Utilite XBMC performance

[pepedog]

I made a statement on the utilite board that arch doesn't suffer from the "Detected Tx Unit Hang" problem.
I was wrong, now seen one.
Can you try and configure middle ethernet

[tobbebobbe]

I have been using the middle ethernet all along. Should I try the other one?

[pepedog]

Yes, I meant not the middle one. Use ifconfig -a to find out interface name, just minor edit of file /etc/netctl/eth0
That filename does not reflect what interface is configured, the contents matter

[tobbebobbe]

Difficult to test this issue since it is not consistent. But I did have a couple of lockups also after switching from eth0 to eth1. Good thing though is that the cec-issue is solved so I just have to restart xbmc, not reboot.

[pepedog]

It might be worth trying this, adding to boot args
http://imx.solid-run.com/forums/viewtop ... eeze#p9083

[tobbebobbe]

I didn't try adding that boot arg yet, but I have been reading some crashlogs from xbmc. Sometimes it seems to crash due to time-out error when trying to watch streaming video. Sometimes xmbc crashes with this error:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '2')1:39:10 T:1360086048 NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
21:39:10 T:1360086048 NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86018
21:39:10 T:1360086048 NOTICE: Creating audio thread
21:39:10 T:1385849888 NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayerAudio start, auto delete: false
21:39:10 T:1385849888 NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio::Process()
21:39:10 T:1385849888 NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 44100, no pass-through)
21:39:10 T:1342821408 ERROR: VpuAllocBuffers - Unable alloc 5236744 bytes of physical memory (1).
21:39:10 T:1342821408 ERROR: VpuOpen - iMX VPU open failed (2).

[pepedog]

These people might be interested in this
https://github.com/xbmc-imx6/xbmc/issues

[tobbebobbe]

So this is due to the 3.0.35 kernel that is used. When can we expect the kernel to be upgraded? At the moment I also have to stop pacman from upgrading systemd due to this kernel.

[pepedog]

To be honest, I would like a later kernel too. We have to rely on manufacturers or on skilled people like wolfgar.

The systemd problem is fixed, you can safely upgrade

[tobbebobbe]

So, there is now a new kernel out? When will it be released for Arch with the XBMC implementation? Do we still need to wait for Wolfgar to make a good release?