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  desktop stops responding to clicks
Posted by: sjk - 09-02-2017, 11:49 AM - Forum: Linux on Rock64 - Replies (2)

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.


  Micro SD Card
Posted by: Bluesman - 09-02-2017, 06:33 AM - Forum: Android on Rock64 - Replies (1)

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


  Android upgrade available
Posted by: Blinky - 09-01-2017, 08:34 PM - Forum: Android on Rock64 - Replies (2)

Can someone post changelog of rk3328_box_nougat_v1.10_170630.xml
and check if it is worthwhile to upgrade sdk from v1.09?


Question What is an Xenial Image ?
Posted by: shirman - 09-01-2017, 01:30 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook - Replies (3)

What is "xenial image"? Is it core update for ubuntu?


Information How to manage Wifi in xenial-i3 i3wm image UPDATE
Posted by: MarkHaysHarris777 - 09-01-2017, 08:13 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook - Replies (4)

Greetings,

I ran into a small glitch while trying to manage wifi connection on my new xenial image using the i3wm  tiling window manager;  my ubuntu-mate image connected fine ( same hardware ) but I could not get the connection to work using the cli wpa_supplicant that I am used to.

The solution is really simple , as it turns out;  use the cli version of Network-Manager !

First, I reinstalled Network-Manager;  you may not need to do this step :

       sudo apt isntall network-manager --reinstall

Then bring up the wlan0 interface :

       sudo ip link set wlan0 up      (optional)

and lastly start the connection with the nmcli tool :

       nmcli d wifi connect <ssid> password <passphrase>

That's it.

Shy

use these commands to monitor the connections:

       nmcli -p d

       nmcli -p c

Notes:

       nmcli d wifi

The above command is similar to scanning; will show the available SSID in the area.

Once a connection is established the connection is persistent;  when you reboot the system it will attempt to establish that same connection again;  similar to the gui nm.

Information How to set Keybindings for LCD Brightness in i3wm
Posted by: MarkHaysHarris777 - 09-01-2017, 03:21 AM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook - Replies (2)

Greetings,

The purpose of this tutorial blog post is to describe how to setup LCD brightness keybindings in the i3wm tiling window manager , on your Pinebook.

Below I am providing a script which will be placed in /usr/local/sbin/lcd_bright.sh , which may be used to set the brightness of the LCD display in increments of +10 or -10.  I will describe the step(s) necessary to activate the script via /etc/sudoers.d so that the keybindings ( bindsym ) in the i3 config can run as sudo without needing to prompt for the password !

First, the scripts... the first one is the lcd_bright.sh ( which does the work ) and the second one is the source file for /etc/sudoers.d which allows the bindsym to call lcd_bright.sh without a password. 

lcd_bright.sh

Code:
#!/bin/bash # # lcd_bright.sh v0.1a # # Mark H. Harris # 08/31/2017 # # Usage:  lcd_bright.sh <U|D> <value> # MODE=`echo $1 |tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'` LCDVALUE=`cat /sys/class/backlight/lcd0/brightness` if [ "$MODE" = "U" ] then   NEWVALUE=$(( $LCDVALUE + $2 ))   if [ $NEWVALUE -le 100 ]   then       echo $NEWVALUE > /sys/class/backlight/lcd0/brightness       echo $NEWVALUE   else       echo $LCDVALUE   fi else   NEWVALUE=$(( $LCDVALUE - $2 ))   if [ $NEWVALUE -gt 30 ]   then       echo $NEWVALUE > /sys/class/backlight/lcd0/brightness       echo $NEWVALUE   else       echo $LCDVALUE   fi fi

lcd_bright_rules

Code:
# lcd bright rules Cmnd_Alias LCDBRIGHT=/usr/local/sbin/lcd_bright.sh ALL ALL=NOPASSWD: LCDBRIGHT

Procedure:

Open a terminal and access root with :

       sudo  -i

Place the  lcd_bright.sh  script in the  /usr/local/sbin/  directory.

Set the owner and group with :

       cd  /usr/local/sbin/

       chown  root  lcd_bright.sh

       chgrp  root  lcd_bright.sh

Make the script executable with :

       chmod  0754  lcd_bright.sh

Place the  lcd_bright_rules  file in the  /etc/sudoers.d/  directory.

Set the owner and group with :

       cd  /etc/sudoers.d

       chown  root  lcd_bright_rules

       chgrp  root  lcd_bright_rules

Set special read permissions with :

       chmod  0440  lcd_bright_rules


At this point the system is setup to use the  lcd_bright.sh  script.  The last step(s) necessary is to set the keybindings in the i3wm config file.

You do not need root permissions to do the following;  if you're still in root#  please exit.

       exit

Change into the i3wm config directory for your default  pine64  i3 user with :

       cd  ~/.config/i3/

Use your favorite editor to edit the  config  file.

Somewhere near the end of the other bindsym entries ,  add these two definitions :


Code:
bindsym $mod+Shift+u exec sudo /usr/local/sbin/lcd_bright.sh u 10 bindsym $mod+Shift+d exec sudo /usr/local/sbin/lcd_bright.sh d 10


Save the file.

Re-read the config file with :

       mod + Shift + c

Restart the i3wm tiling window manager with :

       mod + Shift + r

Congratulations!  Your brightness keybindings are set for i3wm.

To use the keybindings use :

       mod + Shift + u        (turns up the LCD backlight by 10)

       mod + Shift + d        (turns down the LCD backlight by 10)

Shy


  Bad EMMC
Posted by: s69arky - 08-31-2017, 05:11 PM - Forum: Pinebook Hardware and Accessories - Replies (29)

Just got my new pinebook and played with it but ran out of system memory really quick. Now knowing I would I purchased the 64GB EMMC at the same time. My problem is that I followed all instructions and it says that there is no EMMC detected. The only info I can find on this in the forum is that not all are supported. I purchase mine when I ordered the pinebook. I opened a case about this a week ago and still haven't heard anything. Just wondering if there is a tip or trick I can use to get it up and running.

Sent from my SM-G955W using Tapatalk


  ANDROID NOT BOOTING
Posted by: Bluesman - 08-31-2017, 02:58 PM - Forum: Android on Rock64 - Replies (4)

Used etcher to flash Micro SD card with latest android from pine64 version for Rock64. Will not boot. 
SD Card is good. Can flash debian jessie and it works fine. Any solutions? USING 1080P MONITOR. 
Tried differenty HDMI ports on the TV.
All ports are working.
I have a 64gb emmc ordered.


Sad Z-Wave and openzwave+node-openzwave-shared
Posted by: saro - 08-31-2017, 08:39 AM - Forum: POT modules - Replies (2)

Hi,

I've installed the Ubuntu 16.04 Longsleep image and then I use the Z-wave EU pot module on euler bus.
Installing openzwave library (at openzwave) and node wrapper (at  openzwave-shared).
It works correctly with the ZW090 Z-Stick Gen5 EU USB device (accessed on /dev/ttyACM0)
but with official pine64 z-wave pot module, on discovery, I don't found any device (the access setting in on the correct /dev/ttyS2).
The pine64 module is well found on /dev/ttyS2 interface but the at scan complete it show 0 device.
Here the 2 logs:

USB Stick on /dev/ttyACM0:

Code:
Initialising OpenZWave 1.4.0 binary addon for Node.JS. OpenZWave Security API is ENABLED ZWave device db    : /usr/local/etc/openzwave User settings path : /home/ubuntu/Morpheos.Momo.NodeJS/lib/_providers/discovery/openzwave/openzwave-lib/build/Release/../../ Option Overrides : --ConsoleOutput false connecting to /dev/ttyACM0 Could Not Open OZW Log File. scanning homeid=0xc85baf68... node6: nop node6: node sleep node1: Aeotec, ZW090 Z-Stick Gen5 EU node1: name="", type="Static PC Controller", location="" node1: class 32 node1:   Basic=0 node8: nop
in which there are found 2 nodes (node6 and node8)

Pine64 Z-wave pot module:

Code:
initialising OpenZWave addon (/home/ubuntu/OZW_Test/ozws_anto/node_modules/openzwave-shared/lib/../build/Release/openzwave_shared.node) Initialising OpenZWave 1.4.0 binary addon for Node.JS. OpenZWave Security API is ENABLED ZWave device db    : /usr/local/etc/openzwave User settings path : /home/ubuntu/OZW_Test/ozws_anto/node_modules/openzwave-shared/build/Release/../../ Option Overrides : --ConsoleOutput false connecting to /dev/ttyS2 scanning homeid=0xf6b92336... node1: Sigma Designs, UZB Z-Wave USB Adapter node1: name="", type="Static PC Controller", location="" node1: class 32 node1:   Basic=0 ====> scan complete
in which there isn't found any node.

Somebody help me, please?
Thanks in advance.
PS. I would avoid to use OpenHAB.


  What are the differences between the A64+, 64-LTS (and Rock) versions?
Posted by: WhiskerBiscuit - 08-31-2017, 08:28 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PINE A64(+) - Replies (12)

I'm currently using an ODROID to provide OpenVPN services, however I also want to start to allow streaming media to clients.  The media server I want to use (AirVideo server, for iOS clients) doesn't come in a 32 bit package so I need to switch to a 64bit SBC.

First question.  What is the difference between the A64+ and the 64-LTS?  For the 2GB A64+ the only difference that I can detect is the LTS has an EMC slot and costs 3$ more.  Am I missing something else?

The new ROCK version looks intriguing.  But is it worth the extra money?  As I said, I want to use this to stream media to clients, but the specs look compatible with the Air Video Server for Linux.

Your guidance is appreciated.