Broadcom VideoCore IV Raspberry Pi running Raspbian armhf 2012-07-15

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The drivers bundled with the Debian squeeze image runs on framebuffer only. The default jogamp drivers expect libEGL that support opening windows using an xorg server.

sgothel have commited the 'BCM VC IV' driver that enables direct support for JOGL/NEWT on Rasperry PI console. Due to the lack of detection (TODO) users have to specify the Java property:

 -Dnativewindow.ws.name=jogamp.newt.driver.bcm.vc.iv

https://github.com/sgothel/jogl/commit/0ca481381b51b4082ac2b3bbae80cfaf5b60c3b8

This driver got featured in the Siggraph 2012 JogAmp bof:

https://twitter.com/#!/xranby/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2F2KAduOS5

https://twitter.com/#!/xranby/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2F6vzRrgO3