LibreELEC wont start display on old Pentium 4 hardware

ersoul · July 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM

Hello, I'm trying to run libreELEC in some old hardware I have (Pentium 4). All systemD services seems to load OK, but at the end the display won't start, due to something related with the drivers.

I think the relevant information is the following,

lspci:

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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
       Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller
       Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
       Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
       Memory at ff280000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
       I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
       Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
       Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
       Kernel driver in use: i915

lscpu:

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Architecture:             x86_64
 CPU op-mode(s):         32-bit, 64-bit
 Address sizes:          36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
 Byte Order:             Little Endian
CPU(s):                   2
 On-line CPU(s) list:    0,1
Vendor ID:                GenuineIntel
 BIOS Vendor ID:         Intel
 Model name:             Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
   BIOS Model name:      Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz                    To Be Filled By O.E.M. CPU @ 3.0GHz
   BIOS CPU family:      178
   CPU family:           15
   Model:                4
   Thread(s) per core:   2
   Core(s) per socket:   1
   Socket(s):            1
   Stepping:             9
   CPU(s) scaling MHz:   25%
   CPU max MHz:          3000.0000
   CPU min MHz:          375.0000
   BogoMIPS:             6002.60
   Flags:                fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_t
                         sc pebs bts nopl cpuid pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm pti
Caches (sum of all):
 L1d:                    16 KiB (1 instance)
 L2:                     1 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:
 NUMA node(s):           1
 NUMA node0 CPU(s):      0,1
Vulnerabilities:
 Gather data sampling:   Not affected
 Itlb multihit:          Processor vulnerable
 L1tf:                   Mitigation; PTE Inversion
 Mds:                    Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable
 Meltdown:               Mitigation; PTI
 Mmio stale data:        Unknown: No mitigations
 Reg file data sampling: Not affected
 Retbleed:               Not affected
 Spec rstack overflow:   Not affected
 Spec store bypass:      Vulnerable
 Spectre v1:             Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
 Spectre v2:             Mitigation; Retpolines; STIBP disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected; BHI Not affected
 Srbds:                  Not affected
 Tsx async abort:        Not affected

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And the error that occurs is the following:

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Jul 31 06:08:05 LibreELEC kodi.sh[1535]: MESA: warning: Driver does not support the 0x2572 PCI ID.
Jul 31 06:08:05 LibreELEC kodi.sh[1535]: MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: /usr/lib/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Jul 31 06:08:05 LibreELEC kodi.sh[1535]: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search
Jul 31 06:08:06 LibreELEC kodi.sh[1535]: ERROR: Unable to create GUI. Exiting
Jul 31 06:08:06 LibreELEC systemd[1]: kodi.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Jul 31 06:08:06 LibreELEC systemd[1]: kodi.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 31 06:08:06 LibreELEC systemd[1]: kodi.service: Consumed 1.023s CPU time.
Jul 31 06:08:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: kodi.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 32.
Jul 31 06:08:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Starting kodi.service...
Jul 31 06:08:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Started kodi.service.
Jul 31 06:08:08 LibreELEC (kodi.sh)[1551]: kodi.service: Referenced but unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string: KODI_DEBUG

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Not sure if there's anything I can do, or instead throw this piece of hardware to the trash

tokul · July 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM

"Driver does not support the 0x2572 PCI ID."

Use different video card or try using legacy version.

ersoul · July 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM

Using different video card is not an option. Tried the legacy version, but it was almost the same error. I guess that's a "no, no" for this PC.

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Jul 31 13:52:43 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Startup finished in 18.658s (kernel) + 14.430s (userspace) = 33.089s.
Jul 31 13:52:47 LibreELEC kodi.sh[928]: MESA: warning: Driver does not support the 0x2572 PCI ID.
Jul 31 13:52:47 LibreELEC kodi.sh[928]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
Jul 31 13:52:47 LibreELEC kodi.sh[928]: libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib/dri, suffix _dri)
Jul 31 13:52:47 LibreELEC kernel: kodi.bin[928]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f8cf30f22f6 sp 00007ffd3c945d98 error 4 in libc.so.6[7f8cf3075000+141000] likely on CPU 0 (core 0, socket 0)
Jul 31 13:52:47 LibreELEC kernel: Code: 00 00 66 90 66 0f ef c0 66 0f ef c9 66 0f ef d2 66 0f ef db 48 89 f8 48 89 f9 48 81 e1 ff 0f 00 00 48 81 f9 cf 0f 00 00 77 6a <f3> 0f 6f 20 66 0f 74 e0 66 0f d7 d4 85 d2 74 04 0f bc c2 c3 48 83
Jul 31 13:52:50 LibreELEC kodi.sh[924]: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Jul 31 13:52:54 LibreELEC kodi.sh[924]: Crash report available at /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi_crashlog_20250731135250.log
Jul 31 13:52:54 LibreELEC systemd[1]: kodi.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=139/n/a
Jul 31 13:52:54 LibreELEC systemd[1]: kodi.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 31 13:52:54 LibreELEC systemd[1]: kodi.service: Consumed 8.534s CPU time.
Jul 31 13:52:56 LibreELEC systemd[1]: kodi.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jul 31 13:52:56 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Stopped kodi.service.
Jul 31 13:52:56 LibreELEC systemd[1]: kodi.service: Consumed 8.534s CPU time.

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**chewitt** · August 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM

Quote from ersoul

Kernel driver in use: i915

i915 supports the GPU for basic DRM output (so you see the splash screen) but mesa doesn't support the 82865G (gen2) hardware so it throws the "Driver does not support the 0x2572 PCI ID" error and Kodi cannot open an OpenGL context to render the GUI into. There's no workaround for the lack of mesa support.

LibreELEC wont start display on old Pentium 4 hardware

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