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Hi!
I just tested OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0-devel-20151016183920-r21488-g163fae9.tar but it did not work well (Kodi does not start) since the kernel is too old (integrated intel skylake i5-6500 with HD Graphics 530).
With a nvidia gtx950 kodi is starting but at 2160p, interface and videos are stuttering - even without any framedrops. It seems to be fine for 24p source videos but not so for 25fps source videos. kodi switches back to 50hz in a 25hz video even if i set the system refresh rate to 25hz.
Anyway i just tested this release: OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0-devel-20151016183920-r21488-g163fae9.tar
Would it be possible to compile it with 4.3-rc6 or at least 4.2 so that i can test my skylake hardware? With the current 4.1 kernel and the i915 kernel boot "hack" i don't get more than 30fps on hdmi 2.0 - and yes - my mainboard has hdmi 2.0 (at least it should)
PS: it is actually not kodi that fails with skylake but x11 - thats also the reason why i don't have any kodi logs.
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Thank you.
Seems i messed up the builds. I will test it asap.
Thank you again.
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Try manually: xrandr --output DP2 --mode 0xc8
and see what is happening, please and post dmesg | pastebinit after it. I don't see kodi switching at all in your log.
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I was about to ask, how you convert from DP to HDMI. The place to file this bug is: bugs.freedesktop.org in DRM/intel section - I wish you luck - cause I think the oss driver kernel / xserver has no code yet for this alpine ridge at all.
As wsnipex points out kodi does the right job and switches.
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Thank you.
One last question - is there a binary firmware which i could load?
[ 0.218007] i915 0000:00:02.0: Direct firmware load for i915/skl_dmc_ver1.bin failed with error -2
[ 0.218011] [drm:i915_firmware_load_error_print] *ERROR* failed to load firmware i915/skl_dmc_ver1.bin (0)
[ 0.218071] [drm:finish_csr_load] *ERROR* The driver is built-in, so to load the firmware you need to
[ 0.218071] include it either in the kernel (see CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE) or
[ 0.218071] in your initrd/initramfs image.
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2015-10-20, 19:03
(This post was last modified: 2015-10-20, 19:04 by fritsch.)
Yes skl needs firmware oe kernel needs to include it. That's the pain of early adapters :-)
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As long as we have wsnipex - that won't be a problem for us :-) Add one ppa and be done ... sadly the kernel is also not up2date enough - upcoming 4.3 will solve the remaining issues.
So:
Kernel 4.3
Mesa 11.0.3
libva 1.6.1
^^ this is what we need and all is fine.
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So everything will be OK for 16.04 LTS. Until this wsnipex ppa (with custom kernel).