2012-03-13, 20:11
Hi,
I am trying to build a VDR streaming client to watch mostly live-TV. My client hardware is an AMD Mini ITX board (ASUS E35M1-I). I have replaced the wireless mini-PCIe card with a broadcom crystalhd 70015.
Unfortunately, so far I was unable to get xbmc to work, trying both: compiling drivers and/or xbmc from source or using the precompiled packages from various ubuntu releases.
Currently I am stuck with precise, where the ATI driver just won't install. the proprietary driver crashes during updating of the kernel. If I use the open-source driver from the ubuntu packages, compiling xbmc crashes with the message that hardware acceleration is not available.
Using older ubuntu releases I ran into a problem compiling the broadcom drivers (one needs to update to libxine2 for compilation of xine plugins for crystalhd. libxine2 is not in the repository for older kernels and on top the crystalhd drivers need some undocumented patching: they use a deprecated ioctl structure member - contacting broadcom was to no avail)
So here are my questions:
1) What is the right ubuntu - release for my hardware
2) in which order do I need to install (from source or from binaries) the various backages
3) Does it make sense to combine the GPU hardware acceleration vaapi + the broadcom 70015 card
Thanks for your help
I am trying to build a VDR streaming client to watch mostly live-TV. My client hardware is an AMD Mini ITX board (ASUS E35M1-I). I have replaced the wireless mini-PCIe card with a broadcom crystalhd 70015.
Unfortunately, so far I was unable to get xbmc to work, trying both: compiling drivers and/or xbmc from source or using the precompiled packages from various ubuntu releases.
Currently I am stuck with precise, where the ATI driver just won't install. the proprietary driver crashes during updating of the kernel. If I use the open-source driver from the ubuntu packages, compiling xbmc crashes with the message that hardware acceleration is not available.
Using older ubuntu releases I ran into a problem compiling the broadcom drivers (one needs to update to libxine2 for compilation of xine plugins for crystalhd. libxine2 is not in the repository for older kernels and on top the crystalhd drivers need some undocumented patching: they use a deprecated ioctl structure member - contacting broadcom was to no avail)
So here are my questions:
1) What is the right ubuntu - release for my hardware
2) in which order do I need to install (from source or from binaries) the various backages
3) Does it make sense to combine the GPU hardware acceleration vaapi + the broadcom 70015 card
Thanks for your help