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  Please update PineH64 pages to say Armbian is unsupported
Posted by: JGwinner - 07-11-2019, 03:23 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PINE H64 - Replies (7)

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.


Emphasis mine.

Note that the same page on the Armbian site doesn't specify "A" or "B", just shows a picture. Apparently, you're supposed to compare the picture and then realize you have a different board; despite the fact that the H64 page on Pine64 for the "B" board links to the same build. Per Tido/Retro:


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.

Dodgy
If you go to Pine64, the "B" board, then link to Armbian, there are no pictures, and no mention that only "A" works and neither is supported. The file name is missing an "A" but given that the Pine64 "B" page links here ... you would think it works. 

So, maybe not so stupid. 

In any event, the Raspberry Pi 4 is looking better and better ... 

It's a shame, the power connector on the Pi4 is absurd; the H64 had a much better construction IMHO, more suited to a commercial, low quantity operation.

        == John ==


  keyboard
Posted by: x0r - 07-11-2019, 11:57 AM - Forum: Pinebook Hardware and Accessories - No Replies

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


  Firefox freezes Pinebook forcing hard reboot
Posted by: chris-justExploded - 07-11-2019, 07:24 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook - Replies (1)

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!


  Sd to eMMC
Posted by: badgeranduni - 07-11-2019, 07:23 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook - No Replies

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....

[Image: IMG-20190711-134654.jpg]

It freezes at 1%.

Any ideas how I can fix this??

Many thanks in advance


  Bluetooth mouse doesn't work
Posted by: chris-justExploded - 07-11-2019, 07:08 AM - Forum: Pinebook Hardware and Accessories - No Replies

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.

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


  Account delete on Pine64 Forum
Posted by: User 12599 - 07-11-2019, 12:22 AM - Forum: General - Replies (3)

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.


  can't install a new OS with sd card. pinebook1080.
Posted by: ObviousHobbit - 07-10-2019, 02:03 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook - Replies (3)

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


  Android builds on the wiki page
Posted by: Bpd898kosko - 07-10-2019, 07:03 AM - Forum: Android on Pine H64 - Replies (1)

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.


  Dual Monitor Setup
Posted by: cmodernel004 - 07-09-2019, 02:29 PM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCKPRO64 - Replies (3)

Hi all,

I'm interested in buying a RockPro64 and use it as a desktop computer. 
Would it be possible to use it with a dual monitor setup?

Thanks in advance.


  Pinetab dual boot Linux and Android
Posted by: libergm - 07-09-2019, 12:39 PM - Forum: General - Replies (2)

Stupid question, will pinetab dual boot Linux and Android?

Thanks in advance 

Gary