Q4OS for PINEBOOK

[q4osteam]

@pineadmin
Thanks for the update.

Nonetheless, new Q4OS for Pinebook 1080p image revision ".r5" has been just released, and the legacy Pinebook image has been updated as well.

See the official Q4OS downloads page:
https://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html#downloads_spechw

Setup guide:
https://q4os.org/dqa013.html

Tweet:
https://twitter.com/q4osteam/status/1061026146706432000

[pineadmin]

@pineadmin
Thanks for the update.

Nonetheless, new Q4OS for Pinebook 1080p image revision ".r5" has been just released, and the legacy Pinebook image has been updated as well.

See the Q4OS downloads page:
Official downloads site:
https://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html#downloads_spechw

Direct download links:
Pinebook 1080p:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/fi...80p.r5.zip
Pinebook legacy:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/fi...ook.r5.zip

Setup guide:
https://q4os.org/dqa013.html

Tweet:
https://twitter.com/q4osteam/status/1061026146706432000

Thank you for the update.
We will test it and added to Wiki and Pine64 Installer.

[pineadmin]

Updated Q4OS (Pinebook) 2.4-r5 on Wiki and PINE64 Installer.
Added Q4OS (1080P Pinebook) 2.4-r5 on Wiki and PINE64 Installer.

[binholz]

I just got my Pinebook 1080p and it's running Q4OS, which is much faster then the Ubuntu with KDE Neon that was installed by default.

I'm happy with the fact that it runs PHPStorm, Oxygen XML (I use 14) with the openJava jdk that is available in apt repo.

I find video playback with vlc and YouTube in chromium a bit sluggish,

it's a good system, I got it looking kind of like Mac OS classic (i can't get it to look exactly like OS9)

[q4osteam]

Q4OS for Pinebook 1080p image revision ".r6" has been released. The key change is an adoption to the 1080p resolution, so the fonts and icons sizes has been increased.

Official downloads site:
https://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html#downloads_spechw

Direct download link, Pinebook 1080p:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/fi...80p.r6.zip

Setup guide:
https://q4os.org/dqa013.html

[pineadmin]

Updated Q4OS (1080P Pinebook) 2.6-r6 on Wiki and PINE64 Installer.

[rookieone]

Q4OS for Pinebook 1080p image revision ".r6" has been released. The key change is an adoption to the 1080p resolution, so the fonts and icons sizes has been increased.

Official downloads site:
https://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html#downloads_spechw

Direct download link, Pinebook 1080p:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/fi...80p.r6.zip

Setup guide:
https://q4os.org/dqa013.html

On KDE Neon I am able to play 720p at 50-60% cpu for mpv, and mplayer seems to be configured for "gpu" but on q4os it does not seem to be able to play via gpu or even via vdpau drivers?

[q4osteam]

rookieone
Hardware video acceleration doesn't work so far, however it should be enabled within some forthcoming Q4OS release. Anyway, you can install Q4OS on top of Armbian Stretch at the moment, see https://www.q4os.org/dqa012.html . Armbian Pinebook edition should be able to use hardware video acceleration https://www.armbian.com/pinebook-a64/

It would be helpful, if you would post back a result.

[rookieone]

rookieone
Hardware video acceleration doesn't work so far, however it should be enabled within some forthcoming Q4OS release. Anyway, you can install Q4OS on top of Armbian Stretch at the moment, see https://www.q4os.org/dqa012.html . Armbian Pinebook edition should be able to use hardware video acceleration https://www.armbian.com/pinebook-a64/

It would be helpful, if you would post back a result.

What I understand here in Armbian forum is that hw video acceleration is not working on Armbian Stretch, which has mainline kernel 4.19.y, or do I not understand correctly?

[q4osteam]

Well, video acceleration probably doesn't work on Armbian. If so, the Q4OS will not be able to use it as well. You could still try to install the latest Q4OS ".r7" release https://q4os.org/downloads1.html#downloads_spechw , and enable sunxi drivers: "sudo pine64_enable_sunxidrm.sh"