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Hi there,

I just got my RockPro64 and tested a few linux images but was blocked by the fact that after some time the board would freeze. I would like to test the board with android now but just realized that every image on the wiki are marked "not Android TV" except of the 50G one. 

-> Does that mean that if I load these image on my SD and boot the board with a HDMI plugged to a TV screen (projector to be more precise) it will not display anything? I tested one this morning before going to work and I had no signal on my screen.

I assume the 50Go 7.1 is not just the image and will need manual compilation? Alse I'll need a bigger SD to test it 

Thank you for anyone helping.
Slam

Hey Guys and Gals,

So I recently acquired a Clusterboard  and wanted to take it for a spin. But no luck so far...

When I tried to start it with a single SoPine inserted nothing happened, so - dismayed - I tried another one and got a response: The lights went on and I got approximately three seconds of Christmas Tree Action. After that: Nothing...

After reading on this Forum I tried a Xenial 3.10 Build and now I get at least a heartbeat on the SoPine I inserted! But still no lights on the switch. Not even a status light on the RJ45 Socket...
Now I am worried that the board might be fried. 

Do you have any ideas?

(I'm still waiting for a USB/UART Adapter. Tried it with a DIY Arduino Thingy but that did not work. No UART Signal so far, or none detectable by the Arduino.)

I have been trying to get a Pine64 touchscreen LCD working with my A64+ 1 GB board and have about given up.

Apparently I'm not using the correct terms to search the forums or something, because in my quest to RTFM, I can't even FIND TFM, so I'm going to try the direct approach.

In order to determine whether I'm dealing with a hardware issue (i.e. the LCD itself, or the connections), or a software / OS issue, I'd appreciate it if someone would please answer the following questions:

How do I determine if the LCD is connected properly?  I see no activity - not even the backlight - during boot.

Are there voltages that can be measured with a DVOM on the ribbon connector that will tell me if the LCD is receiving power from the board?

Should I be seeing some indication of the LCD being detected in dmesg if booting Armbian?

Is there a current image that automatically detects and supports the LCD with or without touchscreen?  

Put another way, what current images - of any type,  Linux, Android, or other - support the LCD with little or no tweaking required?  

I've tried the most recent Armbian Linux images, editing armbianEnv.txt as directed, and I've tried what I think are the most current Android 7 and 6 images but I'm not sure I've made the correct changes in the (name escapes me at the moment) config file.


Constructive suggestions and help appreciated...flames can be directed to /dev/null.

Thank you.

I'm working on use my Pine64 RevB (2016) with 2Gb RAM, and armbian distro installed, for x264 encodings.

I'm using this command:

Hello, 

I searched a ton before posting but I cloud not find definite answer. Most LCDs won't work with rock64 but a solution is HDMI Switch like these here. Most other displays will not work. 

Is there any LCD display that definitely work on rock64 ?

Will this product work ? since it use usb+hdmi here. 

I'm fairly new rock64 is my first single computer board.

Hello,

I successfully installed Debian Buster using the official Debian Installer (Buster RC 1).

See the page in the Debian wiki for a general description of the process. I can add more details if needed.

Have fun

Hey all,

I recently got a RockPro64 and installed the Armbian Desktop image to it. 

I want to use this as a NAS, so I bought a iocrest marvell 9230 sata card (non raid) but I'm not sure about how I get it to work. Are there any drivers or settings I need to change? None of the drives I'm plugging into it are being read. Right now when I type lspci into the terminal I get this 

Quote:01:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9230 PCIe SATA 6Gb/s Controller (rev 11)

Quote:root@localhost:~# lspci -vvv
00:00.0 PCI bridge: Device 1d87:0100 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 244
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00000000-00000fff
Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fa0fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000-000fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
Address: 00000000fee30040  Data: 0000
Masking: 00000000  Pending: 00000000
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
Vector table: BAR=0 offset=00000000
PBA: BAR=0 offset=00000008
Capabilities: [c0] Express (v2) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0
ExtTag- RBE+
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable+ Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported+
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L0s <256ns, L1 <8us
ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot+ ASPMOptComp+
LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 128 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt+ AutBWInt+
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
SltCap: AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surprise-
Slot #0, PowerLimit 0.000W; Interlock- NoCompl-
SltCtl: Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
Control: AttnInd Off, PwrInd Off, Power+ Interlock-
SltSta: Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL+ CmdCplt- PresDet- Interlock-
Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState-
RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna+ CRSVisible-
RootCap: CRSVisible-
RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range B, TimeoutDis+, LTR+, OBFF Via message ARIFwd+
DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled ARIFwd-
LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest-
Capabilities: [100 v2] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
Capabilities: [274 v1] Transaction Processing Hints
Interrupt vector mode supported
Device specific mode supported
Steering table in TPH capability structure
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

01:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9230 PCIe SATA 6Gb/s Controller (rev 11) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9230 PCIe SATA 6Gb/s Controller
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 243
Region 0: I/O ports at 0000
Region 1: I/O ports at 0000
Region 2: I/O ports at 0000
Region 3: I/O ports at 0000
Region 4: I/O ports at 0000
Region 5: Memory at fa040000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Expansion ROM at fa000000 [size=256K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Address: fee30040  Data: 0000
Capabilities: [70] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <1us, L1 <8us
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x2, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <64us
ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp-
LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+, LTR-, OBFF Not Supported
DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled
LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest-
Capabilities: [e0] SATA HBA v0.0 BAR4 Offset=00000004
Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap- CGenEn- ChkCap- ChkEn-

Hi

I have a Marvell 88SE9235 SATA PCI card(https://www.aliexpress.com/item/SATA-III...06828.html) attached to my ROCKPRO64 which i would like to use together with LibreELEC. However, drivers plugged into the card doesn't show up, so i think i may be missing some drivers.

I am running the latest LibreELEC build. with kernel 4.4.154.

I was previously running ayufan's ubuntu build, but couldn't get video acceleration to work in kodi, so i switched to LibreELEC where it seems to work without problems. However, my disks did show up when i ran Ubuntu, which makes me think it is probably a problem with the kernel drivers.

I actually tried compilling kodi myself, and set these extra kernel build options. However it did not seem to make any difference:
CONFIG_ARCH_MV78XX0=y
CONFIG_ARCH_DOVE=y
CONFIG_SATA_MV=y
CONFIG_SCSI_MVSAS=y
CONFIG_MACH_RD78X00_MASA=y
CONFIG_MARVELL_PHY=y
CONFIG_RAID_ATTRS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT=y

If anybody have any ideas to what i might be missing to get the SATA card working?

Regards
Stefan

Hello!

My Pinebook was working just fine, but yesterday it has stopped to charge. That is, when I plugged it in - it appears to detect charger plugged in, but battery is not charged and LED near power socket doesn't light up.

Battery is not undercharged and in fact, there's still 26% as I type this message. According to XFCE power manager in Armbian, the battery is "discharging", and at same time, AC power supply is detected. From the charge level, it seems that Pinebook runs mostly from AC power and battery depletes much slower than usual. But I'm puzzled, why doesn't it charge. Battery voltage is around 3.8-3.7V, so it's nowhere close to be "flat", and PMIC should detect and charge it. I still opened bottom cover and tried to detach and reattach battery connector, but nothing seems to have changed.

Here's upower -d dump: