Posts by chewitt

It should *just* be large enough, but my maths sucks so no guarantee.

In that case you didn't configure the before/after requirements correctly. In some cases a helper script is required to test for conditions and delay the service activation until things are ready. As we have no idea what you're actually trying to do (and I will stop asking now) .. we can only provide vague advice.

One of the changes to 8.2.2 was disabling the blue LED on the C2 during boot, so it going off does not mean the device froze or locked up. Make a DHCP reservation for the device's MAC in your router so it boots to a known IP - then you can SSH in to figure out what the issue is. If multiple OS are failing to give video output it points towards something that is not software, e.g. HDMI cables (swap them to check) or if you're unlucky, something on the C2 hardware.

Create the service file in /storage/.config/system.d/ and then enable it with systemctl

Why would you delay NTP until after a USB drive is mounted? .. that makes no sense.

Please describe the problem you have. Whatever it is, ^ that is not the solution.

LE uses NTFS-3G which runs via FUSE (userspace) whereas EXT2/3/4 use an in-kernel driver. Differences are determined by raw CPU speed and I/O performance of the hardware/disk. On the same drive connected to the same hardware and same interfaces running the same kernel there is *no way* NTFS will outperform EXT because the data flows in/out of userspace to the device are significantly less efficient.

sunxi-ir?

LE has never released images for Allwinner devices (not yet) so whatever code you are running on, it did not originate from us, and we have no idea what it contains, what version of LE it claims to be, or how accurately the unknown author of that image has followed the changes we have made over the last 6-9 months on IR things

On what hardware? .. and specifically, which wireless chipset?

The OE version has a minor board revision and the non-OE version ships with Android installed. Apart from that WeTek "OpenELEC" and WeTek Play (1) are exactly the same. The LibreELEC settings add-on should be visible under Add-ons > Program Add-ons on all skins. The shortcut to it in Kodi settings only exists in Estuary.

Download the .tar image to storage, then validate the md5 checksum against Mirror List to make sure the image isn't at fault. If it still fails, maybe the internal storage has some issues?

LE uses fluxbox as a basic Xorg windowmanager (further in the past we used ratpoison) on x86 hardware. Other hardware currently runs on the kernel framebuffer (no Xorg) and with the next evolution of LE (and Kodi) graphics architecture everything uses DRM/KMS (GBM) and a zero-copy rendering/decoding pipeline based on the kernel V4L2 stack.

The build-system was borrowed from geexbox but the design principles behind the OS are from Welcome to Linux From Scratch!

It's simple to build the OS without Kodi; set mediacentre to 'none' (or something else that matches a package name) in distro options. There are people using it for weather stations on a Pi in addition to multiple other flavours of media app. You need to poke/understand how the build-system works to get anywhere with adapting it for other needs. If you succeed please keep in touch and consider submitting enhancements back to our main repo that allow easier adaption for other uses, because it's great to see our codebase forked and repurposed in this way.

I'll have to go look at wpa_supplicant

NTP is handled by connman

Netflix is working in Kodi Leia (pre-Alpha) builds. It will not run on Kodi Krypton. The add-on is available from the Kodinerds repo. Last time I checked (a couple of months back) the add-on was due an update to automatically installed the required widevine.so library, but that might have happened since. No idea about Hulu as I'm on the wrong continent for that service.

Check for free space on the internal storage. You will need approx 2.5x the size of the 8.2.2 image free (about 327MB) for update to succeed. If you are low on space it's possible to download the .tar update file and uncompress on another machine, copy to USB, then copy kernel.img and SYSTEM over from the USB to the /storage/.update folder. This negates some steps in the update process. You can also free space by running "systemctl stop kodi" and then "rm -rf /storage/.kodi/temp" then "systemctl start kodi" .. anything in the temp folder can be binned safely. Another location to prune is the cache of installed add-on packages in /storage/.kodi/addons/packages/

linuxfromscratch.org

You can play around with profile to limit options.

Add the DNS record to Win10's hosts file, then it will always resolve.

I'd ask that the LE repo is removed and forked properly before the branch is then re-added. This allows cross-fork comparison so changes made can be easily seen and understood. The way it's currently been done, comparison is awkward.