Build LE 9 with Kernel Version 4.9

bensisco · April 24, 2018 at 9:38 AM

Hi all,

since Kernel Versions > 4.9 i got problems with my Tevii S650 USB DVB-S2 device as desribed here: dw2102 kernel oops

On first boot i get kernel oops, i think because the device is in "cold" state, the device is not useable. When i restart LE everything is fine, the device can be used to watch TV.

Milhouse suggested to downgrade the kernel in git (Kodi Community Forum).

My question is: How do I do that?

Any help is appreciated

P.S.:So far I have been able to set up a build host, cloning the master branch from git and building a kernel image for version 4.14.30.

**CvH** · April 24, 2018 at 10:36 AM Official Post

did you tried to use an different DVB driver addon at the driver chooser ? the latest (2-3 days old) Milhousebuilds using updated drivers maybe this is fixed (maybe not)

bensisco · April 24, 2018 at 1:52 PM

I tried like shown in your video. That didn't do the trick. Still the same problems with the device.....

**smp** · April 24, 2018 at 2:06 PM

You will need to edit packages/linux/package.mk and replace linux 4.14 patches with the patches that are intended for kernel 4.9. You will also need to replace the linux.xxx.conf file with the version that is intended for kernel 4.9. You can copy it from 8.2 branch.

**CvH** · April 24, 2018 at 5:48 PM Official Post

Hmpf, so likely an kernel bug. Sadly without bisecting this get never fixed. But difficult to do it remotely.

light23 · June 14, 2018 at 7:02 PM

Hi,

I found a fix for this problem.

see here 197731 – Kernel Oops dw2102 Tevii s650 usb box

I have posted this also to the linux-media mailing list Re: Bugfix for Tevii S650

But sadly none of the relevant people seems to react.

Is it possible that somebody add this patch to LE ?

**CvH** · June 14, 2018 at 10:53 PM Official Post

Index of /test/650/

build of LE9 current master + with patch

light23 · June 15, 2018 at 8:13 PM

Thanks CvH, but the build does not work, also when the S650 is not connected. Only the Kodi logo and after a while it reboots.

The crashlog says error in python.

I think this is the same error as here (see post #23)

It seems to be related to the current LE9 master and not to the patch.

**CvH** · June 16, 2018 at 2:02 PM Official Post

Quote from light23

It seems to be related to the current LE9 master and not to the patch.

exactly ... meh so we have to wait a bit - next time I try to boot it ;D

**milhouse** · June 17, 2018 at 3:11 AM

Quote from CvH

exactly ... meh so we have to wait a bit - next time I try to boot it ;D

An updated build should work now that Python 2.7.15 has been merged - the Kodi crash is caused by a Python 2.7.14/gcc8 incompatibility.

**CvH** · June 27, 2018 at 8:48 AM Official Post

ups forgot about that thread, Index of /test/650/

working version with S650 patch applied