I say hi to the community and want to start directly with the issues I have and could not solve myself.

If I try 0.8.3 bionic mate armhf from the newest as stable declared release from the ayufan repo the board will not boot.
The image was flashed with the newest etcher version on an 64GB emmc module.
If I install the version that's linked from the pine64 webpage (0.7.9 aarch) and manually upgrade to 0.8.3 (I know it's an aarch install instead of an armhf then) the board will boot, but both indication LEDs are on. (The white that's usually on and the red in addition)
Surprisingly video playback runs as smooth as never seen before on this board, YouTube runs, Twitch streams do not crash the whole browser but run also smooth but the sound sounds like some old cassettes that was played very often. (Sound through HDMI)

Usage of the PCIe Card with the SATA Ports directly from Pine64 doesn't work, the board won't even boot with it installed in the slot.
This PCIe problem is know for me since month and I hoped it will be fixed now.

I'm now at that point, to ask for any help. Board revision is 2.1 with 4GB now overclocking or some crude experiments in the past.
All what I what is: one 2TB NAS HDD, YouTube, Netflix and Twitch playback, plus some low resource intensive task like pihole, unifi controller and so on.
In previous versions (I think it was 0.6.9 the whole time because of many little issues) I was never able to get Twitchstreams or the PCIe Card to run properly.
Even a Minecraftserver was running on this board with amazing power, so I would really like it to see the Bugs fixed since everything else runs so great on this power full board, it's even faster as my old Computer.

I'm sorry for some bad English in this wall of text, it not my native language.
I hope for any help and will try everything that's maybe helpful. If some information is missing, pleas let me know and I will response as soon as possible.

Regard
TheSupercomputer

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Hi,

Has anybody successfully got the RockPro64 work as USB device towards the host PC? We've followed couple of instructions how to enable USB ECM gadget but so far no luck, device is not recognized by the PC.

The dts is changed to force the usb0 as peripheral

Dear all,

currently i'm running 3 Raspberry Pi's for different tasks (ie. FHEM, VPN-Gateway, Seafile-Cloud, NAS ...). Due to the lack of USB performance i decided to buy a Rock64 to use it as NAS which works pretty good. Afterwards i thought about exchaning one of the RPI's by installing Seafile on the Rock64.

After several hours of try & error i can't get Seafile installed on the Rock64.

I tried to compile Seafile with the help of the Seafile manual but ending in a lot failures.
I tried to install an alreadys compiled version but struggeling with the mysql-configuration which is killing me.

On the Pi everything was a little bit easier. Has anybody a good and working instruction to get Seafile installed on the Rock64?
Which OS should i use to get it running? Up to now i tried bionic-minimal and armbian.

Thanks in advance for your support.

Pinebook, Pinephone, not a Pinewatch ?

I'd gladly invest in an "open" smartwatch that might resemble the excellent NO.1 D5, simple design and great value.

https://www.smartwatchspecifications.com...e/no-1-d5/
https://www.dtone.cc/android-smart-watch/

Any plan ?

hello everyone, i just bought a rockpro64 card with ROCKPro64 10mm Low Profile Heatsink with Fan.
I installed mrfixit debian rom desktop but the fan does not work after boot. It is well connected to the motherboard.
The systeme works well.
Is there a manipulation to start the fan ??
Thank you for answers.
Have a good day

Dear friends,
After flashing eMMC with new android/tv image i noticed the MAC address changes every time. How can i keep it unchanged or set to the old value after flashing new image?
This is necessary to keep some payed applications working.

It was brought up in the PINE64 Discord server that there was a bit of a lack of wallpapers for the Pinebook, and certain OS image creators wanted some to include.

So I took it upon myself to create a few -- five, in fact. Each in four different variations (1080p/768p, with/without Pinebook logo), for a total of twenty total wallpapers.

Wallpaper previews:

Aurora Sky
Nebulous Sky
Evergreen
Whisps of Time
The New Leaf

All of these wallpapers are free to use for personal use, re-distribution (including bundled with OS images), or modification -- I've licensed them under CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Downloads:

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iv0hiJz5RhgdH5JEafV2Ha5Wdkql6Fv4


(Additionally, the GIMP 2.10 project files for all of these can be found here. Same license applies.)

Enjoy!

Hi,
I got my new boards recently.
But I found the new one comes with v2.3
Just want to know what's the difference between v2.2 and v2.3?
Also, I found something interesting, when plugging the DC power,

my v2.3 board cannot boot all sopine module at the same time.
(Need try 2 ~ 3 times to bring all of them)

usually, 1 or 2 of them will stay off. (I use 50W DC power)

But v2.2 doesn't have such an issue. Any ideas?

Thx!

Hello,

I received my first RockPro64 4GB with NAS case, 30mm heat sink, and NAS case fan. Running Armbian Debian Stretch with Ayufan kernel 4.4.167-1213-rockchip-ayufan-g34ae07687fce

This is my first ARM board. When running htop, I would see CPUs 0-3 run at "600 MHz (   .LITTLE)" when idling to "1.42 GHz (   .LITTLE)" at load and CPUs 4-5 run at "600 MHz (big.      )" when idling to "1.80GHz (big.      )" at load. I was playing around with running processes with taskset to set the affinity of processes so that I could  run them only on CPUs 4-5.

Now I'm seeing all CPUs as "1.42 GHz (   .LITTLE)", including 4-5 which I believe should be in the big cluster, not little? The A72 cores are not going up to 1.80GHz at load. I didn't mess with any configuration, only ran "sudo taskset -c 4,5 java -jar ..." to see the JVM run on the A72 cores.

Can someone help me with more information? I've tried rebooting the RockPro64 and the processors did not go back to the original big little clusters or frequencies...

Thanks for any information or help that you can give me! I am pretty new to ARM project boards. I feel like I broke something with taskset...

I'm very new to big.LITTLE clusters so there's probably something that I am misunderstanding. The temperatures have been decently cool, around 34C max, so I don't believe any kind of thermal throttling has gone into effect, especially since I rebooted the server.