| 23:03 | pulb | hey! does anybody here run archlinux on his cubox-i? |
| 23:08 | deniska | I do |
| 23:08 | deniska | (oh, I should update it) |
| 23:08 | pulb | deniska: do you know if accelerated graphics work out of the box? |
| 23:08 | deniska | no |
| 23:09 | deniska | Actually I never really got it working |
| 23:09 | pulb | oh |
| 23:09 | pulb | damn |
| 23:09 | deniska | I got bearable x11 without gl |
| 23:09 | deniska | And xbmc works |
| 23:09 | deniska | (but it uses framebuffer) |
| 23:10 | pulb | i'm looking for a new arm box for media center and emulation purposes |
| 23:11 | deniska | xbmc works pretty much out of the box |
| 23:11 | deniska | But everything else I never found a way |
| 23:11 | deniska | At least as easy as just installing a package |
| 23:11 | pulb | did you try these steps: http://www.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=ArchLinux ? |
| 23:12 | pulb | (Creating A Desktop Environment) |
| 23:12 | deniska | I fiddled with different variants of installing, copying and symlinking gpu-viv-bin-mx6q-* packages content |
| 23:12 | deniska | so my system is probably now in semibroken state |
| 23:13 | deniska | xf86-video-fbdev is not an accelerated driver |
| 23:13 | deniska | and -fb means framebuffer which if I understand correctly only works with specially compiled full screen apps outside of x11 |
| 23:15 | deniska | error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.archlinuxarm.org : Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds |
| 23:15 | deniska | >_< wut |
| 23:16 | deniska | okay, my arch is 75% broken now :3 |
| 23:17 | pulb | deniska: thanks for the valuable info! |
| 23:18 | deniska | I managed to get some sort of X11 accelerated driver working which gave me quite fast compositing |
| 23:18 | deniska | but with compositing enabled apps work slower |
| 23:19 | deniska | so between slower graphics inside windows and slower windows moving I chose the former =) |
| 23:19 | pulb | :-\ |
| 23:19 | deniska | the latter* |
| 23:19 | deniska | And it is a time for me to sleep =) |
| 23:20 | deniska | I am using cubox-i4pro as an occasional desktop just for the heck of it |
| 23:21 | deniska | Because I kinda like an idea of non-x86(_64) desktop =) |
| 23:22 | pulb | yes, but somehow i get the feeling running X11 environments on arm hardware is currently rather unsupported |
| 23:22 | deniska | yes |
| 23:22 | deniska | Thanks Android |
| 23:23 | pulb | yeah |
| 23:23 | pulb | do you know it sdl apps work (without x11)? |
| 23:23 | deniska | They should |
| 23:24 | deniska | But probably they need to be compiled against specific libs or something like that |
| 23:24 | deniska | I tried to make quake3 gles happen, I didn't succeed |
| 23:25 | pulb | i'm mainly interested in retroarch |
| 23:25 | deniska | Your best bet might be android |
| 23:26 | deniska | There's no much documentation about building linux stuff which uses egl |
| 23:26 | deniska | on this particular device |
| 23:27 | deniska | There are more competent people here than me, but they maybe asleep =) |
| 23:27 | deniska | (as should be me) |
| 23:27 | deniska | Bye =) |