12-16-2019, 05:07 AM
Hi folks. I'll tell yoos about my experience and goals for my Rock64 1GB.
First I installed Archlinux ARM per their wiki. 15 mins I was up and ssh'ed in. SSH freezes. gah off to googling.
Not a happy start. Saw a thread here on it that has no solution. Found out to install ethtool and turn off TX. Fixed I hope.
I then setup a sdcard to flash my SPI with ayufan's tool. Installed Arch to a 2.5" hdd and hey it booted from usb3....but it freezes.
Moved usb cable to usb2 port...seems ok. Need answers on this usb3 issue. I've read it's a problem. I use sdcard for now.
Here's where I'm working now: Installed X on both Manjaro and Arch arm. Only fbdev works which I hear is about all most want or try to get working. I want gles2 for qt5-gles so I can install and run KDE Plasma DE on both X and wayland.
Problems: I've tried to install and build from source mesa-git mesa-arm-git and they won't even build. I suppose I dont have the chops yet to get a aarch64 toolchain installed correctly on the r64. I see pkgs in the arm repo's but no how-to's on the net yet.
So if anyone has the above DE working with hardware accelerated gpu for the Mali-450 I'd like to work with you or hear your steps. It involves getting these parts all working. mainline 5.4.x kernel options right for this board/gpu that being lima driver and lima drm. X pkgs like libdrm mesa-20-git etc and then qt5 built for gles. gles=OpenGL-ES I think.
So far I'm not very impressed but I'm willing to work the bugs out of this board and dev the gpu some because it's cheap and powerful but a challenge. If I wanted plug and play kde I'd have bought a pricier board.
Cheers, tomarm
First I installed Archlinux ARM per their wiki. 15 mins I was up and ssh'ed in. SSH freezes. gah off to googling.
Not a happy start. Saw a thread here on it that has no solution. Found out to install ethtool and turn off TX. Fixed I hope.
I then setup a sdcard to flash my SPI with ayufan's tool. Installed Arch to a 2.5" hdd and hey it booted from usb3....but it freezes.
Moved usb cable to usb2 port...seems ok. Need answers on this usb3 issue. I've read it's a problem. I use sdcard for now.
Here's where I'm working now: Installed X on both Manjaro and Arch arm. Only fbdev works which I hear is about all most want or try to get working. I want gles2 for qt5-gles so I can install and run KDE Plasma DE on both X and wayland.
Problems: I've tried to install and build from source mesa-git mesa-arm-git and they won't even build. I suppose I dont have the chops yet to get a aarch64 toolchain installed correctly on the r64. I see pkgs in the arm repo's but no how-to's on the net yet.
So if anyone has the above DE working with hardware accelerated gpu for the Mali-450 I'd like to work with you or hear your steps. It involves getting these parts all working. mainline 5.4.x kernel options right for this board/gpu that being lima driver and lima drm. X pkgs like libdrm mesa-20-git etc and then qt5 built for gles. gles=OpenGL-ES I think.
So far I'm not very impressed but I'm willing to work the bugs out of this board and dev the gpu some because it's cheap and powerful but a challenge. If I wanted plug and play kde I'd have bought a pricier board.
Cheers, tomarm
