No hardware acceleration (i think)

[awesomefroggy29]

I am currently using an IdeaPad Flex 3 CB 11M735 (C330) on a mediatek mt8173 and for some reason, any sort of game i run is extremely slow and laggy. But if i use crostini on chromeos, the same game runs much much better. Is there any way to fix this?

[thenameisluk]

@awesomefroggy29
sorry but ur device doesn't currently have gpu acceleration

well the issue is chrome os uses proprietary gpu driver which enables gpu acceleration, you might be in theory able to get that driver working on ur device but i've never tried

there is an open sorce version in development but noone here really tried to get it working even thoe it should be in theory compatible with ur device https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Lenovo_IdeaPad_Flex_3_Chromebook_(CB-11M735)_(google-hana)

[thenameisluk]

i got my hands on the device through means

will see what can be figured out with it currently

[awesomefroggy29]

ok thanks! ill try to figure it out...

[awesomefroggy29]

yeah... its not working. I can't even get the first step in installing to work.

[hexdump0815]

it will still take some time until the powervr open source gpu driver will be useable - it is slowly getting there, but i would not expect anything useable at all before mid or end of next year

[awesomefroggy29]

oh, i can wait lol. Ive been trying to get linux on my chromebook for a year and a half now, and i finally found this(i have no idea how it took so long) so yeah, i can wait.

[awesomefroggy29]

i think im getting somewhere... ive watched a video and it seems to work so far, ill update on it later

[hexdump0815]

oh - you mean video decoding accel - that might even work with mt8173 (it is not using the gpu, but the vpu = video processing unit i think) - i was assuming gpu 3d accel :)