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.

I'm thinking of using the Rock64 as a cheap NAS and backup device. I'll attach a dual enclosure USB3.0 bay. The bottleneck will be elsewhere but does the USB controller support UASP?

I bought a Rock64 4GB and an eMMC.

I am unable to boot the board.

I have tried booting the the board repeatedly using the eMMC and 3 different SD cards (and I have tried removing the eMMC and putting the switch on)
I have downloaded every image both hf and 64 bit, some several times. I have tried burning the SD and eMMC in different ways - using your PINE installer, etcher, disk manager, I have used linux and windows to do this. I have checked MD5s for downloaded files where available (community downloads seem to be missing these)

I have encountered three outcomes:

1. Android boots and I can interact for maybe 20 seconds before the screen freezes I can't actually do anything in that time.
   
2. Linux boots and then throws an kernel exception dumping stack trace, sometimes I can ctrl-alt-del to reboot to the same, sometimes I can't. I can only ever do that once.
   
3. The 3 lights come on and nothing else happens.
   

Hello.

I am having issue with one distro so it was suggesting I use the serial console to access to see if the distro was booting correctly.

While I see the distro properly booting, but when I try to log in I am not getting any response when I try to type in.

I am using a Prolific PL2303TA based cable with the following pins

Black cable-----GND
Green cable-----TXD
White cable-----RXD
Red cable -------VCC

I have Green connected to pin 8, White connected to pin 7, and Black connected to pin 6

Any ideas on why there is no input?

Thanks!

Hi, Im sorry to ask a basic question but the androidtool keeps saying download boot fail and idb preparation fail when i try to flash any image. How can i fix this? Thanks in advance