Hello,

Pretty often at boot time my eth0 does not get an DHCP address assigned.
I have to play with

sudo dhclient
sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig eth0 up

between 2 and 5 times to finally get network configuration from DHCP server.

Is it a known issue on Linux (happens on most images I have tested) ?
I have seen a similar thread on Android.

Well at least since latest ayufan fixes (0.5.1 images) we always get the same MAC address

Hi everyone, just thought i'd share this article:
http://dt.iki.fi/pinebook/
i have outlined the whole process from getting the pinebook to having it work satisfactorily.
i really recommend the two distros i tried: Q4OS and armbian.

Using Xenial Mate on Rock64 4GB, I have consistent problems with the Control Center Screensaver and the LibreOffice Impress Slideshow. 

In the Control Center Screensaver whenever I press the Preview button, the system locks up. The mouse cursor moves around, but both keyboard and mouse are not able to do anything.

In LibreOffice Impress, when I try to run a Slideshow (F5), the Slideshow is not seen, but the system appears to be locked up. The mouse cursor moves, but you cannot do anything on the desktop. However, if you press the Esc key, then LibreOffice Impress returns to normal mode. It seems like it tried to launch the Slideshow, but the Slideshow never appears.  Note that the LibreOffice Impress Slideshow function worked correctly and reliably in the Debian image Build 20170809. So there is something unique about the CXenial Mate image. 

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Greetings,

The purpose of this photo blog is to provide a tutorial on setting up a serial console over the Rock64 ( or any other SBC ) from the Pinebook ( or any other notebook ) !

Has anyone installed his ROCK64 in the 'ROCK64 ACRYLIC OPEN ENCLOSURE'?  There don't appear to be any assembly instructions....  From the product photo, it looks like the board is supposed to be pressed onto the toothed brass standoffs that are included with the enclosure hardware but the mounting holes on the board would have to be opened-up a bit in order to be pressed on to the standoffs and not damage the board.  I don't want to open up the holes if there's something I'm missing regarding the assembly...

Thanks!

Ron

Hi !!

I have already made a first design of a wooden enclosure for Rock64
(you can see here  rock64 wooden case  )


But I want to make an adaptation for
 the Audio board called ROCK64 STEREO AUDIO DAC ADD-ON BOARD ...

Soo

I attach a link to download a PDF of a sketch,
 And the measures I need to make the new case Adapted for the ROCK64 audio card. too..

PDF Rock64 stereo Audio DAC sketch

Thanks for your great help ..!! 

Greetings,

The purpose of this photo blog is to provide a working tutorial for setting up a serial console over the Pinebook, by utilizing the audio headphone jack which also doubles as a universal asynchronous receiver|transmitter; uart(0).

Greetings, 

The Pinebook Linux Power-Down Procedure that has been found to be most effective (although not 100% reliable) is to use the "power button" to pull up the shutdown dialogue !

Just received the Pinebook.

First impressions and thoughts.

At first all seemed well.

The battery was 95% charged upon delivery so that was an improvement on many people's experience (flat due to not shutting down properly after testing).

Then I spotted a stuck LCD panel pixel - just a single pixel off to the upper left screen permanently green. Poor QA. Should never have left the factory in that condition.

More concerning is quite serious keyboard faults. For some reason I can't fathom, the '-' (minus) key (between '0' (zero) and '+' (plus) produces multiple key presses on a single quick touch, and then sticks causing repeat characters until I hit another key. Disabling the key repeat in the Mate operating system helps, but why the fault?

I've checked the seating of the ribbon cable. It is fine. I've even lifted off the key cap. No difference with the key cap off and no change when I pop it back on either.

Additionally, I later found that the combination left Shift and 'm' does not produce a capital 'M'. It doesn't produce any key press. The right Shift combined with 'm' correctly produces 'M'.

I can't work out how, if or whether this could be a physical hardware problem or a software scan problem.

Finally, there is no video output to the mini HDMI port on the left hand side on the Pinebook. Should this work yet or do I need to wait for a driver update?

I also have a Rock64, 4GB RAM with 64GB eMMC, which I am very impressed with. I even managed to flash the eMMC without faffing about with a console cable. Just used a jumper cable (actually a GPIO wire from my several Raspberry Pi models!), waited for a few seconds so both eMMC and microSD card were visible to the system, booted off the SD and then wrote an image to /dev/mmcblk0 (the eMMC)

On the whole I am quite disappointed with the Pinebook and regret buying it.  I am pleasantly surprised with the Rock64 which seems to hold much promise. I'm glad I didn't suffer the dreadful experiences with the original Pine64. But I feel I've been stung with the Pinebook. Should have just stuck with the order for the Rock. Oh well!

Any advice and comments would be welcome.

Hi ,

I have noticed the 90% of the times when I turn on the pinebook the wifi does not work. If I check the settings it seems to be active and  stuck at looking for hotspots. No amount of starting /stopping the wifi works.  The only way to fix this is to  activate Flight Mode and then deactivate it after a few seconds. Any idea? Any suggestion for a permanent fix ? Thanks