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This story reminds me of the Adventures I've experienced while getting a Wandboard with a FreeScale I.MX6Q to a latest version rather then the official Image of

This story reminds me of the Adventures I've experienced while getting a Wandboard with a FreeScale I.MX6Q to a latest version rather then the official Image offering Xubuntu 11.10. No binary blobs available for the graphic card (actually there was a triple graphic chip boosted from Vivante) and Xorg in newer versions couldn't detect it. If you were running an apt-get upgrade on the official image, the very next boot could made the UI experience broken. I still have the board but I use it headless for pihole and wireguard, but the whole ARM experience becomes awful when it comes to graphic acceleration and the drivers aren't open source and not maintained anymore.

zokier 4y ago
That sounds unfortunate, I was under the impression that imx series socs were relatively foss friendly and in particular the vivante gpu would be well-supported by free etnaviv driver. Quick googling found that Debian Buster (i.e. oldstable at this point) should work relatively smoothly? > On 2017-12-14 Debian Buster (currently 'testing') was tested and running GNOME on Wandboard almost worked right out of the box. (In Buster the GNOME session uses Wayland by default instead of Xorg.) The only change needed was reserving contiguous memory, see the 'cma' section above. https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Wandboard https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Wandboard