Re: ROCK64

From: Jason Bacon <bacon4000_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:35:13 UTC
On 10/17/25 15:10, handful.haughtily846@aceecat.org wrote:
> I posted this already in questions@ but this may be a better place.
> 
> I have the ROCK64 SBC by Pine64, and it is one of the handful of
> non-x86 systems with an image intended for it on the FreeBSD download
> page. Yesterday I powered it up for the first time with an SD card
> flashed with FreeBSD 14.3. Perhaps naively, I connected a USB keyboard
> and a HDMI display. I saw nothing (except the power LED on the board
> itself). Is this supposed to work as the BSD console, or do I have to
> mess with a serial connection?
> 
> In the latter case, I'd prefer to get started over ssh, so is sshd
> enabled to start with and what is the initial login and password?
> 
> Aside: there is also a Raspberry Pi image, but only for RPi 3 and
> 4. What is the status of RPi 5? Known to not work, known to work,
> supposed to work, unknown?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

I have one as well, and the HDMI has never worked.  Apparently it works 
on the Pro.  I didn't try a keyboard.

-- 
Life is a game.  Play hard.  Play fair.  Have fun.