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  Shipping
Posted by: mtcomp - 06-25-2016, 06:44 AM - Forum: Shipment Related Discussion - Replies (10)

Its over a month since you said my pledge would ship All I have received so far is what I bought from your store that was to ship after all pledges was taken care of I also received the batterie so can you tell me when the rest of my pledge will ship?


  Unmet dependencies/held broken packages while trying to install kodi
Posted by: fencerjared - 06-25-2016, 06:00 AM - Forum: Ubuntu - Replies (2)

w'm trying to install Kodi 16, every step up to sudo apt-get install kodi works fine. When I try that step, I get this error:

Code:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (>= 2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial) but 15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1 is to be installed
       Depends: libshairplay0 but it is not installable
       Recommends: libva-intel-vaapi-driver but it is not installable or
                   i965-va-driver but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
When I try sudo apt-get build-dep kodi, I get the same error with different specified packages:
Code:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
builddeps:kodi : Depends: dcadec-dev but it is not installable
                 Depends: libplatform-dev but it is not installable
                 Depends: libshairplay-dev but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I can't seem to install any of these packages independently, installer can't locate them, I'm not sure where else I would get them, supposedly they should be in the kodi repository. Tried sudo dpkg --configure -a, sudo apt-get --fix-broken install, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, at different points . Any ideas?


  Camera
Posted by: igna09 - 06-25-2016, 02:11 AM - Forum: POT modules - No Replies

Hi, is possible to use the camera under linux??


  Nothing for two months now?
Posted by: RobCole - 06-24-2016, 07:07 PM - Forum: Shipment Related Discussion - Replies (4)

I got my shipping number ( RI894209503CN) for my second board and all my accessories on April 16th. For one month the status said "Pending" then it changed to "Expired". Emailing the shipping address and support addresses has not helped. I got one non-automated reply that said my information was being sent to someone else.

I could really use the other board and the SD cards. I already printed cases for the boards.

So, what can we do about this?


  Using PineA64 as VNC Viewer highlights need for Video Driver
Posted by: MarkHaysHarris777 - 06-24-2016, 05:50 PM - Forum: Pine A64 Projects, Ideas and Tutorials - No Replies

   

The first pic shows my PineA64 desktop PC being used as a VNC viewer to control one of my plethora of Raspberry Pis. This works very well as long as I take two things into account: 1) I must start the viewer with the -x11cursor option, or the cursor won't work at all, and 2) I must not move ANY of the windows on the remote tightvncserver !  ~nice, huh ?

These two glitches are the first (and only) glitches I have found in three weeks of testing with the PineA64 as primary desktop PC; and the reason behind the problem lies in the lack of a good video driver (mali) presumably. So, I too am waiting with baited breath for Lenny to get the mali driver into the beta kernel so we can test on it !

There are a couple of work arounds for the problem (seen in the pic below) : 1) refresh the screen by minimizing it and maximizing it, and 2) switch to an alternate desktop space and back again. 

By the way, the PineA64 works VERY well as a tightvncserver ! So, the machine may be run completely headless, and the user can still control it via full desktop interface from another machine with a viewer (like the mac screen sharing, or like my HP running Mint gnu+linux)

   

The pic above was created by dragging the calculator window across the screen slowly. I can refresh the screen and it will look fine again.  The new driver code should fix this little snag !  Looking forward to testing it !

marcus


  Well, I *was* excited...
Posted by: bte2 - 06-24-2016, 04:17 PM - Forum: Shipment Related Discussion - Replies (2)

It's been a month since I got a ship notification.

Those shouldn't have gone out.

At least there is (finally) some motion on the tracking number- as of 5 days ago it was still in China.


  Dead or Alive?
Posted by: Ludovic - 06-24-2016, 02:39 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PINE A64(+) - Replies (17)

Hi,

I have received less than 2 weeks ago my Pine A64 2Go board with the Bt/Wifi module.

I used a 32 Go Samsung microSDHC class 10, sold 2 of my switchs (there was not neither in the box nor in the electrostatic bag), and install android 5.1 and later RemixOS; the charger is a 2 amp (5V).

it works fine for a little bit more than a week but last monday it wouldn't start.

I thought that my come from my microSD card, take an other one, but I had the same symptom, light turn on red and ...... nothing.
And then I began the following checking :
1/ change OS and image read/writer
2/ change again the microsd another 32Go micrSD
3/ check the microsds were working well (on raspberry) the 3 were ok
4/ change the charger
5/ change the HDMI cable
6/ check the 2 button sold: start and stop is working fine, reset has no effect (was working when the os was launching)
7/ of course, all that with and without the BT/wifi module (who knows why?)

I presently have no response from customer service

what else shall I test ? any idea?


  DC Power IN Power-ON Switch Reset Switch -- Batt Required
Posted by: MarkHaysHarris777 - 06-24-2016, 02:11 PM - Forum: DC Power In - Replies (6)

   

I have a couple of tips regarding the DC IN Power-ON & Reset switches. First off, they are right-angle switches which have a beefy frame (say heatsink) and therefore require a 40 watt iron to solder in (your little 15 or 25 watt iron isn't going to cut it). 

Secondly, and maybe most importantly, the power-on switch is not going to work without the DC batt plugged in and fully charged. The PMIC detects that the batt isn't there and immediately shuts down the system; this is why several of you are reporting that your switch isn't working. The reset does just that (a reset) not a good thing to do without a clean shutdown first. Holding the power-on button for a while will do a hard power-off if that were required (like any notebook computer, &c). Otherwise, the power-on button sends a keycode to the kernel (I have not been able to verify but I think its 116; let you know). This could be trapped to signal a clean poweroff. With a fully charged batt plugged in the power-on button will power-up the device without removing the main power plug. Not sure if a small backup battery would be enough; will have to test.

marcus

PS ... click the thumbnail above to get a larger view/


  Is shipping@pine email pointless?
Posted by: montero65 - 06-24-2016, 01:28 PM - Forum: Shipment Related Discussion - Replies (7)

Just curious if anyone has had any luck contacting the shipping@pine64 email lately.  The last time I emailed, I got an auto reply that it would take 7-9 days before they answered me.  That was May 25th.  And then nothing since then.  I finally reached out to TL on the forums here, and he responded pretty quickly to get my stuff sorted.  Unfortunately, once I received my shipment, I was still missing a few items.  I've tried to reach out to TL again, but I imagine he's very busy trying to sort out everyone asking him to follow up on their orders.  I have also sent an email to shipping, but I don't know if that will go anywhere.

What I want to know is, has anyone tried to email shipping (or support or anything) @Pine recently and actually gotten a response?  If you got a response, what kind of timing was it?  Days?  Weeks?  Was the response any help at all?  Or have you all gotten nowhere, and just post to the forum asking TL to check for you instead?  I'm just curious if the @Pine emails even serve a purpose anymore, or if everyone has turned to TL instead.  With the amount that TL has been handling, I'd like to think their "back log" of emails will be quickly dwindling, but I still never heard anything from my email a month ago.


  Different Resolutions (4:3, 1680x1050...)
Posted by: LeRoms77 - 06-24-2016, 12:04 PM - Forum: HDMI Port - Replies (6)

Hi is there a way to add any others resolutions than 1080p or 720p ? Like 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1680x1050 etc...
Is it a problem with actual kernel or is it hardware related problems with AllWinner Chips ?

Thanks in advance