# Wandboard Quad - driver gpu installation **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux Discussions\ **Created:** [July 1, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134 "2021-07-01T16:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fhersete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/user_avatar/forum.digikey.com/fhersete/32/27995_2.png) [@fhersete](https://forum.digikey.com/u/fhersete)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134/1 "2021-07-01T16:34:33Z")
Hi, I just cooked the newest linux version for the wandboard with its 4.14 kernel. > [@Debian: Getting Started with the Wandboard](https://forum.digikey.com/t/debian-getting-started-with-the-wandboard/12707): > > This is a page about NXP’s based i.MX6; Wandboard. Availability Boards: [Wandboard SOLO](https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1406-0001-ND) at DigiKey [Wandboard DUAL](https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1406-0004-ND) at DigiKey [Wandboard QUAD](https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1406-0005-ND) at DigiKey [Wandboard SOLO (WB-IMX6S)](https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1406-0009-ND) at DigiKey [Wandboard DUAL (WB-IMX6U-BW)](https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1406-0008-ND) at DigiKey [Wandboard QUAD (WB-IMX6Q-BW)](https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1406-0010-ND) at DigiKey [Wandboard QUADPLUS (WB-IMX6QP-BW)](https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1406-0011-ND) at DigiKey Accessories: [Wandboard Antenna Kit](https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1406-0002-ND) at DigiKey [Wandboard Enclosure](https://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1406-0003-ND) at DigiKey Vendor Documentation TechNexion: [https://www.technexion.com/](https://www.technexion.com/)[WANDBOARD.ORG](http://WANDBOARD.ORG): [https://www.wandboard.org/](https://www.wandboard.org/) … After testing it with the gpu drm driver, I have observed that both glxgears and glmark2-es obtain an average of 59fps in the best of cases, the linux distribution is excellent, since I have put the lxde windows environment to save cpu consumption resources, but there is something that I do not see correct in the gpu driver, since the performance when I have compared it with the official distribution of technexion ubuntu 16.04, the glmark2 that comes by default compiled from the factory, throws about 230 fps in the horse test approximately, and with the drm driver it reaches 59fps. Could not change the driver to give the same performance as in Ubuntu 16.04 ?. Thanks to Robert C Nelson for the amazing tutorial on cooking the debian distribution. Could someone comment on some steps to install the driver ?. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![RobertCNelson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/user_avatar/forum.digikey.com/robertcnelson/32/12_2.png) [@RobertCNelson](https://forum.digikey.com/u/RobertCNelson)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134/2 "2021-07-01T19:38:17Z")
> [@fhersete](#): > > I have observed that both glxgears and glmark2-es obtain an average of 59fps in the best of cases, glxgears is not a benchmark… mesa by default enables vsync… set the vblank\_mode variable to 0 to disable only rendering at the monitor refresh. ```auto vblank_mode=0 glxgears ``` > [@fhersete](#): > > Could someone comment on some steps to install the driver ?. Sorry, I have no interest in Vivante’s driver… The Etnaviv driver [Etnaviv · GitHub](https://github.com/etnaviv) used in mesa is more OpenGL compliant and more tested then Vivante’s original driver. Regards, ---
**Author:** ![fhersete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/user_avatar/forum.digikey.com/fhersete/32/27995_2.png) [@fhersete](https://forum.digikey.com/u/fhersete)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134/3 "2021-07-01T22:16:39Z")
I’ve already checked Robert, thank you. I did not remember the vertical synchronization of the monitor when deactivating it, it is true that glxgears gains performance, it also does so in glmark2, but it does not reach the vivante controller in performance, it is true that with the original vivante controller it breaks the graphic configuration table when you install the sdl libraries, then I agree with the compatibility, you cannot have both or everything. Thanks again Robert. ---
**Author:** ![RobertCNelson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/user_avatar/forum.digikey.com/robertcnelson/32/12_2.png) [@RobertCNelson](https://forum.digikey.com/u/RobertCNelson)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134/4 "2021-07-02T12:53:32Z")
> [@fhersete](#): > > then I agree with the compatibility, you cannot have both or everything. Which version of mesa is installed on your platform? ```auto lsb_release -a dpkg --list | grep mesa ``` We can take a look to see if upgrading it is pretty trivial… Regards, ---
**Author:** ![fhersete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/user_avatar/forum.digikey.com/fhersete/32/27995_2.png) [@fhersete](https://forum.digikey.com/u/fhersete)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134/5 "2021-07-02T13:40:19Z")
![screen](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/original/3X/3/4/34cc3ce858b5fd368a1b2c45fe9ff20925104968.jpeg) That version is the one I get ---
**Author:** ![RobertCNelson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/user_avatar/forum.digikey.com/robertcnelson/32/12_2.png) [@RobertCNelson](https://forum.digikey.com/u/RobertCNelson)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134/6 "2021-07-02T16:36:37Z")
Okay, mesa 19.1.x, yeah looking at my repo history, 19.2.x in debian required llvm-9, an updated libclc-dev, thus i only upgraded it to 19.1.x… Debian itself only shipped 18.3.6 in Debian 10… Regards, ---
**Author:** ![fhersete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/user_avatar/forum.digikey.com/fhersete/32/27995_2.png) [@fhersete](https://forum.digikey.com/u/fhersete)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134/7 "2021-07-02T16:45:30Z")
Thanks Robert for the support provided. Greetings. ---
**Author:** ![RobertCNelson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/user_avatar/forum.digikey.com/robertcnelson/32/12_2.png) [@RobertCNelson](https://forum.digikey.com/u/RobertCNelson)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134/8 "2021-07-02T16:53:34Z")
btw, Debian 11 should be released in the next few months, which will give us mesa 20.3.5… We should see a nice bump for this board… Regards, ---
**Author:** ![fhersete](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/digikey/user_avatar/forum.digikey.com/fhersete/32/27995_2.png) [@fhersete](https://forum.digikey.com/u/fhersete)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.digikey.com/t/wandboard-quad-driver-gpu-installation/15134/9 "2021-07-02T17:30:13Z")
Great!! I will be waiting to test it.