So I am trying the latest stable Armbian and it’s just as bad haha. OS doesn’t seem to have the drivers installed, Chrome is sluggish and not using GPU, CPU is spiked at 50-80%.
This is not working out of the box, what’s the catch?
You need to run Wayland session, X11 is not supported. Which should be OOB. I can assure you video acceleration works. You can play 4K Youtube without a problem.
I’m confused. You claim that GPU is supported out of the box but on a brand new install X11 is the Window manager and there is no way to change it over to Wayland?
GPU support for this board has not been great. The one custom OS I was able to get working completely worked for a month until an apt upgrade killed the OS lol.
You are using x11 fool xD try wayland to start with… x11 is a dead end on rk3588.
Log out your session the type of GDM will be listed on password login in a button somewhere.
Correct. It is set to default and it used to be default but now its broken for some reason. I opened a bug and it will probably be fixed eventually.
I already told you that I don’t know. I spent 30 minutes trying to resolve this, more I can’t possibly afford.
As far as Armbian goes, it share support issues with all other 3588 boards. If this is broken here, its broken elsewhere too. Once fixed for other, fix is automatically here. Desktop code and VPU / desktop acceleration is pretty much the same.
Out of quick diagnostic, probably the problem is in latest MESA drivers, which are sadly only unstable until today, are broken to some degree and desktop fails to load wayland session. This is still a pure guess, my 2c.
This is expected. Investment into software development are super small. Sales of same work with different wallpapers exceeds cooperation.
We found the source of problem. This board is using different boot mechanism than most of others, where this works. New images will be release once done, probably during next week.
kernel 6.10 for enthusiasts