I just bought a rockpro64 board to build myself a little NAS (for fun and education purposes). However, I've noticed that when the rockpro64 is plugged in and running, it makes a buzzing sound. Not too loud, but audible if I put my ear near the board; makes me concerned about a faulty capacitor. Is this normal? Does anyone else hear this?

I've tested this without any components plugged in (except an emmc module). I'm using the 30mm tall profile heatsink, and the stock sockpro64 12V 5A US power supply.

Just want to make sure I'm not going to have a problem with the board soon (or fire hazard)! Let me know if anyone has experienced this or if I should try to send it in for replacement.

Thanks!

I've been running my rock64 for some time and this morning I did a routine update which partially failed...

Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic-security InRelease                               
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ayufan/rock64-ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease                           
Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic-updates InRelease                                                              
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ayufan/all-ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                                            
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/certbot/certbot/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                         
Ign:7 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge InRelease                                                           
Get:8 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  InRelease [1343 B]                                                     
Hit:9 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release                                           
Fetched 1343 B in 3s (492 B/s)                                                   
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: export: �USYBOXDIR: bad variable name
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524 with 2.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Advice on how to fix this would be welcome

What is the chance to see in the future, a pinereader ? A reader like kindle or kobo ?
Theses screens are perfect for our eyes, to read books and theses devices have very long battery life.
Would love to see such devices in pine store 

Hi everybody

I have problem with RockPro init in maskrom mode.
Whe I try to set MASKMODE - my Linux machine connected to OTG port observe new USB device but cannot initialize it. The messages are:

Aug 31 19:37:27 asx-comp kernel: [30550.996297] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 84 using xhci_hcd
Aug 31 19:37:27 asx-comp kernel: [30551.596303] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 85 using xhci_hcd
Aug 31 19:37:28 asx-comp kernel: [30552.068453] usb usb1-port2: attempt power cycle
Aug 31 19:37:28 asx-comp kernel: [30552.720388] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 86 using xhci_hcd
Aug 31 19:37:28 asx-comp kernel: [30552.720605] usb 1-2: Device not responding to setup address.
Aug 31 19:37:29 asx-comp kernel: [30552.928404] usb 1-2: Device not responding to setup address.
Aug 31 19:37:29 asx-comp kernel: [30553.264219] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 87 using xhci_hcd
Aug 31 19:37:29 asx-comp kernel: [30553.264411] usb 1-2: Device not responding to setup address.
Aug 31 19:37:29 asx-comp kernel: [30553.472295] usb 1-2: Device not responding to setup address.


I have got working USB device before but only one time. Yesterday I had the same situation - one time valid init and after reboot errors as above.
After night with dsiabled power first try todey - success but later it fails.

My bord is RockPro64 V2.1 2018-07-02 4GB
Linux - Debian 10 amd64

Does anybody have an idea what can be wrong?

Nutilius

When I attempt to process a video stream from an OTA signal that I know is valid using gstreamer, gstreamer will just sit in an idle state. I can verify that the signal is getting captured from on the board because if I use the azap tool I can see the data.

I tried to use ayufan's ubuntu build originally but because I was getting some gstreamer errors it was suggested that I build gstreamer from source, which I did.

To do this I switched to a fresh load of armbian buster minimal 4.4 kernel linked here: https://dl.armbian.com/rock64/Debian_buster_default.7z

After that I put together this script to build gstreamer from source: https://gist.github.com/grkblood13/6dd93...e11bf687bd

After building, when I run gstreamer to capture the tuner output I get the following results:

I've recently installed NixOS on my RockPro64, and since I've got the panfrost driver working, I thought I'd create a bootable image so that people can give it a try with minimal effort. Simply download and extract the image here and write it to an sd-card or eMMC using your favourite disk image writing tool (The image is 4.7GB, so you'll probably need an 8GB or larger SD card/eMMC). It should boot and automatically log into the KDE plasma desktop. (user is called rockpro64, password rockpro64). It uses the 5.3 ayufan-rock64/linux-mainline-kernel. It takes a minute or two to boot, so you may wish to follow its progress via the UART if you can.

This image can be used as an installer: simply follow the instructions in the NixOS wiki to create /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and run nixos-rebuild. If you'd prefer to build your own image, RockPro64-specific information can be found here.


Note: Normally, NixOS fetches most packages from a binary cache. However, since this image uses a different version of mesa, anything which depends on mesa (basically any graphical application) will be built from source.

Hello,

luckily I got a coupon code after asking for it (btw excellent support from pinebook@pine64.org) and could order a Pinebook Pro.

I only received a confirmation from Paypal for the payment with an order code.
Is there no order confirmation sent to the customer by pine64?
What are your experiences?

Greeting Adrian

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New OS images from @ayufan including:

*Debian Minimal
*Ubuntu 18.04 minimal
*Ubuntu 18.04 LXDE
*Ubuntu 18.04 Container (Docker CE)
*Debian Stretch Minimal
*Debian Open Media Vault

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