Which kind of distro do you use on Pinebook?

Opening the package, I see it comes with five short and long screws, along with five pins with internal threading on each side.

Clearly, the pins are meant to fit inside the holes on the lower side of the case which I assume is suppose to hold the Rock64.

My guess is the longer screws are suppose to go on the bottom side of the lower piece however, when I screw them into the pin, the long screws can only screw in half way into the pin, leaving massive excess of screw sticking out the bottom.


In addition, the pins are not at the same level when in the holes. Two are higher than other.

What is going on with this thing?

If you need any images, let me know and I will supply some.

Thanks


EDIT: I think I figured it out. I recalled there is an expander for it. So therefore it seems it goes like this:

In order from bottom to top:

Long screws
Bottom of case
Rock64
Pins
Expansion board
Short screws
Top of case

Hi,

I've just ordered my Rock64.  I have read on the armbian forums that the USB3 port can max out the Gig NIC which is great.  I was just wondering what USB 3 / 2.5 inch cases to look out for?  Is there a certain chipset I should look out for in the specs?

Thanks.

Added Volumio (PINE A64-LTS / SOPINE) 2.315-2017-11-11 on Wiki and PINE64 Installer.

Hello,

I am currently using the ayufan AndroidTV OS and previously was using the Raybuntu LibreElec build. I am experiencing the same issue on both OS. I am only using the Rock64 for Kodi. Whenever I am done watching something and I come back to it later, my TV always without fail says that there is no signal. I am under the assumption that it has crashed so I just press the reset button to get it back on.
  
I'm wondering though, is the Rock putting itself into some kind of suspend/sleep state? If so is there a way for me to disable this function so I don't have to press the power button every time I want to use it?

Thanks for any help!

Hi, somebody knows about a power supply alternative for Pinebook that can be buyed on Ebay or Amazon? the shipping is expensive from Pine Store (I need to send the package to Miami and later to Panama) and is know for all that the power supply provided is not good if we look at the quality

I based this image of xailus Gentoo image, found here https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...ght=gentoo 
I used this upgrade procedure found here on server_fault, (answer with 5 upvotes)

It uses the new Gentoo 17.0 profile
~arm64
gcc version
[1] aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-7.2.0 *
binutils version
[1] aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-2.29.1 *
glibc version
ldd (Gentoo 2.26-r3 p4) 2.26


As this uses the experimental branch it's advised to keep this system up to date.
Regular 

Quote:emerge --sync 

Code:

emerge -uDU --keep-going --with-bdeps=y @world

To download this image

Quote:git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/pine64gentoo/code pine64gentoo-code

It's sized for a 32gb sd card and LZMA compressed.

Next job is for the installing the mainline kernel which is being tested.


Happy compiling!

Hi everyone, 

Just received my Rock64 board, and as a test tried many software images. I noticed a common problem in all these distros including new 4.13 kernels.

When a USB3 device is plugged the kernels go into continuous  fault:

As I'm here in Europe I was wondering if there is an faster way to get affordable emmc modules that are compatible with rock64.

The transport costs on pine64 are simply too much for this tiny module.

What are the chances of a premium Pinebook using your Rock64 SBC design?

As I see it, there are several advantages to a Rock64-based design.

1. Rocketchip has moved beyond binary blobs that Allwinner requires
   
2. Larger RAM support (up to 4 GB)
   
3. USB 3.0
   
4. GPIO pins
   
5. Uses the same pluggable eMMC storage modules as other Pine64 products