LibreELEC-RR 9.x [ Emulationstation | Retroarch | Pegasus | DolphinQT | Moonlight | Chrome | Spotify ]

**5schatten** · August 26, 2019 at 5:22 PM

Build RR-20190826-b37a3e6 | uploaded for Generic & RPi2 | Index of /nightly/

updated to latest LE 9.80
updated Generic Linux kernel to 5.2.10
fixed refresh rate settings for RPi
updated SDL2 to 2.0.10 for RPi -> fixed 4769 – [SDL2 2.0.10] free(): invalid pointer / crashes ES after using Retroarch
updated Emulationstation to latest 2.9.0-dev & updated patches
updated Retroarch to release 1.7.8 RetroArch 1.7.8 – Released! – Libretro

I finally found some time to show some love for the RPi2/3 builds to investigate & fix a SDL2 bug which leads to an Emulationstation crash once you've quitted Retroarch. So overall performance should improve with batched rendering introduced by v2.0.10 & the SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG_FILE envar should now allow to directly load controller configs provided by SDL-GameControllerDB.

TheChuckster · August 29, 2019 at 5:50 PM

I'm using:

LE 9.1 | Kodi 18.2 builds

and so I am stuck on the old build: RR-20190423-716b9f8

No updates show up in custom channel. It looks like I need to update to LE 9.8 / 18.3 -- how can I do this without re-installing? Should I update using the Kodi update channel?

BlaBla1973 · August 29, 2019 at 6:07 PM

Quote from TheChuckster

I'm using:

LE 9.1 | Kodi 18.2 builds

and so I am stuck on the old build: RR-20190423-716b9f8

No updates show up in custom channel. It looks like I need to update to LE 9.8 / 18.3 -- how can I do this without re-installing? Should I update using the Kodi update channel?

Download the file above and put it in the update map.

TheChuckster · August 31, 2019 at 11:00 PM

Quote from BlaBla1973

Download the file above and put it in the update map.

UPDATE: I figured it out, I put the update file (.img.gz) into /storage/.update and rebooted

Sorry, which file? I don't see any links or attachments. If you could describe what the file is, I could try finding it myself?

Marciano · September 1, 2019 at 11:52 AM

5schatten how to get in your chrome addon proper auto framerate switching like kodi.

For i.e watching netflix in chrome is always 60hz.

Is there a solution for this cause i can’t find any setting for the chrome addon.

Is it an idea to setup chrome properly in your rr-config addon like spotify?

**5schatten** · September 1, 2019 at 12:11 PM

Build RR-20190901-0f0c6b8 | uploaded for Generic & RPi2 | Index of /nightly/

updated to latest LE 9.80
updated Kodi to 18.4-Leia
updated Generic & RPi Linux kernel to 5.2.11
reworked graphic system to use GLVND for multiple OpenGL vendors
updated Nvidia driver to 435.21
updated Vulkan to v1.1.121
updated Retroarch to 1.7.8 (v2)
updated Skyscraper to 3.2.8
updated libretro-cores
updated citra & dolphin
updated PCSX2 image to v1.0.4

This build uses GitHub - NVIDIA/libglvnd: The GL Vendor-Neutral Dispatch library to dispatch OpenGL API calls between multiple vendors which is necessary for the recent Nvidia driver 435.21. It was tested with Intel systems which use Intel IGP & a system that uses a GTX 1060 card. I have no system which would use the Nvidia-legacy driver 340.107 for series 500 cards and older so this hasn't been tested yet.

**5schatten** · September 1, 2019 at 12:13 PM

Quote from Marciano

5schatten how to get in your chrome addon proper auto framerate switching like kodi.

For i.e watching netflix in chrome is always 60hz.

Is there a solution for this cause i can’t find any setting for the chrome addon.

Is it an idea to setup chrome properly in your rr-config addon like spotify?

I don't think that this is possible. Use the Netflix addon for Kodi if you need proper refresh rate switching.

Marciano · September 1, 2019 at 12:25 PM

Quote from 5schatten

I don't think that this is possible. Use the Netflix addon for Kodi if you need proper refresh rate switching.

Yeah i tought so thanks!

Meganiekje · September 2, 2019 at 12:16 PM

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It was tested with Intel systems which use Intel IGP & a system that uses a GTX 1060 card. I have no system which would use the Nvidia-legacy driver 340.107 for series 500 cards and older so this hasn't been tested yet.

5schatten I did test it with a Nvidia geforce 8400gs card, this card did work with your stable version, using the 340.107 driver.

After upgrading to version RR-20190901 the system does not show the splash screen, and does not show the GUI.

I can see the mouse cursor, but the screen stays black. Then the system goes into an endless bootloop.

Logfiles are attached.: logfiles.zip

Meganiekje · September 2, 2019 at 12:47 PM

5schatten : I did test the RR-20190901 version on a AMD RV710 (hd4570) and it seems O.K. The screen tearing in the chrome browser is not yet fixed by default. (The Xorg.conf trick does work to fix the tearing)

On a Intel SandyBridge mobile (HD3000) GPU, I was unable to start the chrome browser. I get a message about installing Chrome, but the browser does not start. Please tell me what you need to get more info.

Kodi seems to work o.k. on the HD3000.

**5schatten** · September 2, 2019 at 4:36 PM

Quote from Meganiekje

5schatten I did test it with a Nvidia geforce 8400gs card, this card did work with your stable version, using the 340.107 driver.

After upgrading to version RR-20190901 the system does not show the splash screen, and does not show the GUI.

I can see the mouse cursor, but the screen stays black. Then the system goes into an endless bootloop.

Logfiles are attached.: logfiles.zip

well can you run glxgears in a terminal? and can you post the output of glxinfo | paste

The problem is that Nvidia uses vendor blobs which will only work with a script that creates symlinks to specific drivers at boot. Normally the legacy-driver should be picked up by Kodi afterwards.

Quote from Meganiekje

5schatten : I did test the RR-20190901 version on a AMD RV710 (hd4570) and it seems O.K. The screen tearing in the chrome browser is not yet fixed by default. (The Xorg.conf trick does work to fix the tearing)

On a Intel SandyBridge mobile (HD3000) GPU, I was unable to start the chrome browser. I get a message about installing Chrome, but the browser does not start. Please tell me what you need to get more info.

Kodi seems to work o.k. on the HD3000.

If the browser does not start just post the logfiles. I could fix the tearing at the default Xorg.conf but I'm not sure if this will break other legacy hardware configs. In the end I'm not building a simple SBC image but rather a image that has to run on countless hardware configs...

heisenberg · September 2, 2019 at 5:59 PM

I don't know, if this is possible, but can you please try to compile OpenBOR for LE?

Another user has packages for his EmuELEC (Amlogic) here: https://github.com/shantigilbert/emuelec/tree/emuelec-ce.9.2/packages/sx05re/emulators/openbor

RPi2/3 would be nice!

Thanks in advance

**5schatten** · September 2, 2019 at 9:51 PM

Build RR-20190902-c5f1fc8 | uploaded for Generic | Index of /nightly/

updated libglvnd & xorg-config to fix the nvidia-legacy driver

Meganiekje can you give this build a try?

Kupo91 · September 2, 2019 at 11:24 PM

Is there any specific reason why you dont update ppsspp anymore?

**5schatten** · September 2, 2019 at 11:41 PM

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Is there any specific reason why you dont update ppsspp anymore?

PPSSPP is always pretty much recent for Generic builds. The last v1.8.0 release was pretty much fu%$&" up ehrm meh well let's call it broken for ARM devices. It was completely broken for S905 devices and had severe performance regressions. Let's see if they were fixed by the upcoming v1.9.0 release Pull Requests · hrydgard/ppsspp · GitHub

TheChuckster · September 3, 2019 at 6:06 AM

5schatten

I have been working on and off at getting SteamOS to work.

I managed to get Xorg GUI applications running inside Docker. Here is xeyes:

I also submitted a Pull Request to update Docker to the newest 19.x version because it supports NVIDIA GPUs without using nvidia-docker. Just needed to tweak a patch. Maybe I also have to update the `PKG_REV`? Feel free to comment/merge if everything looks good to you!

**5schatten** · September 3, 2019 at 11:35 AM

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5schatten

I have been working on and off at getting SteamOS to work.

I managed to get Xorg GUI applications running inside Docker. Here is xeyes:

I also submitted a Pull Request to update Docker to the newest 19.x version because it supports NVIDIA GPUs without using nvidia-docker. Just needed to tweak a patch. Maybe I also have to update the `PKG_REV`? Feel free to comment/merge if everything looks good to you!

Check out docker: updated 19.03.1 / bumped dependencies by 5schatten · Pull Request #3789 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Meganiekje · September 3, 2019 at 1:03 PM

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If the browser does not start just post the logfiles. I could fix the tearing at the default Xorg.conf but I'm not sure if this will break other legacy hardware configs.

5schatten: I did a full kodi 'hard reset' to make sure that the chrome browser start problem is not in my config.

here is the logfile: kodi.log

I think it is not wise to fix the tearing in the default Xorg.conf, you need to get this exacly right for the used GPU otherwise the system will not boot. You could make some sort of 'switch' to select which Xorg.conf to use to fix the tearing ?