Hi Vagrant,
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:49:34PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>
> The pinebook is pretty much my primary machine (using it right now to
> type this), and X is working fine here...
Cool!
> It's not fancy accelerated
> graphics, but it does work. I mostly have been using newer kernels from
> buster-backports/sid/experimental, but the buster generation of kernels
> worked fine for me last I tried.
I think its just my problem. I once had this fancy installer
pine64-installer-2.0.0-beta.2-linux-x64.AppImage
and installed some
cdn.pine64.uk_q4os-pinebook-1806.zip
first on the miniSD card and than flashed emmc with this. I after this
I replaced all apt sources by deb.debian.org upgraded and ist worked with
stretch for some time. I *never* fiddled around with the kernel. Now
I simply did what I ever do to upgrade from one Debian release to the
other - just adapt sources.list and upgrade.
Unfortunately this left me with
$ uname -a
Linux pinebook 3.10.105-bsp-1.2-ayufan-118 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 15
21:40:57 UTC 2017 aarch64 GNU/Linux
I think I should change this in any case.
> Maybe you have some customization in /etc/X11/xorg.conf* that's telling
> it to use fbturbo instead of fbdev?
After renaming /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-pine64-fbturbo.conf to
40-pine64-fbturbo.conf.disabled X is running again. :-)
> What version of u-boot are you running?
I have no u-boot running. Which package would you advise?
Is there any doc how to run with a plain Debian kernel? I'd love
to get rid of that old kernel and have a pretty clean and up to
date Debian system.
> Again, it's been a while since I
> tested the version in buster,
Well, I'm running testing on my work-horse laptop. But the pinebook
would be dedicated to some videoconferencing or videoplaying for the
kids. I also would run some pbuilder based builds in case of arm64
build issues. I do not want to upgrade frequently since the box should
be low maintenance. Thus I assumed stable would be a sensible choice
(except if you tell me that more up to date software makes perfectly
sense).
> but I've been using all the versions
> uploaded since. Mainline (and Debian packaged) u-boot properly
> configures the framebuffer for quite some releases...
I'd love if you would guide me patiently to some more up to date
clean Debian system. ;-)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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