Posts by Gul-Dukat

Understood thanks. None of the DTBs got the Minix Neo X8-H Plus to boot to a point where I could SSH into the unit to run the pastekodi diagnostic commands.

Ill try and get console access and see what I can share or get to boot beyond the splash screen

Hi chewitt

Some testing feedback FYI.

Quote from chewitt

I rebased the pre-pre-Alpha AMLMX image on LE master and Martin's latest kernel branch one month ago and built this image:

https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…88.0-box.img.gz

It's been boot tested by a couple of people but might need some manual finessing of the u-boot environment to get it booting

You are welcome to report bugs (there will be some) but this is completely unsupported

I wrote the below [11th Jan 2023] img - sha256 a28aaf0be4de01fa080022c1d148f19de042bc3a0c9576c546afe30d55a15992

to an SD card and attempted to have it boot in my Minix Neo X8-H Plus Amlogic Meson8 S812-H box.

Without any adjustment, just as-is the SD card kind of booted. this is with the uEnv.ini set as per defaults @@DTB_NAME@@ left . My Sony LCD TV detected 720p and displayed the LibreELEC splash screen [noting it looked normal as compared to some of the next green versions]. Then I was prompted with a "Starting debugging shell for boot" to type exit as it was attempting a mount_sysroot and failing. Error shown for the UUID not being mounted, After entering exit a second time on the next almost identical prompt mount_storage a screen of kernel panics was displayed.

I then attempted to edit the uEnv.ini and specify one of the dtbs.

Firstly I tried - with no screen activity, perhaps a blink of a line before black.

then I tried meson8b-ec100.dtb - a green 1080p very interlaced and spread-out LibreELEC splash screen and the SD card repartitioned to fill the remaining space. On reboot (needed to be unplugged as it was taking a long time and I was impatient) the same green interlaced and spreadout LibreELEC splash screen displayed and a "failed to unmount /flash: Device or resource busy" error displayed top line and next line " systemd-shutdown[1]: Failed to finalise file system, loop devices, ignoring.

next I tried meson8b-mxq.dtb - same green 1080p LibreELEC splash screen and after a wait nothing displayed and no progression.

then I tried meson8b-odroidc1.dtb - same green 1080p splashscreen.

next one was meson8m2-m8s.dtb - same splashscreen in same green stretch / interlaced output.. I was most hopeful for this one as the dtech image LibreELEC-X8H-Plus.arm-9.2.8.8.img.gz (kernel 3.10.108) from https://forum.libreelec.tv identifies as Amlogic S812 with (Meson2m2) specifically shown within the Hardware group on the system info page within settings.....

I tried meson8m2-mxiii.dtb and meson8m2-mxiii-plus.dtb all green interlaced splashscreens.

The meson8m2-wetek-core.dtb and meson8-minix-neo-x8.dtb however was detected as a 1080p output but remained blank screen and no display.

Finally meson8-tronsmart-s82.dtb was detected as 1080p and a totally white, (very bright) with some pixels was displayed.

For interests sake - I repeated the above with the slightly newer [3rd Feb 2023] - sha256 583f665c3afb73f5cbe20ff0df166dbcc91d751b24ed34bc0bc10d6e5d6f3bc7

same 720p normal looking LibreELEC splash screen on an untouched @@DTB_NAME@@ uEnv.ini and green interlaced 1080p for the others or blank / no display.

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Hi Gul-Dukat,

it's very strange, libreelec 9.2 and libreelec 10 have the same driver for remotes.

Instead on libreelec 11 I wrote that they may not work Please try the linked guide in the first post and share results

Ok.... well I have done some experimentations and here are the preliminary results:

within both [LibreELEC-RK322x.arm-9.2-devel-20200427213119-b7186bc-rk3228a-mxq4kpro] and [LibreELEC-RK322X.arm-11.0-nightly-20230315-8b01ceb-rk322x] a successful find

9.2-2020 kodi v18.6

Code

[    9.666681] IR NEC protocol handler initialized
[    9.692616] rc rc0: gpio_ir_recv as /devices/platform/ir-receiver/rc/rc0
[    9.693195] input: gpio_ir_recv as /devices/platform/ir-receiver/rc/rc0/input2
[    9.694466] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver gpio_ir_recv registered at minor = 0, raw IR receiver, no transmitter

11.0-20230315 kodi v20.1

Code

[   18.761500] Registered IR keymap rc-empty
[   18.761989] rc rc0: gpio_ir_recv as /devices/platform/ir-receiver/rc/rc0
[   18.777899] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver gpio_ir_recv registered at minor = 0, raw IR receiver, no transmitter
[   18.785891] input: gpio_ir_recv as /devices/platform/ir-receiver/rc/rc0/input1

but in my "preferred" 9.2-2022 kodi v18.9 no /sys/class/rc/rc0/ found at all [LibreELEC-RK322x.arm-9.2-devel-20220112105523-3ce5dd4-rk3228a-mxq4kpro]

I think I have damaged my remote or my unit, as no remote IR data was received and shown by either. Tomorrow ill borrow a friends remote and try.

On another aside - some feedback / bug reporting for LibreELEC-RK322X.arm-11.0-nightly-20230315-8b01ceb-rk322x

The TV Guide is not displaying, or even have lines or the side channel names. I took a photo of the same guide in both 11.0 and one of the 9.2's i was testing. Sorry about the contrast of the photos.

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Heya. So far good things to report with latest (LibreELEC-RK322X.arm-11.0-nightly-20230315-8b01ceb-rk322x.img) nightly image.

I will try and get to test a few things, and see if I can get the remote working. Didnt have much luck with previous v10 - last time remote worked was in 9.2

Attached is my dmesg if helpful.

Will see how the unit survives tomorrow, and if any freeze / lock up occurs.

Quote from ilmich

new build available with:

- linux 5.10.172

- mesa 23.0.0

- updated libreelec to the latest upstream changes

- fix for rk3228 voltages (thanks Habitual6824)

- fix for sdcard boot on some board (thanks ochentay4)

- fix for USB Bluetooth dongle

- readded common whitelist video resolution for kodi player

- added t95vpro box (rk3228, ddr3, without spdif output)

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Hi ilmich / Michele,

Thank you for all your (and the other contributors @jock2  knaerzche  fabiobassa  oneillb  Habitual6824  ochentay4 ) efforts. Using your images has been fun and made my hardware far more usable than it was when opened from the original box.

As a note for your awareness..... I can report an ongoing instability in the newest (and previous newest) where by around 12-18hours the box just freezes. I typically come home and turn on the TV to see a frozen screen with a clock time from many hours before hand not changing and no response to any remote queries, http queries. Ive not tested network connectivity, will try and do that tomorrow. I was hoping with all the changes and tweaks provided in LibreELEC-RK322x.arm-10.0-nightly-20230306-088ac81-rk322x I would notice an improvement from LibreELEC-RK322x.arm-10.0-nightly-20230206-b1e877a-rk322x

For me, I have been running LibreELEC-RK322x.arm-10.0-nightly-20230112-2f2eb71-rk322x since first noticing the issue in the 2023/02/06: kernel 5.10.167 version. That 2023/01/13: kernel 5.10.162 does not suffer from the same instability and freezing.

I have attached a number of dmesg logs for your consideration and review. I have attempted to try different dtb selections earlier - shown in the filename.

I am primarily using the rk3229-box-mxq4kpro.dtb as this functions the best overall, plus it shows the LEDs on the front of the unit where as others like rk3229-box.dtb does not.

kind regards

Dukat