Hello dear pine64 community,

I just got my hands on my playbox case and pine64+ 2G with wifi.

Big disappointment that the touchscreen has no linux support which renders the whole thing useless to me. If this 'little detail' had been shared beforehand I would not have ordered this.

Well I figured that I would try to assemble it anyways, so I used the video and pictures as a guide but there is absolutely no way to connect the screen to the board, the ribbon cable is about half as long as the distance between the board and screen connector (see picture below).

Has anyone else encountered this issue ? What are my options to get the correct cable (I'd rather not spend more money on an item that is useless to me) ?

Hello

I want to build Android CarPC

I have in dash monitor with Kenwook KNA-G520 Navigation unit.
In current navi i have 13 pin din cable
pinout:




I need video output 480Hx234VxRGB


How do you think there are any chances to turn Navigation by pine64?

I think despite the fact that typically used to explain something of beauty, or a skill which produces an aesthetic result, there's no clean line in precept among (say) a unique piece of hand-crafted sculpture, and a heavily produced but visually attractive object. we might say that art calls for concept - some kind of creative impulse - however this increases more questions: as an instance, how tons notion is required? If a person flings paint at a canvas, hoping by using this action to create a work of art, does the result robotically represent artwork?

I like the idea of using the Pine64 as a little writing computer running android and basic various writing apps (Evernote, Instapaper, Fade In).  Replacement screens appear on eBay for about $15 and there are a number of pi experiments with them.

Ebay screen examples: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ed060sc4

Has anyone attempted this?

Thanks

I was not expecting it to happen but the first time I opened the DSI header the locking part popped off.  I've used many of these connectors but non as flimsy is this.  Anyone else had the same experience?

It also seems to me that it's backwards, meaning I'd expect to insert the fpc/lcd on the outside of the board.  It's hard with such a tiny connector and your flex cable is getting bent by the Ethernet port.

I brought an pack of 10 replacements from amazon.  I'll have to be in the right mood to attempt removal and install of the header.

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I've used the xenial-pine64-bspkernel-20160716-1.img to install the longsleep Ubuntu then did the apt-get update and upgrade.  

EDIT: I just reformatted my card, put on the brand new xenial-pine64-bspkernel-20161217-1.img, did all the other resize, etc, and got the same results below. I' replacing the output from yesterday with the output from today.
I'm trying to install XML-RPC via 
svn co -q https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xmlrpc-c/code/stable /tmp/xmlrpc-c
but when I get to the line:  ./configure
it fails because it is unable to guess the build type.
Has anyone been able to get this to work?  How would I go about checking the URLs in their comment to see if it would recognize this custom build? or how would I specify a build?  
I know this might be more of an XML-RPC support issue, but this has worked fine on other stock Ubuntu builds I've done in the past.
Thanks for any support you can offer.

http://www.banana-pi.org/m64-download.html
there are 2 android images working smooth

this link has working Android, Kano,Raspbian, Ubuntu windows IOT with all hardware supported.
http://www.banana-pi.org/m64-download.html

So while on the internet, I stumbled upon an Image of Raspbian for the pine64, it is technically for the banana pi64, but hardware is identical.

 It just so happens this is probably the easiest initial start for anyone new to pine64. First download the link here:
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_YnvHg...sp=sharing

Unzip the folder to get the .img file, and burn the Image to a minimum 8Gb class4 sd card. Once you have got the sd card ready to boot, plug in your hardware you want to use, and boot. HDMI wont boot up instantly, so the first boot really just decompresses .img to its folders and files.

 Shutdown your pine64, put sd card into your windows or mac, or Linux to read the disk, you are looking for Config.txt open this file. Remove the #'s for the commands you want, such as HDMI, save file, eject.

 Now put the sd card back into your pine and boot, you will have linux penguins for a moment, then you will boot into the desktop with USB, Ethernet, HDMI all working. Now you can do raspberry pi projects with your pine64.

I'm looking at using some 3.3V peripherals that might need more amps than the Pine can deliver.  

Firstly, how much juice can the 3.3V pins source when powered by the on-board regulator?  (I'm assuming the various +3.3V pins on the Euler/Exp/PI bus are all connected and thus can source the same amount within their aggregate limit, or are their different limits for different 3.3V pins)

Secondly, if I need more +3.3V juice than the board can source, can I simply provide it via one of the 3.3V pins?  If I do this, can I disable the on-board 5V-->3.3V regulator some how?  (I want to avoid any chances of a voltage difference between the two 3.3V rails leading to one source sourcing into the other.)

Ideally, I'd like to use my own external PSU for supplying both 5V and 3.3V, and eliminating any hardware limitations of the boards on-board.

What do I need to do if I want to provide both +5V and +3.3V DC in?