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I want to say that Armbian, for any developer listening, has been a pleasure to use, of its stability features. Running my board off a name via Arbitbian-config has been very nice. I would like to let you all know that I have found a solution (sorta) to the slow desktop environment for anyone interested in this. It appears that currently, it is using Softpipe for its graphics rendering (I am no expert in any of this, I am trying to learn). What I did (unintentionally) was getting llvmpipe working. With llvmpipe, the desktop environment works much snappier and is pretty usable (even though it is not using the GPU). I am not too sure how I got this working, but what appears to be my steps is first compiling the MESA drivers from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/imagination/mesa. Then what I did was download the source code from https://bianbu.spacemit.com/en/development/kernel_compile/. After applying these, the desktop environment became much snappier. The thing though is the kernel I compiled was not being used, so I am not sure what I exactly did. I am very new to working with this kinda thing so if anyone more experienced wants to shed some light on what I did that would be great.
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That makes sense. I looked at that and it's clear how Spacemit is only supporting Bianbu thus far, and not providing packages for OS's. I noticed they do have the packages for such support but as mentioned by Going they only support them in use with Bianbu. Thank you all very much for the help! This has been very informative on my journey with this board.
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The graphical interface is very slow and glitchy when I booted my BPI-F3 running the latest Armbian provided (Ubuntu variant). The cursor glitches in and out, and it takes forever for the onboard display to open applications, display text typed in, etc (It took around 5 minutes to open System Monitor, and 1 Minute to open Terminal). I have accessed it also via SSH and a USB-Serial converter, and those respond very quickly, therefore I think It has something to do with GPU support. I also found this other version with GPU acceleration, albeit an older version of Armbian, which ran fine. Mine currently boots off of EMMC and runs off of NVME (although the same was when I initially ran off of an SD card) How could I fix this issue?