Hardware acceleration on tx6 armbian 23 jammy kernel 6

[Sadik Hossain]

I have installed Armbian 23 Linux on my TX6 ATV box.

I downloaded the image from the SMLinux repo.

It was a kernel 6 build with Armbian 23 Jammy version.

I added the Oibaf PPA for the graphics driver, then I installed Ubuntu Desktop.

Luckily, I got graphics acceleration with the GNOME desktop, but it was laggy ui.

 

I confirmed graphics acceleration using the glxinfo command and also tried glxgears. It was working pretty smoothly, like 60 FPS, same as my monitor refresh rate.

 

Well, everything was great, but then when I tried to use Firefox and watch YouTube, it was so choppy and laggy.

YouTube UI took 2 minutes to load.

I thought I only had 131MB RAM available while using a heavy desktop like GNOME + browser, so I assumed it was the environment's fault. But then I installed XFCE and the experience was the same.

It was still choppy and laggy, even with 1GB of RAM available this time.

glxinfo and glxgears worked pretty fine, but the XFCE UI and Firefox animations were kind of glitchy.

But the YouTube video itself was smooth — not the UI though.

I managed to load a YouTube video using Firefox. There were frame drops like 83/300 so yea it wasn't fully smooth, but it was better than GNOME.

So now my question is:

Is this because I’m running it on an SD card?

Or is there no full video acceleration?

Is there any way for me to get full video acceleration? Because the Panfrost driver was working and loaded.

[Werner]

7 hours ago, Sadik Hossain said:

SMLinux repo.

Then you are using a fork of Armbian which we don't support here. Ask at the place where you got the image from.

[Sadik Hossain]

1 hour ago, Werner said:

Then you are using a fork of Armbian which we don't support here. Ask at the place where you got the image from.

I saw your build in an old topic about the Allwinner H6.
Do those builds have graphics acceleration?