GentooPlayer

luisma · April 22, 2020

@antonellocaroli Hi Antonello, the last 4.19.94 kernel when was it released? 2020-03-02? any way I could go back to another kernel 5.2.21.rt13 for example? or earlier 4.19?

luisma · April 22, 2020

On the web interface the Software Install / Remove / Update doesn't do anything for me, x86 last image installed. I was able to update using the console gp-menu option, just reporting back, running this on a dual core celeron minipc

luisma · April 22, 2020

@antonellocaroli

Never mind with the kernel, it works with the last 4.19, so for now is all good
The web interface software install / remove issue is failing on low cpu (celerons) but works "sometimes" on core i7, I am using the gp-menu anyways so this is not important, just FYI
The alsa options if there is a description on the differences that would be great

Thank you

luisma · April 28, 2020

1 hour ago, bodiebill said:

ah, good to know, thanks

Just noticed your post, I got the bridge easily working with 2 interfaces, don't know about four, let me post the details below.

I am currently working on bridging wireless and wired, that is another challenge, I got working briefly but now it is not so I have to go over it again, anyway

The best article I found was this one:

http://wikigentoo.ksiezyc.pl/Bridging.htm

1. Stop the hotspot service

2. As root:(you may have to add more interfaces)

modprobe bridge
emerge net-misc/bridge-utils

/bin/ifconfig eth0 up
/bin/ifconfig eth1 up
/sbin/brctl addbr br0
/sbin/brctl addif br0 eth0
/sbin/brctl addif br0 eth1
/bin/ifconfig br0 up
/sbin/brctl stp br0 on

3. Edit the network if you want static

nano /etc/conf.d/net

bridge_br0="eth0 eth1"
config_br0=( "192.168.95.226/24" )
config_eth0=( "null" )
config_eth1=( "null" )
brctl_br0=( "stp on" )
depend_br0() {
need net.eth0
}
routes_br0="default via 192.168.95.1"
##bridge_forward_delay_br0=0
bridge_hello_time_br0=1000
bridge_stp_state_br0=1

4. Enter these

ln -sf /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth1
rc-update add net.eth0 default
rc-update add net.eth1 default
ln -sf /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.br0
rc-update add net.br0 default
/etc/init.d/net.br0 start

5. Restart to confirm it is working

Feel free to provide comments I am just listing what worked for me

luisma · April 29, 2020

4 hours ago, bodiebill said:

below the steps that worked for me to bridge eth

Thanks for posting your results and I'm glad most of what I sent you worked, I will be creating same script but with the new commands (which I'm using for the wireless / wired bridge), that one is hard to get it working so we'll see.

luisma · May 22, 2020

Building new PC, installed GP, running into some issues.

Wifi adapter won't be recognized under 4.19, 5.4 will show the Wifi adapter (Intel AX200), is it possible to include support for Intel AX200 under kernel 4.19?
System Config Advanced - Twk Various doesn't work, fails on my new install, how can I stop the Hotspot service from running?
Is it possible to run the Embedded version without a graphics card? selecting the "turn off the linux console" option?

Thank you

luisma · May 22, 2020

Well it runs and boots with no video card, perfect, still should I go ahead and turn off the linux console?

luisma · May 22, 2020

Just got a Ryzen 3800X running HQPe and Roon, HQPlayer is using only 2 CPU's out of the 8, temp is 72 so no throttling is happening, the profile was the standard, I just changed to custom and did some adjustments, basically leaving blank the player software CPUs but I see only 0 and 4 being used 78% or so

Any ideas of what could be happening? or what should I do to get some more processor cores running?

luisma · May 22, 2020

Custom made it even worse, went back to Standard, Custom was using still 2 CPU's but less CPU frequency

luisma · May 23, 2020

11 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

cat /etc/default/grub

GentooPlayer-64 ~ # cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="GentooPlayer"
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU="y"
#GCL="threadirqs intel_idle.max_cstate=0 isolcpus=3 vsyscall=none elevator=noop"
#GCLD="quiet splash threadirqs transparent_hugepage=never noapic clocksource=hpet tsc=reliable mce=ignore_ce nosoftlockup audit=0 idle=poll"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="threadirqs intel_idle.max_cstate=0 vsyscall=none net.ifnames=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash transparent_hugepage=never clocksource=hpet noibrs noibpb nopti nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1 l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier mds=off mitigations=off"
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/grub/gp2.png"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

11 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

ls -l /etc/local.d/

GentooPlayer-64 ~ # ls -l /etc/local.d/
total 28
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 716 Dec 26 17:09 g_resize.back
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84 Feb 9 07:37 havegedstop.start
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 254 Feb 9 15:09 ireteonline.start.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121 Jul 6 2019 max_user_freq.start
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281 May 23 00:35 profile6.start
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 652 Feb 8 13:45 README
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46 Dec 26 17:05 v_chronystop.start

Thank you Antonello

luisma · July 7, 2020

21 hours ago, bobfa said:

AMD Ryzen system trouble changing Kernel

Hey Bob, nice avatar you got there, I received that error in the past when installing processor kernel updates with Intel so I guess this is not only related to AMD, my solution was to imaged a new flash drive, I discarded my AMD system, sold CPU on ebay and getting and Intel cpu and board now, AMD although very good it just gives errors, there's not even governors on AMD and performance with HQP (which I'm a big fan) it is just not there.

Take care

Luis

luisma · November 12, 2020

Hi Antonello:

Just installed Embedded 3.02 on a new B550I board from Gigabyte. Board has a Realtek nic RTL8125

lspci | grep Ethernet
- RTL8125

It is supposed to be included in 5.6.18 but this image comes with 5.6.17

Downloaded the driver from https://www.realtek.com/en/directly-download?downloadid=54c0e3e95c579555ee0cd61b8eaca701

but cannot find the /lib/modules build when trying to build of course

I tried modprobe r8169 but there is no eth0 or other ethernet device

I have tried not bothering you, actually I wanted to post the resolution as I know some others will come with new boards, new Ryzen gen etc. and thought on creating a detailed step by step like I did with the bridging

but I think the driver must be included or new kernel on the distribution ...

Let me know what you think ....

All the best

Luis

luisma · November 12, 2020

5 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

try to see if this works for you

Thank you, I will give it a try, I need to download the tar on a separate computer and mount the USB drive, will get back to you in a bit

luisma · November 12, 2020

5 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

use selectkernel and select the kernel that brings back realtek

let me know...

It was all good until this line, selectkernel fails with Not key found

luisma · November 12, 2020

Hi @antonellocaroli

Running hqplayerd with the default profile without trying anything but the default doesn't use all the cores but 2.

I read the profile info and selected profile 2 to allow hqplayer to use the cores in any way it wants but it uses only 1 core.

Going back to profile 5 only uses 2 cores

Standard only 2 cores

Any idea what profile could just not do any optimizations? as apparently profile 2 doesn't.. I enabled the governor to performance but same results

luisma · November 13, 2020

10 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

I do not recommend using profiles with Hqplayer or hqplayerd, better to use the expert menu if necessary.

Having said that, can you post me the systeminfo and htop screen?

Understood, I tried to never use profiles before, the only reason I selected these is because I thought the core distribution when running HQPe was a little off but it seems it is HQP the one using these cores like that.

Here is the system Info

Note the Max frequency is under the actual max frequency of the 5600X, maybe because it is AMD it is not properly detected.

Profile: Profile not Setting

RamSystem: Ramsystem not enabled

Free memory: 15617MB of total 16020MB

Kernel: 5.6.17-rt-rt10-x86_64-GP-RT-ST-Realtek

───────────────────────────────────────

GentooPlayer | 21:56 | gio 12/11/2020

───────────────────────────────────────

v3.02 | Generic Device (x86_64)

───────────────────────────────────────

eth0 | 192.168.96.225

───────────────────────────────────────

Players Info:

Squeezelite-R2 [Disabled]

Squeezelite [Disabled]

Networkaudiod [Disabled]

LigitechMediaServer [Disabled]

BubbleUpnp [Disabled]

HQPlayer Embedded [Enabled]

Mpd [Disabled]

UpMpdCli [Disabled]

RoonBridge [Disabled]

RoonServer [Disabled]

Mpd-Sima [Disabled]

MYmpd [Disabled]

minimserver [Disabled]

shairport-sync [Disabled]

spotify-connect [Disabled]

GP-Service Info:

gpchronystop [Enabled]

gpgovernor [Enabled]

gphavagedstop [Enabled]

gpkernel1 [Enabled]

gprtclock [Enabled]

gpsetrestart [Enabled]

"quiet splash transparent_hugepage=never clocksource=hpet noibrs noibpb nopti nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1 l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier mds=off mitigations=off"

###############################

*** Scanning for playback devices ***

Card 0, ID `Digital', name `Pre Box S2 Digital'

Device 0, ID `USB Audio', name `USB Audio', 1 subdevices (0 available)

Error opening sound device for card 0, device 0: Device or resource busy. Skipping.

Card 1, ID `HDMI', name `HDA ATI HDMI'

Device 3, ID `HDMI 0', name `HDMI 0', 1 subdevices (1 available)

2..8 channels, sampling rate 32000..192000 Hz

Sample formats: S16_LE, S32_LE

Buffer size range from 8 to 34176000

Period size range from 4 to 17088000