12-05-2018, 12:25 AM
(12-04-2018, 04:51 PM)tahf Wrote:(12-04-2018, 02:15 PM)UltraBloxX Wrote: Well, if you need everything working as soon as possible, you could go with KDE neon. It works, but GPU acceleration doesn't really seems to work right now. It's apparently uses llvmpipe to do software rendering (even though supposedly ARM binary driver should be there).Is any solution to make GPU work? And does HDMI output work?
Not sure, didn't try it myself, but I assume not at this moment - didn't see anyone do it on the forum. And when 4.20 is released, KDE Neon would drop the BSP anyway. As for HDMI - I suppose it works only on mainline distros, not on BSP.
(12-04-2018, 06:02 PM)tahf Wrote: Am I right that it is planned that in a month all hardware and functions (suspend as example) will work with 4.20 kernel, and I can choose between proprietary and free mali driver?
Mostly all. Suspend will be patched in at a later date. And also, hardware video decoding acceleration (Video Engine) support is still Work-in-Progress, it's probably won't make it into 4.20 kernel.
Regarding proprietary mali blob/open-source lima driver - yes, you could use either one.
Don't be disappointed with the hardware support yet, it's all eventually coming. After all, this is an open-source project. Sadly, AllWinner is not being helpful (even hostile to open-source), so community had to either stay with outdated BSP kernel, or to mainline hardware support on their own. Mainlining effort has come a long way and now it's in final stages.
(12-04-2018, 09:19 PM)damosan Wrote: I would go with Armbian. As a previous poster said - it uses less memory, mostly works just fine, and I'm sure they'll get everything working well.
At present Chromium does tend to lag out so the GPU support needs some work - or at least I hope it needs some work and this isn't the best it'll do.
D.
Yes, I use Armbian for day-to-day work and actually replaced Neon by installing it to eMMC. It just works and allows to get more from the hardware.
Chromium in Armbian feels slower than Firefox in KDE Neon. But I assumed it's not about GPU support. I thought Chromium is overall slower, bloated and poorly optimized for low-end devices than Firefox (I mean, even on Raspberry Pi with official GPU drivers, browsers feel laggy). Need to install Firefox on Armbian and see if it's performance is better (similar to KDE Neon's Firefox build). Will do this and then post results to this thread.
