Thanks. I have done that before.
Just to let you know which problem your agr update has.
Thanks for your work.
What about panfork ?
Will you work for the new orion?
I have orderd one.
Archlinux on Rock5b
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what about panfork? i think it is working no? i just maintain it for the sake of history, but havent used it for a good while.
I am out of orion thing, i just dont have the time, but can support if i can.
So i created a binary repo out of the packages i maintain. It is currently unsigned repo. You can use it by adding the following snippet in the /etc/pacman.conf
[boogie]
Server = https://github.com/hbiyik/agrrepo/releases/download/alarm-$arch
SigLevel = Never
It is built automatically each 4 hours of the day so quite up to date. Here is a list of packages maintain: https://github.com/hbiyik/agrrepo/releases/tag/alarm-aarch64
You can still use 7ji's repo, the packages are auto maintained in both repos. Just my repo has more media centric packages like kodi-binary-addons or firefox-mpp or acestream etcā¦
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Just a side note: With Bauh acu -y install bauh it gets really easy to see whats in that repo and what we can install.
Hi, I installed Arch Arm using kwankiuās script. I picked the ārecommendedā kernel (now have 6.1.75-rockchip-ge21cf49ee9a4-dirty), and have gnome wayland. I installed chromium-mpp from acu (I believe it uses 7Jiās repo).
I upgraded (pacman -Syu); is this recommended, or does this interfere with acu?
I also installed firefox-mpp from boogieās repo.
Firefox does not play youtube videos; the player never really starts, just stucks. Chromium does play 4k 30fps from youtube reasonably, but there is like 600% cpu use (according to btop). At 60fps it struggles.
The guide at the start of this forum is from 2023, and a lot may have changed since. Is there an uptodate wiki I could follow to make the hardware accelerated video playback work properly?
I believe I have Panthor now, but not convinced that it is working properly.
inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: display-subsystem driver: rockchip_drm v: N/A
Device-2: rk3588-mali driver: panthor v: kernel
Device-3: rk3588-dw-hdmi driver: dwhdmi_rockchip v: N/A
Device-4: rk3588-dw-hdmi driver: dwhdmi_rockchip v: N/A
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 compositor: gnome-shell
v: 48.0 driver: N/A resolution: no compositor data resolution: 1: 3840x2160
2: 1600x1200
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: panthor,rknpu,rockchip,swrast
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.1 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.2-arch1.2
renderer: Mali-G610 (Panfrost)
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xprop
So kernel + overlay? + mesa + driver + firmware? + blob? all have to align for the accelerated video to properly work, applications may also need to be patched properly (e.g. firefox vs firefox-mpp). What are the good combos for each driver? I believe there are three possible drivers: the closed source driver from Mali (libmali?), open source Panfrost, and open source Panthor, which is collaboraās contribution. Or which one do you recommend?
Cheers
make sure you have firefox-137-3. 137-1/2 had issues
and mpp-git 1.0.9
Thats mainline firefox it wont use mpp acceleration
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pacman -Syu is the right way
is chrome://gpu showing video decoding as software or hardware?
Ok, its good. (When I tried upgrading radxaās debian for the 5b with the relevant apt command, I caused a total disaster and lost network. Apparently I purged some network driver that looked to apt as an orphan packageā¦)
Chromium shows software:
chrome://gpu:
Graphics Feature Status
=======================
* Canvas: Hardware accelerated
* Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled
* Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
* Compositing: Hardware accelerated
* Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
* OpenGL: Enabled
* Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
* Raw Draw: Disabled
* Skia Graphite: Disabled
* Video Decode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
* Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
* Vulkan: Disabled
* WebGL: Hardware accelerated
* WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
* WebGPU: Disabled
* WebNN: Disabled
...
I have the mpp version of chromium installed:
pacman -Ss chromium
...
7Ji/chromium-mpp 132.0.6834.159-1 [installed]
A web browser built for speed, simplicity, and security. Patched with Rockchip MPP support.
7Ji/libv4l-rkmpp-git 1.8.0.r1.5e73fca-1 [installed]
A rockchip-mpp V4L2 wrapper plugin for chromium V4L2 VDA/VEA, latest from git
boogie/libv4l-rkmpp-git 1.8.0.r1.5e73fca-1 [installed]
A rockchip-mpp V4L2 wrapper plugin for chromium V4L2 VDA/VEA, latest from git
And I do not have any flags. (I do not have āchromium-flags.confā file)
On x64 platform with an amd gpu I could use āvainfoā to show hardware video acceleration capabilities. Is there any equivalent command for mali on arm?
If you upgrade to kernel 6.1.75 and stay with mesa-panfork youāll have only software-rendering. What mesa-driver gives hardware acceleration in Wayland?
You can use default mesa package, or you can use mesa-panvk-git, your kernel should enable panthor instead of mali ddk, or you should be able to switch with a Ƥn overlay if kernel does not default to panthor
Dear boogiepop,
thank you for your answer!
The 6.1 kernel I tried:
linux-aarch64-rockchip-bsp6.1-joshua-git
The default mesa package should be this one:
mesa 1:25.1.1-2
Alternative driver:
mesa-panvk-git
The problem is:
My default driver with kernel 5.10 is mesa-panfork-git, which works very well.
I would line to update to kernel 6.xx because it fixes some important hardware issues for me. But I need hardware acceleration 
With panvk-git Iām not able to get hardware acceleration, itās always software renderer LLVM ( Xfce, X11) and canāt start Wayland session with Xfce 4.20 (which works with kernel 5.10 and hardware acceleration, quite well, I know xfwm4 isnāt supported yet in Wayland)
If I install the default mesa driver, pacman deinstalls the panvk - after a reboot I canāt see the desktop screen, so thereāre missing/wrong packagesā¦
Is there anything I missed concerning the packages (lib,ā¦) what I could try? The best option as I read would stay on the main mesa driver. I would love to get this driver working, but donāt know how.
Is the main line mesa driver compatible to 6.1.75 & X11?
Can somebody please help me:
I did a new Arch-Installation with DE Xfce and kernel 5.10 but it seems that the system doesnāt recognize the RK3588 cpu (also actual linux-firmware package exists)
What do I need to install?
best wishes BM
What do you mean by āit doesnāt recognize the CPUā? Sounds like something that would prevent booting altogether.
I did a new Arch-Installation with DE Xfce and kernel 5.10 but it seems that the system >doesnāt recognize the RK3588 cpu
In about Xfce thereās no cpu mentioned, thatās unusual
Base was an Arch-Image from 7ji which works very well.
package linux-firmware ist installed, thought that thereās everything in for recognizing the cpu
Side effect: I canāt get hw acceleration with mpv, which worked before without problems
error (ctrl+H): āhw decoding unavailableā
installed package from repo 7ji and boogiepop
mesa-panfork-git 23.0.0.devel.r164486.2e8aead0016-1
mali-valhall-g610-firmware g18p0.01eac0-4
mpp-git 1.0.10.r3980.e0e59e5c-1
mpv
mpv.conf with hwdec=rkmpp
When I installed the packages first, I missed setting up the video-groupā¦ I fixed this and -rdd the packages and re-installed them
Arch with Xfce, X11, kernel 5.10 worked before with another image without problems hw accelerated, maybe I missed somethingā¦ I donāt know how to fix thisā¦
could it be that you mean vpu instead of cpu?
Sorry, I donāt know. In the screen above cpu is empty which isnāt usual.
mpv -hwdec
mpp[1159]: mpp_platform: client 12 driver is not ready!
How can I fix this?
you can ignore that cpu thing, most likely xfce is failing to fetch details
in bsp kernel mpp has /dev/mpp_service device, which should be accessible by the logged in user.
So make sure that this device exists, if not you are using a wrong kernel.
If it exists make sure that logged in user has read write access to it. the mpp-git package sets access to necessary devices available for video group via udev rules: https://github.com/7Ji-PKGBUILDs/mpp-git/blob/master/60-mpp.rules
and in installation there should be warning you that you must add your active user to video group to make use of mpp
Dear boogiepop,
thank you for your help & assistance!
I upgraded linux-aarch64-rockchip-bsp6.1-joshua-git, deinstalled gpu-drivers for kernel 5.10 with -Rdd mesa-panfork-git mali-valhall-g610-firmware, installed pacman -Syu mesa-panvk-git and then getting wayland in my beloved xfce running (xfce wayland session). Thereāre some small issues but I donāt use many programs and theyāre working fine and smooth.
mpv seems running hardware accelerated, when I am checking the task manager (4% cpu).
I have the same error messages as mentioned here from Baal
https://forum.radxa.com/t/guide-arch-linux-for-single-board-computers/26042/16
mpp[4712]: mpp_platform: client 12 driver is not ready!
ā Video --vid=1 --vlang=eng (h264 3840x2160 29.97 fps) [default]
ā Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (aac 2ch 44100 Hz 196 kbps) [default]
mpp[4712]: mpp_info: mpp version: ac16b2c6 author: Yanjun Liao 2025-07-31 fix[h264e_api_v2]: Fix bit_real calc in skip mode
[ffmpeg/video] h264_rkmpp: An invalid frame was output by a decoder. This is a bug, please report it.
Error while decoding frame (hardware decoding)!
Using hardware decoding (rkmpp).
AO: [pipewire] 44100Hz stereo 2ch floatp
VO: [gpu] 3840x2160 drm_prime[nv12]
AV: 00:00:21 / 00:48:27 (1%) A-V: 0.000 Cache: 74s/146MB
Exitingā¦ (Quit)
If thereāll be the 6.16 release for linux-aarch64-rk3588-collabora-git Iāll test it. Thanks again!