I don’t think this is due to low performance, but probably a limitation of the X11 drivers. One thing I noticed is that all games seem to run at around 45 FPS. In rare cases, I had to do a few other things, but I will explain them when it comes to it. With this I could start most of the applications directly from the terminal. Not all programs will run with the other two options in the environment file so you should skip them. Some of the games we try were already made to use OpenGL and gl4es in the first place, so the only difference for these applications is the option “LIBGL_FB=1”, so it can be worth putting this variable into /etc/environment instead as this will activate it globally for all applications (requires reboot). Therefore, I setup my environment by defining the following variables:Įxport LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/monolibs Most of the applications won’t start directly form menu and have to be started from command line, otherwise they either use MESA Software OpenGL, or the wrong SDL2 version. $ apt install -t stretch libgl-odroid monolibs-odroid We still need it to get things running, so I installed both: Setting up the environmentĪfter I installed MATE desktop with GPU drivers, I needed to install gl4es from my repository, but also installed monolibs-odroid as it provides a libSDL2 version that supports OpenGL, which by default is disabled in my libSDL2 versions for ODROIDs, as it normally uses OpenGL ES. That allows you to run a number of games that I already built and configured for ODROIDs to run on the ODROID-N2 as well. Still, we found with the help of gl4es (an OpenGL to OpenGL ES wrapper) that many programs can be run with OpenGL acceleration in a “Full-Screen” Mode. While Chromium is very sluggish, especially when playing YouTube videos, Firefox works slightly better, but still both do not have hardware acceleration, so there is no WebGL support or hardware accelerated scrolling. The lack of hardware acceleration is a noticeable downside, especially on the web browser. The N2 is quite good at running as a desktop replacement, and the fast CPU allows for desktop composing which allows for transparent windows, giving the N2 a look and feel of a faster desktop computer. However, many users want to use the N2 as a desktop replacement while hopefully having a fluent experience on both desktop and applications, but since the ODROID-N2 does not have X11 video drivers, there are fewer options.įigure 1 - ODROID-N2 MATE desktop with compositing allows for transparent terminal window PPSSPP also seems to work fine, but these are applications that run in a single application mode, meaning they are the only application running and can’t be used from a desktop (although they start from a desktop and therefore can be used here as well). It has been done before, and not what I will discuss in this article. We’ve already seen there are gaming images out there, and using Retroarch with a frontend like EmulationStation is not a big deal and nothing new. I want to explore what is currently possible, and what we can do playing games on the ODROID-N2 from a desktop. Still, because we do not have X11 drivers for the system, the capabilities of the ODROID-N2 are somewhat limited for now. Many like it due to the fact it has a very fast processor and GPU, as well as more RAM than previous ODROID models. The ODROID-N2 is still fairly new, but has already been around for a couple of months.
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