(12-03-2018, 09:59 AM)fosf0r Wrote: No available images are properly set up for acceleration from the jump, but that can be fixed.
If you install libmali-rk-midgard-t86x-r14p0-gbm and then build and install fbturbo, you can have accelerated X11.
https://github.com/ssvb/xf86-video-fbturbo
Reminder: rockpro64 cannot do hardware GL, but GLES2 will be accelerated.
Software GL and hardware acceleration conflict, so you can't have MESA GL (software) plus accelerated GLES (libmali-rk) at the same time (that I know of. I've been trying, so if I'm wrong, please correct!)
xscreensavers will be unaccelerated, for example, but you can run Kodi if build for GBM+GLES.
But Kodi is better without X11 at all, when run from framebuffer in GBM mode.
It suffers performance a lot if you launch from within X11.
If you use fbturbo, and your window manager supports compositing and/or some form of acceleration, TURN IT ALL OFF.
For example, XFCE has software compositing, but that is unaccelerated by fbturbo, so things actually go faster once you disable it.
Counter-intuitively, if any programs (example: SMplayer) ask you what surface to render to, choose "x11 slow", NOT any of the options that would seem like they have acceleration.
(Also, "drm" and "GBM" can be appropriate choices as well depending on the context of the question and the program that is asking.)
If you go this route you may also want to disable all hardware acceleration inside of your web browser (Chromium, Firefox, etc) as well, since those are counter-intuitive as well. When I disabled as much hardware accel as I could in Chromium, it started functioning even more responsively.
If you want Wayland and Weston, you must install libmali-rk-midgard-t86x-r14p0-wayland
Weston on Wayland with this driver is 100% accelerated and composited.
I'm not 100% sure if having the libmali-rk-*-wayland package is allowed at the same time as the GBM one, I have not tried using both systems at the same time before (X11 and Wayland).
Thank you! I'll try it.
