It seems that I can't download anything from files.pine64.org today (this is the first time I've tried, just unboxed my Pine A64).  

Connection times out.  Tried access via various data centers to be sure it's not my local ISP, nothing seems to work.   Anyone else seeing this today?

Example traceroute:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/nph...traceroute

I have a 2GB version with wifi, and I've gotten remixos, android, and ubuntu to boot, but I'm having severe lag and/or "not responding" popups on all OSs and all programs.  I've tested my SD card and it's fine,  I get 9MB/s writes and 30MB/s reads and no errors.  so far remix OS is the worst performance, and I was about to try debian instead of ubuntu but now files.pine64.org is down.

I'm using a 2A wall charger and have tried a few cables, but my understand is that if it boots that shouldn't be a problem.

what do I need to look at to figure out what's going on?

Got mine a couple of hours ago (2GB). Burned a Ubuntu image and booted it up. Rebooted a couple of times. And now it doesn't turn on anymore. The red LED stays off. Looks dead.

I tried a few other USB power supplies (I have quite a few and I bought them for my Pis, none of those crappy ones that you get with your phone) and nothing. The board seems to be busted. I removed everything (no keyboard or mouse or Ethernet or HDMI cable, no SD card) and it didn't make any difference.

Sigh.. knowing them, 1- it will take them forever to replace the board and 2- they will charge me another $7 to send a replacement

Waiting for : it must be your fault doing something you're not supposed to do. your power supply was -bad-, cables have not been thick enough. Stop whining, there is always problem with a new piece of hardware, etc. etc. etc.

is the right email support@pine64.com?

hi,

i need my Pine64 A64+ 2 GB RAM board to have a permanent MAC address, yet it seems to get a new, random one every time i restart.

allow me to explain —

i need the permanent MAC address so my home router (Xfinity/Comcast Cable Modem) can give it a permanent IP in the DHCP list. the reason i need that, is so i can do port forwarding and be able to ssh into the board, if i leave it on (currently with Arch Linux, i also have other MicoSD cards that have other OS's, like Ubuntu). if the MAC address changes each time, the router can't find it and just gives it a random IP number, instead of my desired permanent IP that i am looking for, and, of course, i can never log-in to the board.

however, every time i restart the board, it has a new MAC address (???). at least for the ethernet, as that is the only real MAC address for it i see. i've confirmed this both with the router software looking at the board's MAC address each time i've re-started it, as well as with ifconfig -a and dmesg. in fact, dmesg has this line in it —

I received my pine 64 2G version today but was fairly disappointed: it didn't boot (tried image burning many times) and there was no output signals from the HDMI port. I simply want to return it. Is there anyone knows how to do that?

Thanks!

Q

Made my case today. Went to hardware store and got some materials,  did not take too long.
See attached pic.

Hi, I have not received my PineA64 kit yet, but I expect to shortly. I ordered a full backer kit with Touch screen, case, etc, however if I have a shipping concern, who can I contact to either move up or delay my shipment while I am out of town on vacation in May??

Hey all,
Using the image here: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A6....2C_Pine64

Works fine and all, but I don't need the GUI. How can I uninstall/remove the GUI OR just set it to boot directly to console?

Tried every single os, different micro sd cards, cdmi cables, tv's, power supplies and still have a board that power up, has no display, no boot.

I even left it overnight on numerous occasions, left it for a few hours on others.  I am fully at the end of my tether with a board that simply will not boot!

the current card is a 32GB card plugged into an LG tv using a power supply that works well with a raspberry pi.  I am beginning to get annoyed but am holding back as being an engineer means having patient with new tech but I must say, even the pi has never given me this much grief!

I am on the verge of simply buying a pi 3 and sticking to that as I know it works.  If I said I was truly disappointed, it would the the understatement of the year so far!

I am a friend of pragmatic solutions, so here is a very simple one to handle current and future fixes required on Pine64 without having to provide packaging.

So there is now a script which can be run on any Pine64 (Linux) any time, multiple times. The script will fix whatever needs fixing. Thus the script is called "pine64_fix_whatever.sh". The idea is that whenever some issue comes up, a solution can be added to this script, run it again and be good.

Fixes (in the order as they have been added):

- Pulseaudio stuttering by disable timer-based audio scheduling


The script is part of my platform-scripts at https://github.com/longsleep/build-pine6...rm-scripts.

You can simply run it like this on all Linux images (as root):