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Banana Pro Blueprints

You're reading from   Banana Pro Blueprints Leverage the capability of Banana Pi with exciting real-world projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783552382
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ruediger Follmann Ruediger Follmann
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Tony Zhang Tony Zhang
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Kernel preparation

In Chapter 2, Programming Languages, the LeMedia kernel was installed from sources. This kernel is now used as a base for the multimedia center with the following additions/changes:

  • The I2S audio device is added and enabled
  • In addition to this, graphics memory for TV decoding is set to a maximum of 190 MB.
  • Additionally, some kernel debug messages are deactivated. This prevents the log daemon from flooding /var/log/syslog in case of a VDR crash.
  • Moreover, the key repetition in the IR driver is activated: when a remote control button is pressed and not released, the remote button is recognized several times.
  • Banana Pro features a mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Although there are patches available for the mali driver version r3p2 and higher, Kodi only shows videos in the accelerated mode using mali r3p0. Therefore, the mali driver version will not be updated.
  • Before compiling the kernel, DVB USB devices are activated.

Finally, a bug in the display driver, which is responsible...

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