin/resize_rootfs.sh
  8. Looks like audio on pinebook interferes with serial and may trigger sysrq. Disable sysrq by default by doing following from root console:
# echo 'kernel.sysrq = 0' >/etc/sysctl.d/sysrq.conf
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