Hello, another Odroid M1S owner and user here. I tried the Ubuntu image because I was curious about video acceleration in particular. So I installed Kodi and played a few videos. There is no acceleration. This means that this image is not usable as a player. However, it will probably be usable as an SMB/NFS server (I'll try using it that way for a while).
A few comments:
- Gnome is relatively slower, but not unusably slow (I personally don't mind, because I don't intend to use the M1S as a desktop)
- Gnome sometimes has problems rendering windows, there are strange stripes, only in certain parts of the windows, and at times it is so annoying that it becomes unusable
- Personally, I would love it if someone experienced could take a working GPU driver and put it into this image. That would solve everything, and we could all use the M1S to our full satisfaction (however, it's probably not that easy, because otherwise the guys at Odroid would have already done it).
- I will add relevant links to a functional accelerated solution that makes the M1S a fully functional driver, but based on the very old and not very usable 5.10 kernel
- https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=217&t=47621 here is a functional Odroid based image solution for media player.
- By the way, I managed to upgrade the image mentioned here to Ubuntu 24.04, using the Kodi build for Odroid M2 ( https://forum.odroid.com/ viewtopic.php?f=235&t=49005 ), but I had to stay on kernel 5.10, and even this version works relatively well as a functional player with accelerated videos (the old kernel is a prerequisite)
I hope that I have contributed at least a little to making this Armbian image gradually become the standard for M1S, because this computer deserves it.
