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...
Speak

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.

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