When i flash the following images to my MicroSD card and boot up my Rock64 the GPU Mali 450MP is not working.  Video playback is horrible.

bionic-lxde-rock64-0.7.9-1067-arm64.img.xz
bionic-minimal-rock64-0.7.8-1061-arm64.img.xz
stretch-mate-rock64-0.5.15-136-20171222-arm64.img.xz
stretch-minimal-rock64-0.7.8-1061-arm64.img.xz

When i flash LibreELEC-RK3328.arm-9.0-nightly-20180909-8d97906-rock64.img which runs Kodi it plays video in full 4k so i know the GPU works.

Is their anything i can do to get the full graphics capability out of my Rock64 running Linux?

Are there any updates on having any support for being able to install regular linux distros on the Rock64? I know there was/is some headway being made, like Arch Linux ARM being supported and I saw a post about someone getting standard Debian to pretty much work on the Rock64. Are there any more updates on the status of these endeavors?

Installing standard Debian forum post

Arch Linux Arm officially supports the Rock64


Thanks

If I see the "options available" correct for the Pinebook, it shows an EMMC _USB card to mount the upgrade/purchased 64gb EMMC and ai can etch it directly to the EMMC.... allowing me access to install it into the Pinebook.  (Am I seeing that correctly?  (Is the Pinebook internal accessible to install the larger flashed 64mb EMMC myself?)

If not, then I do not need the EMMC_USB card for flashing EMMC memory internal to the PINEBOOK.

2) Micro SD sdxc Class 10 memory.  Other vendors also show and reference the SD-UHS1 class 10 card as a double performance in read and write over the offered Class 10 sdxc card. 
As long as it is class 10, it should be identifiable, I assume the increase in read/write will be the same on PineBook.
(ANYONE VERIFY THAT AS BEING THE CASE FOR PINEBOOK OR PINE CARDS?)

3) WHAT IS THE LARGEST Micro sdxc in MB the Pinebook can identify? 256mb or higher?

4)I will image the EMMC with the OS.  Can I specify the MicroSD as data storage location? in addition to using the EMMC for OS/Programs.

5) I have nice Linux Nas(2) I will backup the Pinebook to regularly.

I need to identify software that will allow me to map/see network and attach to / map to external drives (nas). Unless that is included in KUBUNTU.  I am just now starting to read up on it.

If you have any specific info to direct me to please do so.  I called myself looking THOROUGHLY through website for specific answers abut none were shown.

Thank you again,

Alton

I have downloaded Debian Stretch Minimal and and burned on eMMC.
The Rock64 is booting, but I do not have any clue how to enable the ssh on boot, its headless.
Can somebody help me?

After the generous donation of sample boards to our team am proud to release a work in progress Lakka image for this beautiful beast!

Download link:
https://transfer.sh/JXjTz/Lakka-Rockchip...324.img.gz

Known issues

• As the system currently only works in 64bit mode (32bit libmali crashes), some cores (N64, NDS) have their performance hindered due to the lack of ARM64 dynarecs. This will hopefully addressed in the future as more cores are ported to ARM64.
  
• On the other hand, some cores like PPSSPP or Dolphin work better in 64bit mode.
  
• The ethernet MAC address is currently random at each boot - this causes the IP address to be different too each time the board is rebooted.
  • While it should, the MAC address is not passed from u-boot (for network boot) to Linux, this causes the board to have one IP address when u-boot runs then another when Linux runs
    
• The HDMI display resolution is wrong when booting the board. A workaround for this is unplugging and plugging back the HDMI cord once booted.
  

Well, I need a working computer, so I haven't tried to do anything in terms of major updates (except for apt-get update and upgrade) to my Pinebook. But now that I might see the 11" Pinebook soon, I would like to have a working Pinebook with a not as ancient Linux version on it.
How is 18.4 doing? Is it worth updating? Will it keep at least the features that are currently working with the Pinebook? Will it add more (useful) features as Mali support or DRM?
If the answers to my questions are "yes" .... how do I upgrade? Just follow the Ubuntu built-in update process? I fear that it won't set up a proeper Kernel and a working U-boot... or not?

I was registered one month ago and now I get a Coupon Code.
When finally I prepearing accomplish purchase order, I re-checked Specifications and found:

RAM: 2 GB LPDDR3 RAM Memory
Flash: 16 GB eMMC 5.0 (upgradable up to 64GB)

I am glad the Flash upgradable, but I dont't understand why RAM seems not upgradable? ROCK64 SINGLE BOARD COMPUTER has 4GB RAM, but the Pinebook has only 2GB, is it really enough?

Aloha,

Installed Debian Stretch Minimal 64bit OS Image (mSD, bld 0.7.9).  After signing on using CLI (rock64/rock64), I only can enter CLI/Linux commands.  Why is there no GUI???     Is this normal?  Do I have to install GUI packages.  I am not sure what my next step is!   Any help via links, Linux commands, etc would be grateful...

Warm Aloha,
Pajaro

OK, so spurred into action by Deathcrow here, I decided the time had come for me to have another bash at compiling a kernel. "It's pretty easy. " - Ha

1) git clone https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-m...kernel.git - no problems. (Will need to update at some stage but that can wait!)

2) Needed to install pkg-config, libncurses-dev, bison, flex and fakeroot as well

3) make menuconfig - could presumably spend months here but for a first run went with the defaults. Presume .config turns into /boot/config... in due course so can peruse ayufan versions and load/mod them when I get smarter.

4) make -j6 bindeb-pkg was going really well until

DietPi for the RockPro64 is now available.
You can download it directly from DietPi's website