RK3399 is 2xA72 + 4xA53. Can I use all six cores simultaneously or is it either 2xA72 or 4xA53 at a time? E.g. can I encode with ffmpeg utilizing all six cores?

Hi all, I just ordered a RockPro64 to act as a home NAS and Nextcloud host, and have been looking into installation options.

It seems like most "installation" options are simply writing a pre-installed image of some custom variant (Armbian, etc) of the stock distros (Debian, etc) to storage from a PC and plugging that into the board, rather than a more traditional process where an installer is booted which then actually does an installation to storage.

Since I'm a retrogrouch, I'd much prefer the more traditional installer-based approach and use a stock distro (in particular, either Debian 10 or Ubuntu 19.04), and ideally be able to do the install headless over the serial console. I'm not sure however based on reading the wiki or these forums whether this would even be possible.

So, two questions:

 * Can I install and use a stock distro like Debian 10 or Ubuntu 19.04 with the RockPro64?
 * Can I install by (say) writing the installer to USB flash, booting to that, then installing it via serial?

Thanks!

I feel really silly posting this, but the Armbian folks were pretty direct about Armbian support.

The net result is that ANY H64 board is apparently so unsupported, that asking questions about it is wasting their time and abusive (their words, and sorry for being snarky/not sorry). 

The wiki page:

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PINE_H64_Main_Page

Does not state any of that.

I would suggest updating it to say "Unsupported" per Igor, below:

Quote:Igor:
I does not matter. There is no support for Pine H6. Not for A and not for B. Support = dealing with users. There are only testing images for whatever is on that name/picture. If you have problems with those images, your messages usually goes to /dev/null It was a miracle that it came this far. Closing again.

Quote:Tido:
As long as you have no problems with your eyes, simply look - does any of these boards look like yours :https://www.armbian.com/download/?tx_maker=pine64

I answer for you: no. Yours is a totally different form factor with different HW. And with your expericence (as it states on your profile) you should least be able to guess it matters.

I love terminal, why pinebook have ugly keyboard? no PgUp, pgDown , end, home, ins

Having an issue where periodically Firefox latest will freeze up with only 1 or 2 tabs open in a single window and the only way to continue using the Pinebook is to restart by holding down the power switch.

Can't get to a terminal either by opening Konsole (or switching to an already open Konsole) or by dropping to a terminal out of the GUI.

I have a lot of synced bookmarks etc on FF, but might consider another browser on this PC if anyone has a good suggestion.
I have turned on hardware acceleration in FF :config. Seems a bit better but still happens with eh freeze.
Have also disables all non-vital plugins/extensions.

Anything else I can do to get FF to work better?


While we're here, why KDE neon as default on such a basic machine? KDE Neon doesn't even run that nicely on recent intel hardware in my experience (by recent I mean 5-6 yr old 64bit i7 with 4-8gb ram).
Surely something like the pinebook would benefit hugely from XFCE on a faster base distro?

I am going to try a couple of others, like the Debian one, and I will try to get Slackware arm working. Just need some microSD first.
Overall though, I am very pleased with the pinebook, and given some of the negative comments I had read about it I wonder what those people where complaining about! I like it a lot!

Hi.

I'm hoping someone can help as currently my Pinebook 1080 is not functional.

I hadn't used it for a while, and then updated it through the GUI (guessing I should have used CLI).
The update never completed, it froze during update, being not the most powerful system I left it for a good few hours just in case it was taking it's time.

However, no joy. The system was unusable. I've tried rebooting, it hangs at the KDE circle screen. Tried reflashing from SD to eMMC using a new image from the Pine Installer and this is what happens....



It freezes at 1%.

Any ideas how I can fix this??

Many thanks in advance

As title. I have a Logitech MX Ergo trackball mouse that connects via Bluetooth.
It works in other (Intelx 86-64) Linuxes including my main daily SalixOS (Slackware) but is known to work without problem on Ubuntu and derivatives too.

I cannot get it to pair at all to the Pinebook. Don't know if it is a KDE issue or the BT module hardware.

Anyone else have a similar issue? For what it's worth, I managed to pair an apple magic mouse but the cursor would not move (but ok, that was an apple device, but it did pair.) The Logi won't pair at all.

  Never liked BT as a technology, and now I have one more reason

Hi there. I can't find a link anywhere for this and searching "delete account" didn't provide anything useful either. So would an administrator here please be so kind as to delete my account? I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Hey pine community,

so i got my pinebook1080 yesterday. i ordered a 64gb emmc plus usb adapter, too but decided to first try the different OS on the sd card and only install the one i want to on the emmc before installing it in the pinebook. 

i tried almost all the OS on this page. first with the pine installtool, then by downloading them directly and flashing them with the pine installer or the "original" etcher.
got different errors on each os:

o4os: just a pinebook community build screen. waited 20 minutes. nothing happened. 5 tries all the same.
aosl sd version: just a black screen
archlinux: info task kworker/"different numbers here" blocked for more than 120 seconds. repeats multiple times. stoped working after about 20 tries and just had the shell for me.
dietpi: 3 different but mostly repeading errors 
- most times same problem as writen here about by another user: no ethernet found (ethernet doongle works fine with the preinstalled os)
- stops at "loading kernel"
- ** fs_devread read error - block
- ## executing script at 44000000
4644338 bytes read in 233 ms (19 MiB/s)

tried dietpi multiple times:
error 1 appeared 10 times, error 2 4 times, error 3 2 times, error 4 1 time.

only got 1 32gb sandisk microsd right now but its so many different errors that i am not sure if it is the sd i'm ordering a new one just to be sure but well that takes some days. anyone got any ideas whats wrong?

Best, Hobbit

I was not able to find this anywhere else. Could anyone advised the Android 7.1 build listed for the h64 model b on the wiki page the Android TV version or the tablet version? 
 If same is just the tablet version is there anywhere to get the Android TV version or can a build from another pine board be used? Thanks.