2015-02-23, 20:15
(2015-02-23, 19:45)jwegman Wrote:(2015-02-23, 16:33)pcdude Wrote: I recently switched my chromeboxes from dual-boot Ubuntu to standalone OpenELEC running OE 5.02. I am seeing the GPU hang problem on one of the boxes where the video freezes and the audio keeps playing. I've seen it happen twice now in the past 3 days. This is the same problem that I had in Ubuntu prior to upgrading the kernel. I thought this was fixed in OE. If not, is there a workaround outside of turning off hardware acceleration?
I had the same issue on two different chromeboxes; one setup as Standalone Ubuntu running Kodi, the other as a Dualboot with ChromeOS and Openelec.
On the Standalone, I updated the firmware then updated the kernel.
On the Dualboot, I updated the Firmware (from ChromeOS), and then updated Openelec to 5.0.x.
The issue hasn't reoccurred on either box since.
So, have you updated the firmware since 1/29/15? There was a VGA BIOS update which may be a contributing factor:
Per Matt's changelog in the first post of this thread.
2015-01-29 -- v3.10
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- change lowest fan state from OFF to ULTRA LOW (~1900 rpm)
-- still inaudible, keeps system cooler overall, fixes Windows fan control issues (coreboot only)
- update VGA BIOS to latest Haswell/Broadwell version (1035); separate configs for ChromeBox/Book (coreboot and SeaBIOS)
- synchronized coreboot and SeaBIOS to latest upstream codebases
- minor script tweaks
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Regards,
Jake
I ran the install script last week, which upgraded the firmware in the standalone configuration (option 5). I'm sure this was after 1/29. Updating the kernel indeed fixes this for Ubuntu installs. I'm running OpenELEC, and that is not an option.
