For fun, I tried KDE on a rock64 and the UI ran really smoothly.  Now I have a rockpro64 and tried KDE and it just crawled.  I put the Compton compositor on LXDE and installed Docky and it too crawled.  I think its rendering in software instead of hardware.  Any advice?

Hi All,

I am new to the pine64 family. I just bought a few rock64pro with the new 13mp IMX214 cameras. I have the camera with very basic operations working using the android OS image, but I really want to use it with linux.

Is any one else already working on a linux driver?

I found some source code for imx214 drivers, but not been able to compile yet (due to my lack of knowledge of compiling).

Love to hear from anyone doing this or wanting to do this as well :-)

In my Rockpro64 the ethernet port no longer works. I tried an infinite number of solutions but without success. Now I was thinking of connecting an additional gigabit card either on board or on a usb3 port. Please advise me which model to install and which is compatible with the different linux distro published. Thanks

Has anyone else had problems with the integrity of their Pinebook? I look after mine like the fate of the world depends on it, yet I have noticed a crack in the keyboard part of the case. It goes from the top of the power button to near the top of the right hand screen pivot.

how on earth do you get around this?

rock64@rock64:~$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libopts25
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libglvnd-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libglvnd-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
163 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3412 B of archives.
After this operation, 25.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 116454 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libglvnd-dev_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking libglvnd-dev:arm64 (1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libglvnd-dev_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_arm64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so', which is also in package libmali-rk-utgard-450-r7p0:arm64 1.6-1ayufan10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libglvnd-dev_1.0.0-2ubuntu2.2_arm64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
rock64@rock64:~$



help is greatly appreciated

just trying to figure out how to auto login with out providing a password and add a new user

sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf




[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=rock64
autologin-user-timeout=0
# Check https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/854261 before setting a timeout
user-session=LXDE   # also tried Lubuntu
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter




is not working

I was stoked to see the release of Armbian-Bionic for Pine A64+ and installed it on a card a couple of days ago. It all runs well except for one problem: when the system boots, the hard-wired Ethernet port doesn't work.

The system sees it as eth0. ethtool even reports "Link detected: yes". But there are no flashing LEDs, and no data actually gets transmitted.

Sometimes when I boot it up, neither of the Ethernet LEDs will light up at all. Sometimes when I boot it up, the left LED will flash once, then nothing. And very rarely, through no pattern I've been able to discern, the system will boot, both lights will flash, and all works beautifully.

I didn't keep an accurate count, but I'd say out of 30 boots yesterday (and by that, I mean I powered it off, then back on again), the Ethernet port only worked about 5 of those times. The rest, it was dead---no lights, but, as I said, the system claimed everything was OK.

I've been running this same Pine with longsleep 3.10.105 without these problems. I've rebooted it three times this morning just to test, and all three times, the Ethernet port was live and worked fine.

Any ideas? Has anyone else seen this issue? I've love to upgrade the kernel I'm running on the Pine, but not if I can't reliably count on the networking.

I have not yet tried Armbian-Stretch.

Thanks!

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I have the Rock 64 booting off of a dietpi image on a 16gb eMMC.  It was working fine for a while.  Now it is has all three LED's, Green, Red and White, at 3 second intervals.  I tried removing the eMMC and booting off of a SD, it doesn't seem to go through any boot process.  I tried connecting a serial console connection but it gives me nothing (no garbage, just nothing)  The serial connection worked in the past.  

Anybody know what that means?

Hi All,

I am new to this forum.  I am using 5 rockpro64's as a "cheap" cluster computer for parallel numerical general relativity simulations.  Only been working on it about a month.  I just installed a Samsung 500 GB ssd (960 Evo) on my head node.  I have it partitioned and formatted.  It works well.   However, now I can't do a startx command from the command line.  The system gets to the point of showing the graphical desktop with the cursor in the middle, but then hangs.  No keyboard or mouse response.  Lights on the keyboard and mouse are on.

If I power off/on then ssh into the system from another node, I can see the that ssd is automounted and I have access to it.  I can't think of a way to debug this.  Usually I like solving problems, but I don't know where to begin with this one.

Thanks for any help any of you can give.