[fedora-arm] Re: Questions to Fedora on Pinebook Pro

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 3:17 PM Andreas Reschke <arm_ml@rirasoft.de> wrote:
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> Am 14.12.21 um 19:14 schrieb Peter Robinson:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> I'm working very often with my Pinebook Pro. Due the work I've a few question:
> >>
> >> - USB-C port on the left, display output for external monitor didn't work
> >> Is there a need to update firmware to flash ? Size of files are changed
> > It's not related to the firmware, it's not supported in the upstream
> > kernel. It comes down to how the HW implements the various "Alt"
> > options for USB-C and there needs to be work done on the rockchip
> > "USB-C multiplexer" driver that switches the functionality. When it
> > lands upstream it'll just work but I'm not aware of anyone actually
> > doing to work to get that upstream. There's been a bunch of hacks but
> > nothing that's maintainable upstream.
> >
> >> - Wayland
> >>
> >> Content of window ist missing, windows has to resize to show content, older X11 works fine.
> > What desktop or compositor? Need more details.
> >
> >> - internal Speaker didn't work, not important for me as I'm using a Bluetooth speaker
> > There's work needed on the Alsa UCM2 profiles here, there has been
> > some upstream work that has landed in Fedora but it didn't work for me
> > either, I've not had time to further investigate/debug this and the
> > documentation on how the alsa UCM profile stuff works is poor to say
> > the least and I'm not had time to dig deeper. Assistance is welcome
> > here.
> >
> >> All tested with up2date Fedora 35
> >>
> >> Greetings
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
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> Thank you Peter for the explanation regarding USB-C.
>
> Regarding Probs with Wayland: I'm using KDE on my Pinebook Pro. With
> Wayland only the border of Firefox , Thunderbird and other non KDE
> Software appears. I have to downsize / upsize the window often to get
> normal behavior. KDE Software seems to work fine.

Are you using the X11 or Wayland variant of firefox (rpm -qa
firefox\*) and maybe install both and try them to see if there's one
that's better than the other and report a bug against it.

P
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