[x86-64] Dell Latitude D830 Display Issues

BlueWolf · May 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM

Hello,

I have recently installed LibreELEC 12.0.2 on this old Dell Latitude D830. The issue that I am facing is that I can't seem to get a display of the Kodi/LibreELEC interface. I am left with this white text on black screen: LibreELEC (Official): 12.0.2

The current specs of this computer are as followed:

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STORAGE: 80GB

CPU: Intel T7250 (Core 2 Duo) 

GPU: nVidia Quadro NVS 135M

RAM: 1GB

I tried running the getedid script, but I am met with this error:

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grep: /var/log/Xorg.0.log: No such file or directory cp: can't stat '/etc/X11/xorg-nvidia.conf': No such file or directory sed: /storage/.config/xorg.conf: No such file or directory Failed to restart xorg.service: Unit xorg.service not found. grep: /var/log/Xorg.0.log: No such file or directory /usr/bin/getedid: line 211: nvidia-xconfig: not found sed: /storage/.config/xorg.conf: No such file or directory sed: /storage/.config/xorg.conf: No such file or directory sed: /storage/.config/xorg.conf: No such file or directory sed: /storage/.config/xorg.conf: No such file or directory sed: /storage/.config/xorg.conf: No such file or directory Failed to restart xorg.service: Unit xorg.service not found.

Before installing LibreELEC, I did install MxLinux to test out the hardware and also gather some info on the various DRM devices I got:

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card0, card0-DVI-D-1, card0-LVDS-1, card0-VGA-1, renderD128

But when I checked the /sys/class/drm/ directory. There was nothing there, only a directory named version.

I've attached the recent Kodi log capable-sawfish.log.txt for more information and here is the link as well: https://paste.libreelec.tv/capable-sawfish.log

**Da Flex** · May 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM

Use LE 13 Generic Legacy Nightly for NVidia GPU. Upgrade your current installation on SSH:

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cd /storage/.update
wget https://test.libreelec.tv/13.0/Generic/Generic-legacy/LibreELEC-Generic-legacy.x86_64-13.0-nightly-20250529-8c39f0c.img.gz
reboot

**chewitt** · May 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM

Ensure the internal Intel GPU is disabled in the BIOS so only the nVidia card is used, remove the EDID changes from syslinux.cfg, and then use the "Generic-Legacy" image for nVidia GPU support.

NB: Future support is not guaranteed. LE13 dropped the 340.xx nVidia driver this GPU requires as it's not compatible with the latest X11 releases and we haven't yet decided on adding the nouveau driver to the "Generic" image. Even if we do add nouveau, there will be no VDPAU hardware acceleration as this depends on X11.

EDIT: Do not use the LE13 nightly as Da Flex advised because (as noted above) this does not support your GPU any more.

BlueWolf · June 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM

Hello,

Sorry for late reply.

Thank you chewitt and Da Flex for your replies.

Looks like all I needed was a fresh installation with the correct image. I somehow used the one without Nvidia driver support.

And thank you for that insight on later releases. Do you think it will ever be supported?

**chewitt** · June 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM

Attempting to support a range of nVidia card generations is a complete clusterfcuk due to different drivers and their wildly different and incompatible dependencies. The latest generations over cards are starting to converge on the open-source standards used with Intel/AMD; and that's likely to force a decision to support only those cards. I've been experimenting with nouveau, but I keep finding issues which appear to be long-running and unresolved so I'm not seeing that as a good and reliable solution.