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Prerequisites

You will need:

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Raspbian setup instructions are at http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup.

When you first power up the board with Raspbian you will get the raspi-config tool. For JavaFX you will want to make sure the GPU has enough memory to work with. A 50%/50% split of memory between the CPU and GPU works wellThere are a few things to note here:

• If you are using the device primarily with JavaFX, you will probably not want to select "Enable Boot to Desktop". JavaFX on the Pi takes over the whole screen and does not interact with the Linux desktop.
• Under "Advanced Options" you can select "Memory Split" to allocate memory to the graphics processor. A 50/50 split will let you get most use out of JavaFX accelerated graphics.
• If you are using JavaFX over ethernet, it can be convenient to turn on the SSH server under "Advanced Options". Since JavaFX takes over input devices, it can be hard to stop an application if you don't have an SSH connection to it from another machine.

If the Raspberry Pi isn't detecting the screen size correctly, you might need to tweak video mode settings and maybe tell the Pi to ignore the capabilities reported by the display.

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