Splash/FrameBuffer Differences Between LibreELEC 9 and 10

mcs5280 · September 22, 2021 at 4:53 AM

I've got an addon that runs in a Docker container and outputs video directly to /dev/vchiq. As a result I have to stop the Kodi service before launching the container so the video can be displayed. This process worked fine in LibreELEC 9 but in version 10 the splash screen seems to stay up and I don't see any video display. Does anyone know if anything changed in this regard for the new release? I was messing with the fbset command after stopping Kodi and I noticed the following:

LibreELEC 9: blank screen

Code

>>fbset
mode "1x1-0"
        # D: 0.000 MHz, H: 0.000 kHz, V: 0.000 Hz
        geometry 1 1 1 1 32
        timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
        accel false
        rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24
endmode

LibreELEC 10: LibreELEC logo is displayed

Code

>>fbset
mode "1920x1080-0"
        # D: 0.000 MHz, H: 0.000 kHz, V: 0.000 Hz
        geometry 1920 1080 1920 1080 16
        timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
        accel true
        rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0
endmode

My initia idea was to disable the splash screen but I have been unsuccessful in figuring out how. Any thoughts?

**HiassofT** · September 22, 2021 at 9:53 AM

LE10 switched from the proprietary firmware video driver to standard linux DRM/KMS video driver - so using vchiq etc won't work anymore, you have to switch your application to DRM/KMS as well.

LE9.2 and before changed the framebuffer to 1x1px at kodi start to save a bit of memory (which helped RPi1 with only 256/512MB RAM) - this is no longer happening on LE10 as well.

so long,

Hias

Splash/FrameBuffer Differences Between LibreELEC 9 and 10

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