Loading Rockchip Driver on Tinker Board 2/2S with Debian 11

[aki 0]

Hello everyone,

I am currently using a Tinker Board 2/2S with Debian 11 (kernel 5.10) v3.0.6 and it appears that the Rockchip driver is not loading properly. When I run glxinfo | grep "OpenGL", I encounter multiple libGL errors related to the failure to create a DRI screen and to load the Rockchip driver. Consequently, it seems to fall back to software rendering with llvmpipe. Here is the output I received:

linaro@linaro-alip:~$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL"
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: rockchip
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: rockchip
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa/X.org
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1, 128 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 20.3.5
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 20.3.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 20.3.5
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:
Could anyone advise on the necessary steps to ensure the Rockchip driver loads correctly? Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Edited November 8, 2023 by aki

[tooz 47]

hello @aki, 

the embedded gpu uses GLES instead of GL

please use the commands below to check the gpu loading/ usage instead of glxinfo: 

cat /sys/devices/platform/ff9a0000.gpu/utilisation
cat /sys/devices/platform/ff9a0000.gpu/devfreq/ff9a0000.gpu/load

 

[aki 0]

Hello @tooz,

I tried the commands you suggested to check the GPU loading and usage on my Tinker Board 2/2S. The results are as follows:

linaro@linaro-alip:~$ cat /sys/devices/platform/ff9a0000.gpu/utilisation
0
linaro@linaro-alip:~$ cat /sys/devices/platform/ff9a0000.gpu/devfreq/ff9a0000.gpu/load
0@800000000Hz

Could you provide further guidance on what these results indicate regarding the Rockchip driver issue and any additional steps I might need to take to resolve it?

Thank you for your help!!

[tooz 47]

hello @aki, 

16 hours ago, aki said:

linaro@linaro-alip:~$ cat /sys/devices/platform/ff9a0000.gpu/devfreq/ff9a0000.gpu/load
0@800000000Hz

the @800000000Hz here means the gpu frequency is set to 800mhz, 0 means the gpu usage = 0

is the gpu governor set to performance? 

and please use these commands to check gpu when you're running applications that might be using gpu to accelerate -- for exmaple, you can use the commands while running glmark2-es2 and the gpu usage should not be 0. if the apis you are using support gpu accelerating then it (gpu usage = 0) should not be the case