batocera.linux 5.20 correction for intel gpus

poke · 2019-02-21T10:05:25+00:00

For intel gpu users: It seems support is broken for some models in 5.20. If you get a blank/black screen, please try the build bellow. It is a custom BA 5.20...

mdoggie82

I have an Intel GPU on a NUC8, and this has also seemingly fixed HDMI sound issues, too. Awesome, thanks so much!

I would fight with this system for awhile after each boot to get sound to work, but now it just starts for me.

GPU-wise I notice that Beetle-Saturn runs pretty flawlessly now, and in the past release, would have some graphical chugging.

Kintao

mdoggie82 Hi, could you tell me if you could run smoothly "game cubes" games with your NUC 8 and this version?

poke

Levellingup i cant add the auto update... sorry.

Levellingup

poke

But this version has no issues? Why would you leave a broken version in the auto update tool which will corrupt more systems?

This makes no sense @nadenislamarre

poke

g12345567 kodi will not come with 5.21. Maybe with 5.22 if we decide to update buildrootl

joinski

Levellingup

I agree. Would be better to replace current 5.20 with this version here, as long as most users have problems with the current 5.20 and this version here runs better for the majority.
Even if 5.21 will come soon (although i suspect, that 5.21 will not come before end of march. But that is just a guess of mine, because in the past the update-cycle was about every 2 month).

poke

Levellingup i understand it is frustrating, but a kernel change is significant and can break other system without proper testing. I will drop a line to @nadenislamarre and see what he thinks.

mdoggie82

Kintao was playing super monkey ball 1 much better yesterday. I only rarely notice frame drops now, where as before, it was way more often. I'll investigate tonight to see if there are any games that don't stay at 60fps.

joinski

poke
Maybe you should start a small survey: Which version works for me?
Possible answers:
A: official 5.20
B: poke's 5.20
C: both
D: none

Anyone who answers must also post his hardware configuration.

Levellingup

poke OK thanks guys - waiting patiently for 5.21 - I'm excited to try out the PS2 emulator!

nadenislamarre

unfortunatly, i've the same answer as poke.
by experience, each version broke for some users while it is better for some others.
however, note that this is the result of limited tests for each versions ; only a view people are making tests during rc versions.and even if they do, it is a bit frustrating for them because it is no more time to solve minor issue that can have big impact, but just time to discover any big broken point.
the good point however is that batocera allows rollback to previous version without data loss.
i'm not ready for 5.21 ; i would like to release it in march, but i'm late on several points (and i'm taking most of my time on the odroid n2 these last days https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=33790 which is not a priority at all, but over priorities, i priorize my pleasure ;-)

Levellingup

nadenislamarre

It is a shame there isn't a clear step by step, how to guide on how to roll back to previous versions though.

Some of us aren't very technical but we do try to help with testing, bug reporting and game compatibility.
I know its not much but its the only way we can help

poke

Please, test RC releases and report problems with the necessary logs. We did not catch the problem during testing and took me a couple of weeks to finally get my hands on a good support archive. I know not all users know how to do that. On the other hands, the community could write articles and how-to's. We would happily add them to the official documentation.

Levellingup

poke Some step by step how to's would be great - If the community could put some together I would be happy to create some video tutorials

rptx

Testing release candidates is a good idea.
The problem is that you have to watch Discord and be in the right channel at the right time to get the information.
The information is available on the forum, but there is a topic with each new version, and you usually connect more to Discord.
What do you think of a mailing list?
Otherwise a Discord channel dedicated to this type of information would do the trick.

poke

rptx i like the idea of an open issue system. Problem is our users usually open bugs for the same problem without looking into previous issues. This is the same behaviour we have in our forum. A couple of users have access to our current issue system. Although it is not used much.
MLs are so 90's... 🙂

joinski

poke A couple of users have access to our current issue system. Although it is not used much.

You mean https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/todo/ ?
I like it, but why is it not used so much?

You are right, here in the forum and on the discord channels many users post the same problems, without searching in the forum and reading before.
For you devs it is a lot of work to read all threads and comments and figure out, which issues are not fault of the users themself (layer 8 problem 😃 ) or have not already been posted.

rptx

poke
A Discord channel reserved to RC announcements, aka users can only read messages seems to be a good way to achieve that: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205369668-How-do-I-set-up-an-announcements-channel-

poke

rptx nice.. i am not an expert discord user. to be sincere, i only use it because of batocera. i would prefer to stick to github issues, forum and irc. 😉

Quiza

poke Usage of the discrete nvidia gpu is not possible at the moment. If you have this setup and is familiar with list command line, please, let me know. I want to test if we can enable the nvidia gpu.

I have an HP 15t J100 with Intel HD 4600 and discrete Nvidia GT740M. Vanilla 5.20 Works fine with Intel graphics, but I can test custom builds if you want to see if you can enable the Nvidia GPU.

Cheers

poke

Quiza please, follow the instruction detailed in https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/forum/d/1851-batocera-linux-5-20-with-nvidia-legacy-drivers-390-xx/82

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