Posts by escalade

New generic build uploaded!

- 5.8.0-rc5 (also updated firmware so newer nvidia cards might be useable now)

- Added Spotify Connect functionality, run this command to enable: # systemctl enable --now librespot

- Added Snapcast multi-room audio, to make your pc a client: # systemctl enable --now [email protected] (replace 1.2.3.4 with your Snapcast server, can be 127.0.0.1 if pc is the server) to make your pc a server: # systemctl enable --now snapserver (librespot will automatically pipe it's audio into the local Snapcast server if it's running)

- Added Shairport Sync, to enable: systemctl enable --now shairport

- Added gmrender (resurrect) DLNA, to enable: systemctl enable --now gmediarender

- Some under the hood changes to Pipewire/GStreamer/Pulseaudio to make them all fully functional

- Updated Retroarch packages, libretro cores, Mesa 20.2-git, RPCS3

- Added ResidualVM emulator

I also identified some issues with the Pulseaudio modules switch-on-port-available, that could cause issues when connected to an AVR or Soundbar. Hopefully that'll fix the remaining audio issues, there isn't any bugs with the NUC AFAIK.

20200604 images:

• updated and fixed up cava
• fixed up ncurses so there's proper color in terminal programs
• added mupen64plus-next-libretro PR's that upgrades it to 2.1.0 and adds parallel-rdp
• added ecwolf-libretro and boom3-libretro
• tried to make a better moonlight icon (it's logo really sucks, anyone with artistic talent can make a better one?)

New images uploaded!

• Linux 5.7.0
• Kodi 18.7.1
• Pipewire + Wireplumber (not useful as of yet)
• Moonlight icon
• Screen sharing in a browser using wf-recorder/v4l2loopback (demo below)
• Disabled CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED in the kernel so that processes (pulseaudio/openal etc.) can acquire real-time privileges
• Set default GTK theme to Adwaita:Dark
• Added HIDPI support for Emulationstation (now works in 4k)
• VMware default template upgraded to hw version 16 (OpenGL 3.3) with 2GB RAM and 2 CPU's

For those with sound issues try the latest image, I've done a lot of under the hood polish lately.

New skylake build uploaded.

• Kodi Leia 18.7
• Linux 5.7-rc7
• Added xdg-desktop-portal (wlr,gtk)
• Added GLMatrix from xscreensaver (+ icon in lavalauncher)
• Added Ruby
• Added PipeWire+GStreamer
• Left-click on the top swaybar will bring up the on-screen keyboard, clicking it again hides it (right-click kills the focused window)
• Changed all browser icons to use Firefox from Flatpak

New XU4 images uploaded:

- Integrated Flatpak package manager
- Kodi Leia 18.7
- Built with GCC 10.1
- Replaced dosbox-svn-libretro with dosbox-core-libretro
- Updated all cores

Spotify, PCSX2 and the new Steam icon is now one-click Flatpaks. And here's a demo:

Performance seemed fine, I had no trouble running CS:GO on my NUC8i5. Didnt run any benchmarks though, and had to uninstall Steam as I needed the space, will test more later. Or you could just try it yourself, the entire Flathub library is now available on RetroELEC

New Skylake image uploaded with the following features:

• Flatpak 1.7.2 (experimental)
• Significant power saving kernel patch
• Replaced dosbox-svn-libretro with dosbox-core-libretro

Although I've had Steam up and running through a Docker container previously, getting it up and running was awkward and the result seemed to be buggy and prone to crashing at the time. After installing the flatpak I had to edit the binary wrapper script to allow running as root, then it's simply a matter of running flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam. I won't go into the security aspects of installing and running stuff as the root user on your OS, as they should be obvious to anyone. I might look at getting user sessions up and running at some point. For now use at your own risk

EDIT: Other interesting apps on flathub are PCSX2 (will probably replace my Docker solution), Moonlight, MakeMKV, Spotify, Firefox, Kodi and more. Very pleased with how it works

Uploaded a new skylake image:

• Rebuilt with gcc 10.1.0.
• FSGBASE kernel patches.
• Noticed that Intel's media-driver was built without "non-free" cores, so enabled those and all codecs seem to show up in vainfo now.
• Latest git of Mesa 20.2, glibc 2.32, rpcs3, wayland stack, libretro cores.

It's a bit experimental considering the new gcc version I suppose, runs fine here though There was two packages that proved troublesome to get built with the new compiler, Emulationstation and dolphin-libretro, so they are built using gcc 9 instead. Also added Pegasus-frontend to try it out, but can't say I care much for the interface so probably won't be keeping it.

You're out of luck, nvidia cards from that generation and up are the worst match for nouveau/Wayland. Pure Intel or Intel+AMD is where it's at in regards to open source drivers atm. Sway does not support nvidia's eglstreams at all. I think Mutter/Plasma might support it to some degree but I have no plans moving to those.

pletopia

That specific audio issue should be long gone in recent kernels. Everything works great on my NUC8i5 which is skull lake.

toalorama

Let me know the kernel driver you need and I'll see about enabling it.

There's also the pavucontrol Qt app on the desktop mode (mixer icon) that should make it easier to choose the active audio output. I think I re-assigned the ES menu buttons to left alt/ctrl due to lack of these on the right hand side on Mac keyboards.

Uploaded a new image with more polish for the Sway desktop. Refreshed icon set and added a couple of new things, like one-click screenshots and screen recording.

Bub4

I believe PCSX2 requires AVX-2.

Samui

I'm a bit out of sync with LE these days, so consider PVR unsupported for now. Perhaps you can get what you need running through Docker.

New images uploaded. I've made the desktop theme more consistent and added better icons. Obligatory screenshots:

Cool is it working well?

Using KODI_AE_SINK=ALSA+PULSE is a bad idea because Kodi will then attempt to lock the ALSA device. To allow this, there's some scripting that releases the soundcard from Pulse on Kodi start. It should be undone when closing Kodi, but I suppose this can be flaky.

Bottom line, just use Pulseaudio. Once configured correctly, all applications will just work (TM). There's pavucontrol on the desktop, configure your soundcard there. Try booting from a clean USB stick, sound should just work (tested OK in vmware and on my NUCs).

You haven't provided the correct logfiles as stated in first post. I really have no idea about DVB or what's required. I'm quite out of sync with LE but I think everything should be included.