I'm interested in the mid-term prospect of sopine clusters.  Trying to minimize both unit cost and deployment costs, I'd prefer not having to purchase storage for each sopine compute module.  Is a solution available to a) network boot / pxe boot sopine compute modules and b) do so from just the SPI flash, with no other local storage?  Documentation and/or SPI Flash images for this welcomed.  I'd obviously need a server on the network to provide network booting resources. 

Bonus question - I've seen writings about a 7 module board being in-development for sopine.  Can an "imperfect" dev / PoC / pre-release board be purchased?

is there a gravity sensor for the pine A64 ? , its needed for gaming in android

   


The pic above shows the RTL8188EU usb2.0 wifi adapter from the Pine Store.  I have been testing this $7.00 adapter for the past day;  running great ! 

This usb2.0 adapter has a fabulous adjustable external antennae and a really good signal;  connection has been solid with no drops or errors;  a really great on-on for the Rock64 !

Greetings,

I'm using this iHome keypad with my Pinebook.

This is the less expensive one;  there is a nicer brushed metal unit, but of course more $$$

...  this one is the cabled usb keypad;  I have it plugged into the left-hand usb port -- works well.  All scan codes are correct, as well all keysym(s). 

I'm installing winxp by qemu virtual machine.
   

Hi - I've noticed what I think is somewhat unusual behaviour in my 14 inch Pinebook.  When I plug the adapter in, the orange charging light doesn't light up to let me know that the machine is charging - at least not until I've done a couple of things.  

When the machine is shut down and I plug the adapter in, I get no orange led.

When I open the pinebook up, I get a brief flash of what looks like a battery charging icon but the LED stay unlit.

When I start the pinebook, the LED lights up orange and stays lit after I shut the machine down - until it is fully charged and the LED goes off.

Is this normal?  Has anybody else experienced this?

D.

I received my Pinebook a few weeks ago and have enjoyed playing with it, and of course pulling it apart. It's nice to pull apart something that humans can actually work with, pretty nicely made with no glue. All in all a great platform for hacking. Congrats to the builders and devs, well done. On the default Ubuntu Mate, I installed Misfit3D and Meshlab OK, a couple of 3D packages I use frequently, as well as Openshot and Audacity. Just for fun I installed Red Eclipse and managed to get 4 fps, though I didn't really expect it to even run at all. I tried a few other distros, including Bliss (misnamed in my opinion) and Android and the experience was still disappointing.

Then I remembered there was a Puppy Linux version for ARM. Barry Kauler, the developer of Puppy built an ARM version for the Raspberry Pi, Quirky, this is his post announcing it - http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00441 I have used this on the Pi and it works well so I tried to boot the Pinebook with the image, but without success. Would be interested if anyone else has had a try?  I looked in the Puppy forums and could only find a mention of of the Pine64 board but no post relating to running Quirky on the Pine platform.

Sorry if this has been answered (I did use the search feature)

I have loaded ubuntu-mate from 0.4.15-17 through 0.5.5 and have been seeing the same behavior with desktops. 

Initially everything is OK, I can open terminals, apps, etc... After some period of time, the screen will not respond to mouse click or allow focus (via mouse click). 

Moving the mouse causes the screen to wake (from powersave mode), and the mouse moves. Also The screen continues to redraw, i.e. if I have a sysm monitor on the screen I see it updates. I cannot click on an open terminal, or do anything except move the mouse around. 

The system is still responsive -- I can ssh into the rock64. 

Is this a know issue? Is there a fix?

Many thanks,
Scott.

P.S.> I always started with a minimal image, and used install-deskop to get mate up an running.

Anyone recommend a brand name micro SD Card that works with Android?