Ubuntu Graphics Acceleration

kfchoong · Posted at 3/8/2017 17:21:13

Hi,

I am running Firefly-rk3288_Ubuntu_1604_ 2016_1018 and I found that the graphics is very slow. When I run the browser, scrolling is noticeably lagging. When I run glxgears, the FPS is about 72-82 FPS.

Can I know if GPU acceleration is working under Ubuntu for 3288?

kfchoong · Posted at 3/9/2017 14:14:07

Hi,
Does it mean that Ubuntu support for graphics is still very poor? And I should use Debian?

kfchoong · Posted at 3/10/2017 20:53:00

That is really sad to hear. From the website, it seems that the "powerful GPU". I guess the "hardware" is powerful, but honestly, what is the point of a super powerful hardware without supporting software / OS? I will try out Debian... if that still doesn't work, I might have to return it.

kfchoong · Posted at 3/12/2017 22:38:41

Thanks for the advice. I do need good 2D graphics as I using it for digital signage. Do you have any recommendations for similar hardware?

kfchoong · Posted at 4/17/2017 20:24:31

Thanks. May I know if the Odroid performs better with 2D graphics than the Firefly board? From the video, looks like it doesn't have any problem doing hardware decoding of videos.

kfchoong · Posted at 5/1/2017 22:18:54

AussieJohn Posted at 4/28/2017 09:59
i use my odroid xu4 for a variety of uses and so far video playback has been very good, no noticable ...

Thanks for the info. It is very helpful. Let me try out XU4.