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Model Specific Forums => Gemini PDA => Gemini PDA - Linux => Topic started by: speculatrix on June 27, 2018, 02:29:09 am

Title: Good news about Mali drivers
Post by: speculatrix on June 27, 2018, 02:29:09 am

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news...w-Mali-GL-Blobs (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Allwinner-New-Mali-GL-Blobs)

Hopefully the work by Allwinnet will benefit us in time.

Title: Good news about Mali drivers
Post by: skmakine on June 28, 2018, 02:12:02 pm

Sounds supremely promising!

Any experiences on using this work in practice?

Title: Good news about Mali drivers
Post by: abgd on July 11, 2018, 08:04:00 pm

I'd be interested too. I think this is one of the biggest problems with using Linux on the Gemini. Even things like scrolling a webpage can be uncomfortably jerky. GLXgears gives a frame rate of 1.3 fps in full screen mode. Not cool.

Title: Good news about Mali drivers
Post by: Adam Boardman on July 12, 2018, 06:22:34 am

Quote from: abgd

GLXgears gives a frame rate of 1.3 fps in full screen mode. Not cool.

Try es2gears, if you want to test something using the accelerator available in the device (~130fps).