My unit arrived this week.  Powering it on doesn't elicit any response on either of my monitors.    The green, white and red LEDs remain on and stable.

Is this normal ?

I only have a 100Mb USB ethernet but just wondered has anyone tried port trunking a USB3.0 1Gb with the on-board just to have a glance at the workload & throughput? Aint got the board yet, but apols interested.

I recently received my rock64 board and flashed the official 7.1.2 build. Wow! What a solid device and a great build! Super impressed!

I'm curious if there is a way to root the official release. I have it setup as an ssh server but currently can only use sftp function and can't bring up a prompt. I think rooting could remedy this.

Also, what's the best way to close running apps? I'm currently using a mouse and keyboard and I can bring up the "recent apps" screen but can't seem to kill any processses.

My FLIRC dongle works great with this device too. Highly recommend it if you're using this board to make your tv into a smart tv.

I just signed up here. Please accept me guys. Thanks!

I just flash android OS in rock64 anh complete. I have tried many time to connect to Ethernet but it can not, I realy don't know how to setting the internet for rock64 4GB ram. Please help me to solve this problem. Thanks a lot

Hi friends,

A few days ago, I tested another Xenial Mate. I was confronted with the same problem as this post.

Currently, I'm testing Debian jessie LXDE.
I boot from microsd card, I come directly to desktop without asking for login.
When I open the web browser, the session closes (black screen) and asks me for login.
But I can not login on my session because USB ports are no longer powered.

I turn around.

Why at boot, I do not have the login screen?

Hello,

as I see, there are already users out there which do already have the rock64 board.
May I ask when you placed your order and when you received the board?
The reason I am asking is that I placed my order at the 8th of july and the tracking website
still states that the product was handed over to carrier since 6th of august.
Originally it was stated, on PINE64 website, that first shipping of rock64 is done on 31st of july.
So I'm wondering has anyone of you, who already have the board, placed the order between
8th and 31st of july?

Sorry for my bad english but I hope I made clear what am I concerned about.

Thank you
Reinhard

   

Remember that small soft protective plastic case in which your Rock64 board ( in static bag ) arrived ?  Well, don't throw it away;  it makes a wonderful semi-permanent case with just about two hours work on the draft board making templates followed by some fairly straight-forward dremel work.  The pic above shows the Rock64 laying casters up in the case waiting to be embedded !  I'll be using M3 metric machine screws to adjust the height of the board in the case, as well to lift the case off the table top ( stilts ) to make room for the 5v brushless fan which will eventually be mounted underneath. 

                

The pics above show the mounted case ( 2.2 hours ) prior to power up ( first time tonight on the Gbe switch ) !  I had just a little more difficulty with the minor height and position adjustments ( fiddly ) but very rewarding in the end;  looks great, and will be totally functional.  

   

The final pic above shows the newly cased Rock64 booted up headless on the network ( Gbe switch ) beautifully perched on its M3 stills;  this see-through case is protective, yet inexpensive,  and looks great !  Left for another day, mounting the heatsink and 3M thermal tapes, running the gpio(s) ribbons out the back, and mounting the active cooling 5v brushless fan on the bottom!   The airflow will come across the top ( air straw to heatsink ) and then out the bottom case exhausting to the back.  This in combination with the soft pwm motor controller ( 2N2222 ) and Python control script, the fan will run very quietly and with great efficiency. 

Notice that the top of the shipping box,  is actually the bottom panel of our new case design !   

Also, notice the machine screws -- they are only actually machine tapped in the board;  washers and nuts are not necessary because the holes in the Rock64 board are just the right size for machine tapping the M3 metric screws !

stay tuned.

I'm looking for a low power replacement for my 1U server.

I run plex media server, apache, and deluge all with very low usage. I was hoping to get 1080p hevc 8bit @ 24fps decoding and 1080p x264 8bit @ 24fps encoding simultaniously (basically transcoding). I'm not sure if that is kind of an unrealistic goal for an single board computer. Apache and deluge sit close to 0% cpu usage on my server so I'm really only concerned with plex transcoding.

I also plan on running ZFS mirrored on 2 USB3 ports (using a splitter on the ROCK64). but I assume that's a little outside the scope of the experts on this forum.

Currently I am between the Odroid XU4 and ROCK64 but if anyone has any better suggestions I'm all ears.

And my last consideration is software. I run Arch Linux on almost all my servers but as I understand it, software support is still very behind on the ROCK64 whereas the XU4 has been around the block.

Is the XU4 or ROCK64 a better choice to suit my needs?

Where do I go for display configuration?