Hi 

I'm trying to use the rock64's hardware encoding capabilities. I'm super impressed with the decoding which has incredible performance! But encoding at this stage only works superficially and trying to decode it again fails.

The following produces unusable h264 (yes sudo is needed):

Any consideration on going with a US distribution company for the Rock64Pro or the other boards? There is a company out of California that specializes in quick-turn Printed Circuit Board Assembly.
https://www.laritech.com/

Hi, I decided to sell my very little used 14'' Pinebook. It has one dead pixel, but I received it like that and it's very hard to spot it, I see it only during the boot on a totally black screen. Can ship world wide. Please contact me.

Hi.
I'm trying to compile some 32 bit binaries on my Rock64, running ayufan's stretch-minimal 0.6.32. I'm stuck on the following:

Quote:Package gcc-multilib is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'gcc-multilib' has no installation candidate

ANNOUNCING RECALBOX FOR THE ROCK64 - ALPHA RELEASE


After many efforts with much teamwork, collaboration, and testing, we are very excited to provide the ALPHA release of RECALBOX for the ROCK64 board!

DOWNLOAD HERE: https://github.com/mrfixit2001/recalbox_rock64/releases

Details on the ROCK64 SoC can be found here: https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=7147

For those of you unfamiliar with the software: https://www.recalbox.com/ 
"Recalbox offers a wide selection of consoles and game systems. From the very first arcade systems to the NES, the MEGADRIVE, 32-bit platforms (such as the Playstation) and even Nintendo64. With Kodi already includeed, Recalbox also serves as a Media Center. By connecting it to your home network, you will be able to stream videos from any compatible devices (NAS, PC, External HDD, etc.)."

Please do keep in mind that this is an ALPHA release, which means you should EXPECT some things not to work. We have done a fair amount of testing on our own to try and resolve as many issues as we can before this release, but now you get to help! (Lucky you!) So if/when you do find things that don't work right, please use the link in github to report the issue.

When reporting issues:

• Provide logs or screenshots of the issue so that we can see the error(s) you are seeing
  
  
• Provide detailed steps for us to follow in order to reproduce the issue
  

• Amstrad (Caprice) Emulator
  
  
• Dreamcast (Reicast) Emulator
  
  
• SPI booting from USB
  

• Upgraded Kodi (and addons) from Krypton to Leia
  
  
• InputStream.Adaptive Kodi Addon
  
  
• Multiple N64 cores so that you can select which core works best for you on each ROM!
  
  
• Overclocked the CPU and the GPU by default
  

• Bluetooth and Wifi adapters from the Pine store have been tested and work for sure
  
  
• N64 core named "n64" is "GLES2N64" and runs Mario Kart pretty smoothly
  

• You can only boot this image only from an SD card (eMMC and USB currently do not work out of the box). To boot from eMMC you need to set root=/dev/mmcblk1p2 in extlinux.
  
• Sometimes when the image first boots there can be a delay. Please be patient and let this complete. It should not happen on every boot.
  
  
• We highly recommend that you install a heatsink on the board with this image! The temp without a heatsink sit at 76C when in EmulationStation - which is just 4C under thermal throttling. With a heatsink - even a poor one - the temps are at approx. 66C and around 73C when playing mariokart (24*C ambient temp).
  

I want to enable AppArmor on 4.4.77-rockchip-ayufan-136 on Rock64.  To do that, I need to compile into kernel two more lines:

Hi All,

I can not manage to write uboot to SPI with the installation procedure "flashing and procedure" on github.
I downloaded the latest u-boot-flash-spi.img.xz image and write on µSD with Etcher.
I boot from my µSD and I see the led flashing but there is no display on my screen. 
I left it all night, without result.

To test, I install xenial-minimal-rock64-0.6.33-211-arm64.img.xz image on micro sd but it does not work.
I reinstall xenial-minimal-rock64-0.5.15-136-arm64.img.xz image on micro sd but it work. If i update to v0.6.33, at reboot, it does not work anymore.

An idea?

Hi rock64 users!

I only found out about the rock64 a few days ago and couldn't believe it when I discovered it has been available for almost a year now! I'm a longtime ARM Linux fan. I got interested in ARM Linux by reading about Corel's Netwinder on Slashdot many moons ago but my ARM Linux journey didn't really begin until I got a SHARP Zaurus SL-3000 in about 2005. That was my 'second Amiga'. I still have it and it works great. I was the first person to get Arch Linux running on the 3000. I also own a Bananapi, a Pandaboard which I housed in the case of an Amiga 600 and an iMX6 SABRE lite board, amongst other devices.

The rock64 seems to be almost everything I've being waiting for in an affordable SBC - mainly due to the USB3 bus and gige combo. I know a lot of people are disappointed that rock64 doesn't have integrated wifi or BT or camera support but for me the only real letdown is the use of Mali graphics, which cannot be used without non free drivers. I would love to see pine64 with either a Tegra X1 GPU (or K1 or anything that has working open drivers) or alternatively any of the Adreno GPUs supported by Freedreno.

I've had a look over these forums and the rock64 wiki but I still have a number of questions:

* I can't see a rock64 FAQ anywhere. Am I missing it or does it really not exist?

* I've read a few reports of people having issues such as kernel freezes/crashes or connectivity dropouts when trying to use SATA drives via the USB3 port. Is it possible to power a spinning 2.5" HD using only USB bus power on the rock64 or not? How about using SSDs via USB SATA adapters using only bus power? I have read that disabling UAS (SATA over USB) can help improve things but is that still necessary? Are USB3 disks reliable if using external power?

* What is the deal with the Xorg graphics driver? Will it only work with a specific kernel or kernel versions? Is it known to work with the latest stable mainline kernel?

* Is there any proper 2D X/DDX driver for the Mali version used in the rock64, closed or otherwise? Any plans for an open source 2D X driver?

* I've read about ayufan's kernels which made me wonder, does the latest mainline kernel support all of rock64's hardware or not? What only works using the blessed rk kernel versus mainline latest?

* I see mpv has been patched to include support for using rock64's hardware video decoder (MPP?). Has anyone tried playing any 4K, 30fps h264 or mp4 files using the MPP patched mpv?

Thanks!

Hello, please excuse my bad english, come from germany. I got my ROCK64 today, with original power supply. Have written several images on different SD cards. But he just does not boot. All 3 LEDS are lit continuously and the TV says "no signal". (have tried different HDMI cables). Can you help me?
 Many Thanks

Hello all,

ill try tell my problem.

I used u-boot-flash-spi-rock64.img.xz on microsd to flash spi and be able to boot from emmc. 
I used android tv as my emc image.
I played with it for some time ( worked okish btw) 
ANd now im lost.
I cant find my emmc ( I lost it) ( yeah blame me )
how will i be able to boot from micro sd . 
As soon as i turn on power all 3 leds all are lit bright and are not doing anything. neither will he boot from usb or from microsd. ( tried several sd cards and boot imgs)

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers.
Dre