2015-02-23, 23:15
(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?
to quote fritsch, "logs or it didn't happen"
(2015-02-23, 19:45)jwegman Wrote: So, have you updated the firmware since 1/29/15? There was a VGA BIOS update which may be a contributing factor:
the VGA BIOS only affects video initialization when booting or coming out of suspend; anything related to video playback is driver/kernel related
(2015-02-23, 20:15)pcdude Wrote: 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.
the same fix in the updated mainline Linux kernel (3.18.4) was backported into OE 5.0.2, so that's not the issue.
