Sorry, I forogot to mention the step about installing 14.0 on Ubuntu 12.04. I did that step, and had no stutter. Kodi Helix worked fine on 12.04, but not on 14.04.
I will look into getting rid of Compiz.
I see a list of windows managers that are not composting. Is there one that plays nice with Kodi?
(2014-09-07, 20:03)greygeek Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry, I forogot to mention the step about installing 14.0 on Ubuntu 12.04. I did that step, and had no stutter. Kodi Helix worked fine on 12.04, but not on 14.04.
I will look into getting rid of Compiz.
which kernel did you have on precise?
I also guess issue with 3.13 kernel, related to the hda sound driver. An upgrade to 3.15.x or 3.16 could show that... But one step after the other.
I installed and ran Kodi through Fluxbox, and still recieved the stutter.
How do I find out what kernel I did have.
This is my current kernel info:
3.13.0-35-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 15 01:58:42 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
You mention the sound driver, but didn't changing from Pulseaudio to Alsa handle that issue?
Using cat /proc/version I got:
Linux version 3.13.0-35-generic (buildd@panlong) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 15 01:58:42 UTC 2014
Should I try another command?
No it just tells that you use 3.13 kernel which we think has that bug.
If this helps, here is the kernel info after I rolled back to Ubuntu 12.04.
Linux version 3.13.0-35-generic (buildd@akateko) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #62~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 18 14:52:04 UTC 2014
That's even the trusty(!) kernel you are running there on 12.04 ...
So I take it the kernel is not the problem?
Yes it could be a kernel problem as you are still using 3.13.
Can you compare the nvidia version, please?