Dear pine64 experts,

We are trying to set up a board using a A64 with LPDDR3 and are getting into trouble in the RAM initialization.
In the pine64 BSP, you provide a binary libdram and we would like to know if you would be able to give us some info about this binary (per chance, you got the source in the meanwhile ;-). We think that the code should perform an autodetect, but it seems to fail during dqs training.

Any help much welcome.

Cheers
Daniel

Hi,

I need to use SPI interface to access GPIO pins.

It is possible to enable the interface on the PINE64+ ? There is no spidev in /dev directory.
Or this feature is not available on this board ?

Thanks

Hey guys,

so after playing around alot with the ethtool (in the end i set it to 100mbit, because even with the newest kernel/uboot and longsleeps network script i cant get better speeds)

Now i tried to download over a OpenVPN Server, but the performance is way worse then i expected. From around 9-10 MB/s (my isp allows up to 12 MB/s so im quite pleased with how fast the pine64 can get).

Before anyone asks "maybe the vpn server is just not fast enough". Just after i tested the speeds of the pine (with vpn), i tested my laptop (also with the same vpn) and there im getting near max speeds (9-10 mb/s).

The ./speedtest-cli (tested a few times) results are also disappointing.

I hoped that the pine64 is powerful enough for a OpenVPN connection with good speeds :/

Can someone help ? /Give advice ?

I try and download the images from the Pine64 site and they crawl so bad I feel like I'm on 2400 baud modem again, and I have 40Mb down! They should really look into more servers to download from. I just tried to download the Ubuntu image and it took like 3 hours and then the download still failed.

Is there anywhere to download the images other than the main web site? I am looking for the latest stable images.

Thanks everyone.

Does anyone have any tuning methods for PMS?  I know I can optimize each video, but want to avoid that if possible.

Hey guys, it seems that the Marshmallow SDK that is on the wiki is corrupted. I cannot extract some files inside the archive properly.


Is anyone from the Pine64 team going to fix this?

Has anyone attempted to exchange their Pine64 for another and have success?  I know they are a new startup and under staffed and I didn't want to spend more time and money to ship it back if a hopeless cause.

I finally got around to opening my Pine64 and I've spent the last several days trying every trick listed online including this forum and have no success.  I've created boot cards on my Windows and MAC and used four different imaging apps (DD, Phoenix Card, ApplePi-Baker, and the WinImage one I forget the name) and tried various size Android and Remix images and used three different SD cards including one I bought yesterday at Bestbuy.  Zero luck - screen always remains black (using same cable to plug into Pi sitting next to Pine64 displays fine).  Power supply from Pine64.  The red light comes on when plugged in but nothing happens on the screen.  Nothing extra plugged in when booted and left alone for a couple hours each time started.

And of course I got the Pine64+ full package (lcd, power supply, network, extra memory).  

Frustrated and hoping for a new one but not looking to waste another second of my life with this if others have had no luck with exchanges.

After getting the required python modules, I was able to get the steam controller working in Debian.  The driver is on GitHub..

https://github.com/ynsta/steamcontroller

No virtual keyboard as of yet but, otherwise, seems to work pretty well.

(since there appears to be an entire subforum for this, I'll skip the "have you searched the forums"-part) ;-)

So. I got my 2G version in one of the first batches, never got it to boot but have now returned for a second round. The problem is that all I get at boot is a red led

1. I have an fast, authentic memory card
2. I have tried burning two different images with Phoenix Card and DiskImager
3. I don't have an Ethernet cable attached
4. I have tried two different power supples (5V/2.1A latest one)

Is there *any* way of debugging the boot process so I can figure out if it's a power issue, an image issue or a hardware issue?

thanks in advance,
  Nik

When launching mame on my Debian Pine64 I'm getting the following.  Do I need to update the display drivers?

libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: Permission denied
OpenGL: VBO not supported
OpenGL: PBO not supported
OpenGL: FBO not supported
X Error of failed request:  GLXBadRenderRequest
  Major opcode of failed request:  148 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (X_GLXRender)
  Serial number of failed request:  33
  Current serial number in output stream:  33