I bought a 4GB Pi4 with the official plastic case and PSU. The case is useless because even when idling the SoC gets way too hot. It seems basically that you need forced cooling or a large heatsink in order to control the temperature :-(

I'm now wishing I spent my money on another Pine64 board instead.

Hi, I used Eitcher to flash Ubuntu LXDE image to my rockpro64. Now when i am building ComputeLibrary, it throws error-
"ERROR: Compiler ' aarch64-linux-gnu-g++' not found".
I tried to install it and searched several thread related to this. But not able to find the solution.
Any other dependency i need to install?
Thanks

So, I have been trying out manjaro but have had nothing but problems ranging from needing to compile from source to install older versions of python to inconsistent booting. The worst has just struck, I cannot boot. If the kernel loads (which is inconsistent) then it runs fine until reaching '[OK] Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service' then it attempts to load the DE shows a cursor and then flicks between the two screens. If I try to do ctrl alt f2, it loads the tty but then that screen gets added to the loop making it very hard to use. I will share a video showing exactly what I mean as soon as it uploads.

I would like to simultaneously use the USB3 port for an external drive and the USB-C port for a display. Are they sharing a data bus? Could I expect any issue by doing this?

Hi everyone, my first thread ... whoowhoo ... 

Switching from Winblows after 18 years to Linux in 2009, I've been utilizing primarily Linux Mint with the XFCE Desktop as well as MX Linux, also with the XFCE Desktop. Both of these more or less based on Debian, MX Linux moreso than Mint. I use the terminal when I have to, feel perfectly comfortable with it, but really prefer to just point 'n' click as much as possible.

Now I'm seriously considering making a switch from my current Linux over to the upcoming PINEBOOK Pro. My concern of course being whether or not such a switch is even possible since I'm a hobby photographer who uses Gimp almost daily (with reduced image sizes below 2000 px width per image), as well as LibreOffice / OpenOffice (since 2003), Komodo Edit (not IDE) for Webpage stuff, and Thunderbird for all of my email accounts (for the past 15 years or so). There's a ton of other software that I utilize as well, but nothing that I couldn't easily switch away from. The ones that I just listed are really important to me. I'm not a gamer, could care less about all of the gaming junk, but I am seriously hooked on the XFCE desktop environment (Mate is alright too, but I prefer XFCE).

So if I were to get a PINEBOOK Pro, how difficult would it be for me to continue using those mentioned items that I really don't want to do without (Gimp, LibreOffice, Komodo Edit, Thunderbird, XFCE Desktop) ??? Are these already available within the ARM architecture? Is it difficult or even possible to port current Linux apps such as the ones mentioned, over to a PINEBOOK Pro Linux Laptop?
Do ARM based versions of Linux also have Software/Package managers with click to install apps?
Is it possible to utilize 2TB external drives on the PINEBOOK Pro USB ports?
I would sincerely appreciate some helpful input on these questions. Thank you, everyone.

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Hello all,

My RockPro64 isn't behaving nicely. I first started with openmediavault, arm64, 0.8.3. It took a few times but it finally booted and I commenced to configure. It was okay but the network speed was no more than 6mbs. I tried troubleshooting the problem to no avail. One day, I discovered the server was down. I thought I should try some other options before I got too involved with this iso. So...

I've tried the latest versions of Debian Stretch, Debian by mrfixit2001, OpenMediaVault and Slackware, armhf and arm64, and with pretty much the same results but now - both red and white lights on. I can't seem to fix the red light problem but the slackware and openmediavault, armhf versions, did boot up okay but I did not go through setting them up because on the red light. 

Is there a way to reset that red light or is my board dying?

Sorry, if this is a stupid question, but I've never ordered anything from Pine.

On the store page, for the Pinebook it reads, "Due to Lithium-ion battery in Pinebook, the shipment of Pinebook orders will be handled differently from other Pine64 products, that’s the reason we didn’t allow to combined Pinebook order with other Pine64 products. Sorry for any inconvenience caused".  Which I find a bit confusing since the last part is written in past tense, so perhaps the situation has changed.

When the Pinebook Pro becomes available, will we be able to order accessories for it (eg. M.2 SSD adapter) at the same time?  Do we have to place two separate orders?

Thanks

Can a Pinebook be upgraded to 4GB?

Hello.

Well, as the subject says I would like to know how the Pinebook Pro boots. Does it have a UEFI (arggh) or does it use something reasonable like Coreboot / Libreboot / Das U-Boot etc. I am happy enough to own a notebook without Intel's ME but a privacy-conscious boot-manager would be the icing on the cake.

Yours faithfully
Stefan