Howdy folks,
  I was one of the early kickstarter folks last year to order a 2GB PINE A64(+?), and received my board over a year ago. At the time, I didn't have a wired LAN to test it on, but had no luck getting it to boot with the Android or Linux versions I had tried. Have tried a couple of newer builds now that I have an ethernet LAN link handy so even if the HDMI doesn't fire up, I can ssh in, take a look, and run or modify it in a headless state.

I picked up one of those 2.5A CanaKit power adapters that are popular with RPi folks and have been mentioned on these forums somewhat, but I still have had no luck. The LED comes on as long as I don't try to cycle it quickly, but no HDMI and no network connectivity - so I figure it is not booting.

I'm not especially heartbroken about this, as I feel good supporting the project and I love my 14" Pinebook, but I'd really like to confirm whether this thing is faulty or whether I had just had poor luck with some less stable builds.

So is there any kind of consensus as to what image is the most likely to boot reliably on these boards? I have the PINE64 installer and have had reliable success on the Pinebook using the same MicroSD hardware that failed on the PINE standalone board.

Any suggestions would be helpful and I would be quite likely to try them.

I am considering looking into other PINE64 offerings but I'd really like to get this thing running first, or be able to fairly reliably write it off as DOA and move on.

Please advise.

Hello.
I'm trying to get Teamviewer on Pinebook with Ubuntu Mate 0.5.5-65. It's a nice and popular app for remote control PC's (for pc installed and access to your another pcs).
In teamviewer site has deb, rpm: https://www.teamviewer.com/es/download/linux/.
Deb is 32-Bit / 64-Bit Multiarch, so no ARM.
There is a "tar.xz" version, but "can't execute the binary. Incorrect format..." so I assume that is not for ARM.

Anyway to run Teamviewer on Pinebook? Not the web access (for control PCs) also the server side for Ubuntu Pinebook.

Thanks!

Hi,

I purchased a pinebook with additional 64GB eMMC and a 2m extension cable but when it arrived the shipment only came with the pinebook alone. 
The packaging was 100% intact. The invoice showed all items (and I had to pay customs for it).

I wrote a mail to support several days ago -> no answer  answer just took almost one week, so be patient.

So running out of options now... 

Maik

UPDATE: After some days I got an answer from support that the issue was forwarded internally and it is handled now.

Hi, I can't use the microphone with Linux and I do not know if this is normal for other users, how could I activate it from Alsamixer?

Hi, After testing Pinebook for a few days, I realized that the touchpad does not respond as well as I want (I know that I could use a usb mouse) the problem is that when using two fingers sometimes the system thinks I want to zoom and not Scroll, the temporary solution I have found for Firefox and Chrome is to edit the value of mousewheel.with_control.action in about: config and use some plugin to disable zoom using the touchpad respectively. I still think it would be more convenient to configure the touchpad to scroll from edges instead of using two fingers, but I cann't do it from dconf or xorg.conf

WIP, this is just the skeleton. 

On the minimal install of xenial linux, you will find that there is no handy network-manager to help you auto-configure stuff. However, it's not that hard to configure the wireless and usb ethernet manually once you know what the steps are

Wireless

1. Create /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlan0
   
2. Create /etc/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant.conf
   
3. Bring the interface up
   

1. Plug in the USB ethernet cable (yes, obvious, but sometimes people forget)
   
2. Check what name it reserves  (ifconfig -a)
   
3. Create a udev rule to make our lives easier in the future...
   
4. Watch it auto connect if you have DHCP, or configure it 'normally' now via /etv/network/interfaces.d/eth0
   

My pinebook just arrived today.  I was expecting the 64Gb emmc to be installed instead I am starring at it.

No instructions were included and I can't find any tutorial on how to install it?

Can the pine64 folks please provide a tutorial preferably with pictures on how to do this before I open the case of my brand new machine and potentially mess it up.

Hello everyone!

I started this thread so that those of you whom are artistically savvy can share Pinebook wallpapers as well as themes, icon sets, etc,. Just the other day a user in IRC shared a picture of his i3 desktop with a nice-looking custom Pine wallpaper and I thought it was a pity that it wouldn't get shared with the broader community. 

Although I have no artistic abilities myself, and my knowledge of Gimp is what you'd call basic, I found it only fair to create some wallpapers to share since I am starting this thread (edit, those are newer / less terrible wallpapers): you will find them here. I am sure that many of you can do much much better than my lousy attempt  

The green wallpaper plays well with:  
Mint-Y-Darker theme
Vibrancy-Dark-Green Icons

Hi everyone. DHL delivered my pinebook with a cracked lcd screen and the abs case that the Pinebook was in was in bits and pieces. I have been trying to contact Pine64 for 10 days now with no luck I have submitted 2 help tickets and have sent the 3 emails but no response. I also contacted DHL about this and they said a damage claim must be made but I can't make a claim since I'm not the shipping customer they said only syabas technology can make the claim. So here's my problem everyone I don't know what to do now I'm pretty much stuck with a 130 dollar paperweight I don't know if any of you have experience this same issue and what can be done in this case. I was super excited for my Pinebook been waiting with anticipation since 2016 but now this is just saddening. And Pine64 please ship these laptops in better packaging a flimsy abs case and a envelope is not enough protection for the way DHL is treating these packages.

I would like to use i3 for daily use, but I am having a tough time getting it to a useful state. Others may also be having issues, so I thought I would start this thread for i3 specific questions.

I have downloaded ayufan's PineBook i3 image and put in on a SD card. It boots fine into i3 and I can get to the command line ok. First off I need internet access and can't figure out how to connect it to my access point. I realize this is Ubuntu 16.04 so it is systemd and that may be throwing me for a loop as the normal /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file doesn't exist. From what I have read online I could download network-manager, but I don't have internet access yet to download anything.

Is there a way to connect the current i3 image to WiFi? If so, how?