Update LibreELEC Generic from 10 to 11 using manual update in Kodi settings 'fails' if you have NVidia graphics card

Eddict · January 30, 2023 at 9:02 PM

updating LibreELEC Generic from 10 to 11 using the manual update feature in Kodi settings fails if you have NVidia graphics card, as it downloads LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-10.95.0.img.gz instead of LibreELEC-Generic-legacy.x86_64-10.95.0.img.gz.

this will cause an error upon boot (after the SysLinux message) "Failed to initialize ptp_kvm" and no splash/gui is showing.

luckily the SSH server is running and it can be fixed by uploading the correct image to /storage/.update

**chewitt** · January 31, 2023 at 5:52 AM Best Answer

I've flagged this internally. The debate will be whether we fix this in the settings add-on, or simply add comments to the release notes that nVidia users need to do a file-based manual update and not use the GUI. These days the number of nVidia users is low (and continues to trend downwards) so we're reaching the point where effort vs. reward doesn't always inspire effort.