Hi,

Been playing with the bionic-lxde-rockpro64-0.7.8-1061-arm64 image, the desktop experience is very good, really usable. There is one problem tho, YouTube and BBC iPlayer run a 4 time the normal speed. Any idea how to fix?

Hi

My RockPro64 arrived last week and it looks good so far. But I have a little problem, I tried a Intel I350 T4 4 port gigabit nic on the PCIe slot and it doesn't work...
I'm running stretch minimal from ayufan (stretch-minimal-rockpro64-0.7.8-1061-arm64). In my computer (fedora) and in my server (centos) the nic works fine.

It does show up with lspci:

In 9 hours 34 minutes.  Several sites I visit whine about my browser version using what's in the debs, Badoo refuses to work at all.  So I've tried a few times to build current Firefox.  This was done from an hg bundle because it was the only thing I could pull through intact enough to work.  It's about 1.5 GB of source code, the build directory at the end is 5.9 GB.  This is a 4 GB Rock64 with a 6 GB swapfile.

Rust and LLVM/Clang I had to build from sources because the deb versions were too old (rustup update will work for Rust), everything else is from the debs.  LLVM documentation has a lot of old cruft in it.  But unxz and untar both llvm and cfe (clang).  Then inside the llvm dir make a tools/clang dir and move the contents of the clang tarball into it (skip the outer level directory).  That way building and installing llvm will also do clang.  You have to use cmake, not the configure script, so do mkdir build and cd into that, then "cmake ..".  Edit your new CMKakeCache.txt and put in TOP_LEVEL_DIR=/usr/local/llvm (or wherever you want LLVM installed) then run "cmake .." again.  Now run make and make install.  I'm just doing it over  again on a Pi [that didn't work].

There's a list of requirements, I kept working through that and tracking things down from error messages.  There's a bootstrap.py in there somewhere, that helped a little but in the end ./mach build ran straight through.  I started with a tarball, I forget why that didn't work.  Then I tried to use git, but that only works on perfect networks, so I did the bundle.   All the attempts helped me get the requirements right.  I grabbed from https://hg.cdn.mozilla.net/ using the releases/mozilla-release at the bottom.  I mostly followed https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs...al/Bundles but I didn't do mozilla-central (this time).

   

I'm just playing here looking to get more bandwidth.....
Anyone know if adding a 2/4 port gigabit pcie card using a Intel pro 1000 chipset and binding the interfaces together would work?
IE would the rockpro64 allow the bandwidth through or would there be a bottleneck that wouldn't make it worth it?
Thanks
Neeko

Hi,

I've purchased the ROCKPro64 PCI-e to Dual SATA-II Interface Card and would like to know on how to provide power to the drives. Got to admit that I did not really look at the pictures before purchasing, so I thought there would be a sata power connector run of the PCI v12 lane

Any guidance would be gratefully received...

Thought I would log a confirmation it is perfectly possible to setup a new ROCKPro64 with linux without:

1) etcher (or the Pine utility) - there is no aarch64 version of etcher which is kinda limiting for those of us already using arm systems for our daily driver!
2) I didn't order the Pine emmc/USB adapter to save money and reduce the order value/import tax hit.

The steps are pretty simple: yeah they rely on dd heavily and most of the time it works fine for me.

1) Download your image of choice, I went with bionic-minimal-rockpro64-0.7.9-1067-arm64.img.xz
2) Unzip the image,

HI all,

The Pinebook BTO page will be updated on August 1st and new Pinebook shipments will follow sometime soon after that.

Which leads me to my question: which OS would you like the new Pinebook batch to ship with? - please answer the poll.
If you have other suggestions then we're all ears ...

Thanks!

Hi,

Can someone confirm the pins on the PI-1 bus for UART and the COM port setting, I assumed it was the same as the Rock64, but this is not working for me

Hi Guys,

I just received my ROCKPRO64, but I have severe problems to get it to boot.
I prepared a SD card using the PINE64 Intaller, I have tried various OS offerings, Linux, Android, etc.
But none of them seem to boot the RockPro64.
The power supply is perfectly fine, it is capable if providing 12V@4A.
I even tried another power supply, same effect.
The board seems to be supplied, at the GPIO connector I can measure 5V as well as 3.3V.
The Ethernet LEDs are blinking if I plugin a network cable.
The Power button seems also to shut down the board if I press long enought (Ethernet LEDs turn off),
and by pressing the Power Button the Ethernet LED turn back on.
But under no circumstances I get a video out on HDMI, not can I see that the board has requested
a IP address.
So, it looks like as if the board is not booting from SD card at all.

Unfortunately I forgot to order an eMMC card as well, so I cannot check whether it boots from eMMC.

I placed already an order, but I have to wait a few more days for the eMMC card to arrive.

Is ther a special trick to get the board booted from SD card?
If there any other way I could check whether the board is atcually working, booting from USB maybe?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thx
Daniel

Hi,

Recently, I dug my Rockpro module out of the store cupboard and had another try at getting it to work.

This time I was using the latest Linux prerelease :-

bionic-lxde-rockpro64-0.7.8-1061-arm64.img.xz

Conditions:-

Hdmi monitor connected
5.1V (measured) 8A power supply
1GB ethernet connected
NVME adaptor and 120G Samsung ssd connected
USB keyboard and mouse connected
serial console connected.
Linux version as above on Emmc card installed.
No wifi

1. Plug power jack into board, instant boot, then continual exception reported.
2. reset and reboot   Continual exception reported
3. Removed NVME adaptor card, rebooted   NO exception, Monitor showed boot, eventually showing LXDE login screen.  Attempted to log in,  exception thrown,  system rebooted on its own
4.  Rebooted manually again,  got log in screen on monitor, logged in, system wen to blank screen and locked up had to remove power and restart.
5. Restart successful, logged into LXDE got to menu, ran browser, got connected to websites.  NO errors shown on console.
6. Powered down, reinstalled NVME card.... instant continuous exceptions.   NOTE.  This card and SSD was working OK in bionic miminal, previous release.
7. Removed NVME card and restarted,  got to LXDE boot screen but could not log on, not showing characters from USB keyboard.

People say that these sorts of errors are software related,  I still believe they are due to improper initialisation of the board at boot / power on!  

ONCE a successful boot occurs then the system appears to work correctly with NO errors shown.  The problem is getting to that desired state!

BTW,  after several boots,  the Rockpro complains that it needs to do a fsck on the root file system, but it cannot because the file structure is broken.

This can be seen if you take an SD card with a Rockpro system on it and try to mount it on a Linux system. The Rockpro software is the only iso I have ever seen that cannot be mounted on a Linux system.  The Linux error is that the Ext4 file system does not contain a journel,  which is fine for an sd card, but screws up  the  mount and fsck utilities, in both Linux Mint and in the Rockpro system.

Back to the cupboard with the Rockpro, and the new disk case for a few more weeks.

regards

Patrick