[packman] Bug report - Kodi crash probably caused by Python 2 C wrappers in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

2020-11-18 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, all! I have tried reporting this issue in several places now. Firstly, on the Kodi forums. Original thread here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=354879 Team Kodi got back to me, saying that because the issue was only happening on OpenSUSE, and more specifically, on

Re: [packman] Kodi 19 Matrix

2021-03-13 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
If anyone wants to install Kodi 19 Matrix, it's available as a flatpak on flathub. I am running Tumbleweed. Kind regards, Steven. On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, 18:14 Manfred Hollstein wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, 15:46:17 +0100, Malcolm wrote: > > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 01:23:37 PM CST, Manfred Hollstein

Re: [packman] Bug report - Kodi crash probably caused by Python 2 C wrappers in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

2021-03-22 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
their code to Python 3. I have closed this bug on Bugzilla as won't fix. Kind regards, Steven. On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, 17:14 Steven Swart wrote: > Good day, all! > > I have tried reporting this issue in several places now. Firstly, on > the Kodi forums. > > Original thre

Re: [packman] python error with youtube-dl

2021-02-06 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, all! I already replied to this issue, but I see that I didn't hit "reply to all". See below. Masaru, your solution will only work in very few cases. In most cases, Python 2 dependencies won't work with Python 3. Kind regards, Steven. On Sat, 06 Feb 2021, 11:06 Steven Sw

[packman] Quick Way to add the ProjectM Visualisation Addon to a Packman Kodi Installation

2022-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Packmans! As the title of my post says, I made a forum post today: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/567977-Quick-Way-to-add-the-ProjectM-Visualisation-Addon-to-a-Packman-Kodi-Installation?p=3116243#post3116243 Or, if you would prefer a PDF version for ease of reference, you

Re: [packman] Quick Way to add the ProjectM Visualisation Addon to a Packman Kodi Installation

2022-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
My mistake, that's the .docx version, PDF version here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmk1wb3qw1d2gny/Quick.Way.to.add.the.ProjectM.Visualisation.Addon.to.a.Packman.Kodi.Installation.pdf?dl=0 Kind regards, Steven. On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 at 20:57, Steven Swart wrote: > Good day, Packm

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-07 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Jan 2023, 21:32 Felix Miata wrote: > Steven Swart composed on 2023-01-07 21:00 (UTC+0200): > > > This machine has an older model AMD/ATI Radeon 600 series graphics card. > > Old has multiple meanings. So does Radeon 600 (x600 vs rv600). What does > inxi -Gaz > report

[packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-07 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Packmans! I have a question, and this seems like a good place to ask it. I have an older box that was running Leap 15.3, but today, I upgraded it to 15.4 because Leap 15.3 is no longer supported. This machine has an older model AMD/ATI Radeon 600 series graphics card. This machine

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
mail.gmail.com> > Date & Time: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 21:00:35 +0200 > > [SS] == Steven Swart has written: > > [...] > SS> This machine also has an HD BDROM drive that I sometimes used to play > SS> regular DVDs with VLC. To do that under 15.3, all I had to do wa

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
terms I used, or what search engine I used, I could find nothing on the web that would really help me solve this problem. Regards, Steven. On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 21:39, Steven Swart wrote: > Thank you for the suggestion, Felix! > > The machine has an r600 driver automatically installed. As I

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-16 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Masaru, Packmans! Thank you very much for your suggestion, I will try that next. Just a quick report-back about yesterday. These power outages have been challenging! I followed your previous instructions. The first source rpm built successfully. I had to interrupt the second build

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-16 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
man] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD > player > Message-ID : < > caltyyow1mjk165+rra_v1ckm6yxbmvzorzob8+iscmh1-wa...@mail.gmail.com> > Date & Time: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:46:27 +0200 > > [SS] == Steven Swart has written: > > SS> Good day, Mas

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-14 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
9jiunqvfee4jp_liqt5ke7tnum0dvwodz-...@mail.gmail.com> > Date & Time: Sun, 8 Jan 2023 15:32:29 +0200 > > [SS] == Steven Swart has written: > > [...] > SS> I still think it's worth writing a HOWTO and posting it on the > OpenSUSE > SS> hardware forums, it may s

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Hi Carlos! Thank you for your suggestion. I do do that on my laptop and my Mac. But both my HTPCs are standalone HP Proliant Microservers. No battery, and at present I have no inverters either. Kind regards, Steven. On Wed, 18 Jan 2023, 17:11 Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2023-01-18 16:01, Ste

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
up any problems yet. Kind regards, Steven. On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 at 02:04, Steven Swart wrote: > Good day, Masaru, Packmans! > > Thank you for your response, Masaru. > > To address several of your concerns. > > rpmbuild seems to delete several build targets, .a files,

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-24 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Masaru, and Packmans! On Sunday, I managed to successfully build the Mesa drivers from the src RPMs for Leap 15.4. I haven't done extensive testing, but the new Leap drivers don't seem to have broken anything after I installed them. It's now around 10:30am here in South Africa. I have

[packman] HOWTO: Re-enable AMD/ATI/Radeon GPU Hardware Acceleration for Linux (OpenSUSE)

2023-01-24 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Packmans! Some of you might be interested to know that I have finally completed work on my HOWTO. This HOWTO was compiled and consolidated from hastily made notes that I made in a text document while I was busy trying to figure out my custom driver build procedure. These instructions

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-23 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
4, VLC DVD > player > Message-ID : 2mnwgpz-t5xeb...@mail.gmail.com> > Date & Time: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 06:07:47 +0200 > > [SS] == Steven Swart has written: > > [...] > SS> What I just want to tell you is that, when I followed your previous > SS> instructions

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-21 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 14:36, wrote: > > You don't need a swap partition, you can use a swap file instead. > Thank you, that's useful to know! I may need that at some point in future, if, say, I upgrade the RAM and run out of options for repartitioning my drive. Kind regards, Steven.

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-22 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
my HOWTO. But it won't happen today! ;-) Kind regards, Steven. On Sun, 22 Jan 2023, 15:13 Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Am Sonntag, 22. Januar 2023, 03:30:21 CET schrieb Steven Swart: > > Good day, Masaru, and Packmans! > > [description of home grown builds] > >

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-21 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Carlos, and Packmans! I'm sorry for not getting back to you sooner; I have been busy these past few days and wanted to do some testing. On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 13:04, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Not always, true. It may ask if you want hibernation, there is a tick > somewhere, and then one

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-21 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
ries, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD > player > Message-ID : < > caltyyoyr1hrrehxy58wfaugsnaocfnc-smxj_ewh1rbstne...@mail.gmail.com> > Date & Time: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:01:47 +0200 > > [SS] == Steven Swart has written: > > [...] > SS> Decoder capabilities: > > S

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-21 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Masaru, and Packmans! On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 08:52, Masaru Nomiya wrote: > I'm curious about this too. > AMD is making major architectural changes every year. > What is your card? > This machine is an HP Gen10 Proliant Microserver, entry model. Quickspecs here:

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-21 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Masaru, Packmans! On Sun, 22 Jan 2023, 05:55 Masaru Nomiya wrote: 2. check the codec of the video > > $ ffmpeg -i 'Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale (1967) [High Quality > Sound, Subtitled] [CPR1I40C70Y]'.mp4 > > Within this output, you will find the folowing; > > > Stream

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
E. R. wrote: > On 2023-01-18 16:34, Steven Swart wrote: > > Hi Carlos! > > > > Thank you for your suggestion. I do do that on my laptop and my Mac. But > > both my HTPCs are standalone HP Proliant Microservers. No battery, and at > > present I have no inverters e

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Masaru, and Packmans! On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 04:07, Masaru Nomiya wrote: > > Do not install xvidcore and x265 files, Mesa built, didn't you? > Masaru, I installed all rpms created by rpmbuild for the following packages: Mesa-22.3.3-1420.1.src.rpm Mesa-drivers-22.3.3-1418.2.src.rpm

Re: [packman] TW: Problem: nothing provides 'this-is-only-for-build-envs' needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-5-mini-libs-5.1.2-10.1.x86_64

2023-03-17 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Packmans! I managed to install ffmpeg-6 from this repo: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/X0F:/branches:/multimedia/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:X0F:branches:multimedia.repo I had to break a dependency to do it: Problem: nothing provides 'libx265.so.207()(64bit)' needed by

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-02-20 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Packmans! Apologies for taking so long to get back to this, I have been busy, and my testing took a while. Long email to follow, I hope it doesn't get rejected by the listserver for size. Manfred, for my AMD GPU, the results (extract) of vdpauinfo for the OpenSUSE Factory Mesa drivers

Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

2023-02-20 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
2023 at 11:59, Steven Swart wrote: > > Apologies for taking so long to get back to this, I have been busy, and my > testing took a while. > ___ Packman mailing list Packman@links2linux.de https://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman

Re: [packman] Kodi Tumbleweed symbol not found error - Kodi won't start!

2023-05-20 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Thank you for your feedback as well, Manfred, I will do as you advise. Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Kind regards, Steven. On Sat, 20 May 2023, 20:40 Manfred Hollstein wrote: > Hi Steven, > > On Sat, 20 May 2023, 18:30:15 +0200, Steven Swart wrote: > > Greetings, Packman

Re: [packman] Kodi Tumbleweed symbol not found error - Kodi won't start!

2023-05-20 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Hollstein wrote: > On Sat, 20 May 2023, 20:43:44 +0200, Steven Swart wrote: > > Thank you for your feedback as well, Manfred, I will do as you advise. > > Just checked if the newly built packages have a direct dependency on > libfmt9 - they don't :( Since libfmt appears to be only r

Re: [packman] Kodi Tumbleweed symbol not found error - Kodi won't start!

2023-05-20 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Hollstein wrote: > Hi Steven, > > On Sat, 20 May 2023, 21:08:14 +0200, Steven Swart wrote: > > Just had a thought, Manfred - would it be worth publishing this issue on > the > > forums? Just in case anyone else out there runs into the same problem? > > > > In whi

Re: [packman] Kodi Tumbleweed symbol not found error - Kodi won't start!

2023-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
regards, Steven. On Thu, 18 May 2023, 12:25 Manfred Hollstein wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2023, 12:20:42 +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote: > > Hi Steven, > > > > On Thu, 18 May 2023, 10:43:45 +0200, Steven Swart wrote: > > > Good day, Manfred, Sagi! > > >

[packman] Kodi Tumbleweed symbol not found error - Kodi won't start!

2023-05-17 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Good day, Packmans! I have just updated my Tumbleweed machine to the latest version. There was a kernel update today. After I had rebooted, Kodi from Packman wouldn't start! Running it from the command line gave a symbol not found error. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Kind regards,

Re: [packman] Kodi Tumbleweed symbol not found error - Kodi won't start!

2023-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
ait for a rebuild trigger and the new symbols will > be imported automatically. Please see https://openbuildservice.org/ the > system used by opensuse and packman > > ⁣Ottieni BlueMail per Android ​ > > Il giorno 18 mag 2023, 07:03, alle ore 07:03, Steven Swart < > steven.

Re: [packman] Kodi Tumbleweed symbol not found error - Kodi won't start!

2023-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Steven Swart
Oh that's brilliant! That's first prize, thank you, Manfred! Kind regards, Steven. On Thu, 18 May 2023, 15:24 Manfred Hollstein wrote: > Hi Steven, > > On Thu, 18 May 2023, 13:12:50 +0200, Steven Swart wrote: > > Thank you, all, and Manfred! > > > > After some invest