Posts by escalade

New generic image out:

• Linux 5.5-rc5
• Fixed some Plymouth (boot splash) / installer issues - now installs and runs fine on VMware Fusion Pro
• Updated OpenAL, RPCS3, Sway/wlroots, alsa-lib to latest git
• The usual RetroArch/libretro updates - highlight is the new dynarec for beetle-psx

Railgun  Etabeta16  bdunning

My images are built and optimized for the Intel Silvermont architecture which is now 7 years old. Anything older than that probably won't run and you'll have to build for yourself. Newer generations of nvidia is not supported, as I'm now using the open source nouveau driver. Nvidia Wayland support just isn't there yet.

TheChuckster

Idiots like you are the very definition of toxic. You are contributing absolutely zero to this community and have the nerve to drag my name through the mud while running an image based on my years of work. You must be proud of yourself.

New images uploaded:

• Linux 5.5-rc4
• F2FS as default filesystem (both image and installer)
• Kodi is now set up to use ALSA only to fix passthrough issues
• Latest Kodi Leia git brings some bugfixes
• The usual updates to cores etc.

For anyone having issues, post logs.

There's no comparison, pretty much any PC will absolutely smoke the RPi which can't even run recent MAME versions.

Logs would help. The preferred is OpenAL, which uses Pulseaudio as a backend by default. Sounds like Kodi starts up before the RetroArch process has let go of the display, that's something I might be able to fix.

Waspoeder

I removed this and added the use of pasuspender in the latest build, so stopping Pulseaudio shouldn't be necessary anymore.

slacker666

Haven't had the time to look at it yet. Add "frontend=es" to the kernel command line in /flash/syslinux.cfg. Sorry, I don't see the use for a web interface. There's SSH and ttyd

Waspoeder

Hm, actually there doesn't seem to be any issue with using ALSA playthrough while Pulseaudio is running. Tested here with DTS-HD and Atmos.

All emulators in this build are libretro cores at this point. I think the Dolphin core works beautifully now, have you tried it? I'll look at Cemu at some point, maybe I'll have time in the next few weeks. I can surely add it through Docker. If you are impatient you can try adding it yourself using the PCSX2 container, have a look at /usr/bin/pcsx2.sh to see how the container is launched. Using the PCSX2 container as starting point you can add Cemu if you find an Arch repository with binaries, or you could build it yourself. Using some Ubuntu container should be fine too, Arch is just my preference.

Pulseaudio 13 supports HD audio passthrough, so if anything "sucks" it's Kodi for not supporting it. I suppose it's a good idea to stop Pulseaudio before starting Kodi to let it get full control over audio devices for the time being, I'll do that for the next build. I don't think it's necessary to set autospawn.

A better way to stop/start Pulseaudio would be the ExecStartPre= and ExecStopPost= directives in the systemd unit.

I haven't tried any heavy games, but NBA Jam and Street Fighter plays well in 1080p.

This build uses Pulseaudio. In case you've got several outputs and the connected one isn't auto-detected, you need to set the default with something like this:

# pactl set-default-source alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.hdmi-stereo.monitor

Obviously you shouldn't update to a different OS, I'll remove the hardcoded menu entry in RetroArch that makes it possible. As for the ES issues, I'll have a look at it.

Quote from CarbpnFixer

What hardware is recommended to have a smooth dolphin/pcsx2 experience?

Check out the requirements on their project site. I'd say minimum a recent Core i5/i7. The faster the better.

Quote from ravensm

question for you. Does the build work on RPi4 ? I really want to combine a media center and game center with out dual booting kodi and lakka (which currently is the only emulation distro compatible with my device)

Retropie does have a kodi addon through experimental packages but it's to wonky to work right on RPi4

Not yet, I'll probably rebase and push out some RPi4 images you can test over christmas. Don't have one personally so not on the top of my priority list.

Quote from mtk1

Great work !

Quick question: Would it possible to include Noto fonts ( Google Noto Fonts) in the firefox docker image ? This would allow better rendering of non-latin characters.

Very possible, I have been thinking about including some better looking fonts. I'll have a look when I get around to it.

So let me get this straight, you are on here blaming me for the guy copying me going AWOL? Make no mistake about it, although he has meticulously removed my name from the headers, most of the packages and scripts in this build are based on my work. I see that you're also enjoying my work on your XU4, but were denied support due to your logs being riddled with pirate addons. Real piece of work you are, feel free to uninstall my image from your machine! I don't know what troll cave you crawled out of, but it seems to me you might as well crawl back inside because you're absolutely worthless to this community. "I'd bail too if I had to deal with super douch", lol what a fuc*ing joke.

Here's a quote from JimmyTheSnitch's post history, which I'll just leave here as a reference on how to fail in life:

"anyways.. I just wanted to point out that I'm cheap.. and i don't want to pay for Spotify.. (I'm 38 I've got allllll the mp3's/FLAC I need)"

The RPi image is severely outdated, I've removed it for now. Will move to vc4 and wayland for RPi later.

New generic image is out:

• Linux 5.5-rc2
• Qt 5.14
• Updated Mesa/LLVM, RPCS3 and libretro cores
• PPSSPP does not work with Wayland (or KMS) at the moment, solved it by running in Xwayland which runs great
• Updated xfstools, f2fs-tools and btrfs-progs

New generic image is out:

• Linux 5.4.2
• Included DVB drivers
• Added Firefox (runs through a Docker container, Wayland native)
• Updated Mesa, RPCS3 and libretro cores

That's it, you found it

One difference could be that I compile with -march=silvermont, so your CPU needs to be not ancient. I use the same bootloader as other LibreELEC builds so can't see a reason why this should work any differently. I have tested on VMware and VirtualBox no problems.

There's no VNC, Kodi runs directly on GBM/OpenGL and emulators run on Sway/Wayland.

Try typing "installer", I'm guessing it freezes after boot and not at the prompt although it may not be displayed. The installer will skip boot splash and maybe give a clue on what's wrong.

I think that card should work fine with "nouveau" kernel driver and modesetting Xorg driver. You'll need to build from source and enable the nouveau kernel driver though. It's doable depending on how much effort you are willing to put into it. You can enable the mesa driver as well if you need 3D support.