Looking at this post
Graphics and Compute Development on Samsung Chromebook « Mali Developer Center Mali Developer Center
I have see that is possible to have Mali GPU hardware acceleration on Samsung ARM Chromebook with Ubuntu.
On the post you guide all the process to prepare an sd card to install ubuntu with mail support on chromebook, could you provide even the imagefile of the generated sd card?
Thanks
In: Help fix : Graphics and Compute Development on Samsung Chromebook
it looks like a common problem is just what I've now found, falling back to mesa.
It looks like I get the same results (better, no error about missing driver "exynos") if I just remove the default xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "mali"
Driver "armsoc"
EndSection
^ This may have been set by the install-x11.sh script. I did not put it there, but it seems to load the wrong driver and prevent a fallback.
I think I fooled myself, nothing is fixed, hope this deluge of information is helpful. Here is another more recent link:
Bug #1100067 “Samsung Chromebook uses software rendering when ha...” : Bugs : “nux” package : Ubuntu
I don't reach this stage:
chromebook:~$ es2_info
EGL_VERSION = 1.4 Midgard-"r1p2-00bet0"
EGL_VENDOR = ARM
I'm not sure where to start, if the advice is to recompile the es2 utils with the DDK headers. Is there a tutorial for that? I'm still not sure I've even loaded the drivers correctly. I think my system is running in "fb" mode, I can post another Xorg.0.log or wait for your advice.
Thanks!
Kingdon