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Pinenote notes and patches

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mw_pinenote_misc's Introduction

Misc Pinenote thingies

So I got a Pinenote and started to work on getting Debian to run on this nice little piece of hardware.

This repository contains various documents and patches that I hope prove useful to others also playing around with their Pinenote.

Videos

A few videos can be found in videos

Kernel Patches

I added a few small quality-of-live features to the eink display controller driver developed by smaeul (https://github.com/smaeul/linux/tree/rk35/pinenote-next).

These changes can be found here: https://github.com/m-weigand/linux. Refer to the Readme in the description branch for explanation of the branches, but if you are looking for a kernel to use with the pinenote, I suggest to use this branch here: https://github.com/m-weigand/linux/tree/mw/rk35/pinenote-next-t1.

My kernel configuration and patch level can be reproduced using this script: custom_kernel/clone_and_prepare_git.sh. This includes my ebc modifications, usb support and touch screen support.

Gnome extension

A hacky GNOME extension that exposes some of the ebc parameters can be found in the gnome_extension subdirecty.

Reading and modifying waveform files using Python

Reading, modifying and writing waveform files is useful to optimize the existing waveforms or generate new ones.

A rudimentary Python interface for reading/writing these waveform files can be found in waveforms.

As a working (and useful) example, the A2 waveform was shortened to 5 phases and white->white and black->black transitions were added.

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mw_pinenote_misc's Issues

gnome extension: bug on archlinux arm when locking screen/suspend

Hi,

Using your debian rootfs kernel and dtb files but with archlinux arm userland - per Dorian tutorial - and Gnome 43, when suspending or locking screen, the gnome extension menu is reduced to "rotate screen", and Gnome's extension manager reports an error. Not sure if this behavior is identical on debian bookworm, but a simple fix in my case was, in the file extension.js, function disable() lines, to modify it like this:

    disable() {
        log(`disabling ${Me.metadata.name}`);

        this._m_warm_backlight_slider.destroy();
        this._m_warm_backlight_slider = null;
        this._indicator.destroy();
        this._indicator = null;
    }

Thus destroying sliders before destroying the indicator, which seems to correct the problem encountered in my case,

Please excuse my bad english, and excuse me if I break any rule. feel free to delete this post if it is the case.

By the way, thanks a lot for the work you and the pinenote community put in making this awesome little piece of hardware working nicely with GNU/Linux, which I'm typing this issue from.

Best regards,

Need any help rebasing and potentially squashing the kernel

Looks like the kernel is at 5.17 + patches.

Since 5.17, VOP2 and rk817 charger got merged. Along with a basic PineNote DTS and various other small fixes.

Any plans to rebase? Anyway I can help even if I do not have a PineNote?

Upstream mutter patch

Hi,

thanks for the patch. I've rebased it and submitted the MR

Upstream mesa patch

Hi,

thanks for the patch. I've rebased it and submitted the MR

Add warm brightness slider

Allow for default values

Copied from PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image#17

Hi Maximilian,

My preferred driver settings are:

rockchip_ebc.bw_mode=1 rockchip_ebc.default_waveform=1 rockchip_ebc.refresh_threshold=30 rockchip_ebc.auto_refresh=1
I tried setting those in extlinux.conf, but the bw_mode at least is overwritten by the gnome helper here.

It seems like in other places we read the file first with _get_content (in _add_auto_refresh_button for example) -- I will try doing something similar for changing bw mode (and will try to clean up the spacing as well).

Let me know if you disagree with this approach. I am planning on issuing a pull request for this, but if someone beats me to it, no problamo :)

Versioning

Hi @m-weigand,

could I ask you to provide versioning. I've created a package for the gnome-shell eink extension for PostmarketOS.

https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/4142/commits