Raspberry pi 5 video hardware acceleration not working / vcgemcmd commands are failing

[otalado]

I installed Armbian  from Armbian_23.11.3_Rpi5b_jammy_current_6.1.68_cinnamon_desktop.img.xz downloaded today (February 11th 24)

After installation, I performed an upgrade/update. I have not yet installed any additional software.

Issues;

1) when cinnamon desktop starts there is message displayed: Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration 

2) vgencmd always gives an error:  VCHI initialization failed, no matter if I run it with sudo or not, or with which parameter(s) I run it.

 

armbian monitor -u gave link https://paste.armbian.com/lurunopoyo

[Igor]

2 hours ago, otalado said:

Issues

Did you read text here https://www.armbian.com/rpi5b/ ?

[otalado]

I have to admit that I missed this one.

Unfortunately, it does not help me because when I follow the steps, I end up with:

E: The value 'unstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

 

So far I haven't found a workaround on Google ...

[Igor]

20 minutes ago, otalado said:

I have to admit that I missed this one.

Unfortunately, it does not help me because when I follow the steps, I end up with:

E: The value 'unstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

 

So far I haven't found a workaround on Google ...

It was confirmed working with Debian Bookworm based images. For Ubuntu Jammy you need to find a way to backport Mesa driver for Noble (try nobble instead of unstable) and it will also (probably) work.

[otalado]

Thanks for the suggestion Igor, but I haven't tried it, because I decided to switch to Bookworm before I read it, and then was too late. When I installed the Armbian_23.11.3_Rpi5b_bookworm_current_6.1.68_cinnamon_desktop.img I did not get the complaint about the acceleration. I installed the MESA v23.2, it went without a

glitch! 

Unfortunately, a vcgencmd cmd fails the same way as in Jammy (i.e. VCHI initialization failed).  I depend on vcgencmd to measure CPU temperature for cooling fan control, so I'll have to switch to some other way for fan control.

Thanks for your help!

[Igor]

5 hours ago, otalado said:

  I depend on vcgencmd to measure CPU temperature for cooling fan control, so I'll have to switch to some other way for fan control.

Oh, we are missing this utility? Will be added when possible.
https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-2059