I have a Pine64 2gb (A64-DB-2G-Rev B) that I got during the Kick Starter campaign.

I'm an insurance agent, and I do a lot of presentations at restaurants and other places like that.  I would like to use my Pine to display PPT's and potentially other media files on tv's or projectors.

What would be the best OS to load on my Pine to run this?  


P.S. I have a Kennison wireless presenter mouse with a usb dongle, is it possible for it to work as well?  Or another input device.

Hi,
I have problem with a shipment from Aliexpress. The shipment details follows,

tracking code is LM628744305CN
[FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY DE0112 ]Delivery
2017-10-05 10:23:00
[FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY DE0112 ]Arrival at Delivery Office
2017-10-05 02:11:00
[FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY DE0150 ]Arrival at Sorting Center
2017-10-02 06:29:00
[BeiJingShi yonganluyingyebu ]Posting
2017-09-25 15:15:00

However, there is no delivery so far and Deutsche Post tells me there is no shipment with this tracking code in their system. Do you have any idea/suggestion? 

Having used the Pine 2.0 Beta 3 tool to place images on microSD cards I can not seem to find one that uses both the HDMI and LCD screen as video output.   (or get me to a login prompt with the LCD ribbon cable plugged in)

The Xenial MATE version as presented by the tool will boot to a Unix login (or looked like it - didn't actually log in) on the HDMI without the LCD cabled in, but with the LCD in AND a monitor plugged in the SOPINE/baseboard model A.  And by not boot I mean it shuts off.

It seems the functionality exists as the Android 6.0.1 (non eMMC) version will allow for the LCD and the HDMI to work at the same time.  (I did not try Android 5 and Android 7 did not allow operation of the LCD)   As the limitation seems to be software, is there a GNU/Linux version which would work with both video output methods?

hello,
i know that the pinebook64 dosen't have a bootloader, bout is there a way to  install or boot in to a live usb or micro sd card? any help is appreciated.

Hi,

Does anybody have Unifi controller working on Rock64?

If possible a guide work be really helpful for me, thanks in advance.

Which Pine64 OS distributions use the newer SPL (secondary program loader), and not just fall back on the older boot0 code?


I'm tracking the Fedora ARM team's efforts as they are nearing the point of releasing support for the Pine64+. They have had preliminary builds that I've wanted to test. However, these new builds require using a serial console (uart) to view the boot process, and access a login prompt. I can successfully watch many of the Pine64 distros boot over the serial console. But most of these distros use the legacy boot0 code. Fedora is using the newer ATF (ARM Trusted Firmware) / SPL/U-Boot code.
See here for details:
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/ma...ME.sunxi64

When I try to boot the Fedora distribution, I see absolutely nothing on the serial console. I know the OS is booting, because I can later pull the microSD card from the Pine, and view the log files on another computer. In troubleshooting, I'm attempting to rule out all the variables I can. As I mentioned, I can view text on the serial console for distributions that use the legacy boot0 code. I'd like to locate other distributions that don't use boot0, so I can attempt to boot them and see if the serial console works for me on those.

Forgive me if I've used the wrong terms for some of this technology. School me if necessary! :-)

The Wiki is getting reworked (big kudos to tllim) so things will be better organised, compartmentalised and less cluttered. This is an ongoing process at the time of writing (17/10/2017) so you may see some oddities and inconsistencies for the next couple of days. 

More importantly, the wiki is also opening up to community contributors. So if you are interested in writing guides, instructions and tutorials for any of the pine devices then we will be glad to host them on the wiki so they can be archived in a way that's easy to locate (we all know the search feature on the forum is borderline useless). We will also be pooling together all the tutorials and instructions submitted to the forum - this will obviously take some time, and you can help out with this too. 

Edit 05/11/2017: The Wiki is now open to community contributions! You can use your forum login and password to sign into the Wiki and edit or contribute new content.

my rock64 with ayufan's android 7.1.2 atv . 
I can't find any about install zip from sdcard when in recovery mode.

menu image for recovery mode  :
=====
Android Recovery
Android/rock64_atv/rk3328_box
7.1.2/NHG47K/86
userdebug/test-keys
Use volume up/down and power.
-----------------------------------------
Reboot system now 
reboot to bootloader 
apply update from adb
apply update from SD card
wipe data/factory reset 
wipe cache partition
mount /system
view recovery logs
run graphics test
power off
-----------------------------------------

is there  no "install zip from sdcard" option? who can help me ?

Anybody tried this? https://www.cloudmedia.com/?product=popc...kbox-basic

I have not found anything about it on this forum and it seems that it uses this Rock64 chipset.

When I using the uboot hdmi branch (https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-u...nline-hdmi),
there no signal output.