How to use legacy display driver in Libreelec 9.0.2?

boydit · June 14, 2019 at 9:40 PM

Libreelec 7 was the last I've been able to use. Since the update to 8 and now 9, the display will freeze with flashing lines across the screen. I assume (terrible, I know) that this is due to legacy hardware, using a new display driver.

How do I configure libreelec to use the (any) legacy display driver?

**chewitt** · June 15, 2019 at 5:43 AM Official Post

If you mean the nVidia driver .. It was possible to custom build LE 7.x/8.x images with the older 304.xx driver and there's a thread for those images in the forum somewhere. Since LE 9.x the versions of Xorg and mesa we are using are no longer ABI compatible with the 304.xx driver and AFAIK there are no LE 9.x images with the necessary bits downgraded to make an image. Whatever hardware you have - if it's old enough to need that driver the performance of an RPi3 would be a huge upgrade.