Will 1 Gb board be enough for Kodi?

Hi all - I just received my Pinebook yesterday and I have really enjoyed the couple of hours that I have had to mess around with it.  (Definitely pleased that I have not experienced any of the DHL cracked screen / dead pixel / wonky keyboard issues that people have been writing about.)  

I am still trying to get comfortable with the different OSes that are available to us and, after installing Android 6 and then flipping the machine back to Mate, I started wondering if anybody had given any thought to dual-booting the machine.  Would something like this be possible? 

Yeah, I suppose I could keep an SD card around and have one OS on it but, well, dual booting would be convenient.  

I have enjoyed reading the forum over the last couple of days as I waited for my machine to arrive.

D.

Hello

Im sick about ubuntu mate..... too slow!!!

What do you recommend, Q4OS or Armbian?
I will install it on eMMC

Thanks

Hey guys, Linux newbie here. I got my Rock64 running with the new ubuntu image (xenial-mate-rock64-0.5.5-93-arm64.img.xz) and I'm trying to compile the Wifi+BT driver for my combo USB dongle. I cloned the git repo (Git) and tried compile it with "sudo make", but I keep getting an error. Anybody here can help me out?

hi. i have a yuntab B102(tulip-p1) tablet with an allwinner chipset that is stuck on the initial boot screen. i can enter recovery, but nothing in it resolves anything...

1. rebooting to bootloader freezes at the initial boot screen
2. factory reset works, but doesn't help
3. mounting system the 1st time actually caused this problem for some reason. no modifying.

i have tried the (HDMI version) marshmallow firmware(that's what it came with) rooted and no root. all i get is a blank screen when trying to boot. i don't know what else to do.

any suggestions?

I have a 32GB SD card from Sandisk and try to run official debian image for ROCK64 but the OS doesn't recognize full capacity ?

Hi all,

My pinebook arrived today and I am very happy with its look and am happily running android 7.1 now. Still one thing that's bother me a lot is that the spacebar must be pushed exactly the center (around 1.5~2 cm) in order to have pinebook to register a keystroke. I used to place my thumb on the 1/3 of the left (and right) of the spacebar when I am typing, this is killing me that now every single spacebar I hit it's not taken by the pinebook.

Am I getting a defective pinebook or this is the usual case?

I don't know why I can only boot once. If I just unplug the power, I cannot boot the second time when I power it on. 
I use a Linux image which is called stretch-minimal-rock64-0.4.16-83-arm64.

(08-28-2017, 04:29 PM)fbms Wrote: I don't know why I can only boot once. If I just unplug the power, I cannot boot the second time when I power it on. 
I use a Linux image which is called stretch-minimal-rock64-0.4.16-83-arm64.

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I've got a 4g version of Rock64 with 64G emmc.
But I don't know too much about Linux.

I released a few new builds that fix a bunch of problems but also enables first initial headless compile of the mainline kernel: https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases.

You can find all patches added on top of u-boot and kernel here:
- https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-mainline-kernel
- https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-u...ine-master

What does work?
- eMMC and SD,
- GbE ethernet, 100M ethernet,
- PXE and USB booting via U-boot,
- SPI accessible from U-boot and Kernel,
- Power/standby leds,
- Power key,
- Persistent eth0 and eth1 address,

What does not?
- Everything else probably, like HDMI, Mali, cpu scaling.

Usage?
This is suitable for testing and headless use.

How to install?