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| Make a netbook |
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Posted by: jhip626 - 10-05-2017, 06:26 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PINE A64(+)
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So im considering buying the 4gb pine board to make a sort of a netbook out of it, and run Linux on it. seeing as how the pinebooks have less than stellar reviews, only have 2gb of ram it seems, and the keyboard seems to be pretty crappy. Has anyone done this? How is the performance?
My other concerns are, if I decide to abandon the project, I'd like to at least make a Kodi box, but from what I'm reading, Kodi is only possible if you install Android first. So that makes me want to go with a rpi 3 instead.... What are everyone's thoughts?
Sent from my BLN-L24 using Tapatalk
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| Configure the UART 1 for connecting Bluetooth module |
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Posted by: channaankit25 - 10-05-2017, 05:39 AM - Forum: Linux on Rock64
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Hi,
I would like to use the uart 1 for connecting the BT module. The UART 2 is used for debug or console logs.
What steps should I follow to configure the UART 1 in rock64 ? I am using linux image Jessie.
Do I need to configure both uboot and kernel with GPIO3_A4 as Tx and GPIO3_A6 as Rx pin?.
If it is already configured then which tty port should I connect to?
Can someone please give details for the same?
Is there any documentation for using the GPIO, configuring peripheral drivers?
Regards,
Ankit Channa
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| unable to deploy my application to the Pine using Visual Studio 2017 |
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Posted by: Matthew - 10-05-2017, 01:59 AM - Forum: Windows 10 IoT
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Hello all,
A customer of ours is trying to deploy their application, see below his email:
"I'm unable to deploy my application to the Pine using Visual Studio 2017.
I remember that I had my the application running on when we received the boards a while back but I was using Visual Studio 2015 then.
"The application we have developed is a UWP project and not a native Win32 project.
I've followed the steps you pointed to but it did not fix the problem.
It compiles and deploy successfully to a Raspberry Pi running Windows Core."
Please assist?
Thanks.
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| Looking for the Mali support... |
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Posted by: rondoor - 10-05-2017, 01:20 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook
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Recently, I know there is a way to enable Mali-400 support from here.
https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/linux-build/releases
I did same things as the introduction said, such as installing xserver-xorg-video-armsoc-sunxi and libmali-sunxi-utgard0-r6p0, Updating a kernel, a u-boot and packages. And I executed the script by typing pine64_enable_sunxidrm.sh . Then, it told me to reboot my pinebook. After rebooting, I checked whether the Mali works correctly or not by glmark2. Unfortunately, it said..
GL_VENDOR: VMware, Inc.
GL_RENDERER: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 128 bits)
GL_VERSION: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.6
I thought this meant I failed to enable it. So I tried many times but the results are always same . 
How can I enable it? And, did you success to have the Mali work on your pinebook?
I need your advice. And I apologize for my poor english.
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| Debian Stretch and Kodi Krypton on Rock64 |
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Posted by: zarusz - 10-04-2017, 11:59 PM - Forum: Linux on Rock64
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Hi All,
I bought a ROCK64 and I am trying to move from my existing RaspberryPi2.
I would like to go with Debian Stretch and install all my required services (Samba, Kodi, Java 8, openHAB 2.2, mosquitto ...).
The only thing that does not work for me is Kodi.
During start it screams with some errors (low level C++ free() memory exceptions). Right now I installed the LibreELEC by @Raybuntu, however I would like to stick with Debian Stretch for my other services. I will install Debian once more and try to capture the exact errors.
Did anyone manage to install Kodi on Debian Stretch and could post an instruction?
Thanks!
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| Xorg & Mali |
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Posted by: stuartiannaylor - 10-04-2017, 10:58 PM - Forum: Linux on Rock64
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Code: [ 11.482] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri/rockchip_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri/rockchip_dri.so: $
[ 11.483] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
[ 11.485] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
[ 11.488] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast
[ 11.488] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
Has anyone managed to get xorg to use the mali yet, its supported just not in the main kernel but struggling with the community images.
Always end up reverting to software rendering and it sucks.
Been through practically all the community images and it seems the same but its really hard to tell if we are running distro xorg or the rockchip xorg.
http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Status_Matrix
Its supposedly supported but with what we have it doesn't seem to be.
rockchip_dri.so doesn't even exist
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| Some helpful tips! |
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Posted by: dudemo - 10-04-2017, 02:28 PM - Forum: Android on Rock64
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After disliking how Android appeared on the Rock64, I decided I'd had enough and began searching for a new launcher. I wasn't too surprised when I fired up Google Play and saw that basically no launchers are supported. So I started searching out specific launchers (ADW Launcher, Nova Launcher, etc...) and I was able to find a few launchers that actually work! GO Launcher EX works amazingly well and is highly customizable. I won't go into an advertisement for the software, just letting you know that it is a fast way to change the look of Android. One feature I will tout is the ability to force screen orientation in landscape, so you shouldn't be turning your head 90 degrees to navigate anymore hopefully.
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...erex&hl=en
An alternative that I found works just as well but doesn't have as many options: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...cher&hl=en
Next, if your like me... You don't use the on-screen keyboard because you have a USB mouse/keyboard hooked up. I found it to be annoyingly large and it also required that I push the "search" button on the on-screen keyboard and not just pushing "enter" on the keyboard. I searched around and found that others have had the same problem. And came up with a solution! Null Input Method is an IME that basically is not a keyboard. It just hides the on-screen keyboard and re-enables "enter" on a USB keyboard.
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...free&hl=en
Some of you may not be aware that Android actually does have provisions built-in for a wired keyboard. Unfortunately, documentation for this is very hard to find. Here are the key bindings I've found to be working. I'm also looking into a way to remap these so we can use more comfortable keyboard combinations. Sadly, the "Home", "Num Lock", etc... buttons do not work on any keyboard I've tried, so just pushing "Home" to go home doesn't work.
Home: Alt+Escape
Back: Escape/Right-Click
Menu: Control+Escape
Reboot (NO WARNING!) Control+Alt+Delete
Caps Lock: Shift, Shift (Twice in quick succession!)
App Switcher: Alt+Tab
When I find a free way to remap these buttons, I will let you all know. Likewise, I'll let you know if more shortcuts are found. Fee free to add to the list!
Edit: Aptoide has a pretty good app for downloading apps you cannot get from the Play Store. For example, I really wanted virtual soft keys (back, home, menu) but I was having a hard time finding any compatible ones in the Play Store. Aptoide let me download the one I wanted and installed it. Which brings me to my next point...
Virtual Soft Keys (no root) works pretty fine for getting navigation keys on screen. Follow the directions, it works great. Added benefit is that it let's you hide the keys when you won't need them (RetroArch, Kodi, etc...) by swiping them down, and then reenable them by swiping up from the bottom.
Now, I've had several apps tell me I'm rooted. Am I? Because no root manager seems to work at all.
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| What is name of gpio hardware on a rock64? |
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Posted by: gene83 - 10-04-2017, 12:04 PM - Forum: Linux on Rock64
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The driver code checks for it, and will return a valid answer if its a bcm2709, bcm2835, bcm2836, or a bcm2837. Code is:
Code: #define CPUINFO_BUFSIZE (16*1024) // Should be large enough for now
static platform_t check_platform(void)
{
FILE *fp;
char *buf;
size_t fsize;
platform_t rv = RPI_UNSUPPORTED;
if(!(buf = rtapi_kmalloc(CPUINFO_BUFSIZE, RTAPI_GFP_KERNEL))) {
rtapi_print_msg(RPSPI_ERR, "hm2_rpspi: No dynamic memory\n");
return RPI_UNSUPPORTED;
}
if(!(fp = fopen("/proc/cpuinfo", "r"))) {
rtapi_print_msg(RPSPI_ERR, "hm2_rpspi: Failed to open /proc/cpuinfo\n");
goto check_exit;
}
fsize = fread(buf, 1, CPUINFO_BUFSIZE - 1, fp);
fclose(fp);
// we have truncated cpuinfo return unsupported
if(!fsize || fsize == CPUINFO_BUFSIZE - 1) {
rtapi_print_msg(RPSPI_ERR, "hm2_rpspi: Platform detection memory buffer too small\n");
goto check_exit;
}
/* NUL terminate the buffer */
buf[fsize] = '\0';
if(strstr(buf, "BCM2708")) {
rv = RPI_1;
} else if(strstr(buf, "BCM2709")) {
rv = RPI_2; //for RPI 3 too
} else if(strstr(buf, "BCM2835")) { // starting with 4.8 kernels revision tag has board details
char *rev_val = strstr(buf, "Revision");
if(rev_val) {
char *rev_start = strstr(rev_val, ": ");
unsigned long rev = strtol(rev_start + 2, NULL, 16);
if(rev <= 0xffff)
rv = RPI_1; // pre pi2 revision scheme
else {
switch((rev & 0xf000) >> 12) {
case 0: //bcm2835
rv = RPI_1;
break;
case 1: //bcm2836
case 2: //bcm2837
rv = RPI_2; // peripheral base is same on pi2/3
break;
default:
break;
}
}
}
}
check_exit:
rtapi_kfree(buf);
return rv;
}
And all the c style indenting has been stripped, so how do I post code? This sucks.
Thanks everybody.
Cheers, Gene83
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