Nvidia 1030 support

hblockx · June 1, 2017 at 11:00 AM

Nvidia released a low profile graphicscard with just 30watt tdp. This card seems to be the new media-pc state of the art card. Are there any infos when this card is going to be supported?

(Receiving cannot find screen with one 1030...)

**Klojum** · June 1, 2017 at 1:53 PM Official Post

As far as I can find out, the GT1030 gets it support as per NVIDIA 381.22 Linux driver, and LibreELEC is not there yet. We got stuck to 375.xx because of suspend issues.

Perhaps we can have another try with a driver bump with the release of LE 8.2. An ETA of that release is unknown at this time.

**escalade** · June 1, 2017 at 2:40 PM

I've got 381.22 in my extended build:

LE8 "Extended" community build (Generic/RPi)

But since there's no 1030 pci id's in the supported chips doc, LE will not autodetect it and you'll have to force the use of the nvidia driver.

**Klojum** · June 1, 2017 at 4:15 PM Official Post

escalade : No suspend issues so far with 381.22?

**escalade** · June 1, 2017 at 4:59 PM

I wouldn't know, I don't have an nvidia card

**Klojum** · June 1, 2017 at 5:03 PM Official Post

I guess we will find out soon enough then

hblockx · June 5, 2017 at 10:17 AM

But how to add the pci id and force nvidia driver? I would like to use it, even though i maybe have to disable suspend then? :'D

**escalade** · June 5, 2017 at 9:37 PM

Enter through SSH:

Code

# echo "rm /var/run/xorg-configure.done && /usr/lib/xorg/xorg-configure nvidia" > /storage/.config/autostart.sh
# reboot

hblockx · June 5, 2017 at 10:45 PM

Thanks a lot! Sadly this doesn't seem to change anything yet

Still "dependency failed for Fluxbox Window Manager" "dependency failed for Unclutter hides the mouse pointer when you don't need it".

**escalade** · June 6, 2017 at 10:59 AM

I assume you entered the commands without the "#" yes?

**Klojum** · June 6, 2017 at 4:25 PM Official Post

I have a 1030 as per today, and this is what you get using the 375.xx video driver.

Will try @escalade's fix now. And... the result is the same.

Not much to go on from "lspci":

Code

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108 (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fb8 (rev a1)

I'll have to try your escalades build with 381.22 now.

hblockx · June 6, 2017 at 10:43 PM

of course without... i am looking so hard for having my first kodi with normal cpu, i guess this is super-fast

**chewitt** · June 7, 2017 at 6:54 AM Official Post

I'm not near a box to check filenames, but just clone the existing nvidia udev rules file to /storage/.config/udev.rules.d/ and add the missing device ID to trigger the match and reboot.

**Klojum** · June 7, 2017 at 7:42 AM Official Post

Quote from escalade

Enter through SSH:

Code

# echo "rm /var/run/xorg-configure.done && /usr/lib/xorg/xorg-configure nvidia" > /storage/.config/autostart.sh
# reboot

I tried the escalade build, but it was not successful.

I still get the same terminal screen ending with "Reached target Kodi Media Interface."

Here is the dmesg file.

This is the lspci info on the video card.

BTW: I had to resize the system partition because the tar file was too big for the 'default' system partition size of 512MB. It was some 530MB, unless I downloaded the wrong file.

**Klojum** · June 7, 2017 at 8:10 AM Official Post

New results... It seems the GT1030 does work, but it takes upto 85 seconds for the htpc to fully boot up to Kodi's homescreen.

There are some errors along the way, but I have videos playing. Here is the new dmesg log file.

HEVC 10bit is not supported yet via hw accell with the 381.22 driver.

**escalade** · June 7, 2017 at 9:49 AM

That's weird, it should work in my build without the autostart trick. Your pci id matches the one I've added: xf86-video-nvidia: add nvidia gt1030 pci id · escalade/LibreELEC.tv@94e2c5d · GitHub

Anything in the system log?

**Klojum** · June 7, 2017 at 12:47 PM Official Post

Sorry, I couldn't resist to try out the 1030 video card in the office PC.

All works okay in Ubuntu 16.04 with the 381.22 driver (no 10bit HEVC of course)

In Windows 10, just to test the 10bit hevc videos, they do work (pfew).

I'll try create a ~~dual~~ triple boot on the machine, it's easier than swapping graphics cards all the time.

**escalade** · June 7, 2017 at 1:13 PM

It should work fine in LE as well. The issue is as mentioned with the way LE autodetects nvidia/nvidia-legacy cards.