mi first test and results :
1) framebuffer video mode doesn't work for one of my video card :
kernel log : unsuported video mode, type enter to see ....
--> switching to mode 791 works (not all cards support Colour depth 15 ?)
2) xbmc crash while entering videos/picture/music, it's unusable
--> remove root/.xbmc, then it's ok
No problems at all for me on the 2 Intel PCs I've tested it with.
Do you have the same issue on all PCs ?
Do you use persistent ? I mean in this on first boot or future ones ?
Ben
Tom
Tested on x220 (sandy bridge) and eeepc, both work fine (though eee is
slower ofc), and I can't reproduce this xbmc crash. On an older Centrino
laptop distro boots fine but xbmc is impossibly slow to use (looks like
no opengl acceleration). On a new Dell Latitude (sandy bridge based as
well I think) everything works fine but there is no sound. On all
laptops, the touchpad feels a bit weird, especially click-on-tap, but
it's no showstopper.
Davide
Same on my desktop (nvidia video card); works fine otherwise, and vdpau
seems to be working as well.
Davide
Tom
Can you try some aplayer ir other alsa tool in cmdline to see where it could come from ? Or check with alsamixer if something is not shut down ?
Ben
> Tom
I'll cherrypick this fb fix.
>
> Davide
On 11 sept. 2011, at 11:25, Davide Cavalca <dav...@openbricks.org> wrote:
> Il giorno dom, 11/09/2011 alle 08.52 +0200, Thomas Genty ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> mi first test and results :
>>
>>
>> 1) framebuffer video mode doesn't work for one of my video card :
>> kernel log : unsuported video mode, type enter to see ....
>> --> switching to mode 791 works (not all cards support Colour depth 15 ?)
>>
>> 2) xbmc crash while entering videos/picture/music, it's unusable
>> --> remove root/.xbmc, then it's ok
>
> Tested on x220 (sandy bridge) and eeepc, both work fine (though eee is
> slower ofc), and I can't reproduce this xbmc crash. On an older Centrino
> laptop distro boots fine but xbmc is impossibly slow to use (looks like
> no opengl acceleration).
Can you check which driver it uses and see output of glxinfo ?
Also maybe try building xorg intel drivet with --disable-sna.
> On a new Dell Latitude (sandy bridge based as
> well I think) everything works fine but there is no sound.
Same remark than for thomas.
I have the feeling that our legacy alsa init script is just shuting down way too many devices or things we shouldn't care about.
-Dell optiplex 380 Sound ok , Video ok
-Nec Powermate VL360 Sound ok , Video ok
Tom
alsa-mixer-setup script sounds like a good place
Tom
Updated i386 and x86_64 ISO images.
All, please test it out.
Ben
Tom
i386 iso image on :
NEC VL370 : OK
NEC VL280 : OK
Dell Optiplex 380 : OK
VL 360 : No sound : Card : HDA Nvidia, chipset : ACL 888 (all unmuted
and up to 100%)
Tom
Some ALSA/snd driver loaded in lsmod ? Or not even the case ?
Tested with 5 identical pc
I will post lsmod but all seems to be ok, the card is well detected,
modules loaded
aplay plays my sample but no sound
There are some problems with ubuntu too, with the same card
Tom
results.txt : output of dmesg, lspci, amixer (attached)
Tom
Audio now works fine on the Latitude. A friend reported that the USB key
(either generated with dd or with unetbootin) is not bootable on his
(intel-based) macbook. According to
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html
there should be an isohybrid patch available to fix this.
Davide
Not as good as a patch
Tom
Macbook EFI is a nightmare :-(
>
> Davide
>
Ben, is it possible to add them before releasing ?
Tom
I think so, maybe we should just do the following before releqse:
- switch fb to 800x600 so that it also works on netbooks with low resolution
- use fbsplash in initramfs to display static picture as bootsplash
(same one as xbmc splash).
- your hack for killing dev console to prevent umount log messages.
Ben
Tom
Updated new i386 and x86_64 versions of GeeXboX 2.0.
Hope these are last ones.
Please test,
Ben
Tom