Mallen wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 6:56 am
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I have not tried freecad yet, but my surface pro now reports that it is using adreno accelerated graphics in WSL. Other 3d programs run much faster than they did before. This is odd because the driver still reports ... Wdm 2.7 I believe. But I guess they added the necessary functionality to the driver.
adreno from what I remeber is a smartphone graphics processor, there are maybe some Linux version, and probably you could even try to compile yourself FreeCAD.
Sadly having had some ARM processor, they are rather picky, as for some graphics devices, there are as example decent implementation of the OpenGL stack that is probably needed to make FreeCAD work, for other not, and as FreeCAD is using the whole graphics stack, at least OpenGl must be implemented, not taking in account that maybe there are also problems with implementation of the libc due to the different instructions set from amd64 and arm64 that despite the similar name are very different processors being ARM a RISC processor, see what it means on internet.
See as example the whole problems that MacOs users have when using the new M architecture that is based on ARM with many "modifications and improvement" from the vendor (not cited to avoid advertising a brand.)
The simple fact that exist a Linux Version for a board is not telling that all Linux software will run on them, usually command line tools, compiler and interpreter have a high chance to work, but when you speak of graphics, sadly your mileage may vary, as there are chances that no one has compiled a suitable driver for the graphics stack that usually is proprietary in board that employ a processor developed for smarthphones.
Regards
Carlo D.