[x86-64] Stuck on Splash installing LE 13 Nightly (Generic) on HP T620

JoeCotty · February 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM

Hi,

after successfully installing newest LE13 nightly on my HP T630 i also wanted to install it in my cellar on HP T620.

Boot screen hangs but system seems to run in background.
Can not connect via SSH.
But i can browse the diretories with a Windows Client.

Installing LE12 does not have this problem

ZIP-File attached for LE13 and LE12 after install and reboot

I am a windows guy and have not much knowledge with linux ...

Any help appreciated ...

EDIT :

I removed "quiet" and added "textmode" to the RUN-command on the USB-stick (found in other thread)
The result you can see on the screen-photo attached

**chewitt** · March 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM

Code

Feb 28 16:21:02 LibreELEC kodi.sh[1025]: ERROR: Unable to create GUI. Exiting

Something is wrong between mesa and the GPU so there's no DRM/OpenGLES surface for Kodi to render the UI into, so nothing overwrites the boot splash, thus giving the appearance of a boot hang, although that's almost never true.

See if the Generic Legacy (which uses X11 not GBM) works any better.

**mglae** · March 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM

LE13 Generic-legacy does not work anymore because support for kernel "radeon" driver was removed.

But you can try to switch to "amdgpu" driver for your Kabini GPU on both Generic and Generic-legacy, see AMD Kabini - no hardware acceleration?

JoeCotty · March 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM

Hi,

yes, tried LE13 Generic Legacy but also does not work.

Only black screen with a visible mouse pointer is there ....

I will try your suggestion with "amdgpu"

JoeCotty · March 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM

Adding these parameters to the syslinux.cfg did not solve the problem.

I did not even get the Libreelec splash screen ... kernel loaded - ok ... and then nothing happens further ...

I am thinking now of buying a HP T730, which i did not test so far ....

JoeCotty · March 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM

Quote from mglae

LE13 Generic-legacy does not work anymore because support for kernel "radeon" driver was removed.

So until now i have tested 3 systems. ALL of them have a RADEON

On all of them 12.02 is running fine but only on one i can run LE13 nightly

HP T620 has a RADEON HD 8330E Graphics -> LE 13 nightly does NOT run

HP T630 has a RADEON R7E -> LE 13 nightly runs

HP T730 has a RADEON R7 -> LE 13 nightly does NOT run

So why does the T630 run with LE13 even if it has a RADEON GPU ?

The T730 has a PCIe slot where i installed an AMD Fire W2100 and deactivated iGPU in BIOS.
But also with this card i stay in the splash screen.
Can somebody recommend a low profile half height graphics card PCIe which works with LE13 ?