I really really really hope that’s not the only case we have available to put the Rock 5B in, because I don’t like open cases whatsoever. I want an option to close completely the board, black or white if possible, like any other board in the market.
I hope by the time I get my coupon I can order it 
@tkaiser could you, or somebody else in the know, please kindly provide some details about Rock 5A? What form-factor and IO does this board have?
Me also both 16 GB versions. One to use as Retropie/Kodi box the other as a 24/7 server(Nextcloud, torrent server, newsgroup server, gitlab server, awx (CI/CD), database server (MariaDB), vscode server, radius server, log server). In the future planning to separate a lot of these functions in to two SBC. The current situation my Raspberry pi 4 8 GB doesnt have enough CPU cores and RAM to handle the load.
I got my email from allnet, but when I calculated the real price in $Aus I won’t be getting mine. The exchange rate has slipped way past my budget.
I don’t have the time to play with an expensive, half cooked board. Plastic case wouldn’t even line up with a fan/heatsink.
are you using the official debian?
I am using the Debian from rock.sh/start5b
please open a new thread
and try armbian: https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b/
untill the thread for the password/username is solved
rock/rock is working perfectly
yes but he says it doesnt work
Its rock:rock user:password
i know it is on the radxa site but he sais it didnt work
It does or we would all be saying. He has a wrong image or there is another fault. Or doing something simple such as Caps lock.
I received my unit yesterday and just got around testing it. (on 20221024 build of Debian)
NVMe boot works (after flashing SPI as guided) and USB PD negotiation seems to work (shows 20V-3.25A on my 65W adapter).
However, I noticed the read/write speed on my NVMe is rather low at 750+MB/s, even though it is capable of 3000MB/s as I’ve tested it before on another machine.
Also, renderer is on llvmpipe, so I suppose there’s no hardware accelerated graphics? (Can see cursor flickering a lot, and window border artifacting) Likewise, video playback off of the included Chromium build is also not HW-accelerated.
Am I missing something here, like setting up of GPU driver or something? Or is working on the older Deb image listed on the Download page? Apologies, as I don’t really have much time to test right now, so thought to ask first.
for the ssd try cleaning the contacts an screwing it in thight
Contacts are all clean, and it is indeed secured properly.
and whats the output on the board from lspci -vv
Here’s the output
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd Device 3588 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 133
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=ff, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: [disabled]
Memory behind bridge: f0200000-f02fffff [size=1M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled]
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
Expansion ROM at f0300000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=64K]
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- VGA16- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
0000:01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Shenzhen Longsys Electronics Co., Ltd. Device 5216 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [NVM Express])
Subsystem: Device 1dbe:5216
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 132
Region 0: Memory at f0220000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Expansion ROM at f0200000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: nvme
0004:40:00.0 PCI bridge: Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd Device 3588 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 154
Bus: primary=40, secondary=41, subordinate=41, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00000000-00000fff [size=4K]
Memory behind bridge: f4200000-f42fffff [size=1M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled]
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
Expansion ROM at f4300000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=64K]
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- VGA16- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
0004:41:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller (rev 05)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 153
Region 0: I/O ports at 200000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at f4200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Region 4: Memory at f4210000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: r8125
Kernel modules: r8125, pgdrv
Ordered on 17th October on allNetChina, shipping via ‘economy’ transport, received in France today (26th october), so quicker than expected.
Let’s start to play…
The factory is shipping the ROCK 5B boards directly to our customers by air (not by boat) in order to reduce wait time. They’ve indicated they plan to have all orders shipped before the end of October.
Thank you for the reply. I appreciate the clarification.