08-24-2016, 08:01 AM
Yeah beginning to think that this pine 64 is turning out to be a flop. Its not even heavy enough for a paper weight.
If I want basic gpios then the RPI works well out of the box. The same with arduino. Both of which I have written code that hasn't had any issues. Most of the time you can use a library or bit bash pretty easy. From what I have been reading the gpios on the pine are hacked together to kinda work. I2c or spi doesn't seem to work with common languages like python. I'm not skilled enough to hack together a C coded library from an RPI to maybe make it work.
There were 2 main things I wanted to do with the pine; Mame or touch screen Ubuntu... Both of which seem like that's never going to happen. I'd be happy if I only had terminal access and an on screen keyboard with my playbox enclosure, when and if that finally arrives.
I have a media server on an i5 that doubles as my media center so the pine is useless there.
What else can I use it for that the RPI doesnt already do better? Not much unless I want to use android.
I tested a couple of android distros (latest LCD and normal) and both feel really laggy and too unusable and the reports about remix are not inspiring me to attempt to re-learn java from 10+ years of trying to forget about that part of my life.
Sorry MarkHaysHarris and longsleep this is not directed at you. Its not really directed at anyone its just my frustration of this board. I hate seeing it lying around doing nothing when it has so much potential.
Anyhow my rant is over. Back to the topic at hand.
With Mame we need the driver binaries. I got errors like "can't find binary file Mali" for opengl or something along those lines. I'll have to check next time I power up the board
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If I want basic gpios then the RPI works well out of the box. The same with arduino. Both of which I have written code that hasn't had any issues. Most of the time you can use a library or bit bash pretty easy. From what I have been reading the gpios on the pine are hacked together to kinda work. I2c or spi doesn't seem to work with common languages like python. I'm not skilled enough to hack together a C coded library from an RPI to maybe make it work.
There were 2 main things I wanted to do with the pine; Mame or touch screen Ubuntu... Both of which seem like that's never going to happen. I'd be happy if I only had terminal access and an on screen keyboard with my playbox enclosure, when and if that finally arrives.
I have a media server on an i5 that doubles as my media center so the pine is useless there.
What else can I use it for that the RPI doesnt already do better? Not much unless I want to use android.
I tested a couple of android distros (latest LCD and normal) and both feel really laggy and too unusable and the reports about remix are not inspiring me to attempt to re-learn java from 10+ years of trying to forget about that part of my life.
Sorry MarkHaysHarris and longsleep this is not directed at you. Its not really directed at anyone its just my frustration of this board. I hate seeing it lying around doing nothing when it has so much potential.
Anyhow my rant is over. Back to the topic at hand.
With Mame we need the driver binaries. I got errors like "can't find binary file Mali" for opengl or something along those lines. I'll have to check next time I power up the board
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