fritsch Wrote:So, as a first impression, xbmc runs stable with fglrx 11.11?

If anybody still has a hang concerning "menu navigation", "press stopped and movie list did not come back", etc. please stand up now as eden is getting final in little more than 5 weeks.

In order to get this issue fixed - if fglrx 11.11 did not fix it, i hope it did cause the error was in rather deep in fglrx - we have to get good backtraces and stuff.

fritsch Wrote:@wsnipex:
Fernetmenta and me are very keen to get exactly this issue fixed. We produced a lot of backtraces while searching for the reason of this crash, while running xbmc with xvba on my system.

To not mixing up mainline (vaapi and no xvba) it would be good to organize bugs concerning xvba in another thread - you can start one, please.

Leon-B Wrote:Switching repositories from lars-opdenkamp to nathan-renniewaldock on Ubuntu 11.10 solved several problems for me (ASUS E35M1-I DELUXE based system, Catalyst 11.9). It's more stable (no crashes the last days), doesn't run out-of-sync anymore after pausing, runs more smooth in general and 24p runs fine now.

grolim64 Wrote:Hi, just registered to post that I have got everything working under Lubuntu 11.10:

nightly xbmc from Nathan Rennie-waldock (ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-nightly)

grolim64 Wrote:getting updates (including a new libva) from ubuntu-x (ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates)
so far its working great!

so perhaps all you guys need is the updated libva from ubuntu-x...

tjones Wrote:It turns out the composite disable xorg.conf edit is for better h264 playback. Dropped my cpu usage from 40-50% to ~30%.

Leon-B Wrote:I also get a cpu utilization of about 63% when xbmc idles with the latest nightly builds of Eden, so that doesn't seem less so far. However, from the moment on that it blanks the screen, it will have a cpu utilization of ~9%, when playing 720p content, it's around 23%.

Redsandro Wrote:After five weeks I got my Zotac Fusion back from the factory after repairs, so I was lurking for the last 20 pages or so. Anything relevant changed?

Is changing repo still recommended?
Sounds good, but considering the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" team, I haven't experienced any real issues with the opdenkamp version in my guide. (Zotac Fusion)

The only real error I'm experiencing, when going through XBMC menus, the video playing in the background is jerky, jumping back and forth a frame constantly.

Any splitted-desktop repo yet?

Manual updating is not fon to due.


Should I update at all?

I hear so many problems on these pages, it sounds like I'm lucky to have it working at all.

Xorg.conf compositing, relevant?


Does disabling composite actually disable 21st century compositing? (Nice windows in XFCE and stuff), or does it mean something completely different?

Note that I have no xorg.conf at the moment, I sort of like it that way.



Can XBMC idle 24/7 yet?



Do you mean the 'screensaver' blank or the blank before playback?
I want to have the lowest possible power consumption when not viewing any movie without having to manually quit XBMC each time.

Any hints on mplayer or gstreamer vaapi compilation?

I still cannot compile mplayer or gstreamer with vaapi support which is unfortunate because I don't want to use XBMC as desktop media player too, but if I was on to something last time, I forgot about it.

VLC has built-in support, but performance sucks considerably compared to XBMC.

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There's so much handy information in this topic, but topics are generally quickly becoming a monster to search through sanely.

idtjes3 Wrote:In short, save yourself the headache and buy and NVIDIA based platform...

MTroi Wrote:*Updated to latest ATI drivers (11.11), included a driver update howto below*

I have spent this weekend to figure out, how to get all stuff running on my ubuntu 11.10 'oneiric' system. Finally, it all works but had some very frustrating experiences along the way.

Here is how I did it:

System: Asus E35M1-I DELUXE
Video out: DVI
Audio out: S/PDIF Out (optical)

System: Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Installation CD (no minimal for me)

1. Install Ubuntu

2. Boot to system and (optional) install good old aptitude as package manager

3. Update system to latest packages via (apt-get might have different commands)

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade -y

4. Add new source for libva:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

5. Update sources:

Code:

sudo aptitude update

6. Before installing latest ATI drivers (11.11):

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 dh-modaliases ia32-libs

7. Install latest ATI driver:

Code:

cd ~/; mkdir catalyst11.11; cd catalyst11.11/
wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-11-x86.x86_64.run
chmod +x ati-driver-installer-11-11-x86.x86_64.run
sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-11-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/oneiric
sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb

8. Generate new X11 config and activate tear-free

Code:

sudo aticonfig --initial -f
sudo aticonfig --sync-video=on

9. Reboot the system

10. Check driver installation (should say something like: OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon ...):

Code:

fglrxinfo

11. Install libva:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 vainfo

12. Update environment:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/environment

Code:

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=xvba
LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/va/drivers

13. Add user to video and audio:

Code:

sudo adduser YourUserName video
sudo adduser YourUserName audio

14. Install xbmc (I used Rennie):

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-nightly
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install xbmc

15. Reboot the system

16. Start xbmc and set Audio to "Digital/Optical" and ATI Southbridge as digital throughput


I hope everything is correct (did this from my memory) and hope it helps some other guys out there.

ATI Driver Update Howto (For users with versions older than 11.11)

1. Uninstall the old driver

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*

2. Get & Install the new driver (for future releases just replace 11.11/11-11 with the current version):

Code:

cd ~/; mkdir catalyst11.11; cd catalyst11.11/
wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-11-x86.x86_64.run
chmod +x ati-driver-installer-11-11-x86.x86_64.run
sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-11-11-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/oneiric
sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb

3. Update X11 config (might not be necessary, but I did that):

Code:

sudo aticonfig --initial -f
sudo aticonfig --sync-video=on

4. Reboot the system

5. Check your graphics driver

Code:

fglrxinfo

6. Check the vainfo output (My libva was broken after the driver update, so the output said something like 'libva: va_openDriver() returns -1'):

Code:

vainfo

If your libva is still fine, skip the next steps:

7. Remove the libva (Unfortunately xbmc is also removed, but at least the config is preserved)

Code:

sudo apt-get remove xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 vainfo

8. Reinstall the libva:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 vainfo

9. Reinstall xbmc:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xbmc

10. Reboot the system

11. Check vainfo again (some libraries like *h264* should appear now):

Code:

vainfo

12. Start xbmc :-)

FernetMenta Wrote:This is not nice We currently put a lot of effort in better support for this platform. All contributions by the entire community are highly appreciated. I got into contact with the ATI devs and they do care about improving things.