Ciao,
 I open this thread to try to clarify, especially to me, how to have the camera module working on pine64 with armbian; the request comes from days spent on forums, github, google,  without finding satisfaction. 

my configuration is as follows: 
$ uname -a
Linux libra 3.10.107-pine64 #33 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 19 13:03:51 CEST 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial

$ lsmod | grep video
videobuf2_dma_contig    20341  1 vfe_v4l2
videobuf2_memops       12600  1 videobuf2_dma_contig
videobuf2_core         39274  1 vfe_v4l2


camera is this one: 
https://www.pine64.org/?product=himax-5-...era-module

of course i tried this one: https://github.com/avafinger/pine64_camera
but i'm stuck at this point 

• rename in SD card: [sdcard]/BOOT/pine64/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb to [sdcard]/BOOT/pine64/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb_no_camera
  

Hey chaps. Was browsing the Manjaro website after the Pinebook release of Manjaro when I noticed something...



Looks awful similar to the Pinebook! Dual mic, familiar keyboard fn layout, trackpad, LEDs... Even in the other photos the ports on both sides match up (inc. 12v barrel power). Difference? This is a much higher spec machine, and runs Intel.

Do these guys happen to have the same supplier as the Pinebook?

Hey guys, I just installed bionic-lxde-rock64-0.7.9-1067-arm64.img.xz to run some basic tests and see how the system holds up in desktop environment.

I was wondering if the performance I'm getting is the one I should be expecting from this board, and know a bit about your experience.

The desktop environment boots fine, and even quite quickly. However, video performance is worrying me.

I open chromium and play some random 720p video from youtube. The stuttering is huge. That diagnostic script says that the board is running at 1296Mhz, 86-91% CPU load, and temperatures around 79-81ºC. 

I have heatsinks (designed for raspberry pi 3) on the chips.

So... Does this board actually play 1080p in linux environment? Shouldn't we be expecting some better performance? A simple low res youtube video won't play without major stutter. Or maybe this is the regular performance? I'd love to hear some feedback on other users experience.

Which other tests should I be running to make sure this board is not faulty? Maybe trying the android images?
Thanks guys.

Hey, guys
What air mouse would you recommend for last ATV on Rock64?
The one at pine store costs abnormal amount plus 50% for shipment. In general ordinary devices cost 3-4 times less. But in my experience the iPazzport device was incompatible and did not work for me. So your experience with various mouses from anywhere would help.
Thank you

Hello, 
        Actually i am using rockpro64(rk3399) board. I have flashed bionoc-ubuntu-64bit image. 
UI can see "mppvideodec" plugins when execute "gst-inspect-1.0 |grep mpp" command. 

But, when i tried to use "mmpvideodec" in gstreamer,k i got some errors as below: 

Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... 
mpi: mpp version: Without VCS, under bleeding 
Pipeline is live and does not need PREROLL ... 
Got context from element 'autovideosink0': gst.gl.GLDisplay=context, gst.gl.GLDisplay=(GstGLDisplay)"\(GstGLDisplayX11\)\ gldisplayx11-0"; 
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ... 
New clock: GstSystemClock 
hal_h264d_api: Assertion p_hal->vcodec_type & ((0x00000200) | (0x00000001) | (0x00000002)) failed at hal_h264d_init:186 
mpp_device: mpp_device_init failed to find device for coding 0 type 7 
hal_h264d_api: p_hal->vpu_socket <= 0 
mpp_hal: mpp_hal_init hal h264d_rkdec init failed ret -2 
mpp_hal: mpp_hal_init could not found coding type 7 
mpp_dec: mpp_dec_init could not init hal 
mpp: error found on mpp initialization 
ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src0: Internal data stream error. 
Additional debug info: 
gstbasesrc.c(3055): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src0: 
streaming stopped, reason error (-5) 
Execution ended after 0:00:00.349876884 
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... 
Setting pipeline to READY ... 
Setting pipeline to NULL ... 
Freeing pipeline ... 


I have tried pipeline as below: 
1. gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! mppvideodec ! autovideosink 
2. gst-launch-1.0 -v rtspsrc location=rtsp://admin:jenex#2018@192.168.1.108:554 latency=10 ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! mppvideodec ! videoconvert ! autovideosink sync=false 

Moreover, what is the meaning of "none" in below output: 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
rock64@rockpro64:~$ apt-cache policy linux-rock64-package 
linux-rock64-package: 
  Installed: (none) 
  Candidate: 0.7-24 
  Version table: 
     0.7-24 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.6.44 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.5.15 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.5.10 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.5.9 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.5.8 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.4.17 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.4.16 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.4.12 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.4.3 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.3.7 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.3.4 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.3.3 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.3.2 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 
     0.2.1 500 
        500 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  Packages 

Thanks & Regards, 
Kishan Patel.

I'm trying to set up a Rock64 to connect to wifi using a Panda PAU09 USB wifi adapter.  The adapter is mounted in a fixed location, and when connected to my laptop running Ubuntu Bionic, I am able to easily connect to my own wifi network, as well as my school's secure network and their guest network using NetworkManager.  However, when I connect the adapter to the Rock64, I am unable to connect to any wifi networks, in spite of seeing them listed when I do a network scan.  I have tried this using Armbian Stretch and Bionic images, and also using ayufan's Bionic image.  When using nmcli to bring up the connection, I usually receive the error message "The Wi-Fi network could not be found".  However, scanning for networks usually shows the network I am attempting to connect to with good signal strength.  Other times, the connection will actually "succeed" but I won't be able to communicate over it and then the connection just goes down within seconds.

Any ideas on how I could make this work?

I have just received a pinebook. First that I noticed that sound is mono. Is it a hardware restriction?

So I tried to install MAME on the Pinebook. Would be nice, to have some games around and MAME should be lightweight....
So, after installing and basically configuring, I tried to start my first game

$ mame -nojoy galaga

... and what did I get?
libGL error: unable to load driver : sunxi_dri.so

As title, I just got my Pinebook(14', 1366x768 edition) today, 
was using apt command to upgrade LibreOffice and launched Firefox at the same time, just when I typed a few characters at address bar in Firefox,
everything stucked, I had to force it to shutdown and boot again, after that I just can't get the keyboard and touchpad working again, now the only working input is the power button, I can still connect my USB mouse/keyboard to have working input, but that'd totally lose the meaning of Pinebook being easy to carry around, the same situation doesn't change when I switch to Android from Ubuntu Mate, any suggestion?

Has anyone successfully overclocked the SoPine A64 microSD reader with a device tree overlay? U-Boot reports it's 50MHz out of the box. However, this person was able to overclock his Pi3 microSD frequency with a device tree overlay. 

Ref: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/h...berry-pi-3

Have we this know-how in our community for our Allwinner A64?