Turn on GPU acceleration on Chromebooks

GPU acceleration was already enabled with my Acer Chromebook R 13.

But if yours isn't or you're not sure:
  1. Test to see if GPU acceleration is set up by running this command.

    glxinfo -B

    If the command runs then your GPU acceleration is enabled. If it's not found, here's how to enable it.

    1. Open Chrome browser, navigate to chrome://flags/#crostini-gpu-support and enable the flag. 
    2. The browser will prompt you to restart, click on the Restart Now.
    3. In the terminal run:

      sudo apt-get update
    4. followed by:

      sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    5. Try running this again:
      glxinfo -B
    6. If the command is not found run.
      sudo apt-get install mesa-utils
    7. Then restart your device.
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