Posts by chewitt

Create a bootable USB from another machine; either the LE installer (at the syslinux menu type 'run' and it will boot LE from USB instead of running the installer) .. or an Ubuntu LiveUSB image or similar that gives you a console or desktop to work from. You need to mount the /storage (second) partition from the internal drive and move /storage/.kodi to /storage/.kodi-old and then reboot. On boot you will end up with a clean/default Kodi config. You can then manually restore (move) files from the previous configuration over until you either end up with a working configuration again, or you discover which bit causes everything to break. NB: Safe mode is doing the same thing; moving a bad Kodi config out of the way and giving you a clean config to experiment from. If that isn't working or you end up in the same situation again, I'd suspect an underlying hardware problem, e.g. failing disk. LE is packaged with the entire OS in two files (KERNEL and SYSTEM) that uncompress on boot to create a virtual filesystem (only /storage is real). It's great for simplicity, but one bit wrong and one of the files is invalid, won't decompress, and the OS won't boot. Conventional distros that scatter 10k files over the disk are more resilient because a disk error only breaks 1:10000 files, not 1:2.

And the solution was?

btw, what boxes did you order?

I've downloaded it and will have a look in the next couple of days.

The drivers and firmware for the MT7668 chipset are already in the upstream kernel so should be simple to include. That's only half of the solution though, and I'm not sure what device-tree changes are needed to init the card. It would be useful to see the Android device-tree file.

Tapatalk is either paid-for and not cheap, or free but exposes advertising to all tapatalk users. We prefer the mobile GUI that comes with the forum which is free (no cost, no advertising). To be clear, our primary objection is about advertising and privacy not cost.

Sounds like a list of pirate channels. You'll need to show a clean debug log in future.

Looks like kodi.conf contains two lines. They are read in sequence so the second overwrited the first value set and is used. You can always remove the 8192 line and then the file only sets the 131072 value.

Once you have hardware, look in the usual location and then there's no need for hypothetical questions.

RPi4 runs better at 1080p native resolution with auto-switching to 4k only if required; use the whitelist to map 4k modes that you need for media. it's possible to enable 4k@60p via config.txt if needed, but most real world media (only demo files) will not need this.

echo "i915" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf && reboot

^ right path this time

If safe-mode is activated the problem install is preserved by moving it from /storage/.kodi to /storage/.kodi.FAILED - no copies are made.

Have you bothered to look in our add-on repo?

No logs .. no problem.

What you are seeking does not exist. The add-on situation will improve once K19 Alpha1 ships and more add-on creators update their add-ons.

Not within the Kodi GUI, no.

echo "i915" > /storage/.config/udev.d/blacklist.conf && reboot

See if blacklisting the Intel driver allows the Radeon GPU to be detected, and if that doesn't work, see if blacklisting "amdgpu" or "radeon" works instead. If neither works it's probably a missing PCI device ID in one of the drivers. That's my guess (and it's a guess).

Create /storage/.config/kodi.conf with the required content and restart Kodi (or reboot).