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RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-05-14

The you should probably use that setup again ...


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - ChessSpider - 2014-05-14

seems the latest from xbmc-fermenta breaks stuff (recent episodes on hybrid-skin and the remote functionality for yatse+maraschino).. fritsch, could you perhaps add a repository with your changes specifically for Gotham release which includes your fixes? (today's build)

Others, you may try this to hold the pacakge on the current version:

Code:
sudo echo "xbmc hold"| sudo dpkg --set-selections
sudo echo "xbmc-bin hold"| sudo dpkg --set-selections

or, if you already upgraded, first install the old version (and afterwards execute command above to hold it):

Code:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xbmc=2:13.0~git20140506.0839-gotham-0trusty xbmc-bin=2:13.0~git20140506.0839-gotham-0trusty
(or one of the other versions visible in sudo apt-cache showpkg xbmc)

You can undo holding xbmc with:

Code:
echo "xbmc install" | dpkg --set-selections
echo "xbmc-bin install" | dpkg --set-selections

see: http://linuxaria.com/pills/how-to-stop-package-from-being-updated-in-linux


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - daydr3amer - 2014-05-14

Did a complete new installation with the mini iso and voila, works perfectly Wink Again, thanks a lot Wink


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - Cheddoleum - 2014-05-15

(2014-05-14, 21:51)ChessSpider Wrote: seems the latest from xbmc-fermenta breaks stuff (recent episodes on hybrid-skin and the remote functionality for yatse+maraschino).. fritsch, could you perhaps add a repository with your changes specifically for Gotham release which includes your fixes? (today's build)
... (snip)

I bumped into this too -- errors in the Amber skin preventing the default menu screen from rendering and making a mess of the shelves. I didn't have an earlier version of the FernetMenta xbmc packages in the cache to downgrade to (because I haven't updated since before he had a Trusty build).

So I just switched to the xbmc ppa and am running mainline Gotham per the current version of the instructions in the first post of this thread. Works great, fixes the issue immediately (and you get the spooky splash).


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - laric - 2014-05-15

It's not Fernetmenta that breaks your skins. It is master mainline who have moved ahead to developing Helix which already contains breaking skinning engine changes.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - tomtomme - 2014-05-15

Why is my xbmc-git still reporting to be RC1 today?
I am on
git clone https://github.com/FernetMenta/xbmc.git && cd xbmc && git checkout gotham

was gotham final moved to another branch?


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-05-15

There is no final. This is not an upstream. You can switch to the G-Linux branch and remove the bump. Fernet never released and official Gotham.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - tomtomme - 2014-05-15

and what is a "bump" in this context?

How can a noob-user like me find out about which branch is what by myself?
I donĀ“t want to stay a git-noob Wink

So is there any explanation on all those branches somewhere?
I mean, there are gotham-named branches all over the place: fernet has one, xbmc has one, you have one and now there is g-linux and I want to have an idea what their differences are without the need of learning to read the source-code commits and diffs.

If there would be a suse package I would switch back to rpm but it still sits on xbmc 12.3 and I cannot go back to fglrx... never ever...


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-05-15

To make some things quite clear:

- This howto is provided as is
- Everybody can - at every time - switch to the official gotham branch that is presented in the howto
- You will then loose ffmpeg 2.2.x, the X11 patches with multi monitor support and diverse dvdplayer improvement with LiveTV in focus

Building from source, managing git trees is absolutely not in the scope of this howto. If you want to be a packager you need to fiddle out those things alone.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - tomtomme - 2014-05-15

Thanks for the info.

I do not want to be a packager. I want gotham stable on opensuse.
There is no rpm or compatible binary anywhere so I am forced to compile.
I will switch to official gotham branch and I guess this is this one:

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/Gotham

Still. How is someone supposed to know that the gotham branch of fernet or fritsch or ... is not identical with the above - when they all have the same name?

Please answer only if you want to answer. I will ask somewhere else if necessary. no problem!


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-05-15

Quote:Still. How is someone supposed to know that the gotham branch of fernet or fritsch or ... is not identical with the above - when they all have the same name?

Please answer only if you want to answer. I will ask somewhere else if necessary. no problem!

xbmc is officially hosted on github.com/xbmc - everything in there is "the official" xbmc version. All others arround are forks. In forks features are prepared and later sent upstream.

So whenever you want a stable gotham version, that is official and the final release - you need to get it from github.com/xbmc


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-05-15

mesa 1.1.3 is now in trusty-proposed repository.

To test it, add:
Code:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed main multiverse universe restricted

run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Give it a test and see if the stop bug is fixed. It will go to trusty main release after some time in proposed.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - pyrodex - 2014-05-15

(2014-05-15, 13:08)fritsch Wrote: mesa 1.1.3 is now in trusty-proposed repository.

To test it, add:
Code:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed main multiverse universe restricted

run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Give it a test and see if the stop bug is fixed. It will go to trusty main release after some time in proposed.

Thanks for the heads up! I had to ppa-purge wsnipex and will give it a good test tonight.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-05-15

No need to purge it will just updated it.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - pyrodex - 2014-05-15

(2014-05-15, 15:07)fritsch Wrote: No need to purge it will just updated it.

Oh ok. Was trying to keep a stock clean system with no customizations other than the XBMC PPA and Kernels for testing.