Just to give you a good visual. Ordered some new DuPont jumpers the other day so I can stop using microusb to hook power to my pine. The new cables are fairly light would guess 28awg or higher. So I decided I would run 2 pair to halve the resistance. 

http://imgur.com/a/9u2ze  

Shows the progression. First pic, one pair, second pic one pair plus an additional ground, last pic an additional V+. 

Just keep in mind I am pushing 5.2V in which is "beyond the design recommendation" but look at the output on usb from the pine..

Hi,

So I am trying to do the above and got everything working using X11vnx.  I get all the way to the point that the remote VNC viewer can view the Mate login screen.  This is when the problems occur.  I input the correct credentials and then the VNC session dies.  Below is a link to someone else who had a similar problem.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/288647/vn...alid-login

Now before I go and start trying to monkey with the system as described here (http://superuser.com/questions/524811/ho...spberry-pi), I want to see if anyone else has seen this and has a simple solution.  My four Raspberry Pis just work with VNC and so I am straying far from my comfort zone and general knowledge on this one.

I would love to know if anyone has addressed this situation successfully, and if so, how they did it.  If not, I will cross my fingers and try out the solution listed above although I am afraid that it might break other things....

Thank you!

JL

my main reason to buy a pine64 was to run netflix (and some other streaming services which have android clients) using a cable based ethernet connection.

according to the pine64 faq, netflix works fine on the pine64.

so now i got my pine64 (2GB version), and i'm not even able to use the wired ethernet (lan connection not seen). also wifi does not work (using an usb dongle).
i.e. i'm not even able to connect to google play when running android.

so i really wonder what i have to do to get netflix working on this device!?!?!?

any suggestion?

My friend and I bought into the kickstarter, he received his first. He warned me that the power button was loose inside the box and to look for it when unboxing. It wasn't in the box or the package or anywhere, I was extremely careful in opening it to make sure it wouldn't fall out. I'm not upset or anything about it. I just want to know the manufacturer and model number of the tactile button itself so I can order 2 (power and reset) as I like the side action design (my pine is now in an enclosure that makes top-down operation impossible with other buttons). I have spend a couple hours google searching for spec sheets and such that might have this information to no avail.  

tl;dr Need to know the make and model of the power/reset tactile buttons so I can order them on Amazon or somewhere.

Thanks for reading!

I am planning on installing my Pine A64 into the dash of my 2009 Ford F150 as I figure that Ford offers a dash piece that can accomodate a 7" screen.  I'm hoping to hook up to the trucks internal computer as well and see what kind of features I can see (current speed, kms tracked each day, stops made, engine temp, error codes).  As well i'm hoping to put two small screens installed in the backseat for my kids as we travel alot and being able to control their monitors from the dash would be handy.  I am completely new to this kind of thing and any suggestions or ideas would be a super big help.

Hi there,

I'm trying to install plex-media-server from AUR and it seems I can't. I must say I have it installed on a bananapi pro and it works just fine but it cannot transcode some videos, so I bought PINEA64 to see if it would improve.

But it doesn't compile...

First thing you must do is remove the prelink dependency because it seems brokem on arm, like I did on the bananapi, but then appears that error

Thanks for the Android images suitable for 'dd' in varoius SD card sizes.  As I don't use Windows, the previous images were painfull.  Some of the download links on

Hey everyone! Got my Pine64+ and am very pleased with the results. I am using Longsleep's Arch Linux build as I wanted something headless and light. It looks like he has stopped building arch, but I am happy with what he has done.

So my goal was to replace a Pogo plug that I had setup with the following services:
SabNZBd
SickBeard
Couchpotato
CrashPlan
MySQL
Mosquitto MQTT broker
Headphones
Samba

I used instructions from the following link to get the Pogo up:
http://blog.qnology.com/2013/03/tutorial...linux.html

I am essentially a Linux noob, but I was able to get everything going both on the Pogo and now on the Pine.
I moved to the Pine for the Gig ethernet and much faster processor. Post processing RAR files on the Pine is a much better experience.

With the Pine I picked up a 4tb USB hard drive and knocked together a really basic mounting plate for the Pine. I then just used double sided tape to attach that to the hard drive. I'd attach a pic, but it looks like I don't have those permissions.

Any all in all my new Pine is now a nice little NAS/Usenet/backup device and I am quite pleased.

I've recently recieved my pine a64+ and couldn't boot it up. I've tried remix os and ubuntu from pine wiki. There might have been some kind of electrostatic discharge, but i'm not sure. LED is bright red like everithing is ok

Is there a way to find out why the pine is not booting?

Hi,

I've tried a few installs of the latest ubuntu now and every time i mount an external hard drive (using a powered usb hub) i get the same error and the unit will no longer reboot properly with or without the hard drive attached.

[VFE_ERR]Error registering v4l2 subdevice No such device!

I was hoping to use my pine to replace my existing pi headless torrent seebox making use of the gigbit ethernet and faster processor but so far i've not got any use out of it at all, is this error going to be repaired in future kernals?

Thanks.