Rock5B with Ubuntu Desktop

[icecream95]

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I’ve read better things for other competitors with the same chip, moreover with ubuntu 22.04. They probably success with graphics drivers, hopefully this will happen soon with radxa as well.

Soon… you mean like October 2022?

Following this post will get a desktop with GPU drivers that are arguably already better than what the “competition” install:

Ubuntu 20.02 & Mali Drivers

To answer my own question and to maybe help others. I was able to get the following going: Armbian Jammy - https://github.com/armbian/build/releases/tag/22.11.0-trunk.0087 update/upgrade You need to download mali firmware from https://github.com/JeffyCN/rockchip_mirrors/raw/libmali/firmware/g610/mali_csffw.bin and copy it to /lib/firmware/ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa update upgraxde sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop This gets a Ubuntu desktop using the Mali-G610 (P…