I recently received a Rockpro64 board and am having difficulty getting it to boot. I've searched through the forum and haven't found quite the same issue. The board itself is the 4GB version with a 20 mm heat sink, no eMMC module installed, powered by a 12V-5A power supply. and labeled V2.1 2018-07-02. The keyboard and mouse are both USB and an HDMI monitor is attached, as well as an Ethernet cable.

I used Etcher to try the following images: bionic-minimal-rockpro64-0.7.9-1067-arm64.img.xz, bionic-lxde-rockpro64-0.7.9-1067-arm64.img.xz, and stretch-minimal-rockpro64-0.7.9-1067-arm64.img.xz, but none has booted. When power is applied, the green LED comes on but no other LED lights up, not even the Ethernet one, and nothing appears on the monitor.

I've tried several microSD cards, all with the same result. I do have experience burning system images, having worked with Raspberry Pi systems. In fact one of the microSD cards I tried was previously used in a RPi2 both before and after the Rockpro64 attempts.

Does anyone have an idea of what to try next? Are there any checksums available for the download images?

Thanks.

Hi everyone,i want to use linux with gui,but i have monitor with 900p res,and,you know, i can't use 1080p.
I read before that Mali400 does not support 720p on Linux systems,is it true? And if not-how can i setup resolution? 
P.S. Remix OS is very laggy so i don't want to use it/

Pine A64 2GB

Hi,

What's the difference between the wlan0 and p2p0 WiFi adapter. 
I guess there's only one WiFi adapter on the Pinebook, so why both are listed?

It seems that the Pinebook, even configured to use wlan0 with a wifi network sometime connects to it through the other, "shadow" p2p0 interface.
This leads to an unexpected effect, as the DHCP server assign a different IP address depending on which I/F is used. This is due to different MAC addresses of the I/F, as p2p0 uses a 02: prefix while wlan0 uses 00:

Any piece of info about this topic?

Thanks,
Manu

Directions for those, who would like to check Q4OS running on Rock64:
https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2410

Q4OS on Rock64 is pretty snappy and runs fast. A feedback would be appreciated.

Manjaro ARM website

Download here

At the moment to write this post are two versions available, see on latest post of this thread to find new updates.

KDE 



LXQT



User Password
root root
manjaro manjaro
 
Features:

The Pinebook is a $99 laptop, based on the popular Pine64 ARM board. It sports a quad core ARM CPU, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB eMMC, Wifi and Bluetooth and either a 14" TN screen or an 11" IPS screen.

The Manjaro ARM images are marking Manjaro ARM’s first venture into ARM based laptops and is heavily based on the Arch Linux builds from user anarsoul on Github.

How to install:

Download the image/zip file from the download location. Verify that the download completed successfully.

After that, install Etcher and burn it to an SD card (8 GB or larger recommended).

Put the SD card into the Pinebooks SD card slot and boot it up. The Pinebook should recognize the SD card as a bootable device and boot from it.

The Pinebook will reboot once before it gets to a login screen. This is because the filesystem gets resized to fit the SD card.

On first boot, the wifi card gets activated after a couple of minutes, even though the tray icon (on plasma) does not change.

Hello everyone,
happily writing from my brand new 11' pinebook. Everything works and since there are not many distros with full support I think I'll stick with the default KDE Neon for now.
I am however a sucker login shells and boot messages, so I'd like to tell grub to boot into command like and not showing a splash screen. How do I do it?

I come from Ubuntu (/etc/default/grub into update-grub) and Arch linux (same but with grub-mkconfig), but none of the methods I know worked. I found /etc/default/grub.d/99_breeze-grub.cfg but after editing it I have no idea how to confirm the changes. Can anyone help me?

The man pages are not working as of now with an up to date KDE neon installation. 

Does anyone know how to fix it? I searched and found some old posts about nroff or troff missing, but this is not the case anymore.

Thanks

I'm trying to install mjpg-streamer on my rock64 and I cannot find the package libjpeg8-dev.  I tried adding the Debian Sid entry to the /etc/apt/sources.list, but I cannot get it to accept the key.  This is pretty obvious, but how to I add that key?

Running ayufan 18.04 bionic on rock64pro.  (NAS BOX SETUP)

I am having trouble rebooting the machine remotely from ssh.

I've tried a few different flavors of reboot command and made sure there was no "power management" feature turned on that could cause the reboot to hang.

sudo systemctl reboot

Has anyone had the same issue and come up with a fix.

It's likely some shutdown process is hanging like unmounting somthing.... (which has happened on other distros and machines).  If I can't come up with a solution I guess I'll punt and hook a monitor up so I can maybe see what shutdown process it hangs on.