I did a video tutorial and demonstration showing the Steam, FEX Emulator, and Distrobox setup I documented on the postmarketOS wiki here:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Steam

I go through the setup process for the Ubuntu container, FEX emulator, Steam, and then install and test two games - Half Life 2: Lost Coast and Tomb Raider (2013) to demonstrate gaming performance on an ARM device (in this case a Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro with Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 chip).

I managed to get Steam installed on my OnePlus 6T and Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro, both running postmarketOS, using Distrobox to create an Ubuntu 24.04 container and then installing FEX-Emu inside of it. I wrote up a guide on the postmarketOS wiki on how to do it, some issues I ran into, some tips on how to get around those issues, and a list of games I've tested. Feel free to expand upon this list if you try it out. Older games such as Half Life 2 are quite playable, especially if your device supports keyboard and mouse input. I have not yet tested using a controller.

I'd like to install PMOS onto my Fairphone 5, because TWRP recently became available for it. However, the comments and post above this Reddit comment appear to demonstrate that the PMOS installer might overwrite all partitions (A and B, but also Recovery), if I've understood it correctly.

Has anyone used both together? If so, can you confirm whether it functions (as expected)?

This is slightly off-topic, but I've been looking for a device to run PostmarketOS and discovered that I had a Mi A1 in my drawer, which as I've discovered is pretty well supported.

Cool! Just one problem, it has a broken screen (not just the glass, but also the LCD).

I have an iFixit kit, but not a replacement screen and I'm looking for tips about where I could acquire one.

I'm looking for something that is high quality (not necessarily OEM, but close enough) and won't fail on me after some time. It should preferrably be easily shippable to Europe (Czechia).

Anyone have any knowledge of that sort?

If so please tell me the status of the development of the device so that we can share notes on how to get it fully running.

After researching why current consumer and embedded ARM (and, to a lesser extent, embedded RISC-V) devices are difficult to port to, the primary reason appears to be device discovery and driver support.

Obviously, extracting proprietary drivers from a potentially outdated AOSP-based OS version with a probably quite outdated kernel and getting that to run in mainline is a lot of work.

However, getting device trees shouldn't be, and really shouldn't be necessary, since they're not something that a manufacturer would hope close to their chest, unlike complex driver software.

Consequently, I would like to request to Fairphone – considering their mission statement – that they provide device trees and enumerable busses (if they don't) but would like to verify here that I wouldn't look like a moron asking for the wrong thing.

I hope this makes sense.

Anyone else having issues with Puremaps only working at random? Even with offline navigation it still tries to connect online and gives HTTP 400 errors. Further I noticed HERE maps is blank once you navigate.

Is there a way to completely uninstall phosh on pmos stable and then install plasma mobile or lomiri? I tried removing the phosh package and installing the plasma-mobile one but the phosh apps were still there and it didnt seem like everything for plasma-mobile was installed.

anyone managed to attach a monitor to a Poco F1 or Oneplus 6/6T?

> Having ascertained https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-to-capture-a-screenshot-in-plasma-mobile/15070/2?u=rokejulianlockhart, I'd like to be able to transfer screenshots off my Plasma Mobile device. > > 1. I try to access it via KDE Plasma 6's Disks & Devices plasmoid (widget): > > > !Screenshot_20240505_041647|460x450 > > 1. However, all I see is: > > > !Screenshot_20240505_041605|689x170 > > Weirdly, it's acting like https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486594#c0.

I ask because I'd like to upload screenshots to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1895116#c1, and ascertain whether it affects https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/webflash/-/issues/2#note_1892953259.

cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/2936546

> While our XMR.ID stagenet test is about to conclude, I've taken the time to polish and publish another piece from my Sxmo collection - a set of tools that should help simplify your everyday Monero use on desktop, terminal and mobile. > > It's called units and is intended to be used as your main calculator and friendly companion for quick XMR rate-conversions. > > Details: https://xmr.zone/sxmo-onfire/units/ > > Feel free to report any issues. > > --- > PS: The first piece of the collection is codes, a means of monitoring gift card spending and balances. It was published in September and announced on XMR.ID's Matrix. >

Hi folks! Yesterday, I joined the club and installed PostmarketOS+phosh on my "new" OnePlus6. Besides a usb-c (power only) cable that cost me an hour to troubleshoot, everything went smoothly.

Well, nearly everything. What I cant figure out at this point is how to install and get software. I'm on the latest stable release which might have been a mistake but I'm usually quite cautious at first.

So my problem is pmos came with 16 apps preinstalled and the software app only shows these when I open it. Can someone confirm or deny if this is normal? I asked around in 5 different places for stuff in the last 16 hrs (yes, I did sleep in between) and I know a lot of stuff now but this I could not figure out. :D

I know I can install flatpak, which I did but it never shows any results at all which I find unrealistic. I put in the repo like it is shown in the wiki and I have internet. Something else must be wrong.

I'm an admin by trade and I do some software development as a hobby so feel free to assume I know how to use the command line. I'm only a full time linux user for maybe half a year.

Anybody got ideas what might be wrong?

I tried to update my Pinephone CE using "sudo apk upgrade -a" and received the error

"Not continuing due to stale/unavailable repositories. Use --force-missing-repositories to continue"

I am on 23.12 with Phosh. I remember hearing that the Pinephone may be getting dropped from main to community so I wasn't sure if this was related to that or something different. Is it safe to use the command it suggests ? I figured I would ask before blindly doing it.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2029720

> I was thinking of getting one of these as a cheap replacement for my broken (and disappointing) Pinephone Pro. > > What's the experience like?

Edit 2/2/24: So, earlier today, I got the idea to use lvm. I've only used it once in a TUI install, so I had to learn how CLI tools today. I was pleased to see volume group and changes made to the logical volume persisted after a reboot.

While trying to learn how to configure the initramfs to boot pmOS from a logical volume, I discovered a gitlab thread from 2017 discussing using system and userdata as a logical volume: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/issues/60

So, I'm gonna continue investigating that. Still curious as to what's preventing the partition layout from being altered. Maybe I'll figure that out along the way.

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https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Motorola_Moto_G_2015_(motorola-osprey)

This phone only has 8GB of internal storage. I've attempted to remove the system and userdata partitions and create a larger unified partition in their place. I have no desire to ever run Android on it again, so I'm willing to risk bricking it. No matter what I do, those partitions are restored after a reboot.

I've tried directly doing so via parted in pmOS running from an SD.

On my PC, I've tried cloning the internal storage, making the partitions accessible via losetup and partprobe, editing them via parted, and piping the edited clone via dd using ssh in pmOS and adb in TWRP.

Afterward, I'd use partprope and run 'ls /dev/(block/)mmcblk0*', lsblk, and 'parted /dev/(block)/mmcblk0 p' to verify that the desired partitions are in place. Only in pmOS, though. TWRP gives a device busy error when using partprobe.

I've tried using using fastboot's delete-logical-partition option, but that failed with an error telling me to run 'fastboot oem help', which lists no commands to delete partitions. I realized today the aforementioned would apparently only work on devices using Android dynamic partitions.

In pmOS, I see no output in dmesg when editing partitions. I have no idea what to search for online and keep getting irrelevant or no results. Does anyone know what is occurring here or what I should be looking out for?

I would like to incentivize timely (1-2 months max.) implementation of pmOS camera-support for SDM845 devices by offering a bounty of 6 XMR (Monero, the digital cash). The intent to win the bounty has to be discussed here beforehand.

If supporting the entire list of devices implies significantly more effort than a subset, the minimum should be OnePlus and Shift. Details from comment:

> When one opens a camera application (like millipixels), the screen should show what the camera points at and capturing color photo and video of that content should be possible. It should run in a stable manner (meaning no anticipated crashes) and the required changes should be accepted into the postmarketOS edge branch.

If bounties happen to be against the ethos of the project, let me know.

On the contrary, I hereby invite others to chip in.

Comment if interested.