[RPi5] Strange Display After Booting

kroete73 · December 6, 2024 at 7:21 PM

Hello forum community!

Unfortunately my PI4 broke down when I was about to get my LibreELEC / Kodi to work perfectly. I have now got a PI5 / 8 GB (the PI is in an Argon ONE V3 and other systems should also run on it - separately).
Unfortunately I have the following problem after booting - this screen is displayed (1st image). Something happens when you press a button - but nothing "recognizable" is displayed (2nd image).

I have already tested:

Installation
- LibreELEC USB-SD Creator x64 -
- PI Imager

various images
- LibreELEC-RPi5.aarch64-12.0.1.img
- LibreELEC-RPi5.aarch64-13.0-nightly-20241206-81ab9da.img
--> Raspian PI OS works without any problems

other SD cards / USB sticks
HDMI cable swapped
various monitors

Can you give me a tip on how to solve the problem?

**Da Flex** · December 6, 2024 at 11:31 PM Best Answer

Your RPi5 has new graphics hardware, which isn't supported at LE 12.0.1:

Thread

[RPI5] Fresh install issues

Hello,

I do need some support. After some issues with a movie on my old setup (RPI3 with Kodi 18) I decided to upgrade my two existing setups (Onother was an Odroid C2, lol)

I had two RPI4 and one of them not in use, so I just used the LE USB creator and it worked out of the box. Initial setup was with a mikro-HDMI adapter to a HDMI-to-DVI cable on my monitor setup, then it went to my FHD TV. So far so good.

Now, I tried to install a fresh RPI5 but it stucks. Seems anything with graphics is…

Gregor84

November 27, 2024 at 11:58 AM

Try the latest LE 12 nightly build. If the problem remains, post a log from that build:

Please provide a full debug log.

How to post a log (wiki)

1. Enable debugging in Settings>System Settings>Logging
2. Restart Kodi
3. Replicate the problem
4. Generate a log URL (do not post/upload logs to the forum)

use "Settings > LibreELEC > System > Paste system logs" or run "pastekodi" over SSH, then post the URL link

kroete73 · December 7, 2024 at 9:55 AM

I tested the latest image ...RPi5.aarch64-12.0-nightly-20241205-f894320... Unfortunately I still get the same error.

I would like to create the log - but it will be a bit difficult to set it up without a console/interface. Is there a way to activate the log via the config/distroconfig file?

thank you very much for your help so far

**chewitt** · December 7, 2024 at 10:35 AM

The image in post #1 is 100% the mesa issue resolved in nightlies so unless you've mixed up SD cards and are still booting the 12.0.1 image and not the LE12 or LE13 nightly, there's no real explanation. The nightlies work for other users with boards using the newer chip stepping.

You can add "ssh" to boot params in the cmdline.txt file on the SD card and this will force the SSH daemon to start so you can login to poke around and generate logs. You can also access the "Logfiles" SMB share over the network to generate a zip file in the share with all the logs, but if you are still seeing the same image as shown in post #1 there probably won't be anything useful as systems are up/working okay - only the mesa version is missing support for the newer chip stepping and doesn't render things correctly.

kroete73 · December 7, 2024 at 12:45 PM

I have to apologize now - the nightly worked on the second attempt and I am in the (recognizable) KODI configuration menu.
Thanks for the help - in my opinion the thread can be closed. If I have further problems, I will create a new thread with the logs.