It would be helpful to add a menu for easy root/unroot in Settings.

If user wants to unroot completely, it can remove /system/su; daemonsu files and SuperSU app then apps that detect root won't detect it anymore and will work.
Then when you root again, it can restore these files from a backup(zip file) so root can work again.

Will be much better than to use 2 different firmwares for root or an unrooted one.

i'm runing into an issue with the new stretch mate 0.5.15-136. i think the issue arose during the install of vlc media player which came pre-installed on the build but the install is reported as broken due to a problem with libgles1-mesa. when i try   "sudo apt --fix-broken install"  the repair process starts but halts


rock64@rock64:~/Downloads$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgles1-mesa
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgles1-mesa
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/46.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 87.0 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 85649 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libgles1-mesa_13.0.6-1+b2_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking libgles1-mesa:arm64 (13.0.6-1+b2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1-mesa_13.0.6-1+b2_arm64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1', which is also in package libmali-rk-utgard-2th-r7p0:arm64 1.5-4ayufan12
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1-mesa_13.0.6-1+b2_arm64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


as best i can tell is the issue is dpkg is trying to overwrite the current libmesgles1 , specifically the file '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1,  that is associated with vlc media player but errors out due to the file also being in the installed libmali from ayufan. here is the dpkg error,

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgles1-mesa_13.0.6-1+b2_arm64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1', which is also in package libmali-rk-utgard-2th-r7p0:arm64 1.5-4ayufan12

the interesting thing about all this is i'm unable to install any packages due to this broken package issue until i fix this same file in two places and not alloed to update one of them because the same file is elsewhere and i guess 2 different builds of the same file can not exist at the same time even though in different directories   i'm not really sure of the resolution since i've never faced it and thought to report it in the forum before doing a net search. but i think the original install of vlc media player was broken due to libmali having the same file but probably a different build of the file than vlc media player.

so if anyone has any ideas i'd appreciate the help. thanks.

Hello together,

what have I to do, if I want to activate CVBS video output instead of HDMI? I'm using Linux.

Many thanks.

Any plans on bumping the specs up in the pinebook?
Would like to know if there are plans for going from quadcore to octocore
from 2GB to 4GB, 8GB or 16GB RAM
from 64gb emmc to 128 or 126gb emmc + m.2 slot for a ssd
from bgn to abgn or abgn/ac
from hd to fhd or 2k
and is possible to do that while keeping the all-white chassis (and possibly adding a gold color choice).
If it isn't possible? What is preventing it from being possible?

I have been reading up on the xbox 360 chatpad.  It appears to be a very cheap mini keyboard that communicates over a uart.  The raspberry pi community has a driver for it.  I was wondering if any pine users had an interest in doing something similar.  I am not sure where to start writing a driver.  It seems like a fairly simple interface that has been mapped out here. 

I get the main idea is to open a uart, process the inputs, and decipher the key presses. After that is where I am lost as to make the OS see it as a key press input.

Any interest or advice would be cool.  Thanks

Pretty quick question, could I create my own "Pinebook" that is android based and uses the Rock64 single board computer.

Thanks

- LongLogStudios

Please forgive the noobishness of the question. I have been interested in single board computers for a few years now, but wish to dive a little deeper. The SoPine module interests me, as I can certainly understand it's use in projects that are big enough to make it worthwhile to make my own boards.

Bluntly, I cannot seem to find anything to 'plug it into' besides the compute io module I could also purchase. Great for testing, but it seems like I might be better off in that case just getting a Pine64.

So here comes the noob question: what else could I plug it into? It isn't RAM, so certainly not a motherboard. I have seen on these forums that people are working on boards to hold and power multiple sopines; Is there anything else like this out there already, or other examples of things I could do with the sopine, short of having my own boards made, which is far beyond what my current abilities/projects demand.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I all,

i've just installed the last Stretch Mate (0.5.15-136-20171222), it works on my full HD TV, but if i switch on my 4k tv (I've hdmi 2.0 cable), I've NO SIGNAL.

Any suggestion?

thanks!!!

I purchased the Pine64 LTS, eMMC 64GB module and the device for programming the module. I used Apple-Pi Baker to write what I thought was the correct image for Android and the 7 inch touch screen to the eMMC. I carefully placed the module in the slot and.....nothing. No boot no image nothing.  Will someone kindly tell me what image to use so the 7inch touch screen device will actually work in Android? 

Please help.

Thanks,
Mike

Hi, i'm Wolfgang from germany.

Has anybody already thought about building a tablet based on the hardware of the Pinebook?

It would be great to have a large size touch display (14 inch). As operating system i think of KDE plasma mobile with concept x, to have a desktop if there will be a keyboard connected. To get a low profile casing, the hdmi und usb port could possibly be changed to micro hdmi (type D) and micro usb (type B). The battery should be placed beside the mainboard ...

It would be nice, if the RAM memory could be increased to 4GB. And it would be perfect to integrate a LTE module.

What do you think about that?

I'm curious!