Well, it has been a busy week for me and I have sadly had little time to mess around with my purchase of exagear desktop for "Other Armv8"
There is an option to get a refund up to 7 days after your purchase if it doesn't work, so I'm banking on that.
The cost was 30 euros, so I'm not too keen on keeping something that doesn't yet fully work.
Now, onto what DOES and DOES NOT YET work:
I am running ayufan's Ubuntu 1.04 image.
x86 linux applications work (only tested wine)
x86 windows applications work (wine)
x86 3D windows aplications can't find the GL driver (only tried Homeworld, old 1999 game, working on this right now).
This works:
$exagear
Starting /bin/bash in the guest image /opt/exagear/images/ubuntu-1604
$arch
i686
$cd /home/rock64/.wine/drive_c/Homeworld
$wine homeworld.exe
(THIS IS THE CURRENT ERROR):
libGL error: unable to load driver: rockchip_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: rockchip
fixme:d3d:wined3d_guess_card No card selector available for card vendor 0000 (using GL_RENDERER "Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.0, 128 bits)").
The installation worked just fine
Patching the game worked for two out of three patches.
Winrar runs fine (don't ask).
The only thing I'd still want to try is skypeforlinux, but that doesn't matter much if I can't get the 3D to work!
I would be very happy if I could get some help from you fine people, so I'll be stalking the IRC chat for Rock64.
I'll post any updates on my progress of getting this damn binary blob to work.
I honestly would love to have my oldies working on my Rock64.
This computer is going in my go-bag for emergencies together with a DLP projector, because of how small and efficient it is!
There is an option to get a refund up to 7 days after your purchase if it doesn't work, so I'm banking on that.
The cost was 30 euros, so I'm not too keen on keeping something that doesn't yet fully work.
Now, onto what DOES and DOES NOT YET work:
I am running ayufan's Ubuntu 1.04 image.
x86 linux applications work (only tested wine)
x86 windows applications work (wine)
x86 3D windows aplications can't find the GL driver (only tried Homeworld, old 1999 game, working on this right now).
This works:
$exagear
Starting /bin/bash in the guest image /opt/exagear/images/ubuntu-1604
$arch
i686
$cd /home/rock64/.wine/drive_c/Homeworld
$wine homeworld.exe
(THIS IS THE CURRENT ERROR):
libGL error: unable to load driver: rockchip_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: rockchip
fixme:d3d:wined3d_guess_card No card selector available for card vendor 0000 (using GL_RENDERER "Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.0, 128 bits)").
The installation worked just fine
Patching the game worked for two out of three patches.
Winrar runs fine (don't ask).
The only thing I'd still want to try is skypeforlinux, but that doesn't matter much if I can't get the 3D to work!
I would be very happy if I could get some help from you fine people, so I'll be stalking the IRC chat for Rock64.
I'll post any updates on my progress of getting this damn binary blob to work.
I honestly would love to have my oldies working on my Rock64.
This computer is going in my go-bag for emergencies together with a DLP projector, because of how small and efficient it is!