Accelerated Graphics ?

The Graphics chip that Powers our chromebooks (and the first Samsung ARM chromebook) is the Mali T604.

Before going anywhere, there are a few things we need to make very clear :

• The Mali T604 is an OpenGLES card, not OpenGL. OpenGLES is a stripped down version of OpenGL.
• This means we can't run Compositors/WMs that aren't OpenGLES compatible.
• At Current, the Drivers are packaged weirdly, and may depend on Certain versions of the Kernel or X
• Contradictory instructions are availible online
• We are researching the best way of getting decent graphics performance

The Current Situation

• At Current desktop performance is alright but we can't use desktops like Gnome Shell
• We currently use the fbdev X driver.