Best LE 13 Nightly for Intel N150 (Alder Lake-N)

    Hi everyone,

    I’m currently running a Blackview MP60 (Intel N150 / Alder Lake-N) into a Denon X3800H AVR. I’ve had success with sky42’s 12.0.2 (#250416),Kernel 6.12 version, which seems to be the only version that doesn't suffer from freezing LE after a few seconds of running.

    However, I’m seeing more and more videos of the N150 running LibreELEC 13 (Kodi 22 Piers) and I’d like to move to the internal SSD with a nightly that is "known good" for this specific hardware and AVR handshake.

    Current "Success" State:

    • Kernel: 6.12 (Stable, no freezes with C-states disabled in BIOS).
    • Handshake: Using getedid create to survive the Denon X3800H sync.

    The Question: Is there a specific LE 13 Nightly build date that is currently considered the "stable" choice for the N150?

    If anyone is running an N150 as their daily driver on LE 13, I’d love to know which specific nightly you are sticking with before I wipe my internal SSD again.

    Thanks!

    I'm not aware of any general issues with freezing/stalls on N100/N150 devices. There are less than a handful of reports with that kind of issue and most were triaged to some form of PEBKAC, or AI analysis of kernel crashes points to buggy wifi drivers (which newer kernels in nightlies might resolve) or users failed to provide meaningful information to investigate.

    TL/DR; The latest nightly would always be the staff recommendation. The only known issue is a long-running one with [email protected] playback and pass-through audio on HDMI connections, but that has a known workaround (reducing display bit-depth).

    If you then see issues, report them.

    OK flawless was not correct.
    Sorry.
    I use 2 workarounds

    1. for 4K 23.976Hz bug post #46 the script to restrict it to 10 bit (or one of my images that where the script is included)
    2. HDMI resync my Denon X6700H
    - download HDMI resync script
    - extract in /storage
    - reconfigure your remote (a button you dont need, for me Voice Search)
    - on that button i put with a custom keyboard.xml the script for HDMI resync
    - keyboard.xml entry <browser_search>System.Exec(/storage/hdmi-switch/bin/switch-23-50-60.sh)</browser_search>
    - every time i start TV/Denon after 5sec wait i push that button and sometimes when i lose HDMI signal

    This is a close as i can get to flawless with a x86_64 that does HDR10 too. 1st with a N100 and shortly switch to a N350.
    As far as i know the 4K 23.976Hz bug and Denon HDMI resync problem does not go away with LE13 with the 6.18 kernel. If i hab seen signs that it works i would have build a Generic LE12.2 with kernel 6.18.

    No fix yet, although it looks like Intel devs have finally grasped/believed the problem after we posted a recent update to the bug report on their tracker, so maybe we have some test patches to play with in the near future.

    I read saw your Intel comments chewitt regarding bandwidth on 8 ch 192kHz Intel devices.

    If this audio issue is limited to 4K + 8ch 192kHz devices is possible to solve by reducing audio sample rate since 4K audio never has more the 48KHz?


    I’ve seen both 96kHz and 192kHz on HD blu-ray (music BD) but never on UHD 4K. Streaming is always 48kHz.

    The Dolby Atmos TrueHD encoder is limited to 48Hz. Maybe Kodi could just open a 48 or 96KHz connection?

    There are already audio mods in Kodi to solve issues like quad audio only playing in stereo and re-routing back channels to side channels for 5.1 audio in a 7.1 system.


    Maybe something to pursue if Intel don’t do a kernel fix?