Hey everyone! I found that SPI is disabled in Ubuntu kernel, and I need to turn it on rebuild the kernel. I'm going to use SPIdev. Is any step by step tutorial how to do this one? Or maybe is there completed built Ubuntu with enabled SPI? I don't have an experience for rebuilding kernel. 

Thanks in advance!

This is a brief guide for beginners who are visiting the forum. I will be going through the following: 

Finding out the IP address of your Rock64 Board when its not connected to a display (Headless) 
Connecting to your board via SSH
Setting up a Hostname (to connect to your Board even if the IP address is Dynamic)
Setting up a Static IP and fixing DNS

• The tool has been updated, but the pictures/description haven't, please ensure that ROCK64 is selected and the appropriate Disk image is flashed to the SD card. 
  

Has anybody been able to successfully compile the TP-Link supplied drivers for the TP-Link AC600 usb wireless adapter on Armbian (Ubuntu 16.0.4) for the PineA64+?

I'm currently running my pinebook on the default Ubuntu Mate installation with updated kernel/bootloaders.
I did replace the Mate window manager with something more light weight.

And I noticed the other day that my battery had discharged beyond my expectations. Some testing later I noticed that whenever I plug in or remove the power supply it leaves "suspend" mode. And thus causes a lot more battery drain. Anyone know why this happens and if we can prevent it?

Just want to say i love the pine book 14 so far.

a few newbie questions.
what i really want to do with this pine book is use AMIBIAN or Happiga Amiga images that are for the PI
can anyone help my with figuring this out.

now being a newbie i know they are both ARM, and i presume slightly different kernels?

i really have no idea but would appreciate any help.

thank you.

pinebook rox

So I installed Xenial image on my Pinebook. Ran updates, followed the directions here for increasing the speaker volume. Then I installed Android 7.1 on a microSD card. My pinebook was able to boot android when SD card was inserted and it booted Xenial when SD card was not present. However, after a couple of days of use, the pinebook only shows a blank screen when I try to boot from eMMC. It still boots Android from the MicroSD fine. I do not want to go through flashing another image to the eMMC. Is there anyway revive the Xenial on eMMC?

Hi everyone,

I am trying to get a grasp on how much development work is needed to utilize the boards potential as a media player device.

As I understand, Kodi is not going to support any Rockchip boards for recent and future Kodi versions (17.3+).

How about other video players under Linux like mpv, mplayer, vlc? Will they be able to play HEVC 4k videos out-of-the-box? Or do the players need to be forked and adapted as happened with RKMC?

Regards
 Damian

I've tried 2 different SD cards (Samsung Evo 32G), and 3 different power supplies (all 5.1v 2-2.5A).
Still just getting purple screen full of normal boot-up messages, at some point during start up it just freezes.
and leaves me with a screen full of boot messages.
freezes somewhere between 13.xxxxxx and 21.xxxxxx

do i have a bad pine?
can i get it replaced? (got mine via the kickstarter, this is my first time working with it)

(08-05-2017, 09:28 AM)amilino Wrote: What is the ETA. for Bliss? With working VPN of course.

Hello! So I noticed that my Pinebook's case seemed very flexible, and that when I flexed the bottom case like an arched bridge, the spacebar + modifier keys on my Pinebook's crappy keyboard suddenly started working very well. 

My hunch is that the bottom case just isn't as stiff as expected, and that the extra slop is making the keys "bottom out" before they register a keypress. (The lipo pack is also not stiff and has a "hinge" in the middle that lets the whole machine bend/flex quite a bit.)





So here's my hacky fix: add something to stiffen it!
I had a bunch of 3mm (nominal; actual ~ 3.5mm) plywood scraps around, and put a few of them on top of the lipo module. 

You could use anything that is stiff when bent along its long axis. There's more room than you'd think. 
Try not to put anything behind the trackpad, or it will impede the press-to-click. (I'd love to impede the scroll-to-zoom, but that's another story...)



Before, my left modifier keys (including Shift and Ctrl, grr) were just terrible. Like I had to mash them so hard that I could barely hit the other key I was trying to modify. And the spacebar only worked if I hit it dead in the center, hard. Now these keys work normally, with the minor exception of the spacebar missing a keypress at the extreme ends now and then.

The laptop sits slightly less evenly on a flat surface. Not bad. Just rocks a tiny bit. I mostly use it on my lap, so this isn't a concern for me. It looks ever so slightly bulgier in person, but it's more subtle than you might think for a laptop with a piece of wood inside it.



Looking forward to someone telling me this is a terrible idea  but for me it is working well! Hope this helps you too.