I'm new to the forums and I'm looking for a device which I can use like a normal desktop PC. I already own an OpenPandora which has an 1GHz Cortex-A8 and 512MB of RAM. It's fast enough for most tasks I'd like to do, so I think an ARM platform could replace my PC.
Here's what I'd like to do:
- listen to music with mpd
- running privoxy for ad blocking
- running hostapd for WIFI hotspot
- using Xorg with SpaceFM, Claws Mail etc.
- using OpenGL ES apps like RetroArch on Xorg
- connect a hard drive, so SATA or USB3 would be nice
In my view the ODROID-XU, ODROID-U3 and the Wandboard could deliver that. But I don't know which one to chose.
I don't understand what's needed to get acceleration in Xorg. If I got it right then the ODROID-XU has nearly no GPU support on Linux. Hardkernel devs say that they are working on that, but it's nothing released (yet). The Mali GPU of the U3 seems to be supported quite well. Xorg driver seems to be xf86-video-fbturbo, but in how far does it work without a custom Xorg driver? Would it be like running xf86-video-fbdev on nvidia blob (if that's possible)?
Wandboard seems to have best support. GPU blobs are packaged in ALARM, there's a custom Xorg driver (xf86-video-imx) and even video playback is hardware accelerated according to their homepage.
So can anyone explain me that GPU-thing? Does anyone know another board which suits my needs?
Thanks in advance!