Hello,

I received my pinebook yesterday and have been playing with it, excellent piece of hardware!

One question I have is what is the glossy thing on the touchpad? It looks like a sticker that can be removed but I wasn't able to remove it without forcing it and didn't want to damage it in case it's vital (a la galaxy fold ). Should I remove it?

Thanks!

This is a bit silly, but I figured I'd post the results anyway. If you, like me, ended up with an M.2 NVMe adapter with a ribbon cable that doesn't fit, you may or may not want to follow in my footsteps and get it to work anyway.



Since the M.2 adapter card is mostly empty of tracks save for the connectors at the end, you can (I think...) safely drill into part of it in such a way as to allow mounting the card in a position that lets the ribbon cable work. You only get one screw, unfortunately - the other two end up out from under the board - but between that, the ribbon itself, and perhaps some tape or poster putty, it's a fair sight better than letting it hang loose.

I don't know if all the mis-fitted cables are the same, but in my situation, drilling a hole of about 2mm diameter at a point 26mm from the bottom edge and 46mm from the connector-bearing edge (bottom and right edges in the photo attached) turned out to be the ticket. Go slow; if you try to drill through too fast, you'll buckle the copper surface layer outwards on the backside.

I can't test it myself right now - I don't have an M.2 NVMe module of my own, and was mainly just trying to get this thing installed so I could stop worrying about losing it - but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.

EDIT: ok, apparently attachments are not a real thing after all. Here's a self-host instead.

Hi, I was gifted a Rockpro64 and an ssd drive. I am extremely new to Linux, and have no idea how to set up my new Rockpro64. Is choosing Linux the best route? I need an extremely simple beginners guide. Please help. Thank you.

Got my Pinebook Pro a few days ago. I live in US and got British charger instead of American one. Who do I connect about this?

Fortunately I was able to get a high amp type C changer so changed it up from dead. The next day I tried updating and I lost net connection during update. Had to reboot and now I have black screen with a cursors. I think I just have to download image and reinstall from a micro sd card.
I might have have a friend d/l and etch for me because my main right now is a Rpi4 with a flash drive.

Hello Community!

Don't know if this is the right forum for this question...

Why have UART_RBR, UART_THR and UART_DLL the same offset? Currently I have
not found the reason. There another registers which shares the same offset.


Why I need this information?

First of all, I bought this good piece of hardware for my own embedded HW/SW projects.
Want to use it for Bare-Metal projects (no Linux or *BSD), only currently U-Boot as loader
for my own RTOS (still under development but currently only for the purpose of education).

Greetings all.

I love SBCs and have more than two dozen of the more popular boards. Raspberry Pi? Never a problem until the RPi 4 came out but finally got past that. Some Odroids (the XU-4) can be a pain if power supply and cable aren't absolutely perfect. LePotato worked flawlessly since day 1, as have my OrangePi, Cubie2 and Pine 64.

Enter the RockPro64. I've regretted buying it. Ran once, surprisingly after such a looong boot. Ran for a while. Then I tried an Ubuntu SD and haven't been able to boot up since. Red led, green led, sometime a white one, sometimes not, such a headache. Emmc/SD/SPI interaction confusion. Very surprising and disappointing coming from Pine!

It is clear to me the product was not ready for release at the time I bought mine (early on). I am tempted to buy a new fresh one but for $60+? Not nowadays...

Haven't had such a lousy experience since buying and fighting with my two Parallella boards! Over $200.

Just unpacked the shiny new laptop, it's charged up and the power light goes green when powered on but the screen remains off. Nothin. Black.

Suggestions?

Hello,

I was on this page: https://store.pine64.org/?product=pineph...smartphone
To buy the pinephone, but there is no more stock.
Will it be available again? If yes, when?
Thank you for your answers.
Cordially.

Am thwarted when setup asks for my local. Have no idea how to respond.