So I imagine the greatest interest in this SBC is the PCIe slot, so what have people used that slot for yet?
Are there any good drivers out there in the ARM world yet that people who aren't pro Linux programmers and kernel compilers can use?
I personally have plenty of small ARM boards and still need to make full use of my Rock64 board,
While I would like to have a newer CPU and GPU, all I would use it for is a glorified small form factor Linux desktop computer.
Is there anything that PCIe slot can do that would make it worthwhile the $80?
I would like to slap a affordable Nvidia GPU in that slot, is there any ARM based Linux that could drive it as a display adapter? Has anyone ran the Nouveau driver under an ARM environment before?

Thanks for any help,
MobileJAD.

How to clean the card emmc?

Hi everyone,

The Rock64Pro looks like it would make for a perfect home made nbase-t usb3 adapter, assuming that the type-c port can operate in peripheral superspeed mode. Some parts of the website indicate that the type-c port has otg support in which case I think it would be the Rock64pro would be able to behave as usb device for another computer. Also it is unclear whether the usb-c port operates in superspeed mode as either a host or a peripheral. Can someone confirm that it will behave as a superspeed peripheral?

Assuming that it can act as a superspeed type-c peripheral, then it may be possible to install an 10Gbe ethernet card into the x4 slot and turn the whole thing into a 10Gbe type-c ethernet adapter. 

Does anyone see any obvious obstacles to this idea?

Thanks

Hi,

I have just received my new ROCK64 2G, I burned the Debian on the SD card and it succeeded. But when I put the SD card into it, nothing happened. The STBY LED, PWR LED, IR LED lighted up but when I plugged it with the TV screen through HDMI, the TV screen didn't show up anything.

Is my ROCK64 dead or are the anything I need to config? Or are there any ways I can check for the life of my ROCK64?

Thank you

I found a way to install a number of OS's on the Rock64.
This may already be known but I thought I might pass it along.
1 Install bionic-minimal-rock64-0.6.44-139-arm64.img on you SD or eMMC card, or what ever is the current stable version
2Run bionic-minimal program, login (usually name=rock64 and pw=rock64.
3Now at the prompt issue   sudo apt-get install tasksel
4Next run   sudo tasksel and you will be presented with a list of OS's.
5With the curser move to the OS you want, I selected ubuntu mate that seems to run fairly good on the rock64
6Use the SPACE bar to select the OS, then tab to the OK and hit the ENTER key.
It may take some time to load.
Ubuntu Mate works great for me.

Rich Prim  

Hi! I flashed the SPI on my Rock64 4GB board so that I could boot from an external hard drive.

I then put ARM Arch Linux on the hard drive and it boots from the USB2 ports but the USB3 does not work at all. Regardless of what device I plug into it, even after the OS is running from the drive connected to USB2. It worked fine on Kernel 4.4 but seems to be broken in the latest.

Hello everyone,

I experience poor USB3 performance with my rock64 (apparently it happens to other too...)

My setup :

• stretch-openmediavault-rock64-0.6.44-239-armhf
  
• Seagate 3TB USB3 HDD in NTFS (good perf, at least 100MB/s r/w over windows)
  

Hi there,

At the moment, I have a big x86 headless server running TVHeadend, that is on 24/7.

The server contains 3HDDs and records via a Digibit R1.

I stream video to a number of Kodi clients (mostly Raspberry Pis) on my network.

It recently dawned on me that the server is only used for about 8 hours a day during the week (maybe 12 hours over the weekend), so it is spending the vast majority just sitting in an idle state, using electricity needlessly.

Furthermore, we only use one of the hard drives about 90% of the time (the one used for recording).

I think it is time to my PVR capabilities to something a little less noisy/thirsty and thought about going down the Raspberry Pi3B+ route.  

However, I was worried that the small amount of RAM and less than Gigabit speed network would cause me problems if I am trying to record/stream multiple HD channels.

I have seen some really good review for the Rock64 (although I know very little about it) and would be really grateful to know whether it would make a good headless TVHeadend server.

A few specific questions:

1. What is the best/fastest way to connect a harddrive?
2. What is the eMMC module socket for?  Can I use this for the OS, rather than the SD slot?

Thanks.

Where can I find th wifi drivers of ROCKPro64 2×2 MIMO Dual Band WIFI 802.11AC/BLUETOOTH 4.1 MODULE   for linux?

Attempting to install wireguard using DKMS on Armbian Xenial (legacy kernel). I've apt-installed kernel headers, but DKMS is failing to build the wireguard kernel module with the following error: