Posts by HomerJau

Use LE 13 now

Ryzen gpu support coming in Linux 7.3 and 7.4 adds HDMI 2.1 FRL (kernel high frame rate 144Hz etc) - without any flags. Its built in.

7.3 in late October and 7.4 in late Dec/Early Jan.

7.3 adds new Intl gpus and 7.4 gets HDMI 2.1 FRL too! About time!

AI search on 7.2 driver updates/fixes:

The "AI Analysis" & Intel HDMI Loss Fix

• The Core Bug: A major issue was tracked down where certain Intel integrated GPUs would suffer from a sudden GPU hang and engine reset. When this happened, it caused a fence error during heartbeat-triggered resets, which completely broke the active display signal, resulting in immediate HDMI signal loss (a black screen). [1, 2]
• The "AI Analysis" Connection: The root cause was discovered and ironed out during a broader kernel code review. A key part of this specific Intel driver update package for Linux 7.2 explicitly addresses and cleans up a series of false positives flagged by automated AI code scanners. [1]
• The Code Fix: An Intel engineer tracked down the root cause to how requests were skipping queue loops. The final fix is a robust, one-liner patch added to the i915 DRM driver titled "skip __i915_request_skip() for already signaled requests". [1]

By preventing the graphics engine from tripping over these already completed signal requests, Linux 7.2 prevents the heartbeat reset from hanging the GPU and dropping the HDMI link. Because this bug caused total display loss, the fix is also marked for back-porting to older, stable Linux kernel series so users don't have to wait to get their stable HDMI display back. [1, 2]

We were looking at resolving an issue in our QSync Media Player.

Linux 7.2 has audio fix for Intel dropping HDMI audio. This alone may solve the keep alive workaround. So LE 13 will get this fix very soon.

USB-c to HDMI 2.1 adapters could also fix your issue but your PC may be too old to support that too. Grab one from AMZ, 8K work, some old 4K won’t be HDMI 2.1. If it does not work return. Free to try! But really, best solution is to get a dedicated Kodi device like an N150 NUC. Leave your gaming PC for gaming. LE not Windows!

A simple solution:

Buy an Intel N150 based NUC. Install LE 13 nightlies. That NUC has HDMI 2.1. Problems solved.

Older gen Intel devices often can’t communicate to HDMI 2.1 devices. Some have firmware update fixes. No chance of for old chipsets. Stop banging your head. Hardware refresh is a simple fix.

Additionally, I have a private build that supports multi-room streaming from a single N150, N250 NUC to multiple AVRs/4K TVs, tagless music/concert scanning with full metadata, no nfo Movie scanning (full metadata), DoVi,, Tidal Hi-Fi subscription play, Tablet based Remote app (user definable UI at run time), headless play of music, AVR control, TV control, special support for blu-ray audio discs and surround music,

Public release 1 July. NUCs, AMLogic, MacOs, Win, Android. *Forget AMLogic and Android for multi room support: Slow cpu, small ram, crap local storage speed, network too slow. Same with RPi. Old tech dump.

There are 10GBE adapters too. I have a couple here working. I have a 10GBE network now. Newer NUCs support usb c at 40GBE.

Nice! But your issue is the i7 processor. i3 is all you need for LE and use the standard case, no fan noise ever!

Update: I just built first Betas for QQ Kodi 22 (LE13 + Kodi 22 + custom Kodi).

I then pointed Claude to this thread with instructions and it built the custom build package and whacked it on my GitHub git in about 30 minutes! (All based on chewitt post above) Thanks again!

I’ve PRed some of QQ Kodi’s features to Piers, but looks like I won’t get them all in for Beta 1 Piers. May have to wait until Kodi 23…

Wrong place I'm sure. Running an LE build from todays master. x64. A screenshot is now black, no image capture. Is that a known issue with the new GLES changes?

BTW: LE 13/Piers is in pretty good shape! Well done to all involved. And thanks!

Caught me out yesterday. The real issue is users can’t apply an update as their current partition is 512MB, LE says to do a new install with a 1GB system part.

So requires a backup, reinstall, restore.

Maybe LE can offer NVidia as a new separate gz package?

Thanks. I will have a use case before Piers is released. I will come back then, in the mean time I will test on a private LE build.

(9 should be compatible with 10, they usually don't break APIs)

THX

Can the latest NET 10 be added to LE13 please?

It’s the latest LTS release and stable. It been out for 6 months and should replace NET 9 which is non LTS.

I’m working on an add-on that’s based in NET 10, so keen to get 10 in LE13 before it’s officially released.

THX

Garry

Thanks. Thats good news then!

I’d like to use latest Mesa in my 12.2 builds (x64 + RPi4 & 5). Any issues doing that?

I know I can do a test build but thought one of the devs here will know.
THX

A full log is needed.

NUC11’s (Tiger Lake) do not this have this Alder Lake issue. (See thread title)

Set your services cache to ‘recommended’ settings, switch to nfs (from smb). I’ve had no NUC11 audio dropouts here with nfs.

Good idea to include the backup on the usb stick.

When we did the roll out most of the builds were done in the US (I’m in AU). I built an image that was burnt to the NVME drives with Rufus there. I could do the same, include the backup and try and workout his to get the autostart.sh to restore. I haven’t looked at how LE does that.

Thanks.