So, first, thank you for accepting me in the forum.  Just by reading around, I have learned allot.  I am no techie but have a bit of background in computers...  Just enough to get me in trouble!   Well, enough of that!  I have a couple of questions for our esteemed knowledgable crew here that I cant seem to find a way through or around.  After having my Pinebook for a couple of months, I am no go on these.

1-Printer drivers.  I use a Brother mfc 255cw which has a linux driver on their web site, BUT, will not install because "wrong architecture".  Any way around that, or through that?  No other generic seems to work at all.  Thoughts?

2. Do we have any idea of additional software will become available through the software boutique?  It starts, it runs, but nothing is there.  From what I read that might change soon?  Can I get software for the Pinebook any other way?

3.  Pinebook seems jumpy, hesitates, especially via internet work.  I am on a fast connect wifi that does not act that way on other computers.  Any ideas how that might be addressed?

I have run sudo apt updates && sudo apt upgrades to make sure I am up to date...

Any suggestions on the above is greatly appreciated.  

Hello, 


Is there any plan to support RTC on the Rock64 board? Will there be any extra RTC module?

Greetings, 

This is a follow-up to the "dead Alt keys issue" on my Pinebook;  the corner pin(12) of the 8051 is bent, which resulted in dead Alt keys (both of them); neither one send scancodes from my keyboard.

What I did to get full functionality (including AltGr key) is to connect a usb numeric keypad to the Pinebook, and then use xmodmap (part of the x11-xserver-utils package) to remap the keysym(s) kp_left and kp_right and  kp_begin  to Alt_L and Alt_R and  Control_R!

I did not have xmodmap installed on my xenial-i3 image, so I had to install it with :

       sudo apt install x11-xserver-utils

1) the first step is to build an xmodmap file of the current mapping :

       xmodmap -pke  >xmodmap_original

       The file is human readable...   study it.

2) second step is to copy the original file, and then edit the copy :

       cp  xmodmap_original  xmodmap_changes

original

I was planning on using my ROCK64 as an OpenVPN server, Torrent server and a Air Video (iOS) server to stream to iOS clients and basically operate the unit in headless mode.

But since I have a big fat 4K TV it would be a shame to let the HDMI port not go to use.  Are there software packages that would allow me to view the content my Air Video server streams to iOS clients? I have to install the proper codecs on the SBC in order for this to work, so I asssume I should be able to send the content to the HDMI port.  I've used predecessors of Kodi on other servers.  Are there similar options available for the Rock?  What about infrared options so I can control the thing with my universal remote?

Hi,

Looking for a bit of advice, have just got a Pine64 starter kit and have put it together, however the power supply doesn't
have the slot on pieces for the plug part that goes in the mains socket, does anyone know if this is normal as there didn't
seem to be room left in the box for it :-)

thanks in advance
--
Mark Kennedy

   


Red Sun Rising !

Originally bought my PineA64+ 2GB during the original Kick Starter campaign but took me a while to get around to opening the box - OK quite a while...

But it appears to be DOA. 

I downloaded the Debian Jessie MATE  from the 'official' website wrote it to an approved SD card, connected everything, applied power and nothing.
I checked pulled the power connection, reseated all the cables (USB - mouse/kbd, Ethernet, HDMI) and SD card, then replugged in the power and again nothing.

I rolled over the mouse and no light. Checked the keyboard caps & num lock keys and also no light.
Pulled power and swapped kbd & mouse cables, reconnected power. This time got light on mouse but nothing on kdb lock lights and still no boot.

Pulled power and again reseated all cables and SD card. Now no light on the mouse again.

All during these attempts nothing shows up on the monitor.

Ideas?


As a side note the mouse, keyboard, monitor, ethernet, etc. are all used frequently when working with my Raspberry Pi boards, so not a kbd / mouse / monitor / enet cable problem.

I tried to use pinebook as audio recording machine with a tascam US122, which works fine with most linux flavours after installing alsa-firmware package. But the linux version shipped with the pinebook (upgraded to 3.10.105-bsp-1.2-ayufan-77) lacks the module snd-usb-usx2y, so the soundcard is not recognized.

Downloading the source (alsa-driver-1.0.25+dfsg) and trying to compile (when running configure) gives

Hi~
This is my first time to build Android for A64, but I have a question for download AOSP and BSP source code. I have downloaded "Source code (zip)" from "https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/android-7.1/releases/tag/0.3.5", but it seem only teach download repo and github-release. I also saw "manifest.xml", but how to download source code with one file "manifest.xml"? Where can I find the step? Many thanks!

Hi,

I submitted a support ticket back in May to try to get the bad GB Ethernet hardware issue resolved, but I still haven't received a reply.
For my application of the Pine, I really need the gigabit ethernet working.
If this is the wrong forum for this post, please point me in the right direction.

Thanks