[___] NVIDIA Optimus - LibreELEC 8.2 with NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce GT 730M]

liberi · November 12, 2017 at 1:55 PM

NVIDIA Optimus

Hello, i want to use LE 8.2 with my notebook.

But the xserver will not start.

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lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce GT 730M] (rev a1)

Can I use LibreELEC 8.2 with my notebook?

Which bootoption did i need?

My image: LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.2.0.img.gz

Greetz

liberi

Working NVIDIA Driver with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

nvidia-graphics-drivers-384

liberi · November 12, 2017 at 2:53 PM

LibreELEC USB stick-2

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parted -l

Modell: SanDisk 3.0 (scsi)                                                                                                                                                                                               
Festplatte  /dev/sdb:  16,0GB                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B                                                                                                                                                                                        
Partitionstabelle: gpt                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Disk-Flags:
Nummer  Anfang  Ende    Größe   Dateisystem  Name     Flags                                                                                                                                                                      
 1      4194kB  541MB   537MB   fat32        primary  boot, legacy_boot, esp                                                                                                                                                     
 2      541MB   16,0GB  15,5GB  ext4         primary

**vpeter** · November 12, 2017 at 3:08 PM

Why not creating USB stick and trying LIVE mode?

liberi · November 12, 2017 at 3:13 PM

That is my USB stick.

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sudo dd if=LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.2.0.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M

Than i have boot with USB stick-1 to get a LibreELEC USB stick-2.

**vpeter** · November 12, 2017 at 3:17 PM

Ah, I missed that. Is this some very newer graphic card? Maybe it is not supported in 8.2.0. In this case you can try Kodi 18 from Index of /builds/master/Generic/

liberi · November 12, 2017 at 3:22 PM

The graphic card, notebook, i have it since 4 years.

Did LibreELEC support Nvidia Optimus?

The same problem:

OpenELEC Mediacenter - OpenELEC Forum - New Nvidia driver with Optimus (Laptop) support! (1/2)

liberi · November 13, 2017 at 8:59 AM

Hello. now LibreELEC 8.2 works without problems.

I only work with one USB stick.

USB stick-1

Code

sudo dd if=LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.2.0.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M && sync

Than i boot USB stick-1

I use Tab run (i can select "install", "live" and "run")

Now i can boot and configure LibreELEc 8.2 with my Notebook, NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce GT 730M]

Its a problem from the LE 8.2 install or my USB stick.

Now:

Code

Corsair SanDisk 3.0 (scsi)
Festplatte  /dev/sdb:  16,0GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B
Partitionstabelle: gpt
Disk-Flags: 

Nummer  Anfang  Ende    Größe   Dateisystem  Name     Flags
 1      4194kB  541MB   537MB   fat16        primary  legacy_boot, msftdata
 2      541MB   16,0GB  15,5GB  ext4         primary

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sudo blkid
/dev/sdb1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="LIBREELEC" UUID="2710-1044" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="c8bebfee-4e18-4da1-98e9-5d0422f8e4ae"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="58857c16-5918-4dbc-9fd8-415abc33157d" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="627b7a11-e29c-47b3-877d-7f70cc7ff8ff"

The resizing from ext4 takes a long time.

Greetz

liberi

Working NVIDIA Driver with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

nvidia-graphics-drivers-384

**vpeter** · November 13, 2017 at 9:32 AM

So all good now? You just need to change syslinux.cfg to always boot with run option.

liberi · November 13, 2017 at 9:44 AM

It is not good, the next boot, the xorg crashed.

Now i have ssh support.

How can i get the xorg.log?

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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Xorg.0.log ---->

Perl Nopaste

How can i solved the problem?

**vpeter** · November 13, 2017 at 9:46 AM

I see

File is /var/log/Xorg.0.log

liberi · November 13, 2017 at 10:05 AM

Perl Nopaste

How can i solved the problem?

liberi · November 13, 2017 at 10:30 AM

New Test "Live Modus"

Perl Nopaste

LE 8.2 works

grom_e30 · November 13, 2017 at 10:33 AM

my laptop has optimus an older lenovo t420, and the only way i could get it to work with libreelec was to set it to use the on-board intel grafix in the bios.

liberi · November 13, 2017 at 10:41 AM

The /libreelec/syslinux.conf

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SAY Wait for installer to start or press <TAB> for more options (live, run)
DEFAULT live
TIMEOUT 50
PROMPT 1

LABEL installer
  KERNEL /KERNEL
  APPEND boot=UUID=2710-1044 installer quiet tty vga=current

LABEL live
  KERNEL /KERNEL
  APPEND boot=UUID=2710-1044 live quiet tty vga=current

LABEL run
  KERNEL /KERNEL
  APPEND boot=UUID=2710-1044 disk=UUID=58857c16-5918-4dbc-9fd8-415ad033157d portable quiet

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**vpeter** · November 13, 2017 at 10:50 AM

Maybe you should fix xorg.conf and adding correct Modeline in it: Configuring resolution via xorg.conf - Official Kodi Wiki

liberi · November 13, 2017 at 12:13 PM

Live Boot, worked

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LibreELEC:~ # cd /etc/X11/
LibreELEC:/etc/X11 # ls
xorg-i915.conf           xorg-nvidia.conf
xorg-nvidia-legacy.conf  xorg-radeon.conf
LibreELEC:/etc/X11 #

All files empty.

Perl Nopaste

Which etc/X11/*.conf i use with Live Boot?

If I use the boot option "run", the USB never will start the xserver.

vpeter, irc:

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I think intel graphic card works in "live2 mode. But no idea why not in "run" mode. One option would be to use xorg-i915.conf but for this you need already working system. Or you could boot with run mode to get second partition as it should be and then back in live mode to copy xorg.conf.

**vpeter** · November 13, 2017 at 12:29 PM

Come back to irc because it will be much faster.

**vpeter** · November 13, 2017 at 1:12 PM

You could try to disable nvidia card with adding nouveau.modeset=0 to syslinux.cfg file on first partition on a usb stick. Something like

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LABEL run
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=....... disk=UUID=....... portable quiet nouveau.modeset=0