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The long road to GLES2 #16

Closed ubidefeo closed 4 years ago

ubidefeo commented 4 years ago

@WebReflection I have been looking at how to implement glesv2 in order to run WEBGL accelerated content and I have to say there's sooooooo much to learn about how Linux and Xorg manage screen output that I feel that learning tingle :D

Anyway... I have replaced cairo with cairo-gles2-armv7l (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cairo-glesv2-armv7l/) and it installs replacing cairo installed by BENJA's setup, but I have incurred into a minor install issue:

makepkg -si will return ==> ERROR: cairo-glesv2-armv7l is not available for the 'armv7h' architecture.

I've looked it up and amongst suggestions there was passing A to the command so

makepkg -siA did the trick.

I've shipped my game to the faire in London after testing it extensively, so I'd say it's safe to replace cairo with cairo-gles2-armv7l if you feel comfortable.

u.

WebReflection commented 4 years ago

Which platform was it? 'cause the pi4 is in arm7l, so that installing aur cairo-glesv2-$(uname -m) should do the trick?

In any case, I'm the Creator and maintainer of that package, so that all I have to do eventually is to add arm7h as potential target. Was this accelerating electron in BENJA?

Thanks for any extra detail you could provide.

ubidefeo commented 4 years ago

on Pi4, and nope... no real visible change in speed. uname -m returns the correct armv7l, so it's definitely something odd in the build process.

Also I am making progress on the tearing, but I'll post another issue because it's related to using Picom :)

WebReflection commented 4 years ago

On a clean install of the ArchLinux for Pi4, try logging in as alarm and bash <(curl -s https://archibold.io/kiosk/pi/wpe) ...you'll install the fastest, fully hardware accelerated version on WPEWebKit kiosk, and that module goes in without issues.

ubidefeo commented 4 years ago

a-ha! looking forward to testing in the next 15 minutes

thank you 🙏

WebReflection commented 4 years ago

https://youtu.be/T3BdiEe8lqA

ubidefeo commented 4 years ago

oh, wow! I wish you had sent me this earlier during our conversations :D

ubidefeo commented 4 years ago

I have ran the installer under a pre-existing BENJA and I think it didn't work out well. I'll go for a clean install when I have time to make one. Thank you for all the work, @WebReflection :)

WebReflection commented 4 years ago

armv7h for cairo-glesv2-armv7l is part of the installable architectures.