Posts by kszaq

Quote from Hermankodi

Where can I find the installtointernal on the LE card.

I can take a look why it is overwriting the boot logo

To locate any command use which, e.g. which installtointernal. I guarantee that the script doesn't overwrite the boot logo.

Quote from Hermankodi

how can I extract compare the DTB.IMG from android and LE?

I hope I can edit the DTB.IMG and saving the file.

Device tree on your device is located at /dev/dtb, you can use dtc tool to convert dtb into readable dts. Keep in mind that there will be many differences in device tree as your device has Marshmallow and my build use Nougat kernel.

I believe the issue is that device tree is not written correctly to internal partition when running the script. It's always been a mistery to me what has to be done to allow writing to /dev/dtb as sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. There is no documentation whatsoever that would say how to do this.

Here's another thing I'd like you to try, that is a modified installtointernal script. Please try the following:

1. Run LE from SD card as you always do.
2. Execute these commands to try a modified script:

wget https://kszaq.libreelec.tv/s905/8.2/test/installtointernal_test20171231
chmod +x installtointernal_test20171231
./installtointernal_test20171231

invik If I understand, 8.2.2.2a with new boot.ini solved your issue?

To rule out some magic happenig due to incorrect cmdline options, please update to 8.2.2.2a (it should happen automatically), run this command after update: mount -o rw,remount /flash ; mv /flash/boot.ini.update /flash/boot.ini and reboot.

8.2.2.2a build for LePotato available at Index of /s905/8.2/8.2.2.2 with the following changes:

• added blue and green LED support via sysfs
• optimized u-boot configuration: boots faster with no green screen
• fixed HDMI options in boot.ini - to replace the file after an upgrade, do this: mount -o rw,remount /flash ; mv /flash/boot.ini.update /flash/boot.ini

It looks like a bug in setting free_scale but it shouldn't happen as SYTEM image is basically the same for all my S905(x) builds and nobody complained about the same bug. Can you post a result of ls -l /sys/class/graphics/fb0 and grep . /sys/class/graphics/fb0/free* when screen is set to 4K?

Quote from pastit

kszaq please, isn't this patch already in some of yours newer releases (Index of /s905/8.2) ?

Yes, you will find it in my latest Odroid-C2 build (i.e. 8.2.2.2).

Daz If you're upgrading from anything before 8.2.0.1, the safest way to upgrade is to have both tar and dtb in update folder.

Let's try to make this work by a workaround:

1. Install Android 7 on your box - it should be available as it's S905X unless the manufacturer stopped existing or doesn't release firmware at all.
2. With Android 7 on NAND, remove dtb.img from SD card with LE and boot LE.
3. If LE boots, run installtointernal. Now it should boot from internal without a black screen.

NB: if you don't have Android 7 on NAND, above won't work.

invik I moved your post to a separate thread, please create a new thread when you encounter an issue like this - and remember to post logs.

For now, please try this: open boot.ini in the root folder of your SD card and replace outputmode with hdmimode in the line LibreELEC.tv/boot.ini at 8.2.2.2 · kszaq/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Quote from pepeq

Does this mean it will not be fixed in Leia? How can Memphiz's PR merged to Leia?

The code you need for 3D auto swtich is included in Leia but it's not working for some reason.

gigceez This most probably is a Kodi bug which will be fixed in Leia.

I guess this was broken somewhere during Kodi development as it started to work right after Memphiz's PR was merged to Krypton.

Enabling CONFIG_POST_PROCESS_MANAGER_3D_PROCESS will most likely cause a crash and it is not needed to make 3D autoswitch work, at least it is not enabled in my builds and it reportedly works.

The original logo is not overwritten, only partitions mentioned in the script, i.e. dtb, system, boot and data.

Black screen should not happen, if dtb is not written successfully, your box should hang on boot logo, not before it.

The only thing that could help is log from serial console when black screen happens.

Quote from ky41083

Scratch that. With the changes to the Broadcom driver, WiFi intermittently connects. Have my box pointed at a 5GHz only SSID. No such issue on 8.2.1.1.

Box boots with no connection, change no settings, reboot, has WiFi connection again. Not the worst thing to deal with (if the clock doesn't update, reboot), thought it worth mentioning though.

It's pretty hard today to cover all BCM chips with one driver and that's what I should aim to do. Recent changes are only regarding regulatory and I only switched to the one that covers most of 5GHz channels. I have not faced any issues using 4 BCM chips in boxes I have although I haven't tested them for a very long time. If the issue persists, perhaps you need to open a new thread where I would be able to post some test builds for you.

Quote from Fredouye

On my boxes automatic updates are "half working" : new .tar file is downloaded in the .update directory, but I don't get any notification.

I've installed 8.2.1.2 from scratch, with the default settings. Could it be related to the skin I'm using (Arctic Zephyr) ?

This is how automatic updates in LE work, perhaps I should include a patch that GDPR-2 suggested in a PR to add a notification about a finished download.

Quote from minimoe

The update from 8.2.2.1 to 8.2.2.2 caused problems with my box's connection to the internet. LAN worked but I could get nothing from the internet.

I noticed that the MAC address of the box had changed and my router did not recognize the new one. As a result, the router blocked all internet traffic.

Never had such problems before or problems with random MAC addresses.

Before 8.2.2.2 if your device did not have MAC address burnt into the board, it would either use a random MAC address or one of default ones: co:ff:ee:00:01:9f or 00:15:18:01:81:31. This is problematic if you want to use more than one device without factory MAC in one network. 8.2.2.2 introduces generating MAC address from SoC serial number for devices that don't have factory MAC - this means that devices with proper MAC address should be unaffected (tested on all my devices), while those without MAC will get a shiny new address that will be unique and persist over reboots.

The Tinker Board might get LE support with LE9.

LibreELEC.tv/projects/Rockchip/devices/TinkerBoard at rockchip · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Quote from DoktorX

This is only apply for libreelec right ?since on android i have hw decoding of amazon but maybe this because i have widevine l1 drm support on box and im not using libwidevinecdm.so

Currently there is no way to use Widevine with hardware decoding on pure Linux, e.g. LibreELEC.

Quote from belaid38

hi balbes150 Why I gave up on the new kernel 4.xx in libreelec for s905 ?

When issuing the final date ?

There is no support for video decoding in 4.xx for S905. It's planned to be implemented next year.