[meta-freescale] Chromium acceleration

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Becue Paul <P.Becue at televic.com> wrote:
>> I am working on a device with an iMX6 Solo processor for making a kind of
>> web-kiosk with touch interface on Yocto.
>> To learn Yocto I bought your book a month ago. It helped me a lot. Not too
>> long and to the point. Thank you for it.
>
> Thanks a lot. I'm glad to hear that.

Me too :-)

>> I am building it with Yocto Linux - X11 - chromium.I added the chromium-imx
>> layer from the freescale layer to my build. I builded for daisy and dizzy.
>> But I can't get the hardware acceleration on for chromium. When I look at
>> chrome://gpu I get:
>> Graphics Feature Status Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration
>> unavailable Flash: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable Flash
>> Stage3D: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable Flash Stage3D
>> Baseline profile: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
>> Compositing: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable Rasterization:
>> Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable Threaded Rasterization:
>> Unavailable Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
>> Video Encode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable WebGL:
>> Unavailable
>> and on the command line:
>> ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(162)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See
>> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSUIDSandboxDevelopment for more
>> information on developing with the sandbox on.
>> ERROR:gl_implementation_x11.cc(86)] glxGetProcAddress not found.
>> ERROR:gpu_child_thread.cc(143)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during
>> initialization
>> ERROR: v4l2 capture: slave not found!
>> ERROR:renderer_main.cc(204)] Running without renderer sandbox
>> ERROR:desktop_window_tree_host_x11.cc(1547)] Not implemented reached in void
>> views::DesktopWindowTreeHostX11::MapWindow(ui::WindowShowState)
>> ERROR:renderer_main.cc(204)] Running without renderer sandbox
>> ERROR:renderer_main.cc(204)] Running without renderer sandbox
>> ERROR:renderer_main.cc(204)] Running without renderer sandbox
>> ERROR:renderer_main.cc(204)] Running without renderer sandbox
>
> I tested cromium sometime ago with dizzy and it worked fine, I only
> used 4.8 for toolchain.

I am using it with several customers (with different levels of
customization) with 4.9 toolchain and it is working fine.

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