postmarketOS

Are there any plans to support RISC-V devices in PMOS ?

Hi folks!

I discovered PostmarketOS last week and i tried to install it with sway desktop in my Lenovo Ideapad Duet (Kukui). However, my keyboard has a spanish layout. I've searched into the wiki and internet but i haven't found much info about how to set it (or i'm too newbie to know what i'm looking for xD).

Things i tried:

• The sway input command. It works, but resets on reboot.
• Creating a sway config file and define xkb_layout into it. It works, but i have a black screen at reboot (i suspect that's a crash?), i don't plan to install more desktops or any other right now.
• Doing something with cros-keyboard-map and keyd config files? idk, i know about this via ChatGPT 😅. It doesn't works.

Is there any way to change the keymap to 'es' permanently?

Notes:

• I'm new to Alpine Linux, but i'm currently using PopOS and Arch in other devices so i'm a bit used to Linux
• I'm conciuos that changing keymap probably will make me reconfigure cros-keyboard-map and keyd, but i'm from spain and i prefer to use my native layout.

Thanks in advance!

Spoiler: very positive coverage overall

Sorry for the blatant n00b question. I searched online, the FAQ etc. and didn't see what to me is an obvious question. Supporting old devices is great. In the PC world we have general linux, but on Android and some other consumer devices, solutions have been limited. There are Android forks(?) or implementations like LineageOS that run great. I've used non-Google Android since 2018.

So what is the motivation for yet another OS solution? There must be a reason for this project to go on and have so much enthusiasm.

We think computers should act in the interest of their users. For example, they should not participate in the privacy nightmare of targeted advertising, as it is directly built into the operating systems from Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, as well as the apps and services recommended by them.

This is kinda FUD, right? Google-Android has a lot of privacy invasion. But there are all kinds of Android versions that are de-Googled.

My best guess right now is that it is attempting to provide a "full featured" distro for devices that run phone and tablet OSs now. So if you want a server or full coding environment on a phone, pmOS may be better suited for that than an Android "fork".

How can I fix this issue? Installed debootstrap via apk.

$ sudo debootstrap --variant=buildd noble chroot-ubuntu
I: Keyring file not available at /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg; switching to https mirror https://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports

How does the /usr/share/mime/types list get populated?

--
x-scheme-handler/tel
x-scheme-handler/sms
x-scheme-handler/mms
are not present in it so setting phone/sms defaults via gui isnt possible until they are added.

I was looking at adding the recommended video acceleration to my pinebook pro.

Am I understanding right that this isn't deemed needed anymore from the amendment?

I'm considering using PostmarketOS on a tablet for a project. I need kernel greater than x.y.z (so far I know >3.0.1 works, <2.6.32 does not). However it's kinda difficult to find it on the wiki. Some devices specify kernel version (android a.b.c, kernel e.f.g), some only the android version (android a.b.c) and some neither.

I found that android version should correspond to a kernel version (https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/51651/which-android-runs-which-linux-kernel). But how do I check (in the least time consuming way) the kernel version of the devices that don't mention anything?

Thanks.

edit: I think I was looking for this answer: https://postmarketos.org/source-code/#linux-kernel

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26155079

My phone's power button doesn't work well.

Is there a way to turn on the screen backlight using a terminal command or some library (I'll be using ssh)?

I'm on pmOS 24.12 with Phosh, Wayland

I plugged in a blank EMMC to my system via the Pine64 EMMC-USB adapter. I ran pmbootstrap and got to the step where I typed

"pmbootstrap install --disk=/dev/sdb --fde".

The error I got was

"ERROR: Command failed (exit code 4): (native) % cryptsetup luksFormat -q --cipher aes-xts-plain64 --iter-time 200 --use-random /dev/installp2"

Any ideas ? I'm using version 3.1 of pmbootstrap and am on an Artix system. Some other info:

Channel: v24.12 (pmaports: v24.12) Device: pine64-rockpro64 (aarch64) UI: mate systemd: no (not supported by pmaports branch)

I also attached a screenshot.

geteilt von: https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/1087310

Finally! After weeks of work, I have successfully booted postmarketOS on both of those devices. This should hopefully make the adoption of both, RISC-V and PostmarketOS easier.