saarg Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 chewitt commented 8 minutes ago @piotrasd please squash commits Good news Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 UPDATE: I yanked one of my HD6450's out and replaced it with a GT720. OE now bitsreams EVERYTHING including DTS-HD MA and TrueHD! Happy camper. Another added bonus... I am able to step forward/backward in OE v6 without experiencing any delays. When I do this with the HD6450 cards, it was awful (only on OE v6 though...v5 was unaffected). I may need to look into replacing my other 6450's. Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Ignore the drops/skips...I was jumping back and forth. Quote Link to comment
bertrandr Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 UPDATE: I yanked one of my HD6450's out and replaced it with a GT720. OE now bitsreams EVERYTHING including DTS-HD MA and TrueHD! Happy camper. Another added bonus... I am able to step forward/backward in OE v6 without experiencing any delays. When I do this with the HD6450 cards, it was awful (only on OE v6 though...v5 was unaffected). I may need to look into replacing my other 6450's. Sounds very promising I can't wait to try this! May I ask which GT720 card you are using specifically? Manufacturer & model... Thanks, Bertrand Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 UPDATE: I yanked one of my HD6450's out and replaced it with a GT720. OE now bitsreams EVERYTHING including DTS-HD MA and TrueHD! Happy camper. Another added bonus... I am able to step forward/backward in OE v6 without experiencing any delays. When I do this with the HD6450 cards, it was awful (only on OE v6 though...v5 was unaffected). I may need to look into replacing my other 6450's. Sounds very promising I can't wait to try this! May I ask which GT720 card you are using specifically? Manufacturer & model... Thanks, Bertrand This is exactly what I bought (+ a $15 rebate)... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127851 John Quote Link to comment
piotrasd Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 John check if you gt720 rom support UEFI boot maybe that why you have black picture. I know brands just not included UEfi support in ROM Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 John check if you gt720 rom support UEFI boot maybe that why you have black picture. I know brands just not included UEfi support in ROM OVMF works for me with this card...Seabios doesn't. Quote Link to comment
piotrasd Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Oh that's good:) my card working on both, and I can say you nothing loose Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Did I read somewhere that unRAID currently doesn't support more than one GPU via OVMF? Is that true? I'm thinking of replacing the other 2 HD6450s with 2 GT720's since I can run OE v6 with those and not experience other issues I have had with the AMD cards. But, if I can;t boot more than one OVMF VM then I won't bother. Quote Link to comment
saarg Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I think I have ovmf on two VMs. Have to check it tomorrow though to be sure. Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 I think I have ovmf on two VMs. Have to check it tomorrow though to be sure. Bump. Quote Link to comment
saarg Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I think I have ovmf on two VMs. Have to check it tomorrow though to be sure. Bump. My god, what an impatience Have to get back home first, but good you reminded me as it was already lost in space Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 I think I have ovmf on two VMs. Have to check it tomorrow though to be sure. Bump. My god, what an impatience Have to get back home first, but good you reminded me as it was already lost in space You did say "tomorrow". Quote Link to comment
saarg Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I think I have ovmf on two VMs. Have to check it tomorrow though to be sure. Bump. My god, what an impatience Have to get back home first, but good you reminded me as it was already lost in space You did say "tomorrow". I do have two OVMF VM's running at the same time with no problems here. So I guess they snuck in the new version so one doesn't have one efi-loader for each VM. Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 I think I have ovmf on two VMs. Have to check it tomorrow though to be sure. Bump. My god, what an impatience Have to get back home first, but good you reminded me as it was already lost in space You did say "tomorrow". I do have two OVMF VM's running at the same time with no problems here. So I guess they snuck in the new version so one doesn't have one efi-loader for each VM. Awesome. I'm going to run to Best Buy and pick up 2 GT730s tonight. Don't tell my wife! Why do I always make these decisions at the end of the week which means I wouldn't get the cards until next week if I bought them online...forcing me to buy local Quote Link to comment
saarg Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Awesome. I'm going to run to Best Buy and pick up 2 GT730s tonight. Don't tell my wife! Why do I always make these decisions at the end of the week which means I wouldn't get the cards until next week if I bought them online...forcing me to buy local lol. I'll keep my mouth shut At least you have somewhere local to get it Quote Link to comment
piotrasd Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Here kernel and system from latest OE7 (master from today) and with added KVM modules https://www.sendspace.com/file/w6vqly Quote Link to comment
smakovits Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Not sure it means anything, but I was trying to troubleshoot this completely outside of OE, just in Linux, the one conclusion I made, while not 100% confirmed, is that this appears to be an issue with the Radeon kernel driver. Making it a bug that needs resolved, independent of kodi and OE. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Not sure it means anything, but I was trying to troubleshoot this completely outside of OE, just in Linux, the one conclusion I made, while not 100% confirmed, is that this appears to be an issue with the Radeon kernel driver. Making it a bug that needs resolved, independent of kodi and OE. Thoughts? If you are talking about bitstreaming HD audio...absolutely true. When I installed Ubuntu (and Mint) + Kodi, I did not even have an option for passthrough so it is not just an OE issue. I replaced one of my HD6450's with a GT720 and I am able to bitstream TrueHD and DTS-HD MA in OE without issue. It was so easy that I am going out today and buying 2 GT730's to replace my other HD6450's. Quote Link to comment
smakovits Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Not sure it means anything, but I was trying to troubleshoot this completely outside of OE, just in Linux, the one conclusion I made, while not 100% confirmed, is that this appears to be an issue with the Radeon kernel driver. Making it a bug that needs resolved, independent of kodi and OE. Thoughts? If you are talking about bitstreaming HD audio...absolutely true. When I installed Ubuntu (and Mint) + Kodi, I did not even have an option for passthrough so it is not just an OE issue. I replaced one of my HD6450's with a GT720 and I am able to bitstream TrueHD and DTS-HD MA in OE without issue. It was so easy that I am going out today and buying 2 GT730's to replace my other HD6450's. I hate bandaids, how do we get this fixed Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Not sure it means anything, but I was trying to troubleshoot this completely outside of OE, just in Linux, the one conclusion I made, while not 100% confirmed, is that this appears to be an issue with the Radeon kernel driver. Making it a bug that needs resolved, independent of kodi and OE. Thoughts? If you are talking about bitstreaming HD audio...absolutely true. When I installed Ubuntu (and Mint) + Kodi, I did not even have an option for passthrough so it is not just an OE issue. I replaced one of my HD6450's with a GT720 and I am able to bitstream TrueHD and DTS-HD MA in OE without issue. It was so easy that I am going out today and buying 2 GT730's to replace my other HD6450's. I hate bandaids, how do we get this fixed We don't. This is a long standing issue and AMD won't address. Quote Link to comment
smakovits Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 So is this directly an issue with amd? I'm not familiar with writes the kernel driver, but if we file a bug, I. Would think someone could fix it Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 So is this directly an issue with amd? I'm not familiar with writes the kernel driver, but if we file a bug, I. Would think someone could fix it Go read about all of the issues the Kodi devs have had with AMD. Kodi doesn't even use their driver anymore. It uses the open source one but apparently bitstreaming HD audio was never hashed out completely. Quote Link to comment
bertrandr Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Success! Followed the instructions, but used the OE 6.0 .IMG Used a single core, 1024 MB RAM and 8G VM disk... Most importantly I tried a new passive EVGA GT 720 (1GB version) GPU instead of my old ASUS GT720 I tested a few movies with pass-through DTS, DTS-MA and Dolby TrueHD. Everything was butter smooth, no glitches with perfect audio! Cannot be happier! The only thing I am unsure about is the lack of physical on/off button. For maximum WAF it is nice to have a easy way to reset the "box" if something does go sideways. Time will tell how it reacts with the rest of my AV stack just leaving the VM running 24x7 -just using the receiver to switch the HDMI connection on/off. Next step will be to migrate all my big (20+ GB) movies from the local HDD in the standalone OE HTPC into unRAID so the new OE VM has access to everything. Cheers, BR Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Went out and got my GT730's at Best Buy today. Already had the GT720 installed. All 3 are working BEAUTIFULLY!!! I have 3 Radeon HD6450 cards for sale. Quote Link to comment
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