Mobian on Librem 5

I have been using a headphone as a work around for the echo problem and it seems to work.

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How is your mobian repo looking like? My mobian repo got diactived recently not sure how and there’s no sources.list file anymore, instPreformatted textead there’s a “debian repo” under sources.list.d that I find a debian trixie line. I will ssh inside later and post my repo.

mobian@mobian:~$ cd /etc/apt
mobian@mobian:/etc/apt$ ls
apt.conf.d   keyrings       sources.list.bak  trusted.gpg.d
auth.conf.d  preferences.d  sources.list.d
mobian@mobian:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ ls
debian.sources  mobian.list.dpkg-old
mobian@mobian:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ cat debian.sources
# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie
Components: main
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
$ cat mobian.list.dpkg-old
deb http://repo.mobian.org/ trixie main non-free-firmware

I remember running some apt modernize commands as suggested, then it changed to current situation.

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We have now setup a bounty to fix echo cancellation for calls on Mobian Trixie (eventually on PureOS Dawn when it will switch from pulseaudio to pipewire).

Please support and spread the word. We hope a reasonably good bounty can motivate some people to fix the issue.

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Tried to contribute unfortunately the credit card country selection dropdown doesnt have a scrollbar and there is no way to enter say USA and it moving to the country record. Just FYI

Issue on mobile device with firefox phosh OSK, scaling screen did not help also i have always show scrollbars enabled. Scrolling using OSK does not move list down beyond what is initially visible in the drop down window.

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Turn off VPN in order to get it to default correctly? That’s not solving the GUI problem of course.

I didn’t contribute but country selection worked fine using Firefox on Linux desktop.

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And I’m happy to report that I managed to fix echo issue by switching back to pulseaudio as suggested by @dos (who did this already for crimson) This involved 3 steps,

  1. Allow pulseaudio as an alternate dependency to pipewire-audio in mobian-base
  2. Install pulseaudio and remove pipewire-pulse
  3. Disable default wireplumber service and enable wireplumer@video-only service instead

Due to a mistake in copying the systemd user presets, I had to spend a lot of time troubleshooting it as all my audio devices just vanished due to conflict between pipewire and pulseaudio. So audio was fully broken in the process for many hours.

For those who want to try, can install mobian-base, librem5-support and librem5-tweaks packages from Index of /~praveen/mobian I have sent merge requests to all three packages and hope this would be included in trixie by default.

I’m really liking the new upgrade, it looks a lot nicer, I have the latest phosh, gnome and data connection is a lot more stable than bookworm. The recently released kumo browser works on trixie (it was not working on bookworm - I was generally looking for not from mozilla foundation browsers - librewolf and other forks are not yet adaptive).

The only irritation I found is chatty service seems to unresponsive after some time and a reboot needs long press of the power button.

So overall now I can recommend people try mobain trixie now!

Though we would still like to fix this with pipewire going forward, so please contribute to the bounty if you can.

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Did you try a different browser ? If you were using Firefox, try gnome web. You can also report the issue to GitHub · Where software is built

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Hi! Could you check is clapper work or not?

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Both clapper and livi crashed. vlc can play videos. FreeTube can play youtube videos.

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Does it look like this bug?

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Yes, exactly the same error.

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Clapper now works, more details discussed in Vivante GPU and OpenGL 3 / Vulkan - #22 by praveen.arimbrathodi

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So the only irritation I have is with FreeTube app [Bug]: many ui elements are invisible on librem 5 · Issue #7311 · FreeTubeApp/FreeTube · GitHub Everything else seems to work very nicely.

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This one has been a problem on Byzantium for a long time.

There is also this one: [Bug]: Missing icons · Issue #5919 · FreeTubeApp/FreeTube · GitHub

I recently tried the nightly build of FreeTube by installing the .deb directly and it did not fix the issue for me, at least.

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Output:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main
deb http://security.debian.org/ bookworm-security main
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I have the Librem 5 on Mobian Trixie as a backup phone, and recently needed to use it. I was frustrated to find out that within the past few weeks, I suppose some update made it so callers can no longer hear me, though my mic seems to work fine in settings, and audio recording applications. I suppose it has to do with the work being done around this type of stuff.

An issue I didn’t seem to have before on Byzantanium (but maybe my memory doesn’t serve me well), is sometimes from suspend, it does not detect a Bluetooth adapter, but does for the Wi-Fi.

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So you’re on bookworm yet, on trixie everything was changed. There was the suggestion to “modernize” apt and I did so.

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There is no such suggestion in this topic by anyone.

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It’s something like this:
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=161756
I can’t find official info on debian wiki.

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[Your phone] simply struggles to render

A.k.a. Works On My Machine → ticket closed :roll_eyes:

I’ve been using FreeTube for a long time, and the problem appeared one day after an upgrade of FreeTube. So maybe someone patient enough might find the exact release which caused the regression.