Posts by Harleythetech

Quote from ilmich

Hi Harleythetech,

thanks for your feedback. I currently use 'conservative' as a governor. This governor is less responsive but keeps the clock low during playback for the benefit of the system temperature.

I'm doing some tests with the default governor (ondemand), but surely keeping the cpu at maximum is not optimal.

However, the trick I explained to you I could put it as an indication "at your own risk" (like overclocking).

I think I gave you an experimental build in its time. I have never been able to get passthrough for hdmi to work (although I have found some patches for allwinner that should also go on rockchip). If you confirm that it works, I could mark this feature as experimental.

I'm Currently using your last Test Build that you sent me before(Jul,27,2022). I can confirm that it doesn't work nor does Audio pasthrough option in audio show up.

What i can confirm that is working is the AV output

Quote from ilmich

It is a collection of things in reality.

More complex software, opensource driver based on reverse engineering (longer development times, especially because the mali400 is rather old and therefore less interesting to evolve), etc etc

For example, I have a lakka build somewhere, and the ui is very smooth because it is less complex than the kodi one.

But supporting mainline development has enormous benefits.

Because you can reuse your box indefinitely (or almost) and for anything (mediacenter, nas, home automation, music)

However, to get the cpu up to speed, launch this command from a terminal

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echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor

put in

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/storage/.config/autostart.sh

if you want to be automatically launched at boot

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Thank you!, I've managed to deploy that without issue. i just have a request if possible? Can you bring back the Passthrough option in Audio settings of LibreElec?

Edit: After switching the system's cpu governor to Performance i experienced a huge difference on the system's performance.
one of which is the GPU i tested out the visualizer since that thing was heavy in terms of cpu resources and causes the playback to stutter when enabled, as of now i tested it with performance mode enabled and found out that not only can it run at High Resample Rate it can now also playback music without stuttering even with the visualizer on!

In terms of System UI tho it's still sluggish but not as slow as it was on stock cpu governor. the system has been more responsive to commands and im happy with how it performs after that simple command

Quote from ilmich

same as before,but I can't say if there is some margin on mesa development that can make mali 400 works better, or we have reached the best possibile driver. but keep in mind that estuary skin is not the fastest one, confluence for example is much smoother.

i guess the limitation is really on linux compatibility with the box

I'm curious is there anyway to make the cpu run at full 1.5GHz all the time? I found that when you run the CPU at 1.5Ghz all the time on armbian it makes the system a bit more smoother than having it jump around frequencies.

I'm still using the last test build you sent me.

Quote from ilmich

Hi all,

new build available with:

- linux 5.10.142

- removed esp8089 wireless linux driver (not working)

- added rtl8192f usb driver

- better emcp support (thanks @Harleythetech for testing)

- mesa3d 22.2.0

- revised cpu/gpu clocks and voltage

- new kernel config

- small fixes

This build contains some substantial changes that have been tested for over a month on my boards that I use on a daily basis, with no obvious problems. However the suggestion to try it on the SD card before updating is, for me, mandatory.

I also rented a small server to publish my builds and save valuable space on my personal google drive.

It has few resources but if I realize it is necessary, I could think of an upgrade.

Cheers

Michele

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Does the new GPU driver makes the Kodi GUI run smoother or is it still the same as before? (just curious)