Thanks to https://twitter.com/manuvadot we have FreeBSD builds for pinebook here.

Hi everybody!!!

I just brought a RockPro64 and I have few doubts/questions.

It is absolutely necessary have an eMMC module if I want to install Android 8.x.x. or I could use it just with my SD card???

I not sure what OS I should use. I would like use my RockPro64 mostly for watch 4k/2k/1080/720 movies, Netflix/HBO/Amazon and internet navigation. What OS do you recommend me?
I was thinking in Android 8 or 7 because I know nothing about the others options (DietPi, LibreELEC, Debian, Linux, etc, etc).

Please, could you recommend me one of them?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Does the Bionix LXDE from ayufan support the wifi/bt module for RockPro64?

The bionic image as follow: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCKPro...5B0.7.9.5D

I tried booting it with this image, but it does not recognize the wifi/bt module at all. Anyone get it to work?

Two-fingered scrolling is working fine, but is there a way that I can reverse the direction (natural scrolling) in KDE Neon?
I found some options in Settings but doesn't work.
And it seems KDE neon doesn't recognised touchpad too.

I've been using the rockpro64 for first time today, with a power plug I bought separately 12V 5A. 

The first attempts to boot were a total failure with the keyboard leds blinking so something was going wrong for sure. 
Tried many SD cards until I got the board working. 
Surprise : the wifi module is not supported....   ok let's use a USB wifi dongle.

After some minutes my RockPro64 was simply disconnecting from the wifi, lagging in the console, and finally freezing.
In theory if you provide a higher Amp, the board should only drain what it needs... but then I tried a 2A power source I had around and all the problems were gone. The board was working as it was sopposed to do, with IPFS running for hours.

I've seen other posts about having problems with 5A.
So... keep your boards down to 3A. My suspicion is that 5A are only needed when you have LCD screen or other power consuming accessories connected.

I'm using the Pine A64+ from the original Kickstarter (4 core, 1GB RAM) and the 7" touchscreen ordered directly from Pine64.

I downloaded an Armbian image from here (Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS). The touchscreen worked out of the box for both video and left-click...but not touchscreen based right-click (neither two finger of long touch). Nothing I've found online has worked to enable it.

Does anyone now how to enable right click in Armbian with touchscreen?

Thx

I ran apt-get update && upgrade on 16.04 xenial OS by ayufan and now the X11 cursor in MATE DE is missing and kernel keeps spewing out ~15 errors every 1 millisecond saying: [drm] destroy non-config mem. Any ideas? The laptop is unusable.

Hi All,

I managed to get the RTL8812AU driver working with the help of evilbunny. However, I am having connection issues, and power saving issues.

Power save issues seem to occur when the driver is not connecting to wifi. Fair enough, but when I use nmtui to connect to the wifi, my gui gets spammed with the "nolinked power save leave/enter" messages. It would be nice if there was a way to disable this either in startup or the driver itself.

Additionally, is there a process which works better than others for connections? I am unable to connect to networks 95% of the time with nmtui. Would anyone advocate for using wpa_supplicant or something else entirely for stable connections?

Thanks for your time
pane

Hi,

I have a Pine64-LTS with 16GB eMMC, running the Stretch minimal Sopine kernel by Ayufan (https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/linux-build/releases).

I am trying to install a 3G hat in the Pi bus, and need to enable some GPIO pins. I have followed the tutorial that pfeerick wrote in this forum (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=2088).



I am working with GPIOS 6 (230 in Pine) and 21 (75 in Pine). Just need to put them as output with the 1 value. But a few seconds or minutes (less than 10 minutes) afters setting these GPIOS, I lost the capacity to read or write to the disk (the emmc). It happens even when there is not anything connected to the Pi bus.
These are the errors that I can see in the syslog:

Nov 30 20:02:42 sopine kernel: [169456.474748] sunxi-mmc 1c11000.sdmmc: smc 0 p2 err, cmd 18, RD SBE !!

Nov 30 20:02:42 sopine kernel: [169456.481825] sunxi-mmc 1c11000.sdmmc: data error, sending stop command

Nov 30 20:02:42 sopine kernel: [169456.489060] sunxi-mmc 1c11000.sdmmc: reset:host reset and recover finish

Nov 30 20:02:42 sopine kernel: [169456.496550] mmcblk0: timed out sending r/w cmd command, card status 0x900

Nov 30 20:02:42 sopine kernel: [169456.504094] mmcblk0: not retrying timeout

Nov 30 20:02:42 sopine kernel: [169456.508595] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 1116624

Nov 30 20:02:42 sopine kernel: [169456.515171] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 1116632


I have tried several combinations (with or without ataching a hat), but it always happens after touching these GPIOs.

Have anyone see before a problem like this?

Thanks!
Regards
Chema

I have an odd problem. The IDE by Arduino has transparent fonts. It's usable only if the window below is dark, however the menus are unreadable, as they appear over the IDE itself.

I found out that disabling the window compositor solves this issue (alt+shift+f12) anyway it gives others, like an annoying flickering of the panel that sometimes disappears for a while.
I tried disabling the graphical eye candies, but with no luck. Only disabling the screen compositor works.


I'm running the stock Linux version.