Today I received my Pinebook. Here are my first impressions, not ranked by seriousness or whatever, just how I remember them:

- DHL charged almost 15 euro ON TOP of the import taxes, as a fee for lending me the import tax for a day or two. If a bank would charge this as interest, it would be illegal. As fraction of the purchace price, 15% is rather much. Please use another shipper next time.

- The keyboard feels very nice! The size and weight are great. I have a macbook from work, and its screen is hardly larger, and I like the pine keyboard feel better.

- However, there is no key with ' and " on it, which is usually left of the Enter key. That is a very important key for programming... Using the Fn+-_ key is not really a good substitute.

- The key labeled \ and | does not produce these characters (in US keyboard layout), but < and > . That is also annying.

- Lots of graphics glitches. Menus, or letters in Konsole, have random horizontal lines in them. Graphics are also very slow. Several of the desktop effects such as a cube when switching workspaces do not work.

- My pinebook hang a few times while doing something graphical.

- The video players seem to use the wrong stride for the display. The image is unwatchable but it seems every next lower line is offset many pixels to the right. At first I thought it might have been because I had set a screen magnification factor as recommended, but when I undid this, the effect remained.

- The clickpad is weird, in the sense that it clicks only near the bottom corners. I have not found a way to click the middle button, which is very important for X pasting.

Hopefully I will f]find out somewhere in the forum what to do about these things :-) I typed this on the Pinebook :)

I've just received my Rock64 and discovered that unfortunately a lot of the ports (plus some extra things) are misaligned and/or damaged. Not severe enough to interfere with its operation (I hope), but as I'm hoping to put this in a Pi case I may struggle a bit with them like this.

The cardboard box it came in doesn't have any signs of damage, and no pins appear to be bent or broken, so this doesn't seem like shipping damage but rather poor quality assembly.

What is the best course of action right now? I'm able to re-solder most of these parts myself but would rather not do that to a brand new board unless absolutely necessary...

The affected parts are:
Power jack (bent up and sideways), IR sensor (leaning sideways), USB3 port (leaning down/forwards), USB2 ports (damaged on the bottom), Ethernet (bent top which may be normal, slightly melted on the bottom), Power button (rotated), GPIO headers (inconsistent solder, possibly dry joints).

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I'm running libreelec on my RockPro64. I'm currently controlling it using yatse on my phone but I would like to use my amp IR remote. 
I plugged an IR receiver module on the appropriate socket on the board, I set up kodi to work with my amp remote (using the instructions from librelec wiki) but the remote doesn't work.
It seems that there is no IR driver loaded.

I downloaded the NetBSD Pinebook image from invisible.ca (https://www.invisible.ca/arm/) and created a microSD card, as directed using Etcher. My Pinebook (1080p) booted, but when I dd'd the image to /dev/rdl2c I got a ton of errors. Now my Pinebook does not boot, unless there is a SD card inserted.

arm64# dd if=NetBSD-evbarm-aarch64-201905120950Z-pinebook.img of=/dev/rld2c bs=1m conv=sync
    dd: /dev/rld2c: Input/output error
    30+0 records in
    29+0 records out
    30408704 bytes transferred in 11.143 secs (2728951 bytes/sec)
This generated a ton of "ld2c: error writing fsbn..." errors. When I reboot I get a blank screen.

My disklabel looks like this:
arm64# disklabel ld2

    # /dev/rld2:

    type: ld

    disk: ld2

    label: default label

    flags:

    bytes/sector: 512

    sectors/track: 63

    tracks/cylinder: 32

    sectors/cylinder: 2016

    cylinders: 1040

    total sectors: 2097152

    rpm: 3600

    interleave: 1

    trackskew: 0

    cylinderskew: 0

    headswitch: 0           # microseconds

    track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds

    drivedata: 0

    5 partitions:

    #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]

     c:   2097152         0     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.      0 -   1040*)

     e:    163840     32768      MSDOS                     # (Cyl.     16*-     97*)

    disklabel: boot block size 0

    disklabel: super block size 0
    disklabel: partitions c and e overlap

Any ideas on how to get NetBSD running on my brand new Pinebook?

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Hi Everyone!

I just picked up my Pinebook from the post office. Though because my country is far away from where they are produced and consequently I had to pay over double the price to get my hands on one, fate smiled upon me and I received one without dead pixels (I heard this is a possibility) and even the blue plastic casing is completely intact so I can re-use that (probably glue some protection inside to use it as a travel case). Though not new to Linux this is my first venture into a project this technical and also my first non X86 machine ever (phones aside ofcourse). 

I bought it because of sheer enthusiasm - I support community projects like this (hence I didn't mind paying the premium) and I like the look of the Pinebook. 
Also, the community support here seems very nice. 

So... my plans. For the moment I think it would be best to tailor the notebook to be a lightweight travel companion. I'd like to take it with me when traveling by plane, motorcycle travels... just to have a small and lightweight companion for basic webbrowsing, email and the like. There are some things I want to find out, though. Because I borked the password from the get-go I ended up reinstalling the thing 30 minutes after unboxing it   so I'm happy to see the process was straightforward: Just flash the SD card, insert, press yet and Bob is your uncle (though mine is not called Bob, but that's beside the point I think). 


First: Storage. I bought the cheapskate 16GB EMMC variant. I understand it can boot from SD too (just used it to reinstall) but EMMC is faster.
What are my options to boot from EMMC and use an SD card as sort-of permanent storage? Won't it try and boot from said SD card everytime? Or can I avoid that by not having a boot loader on the SD card?

Secondly: Replacing EMMC storage. I understand this is pretty straightforward, but what's a reliable source of 128gb EMMC modules? Can I just source any module, or are there better/worse ones? 

Thirdly: Backlighting. Call me a princess but I love to have keyboard backlighting. Being that this laptop was built to tinker with, what's stopping me from soldering a few LED's inside the case, right? I can solder alright but if you have any idea's/tips to share concerning, I am willing to listen and learn. 

Last but not least: Alternative OS'es. I've seen the options the installer gives me, and several of them mention being "SD boot only" or EMMC capable. 
Specifically: this list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...edit#gid=0

mentions Armbian (I am a Debian fan) should be EMMC capable, but it's not listed in the installer (flash utility). 
Should I download a custom image somewhere else (where?) and supplant that? I'd rather run from EMMC to keep the SD slot free because of point #1. 


Loving the experience so far, hoping to get some lovely ideas from you. 
And other mods interesting or pertaining to my intended use are very welcome as well, of course. 

Greetings from the Netherlands!

Has anyone tried to install the RTC backup battery on the v3 board?

I'm making some tests but when I disconnect power cord, RTC clock resets to 2016-1-21

I tried to place an order but when I clicked on the payment step, the internet error, but I visited it back before, was fine, I don't understand why that is so?

I just received my Pinebook today. I am having issues connecting bluetooth headphones. They say they are connected, but they will not play though my BOSE headphones. If anyone knows what I may be doing wrong, I would be extremely grateful.

Also, my touchpad. I can use a two finger scroll, but it will not allow me to tap instead of clicking. I cannot find a button within the programs or setting to enable this function. If someone can help me with this one, that would be awesome.

Thanks.

Can anyone explain what's going on in this picture? My Pine has been running (Debian or Ubuntu, I can't remember which) flawlessly for about 2 years now, but recently it just stopped responding to network connections. I got my monitor hooked back up to it and reboot it, and this is what I am getting. The output from the console goes by too fast to see the top of the dump, and hitting shift+pg up doesn't scroll up when it hits this phase either. Curiously, it does not show the pine logo in the top left corner like normal. What is also strange is that it responds to pings once it it gets to this stage, but I can't SSH in since it's not done booting. Switching to another console (alt+f2,f3,etc) just leaves me at a blank screen. If I hit ctrl+alt+del when at this stage, it cleanly reboots, but gets to this stage again.

I pulled the SD card out and stuck it in another linux system and ran fsck on it to make sure the OS was ok, but the card is fine. I'm not sure what else to do at this point. Any pointers or suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks!