04-26-2019, 01:15 PM
Hello. I have a rockpro64 using eemc, wifi/bt (pine), PCIE-SATA (pine), NAS box, it’s nice hardware.
Back in November I tried ayufan’s 0.7.11 images, including with a mate desktop. The desktop worked (without wifi etc). PCIE-SATA worked via a ssh terminal, but crashed -everything froze -as soon as I tried to log into the desktop.
I wanted to setup lots of stuff on a general multi-functional system - both desktop and home-NAS, so I waited.
A couple weeks ago I tried MrFixit’s new desktop image, and most things worked, including mounting the SATA from within the desktop, but I still had some issues including wifi/bt not connecting.
So I came back to try ayufan’s latest 0.8.0rc10 (armhf) desktop-mate image. Now wifi just works - first time out of many images tried. Most other desktop software worked although still some issues with sound, and the system seems unstable - crashes during various activities after some minutes. However, most importantly to me, I could no longer mount the SATA from the desktop - the partitions show up in file manager or using ls -dev/disk/by-label , but lspci or any mount operation crashed everything.
So I tried ayufan’s 0.8.0rc10 (arm64) bionic-minimal. With this I can mount my SATA drive OK.
Onto this base I installed ubuntu-mate-desktop using tasksel. I got a login-loop problem, which couldn’t solve, but got around that using sudo startx from tty3. This time, my SATA partitions work, from within the desktop - e.g. I can view photos stored there. Wifi still works. Libreoffice works. QGIS works. I can’t test browsers due to a user mismatch - it seems x display is root (as I used sudo startx?) but home is rock64. Note this is an arm64 build (not armhf as you recommend), but it’s progress for me. When I tried instead installing mate onto minimal with arm64 using ayufan’s script, I couldn’t get X to start.
In general, I saw each feature of this rockpro64 working nicely, but still never all together from one image, it’s a pity.
Back in November I tried ayufan’s 0.7.11 images, including with a mate desktop. The desktop worked (without wifi etc). PCIE-SATA worked via a ssh terminal, but crashed -everything froze -as soon as I tried to log into the desktop.
I wanted to setup lots of stuff on a general multi-functional system - both desktop and home-NAS, so I waited.
A couple weeks ago I tried MrFixit’s new desktop image, and most things worked, including mounting the SATA from within the desktop, but I still had some issues including wifi/bt not connecting.
So I came back to try ayufan’s latest 0.8.0rc10 (armhf) desktop-mate image. Now wifi just works - first time out of many images tried. Most other desktop software worked although still some issues with sound, and the system seems unstable - crashes during various activities after some minutes. However, most importantly to me, I could no longer mount the SATA from the desktop - the partitions show up in file manager or using ls -dev/disk/by-label , but lspci or any mount operation crashed everything.
So I tried ayufan’s 0.8.0rc10 (arm64) bionic-minimal. With this I can mount my SATA drive OK.
Onto this base I installed ubuntu-mate-desktop using tasksel. I got a login-loop problem, which couldn’t solve, but got around that using sudo startx from tty3. This time, my SATA partitions work, from within the desktop - e.g. I can view photos stored there. Wifi still works. Libreoffice works. QGIS works. I can’t test browsers due to a user mismatch - it seems x display is root (as I used sudo startx?) but home is rock64. Note this is an arm64 build (not armhf as you recommend), but it’s progress for me. When I tried instead installing mate onto minimal with arm64 using ayufan’s script, I couldn’t get X to start.
In general, I saw each feature of this rockpro64 working nicely, but still never all together from one image, it’s a pity.
