Posts by chewitt

S912 devices tend to run hotter than S905 devices and "not shortcut shall be avoided" in the pursuit of profit. So check thermal temps are within a sensible range, and if not, crack the box open to make sure there's a heatsink and it's fixed properly.

Was the OE install "updated" to LE or have you done clean install? .. If it was an update; stop Kodi and rename /storage/.kodi to /storage/.oldkodi and then restart Kodi. You'll get a clean/empty install (which is easily reverted by renaming folders again) to test with. We see OE installs with so much accumulated cruft and odd settings that sometimes a spring-clean resolves things.

LE 8.2.4 was 99.9% for RPi (adding support for the 3B+) and 8.2.5 was 99% to update Pi firmware to solve some issues found (for 3B+). If you have number OCD and desperately need to see 8.2.5 on-screen; edit config/version to show that.

LE assumes booted hardware has a single GPU, and while multi-GPU configurations are not technically impossible multi-GPU-vendor configs are going to be challenging. You also need to understand the vmware image is shipped as a dev/test tool and nobody on staff has ever tested/proven things like GPU passthrough. If it happens to work that's nice. If it doesn't (which IMHO is likely) there is no bug .. it's not a use-case we support. Sorry if that sounds a bit harsh, but we don't want to set incorrect expectations for vmware support.

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No. It uses a MediaTek MT8653 SoC which is not supported (and no plans to support).

The laptop will be 1080p max so you need to upgrade both 'HTPC' and AVR.

1. Most (not all, but most) LE images have a VNC *server* addon available. 2. Teamviewer (client) does not speak VNC so it cannot connect to a VNC server on an LE box, you would need to connect via TeamViewer to a Win/Mac desktop (with a VNC client installed) with network access to the VNC server on the HTPC. Performance of 2x remote viewing tools on-top of each other probably sucks. 3. If you have network access to the HTPC with VNC server installed you can connect directly using a VNC client.

NB: If you use VNC to remote view the Kodi GUI performance will be accessible for basic admin tasks. Don't expect to watch movies. Even if it does half work it's nothing something we have any interest in supporting.

To update:

a) After some basic investigation we found that swrast currently has hard requirements for X11, and our long-term plan (LE10) will see us drop all support for X11 (AMD and Intel move from X11/GL to a KMS/GBM + VAAPI (GLES) back end, and nVidia is probably discontinued) so we're not interested in pursuing that option much further.

b) No visible changes in Libhybris status, and this direction is still firmly seen as a hack by LE staff and Kodi staff.

c) The mesa driver is now capable of rendering on T860 hardware (used with the RK3399 boards and very similar to T820) in addition to T760 (used on RK3268) but the corresponding kernel driver is still at the earliest stages of being written. Great momentum building but a mountain of code to climb before we have anything useable.

In summary.. don't hold your breath for S912 mainline support.

Amlogic chose not to license the Mali T820 drivers for Linux. For alternative options read: Amlogic open source VPU decoder released .. and Dolby Vision is a proprietary (requires commercial licensing) standard so for the foreseeable future it's unlikely that anything running Linux will support it.

Post moved to the Amlogic section of the forum as it's an S905D device.

I never figured the process on macOS either .. so I cheat with Win7 in a virtual machine in vmware Fusion. If you know someone with a Windows box that'd be quickest, but if not you can download Oracle Virtualbox (free) and a Linux OS like Ubuntu (free) to image the CM3 card.

The dmesg log shows the iwlwifi driver loading and the 3160 device being registered. Bluetooth things appear to be started .. but there are no abnormal errors showing.

Nothing in "bluetoothctl show" ?

1. Enable the required device-tree overlay in config.txt, e.g. dtoverlay=hifiberry-digi-overlay

2. It's a USB "keyboard" device so just plug it in and use it. If buttons need remapping HOW-TO:Modify keymaps - Official Kodi Wiki

3. Create a backup in the LE settings addon. Clean install to the new/second device and restore the backup.

Kodinerds has several LE staff/team as moderators: Kodinerds.net - Deutschsprachiges Forum zum Kodi Entertainment Center

Are you trying to set the GUI to 4K (which isn't supported as mali blobs only allow 1080p) .. or trying to play videos at 4K (which is supported but requires you to whitelist the required 4K modes first, else it runs at 1080p/60) ??

No. Boot in textmode.

Stop cross posting. One post is enough.

Binary addons are version specific, so to install a 9.0.108 addon you'd need to be running a 9.0 codebase LE image. It using an 8.1 image it won't install due to missing dependencies. In any case the system-tools addon does not provide a GUI terminal/console app.

Generic x86_64 images can start a local console on CTRL+ALT+F3 if "tty" is in kernel boot params (if absent it's not started). An alternative is adding "textmode" to boot params and the OS boots directly to a console (Kodi is not started). All LE images support booting in textmode, but "tty" is only supported on Generic.