On Friday 20 April 2018 08:21:32 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > rock64@rock64:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales > > [sudo] password for rock64: > > locales-all installed, skipping locales generation > > It says right there: the command didn't do anything because > "locales-all" is installed. > > > Regardless of what I select. > > Sigh. I wish I had never heard of this rock64 board. > > Nothing in your description indicates any relevance of the hardware on > which this Debian system is running, so I can't see how/why this would > make you feel like the board is to blame. > I don't think the board is the problem, its the near total lack of support from the pine people. The new kernel just installed is: Linux rock64 4.4.77-rockchip-ayufan-136 #1 SMP Thu Oct 12 09:14:48 UTC 2017 aarch64 GNU/Linux
Note the build date, almost 6 months ago. And the usb-3 port has been slowed from true usb-3 speeds to 33k/sec. Thats not an accident as it has a bug that was discussed on the forum. But that much of a slowdown makes it useless. What I need is an arm64 board, like this one, that does not suffer from the fact that the pi uses a usb-2 internal hub to talk to everything but the spi, and its internal hub is so busy its own keyboard and mouse only succeed in getting thru about 90% of the time. This board does not have that architectural disaster so I thought I could make a dropin replacement for the poorly designed pi. Wrong. I can't do it myself AND learn how to change things around in the u-boot environment to achieve that, The only tools the forum has pointed me at predate the arm64 by 3 years, won't even build on it, and have been unsupported for 5+ years. So I think I am justified at being unhappy. I've wasted close to $250 on this and its time to salvage the accessories and start on a different card. Or go back to an *86 platform and figure out where to hide the humungus box that implies. Not debians fault by any means. 100% lack of support from the board maker. Thanks Stefan. > Stefan -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
