I thought the TK1 would do it, but Firefox was crushed by the 2nd page in his example. I wonder if it is just the Firefox browser, though. So, I went to install Chrome or Chromium and found no helpful pages. The NV site sends you to a page to install x86 Chrome. Bah.
So, how can I install Chrome or Chromium on the Jetson TK1? apt-get install chrome, chromium doesn’t work. apt-cache search doesn’t give a good response either.
Thanks, Kangalow, but that’s not working for me…I suppose I don’t have a repository listed in some file? Ideas?
This was right after sudo apt-get update
ubuntu@muggy:~$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser -y
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package chromium-browser is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘chromium-browser’ has no installation candidate
I also get better performance from Firefox on that page.
Looking at the CPU while running I think you will be better off with the Denver version of the Jetson board if/when it becomes available. (assuming the software will work correctly on it out of the box, since ARM V8 is so new that might be a problem)
If you redesigned the page to use WebGL though it would probably run at 60FPs at 1080p on the current Jetson though.
You could of course also get a cheap x86 SBC with an Intel Bay Trail atom CPU. These have Ivy Bridge class Intel HD graphics and run up to 2.4GHz with most instruction features found on ivy bridge.
Also a webgl version of the page would still run faster on the intel CPU anyway.
The power consumption doesn’t increase significantly even with maximum CPU clocks, if the system is otherwise idle.
EDIT: Chrome is the Google’s closed source build of the browser and Google only offers 32bit and 64bit x86 builds, so unfortunately it’s not possible to run it on ARM based devices like Jetson. Chromium is open source and it’s built by the different distros as any other package for multiple architectures.