libera/#devuan-arm/ Monday, 2022-02-21

WoCanyone got a link to an image for pinebook pro ?05:19
gnarfacei don't think there are any official ones yet05:20
gnarfaceif it's not up at arm-files.devuan.org you'll probably have to make your own05:20
gnarfaceit's probably not too hard05:22
gnarfacewas support mainlined in u-boot yet?05:22
WoCidk, i have tow-boot on spi05:23
gnarfacei did it for a regular pinebook so i can help with general stuff but not specifics05:23
WoClooks like i have to install debian first and upgrade to devuan05:23
gnarfacethat would work, or you could just rob the kernel, kernel modules, and boot sector from any other debian derivative there's an image for and put it with a debootstrapped devuan rootfs05:24
gnarfaceif there's an ubuntu one that might be a good choice05:24
gnarfacethen if you wanted it would be easy to rebuild the kernel from the source package05:25
WoCi don have that neither (rootfs)05:26
gnarfaceyou can get it easy with debootstrap05:26
gnarfacethough from debian you might still need to install the devuan-patched debootstrap05:26
gnarfaceif you need to do it on something that's not ARM64 you just need some qemu stuff -  i can help with that05:27
WoCk, ty05:28
gnarfaceactually if you have a devuan amd64 system already it is pretty easy05:30
gnarfacei'll paste that section of my notes to see if you can make sense of it05:30
gnarfacehere, WoC: https://paste.debian.net/1231691/05:30
gnarfacedon't just blindly copy&paste that, read the comments and ask any questions you have05:31
gnarfaceyou can *almost* just swap the rootfs with the results of this debootstrap command, but you still will have to set up some obvious things manually05:32
gnarfacenamely you'll have to actually copy the kernel and modules into it and fix up the fstab and the kernel command-line05:33
gnarface... and the hosts file05:33
gnarfacenetworking... probably some other stuff i'm forgetting too, but just the little obvious stuff05:33
gnarface(you don't need to chroot into it to fix any of that stuff, but it's an opportunity to do some preparatory installations on faster hardware)05:34
gnarfacei'm stepping away shortly but i'll be back later05:35
gnarfaceif you're doing filesystems by UUID don't forget they change when you format or resize05:37
gnarfaceif you're doing them by /dev/ node, don't forget they may not be in the same order booting as when mounted over usb... at least with the non-pro ones i think05:38
gnarfacesomething to watch out for anyway05:39
WoCThanks, usually by UUID or PARTUUID05:41
WoCWeee, worked11:06
WoCHow do you switch keyboard layout in devuan, from GB to US ?11:07
rrq"setxkbmap us"11:08
WoCand if anyone has a GB keyboard... where is the pipe ?11:08
WoCThanks rrq :) how to i set it permanently ?11:09
rrqnot sure11:13
WoCAppreciated though11:13
rrqthere is an  /etc/default/keyboard with XKBLAYOUT11:20
rrqah; a "man keyboard" page :)11:20
rrqthough looks like that "subsystem" has had a fair number of helpers over the years11:22
rrqmine is "us" .. then I have a tweak around my suspend locking to make sure it's "us" while i type my password, then restore to whatever it was before locking11:25
gnarfaceno no11:26
gnarfaceyou use dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration11:26
gnarfaceif you want to do it the "debianized" way11:26
gnarfaceWoC: ^11:26
gnarfaceif you start screwing with it by hand you might break the distro tools11:27
gnarfacethough it's probably hard to mess up too much11:27
gnarfaceglad to hear you got it working though11:27
gnarfaceon a new install you usually want to do:11:28
gnarfacedpkg-reconfigure locales11:28
gnarfacedpkg-reconfigure tzdata11:29
gnarfacethese two too^11:29
gnarface(though note they may not be installed by default)11:30
WoCoh11:34
WoCThanks :)11:38
WoCnow the tricky part.... upgrading the kernel...11:38
WoCLinux Cursed 5.10.63-rockchip64 #21.08.2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 8 10:57:23 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux11:38
WoChmmm, custom kernel it is then...11:44
WoCnvme speeds are horrible in this kernel11:55
WoCto convert from the boot.scr, all i have to do is remove /boot/boot.* and create my own /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf right ?12:46
WoChmmm, sound too, to-do...12:53
gnarfacethe extlinux.conf thing worked for me on a pine64+ board, in theory it should work for a pinebook pro but i can't be sure13:00
gnarfacethe pine64+ 1GB13:02
gnarfacei think13:02
gnarfacestill using boot.scr for my regular pinebooks13:03
WoCok, my manjaro install is using extlinux.conf and it enables me to setup the same kernel but with different options13:18

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