I'm running the most current, stable kernel. Just pulled my Pinebook out of my briefcase to discover it didn't actually shutdown when I last ended a session (reworked a bit of code on the bus this am), and my battery is all but dead.

Anyone else experience something similar? Any thoughts on what logs I might look at to start to get to the bottom of things?

Part of the reason I bought the Rock64 is to have a decent aarch64 system with more RAM and faster USB than some of my other ARM64 SBCs. Today while trying to build one of my projects, I discovered that the Linaro Linux distributed with the Rock64 has a 64-bit kernel, but 32-bit userland. This caused my build script to fail because uname returns only aarch64 as the system type. Besides this very disappointing news, so far, I've encountered the following issues with the board:

1) No SPI driver in current linux distribution
2) USB loses power and won't respond
3) Missing wifi drivers for my wifi dongles
4) Half of the GPIO header is unusable because it has conflicts or has been repurposed

What's the point of selling a 64-bit board that only runs 32-bit software? The Cortex-A53 is an old, slow ARM design and it's only benefit is that it supports the ARMv8 register model and instruction set. A new build of Linux can fix this 32/64-bit situation, but the other problems on my list will keep me from ever using it in projects. It looks like this board will join many others collecting dust in the desk drawer of shame.

/rant

I was wondering if anyone had good keyboard commands to perform the function of the "HOME" key in android

I know ESC works for BACK and ALT+TAB works for recent apps. But nothing seems to work for me for "HOME", surprisingly the "HOME" key on the keyboard doesn't do it.

I'm using a TV remote coupled with the FLIRC adapter and it works great for android.  Works 100% flawlessly with KODI so I may use KODI as my front-end.

I need to install libssl-dev, but when I try I am getting the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libssl-dev : Depends: libssl1.0.0 (= 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6) but 1.0.2l-1~bpo8+1 is to
be installed

/etc/debian_version says 8.9 and i installed the pine64-image-debianmate-310102bps-2.img 

uname -a gives the following output:
Linux dev-fs 3.10.102-2-pine64-longsleep #66 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 16 10:53:13 CES
T 2016 aarch64 GNU/Linux


How do I fix this?

Thanks for your time.

William.

         

Viewing the eclipse near peak ( 88% S.E Minnesota ) ;  I'm using a hand scope which I use to scan my PCB(s) for solder balls , bridges , and the like ( inverted ) ;  pic taken with Samsung S6 emphasizing color distortion !




                 

Near the peak eclipse the sunlight filtered through the leaves of the trees behind my house leave very distinct crescents which are beautiful if not very spooky.  These pics of solar crescents are displayed on the deck,  the table cloth,  and the siding of my house.

During the eclipse the heat went away and the neighborhood had a very spooky eeriness hard to describe.  ... like a beautiful 100 watt day set to 15 watt with a dimmer switch;  very spooky feel.

I dunno if any of you remember, but in the 90's and 2k's you could buy a single-board computer that slotted into an ISA or PCI slot and acted as a very, very expensive watchdog for big servers. Well, history is repeating itself: here's a pi zero acting as a daughterboard for a pine64.

I am presuming the Rock64 max clock speed is set in the DTS.

I just wondered if 1.3GHz had been chosen as a safe level without cooling as the Rock64 is supplied.
Did anyone do any testing with passive and active cooling at higher clock speeds or did 1.3GHz seem to be the limit.

I am presuming with the 1.5Ghz rating its a junction temperature cooling decision and wondered if a kernel/image might be supplied at higher clockspeeds for those who want to employ increased cooling solutions.

This quick and easy tutorial will show you how to set up a shared folder on your Rock64 and host it via SMB/CIFS to share it amongst Windows/Mac/Linux Clients. 

I will also show you how to connect to it using Googles Android client. 
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Prerequisites: 

Rock64 Board running Linux , Connected via Ethernet or Wifi

Know the IP address/Hostname of your board, SSH access. 

Basic knowledge of how to use the linux terminal


Suggested:


An external drive to host the Shared Directory

Basic understanding of how linux handles USB drives and File Permissions



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I will continue this tutorial off from the last one, and I will set up the shared directory in the Flash drive. 


Firstly, you'll need to update your repositories and install any pending updates. This is good practise before installing software on any linux system. Debian/Ubuntu use the "apt" package management tool. You'll need superuser access for this. 

Many user fixes and improvements have been posted so I figured that I should take an inspiration from Ghost's thread for the Pine A64(+) and put together a post with useful links for improvements and fixes. 

In no particular order: 

• Auto mute/unmute speakers when earphones are plugged in scripts. 
  
• Screen flickering / tearing 
  
• Disable trackpad while typing / "palm rejection"
  
• Pinebook battery runs flat / arrived flat and the unit doesn't boot
  
• Android doesn't boot after updating aps (SudoSu) 
  
• Low tech hack to improve keystroke registration on 14" Pinebook
  
• Improve Firefox Performance and launch youtube videos from browser 
  
• Enable UART 
  
• Improve media playback in Linux 
  

For those of you who haven't done so already, do update to Firefox 55.0.2 (at the time of writing). Its a tangible improvement over the previous iteration in terms of performance on the Pinebook. Also, don't forget to apply these tweaks.