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Greetings,

Been trying to get Kodi 17 (Krypton) working properly on my Linux build.

Following the debugging methods used during the Radeon OSS w/ vdpau thread:

dmesg
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15822577/
cat ~/.kodi/temp/kodi.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15822589/
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15822595/
DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15822602/
dpkg -l |grep mesa | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15822606/

just getting a lot of tearing;
here's my advancedsettings.xml
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15822622/

Sadly not a kodi debug log. While at it: Use the default skin and remove those scripts that cause errors in your log

http://paste.ubuntu.com/15830746/

i hope this is a bit better.

i removed all my addons to give a more "fresh" look at the files.
so there should be no unusual scripts running to cause errors.

hope this helps. looking forward to any advice.

also,

If I leave the GUI on one screen (doesn't seem to matter which: Main, Settings, TV Shows, etc)
it will appear just fine after a few seconds. Then after about a minute of being on that screen, my screen goes black, until i try to navigate again.

hmmm..


using ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
seems to have helped.
not getting any tearing. video look good.
no drops or skips so far.

are there any drawbacks to keep this PPA

Yes, its breaking regularly, since it contains blleeding edge code

anything I can do to help getting the new Krypton working without using this bleeding edge technology?

If you want - verify with an Ubuntu 16.04 installation, cause we will drop for 14.04 soon.

okay, so I tried to upgrade to 16.04

everything seemed to go okay. using systemd
then when I tried to run Kodi, it failed.

reading the log -- http://paste.ubuntu.com/15870908/
i'm now getting errors saying "Can't Open Display"
when I run xrandr, i get "Can't Open Dislpay

then i read this -- http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/ubunt...iver-16-04

am i missing something? i feel like i'm missing a package.

Most likely: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2310818

yeah!!! :-D

thanks, @fritsch! that did it.

now, ?uestion number 2
it seems that with the changes xrandr is broken, and Kodi will not hold the changes I make to the resolution.
what options do I have to make this stick?
i'm doing the research. just didn't know if maybe you have run into this as well.

thanks again!

What means "xrandr" is broken?

okay, broken is a bad choice of words.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+source/xrandr

it seems to ignore my xrandr command, and always defaults back to the original settings.
still playing around with it.
but at least I have my TV back! :-D
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nevermind... my kodi.service was pointing to the wrong file.

cheers! and thanks again.