Posts by mglae

No change to the errors, it is likely you get a working system by reverting Mesa 24 to 21.

IIRR Mesa 21 was the latest version booting on any platform (I'm testing) without error.

With a distribution like Slackware64 you do have any lib available. With The JEOS LE only the required libs are build, therefore you have to change configuration to build the new lib.

Quote from Johpin

fatal: a branch named 'le12_nouveau' already exists

New generated branches can have any name.

Quote from Johpin

it will take 28 hours to finish the building

You are really patient.

Johpin LE is building GBM with gles, I'm not sure if using GL is possible.

The idea is to port chewitt work to LE 12:

git remote add chewitt https://github.com/chewitt/LibreELEC.tv.git
git fetch chewitt
git checkout libreelec-12.0 
git pull
git checkout -b le12_nouveau
git cherry-pick chewitt/nouveau 

But the last line result into two conflicts. I've fixed them and you can use:

git checkout libreelec-12.0 
git pull
git checkout -b le12_nouveau
wget -O - https://paste.libreelec.tv/peaceful-alien.log|git am

Then build with PROJECT=Generic DEVICE=nouveau (untested).

Already fixed in kodi. Use a LE12 stable nightly.

Jan 18 15:38:34.552496 LibreELEC kodi.sh[840]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
Jan 18 15:38:34.562281 LibreELEC kodi.sh[840]: glx: failed to create drisw screen
Jan 18 15:38:34.581328 LibreELEC kodi.sh[840]: ERROR: Can not initialize OpenGL context. Exiting
Jan 18 15:38:34.581482 LibreELEC kodi.sh[840]: ERROR: Unable to create GUI. Exiting

This is exactly the error I'm currently seeing with Generic-legacy on Intel HW. We may fight against some mesa issue.

It may be worth to test the changes on top of LE12 (maybe an exercise for Johpin ?)

Did you stop kodi with systemctl stop kodi before changing the files?

chewitt Great, I'll continue on github.

Johpin Now xorg did start but kodi is in a fail/restart loop. pastekodi is needed - or pastecrash if there is a crash log below /storage/.kodi/temp.

Few notes to improve testing workflow:

1. There is no need to install any new image, you can update on reboot with keeping the configuration:
   wget -P /storage/.update <url>
2. For keyboard reboot first switch the console: ctrl-alt-F2 then ctrl-alt-delete.
3. While testing it is helpful to disable xorg and kodi restart. Create /storage/.config/system.d/xorg.service.d/norestart.conf and /storage/.config/system.d/kodi.service.d/norestart.conf with:

[Service]
Restart=no

Likely a mesa issue for "vmware" driver. Generic fails but Generic-legacy is working in VirtualBox.

For Intel HW it is opposite: failure with Generic-legacy but Generic is fine.

Just two thoughts.

The xorg configuration is not implemented for nouveau. xorg-configure is not called from udev.

Another issue fot both GBM and X11 may be the missing VAAPI configuration when building nouveau driver alone. Try adding VAAPI_SUPPORT="yes" here.

You can create /storage/.profile and add

alias ls='ls --color=never'

Use ls --help to see all options:

[...]
    --color[={always,never,auto}]    Control coloring

Xorg is logging to /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Johpin You are using live mode with tmpfs mounted on /storage not allowing persistent configuration. Please switch to run mode at boot.

The reboot is caused by activating LE safe mode after five kodi crashes, but is useless in live configuration.

After switching to run disable safe mode with

touch /storage/.config/safemode.disable

QBJack Not possible with connman use wg. See post 14.

According to the Wiki LE is using libreelec_multi.toml for rc-rc6-mce.

Rename your file and it will be loaded at boot.

When testing LE13 Generic-Legacy a few weeks ago Kodi failed to start on Intel HW (while Simple Terminal (st) and Chrome were working).

No issues with AMD and vmware graphics driver.

Expected a magic fix by e.g. Mesa or Kernel bump but seems still to be an issue.

Quote from sparkplug

on xbmc python version 2.7.0 could not be satisfied

You do need an updated addon with Python3 support.

giaguaro Did you disable the on board graphic card in the BIOS after adding the 8600GT?

The PR adds kernel nouveau driver via package.mk