Just purchased a Rock64 and items.  Have not got it yet, will have more questions probably.

Thought occurred to me, has anyone hooked up USB 3.0 hubs or 2.0 hubs, and used them for I/O port expansion through USB successfully/unsuccesssfully?

If so what were your experiences?  Did it work as it should?

So a little background, though I have not done anything with a Rock64 yet, but spent 30+ years working Unix/Linux so will see how I fair with this.

Hello.

I prepared and tested "mpi_dec.c" application to test low level access hardware accelerated video decoders for everyone interested .
You can use this application as benchmark and feature tester of your Rock64 (not video player).
There are few sample results of not PTS synchronized maximum speed decoding and display (min CPU freq set 1008MHz and DDR set to 933MHz and decoder set to 600MHz, testing videos are mostly "Big Buck Bunny"):

Cant'n install x11 on debian-stretch-minimal-rock64-0.6.15-175-arm64.img

sudo apt-get install xorg, dos not function. Does anyone know of a solution to the problem ?

Please read the FOSDEM 2018 blog-thread to learn about the upcoming boards. 
You can discuss the upcoming boards here.

Hi all --

I was an original kickstarter backer, and my Pine 64 has been running as a headless Debian torrent box (and doing a marvelous job of it!) basically since the day I got it.  However, I recently started messing around with a Cozmo robot, and in order to use the Cozmo SDK you have to have a desktop running the SDK connected via ADB to an Android device running the robot's AI engine app.  Because I don't have a spare Android device lying around, and because I don't want my phone dedicated to this project, I decided to try installing Android on my Pine64.  However, I'm running into a problem.

Specifically, it appears that Android will not allow me to simultaneously connect to the Ethernet connection (for ADB) and a wi-fi connection (the robot is controlled via direct wi-fi connection).

Am I missing something? Is there any other way I can set this up so that this connection is possible?

Desktop running SDK-----{ADB}------->Pine64----------{wi-fi}----->Cozmo robot

At the moment, the Pine64 appears to lose its Ethernet connection when it connects to the Cozmo wifi connection, and vice versa.

EDIT: I should add that I'm trying this with the 7.1 image, in case that makes a difference.

moved from this thread

I tried 2 methods from above thread, and finally I got succeeded on method 2.
I think the problem of method 1 was microSD to USB connector,
and the problem of method 2 was OS image.
After I made some modified OS from ayufan's os image, I tried method 2, then it just worked.

After then I saw ayufan's update log
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• 0.6.6: Fix eMMC not working since 0.6.1,
  

Im working on a portable PKI project whereby my software requires LVM support.

Can oneone tell me if the Debian/Ubuntu project for Rock64 supports LVM?

Hi peeps

I just bought a Pinebook as a Christmas gift for my 8 year old daughter Eliza...

My idea is that I wanted her to learn how to use a computer properly. Rather than just scrolling around on an Ipad. I am hoping I made a good choice! 

I'm not a Linux expert, but I have dabbled with various distros other the last 20 years so I know enough to get around.

I want to ask a question about installing new software on the laptop...

First off, there seems to be no software available in the "Software Boutique". I thought this could be easily remedied by adding the address of a repository to the software sources, but that doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something?

So we went about our first project to install ZSNES (Snes emulator) so we could play Mario, but we are not having much luck there either. We managed to get the binaries installed with apt-get but after trying to run the executable it does not run. I have a feeling this is because it's because it was an i386 package and this laptop needs either something for 64 bit or ARM specifically.

Could somebody please clarify this point. Do I need ARM specific binaries for every program??

Would this be easier if I install a new distro?

I am happy to do some command line stuff with my daughter (thats why I bought the thing after all) but having to manually compile every single app might be a step too far...

I'd appreciate some guidance here. I feel like I must be missing something. The universe of open source software doesn't seem to be readily available to us right now...

Thanks

Chris

Hey

I've decided to sell my Pinebook to make room for other toys. It's been an interesting journey but for me it falls short of being usable everyday and it is a shame for it to sit in a drawer when someone else might enjoy it.

It's a Pinebook 14" with the eMMC upgraded to 64G. Good condition, but remember this pinebook come with all the usual Pinebook issues: two dead pixels on left edge of display (noticable when booting but not after desktop has loaded), iffy keyboard and trackpad. You're not getting a Macbook Air or Dell XPS here... it's a pinebook.

I have the original power adapter which was a EU 2-prong type but I'll throw in a UK power supply and a USB charging lead , which I used most of the time.

Contact me with any offers: andy (dot) kirby (at) mac (dot) com

If you want to save on shipping charges I am happy to meet in London N1 or south Buckinghamshire. I'd prefer not to ship overseas.

Thanks

Andy

Hi all,
I install "Xenial Mate" to sdcard, but I have not see bootloader file on sdcard, why the pine a64 can boot? I have used other board, it always have "bootloader" partition. But I saw that the pine a64 have not it with SD card, the means there are "bootloader" code on board? have anyone know the boot process for pine a64? Thanks!