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2012-10-20, 22:10
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Thanks Stefan. r12220 is working fine on a 512MB Pi (though still zooming 1080p, and thumbnails are square etc.)
Regarding the GPU memory, is XBMC on Pi going to be able to make use of the additional RAM on 512MB models, or will GPU be fixed at 128MB and have to employ the same GUI upscaling workaround as the 256MB model?
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No obvious difference, unfortunately - either in terms of load time (I'm running force_turbo=1 @ 1000/500/600) or in terms of appearance.
I added "<useddsfanart>false</useddsfanart>" to advancedsettings.xml, deleted Database/Textures13.db and Thumbnails, but the boxart is still out of proportion (banners on TV Shows are also the wrong size/shape).
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Luckily i have both the 256 and 512 RPi, having tested the latest r12220 version on both i have to say the the difference between the 2 is so very different, on the 256 i am unable to watch toy story 1080 with out it pausing every few seconds, so i swapped the sd card in to the 512, what a difference, toy story is now watchable, no pausing, menu speed is very good, will be testing the PVR functionality once i have my new MPG2 keys for the 512
also when swapping the sd card between the 2 different RPi's the GPU always stays at 128mb, with the rest given to system
i am now gonna be ordering another 2 512 versions as i now see that they are a viable alternative to the standard HTPC when using OpenELEC
congrats to Stephen and the rest of the team behind OE
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Regarding the squashed thumbnails, I've looked at jpg's in the Thumbnails folder, and XBMC is resizing 1000x1500 (wide x high) thumbnails to 1008x720 (wide x high)... almost as if the resize algorithm has the width and height transposed...
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my Edimax ew-7811un wireless nano adapter (RTL8188CUS) stopped working in r2220. it works again reverting back to 12196 .
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Hello,
I've noticed that after updating to 12020 my zd1211-based wifi dongle no longer works.
In /var/log/messages I can see the following lines regarding wifi:
Jan 1 00:00:08 openelec daemon.info connmand[981]: wlan0 {create} index 3 type 1 <ETHER>
Jan 1 00:00:08 openelec daemon.info connmand[981]: wlan0 {update} flags 4098 <DOWN>
Jan 1 00:00:08 openelec daemon.info connmand[981]: wlan0 {newlink} index 3 address MAC mtu 1500
Jan 1 00:00:08 openelec daemon.info connmand[981]: wlan0 {newlink} index 3 operstate 2 <DOWN>
Jan 1 00:00:08 openelec daemon.info connmand[981]: Adding interface wlan0 [ wifi ]
and:
Jan 1 00:00:06 openelec user.info kernel: [ 6.873034] zd1211rw 1-1.2.2:1.0: phy0
Jan 1 00:00:06 openelec user.info kernel: [ 6.873393] usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw
On running dmesg:
[ 3.149083] usb 1-1.2.2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 3.250374] usb 1-1.2.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0ace, idProduct=1211
[ 3.250406] usb 1-1.2.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=0
[ 3.250424] usb 1-1.2.2: Product: USB2.0 WLAN
[ 3.250437] usb 1-1.2.2: Manufacturer: ZyDAS
This wifi dongle was working out-of-the-box in release number 12196 but it stopped inmediatly after upgrading to 12220.
Do you think this issue could be caused due to the xbmc upgrade or must be an Openelec-related issue?
Best regards.