[Solved] Is Kodi 18 still available now that 19 is out?

[seaken64]

It seems that the nouveau driver does not provide the minimum requirements for OpenGL that Kodi needs, then.

I wonder if the nvidia driver will provide the minimum requirements for OpenGL. Maybe I will have to change to a new GPU card anyway.

Edit: I did look at the requirements on the Kodi website. It does say the GeForce 6600 is supported but not acceleration. That is why I have been trying to use the nvidia driver. I have that driver on antiX now and will try again with the two MX-17 repos as Tony mentioned. I will keep trying with MX-18 also.

Thanks,
seaken64

[tony37]

I have that driver on antiX now and will try again with the two MX-17 repos as Tony mentioned.

important is to disable the mx repos again (certainly the test repo), otherwise you might break your nvidia-driver (this is the same problem I mention in post 8 )

[seaken64]

Hi tony37,

That was it! I needed to have BOTH the normal repo and the testrepo enabled. It's funny that I typed them both in on their own lines but I commented out the normal "repo" because I didn't know I needed that one. I thought all I needed was the "testrepo". I guess in MX that is not an issue since the normal repo is already enabled. But in antiX it didn't work unless the normal MX repo was also enabled.

I did notice both the "repo" and "testrepo" flashing by on screen as it downloaded the packages.

That was a good lesson for me. Thanks.

And yes, I know about the disabling of non-standard repos in antiX. I learned that the hard way a couple of years ago when I accidentally hosed my antiX-16 stable and created a franken-debian.

After I got Kodi-18.5 installed and tested I went back and disabled the MX-17 repos and then ran an update again. I also put a hold on the Kodi packages in both apt and Synaptic just in case. I don't want to end up with version 19, although I doubt Stretch repos will get 19 anyway. But I can't say for sure so I held them back.

Thank you everyone for the help with Kodi 18. I was about to give up.

seaken64

[seaken64]

It seems that the nouveau driver does not provide the minimum requirements for OpenGL that Kodi needs, then.

I wonder if the nvidia driver will provide the minimum requirements for OpenGL. Maybe I will have to change to a new GPU card anyway.

It works! When I started up Kodi-18.5 from the terminal I half expected it to crash. But it didn't. Apparently the nvidia driver does provide the minimum requirements for Kodi 18 whereas the nouveau driver does not.

Thanks again,
seaken64

[tony37]

Glad to hear that, would have been a bummer going through all these lengths and then the thing just crashing.

[seaken64]

Yeah, it would have been a bummer for sure. But I had already made peace with it and was willing to settle on using Kodi 17.6.

I am tempted to try to figure out the nvidia legacy driver on MX-18 but I have decide to go back to antiX-19 instead and play with that. It was always my goal to use antiX on that machine. I ended up experimenting with MX as I was trying to figure out the nvidia driver. And of course the MX-17 repos ended up being the answer for getting Kodi 18 installed in antiX-17. I will now re-install antiX-19 and try to get the legacy nvidia drivers working on that.

seaken64

[tony37]

I will now re-install antiX-19 and try to get the legacy nvidia drivers working on that.

if you mean the 304 legacy drivers, that will be difficult, I don't see them anywhere in the repos (340 is there)

[seaken64]

Yes, I think it will be difficult. I have read where it has been done by changing the xorg version, and maybe the kernel, and using a Debian package. I'll give it a whirl and I'll let you know how it goes.

seaken64

[tony37]

Out of curiosity, I tried this out in Virtualbox, and the way to do this is to add the Debian stretch repo:

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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free

(antix stretch repo wasn't needed)

Then make a preferences file (you can simply create /etc/apt/preferences), with following content:

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Package: xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video* xorgxrdp glx-alternative-nvidia glx-alternative-mesa glx-diversions update-glx
Pin: release n=stretch
Pin-Priority: 1000

And then install:

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sudo apt update && sudo apt install nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver

The only package I couldn't prevent from getting removed in the process is virtualbox-guest-x11, I don't think that's a big problem.
If you want to disable the stretch repo after that (maybe not necessary), then you can just pin the packages in the preferences file by changing 'release n=stretch' to 'release a=now'

edit: I added 'xorgxrdp' to the list, mostly for completeness' sake, in case someone would have this installed
edit2: added the Debian security repo for stretch as there's an update for xserver-xorg-core there

[seaken64]

Thanks Tony! That's a big help and will get me going in the right direction. I have already re-installed antiX-19.3 and have setup the multiple screens for proper login and wallpapers. Now I am beginning to read up on the process of installing the legacy 304xx nvidia drivers. You've given me a head start.

seaken64