Posts by eloreson

Just post to say what I found today.

Lakka 3.0 (or later) may be better than OpenELEC for my purpose. It's based on LibreELEC 9.2 (Kodi 18.8), and already ported to i386 platform.

I am noobie to Github. It will take some time before I learn how to make change and push the modification.

Just in case if anyone is interested in what I have done, I put a compressed file containing all modifications I have made. Some untouched files are also included in the package, it can be distinguished from date of file:

OpenELEC.tv-6.0.3-i386.tar

Just unpack the file to overwrite over OpenELEC 6.0.3 source code.

BTW, the building environment is Ubuntu 16 64 bit VM.

Hi,

I am glad to say, I made it.

I have now OpenELEC 6.0.3 working the i386 old laptop. The performance seems better than OE5.0.8. H.264 FHD video plays smooth. H.265 playable, but laggy. That's better than OE5.0.8. I will move on to OpenELEC 7 and 8, after some resting.

Thanks for all the help.

I have found it. It's scripts/image. A i386 compatible line was ripped in 6.0.3 and I missed to restore.

I have resumed porting OpenELEC 6.0.3 for i386. It's near finished. Now I am stuck with weird problem that I can't solve. The following is the last part of error message. I think it's "//" between "arch" and "boot" introduced a illegal path, but I don't know which scripts or tool triggered the error message . I need some advice. Thanks.

  INSTALL    remote (target)
      INSTALL    eventlircd (target)
          INSTALL    lirc (target)
              INSTALL    libftdi1 (target)
              INSTALL    libusb-compat (target)
              INSTALL    libirman (target)
      INSTALL    v4l-utils (target)
      INSTALL    atvclient (target)
      INSTALL    irserver (target)
  INSTALL    lcdproc (target)
      INSTALL    libhid (target)
  INSTALL    installer (target)
      INSTALL    dialog (target)
cp: cannot stat 'build.OpenELEC-Generic.i386-6.0.3/linux-4.1.18/arch//boot/bzImage': No such file or directory
Makefile:12: recipe for target 'image' failed
make: *** [image] Error 1

This is a new log:

http://sprunge.us/6xgqEz

The problem of driver file for i915 not found seems solved. Now, kodi can't find libGL.so.

I will investigate the issue later.

I don't know anything about fluxbox. Now, I need to survey what it is.

BTW, I found I that I missed to modify "projects/Generic/linux/linux.i386.conf". There are some i915 related firmware listed in "linux.x86_64.conf". I am copying these lines to "linux.i386.conf". The kernel is compiling.

Added:

Now, I have set WINDOWMANAGER="fluxbox". Thanks.

This is the new log. The same problem seems still exist. I will keep researching.

http://sprunge.us/N6I3rt

Thanks.

I see that i915 driver is removed. Now, I have added i915 in "distribution/LibreELEC/options" and building image is on the way.

Just a guess.

I found that the Linux partition on SD card was not resized. I have checked it with partition utility. I suppose there should be a partition resize procedure in the first boot. Maybe it's the cause. Partition not resized, so no system required files copied.

I have checked "/usr/lib", there is no subdir "dri". And I have searched the file system using "find / -type f -name i915_dri.so" and "find / -type f -name "*_dri.so"" and "find / -type f -name '*_dri.so'", the result was nothing.

So, the problem is obvious, no driver file. How could this happen?

I compared the log of LibreELEC and OE5.0.8, they both detected Intel 915GM. The difference is LibreELEC has the following trouble:

Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]: Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]:         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]:         to make sure that you have the latest version.
Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]: Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]:         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]:         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]: (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Sep 14 00:37:53 2021
Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]: (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]: gbm: failed to open any driver (search paths /usr/lib/dri)
Sep 14 00:37:53 LibreELEC xorg-launch[563]: gbm: Last dlopen error: /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It seems LibreELEC can't find driver file in the specific dir. It's not whether driver is correct, instead, it's the driver does not exist. I will check file structure of LibreELEC on laptop and report.

I think it's Intel 915GM. I saw it on Windows XP/ 7.

This is a "journalctl | paste" log running on official OpenELEC 5.0.8.

http://sprunge.us/5QbpZO

As the log shows, OE5.0.8 can detect Intel 915GM. OE5.0.8 is working on the laptop.

command: journalctl | paste

http://sprunge.us/SATVmW

The command is "cat ./storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log | paste". I suppose it's the correct log file to be pasted.

The log url is: http://sprunge.us/QZG8l7

The above URL is a log with WiFi& BT turned off in hardware level.

In this log, WiFi& BT are turned on.

http://sprunge.us/2LfLTD

It seems no difference.

I have SSH connection now (by editing "syslinux.conf").

I tried "pastekodi" and got "-sh: pastekodi: not found".

I have checked package.mk of Kodi. It seems "pastekodi" command was not supported before LibreELEC 9.2.

Is there any way to dump a log in LibreELEC 7.0?

Thanks.

I got it. The command I ran was "PROJECT=Generic ARCH=i386 make release". Now I run "PROJECT=Generic ARCH=i386 make image" and I got a "LibreELEC-Generic.i386-7.0-devel-20210913141255-r23224-gb8564aa.img.gz".

I tried it on my old laptop. I saw LibreELEC logo screen, then the screen turned to black and stuck there forever. The CAPS Lock key is responsive.

I looked the IP assignment in my router, LibreELEC got an IP. I tried to SSH, but connection was refused immediately, not waiting for some time and no response.

I tried the same SD card on a newer laptop with x64 CPU. The screen stuck as the following image. SSH also got refused immediately.

Hi,

I have built a LibreELEC image for i386 from appletv-7.0 branch of Chewitt's fork. I did git clone the fork and checkout appletv-7.0. After completing the build process, I found a file "LibreELEC-Generic.i386-7.0-devel-20210912223241-r23224-gb8564aa.system" in directory "target" and I thought it is the image to write to SD card. Rufus warned me the image file seems not bootable, so I switched to "LibreELEC.USB-SD.Creator". When I put the SD card in the i386 laptop, it is not bootable.

What did I miss? Need some advice.