Hi someone on our team tried to run chromium on an external touchscreen/display connected to the BeagleBone Black, and noted similar slow response.
Is there a way to improve performance of chromium running on BBB or are there better alternatives? Thanks! On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 6:51:26 AM UTC-6, Michael Dalby wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > Many thanks for the help. > Adding the Xorg got the LCD screen up and running. I do have a couple of > question that you may be able to answer?? > Firstly, when the BBB initially loads it goes to the user logon screen > which seems to be incorrectly scaled - do you know if there is a way to > correct scaling? > > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nz237NoR7ss/Wnr1AaGKeOI/AAAAAAAAEWc/nrGh5309_EYOiwKY4My8iFRZCdcx-n5RACLcBGAs/s1600/DSC_1084.JPG> > > > Secondly, when I load a page into the chromium browser it seems really > slow laggy & unresponsive - I am running Node Red and wanted the browser to > view the output dashboard. Is this a problem with Chromium on the BBB - > should I be using a different browser or are there some Xorg settings I can > change to improve things?? If I monitor the dashboard through my PCs > webbrowser via HTTP connection it is buttery smooth *with the BBB acting as > the web server) > > Many thanks for any help you can offer > > Cheers > > Michael > > > On Friday, 2 February 2018 15:34:48 UTC, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:12 AM, Michael Dalby <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi All >> >> >> >> I hope someone can help ? >> >> >> >> I am running a Debian IoT (non GUI) image on my BBB. I have a 4D LCD >> cape >> >> installed which is working and shows the Linux command line. >> >> I would like to run a web browser in order to show the Node-Red >> dashboard of >> >> my running Node-Red instance. >> >> >> >> I have successfully installed Chromium-browser (it didn't show any >> errors), >> >> but if I try to run 'chromium-browser' from the command line it does >> nothing >> >> - I want the web browser to show in the LCD window. >> >> Is this possible ?? >> >> Do I need to install any other applications (can this be done without >> >> installing something like LDXE)?? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer >> >> >> >> P.s. I am using the IoT version of Debian as I wanted to try and keep >> the >> >> memory foorprint to below 4Gb >> > >> > You'll need Xorg installed >> > >> > Follow "some" of this example i did for show: >> > >> > >> https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/FLIR+Lepton+on+BeagleBone+Black+and+Green#FLIRLeptononBeagleBoneBlackandGreen-Setupbasicwindowmanager >> >> > >> > aka ignore the lepton, qt5, and spi stuff. But the minimal >> > openbox/slim/autostart can be easily used for your application. >> >> ps ignore the 16 bit depth in xorg.conf, newer kernels' auto do this.. >> >> i should just create a new x11 example, or redo that project with >> todays kernel. ;) >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> https://rcn-ee.com/ >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/2799d6f1-3a7e-4c52-9a74-e205a3a90b57%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
