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?

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Hi,
Images downloaded from your website.
Both Android 7 and 8 shows me the next message - Prepare IDB Fail.

ROCKPro64_20180828_stock_android_8.1_emmcboot.img
ROCKPro64_20180809_stock_android_7.1_emmcboot.img

Please help me.

On the store there are power suppliers 12V 5A and 3A. I have 12V 2A from cubietruck. Will it be enough?

While Pinebook is not a very powerful machine, it's still quite capable. And while it's certainly not a "gaming laptop", it could still run graphically less demanding games quite well. Moreover, great battery life could keep you entertained throughout a long trip, for instance. What games do you play on your Pinebook?

One of best genres to play on a Pinebook in my opinion, is roguelike games. Great keyboard, optimal size and weight (for 11.6"), long battery life - all this makes Pinebook an ultimate portable roguelike machine. And as roguelikes are usually very modest with system requirements - it's a perfect kind of games to play on Pinebook. NetHack, Angband, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - all they can be played on a Pinebook, and it's a very enjoyable experience.

My personal favorite is NetHack, which I do play quite often on my Pinebook:



Many major roguelikes are already packed in most distros repositories.

Does anyone have any hints on how to get an NFS mount working?  I am using kernel 4.20 since it recently had rockpro64 support added.  My kernel parameters look like the following:

console=ttyS2,1500000 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff1a0000 root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.10.0.1:/export/sysroot,proto=tcp,vers=3 ip=10.10.0.2:10.10.0.1::255.255.255.0:rockpro64:eth0:off raid=noautodetect nfsrootdebug

and I am loading my kernel and kicking it off from u-boot with:

tftpboot 0x2000000 <kernel Image>
tftpboot 0x20000000 rk3399-rockpro64.dtb
booti 0x2000000 - 0x20000000

The NFS debug spits out:
NFS: nfs mount opts='vers=2,udp,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,proto=tcp,vers=3,nolock,addr=10.10.0.1'
NFS:   parsing nfs mount option 'vers=2'
NFS:   parsing nfs mount option 'udp'
NFS:   parsing nfs mount option 'rsize=4096'
NFS:   parsing nfs mount option 'wsize=4096'
NFS:   parsing nfs mount option 'proto=tcp'
NFS:   parsing nfs mount option 'vers=3'
NFS:   parsing nfs mount option 'nolock'
NFS:   parsing nfs mount option 'addr=10.10.0.1'
NFS: MNTPATH: '/export/sysroot'
NFS: sending MNT request for 10.10.0.1:/export/sysroot
NFS: failed to create MNT RPC client, status=-101
NFS: unable to mount server 10.10.0.1, error -101

I am not convinced that the network interface is coming up.  For starters, I never see anything like the following on the console:

IP-Config: Complete: 
      device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.100, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255, 
    host=myboard, domain=, nis-domain=(none), 
    bootserver=255.255.255.255, rootserver=255.255.255.255, rootpath= 

which is what I thought using the ip= parameter was supposed to do and when I turn on:
rpcdebug -m nsfd all
rpcdebug -m rpc all

and watch /var/log/messages on my server, nothing happens - it looks like my devices aren't talking.

I assumed that the in kernel realtek drivers would be sufficient, but I noticed that in the 4.4 kernel, there is an actual rockchip ethernet driver - does that need to be used in the 4.20 kernel?  I tried copying it and adding it to my config, but some of the timer interfaces changed, so it does not compile.

Any hints would be helpful.

Thanks!

I had a 2.5 HDD on the USB3 connector without a separate power supply. It worked any weeks. Then the rockpro dies during work on it. The Kernel can't find the filesystem. After then boot hangs on initilize the USB stack.