Posts by chewitt

I want to point out (again) that the colour distortions and green lines in the images in post #1 are due to the current Amlogic hardware video-decode driver. It is not in a good state. It generally works okay with older Amlogic hardware and less okay with newer. The driver is in staging and is effectively unmaintained for 2+ years, and it predates SM1/S905X3 hardware being released. There is also a dependency on the codec and version of firmware blobs being used (lots of variables).

You should be aware that current LE (needed for some level of HC4 support) is running completely different kernel codebase and drivers to older harware running older LE images or CE which are using vendor kernels. The upstream kernel and vendor kernel drivers have zero in-common.

Quote from pcihlar

I would like to connect it by WiFi USB Adapter AC1300. Is it possible?

It depends on the chipset. If there are drivers for that chipset in the Linux 5.11 kernel it will be supported. If there are not, it won't be. If you run "lusb | paste" from SSH and share the URL we can see what it is. NB: if the answer is "Realtek" we probably don't have the driver and have no interest in adding the driver (until the driver is upstream and we can enable support via kernel configuration, not vendor drivers).

I have zero knowledge of OpenPHT and Kwiboo is not active these days to ask, but an S905W box will be booting from Amlogic "vendor" u-boot which has an environment where persistent settings can be stored and if booting something based on the older Amlogic 3.14 kernel it is possible to write/change settings from userspace, so you can do things which change settings (without knowing) and the reboot into Android can equally reset things to good defaults again.

NTFS drives are best fixed on Windows using chkdsk.exe and then safe eject/removal to ensure the filesystem is not 'dirty' again.

Check BIOS settings and ensure legacy boot options are enabled. Old machines often have issues with UEFI but we support both. NB: If the machine is running OE check the /flash partition size with "df -h" .. if it's an older OE install with ~230MB space you need to reinstall but if its a newer one with ~512MB in size (at least more than 300MB disk) you can "update" the existing OE install to LE by putting the LE .tar file into /storage/.update and rebooting. If you do this you need to SSH in and stop Kodi then rename /storage/.kodi out of the way so that you start with a clean Kodi instance and avoid add-on upgrade issues.

First you need to tell us the WiFi chip in the laptop (kind of important). Then:

Quote from aeeq

Hi ,how to chang gpu memory for rk3328(my box H96 max +),deault is 100M,for 4g ram,it's small

All the GPU does in normal use is render the Kodi GUI which is not a demanding task. If it needs more it will self-allocate more. Forcing it to use some arbitrary larger value achieves nothing.

ConnMan stores files in /storage/.cache/connman/<service>/settings .. the <service> directory name includes the MAC address of the local NIC so if you copied it from an RPi4 the MAC will not be correct and thus the settings file is ignored.

Long-story short.. not supported and no plans to support. Our RK support is focussed on current and recent chips, not old ones.

Quote from Udjin

Good afternoon. I installed LibreELEC 9.2.6 on the raspberi zero W, bad cable and HDMI-CEC did not work, I can not connect a keyboard / mouse, at zero W there are no full-sized USB ports. How to enter SSID/password WIFI when booting the OS?

Fix the bad cable, then CEC works and (as previously described) the first-run wizard has the WiFi settings. Software complexity is never a fix for shoddy hardware. If you want a hardware solution, connect a UART cable to the board.

FYI, the default (embedded) time servers are 0/1/2.pool.ntp.org so there is no need to configure ntp.org servers, it doesn't achieve any real-world difference to the system.

NTP is being blocked somewhere. See if setting the router IP as the NTP server works, some routers will give a response to requests.

It's definitely a backup of my WP2 box, and I can boot the box image from the original vendor u-boot.

Quote from Flecky

Any info on how to create functional dtb for rk3318?.

Creating a functional dtb will be trivial once someone writes a functional kernel for RK3318. The horse needs to come before the cart.

Martin has been implementing the HDMI driver and audio support. There is progress, but it's slow progress. `Development reached the point where some of the retro-gaming distros which don't have such a dependency on audio/video things are now using the upstream codebase.

You can try the "box" image here https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE….0.1-box.img.gz the dtb to set in uEnv.ini is "meson-sm1-h96-max.dtb" .. but this assumes your H96 Max is the same as the box I made the device-tree file (which is a gamble .. it's a clone). HBR audio should be working fine but video is in a rough state in the upstream kernel so CE is probably a better option.

I assume you mean for RPi devices? .. it's in the Pi Foundation to-do list but not with a high priority.