[ARM Stable Update] 2020-12-16 - Plasma 5.20.4, Xorg Server, Mobile and Kernels

[Strit]

The default kernel provided by Raspberry Pi is the 5.4 branch.
You can install linux-rpi4-mainline to get 5.9 or linux-rpi4-rc to get 5.10-rc7.

[TechXero]

Sorry am new to this but what’s the command if I may ask?

[Strit]

If you are new, you have no reason to want to switch the most critical piece of the system.

I would recommend you stay on 5.4, since it’s a Long Time Support release.
It will get updated to 5.10 eventually, when Raspberry Pi foundation updates their default kernel branch to the new LTS.

[TechXero]

I am testing. I wanna try few things out. Please let me know command if you don’t mind. Thanks

[Darksky]

sudo pacman -S linux-rpi4-mainline
or
sudo pacman -S linux-rpi4-rc

To get back to the default kernel:

sudo pacman -S linux-rpi4

[TechXero]

Much appreciated my friend

[lUshOUtHERif]

Yes that’s right.

[historical-theology]

Problem: No longer receiving text messages (SMS). (Sending works fine.)

Carrier: T-Mobile
Country: USA

Installation: Default Pinephone Manjaro Community Edition, fully up-to-date (normally, I update by ‘sudo pacman -Syyu’ with SSH)

The problem started only in the past few days.

Thoughts, anyone? I do not see anything in the ‘known problems’ so far in this thread.

[historical-theology]

EDIT: This does not have anything to do with the Manjaro update. It is a known problem with the PinePhone handling modems. I have updated the relevant section of the PinePhone FAQ with exact directions for the PinePhone Manjaro CE, which differ slightly from that of the PinePhone with Mobian.

[spikerguy]

I think you’re right.

I just read something about calls not working on some network provider and there seem to be a temporary fix.

Check this Plasma mobile release post for the fix.

Manjaro ARM Plasma-Mobile Beta1 (PinePhone)

The Manjaro ARM project is proud to announce the first BETA release of Plasma-Mobile for the PinePhone! [PlaMoBeta1 (3)] This image uses kernel 5.10.1 optimized for the Pinephone (megi) A ton of work has gone into plasma-mobile development since our last alpha builds with this desktop. See the details here. From a packaging standpoint we have gone to great lengths to make available latest versions of plasma-mobile- and mauikit-apps by adding a dedicated [mobile] overlay repo providing fixed…

[historical-theology]

Thank you for the tip. This is actually a different problem, but it is very good to know about the post regarding fixing different modem problems with Manjaro…

For the problem with regard to being able to send SMS messages but not receive them, which is not Manjaro’s problem but, rather, seems to have something to do with ModemManager, see PinePhone FAQ 2.7.1.

Short version:

sudo mmcli -m 3 --messaging-list-sms

Then delete each listed message by number, e.g.:

$ sudo mmcli -m 3 --messaging-delete-sms=77 

Repeat with all listed messages.

[pato]

@kirfkin

Now, I still haven’t tried charging via USB-C with it off since this update. I’ll do that tonight and report. Could at least save some folks some headache.

Hey, did you try charging the Pinebook Pro while turned off? Does it work?