Posts by chewitt

The upstream kernel p200 dtb is for devices using external-phy (rgmii) with Gbit Ethernet and the chip on reg=3 of the MDIO bus.

The upstream kernel p201 dtb is for devices using internal-phy (rmii) with 10/100 Ethernet.

The downstream kernel gxbb_p200_1G_100M_RealtekWiFi file uses rmii so p201 upstream is the correct one to use.

In the upstream kernel both p200 and p201 have identical SDIO (WiFi) configuration inherited from the p20x.dtsi. This is set to probe SDIO reg=1 and although it is technically possible to have other SDIO reg assigments on the bus, I have never seen any Amlogic device with any SDIO module use anything other that reg=1, so the p201 dtb should result in SDIO probing and loading of the WiFi driver in the image. I'm not seeing any SDIO probing so you either share a log from the CE image to prove something exists, or we believe the upstream kernel logs that show a MediaTek MT7601U chip connected to the USB bus. Assuming this is not an external USB dongle; the chip is internally wired. If true it will be the first time I see that specific chip used in an Amlogic box, but it's a cost-engineered (cheap) internal-phy box with 10/100 Ethernet so using a cheap USB chipset internally is completely plausible.

The latest RK356X, RK3576, and RK3588 images in my test share have a fix for broken multi-channel audio (missing channels and speaker placement issues). Enjoy

No idea .. perhaps see if the LE13 images in https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing are any different?

It won't be unless you install the "flirc_util" add-on from the LE repo and then logout/login over SSH.

There's been recent activity here: https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/10592 .. but it reads like some further work and testing is required before things are mergeable.

I'm using a BT remote with an RPi5 on LE13 nightlies for years so I don't think there's a general issue with Bluez. The only issue I have is a few unmapped keys, but that's laziness on my part. I keep telling myself it's a "rainy day" task to update the hwdb file, but as it only rains twice a year (briefly) here it never happens

Connect the RPi directly to the projector and I'll take an educated guess that the 1/4 screen issues go away. Then if you add spliters and adapters etc. inline the issues reappear and you'll know the self-inflicted cause.

I'm not expert on config.txt options but I doubt the HDMI tweaks you added there do anything. Almost all the old firmware tweaks were obsoleted when RPi switched over to the upstream kernel display pipeline (some time ago). Many of the old tweaks have kernel DRM equivalents though.

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these should be different boards/dtbs for different boards?

LE is not CE so in some scenarios CE 'fixes' result in something that works better on some piece of hardware. In other scenarios the absence of those 'fixes' results in LE working better. Roll dice

If you run "flirc_util" does it see hardware attached? - are you able to record key-presses, e.g. flirc_util record enter

flirc ^

kernel: mt7601u 1-1.3:1.0: ASIC revision: 76010001 MAC revision: 76010500
kernel: mt7601u 1-1.3:1.0: Direct firmware load for mt7601u.bin failed with error -2
kernel: mt7601u 1-1.3:1.0: probe with driver mt7601u failed with error -2

There is no Realtek WiFi hardware visible in any of the logs shared. There IS a Mediatek USB WiFi device visible in all logs shared and this is missing firmware (as above). The Linux 6.18-rc7 kernel images posted to my test share a few days ago (mentioned in post #4) have the missing firmware added. The latest logs you shared show a Linux 6.17.4 kernel image that does not contain the firmware (although you can always add it manually using the commands in post #2). If you believe there to be Realtek WiFi hardware inside the box you need to pastebin the old vendor kernel dmesg log somewhere so I can maybe see what chip is present.

NB: LE has its own paste server so in the AMLGX images all you need to do is run "pastekodi" and share the URL generated.

Deoptim No further support for you in this forum: https://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Forum_rules/Banned_add-ons

NB: I've removed the download links to the private image as these aren't guaranteed to be free of similar crapware.

Random thoughts:

a) Always use the HDMI port nearest the PSU connector

b) Are you using any kind of micro-HDMI to HDMI adapter? .. or a proper micro-HDMI to HDMI cable? - If you are using an adapter, this is probably the source of the problem.

c) If using a proper micro-HDMI to HDMI cable (no adapter) put Kodi in debug mode, reboot, then SSH in and run "pastekodi" and share the URL .. perhaps we can see something.

video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60D

Add that ^ to boot params in cmdline.txt and the initial DRM state is forced to 1080p and that should stop the image being in 1/4 of the screen?

The colour change is probably the projector switching itself to a different RGB output mode. It’s nothing that LE/Kodi can control.

LE will update from .tar file (can be found in the same dir on the webserver) or from the .img.gz file.

No. Docker virtualises the app not the environment it runs in. So the container provides ann app which still requires a windowing environment to run under, and this still does not exist.

There is a browser called Ozone which can in theory run under GBM, but this needs to be built from sources and has a ton of dependencies so nobody has ever volunteered for the huge effort of trying to implement it for LE.

Just force-refresh the repo.

Please update to this image https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…-12.90.1.img.gz and the adapter should work now? If yes I will send the required kernel patch upstream.

NB: the image is LE13 but this should be stable for normal use.