Posts by Cabal

For those keeping score at home, I switched back to LE 9.2.6 and was able to regain mpeg2 HW decoding and all the VAAPI deinterlacers, including my preferred motion-compensated (MCDI). Perhaps in the future the new Intel driver will support this older hardware, but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm currently running a NUC5CPYH:

Intel® NUC Kit NUC5CPYH - Product Specifications | Intel

Intel® NUC Kit NUC5CPYH quick reference with specifications, features, and technologies.

www.intel.com

This features an Intel N3060 CPU:

Previously (LE9, maybe? 8?) I was able to get motion-compensated deinterlacing, and maybe even mpeg2 hardware decoding. Currently I can get neither.

Following other suggestions, I tried a /storage/.config/kodi.conf with:

MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965

as well as only

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965

Neither showed any difference in the driver being loaded when looking at the X logs. Is this old driver still available on 10.0.1? Sorry about the formatting, this editor is not working with me. Thanks.

I had no luck with multiple iterations of an xorg.conf, so I ended up going with an autostart.sh:

#!/bin/sh


(
sleep 6
xrandr --newmode 1920x1080 148.5 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 \
+HSync +VSync
xrandr --addmode HDMI2 1920x1080
xrandr --output HDMI2 --mode 1920x1080
) &

Any suggestions on xorg.conf syntax would be great.

I also set up the Hisense's edid.cpio in /flash (for a usable boot screen), and the Pioneer's edid.bin in .config/firmware/edid (in case it reboots with the TV/AVR off).

Not pretty, but everything works again (mostly).

No luck with just the modesetting driver, looks like I'll need to build up a bigger xorg.conf.

I did have luck adding the Hisense EDID to the installer flash drive, so at least I don't need to swap cables to do the 8.0.1 install anymore. That is some tiny curses font at 4K.

Yeah, I'm sure the receiver could be improved, but given its 5-year age, I'm not expecting much in the way of firmware support from Pioneer at this point. It's had a pretty good (and compatible) life so far.

I'll try out the modesetting driver.

Greetings. I'm running the following, wired as such:

Intel NUC NUC5CPYH (4K but 1080p preferred, latest firmware)
|
Pioneer VSX-1022-K receiver (1080p, latest firmware)
|
Hisense 50H8C (4K, latest firmware)

LE 7.0.3 installer: no issue
LE 7.0.3 operation: no issue

LE 8.0.1 installer: only the top-left quarter of the installer is visible
LE 8.0.1 operation (after bypassing receiver for installation): max resolution is 576p/50Hz, and only a few other resolutions are available

I've been able to find two workarounds so far:

Workaround A.)
Connect the NUC directly to the TV (which works great), pull the EDID info, and follow the wiki for using a custom EDID (Custom EDID - LibreELEC) after bring the receiver back into the mix. This seems to work well enough, but I can only pass through very basic AC3 or DTS, and lose most of the capabilities of my receiver.

Workaround B.)
Grab all the details of a working modeline at 1080p, and with the receiver in the mix, use xrandr to add the known-good modeline and then activate it. One of many downsides here is that I need to both set up the modeline and then choose it from the UI after each boot.

Is workaround B preferred, and is the right way to go about using that with a custom xorg.conf? Is there a minimal xorg.conf file I can use for just a custom modeline?

I had to revert the system to 7.0.3 for family use, so I don't have 8.0.1 logs available at present. I do have the Hisense EDID file as obtained from 8.0.1, and I can pull any info from the running 7.0.3 installation.

Thanks.