Anyone try to add a separate power button and unhook the power button from the keyboard?  The current one being a regular keyboard key instead of a separate button has caused me some issues.

Anyone tried to swapout the pinebook keyaboad?  The Pinebook has got to has the worst keyboard I ever used and I'm looking to swap it out with something with bigger SHIFT keys and NO POWER Button!  Why they decided a "regular" key would be a good power button instead of a separate push button or even a toggle is beyond me.

I know that the bottom half will need to be modified but I am willing to toss it if someone can bpoint me to a good alternative that will fit the general space and form factor.

I bought a RockPro64 and am trying to build a budget 10GbE storage.
I plugged an AQC107 based ASUS 10GbE card (XG-C100C) into its PCIEx4 adapter and Samsung 860EVO 1TB via USBC-SATA conversion cable (lsusb shows "ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge"), and no problem mounting it.

The image I chose this time is stretch-minimal-rockpro64-0.7.11-1075-arm64 and the driver for the card is Atlantic driver (Atlantic-2.0.15.0).
I downloaded the driver from Aquantia's website and had no problem building and installing.
After 'modprobe atlantic' the board immediately recognized the card as enp1s0. Then its idle power consumption (with all devices active) is around 10W, whose almost half the 10GbE card accounts for.

After changing its MTU from 1500 (default) to 9000, I performed iperf and I got a result around 2.70Gbps, though it seems that the result is not stable, sometimes the value going down to 2.30Gbps or lower.
I don't know why but manually assining iperf processes to a specific core (taskset -c 5 iperf -s, for example) seems to offer better and stable results that is 3.00Gbps.

At this point the effective speed as a NAS (sharing the SSD through SMB and mount it from a Windows client, transferring large data manually and observe how much it takes to complete) is approx. 330MB/s for read and write, and 4k random read/write is 7MB/s and 4KB Q8T8 and 4K Q32T1 for read are both 117MB/s, while it's both 100MB/s for write, says CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2. The peak power consumption is just 15.0W, so it's very power-efficient compared to x86-based 10GbE systems.

This is a great gain to have, considering the limit ROCK64 has.
Currently I have an impression that RockPro64 is an ideal solution for HDD-based NAS, and it would be fun if I would buy more boards and build a distributed system. But it's a little slow for SSD-based NAS, especially when looking at random read/write values.

I wonder if there is anyone who have had more comfortable results with 10GbE NICs and SSDs, to know whether I can get more out of this board or I've reached the limit.
Launching iperf multithreaded (-P6) greatly increased total bandwidth from 3Gbps at most to over 9Gbps, but after all SMB is not multithreaded and what matters most is achieving higher single-thread performance for personal use.
I admit there is room for optimization, so I will post if I have a significant improvement in performance.

Hi,

I need some help here because I need install Gapps in my Android 8.1.0 installation but I don't understand the process, inside this thread (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6684) I downloaded all needed files. The problem comes when I read:

Activate developer mode and get a root shell:

./adb device

./adb root

./adb remount


......
............ and so....


I don't understand nothing, 

How I active developer mode? where? I suppose inside my android 8.1.0in my rockpro64 or but not sure...

After that I think that I should launch those commands but from where???? root shell? Should I connect my rockpro64 through class c cable to my windows pc and launch from cmd windows console??? so if the answers is yes, before I must have installed in my windows pc the SDK package? No???? And then????

God! without knowledge's is so difficult, every step ends in a wall!!! 

Please, a kind soul could help me???? If so I promise create and upload here a "baby-step-guide" for people like me. 

Thanks!

Hello all!

I'm looking to run fedora core 29 on my Rock64 board and am running into the following issue... The grub.efi app fails to start after its loaded into ram... 

so i have installed the minimal ubuntu 18.04 image and then i installed the xubuntu-desktop metapackage with recommends. i have noticed some pretty crazy screen tearing.... there hasn't been anything that has much mention (i searched the forums and the irc logs and there is not a whole lot of concise information on the subject....... i just want to have a thread on this.... 


you can tell me to buzz off if needed but i have almost all i need other then the screen tearing.... its also an issue in my main linux laptop but i don't really care about that as its mostly for work but this is being used for media consumption...
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I've been on for a week or so when i've had time but i'm still unable to get anything from Hdmi.
Both lights on the ethernet are solid as well as the green light next to the psu in. I have never seen the white light behind the reset switch lit.
I have a 32GB emmc and a decent samsung sd card, i've written ubuntu minimal to both but have been unable to boot anything. Windows does throw a bit of a hissy after writing with etcher but the image appears to be valid, i've also tried other images. 

Psu is 12v @3000mA. I could possibly try another but don't have one to hand and that is probably now the only thing i have left to do, unless windows is botching the writing process.
I wondered if there was something i have missed, i don't have much experience with Sbc's and i'm really struggling with this one.

Hello,
I desperately need a Remote Desktop in OMV OpenMediaVault.
Installed> OMV-Extras> Plugins> openmediavault-remotedesktop 4.0.1
Connected via Windows Remote Desktop Connection.
After a few clicks, no reaction, connection reboot few clicks and again lags / errors.

I am interested in connecting JustBoom DAC and AMP HAT cards (compatible with RPI IO socket) or Allo Boss DAC and Allo Volt AMP to Pine RockPro64 board. Is that possible?

https://www.justboom.co/product-category...io-boards/
https://www.allo.com/sparky/boss-dac.html
https://www.allo.com/sparky/volt-amp.html

Hey guys, I received my Rock64 yesterday and started to setup my seedbox-NAS-gamebox setup.

I'm doing this in my raspberrypi pretty easily, but the networking is so limited that I decided to go with the Rock64.

However, I'm stuck pretty much at the beginning, since the seedbox part is not working.

I'm using the provided debian minimal image and I'm following debian tutorials for the rutorrent + rtorrent + autodl-irssi, but it's not working.
Example tutorials and tools I've used to this end before successfully: 
i) https://chooseneye.com/2018/03/install-r...-debian-9/
ii) https://github.com/arakasi72/rtinst
iii) https://jes.sc/kb/rTorrent-ruTorrent-Seedbox-Guide.php

Which guides are you following to setup a seedbox with rtorrent, rutorrent and autodl-irssi in the Rock64? 

Should I boot the bionic minimal image and follow Ubuntu guides?

Also, I noticed that some steps are extremely slow compared to the same procedures in the raspberry pi 3, such as the use of "make" command to build most recent versions of libtorrent and rtorrent. How can this be in a faster SoC?

If you guys have suggestions on a different approach I'm all ears. I haven't even got to the NAS part and I've read about in the forum that the samba performance is quite bad in Rock64. I'm considering going with OMV, but then I'd lose the gaming part and part of the the seedboxing advanced scriptiong.