Error message after login on Q4OS/KDE Plasma DE:

"DCOP communications error (Welcome screen)
There was an error setting up inter-process communications for TDE. The message returned by the system was:

Could not open network socket

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!"

How can I correct this error?

Thanks to a lot of hard work from Ayufan and others, we have a working Bionic image that does sound, hardware video, suspend-to-RAM, and has good power efficiency. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work out of the box, so here are the tweaks I've used to enable and enhance my experience on Ayufan's Bionic LXDE 0.7.28.

Getting WiFi

Installing network-manager-gnome and gnome-keyring (used for storing configurations securely) permits connecting to all kinds of WiFi networks including WPA2-Enterprise.

Make sure to use wlan0 and not p2p0 as the interface.

BUGS: No icon in system tray; you just have to click in the tray area until you get it.

HiDPI Scaling

The 1080p display on the 11.6 inch form factor is very high-DPI and thus scaling may be desired. To enable this on LXDE, create a .Xresources file in the home directory and add

Xft.dpi: 130

Replace 130 with whatever DPI setting is desired. 130 is a sane default, if a little small for some.

Enabling GPU Acceleration

Ayufan makes available packages for the the sunxi / Mali drivers (run pine64_enablea_sunxidrm.sh and install), but in order to use them, the libMali.so binary (in /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/mali/) needs to be symlinked at /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1 and at /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2 and those libraries need to be entirely moved away or removed somehow.

Getting a Better Panel

XFCE4 provides very useful software for use with LXDE. Installing xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-panel, and xfce4-goodies gives you access to a much nicer panel and menu (Whisker Menu).

Edit .config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and replace the lxpanel line with a line for xfce4-panel, then log in and out and configure xfce4-panel to your liking.

PulseAudio Control

PulseAudio is installed by default, but you need pavucontrol to change settings in a sensible way.

To add keyboard shortcuts, you need xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin and lxhotkey-plugin-openbox. Install them and add the pulseaudio plugin to your panel.

Hi,

for those of you testing the PCIe port of the rockpro64, you should apply the attached patch:

support for slarm64 for rockpro64 development boards (aarch64 unofficial port slackware)
the system can be assembled as armhf and aarch64, assemblies are made under aarch64


links:

So have some screen overscan and atm have a 1024x768 res cause it fits perfect in screen, when I change to 1080 there is too much overscan, cant see menu bar and all sides of screen are overscanned, Im no dev but have half a brain, with some simple instructions or pointing out where to go, I'm sure ill manage. ATM image is horrible, 1080 looks awesome but not at all functional, plz help

Already checked this page for fix, to no avail  lxrandr page

Already tried all settings in TV

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