hi, i recently bought a rock64 4gb board. i tried lakka 2.1.1, but it shows strange graphical glitches like "interferences" in menu and games and generally very low framerates (in this video frames are acceptable if not very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5BNIRCjJoM). so i tried another power supply and another hdmi cable, but nothing changed. then i tried ayufan's arm64 bionic-lxde build + retroarch from libretro ppa. it's better than lakka, but problems persist: no in-game graphic glitches, but framerates are lower than video reviews. only the retroarch menu shows minor graphical glitches, like not working vsync and tearing. in general, video performances are not like in video reviews.

ps: i also tried different power supplies and differnt screens.

cheers,
Gioele

If you want to make a rock64 notebook can you connect
a lvds display to the computer?

Is a 10 inch hdmi display more expensive than
a similar lvds display?
Thank you.

As far as I can see, Pine Microsystems doesn't provide a complete user's guide (manual) for the RockPro64. IMHO the wiki page isn't enough for ordinary users. Many of us (including myself) have coped, but perhaps many couldn't (or wouldn't). I think that it'd be good if the developers devote some of their precious time to writing such a user documentation. I know that writing docs isn't as pleasant as developing hardware or software, but who can do it better, if it's really needed? Thank you for your attention!

newbie setup and usage questions. thanks humbly for assistance and guidance!

1)  Do I use "ROCKPro64 Power Cable for dual SATA Drives" to connect disk to "ROCKPro64 PCI-e to Dual SATA-II Interface Card"?

2) I assume the RockPro64 can only use qty 1 "ROCKPro64 PCI-e to Dual SATA-II Interface Card"? or can I use 2 cards instead of using 1 "NVMe SSD Interface Card"?
I have several sata III ssd drives new


3) Can I load OpenmediaVault and use as NAS (as well as use as a workstation) at the same time?
  I would use office software (word, spreadsheet, email, browser}
  
 Or does openmediavault/nas require full system attention?

Thanks!

Perhaps the harder part of this is to explain WHY you would want to do this. And HOW to identify the modules.

In my life this all started trying to put rootfs on my NVMe with 4.18.0-rc8 kernel. I could boot 4.18 from an SDcard and see the NVMe after boot. But the PCIe and NVMe initialisation were after rootfs was mounted during boot. And so any attempt to define the NVMe as rootfs caused a hang in the boot sequence as it was not available when required.

I was pretty unsuccesful trying to identify which modules were loaded during initramfs time and which were loaded after rootfs. lsmod showed the same results whether I had the PCIe card plugged in or not. So I got lucky and decided to try with the "likely candidates", pcie_rockchip_host and phy_rockchip_pcie.

The initramfs can be tweaked using the 3 text files in /etc/initramfs-tools/

I made no changes to initramfs.conf

I added the 2 modules to modules, now looks like

The environment is "bionic-lxde-rockpro64-0.7.9-1067-arm64.img.xz".(https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-b...m64.img.xz)
kernel is updated to "linux-image-4.4.138-1094". (https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-k..._arm64.deb)


The sound via hdmi is output well.
However, there is no sound via "es8316", but somehow rubbish comes out on the serial console.

Is there a person who has successfully outputted sound via "es8316" ?

I've had the Rock64 since February (I think) but I've yet to still do something with it. Very frustrated with it. It won't work for what I want it for. So I'm wondering if I can game on it at least.

I tried AndroidTV from ayufan but Google Play won't let me sign in. I want it to play an Android game called Fire Emblem Heroes so that I don't have to use my phone so much. Would this be possible? I think it depends a lot on GP, so I don't want to be using another store app.

Can you say the rockpro64 is nothing more than a rock64 computer, the rockpro64 having two more
processors?

Is it possible to quantify in percents how much faster the rockpro64 is?
Thank you.

http://opensource.rock-chips.com
It's linked at the bottom of the RockPro64's Wiki page under "Other resources".

What's up with the Rockchip Open Source Wiki and main site?
Is it coming back ?

For over a week now, it's going from "Resolving host..." to "Connecting..." where it hangs for ages before giving up.
I can see Google Chrome retrying every so often because the circular throbber in the tab becomes active again.

Good Day all

I'm tried to install OpenHABian yesterday on my Pine64+, but on first boot, it hangs at the wlan detection phase. 

A few questions:
1. Can I comment (#) out the wlan ssid and wlan psk settings in the openhabian.conf file? 
2. Will this allow the OpenHABian install to find my ethernet network automatically? 
3. Or do I have to make other changes on first boot?

I have tried the OpenHAB documentation, but found no fixes, only not to, include the ssid and psk settings in the  config file, then it should automatically go to your wired network for setup. But in my case this fails.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanx.