Hi everyone,

as we have now plenty of OSes to choose from to install on our Rock64 board for doing one thing or another, and it's could be difficult and time consuming to pick the right tool for the task, I have thought of gathering OS to use and the purpose which suit them best.

A random example:

retrogaming/emulate N64 - Android x.y.z (+ link to image or a relevant thread) (+ if available other links with performance report)
kodi - raspbian X
NAS - dietpi Y.Z
FTP server - ...
and so on

So, based on user's experience and feedback, someone new getting "rock'ed"   can , just reading the list, pick right away the very right OS and be happy with his/her new board, instead of searching for hours, pick one, have trouble installing it, then be disappointing because in this one, peripheral A or B is not yet handled well.

the "best" could be for performance, maintenance, easiness, power consumption, etc

Even for just testing the Rock64 without any actual usage, it's not that easy among all OS available. Myself I go on dietPi on SD in order to install Android on eMMC and try it for retrogaming (mostly CPC, Amiga and PSX would be a nice bonus)

What do you think ?
@Moderators: making it sticky, is that sound useful ?

My pinebook (which I use on a daily basis) seems to have stopped charging. I guess the power supply died. The is no green light as ther used to be when the book charged.


I know it is a 5V adapter 3A, but can somebody tell me if the core pin is + or -? Then I can look around for a replacement adapter here in NL

Thanks for any reply,
Erik

I'm a little surprised it doesn't actually.  I've got half a dozen of them, in a Pi they just work.  Garden variety USB wifi adapter, comes in big or small depending on the antenna size, $4-15 on eBay.

ifquery --list shows only lo

lsmod shows:

Just find it on top right corner of every post I posted.  Am I warned?  For what?  (I checked couple of other posts, it is not a standard, i.e. not from standard template.)

As I make post only in this channel, so I ask here too.

Did I offend anybody before?  I will apologize personally to him/her.  Please let me know where I did that so that I can know what mistake I made and avoid in future.  Sorry for my poor English first, it is not my mother tongue.

Or, is it because I leaked my frustrating problem solving experience with rock64 when I explained those steps I had struggled before?

Or, is it because I mentioned that I don't have the skill of a developer?

The previous install committed harikari back in January after an update/upgrade by apt.  So since the disk I had all my rock64 work on died shortly before that, I left it laying until I had found and bought a sata adapter so I could plug in an ssd of about 60 gigs to the usb3 port.

Still no boot, never got to the startx stage. So I brought its 64GB u-sd in and rewrote it with bionic-lxde-rock64-0.6.44-239-arm64.img, which I took it was a debian image, but etc issue says its a Ubuntu 18-4-LTS, which tells me some things have been changed just to make it more difficult to configure since I've not had to deal with a *buntu since 8-4, 10 years ago.

When I looked at (after putting my local static network data in the /etc/hosts file) the /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0 file was set to use dhcp, and my router can pass out a maximum of 2 dhcp leases. But I don't think it was even trying dhcp or it would have been assigned a 192.168.xx.100 address..

Everything I try errors and tells me to read the man page so-and-so. But there's just one problem, this image doesn't include a man reader, so I've given up until someone can enlighten me.

/etc/resolv,conf is still that worthless link to /var/run/ResolveConfig and contains no useful data. I figure in 10 years there is a chance they've managed to fix NetworkManager so it actually works, even with a static network.  Wrong or I've not found the magic twanger yet.

So whats the procedure to configure a static network with the above install?

Thanks folks.

Hi,

I'm using a Pine A64+ 2GB on the openHAB distro but the problem is every 3-14 days my PineA64+ locks up completely. It's powered from the micro usb with a very good power supply 3.0 Amps with nominal jitter or noise.

The only other thing connected is a SSD where the main file system is located through USB Port.

My guess is that it's still the power supply, but do you think it would help cutting of the Micro USB to power it through Euler? Problem there is also I don't know where to get the connectors to plug onto the wires to connect them with euler bus.

Or do you think it could be something completely different, can it still be too much noise? Are there readymade filters one can buy somewhere? I read about a filter here in the forums but I don't have those parts at hand easily and would prefer buying something more soild.

Or do you think the culprit maybe the USB port for the file system?

Thanks for any help because currently I have to use a external watchdog which resets the board if this happens which is not really a desired behaviour.

Hi
I have just managed to get this version to load on my Rock)ro64.
It goes all the way through booting and gives a login prompt.
But when I try to login I get a quick flash screen shown RockPro and then it just drops back to the login prompt.
Anyone got further.
If so what did you do>
Thanks

We are creating an Android powered touch screen smart mirror using the Rockpro64 single board computer and would like some feedback on features people would be interested in seeing. 

Which one or more of the following features would you find useful and/or interesting:
1) Multi user login with face recognition.
2) Google assistant with voice matching.
3) Event driven object recognition - for example: you could ask the mirror to let you know when your children have returned from school, or if an unauthorised user walks in front of it.
4) Pet interaction - for communicating with your pets whilst away from home.
5) A makeup overlay - a view of yourself in the mirror with configurable makeup overlayed on to your face.
6) Clothing overlay - wear clothes in front of the mirror so it learns the clothes, then when stood in front of the mirror in the future, the same clothes can be overlayed onto any user. - and as a bonus for businesses users, we could add pricing on screen for each item of clothing.


Thank you in advance - Smart DIY Tech

Hi,

I've bought a quite cheap (2.36 €) version of this case on aliexpress for tinkering, don't know if it's a copy or not, case looks very good and nicely polished.

In order to put a Rock64 into it, some "adjustments" were needed, mostly for the board to fit inside, but also for power and A/V jack which are weirdly shifted a bit on the right when you put the board in front of you.

here [click to show the album] are some pics of the "rough surgery" the case got.

There are still some work to do to get access to switches near the recovery one and make a hole for the IR receiver just in case.

I first use pliers to remove the big plastic part inside, then a modelling knife and a grinding tool to got a smooth finish.

(If you have any trouble accessing the album, please let me know, I upload pics on imgBB and set the permission in order anyone clicking on the link can show it)

Hi there!

I recently got the ROCK64 board and wanted to dig around a bit. I noticed a file Rockchip_RK3328TRM_V1.1-Part1-20170321.pdf is mentioned quite a bit, but the only source for it I could find is website opensource.rock-chips.com and it is dead. Does anyone have the document and could PM it or post it here?

Thank you, have a great day!