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RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-07-11

Two things:

a) not related: make sure to install mesa 10.1.3 from the Ubuntu updates repository
b) provide aplay -L and aplay -l and also amixer -c0 and amixer -c1


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - caponater - 2014-07-11

(2014-07-11, 17:22)fritsch Wrote: Two things:

a) not related: make sure to install mesa 10.1.3 from the Ubuntu updates repository
b) provide aplay -L and aplay -l and also amixer -c0 and amixer -c1

a) Thanks. I am new on the linux side of things.. will running sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade do the trick to install mesa 10.1.3?
b) aplay -L http://paste.ubuntu.com/7781215/
aplay -l http://paste.ubuntu.com/7781218/
amixer -c0 http://paste.ubuntu.com/7781221/
amixer -c1 http://paste.ubuntu.com/7781224/


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-07-11

a) yes - hopefully. post apt-cache policy mesa-common-dev after you did sudo apt-get update

b)
alsamixer -c1

unmute your master volume, please.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - caponater - 2014-07-11

(2014-07-11, 19:54)fritsch Wrote: a) yes - hopefully. post apt-cache policy mesa-common-dev after you did sudo apt-get update

b)
alsamixer -c1

unmute your master volume, please.

a) That seemed to do the trick http://paste.ubuntu.com/7781444/
b) Thanks, I am a little embarrassed now. Didn't see that it was muted when I looked at troubleshooting sound suggestions. Working now.

Thanks again!


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-07-11

for the mesa part: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and you should be ready to go. If you have a bios setting for your gpu memory, make sure it is set to 512 MB

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RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - caponater - 2014-07-11

Will run that. Unfortunately my netbook does not have those bios settings.
Thanks again!


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-07-11

That was the "if" in my sentence :-)


Good luck.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - santricity - 2014-07-13

Hello there,
Thank you fritsch for a great tutorial, however I have an issue with wakeup from suspend. Whenever I resume the system it changes my resolution from 1920x1080p 60Hz to 1360x768p. I'm on xbmcbuntu 13 with 3.15.5 kernel.

xbmc@media:~$ cat ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7790884/
xbmc@media:~$ dmesg | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7790886/
xbmc@media:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7790887/
xbmc@media:~$ DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7790888/
xbmc@media:~$ dpkg -l |grep mesa | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7790889/

If you have any suggestion, it would be much appreciated.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-07-14

I cannot support suspend issues. Make sure your AVR is on prior you resume the machine.

If the rest is working fine the howto has succeeded.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - metalizm - 2014-07-15

Hi all new here but read almost all the way through post. I am running Gotham stable version and newbie at Linux Mint (came from Windows/Xbmc) but I am getting decent with terminal sudo and all that.

Well everything seems to be running decent I just notice quite a few streams look pixilated. Is that normal or is there any fix or settings I can adjust for that? I am not going to run any of these steps unless for sure I know which ones to use.

Anyway if you can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.
Thanks!


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-07-15

Wrong topic for this thread.


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - metalizm - 2014-07-15

.... Oh BTW I have the HD 7250 in my netbook this still work?


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - metalizm - 2014-07-15

Forgive me if I am wrong but how can this be wrong topic if I am running Linux and have Radeon card?


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - fritsch - 2014-07-15

This thread provides a howto from scratch for radeon oss cards, based on Ubuntu 14.04 mini iso. It is not a help thread for "I did not follow the howto, installed what I want and now help me to get it working".


RE: Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto) - MathewCNichols - 2014-07-16

I was initially excited to see VDPAU and HD Audio bitstreaming were both available on ATI cards for Linux! Finally, free from the MS empire! I couldn't believe my eyes! I probably shouldn't have got so excited!

I cannot get HD Audio (TrueHD or DTS-HD) to bitstream / passthrough to the AVR with the Xorg drivers. It's completely silent. I've tried everything in the howto, including creating the pastebin files. I have a hard time admitting defeat, but after days of troubleshooting, I have to throw in the towel. My eyes are blood shot red and my carpal tunnel is setting in.

Hardware:
CPU: AMD Phenom 945
GPU: MSI AMD 5670
MoBo: MSI AMD 785gm-e65
RAM: 8GB DDR3-1333 10666
SSD: Kingston HyperX 90GB SH103S3390G
HDD: Hitachi 1TB HDS721010CLA332
AVR: SONY STR-DH710

Software:
Dual boot GRUB
Latest Ubuntu Mini ISO from howto (clean install)
Windows 7 x64

Pastebin files:
dmesg: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7803237
xbmc.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7803238
Xorg.0.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7803245
vdpauinfo: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7803257
mesa: http://paste.ubuntu.com/780335

Troubleshooting:
• Everything works fine on the Windows partition. I have 7.1ch/192khz/24bit/HD bitstreaming all audio typers and DXVA accelerated video using LAV splitters. This is definitely not a hardware problem.
• I've installed the mini.iso, without a GUI. Followed all instructions from howto including EDID override and tried every setting modification in XBMC.
• I've installed the Linux Mint distro. I can get HD Audio bitstream with ATI proprietary drivers, but no VDAPU. I can verify this by pressing "o" for the onscreen menu and not seeing ff-h264-vdapu.

Thank you for all your work! You should link your PayPal address if you find the problem in the pastebins. Big Grin