Hi,

I'm looking to buy my second Pinebook.  When will a 14" be available again?

My first one is a little old.  Moving the screen when the back is unscrewed broke a hinge.  It still holds together with the back screwed on, but its only a matter of time.

Earl

Hello! I want to use the GPIO, I2C and SPI ports of a Rock64 board. However, I cannot find software support to do this. I have seen a R64.GPIO library, but it does not have interrupt support and is only for GPIO.

So, is there a software library for Rock64 that offers access to GPIO (including interrupts), I2C and SPI (similar to wiringpi)? If no, how can I gain access to these functions?

Hello all,
I told you that I would create a tutorial about ATS Configuration, and here it is( sorry for the late on this.. ).

You need a supported Kernel for this to work( at least you need kernel 4.4.132-1083 ).
But the one bellow will work for sure:

Hope you find a good tuning for your Fan/Cooler. 

Hello everybody,

I just purchased one ROCKPRO64 2GB. I installed Android 7.1 (20180809) and the board run well.
In order to test the performance of the board, I run some benchmark without issue and finally I tried to run BOINC. On this board BOINC is running very badly. In this software you can select the number of CPU core you would like to use and also the CPU time of computation. I tried to select 2, 4 or 6 CPU core and I saw that the 2 big core are never used. Only the LITTLE core are used.

I already run BOINC on other SBC and I never saw this issue. Do you think the issue came from BOINC or on this version of Android? What could I do to try to solve this issue?

Thanks for your help
Best regards

Hi,

I read that a lot of people have problems getting PCIe cards to work with the rockpro64.

However I'm starting to wonder if the board respects the PCIe standards in the correct way.
I can understand some drivers are not ready yet to support every card out there.

However what I noticed in my case, that my SATA PCIe card which I'm trying to get to work, get extremely hot.
To the point you can 'smell' the card due to the heat and you can't touch the heatsink on the different chips of the card.
After just a few seconds I need to shutdown the board because I'm afraid it would damage the card (or eventually catch fire?).

In my opinion this just shouldn't happen, putting the card in a regular PC doesn't lead to this kind of heat problems.
Has anyone else have similar experiences?

Best regards,
Jan

Hello all. 
I thought it would be interesting to ask what people use their Pinebook for?
There seem to be a fair few tech savvy people and coders. Are there any more casual users like myself?
I just wanted a cheap laptop that ran Ubuntu.
it will be interesting to get a feel of what people use their machines for.

I've tried the default KDE, Diet Pi, Armbian, and Manjaro LXQT and have not managed to get HDMI output. I'm able to detect that an HDMI monitor is connected but can not seem to get it to actually display. Any advice hugely appreciated!

Dear All,

I'm using the Pine64 board since some months now to host my ownCloud and everything is working fine without any kind of issues !

As the Rock64 board seems to bring more power, I planned to use it as a virtualization board. But, I didn't found any tutorial that could help me to setup my board so far. I've read on the forum that some users managed installing Xen on the board, and other use Docker/Kubernete.

I realize that I first need to be clear with what I would like to do with this board : I have many other different boards used to achieve different tasks on my home network (multi-room audio system using MPD, home automation systems for my connected lights, connected heating systems, connected windows, garden water pumps ...), and would like definitively to use as less as possible boards ... Each board run either Debian or Ubuntu and hosts a dedicated application. I definitively would like to have only one Rock64 boards to hosts all that applications, BUT isolated the one from the other ... In case something goes wrong with one, I wouldn't have to others dead at the same time ... And because I do many tests on each systems to make them evolve sometime in "testing mode" (compiling from scratch, updating packages ...).

Any ideas to share with me ?

Many thanks in advance,
Best regards,
Jean

Hey fellow Rockers,
I'm having some trouble getting sound to play from the 3.5mm port on my rockpro 64
Kernel: Linux rockpro64 4.4.132-1075-rockchip-ayufan-ga83beded8524 #1 SMP Thu Jul 26 08:22:22 UTC 2018 aarch64 GNU/Linux
Distro: Debain Stretch 9.6

This is my first time encountering an audio problem so I'm not 100% I went through the all basics, but here's what I've done so far:

• Verified my user is in the audio group
  
• installed pulseaudio and pavucontrol
  
• changed my default sinks to every option available with pacmd change-default-sink
  
• verified my volume was turned up in alsamixer
  
• played a known good file with aplay as local user and su
  
• tried a new headset, and tried the same headset in a different device. The headset is good.
  
• Searched this forum and followed Longsleep's recommendations posted here
  
• rebooted multiple times after iterating through these steps
  

I have a small USB router. It has a USB powerc cable wirh an AC power adapter. It works just fine when using like one of those outlets that just has a usb port, but when I attempt to power the device off the rock pro USB it boots then shutsdown..boots, shutsdown repeat.

Is the USB port insufficient to power peripherals?