Posts by chewitt
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Run "journalctl | paste" a minute after booting and share the URL
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In LE drives must be baked-in to the OS files we boot from (KERNEL and SYSTEM). You cannot self-install drivers.
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I'm not much of a gamer, but I use a PS4 controller for occasional testing which appears to work okay.
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Hi guys. does anyone knows about the existance of a screen mirror add-on? Like, on new smart tvs that you can connect to the tv and stream your screen directly on the tv. btw, i want to stream the screen of android devices
It doesn't exist. All the screen mirroring type functionality in mobile device OS is proprietary and Kodi refuses to add support for multiple proprietary standards in their codebase.
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FYI, Amlogic fakes "4K" desktop in their 3.14 BSP kernel because the HDMI chip can output 4K resolution but only on the video plane. The OSD plane that renders the Kodi GUI cannot do more than 1080p. RPi4 can at least render the GUI at 4K, but it will suck at it, and (again) you're better off running the GUI at 1080p and allowing the TV to upscale to 4K (as Amlogic does) .. it will do a better job.
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knaerzche is using the Rockchip Linux 4.4 bsp kernel which is too old to pick/forward-port the driver from as there are major crypto changes around Linux 4.12 or 4.12 which will break the driver. Rockchip are working on a rebase of their BSP kernel to Linux 4.19, so there's a chance the driver is reworked as part of that effort. There's also an equal chance they recognise no new boxes will use this obsolete chip and they drop it from the kernel instead of investing time/effort (which costs money) in reworking it. I wouldn't get your hopes up.. I wouldn't spend the money and I doubt RK will either.
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LE 9.2.4 will be the next release. I have no expectations of improvements to anything in the GUI because aside from minor firmware corrections there are no real-world changes to the current (legacy) drivers. The primary focus of development remains on shifting the platform to GBM/V4L2 and the new driver architecture for LE10. I do not initially expect the LE10 codebase to improve upon LE9.2 either, in fact it may be worse in some areas at first and it will take time to mature.
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[Leia] fix memory info on 32bit linux systems with more than 4GB RAM by HiassofT · Pull Request #18053 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub <= will be merged for Kodi v18.8 so will be in LE 9.2.4 sometime soon. It's a cosmetic thing in tthe Kodi GUI only - if you check free/top etc. from the console they will report 8GB.
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RPi4:~ # ls -l /storage/.cache/shadow ---------- 1 root root 231 Apr 11 2019 /storage/.cache/shadow
^ nothing changed since we implemented the feature so the same procedure will still work. Note that you cannot do this from Windows as the storage partition is EXT4 and Windows cannot read EXT4 partitions; you'll only see the VFAT boot parition which does not contain the files. You can also set a new password from the LE settings add-on in the GUI so there's no real-world need to do this.
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CM3 is a great (and the only) upgrade for a Slice CM1 box but IMHO these days the $$ would be bettter invested in a 2GB RPi4. Compiling needs RAM and CM1 is 1GB (4GB is emmc) so I wouldn't attempt building kernels on the device unless I had no alternative option; cross-compiling on a laptop/desktop machine with 8GB (typically) will be massively faster.
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You can build the Raspberry Pi OS kernel from sources and use the same kernel source and patches as LE does (look at our repo). Or run LE and install the Docker add-on and then a Pi-Hole container (bit of a long-route, but should work).
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Display Moreprojects/Allwinner/linux/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m projects/Allwinner/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=y projects/Amlogic/linux/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=y projects/Amlogic/linux/linux.arm.conf:# CONFIG_USB_RTL8152 is not set projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m projects/NXP/devices/iMX6/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m projects/Qualcomm/devices/Dragonboard/linux/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m projects/RPi/devices/RPi/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m projects/RPi/devices/RPi2/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m projects/RPi/devices/RPi4/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m projects/Rockchip/devices/RK3288/linux/default/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m projects/Rockchip/devices/RK3328/linux/default/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m projects/Rockchip/devices/RK3399/linux/default/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m
^ looks enabled (almost) everywhere in Linux 5.7 configs.
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Hmm, the VDPAU announcement of 10/12-bit support is interesting. If it works on a broad range of cards it might result in a stay of execution. If it only works on the latest cards it might not be so appealing (our stats show nvidia is mostly legacy users). It might also require someone to tweak Kodi in some areas; and there's low desire to work on nvidia things among the current core Kodi devs.
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Probably.. but if not it should be simple to add support as the chipset has drivers and firmware in the mainline kernel for some time now.
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RPi4: switch to KMS driver and enable v4l2 HEVC decoding by HiassofT · Pull Request #4288 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub <= LE master branch has been on Linux 5.4 for a while now, but the main GBM/V4L2 changes were merged only yesterday. Right now anyone using an LE10 test image will find a few functional regressions over the LE9.2 codebase, but hey it's still a pre-Alpha state branch so we provide zero promises about that, and there's nothing like a spot of breakage to focus people's attention on fixing the outstanding problem stuff