I have the Rock64 4GB board and I would like use it like a NAS with Kodi. By the moment not exist an OS for Rock64 similar to the old OMSC, xbian or other similars to Rpi.

I installed the last Debian Stretch 0.5.15-136-20171222 and try to install Kodi.
I am not a Linux expert, I just check any update and make a "apt-get install kodi". The install fiinished without any error, but when I try to run kodi (from Desktop or console) it does not start, the message I get by console is "libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate"

I tried to search related info in forums related with Rpi or arm devices but I do not have nothing clear about the error.

Does somebody know if is possible have Debian and Kodi running on Rock64? Can somebody try to help me or give me some advise?


Thanks, regards

Hello together,

I'm thinking about byuing a Rock64 with 4GB board for my next project.

Here are the "must haves" for my project:

• running mainline kernel
  
• hardware video decoding
  
• working I²S interface (just playback, so output)
  
• working I²C
  
• GPIO
  

Hello,

I am seriously thinking to buy a rock64 with the official wifi dongle antenna :
https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64-u...au-adapter

Can I build a stable WIFI AP in 5Ghz with this one and the rock64 ?
I am mainly worried about hostapd AP chipset support and kernel driver for the chipset RTL8812AU used by the adapter.

Thanks in advance !

Regards,
Arsiesys

Hello everyone!

I've just bought several Rock64 boards on December 15th and I received acknowledge from Sales team for these orders. 

My question is, how long does it usually takes for an order to be shipped after being placed? So far I haven't received an answer to this question from the sales team.

I hope some of you can shed some light on this issue, is really frustrating not knowing from Pine64 after giving them my money 

Thank you very much in advance for your time and help, regards...

Recently performed a dist-upgrade to the newest stretch 0.6.3 release from yesterday and happy to report successful HDMI output   I just have two lingering questions... 

1- I started with an earlier ayufan release, and I notice each release is accompanied with downloadable Debian packages on github, such as linux-headers, Linux-firmware, Linux-libc... are all of these included in each release of the stretch image by default and will they be auto updated with the dist-upgrade, or should I be manually downloading and installing these?

2 - Does this build support reading boot settings from a custom /boot/config.txt? It's not there by default, and I'm not sure that the settings I'm putting in that file I created are having any effect, so I wanted to check if they are supposed to be getting applied or if there's somewhere else I should be changing  HDMI settings and other boot configurations. 

Thanks in advance for any replies, and thanks ayufan for the awesome work.

Quote:The 34th iteration of the annual Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) will again take place in December, but at a new location: the congress and convention center in Leipzig.

My Rock 64 4gb will arrived today, want to know which version of the OS is the most stable(ayufan-rock64? or official?centos?debian?ubuntu?),
I bought ROCK64 is for big data experiments,and need to use DOCKER,
Please provide suggestions

thanks.

Hello Community,

I've already opened a Thread, concerning my issues with the Rock64, however there are similar issues with my Pine A64-LTS aswell. Altough I've used the bsp-Kernel variants, everything is laggy and choppy, even though I expected at least the xenial MATE build to work properly. The intended use is inside a self-made Tablet and while this could bring up the conlusion, that I want it to have Android, I don’t. My preferred choice is Linux, even better if I could use GNOME 3 on it (also my touch screen wasnt supported by Android and it was slow for whatever reason aswell.). Like in my Rock64 Thread, GNOME 3 showed llvmpipe as graphics device (backchecking with the system-monitor confirmed that it was software rendering) so that was unusable. I really love this board for the fact, that it has battery support and decent perfomance on paper, that I couldn’t see in real life yet, so how can I improve this. Also a problem that is just as big, is the fact that I can’t change resolution propery. Most images provide 1080p. What I need for this screen is 1024x600. Trying to change that in the config file always resulted in black screen/weird distortion, same with 720p. Only Armbian provided an usable 720p config. I hope for help from you guys to at least finallize this project from the software side.

Greetings, Max

Hello community,

I've recently got my Rock64 (4GB). For now however, I'm rather disappointed.
I already tried out several Debian and Ubuntu images, hoping to get proper video performance out of it, so far all of them only gave me disappointment and frustration.
First of all, the Rock64's intended use is for both a lightweight server (apache, sftp) and as Addon to make my TV smart(Netflix, YouTube, web surfing in general, emulators for SNES etc.). I know that the TV part can be done by Android, but the server part can't. Also I prefer a direct Linux over Android. I'm wondering how I even get such bad performance (as example, YouTube was insanely choppy in the xenial MATE build, but it all felt somewhat sluggish anyway and Debian Jessie with GNOME3 on top was pure horror), considering that I've read about good support from the hardware vendors site. Both examples I've just mentionened made use of software rendering rather than hardware rendering(YouTube in both Chromium and Firefox pushed the CPU to 100%, the test of GNOME3 showed me llvmpipe as graphics device rather than any actual GPU and a look at the CPU usage caused by gnome-shell confirmed that it was software rendering) and that's where I wonder if there is a way to fix this. I mean if there is proper support for all of this on Android (which I'll probably test just for fun) and the hardware devs are (at least if I’ve read that correctly) open to provide their divers for Linux aswell, why can’t I then get proper h264 and openGL ES support (later at least for GNOME3, but interestingly enough, GLXGears on the other hand ran with 60FPS but looked choppy on display). I have similar issues for my Pine A64-LTS aswell, but that belongs into a different thread.
I really hope for support/information, as I bought this board with good expectations in the great hardware on paper and just hope it’s some software stuff I’m doing wrong. If there are questions remaining, I’d love to answer them.

Greetings, Max

Hi, i received my Rock64 and i installed Android TV, it's work very fine  but the google play, is unfairly empty because the "rock64" is not recognized by Google. My goal is to edit the build.prop to make it look like an Nvidia Shield TV so many applications will be available and the rock64 can be used to its full potential

But there is a problem, how can i root it, I was able to access the Recovery with ADB and my goal was to install the zip archive supersu but the SD card can not be found (the system is installed on the EMMC), likewise in Android TV, if I go in the storage options I can read "The SD card was ejected safely" while I did not ask to do this.

Do you have an idea to counter this problem?

(I already tried app like Kingroot, doesn't work at all)

Thank you