New owner here, received my Pinebook yesterday, I wanted to try some of the other OS options but can not seem to get anything to boot from the MicroSD slot.  I have tried Android 7, Xenial and Q4OS.  I have written them to the MicroSD card with Etcher, and with the Pine64 version of Etcher, I have used 3 different MicroSD cards, 32g or less, one is a high speed card, nothing seems to work.  I power the unit on, the green power light comes on, the screen stays black, nothing ever loads. If I take the MicroSD card out the unit boots fine to the pre-installed OS.  What am I doing wrong?

Is it possible to get Netflix running on the Pinebook in KDE Plasma?

I've tried just about everything I could find from Google searches, but it seems that all of the methods to get Netflix to work are either outdated or not compatible with the Pinebook. I've been unable to install Google Chrome for some reason, and I haven't been able to get DRM content to play in either Firefox or Chromium because I haven't been able to get Widevine to work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I used a 64GB microSD card to install Q4OS to the EMMC card.

I was able to boot to Q4OS from the SD card when the original KDE Neon was on the EMMC.

Now, I normally boot from EMMC to Q4OS.

So, I re-formatted the microSD card, in order to use it for extra storage.

It works OK, I can mount the card and read/write files on it.

BUT -

If I reboot with the card inserted, my Pinebook will not boot. Black screen, no error message.

I have to remove the card and hard-reboot, then re-insert the card.

There is something on the card that makes the Pinebook try to boot from it, but there's no boot partition on the card:


adminq@pinebook1080p:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        15G  5.7G  8.1G  42% /
devtmpfs        798M     0  798M   0% /dev
tmpfs           995M   17M  979M   2% /dev/shm
tmpfs           995M  8.7M  987M   1% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           995M     0  995M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1  100M   23M   77M  23% /boot
tmpfs           199M   12K  199M   1% /run/user/1000
adminq@pinebook1080p:~$ lsblk
NAME         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0      179:0    0 14.6G  0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1  179:1    0  100M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2  179:2    0 14.5G  0 part /
mmcblk0boot0 179:8    0    4M  1 disk
mmcblk0boot1 179:16   0    4M  1 disk
mmcblk1      179:24   0   60G  0 disk
└─mmcblk1p1  179:25   0   60G  0 part
adminq@pinebook1080p:~$

If I insert a different microSD card, from my Android tablet, there is no such problem.

What do I have to remove or add to the 64GB card so that Pinebook doesn't try to boot from it?

I am unable find any documentation regarding the ISP block in RK3399. Is this available ? Where can I find it ?

I would like to use the RockPro64 as a PCIe endpoint. To do this, I believe I need a special adaptor / male to male cable. Any information on how I could do this or where to purchase such an adaptor would be much appreciated.


Thanks

Hi

Is there someone that can make OpenPHT work for ROCK64? Or can point me in the right direction to make it?

Best Regards.

Hello!

I decided I'd make a thread about my pleasant shipping experience as opposed to all the negative ones that this forum often gets. I figured it's the least I could do.

So, I placed my order for a pinebook late september-ish, early october and found out I was moving. This ordinarily wouldn't be a problem but the mail forwarding in my country's postal service (Canada) doesn't work for packages and, in addition, it was being shipped via DHL anyway so there was nothing I could do! In desperation I reached out to the customer service folk via e-mail and they told me that, unfortunately, they could not change my address to a P.O. box that I had opened as the package required a signature.

Distraught, I explained my situation and they assured me that my package would be coming soon enough and that I would have nothing to worry about. They then went on and explained that they would be shipping them very soon and that DHL would only take a few days to deliver my package. Of course I didn't believe them but I gave them the benefit of the doubt which I'm very glad I did!

A few days later I got a text (not an e-mail) with my shipping information and tracking number. Two days later and I'm now exploring my new Pinebook! It came with the laptop itself inside of a blue, clear case that protected it during shipping and to my (pleasant) surprise a 1080p screen instead of 1366x768! Not to mention a bunch of stickers to place on things, including the laptop itself.

So, that's my experience! I'm very happy with my purchase and I'm glad my patience paid off. :D I'm even writing this on my pinebook now!

I'll include some photos of the packaging! (Ignore the beat up coffee table, it's not coming with us in the move lmao)

I haven't find a guide to setup a proper PXE boot for Rock64 (and Pine64) cards, so I will write down mine here hoping that it is useful.

In this guide I assume that the user is familiar with Linux, another assumption is about the distributions:
- on the Rock64 card we are going to install the Debian minimal;
- on the server that will provide the operating system I use Debian.
I think this guide can work for other distributions too but I haven't tried other combinations.
For the rest of the guide all the commands will run on the server Debian.

About the hardware I tried on a Rock64pro, I have also a Pine64 and a Rock64 but are in production and I needed a spare board to do the tests. Now that it works I will try also for the others, but for this guide I assume the Rock64pro.

Step 1: Flash the SPI
This is actually the only step that requires an SD card.
The SPI is a little memory (128MB) that can be flashed to add instruction at the boot time. Ayufan has a nice SPI image that adds the possibility to boot from network (PXE), and we are going to use it.

So go to this link and download the image file that is useful for your system. I used the u-boot-flash-spi-rockpro64.img.xz file.
Uncompress it with

I'm running Q4OS with KDE Plasma DE.

Somehow I managed to add 4 analog clock widgets to the panel. I can't find any way to delete a widget from the panel.

HELP!

I'm trying to adjust speaker and headphone volume with alsamixer.

But  it is stuck at the "Master" output, and the Left, Right, Up, Down keys don't work.

How can I get alsamixer working?