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

I could use rkmpv to play mp4 by hw decoder,

but when I use gstreamer I got error as below:

rock64@rock64 # gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=file:///home/rock64/Videos/TEST.mp4 video-sink=kmssink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /GstKMSSink:kmssink0: Could not open DRM module (NULL)
Additional debug info:
gstkmssink.c(709): gst_kms_sink_start (): /GstKMSSink:kmssink0:
reason: No such file or directory (2)
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...


do I miss anything?

Thanks

regards,
Yui

I am trying to connect a 3.3V serial adapter to rockpro64.

I suppose that connecting over UART is done on pin 6,8 and 10.

Is the baud 115200 or 1500000 (1.5M) ?

Thank you

Sorry, i can't post nice pictures from my ROCKPro64 v2.1 here

Please look here -> forum.frank-mankel.org ***only german***

v2.1 is really nice.

• removed resistor (PCIe)
  
• new recover button
  
• and many more!?
  

I have a couple slightly older regular [86-64] desktop combinations. Some of them with slightly more graphics card memory, some variation in bus speeds, etc. clarification: the newest & most powerful graphics card of those is a GTX 660, and it happens to be connected to a pcie2.0[though the 660 supports up to pcie3.0] slot. It does a *pretty* good job with *most* games / graphic intensive stuff. I was somewhat surprised to see it completely choke with 4k movies.

I've already ordered a rock64, though it's still not arrived [nearly irrelevant to this post].

Just curious: does it do a pretty solid job with 4k movies? Also out of curiosity: What do you think the weak link is in my aging desktop for 4k? pcie2.0? age in general? What makes newer micro devices capable of 4k? is it more about bus speed, or specific encoding / gpu circuitry that just does 4k?

What is the difference between the following two repositories?

・PINE A64 Linux – longsleep Github repo
https://github.com/longsleep/build-pine64-image

・PINE A64 Linux – ayufan Github repo
https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/linux-build

Hi there!
I am trying to set up a home nas using rock64 4gb running openmediavault 239 arm64. The problem is that I don't have any available ethernet connection, and I need to use a wifi setup. I bought this wifi adapter https://www.fasttech.com/p/9636614 , it has a rt8188 as the main chipset (the same as in the original sold on pine64), however it shows up as ralink5370 using armbian. The problem is that omv environment does not recognize this wifi adapter, but I know that it should work since it works out of the box running armbian. If you have any idea on how to properly install a driver on omv environment, please help!