As you may know, the Pinebook classic version, 14″, does not have the best keyboard and trackpad in the world. Especially, the space key. That’s why I regularly use external mouse and keyboard instead, except when I’m on the move. In one of the Pinebook post, here, I explained that I didn’t have an external keyboard […]
Category: Pinebook
A category for Pinebook related articles.
How to fix Pinebook not booting from eMMC when SD Card is inserted. I finally dodged the bullet and installed the latest version of Armbian with kernel 5.4.2 on my Pinebook eMMC card. Of course, I made this decision after I managed to fix the external WiFi issue that I explained before, here. Everything went […]
A couple of months ago, I have written an article, here, on how to install TP-Link AC600 Archer T2U driver on Pinebook. In that article, I explained the process of Armbian distribution for the legacy kernel (3.10.X). In this article, however, I explain how to install MT7610U on Pinebook Armbian with the newer kernel (> […]
Manjaro 19.08 Xfce Pinebook review
As I have stated many times, I have a 14-inch Pinebook which I play around with it once in a while. This time I have decided to give a shot to Manjaro 19.08 Xfce which released mid of the last month. And see how it works. I have installed it on SD Card and tried […]
Part of my tinkering with my Pinebook is to play around with framebuffer. The reason is I can manipulate the display directly without going through X11. This is less resource intensive and especially useful for ARM powered devices. In this article, I show you how to draw an image in Pinebook framebuffer with Pygame library […]
I have a 14-inch Pinebook which once in a while I use for some tinkering. One of its issues is the WiFi card. It works fine under some networks and doesn’t under others. Sadly, the issue persists in newer kernels, even kernel 5. And sometimes it is worse. The router I have does not work […]