I am sure this is a basic question, but where can I get the python libraries for the Rockpro64.

I have tried the Rock64 from Laepo's github but I do not think they are right for the pro64 board.

When I did try them in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic lxde OS build I am getting the following errors when I try to access the pins:

>>>Unable to export GPIO
>>>Unable to set GPIO Direction

Programming is fairly new to me, but I try to google everything before asking questions

Thanks

Dave

A few new welcome additions in the store:

80mm fan for the case: https://www.pine64.org/?product=fan-for-...nas-casing
A super low-profile graphene heatsink: https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro6...e-heatsink
A 13mpx camera: https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro6...dard-model

Just relaying that NetBSD images for the RockPro64 are now available for download.

Enjoy!

No matter what I do I can't get ethernet link up. I have tried three different distorts of *nix, including FreeBSD, Ambrian and Xenial with no luck. , three different cables, all known good and two working ethernet switches. What am I missing?

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" ?