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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Hi Paul,</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I checked versions now, I should be good, but the xserver still does not start (started with the Xserver now and look to kodi as a second step).</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">On Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2017 11:33:25 CEST Paul Wise wrote:</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote:</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> > I experimented with kodi on the cubox-i without proprietary extensions.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> Since the CuBox i* series of devices use Vivante GPUs and there are</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> reverse engineered libre drivers called etnaviv for these GPUs, you</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> should be able to get graphics using solely Debian main and no</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> proprietary extensions. </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#54ff54; background-color:#ffffff;">rd@xbian</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">:</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">~</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ uname -a </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br />Linux xbian 4.13.0-1-armmp #1 SMP Debian 4.13.4-1 (2017-10-01) armv7l GNU/Linux <br /></span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#54ff54; background-color:#ffffff;">rd@xbian</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">:</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">~</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> I note the etnaviv support for libdrm is in</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> Debian buster and later </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#54ff54; background-color:#ffffff;">rd@xbian</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">:</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">~</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ apt-cache policy libdrm-etnaviv1 </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br />libdrm-etnaviv1: <br /> Installed: 2.4.83-1 <br /> Candidate: 2.4.83-1 <br /> Version table: <br />*** 2.4.83-1 500 <br /> 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid/main armhf Packages <br /> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status <br /> 2.4.82-1 500 <br /> 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main armhf Packages <br /></span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#54ff54; background-color:#ffffff;">rd@xbian</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">:</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">~</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br /><br /></span></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> and the etnaviv support for mesa is in Debian</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> sid and later. </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#54ff54; background-color:#ffffff;">rd@xbian</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">:</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">~</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ apt-cache policy mesa-va-drivers </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br />mesa-va-drivers: <br /> Installed: 17.2.2-1 <br /> Candidate: 17.2.2-1 <br /> Version table: <br />*** 17.2.2-1 500 <br /> 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid/main armhf Packages <br /> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status <br /> 13.0.6-1+b2 500 <br /> 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main armhf Packages <br /></span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#54ff54; background-color:#ffffff;">rd@xbian</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">:</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">~</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ apt-cache policy mesa-vdpau-drivers </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br />mesa-vdpau-drivers: <br /> Installed: 17.2.2-1 <br /> Candidate: 17.2.2-1 <br /> Version table: <br />*** 17.2.2-1 500 <br /> 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid/main armhf Packages <br /> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status <br /> 13.0.6-1+b2 500 <br /> 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main armhf Packages <br /></span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#54ff54; background-color:#ffffff;">rd@xbian</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">:</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">~</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br /></span></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> If you would like this on Debian stretch or earlier you</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> would have to backport Linux, mesa, libdrm and possibly some other</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> things.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> https://www.solid-run.com/freescale-imx6-family/cubox-i/cubox-i-specificatio</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> ns/ https://github.com/etnaviv</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=etnaviv</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=sid&mode=filename&searchon=contents</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> &keywords=etnaviv</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">But Xorg still rejects to start:</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">[ 31.067] (EE) </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br />Fatal server error: <br />[ 31.067] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 <br />[ 31.068] (EE) <br />[ 31.068] (EE) <br /><br />Full Xorg.0.log appended.</span></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Rainer Dorsch</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">http://bokomoko.de/</p></body></html>