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Hi,

I just got my ROCKPro64 in the mail yesterday, and now I just noticed I accidentally removed the eMMc module from the purchase, is there a way I can use an USB Flash drive to boot it up, or a place to buy the modules and get it quick? My purchase topic 3 weeks to get to my door, is there anything else I can do?

I am very disappointed in the performance of my brand-new Pinebook.

I am only talking about the Web browser (Chromium), which takes a full second to display each character I'm typing here!

Typing in the terminal and in Kate is acceptably snappy.

Does anybody else notice this sluggishness?

Oh, and videos on Youtube are sluggish too, but of course I'm viewing Youtube in a Chromium window.

Pinebook 11.6", 1080P, running Q4OS.

How can I adjust the screen brightness?

Previously, when I was running KDE Neon, there was a brightness slider in the battery monitor in the system tray. 

But in Q4OS, I don't see any such control.

Hi folks,

It seems some of us are having issues with mainline kernel images.

I personally have tried anarsoul's arch xfce, AOSC and Manjaro and none of them boots. The screen is completely blank (I'd say it is powered on but nothing on the screen). I don't have the headphones serial adapter but I've tried to connect an USB ethernet adapter and after ~30 minutes since booted, no activity.

I've tested with etcher and dd just in case but same result. Same microsd boots fine with BSP images (such as Q4OS or ayufan's bionic mate).

Thanks.

I can't get all the French  accent characters from the keyboard.

I'm on the Pinebook 11.6" 1080P, running Q4OS.

I have added the French (Canada) keyboard selector, and I can get these keys:

éêçäâôöÉ

But that's all. I can't get e or accent grâve, for example.

Is there any way to edit the keyboard layout to add the missing accent keys?

Figure worth trying to make a single collection of the bits to compile a new kernel for your RockPro64. On your RockPro64.

And what could be better motivation than to overclock your RockPro64?

As always the warranty for these instructions is - if you break it you own both parts.

And, as always on Linux, there are  a million ways to do this. My steps below are just 1 way that works for me, I don't claim any particular benefit over any other way.

To cause an argument let me assume the starting point is an Ayufan 0.7.9 image on an SDcard in your RockPro64. And that you want to get the current 4.19 kernel running with a 2.1GHz max speed for your A72 cores.

First observation: the way Ayufan has set things up you will be able to toggle between the 4.4.x kernel in his 0.7.9 image and your 4.19 image as long as you can edit a text file on your SDcard on another Linux PC so you should not "brick" anything.

Second observation - everything below you can search www and find other pages/advice/embellishments if you want.

1) Create a working directory: if you start a terminal session (Open a terminal using your menu system - probably under system tools) you are most likely to be the user rock64 in your home directory (which is /home/rock64/). If you type

Working on Rock64/Debian Stretch and trying to crossfade two images. I've tried Pygame, Kivy, and just basic SDL, but it seems like none of these are able to do anything other than SW mode. Is there a way of making them use HW or some other method of displaying images through Python where I'd be able to get a smooth realtime transition?

I was looking at building a dvr to record tv useing a tv tuner. I came across the rockpro 64 and am impressed. I am wondering if it is a good idea to use the rockpro for this task. I would preforably be useing the Hauppauge 1265 PCIE tuner but am afraid the rockpro might not support it. If not what about the usb Hauppauge 955Q tuner? Has anyone done a similar project to this?

I'm having some problems with the install of KDE Neon which I probably shouldn't be.

Although I followed the day zero fixes thread, and linked other thread, it still likes to go into the black screen death sleep. Sometimes it actually needs a hard reboot to get the display back. Sleep and resume doesn't always do it.

Graphics acceleration of any type seems to be broken. SMPlayer with it's configured video type of "gpu" doesn't render properly. It renders some of the top of the video frames then it kind of explodes into the framebuffer filling the whole width of the screen with what I assume to be the video frame with the lines end to end. After that is the rest of the screen, further down and offset.

I tried building an SDL program that I use. When running one of it's executables it told me something interesting.