Hi everyone!

Yesterday I received in my mail the PINE 64 Single Board Computer I backed up a few months on Kickstarter. My Pledge was for the PINE 64 2GB edition.



First thing I did was to download and write the Ubuntu Xenial Longsleep build image to my 16GB MicroSD card (The image is almost 8GB in size). Get the Pine64 builds here: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A6...re_Release

Next think I did was to boot up the PINE 64, and the first think I did once it booted up was to install BOINC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FumkMM-n...2A&index=2

However, after installing BOINC and adding some projects, I noticed they all returned a message saying there are no tasks for my current platform. The problem? The Ubuntu Xenial image is 64bit, meanwhile the projects available for the ARM architecture are made 32bit. Since BOINC reported the platform as 64bit (specifically the platform being reported is aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu), the projects didn't recognized this and returned a no work available message (because they only send work to the platform type of arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf). Ok, so how do I make my PINE 64 get those 32bit ARM tasks? It involved using the alt_platform option and doing some stuff in ubuntu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mmb3C5P...2A&index=3

Ok, so now I have the projects receiving tasks and the PINE 64 is crunching them as expected, except for WUProp@Home. Hmmm, seems strange that all projects I added works except WUProp@Home, so lets take a look at the workunit result:

So there you go! We made our PINE 64 receive tasks and crunch them without any issues at all. Every task is being validated successfully   So now, to enjoy our PINE 64 and let it crunch:

P.S. The PINE 64 is bigger than the Raspberry Pi's  

One last video  

Will the Wifi/bluetooth module provide both wifi and bluetooth at the same time or is it just one or the other?
Also, is there something I can use in the meantime until the store officially opens up?

Hi, my screen displays image at 1440x900 max but my pine outputs Full HD. I know that it's not a problem because my Raspberry Pi (first one, model B) on the same converter adapts the output to my display resolution. Is there any way to fix it on my pine?

Ok quick guide with some of the basics. I am using longlseeps kernel on debian. 

First make sure you have his latest kernel. To check you can issue;

Hi,

I just installed Longsleeps base Ubuntu image and and then used the included script to install Mate desktop.  All went smoothly.  I now want to use Mate to configure Wifi.

I run StartX and the first problem I ran into was 

Many people seem to have issues with the fixed 1920x1060@60Hz resolution i ship my U-Boot and Linux images with. Until now you needed to be a developer to change the resultion to anything else.

This has now changed.

I created a tool which can change the resolution. Say hello to sunxi-disp-tool.

I provide a binary package for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus (arm64) in my Ubuntu Pine64 Makers PPA.

If you do not run my Ubuntu Xenial image it is now a good time to change that. See the Ubunu 16.04 Xenial Xerus thread for download and instructions.

Other than the tool itself, you need:
- U-Boot v2014.07-4-pine64 or later
- Kernel 3.10.101-0-pine64-longsleep-39 or later

I will eventually release an updated Xenial image which has those - for now update as usual (as root) with:

You invest your money in a car that you say it works everything, including brakes, knowing that they have not proven manufacturers?.
So difficult was to test the connection to the network, with a minimum operating system.
They do not respond because manufacturers and designers, and tell the truth, they screwed up and do not know how to solve the monumental failure of the plates 2GB.
I'm disillusioned and fustrado after investing in the project pine64 kickstarter and ignore users.
A greeting.

Hi everyone. Could you tell me how can I connect i2c device to pine64 under Remix OS. I plugged pins to pi-2 connector of pine64

Vin -> Pin1 (Vdd)
GND -> Pin6 (Gnd)
SDA -> Pin3 (SDA)
SCL -> Pin5 (SCL)

Wrote some app on Android to detect I2C device, it shows no devices, moreover my i2c device has led which is on when the vdd is plugged, i see that led is off.

I've attached the picture where you can see how my device plugged and its state (led is off)

link

Hello all!

I currently use JACK/Ardour for recording via a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB A to D box on my desktop/laptop. There is no ARM version of Ardour, but I would LOVE a fanless portable linux box to record multiple tracks.

Are there any recommendations out there for me to use to put my PINE 64 and Focusrite to work as a portable audio recorder/editor?

Thanks in advance!
MB

Hi,

I have a pine64 1gb. It works well... but the network card link light (green) blink. Is it a known bug in the driver or a problem with the card itself?