The RPi hardware doesn't support 90°/270° rotation of video planes.
As mentioned in the github discussion you can change the render mode to "EGL" as a workaround - but keep in mind that this has lower performance than the default "direct to plane" renderer.
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Hias
It looks like you picked the generic image instead of the generic-legacy one.
Running https://test.libreelec.tv/13.0/Generic/G…-25445eb.img.gz here I see a kernel build time of Sat Aug 16 00:55:40 UTC 2025 but your log shows Fri Aug 15 23:00:17 UTC 2025:
Aug 17 12:26:04.292047 LibreELEC kernel: Linux version 6.16.0 (ubuntu@a766510b163f) (x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu-gcc-15.2.0 (GCC) 15.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.44) #1 SMP Fri Aug 15 23:00:17 UTC 2025Missing xorg.service start messages in journal are also a strong indication of wrong image - check /etc/os-release, it should look like this:
NAME="LibreELEC"
VERSION="nightly-20250815-25445eb"
ID="libreelec"
VERSION_ID="13.0"
PRETTY_NAME="LibreELEC (community): nightly-20250815-25445eb"
HOME_URL="https://libreelec.tv"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv"
BUILD_ID="25445eb3dd372352707287385de3e5addbd3e0ae"
DISTRO_ARCH="Generic-legacy.x86_64"
DISTRO_BUILD="community"
DISTRO_PROJECT="Generic"
DISTRO_DEVICE="Generic-legacy"so long,
Hias
Try adding systemd.unit=graphical.target to the end of the APPEND line in /flash/syslinux.cfg. This will prevent kodi from starting (and thus the reboot loop) and get you to a point where you can ssh in and create logs.
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Hias
First double-check that the rtx3070 still works with your old system using the latest nightly build - the nvidia driver was updated a few days ago so it'd be good to know if that has some play in it.
To prevent LE from rebooting if kodi doesn't start run touch /storage/.config/safemode.disable - then you can simply ssh in and run pastekodi to create logs.
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Hias
Tried latest legacy nightly and it stalls on starting xorg/kodi (ive tried my rtx3070 that works in my z590 system and my new rtx5070 plus ive tried an old gtx1080) also tested to put the 5070 in my old system but that fails because even though latest nightly has the latest nvidia drivers (do you unflag newer nvidia cards when building your images?
Nvidia drivers are quite a mess.
The current driver comes with two flavors of kernel modules, the "classic" one which supports a wide range of video cards up to the RTX4000 series, and the new "open" one which supports only very recent cards (IIRC starting with the RTX2000 series or so).
We can't easily include both modules so we decided to stick to the "classic" kernel module as it supports way more cards - but doesn't support the RTX5000 series (or newer ones in the future).
tl;dr: it's expected that it LE won't work with your RTX5070 and it's quite unlikely that'll change in the future.
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Hias
small correction to the above post: SDRAM_BANKLOW=3 needs to go into the bootloader / rpi-eeprom config, not into config.txt.
Run rpi-eeprom-config -e and add SDRAM_BANKLOW=3 to the end of the file, then reboot.
With this change a 4k H264 file played fine on my RPi5.
BTW: no need to test older builds.
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Hias
Thanks a lot for reporting back and glad it's working now!
In the meanwhile our CI builds have finished and the fix is now also in the latest nightly build
https://test.libreelec.tv/13.0/RPi/RPi4/LibreELEC-RPi4.aarch64-13.0-nightly-20250729-1fdcbbd.img.gz
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Hias
misanthropos please post a pastekodi log (ssh in, run pastekodi and post the URL), kodi log alone doesn't help much
Also please test with the following build and post logs, it includes the RPi kernel updates that just went into LE13:
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Hias
We need logs and more info.
Is just the screen black (and you can still ping/ssh in/.. the system) or does it not boot ad all?
Are you booting from SD or USB?
What does the diagnostics screen show you when you boot with your SD/USB boot cards/devices removed?
I just reconfrmed toady, wrote the linked image to a Sandisk Extreme Pro 32GB SD card and my RPi4 4GB booted fine.
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Hias
I'm not seeing this issue here.
Post a log from the working 20250720-47e72e0 nightly (ssh in, run pastekodi and post the URL), then remove quiet from /flash/cmdline.txt, update to 20250722-633559d and post a picture of what you get on the TV/monitor.
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Hias
Make sure kodi is stopped (systemctl stop kodi) before editing any settings files, otherwise kodi will overwrite them on shutdown.
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Hias
I could check support pages yes but I tried with 3 different HDD: WD-RED 12TB, SEAGATE BARRACUDA 8TB, HITACHI DESKTAR 3 TB and all of them have the same "problem": when I pause a movie from LibreElec HDD spins down after few minutes.
These are all internal, not external drives.
Which enclosure are you using? Check with the manufacturer of the enclosure, very often (and in your case very likely) it'll be the USB-SATA controller in the enclosure that's responsible for the spindown.
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Hias
Check the support pages of your drive manufacturer. eg with external WD drives you have to use WD Drive Utilities on Windows to configure the sleep timer.
I'm have connected a 14TB WD MyBook and a 4TB WD MyPassport here on my RPi5 and both power down after half an hour of inactivity (that's the default sleep timer config of those drives).
If the drives don't shut down after shutdown check your BIOS settings and see if you can find an option to cut power to the USB ports after shutdown (disabling wake-on-USB might help, too).
I've also seen some USB hubs to interfere with spindown after shutdown, so if you use one also try with the drive connected directly to your PC.
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Hias
We ship plain stock rpi-eeprom-config from https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom
If you have feature requests or questions please discuss it with the RPi devs.
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Hias
We managed to add back espeak-ng and it's now included in the latest LE13 nightly builds (starting from 20250611)
https://test.libreelec.tv/13.0/
Morphy please give those a try
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Hias
This seems to be a bug in the inputstreamhelper addon:
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Hias
Please test with the current 20250522 nightly. If it still doesn't work ssh in, run "pastekodi" and post the log URL.
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Hias
Use a proper power supply - I recommend the official one from RPi.
RPi throttled=0x50005
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Feb 27 17:26:05.089246 LibreELEC kernel: hwmon hwmon0: Undervoltage detected!so long,
Hias