Hey everyone,

We'd like your feedback on desired key placement on the Pinebook Pro ANSI keyboard.

We are currently considering the following:

• \| key above return key
  
• Del key is Fn + backspace
  
• Right Ctrl key placed at right Alt and <- arrow
  

Rockpro64 board is broken I expect a new one with RMA. 
I've been using N2 for a month, a very very very bad board for Linux. N2 may be Android box but it cannot be an Rp64. 
I am looking forward to the arrival of the new RP64 board.

I’m designing a new project around the SOPINE+Clusterboard and I’m wondering if there are any plans to offer an upgraded version of the SOPINE module (more RAM, hexacore CPU, etc.) in the future?

I spotted in the getting started guide that you need to solider the resistor to the board to use ATX power. 

But I want to clarify exactly what to do? as there are 2 resistors and they don't both fit (legs don't reach)

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