3D Graphics Acceleration on T95N (A98X Jackbox) - RK3229 with 2GB RAM / 16GB eMMC - Educational Project for Schools Hi, I’m working on a project using a specific TV Box model (A98X Jackbox) to repurpose these boxes as low-cost computers for schools. The goal is to provide students with a platform to use AI tools and basic productivity, but I need better browser rendering. Hardware Specs (Confirmed via board teardown and logs): Board ID: T95N-RK3229_512X4_V1.5 CPU: Rockchip RK3229 RAM: 2GB (Confirmed via free -m) Storage: 16GB eMMC (SanDisk SDIN9DS2-16G) OS: Armbian 21.08.8 Bullseye (Legacy Kernel 4.4.194-rk322x) What I have done so far: Installed the Minimal image and set up LXDE with LightDM. Optimized the system (Governor set to performance, swappiness set to 10). Ran glxinfo -B which confirms it's currently using llvmpipe (Accelerated: no). Tried searching for Mali drivers via apt, but armbian-config is not available in the repositories for this specific build/architecture. Verified Wi-Fi functionality (working fine with LED config 2 via rk322x-config). The system is stable and surprisingly fast thanks to the 2GB RAM, but the CPU is struggling with 100% spikes during browser rendering (Epiphany WebKit) because it lacks GPU acceleration. Question: Is there a way to enable Mali-400 MP2 drivers for X11 on this Legacy 4.4 kernel? Are there any specific packages, blobs, or workarounds to get hardware acceleration working and replace llvmpipe? I’m available to run any tests or provide further logs if needed. Thanks for this amazing project!

@Sergioclr you can also try a newer branch https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/v20251014 https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/v20251014?tab=readme-ov-file#build-host-requirements

@Sergioclr Requirements for self hosted x86_64 / aarch64 machine at least 2GB of memory and ~35GB of disk space for VM, container or bare metal installation Armbian / Ubuntu Jammy 22.04.x for native building or any Docker capable Linux for containerised Windows 10/11 with WSL2 subsystem running Ubuntu Jammy 22.04.x Superuser rights (configured sudo or root access). Make sure your system is up-to-date! Outdated Docker binaries, for example, can cause trouble.

$ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="13" VERSION="13 (trixie)" VERSION_CODENAME=trixie DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.4 Compile phase failed due to missing package (ntpdate) Short log: [🌱] Configuration prepared for BOARD build [ x98h.csc ] [✨] Repeat Build Options (early) [ ./compile.sh build BOARD=x98h BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=trixie ] [🌱] Checked directory OK for mount options [ /home/*****/build/.tmp ('main temporary dir') ] [🌱] Preparing [ host ] [🌱] Python2 not available on host release 'trixie' [ ancient u-boot versions might/will fail to build ] [🌱] Updating apt host-side for installing host-side packages [ 50 packages ] [🌱] Installing host-side packages [ binfmt-support bison libc6-dev make dpkg-dev gcc ccache device-tree-compiler dwarves flex imagemagick jq libbison-dev libelf-dev libfdt-dev libfile-fcntllock-perl libmpc-dev libfl-dev lz4 libncurses-dev libssl-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev ntpdate patchutils pkg-config pv qemu-user-static arch-test swig u-boot-tools uuid-dev zlib1g-dev expect colorized-logs zip pigz pbzip2 lzop gdisk aria2 axel parallel rdfind libpython3-dev libffi-dev libgnutls28-dev gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu libc6-amd64-cross gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-or1k-elf ] [🔨] E: Package 'ntpdate' has no installation candidate [💥] error! [ Failed to install host packages; make sure you have a sane sources.list. ] [💥] Cleaning up [ please wait for cleanups to finish ] [🌿] ANSI log file built; inspect it by running: [ less -RS output/logs/log-build-dd186c47-e7eb-49f8-8d38-836915cf0aec.log.ans ] [🌱] Share log manually: [ use one of the commands below (or add SHARE_LOG=yes next time!) ] Note ntpdate has a more recent version: ntpsec-ntpdate Should I try to compile in a Debian 12 computer? I am afraid of messing with 'sources.list'. Thanks in advance.

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