v17 Screen flickering in Kodibuntu
#1
Hello Internet!

I won't beat around the bush, basically, installing Kodibuntu works fine on v14, but when I update to v17 I get a lot of flickering and distorsions on the menus. It's basically unusable. I followed this guide on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/4...screen_in/
But to no avail.

Thank you in advance,

HDmaniac
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#2
I'll move this to Linux, as that's likely to get more attention.

While I do that, though, how about you give us *ANY* clue what you're running it on? It could be that the abacus you're using is underpowered, or the crayon-driven GPU no longer has the driver support necessary for 17. But that's a guess given the lack of information... this is why we always ask for a debug log (wiki), it tells us the platform as well as what's happening in the software.
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#3
kodibuntu is sadly much too old to run kodi v17.

We need a newer kernel, newer mesa and newer vaapi.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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#4
Okay, thanks anyway!
I've downgraded to V16.1 and everything seems to be working a-ok! Smile
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#5
(2017-03-21, 19:40)HDmaniac Wrote: Okay, thanks anyway!
I've downgraded to V16.1 and everything seems to be working a-ok! Smile

Hello, I am also facing the same issues when doing an upgrade on a fresh Kodibuntu installation.

I am not apt with the linux command line interface, a standard apt-get update/yupgrade will always take you to the latest unstable Kodi v17 with the screen flickering issue.

Can you please inform the steps were you able to update till version v16.1

Thanks for your help.
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#6
(2017-04-15, 10:21)HyperEscape Wrote:
(2017-03-21, 19:40)HDmaniac Wrote: Okay, thanks anyway!
I've downgraded to V16.1 and everything seems to be working a-ok! Smile

Hello, I am also facing the same issues when doing an upgrade on a fresh Kodibuntu installation.

I am not apt with the linux command line interface, a standard apt-get update/yupgrade will always take you to the latest unstable Kodi v17 with the screen flickering issue.

Can you please inform the steps were you able to update till version v16.1

Thanks for your help.

Hiya!

Update to v17 then open terminal and type the following commands:

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/kodi-old
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get install kodi

That'll install v16.1 for you!

Hope this helps! ^^
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#7
(2017-04-15, 11:51)HDmaniac Wrote:
(2017-04-15, 10:21)HyperEscape Wrote:
(2017-03-21, 19:40)HDmaniac Wrote: Okay, thanks anyway!
I've downgraded to V16.1 and everything seems to be working a-ok! Smile

Hello, I am also facing the same issues when doing an upgrade on a fresh Kodibuntu installation.

I am not apt with the linux command line interface, a standard apt-get update/yupgrade will always take you to the latest unstable Kodi v17 with the screen flickering issue.

Can you please inform the steps were you able to update till version v16.1

Thanks for your help.

Hiya!

Update to v17 then open terminal and type the following commands:

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/kodi-old
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get install kodi

That'll install v16.1 for you!

Hope this helps! ^^

Thanks a lot yes it worked.
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