Chromium odroid c2 hardware acceleration?

[thatchunkylad1989]

Title. Can it be done??

[naums]

I found using fbturbo driver to work quite well - even in Openbox moving windows. Chromium (about:gpu) shows no hardware acceleration unfortunately. I also enabled (in about:flags) the "Override software rendering list"-option and start Chromium with the command-line argument "--use-gl=egl"

(source: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=112&t=8267)

In Chromium scrolling works okayish, Youtube is alright, but not great. Don't expect video acceleration.

[thatchunkylad1989]

That's for the C1 though, not the C2, right??

[naums]

Ah, you are right. That would be the reason it never worked for me xD

[thatchunkylad1989]

Lmao.

[naums]

If you are still interested - I always had the problem, that Chromium is allocating loads of memory for basically no pages whatsoever. I dug a bit in the about:flags to try and solve that, and it actually worked.

I switched:
Override software renderling list - enabled
Zero-copy rasterizer - enabled (this probably had the biggest impact)
Force color profile - sRGB (probably has no impact or even a negative one)
Parallel downloading - enabled.

Also: I use uBlock as adblocker, not Ablock. uBlock uses way less memory. Chromium is now useful to browse the internet on the C2, before the system began thrashing when I opened more than 5 pages (or so). Didn't feel slowdown to "default" configuration.

[thatchunkylad1989]

Thanks mate, seems to be better now.

[thatchunkylad1989]

Yeah it's 10x better, thanks matey!

[naums]

Interestingly enough, I find the performance when chrome tries to use the GPU acceleration for anything horrible. I switch Override software renderling list off again, to ensure, that Chromium does not even try. (see about:gpu to see if it tries to use the hardware acceleration).

Oh btw. I'm using the fbturbo driver. So mileage may vary. I found X to be more responsive with that driver.

[thatchunkylad1989]

Yep, me too.

xf86-video-fbturbo-odroid-c2-git

To be exact.
Chromium is a lot faster now, though.