So I have a 2GB Pine.  

I downloaded the Ubuntu file
xubuntu-xenial-mate-20160528-longsleep-pine64-8GB.img

I use the Etcher program to transfer the file to a 128GB class 10 micro SD card and it appears to install but when it goes to validate it hangs at 99% and never finishes.  If I look at the card through windows it appears to have written a number of files to the card.  

I tried putting the card in to the Pine and boot it up (using a USB mouse and keyboard plugged in, and using the AC adapter that came with the Pine) ... and plugged in to a 24" monitor with a HDMI cable.  

I get absolutely nothing on the screen, no BIOS of any sort, no indication it is trying to boot from the SD card.  Nothing.

Suggestions?

Hi, 

I'm using the pine64_openhab_20160915_8GB.img image with the zwave module and adapter for the PI2 GPIO header but it seems as if the zwave module is not detected. The module should turn up as /dev/ttyS2 but from syslog all I get is:

Sep 24 07:57:58 openhab kernel: [    8.285353] uart2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x1c28800 (irq = 34) is a SUNXI

And then in openhab.log:

I would like to change the default audio to the headphone jack. I am running dietPi (no gui/de).  I know I can change the alsa default card with an environment variable or asound.conf, but I think that only affects alsa utilities. I'm also using sox, so I just want to change the default (first) card at the OS level.  Actually I could settle for getting sox to pick up a different card by default but I have not been successful in that.

So I think I need to create a file in /etc/modprobe.d, with lines like 

Quote:options sunxi_sndcodec index=0
options sunxi_codec index=1

Quote:options sunxi_codec index=0
options sunxi_sndcodec index=1

Hi all,

I wanted to create an easy to mount and nice looking case, so here it is.

It's 3D printable and is made with a box, a sliding element and a single screw to hold all together.

This case works but is still under development, I'm thinking about adding some holes for cooling fans.

I hope you'll like it!
Let me know what you think of it, any suggestion will be highly appreciated 


http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1694943


   

Hello I am running Ubuntu on pine64 i would like to mount system rootfs 

how can it be done?

Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.10.101-4-pine64-longsleep aarch64)

Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.101-4-pine64-longsleep #51 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 26 18:20:37 CEST 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

ubuntu@localhost:~$ 

hey I was wondering if anyone knows how to overclock the CPU on Ubuntu mate?

Hello all.

apt-cache is the tool I use to look for packages that are available for my build.  In this case, ubuntu 16.04LTS on arm64.  

apt-cache does not require sudo, and is good to identify the actual package name for whatever program you're looking for, and if there is none, you'll find that out too.  Mind you, this is for packages, not all possible projects or source code.  Packages are normally software products that work, are packaged, on this distribution, and are popular or essential enough to merit their inclusion in the package database (atp-cache).

Hello all.

I am new to this cpu, and its instruction set.  So I found this very helpful.  I believe you will too, if you are working on stuff at this level:

https://static.docs.arm.com/den0024/a/DEN0024.pdf

Nearly all of my experience is in x86/amd64 kit, which is very different from aarch64/arm64.  Being in the process of evaluating (lab'ng) the pine64+ 2G, I am finding it less performing than I need it too be.  Then it occured to me, that I am using it as an x86/amd64 part, when in fact, it is a aarch64/arm64 part.  And to use this board properly, I have to build according to its abilities, which are found in its instruction set.

This is a RISC processor.  Throwing CISC vectored commands at it are going to hurt it --- dramatically.  I know very little about its instruction set, at this point in time, so I begin here.  At the beginning.

Seems to me, in addition to the missing mali code, that there are core features of this architecture that are not being used, even though they are available.  Kind of like using single threaded code on a multi-threaded processor (hello dosbox).  The limit is in the software, not the hardware.  

I look forward to seeing what this kit can really do, when fully utilized by our build environment(s) (BE).

One last thing.  In closed source environments, we would not even have access (hello mali) to this level of development, let alone be able to improve upon it.  I am glad too work in open source products.


David

Any ideas on using a pine for a smoothwall firewall ?  It will require a 2nd NIC. I have a few USB NICs here.

So, I'm new to SBCs but not quite so new to Linux (started out with RedHat 4.2 after becoming disillusioned with OS/2 Warp).  What I'm seeing with the Pine64 is the potential for creating a decent multi-media computer that can run on minimal power.  This intrigues me.  I could build a multi-media box to run off my solar array when I go camping (Ok...."glamping"....I'll own that  )   or, use it as a way to stream games from my "big computer" to my basement TV.
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On the Pine 64, I can pretty much do that now with Remix OS (although a Steam Controller driver would be great) but I kinda miss the flexibility and familiarity of Linux.  (and my steam controller works with Linux thanks to GitHub).

So, a question for those more experienced with SBCs; are there any you could recommend for my next project?  Arm or Intel Atom as long as power requirements are low.