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Excellent effort. I wonder whether there will compositor support this driver, to take advantage in the desktop environment. I had made several attempts to get
by Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
Excellent effort.
I wonder whether there will compositor support this driver, to take advantage in the desktop environment. I had made several attempts to get a smoother desktop experience[1] on RPi 3 -
•LXDE + Openbox on Raspbian + X server
•Xfce4 + VC4 + X server + Arch Linux ARM + USB SSD
•Enlightenment + Wayland + Arch Linux ARM + USB SSD
Although Elightenment on Wayland with OpenGL was the smoothest of them all, it's not usable(frequent crashes with RPi) and since the frame buffer was limited to 2048x2048 none of them supported my 2560x1080 monitor.
Xfce4 + VC4 on Arch Linux is more usable, but is still not as stable as default Raspbian. I didn't see any productivity merits in continuing this adventure and decided to reclaim the memory from GPU to revert into headless[Arch+SSD] for a motion eye setup processing 3 720p camera streams simultaneously with average of ~ 50% CPU on all 4 cores when not watching the feed live(but motion active).
[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experience-on-raspberry-pi/ https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experien...
- mmm_grayons 6y agoI found arch to be quite stable on mine, though I didn't use a desktop most of the time. When I did, i3 was by far the fastest, so maybe give that a try.
- Abishek_Muthian 6y agoI agree reg Arch ARM, may it's just VC4 that's causing the issue in desktop environment. I'll give i3 a try if I pursue this, but IMHO RPi < Pi4 are best suited for headless operations.