elguavas, just out of my curiosity: when did you buy your cubox-i device?
Posts by vpeter
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Well, it is not really solidrun's fault for this situation. imx6 soc just doesn't have everything mainlined regarding graphics because Freescale Semiconductor (now part of NXP) behaves just like other manufacturers and keeps old Linux version stable. Meaning they maintain it's own Linux fork. Actually solidrun did great job with their own fork. But this is 3.14. From what I hear things progress to newer versions.
Some time back I decided to use newer kernel from Xbian project which works well but it has some quirks. It works for most people but for some not. Just like cec thing on Rpi (it works for most users but there are few who are using my builds with little newer libcec library).
Extra problem is that (very, very small) community around imx6 soc newer come together. Or at least I don't see this. Obviously I mean skilled devs. That's why we have different Linux forks with different problems. If all few people would work on one thing the situation would be better (I'm sure in this).
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1. How do I compile LE so that it installs an addon? Where do I place the addon? Any other files to modify?
2. How do I preset some files and settings, for eg. I want guisettings.xml to be custom and also lets say I want to set HDMI video output and HDMI audio output and not any other.
3. How do I try and install drivers, lets say for an unsupported wifi chip? And maybe remove for those I do not care about?
Appreciate any help!
1) It is little tricky but not impossible. Addon needs to be build and then copied to image. Also addon manifest must be updated to enable addon by default. Hard to explain to someone who doesn't understand buildsystem.
2) You could put file as projects/Generic/filesystem/usr/share/kodi/config/guisettings.xml (Generic or some other project name).
3) Create new package like others in LibreELEC.tv/packages/linux-drivers at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub. Then put project name in ADDITIONAL_DRIVERS variable in file projects/Generic/options.
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Try removing file packages/multimedia/ffmpeg/patches/ffmpeg-99.1001-pfcd_hevc_optimisations.patch. Maybe it is only RPi specific.
Update: Yes, with this change project builds fine.
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trulli79, I can also build Generic image with this libcec version and you will see if it works.
Not sure about official fix in 8.2. Probably more no then yes
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No, for RPi 1 are RPi images. Should I build one for you?
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vpeter thanks. using a kernel that enables unneded extra junk to be run but cripples kodi on some architectures is totally against the idea of "just enough os for kodi"! libreElec should refocus on their mission statement.
Well, this problem happens to only some users. For me all versions works perfectly. You just need correct TV
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I have gone to the folder, and all there is, is the kodi.log file.
What am I missing?
Then use kodi.log file - there is no file debug.log (nickr made a typo
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2) To allow running some extra sw on same machine. There was multiple requests for this. But now probably no one is using this
To build image with 3.14 kernel
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1) I'm building this images for some time. And will probably in future.
2) Because there are two different Linux versions used. Some time back decision was to use more modern kernel to allow docker. But obviously this path didn't went well.
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vpeter, what's the difference in your build? Guess it's using a different kernel.
Yes, 3.14 instead of 4.4. It helps sometimes with some issues.
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You just need to press Enter on Location choice and it will change from Remote Path to Local Path.
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One option is to make one new package with a name as your project name (like packages/Generic/package.mk). Then in this package add under PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET your packages you wish to include in image. And then build image with extra parameter OEM
PROJECT=... ARCH=... OEM=yes make image.
Adding addons to image is little trickier because addons needs to be enabled in package.mk after installing.
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I think in Kodi should be enabled Debug mode. Then kodi.log will tell more info.
For me IPTV simply client was newer 100% stable. Just like Kodi itself is not. But it doesn't freeze my whole Kodi - it only freezes for some time. But I'm still on Kodi 17.3
