[un1versal]

Thats not XBMCuntu now is it?

uNi

[ThomasT]

Note for Googlers: My ATI Radeon 9600 SE crashes with the same "Failed to get size of gamma for output default" error. Have not tested the solution yet. Will update. Thanks to uNiversal for his advice here btw

EDIT: XBMC launches now. Performance is abysmal, though. The 3 Ghz Dual Cores both idle at around 90% load on the menu in a freshly booted system. Media collection of zero files. Video Streaming in XBMC is impossibly shitty, but the same streams work fine when opened in Chromium on the XBMCbuntu desktop. I'll open another thread with additional info tomorrow.

[Rushnosh]

Not wanting to be argumentative, but it does! Here's a screenshot hopefully proving it. I've not installed anything extra drivers to make this work. The only software I've added is XBMC, MythTV and MySQL Workbench - and I would imagine that none of these would involve an update to the graphics drivers.

Happy to run any commands to verify what driver I'm running if that would would be useful...and if you can tell me what to run (Linux newb here, apologies!)

Quick one... I have set up Ubuntu 12.10 before and manage to get the system working, however I "ALWAYS" run into tear problems when trying to watch a movie.

Do you have that with unity enabled?

What is your spec and also your video settings if you got this right??

You got the same Radion version as what I am trying to use, so any help would be great.

[Rushnosh]

I also like to say thanks to uNiversal also as the fix you have provided with the XBMCBuntu worked for me, however I still need to test for Tears..

Will update soon.

[wsnipex]

@Majestik: you are running the open source radeon driver. It has no xvba support, ie no hardware video decoding

[Rushnosh]

@wsnipex: Just to update on my behalf have the system working now but still have tears while watching a movie.

Will get some logs and create a new tread when I can ...

[wsnipex]

set v-sync to always on and make sure tearfree is disabled in amdccc

[natenjo]

Hello,

Thanks for this thread, it helped me a lot because I have a ATI HD3470.

After I ran the Commands from Post 8 my Setup upgraded from 12 Beta 1 to 13 Alpha1 ... Is it possible to downgrade to 12 Final?.

If yes, how ?

I want to downgrade because yatse doesn't seem fully functionally with xbmc 13 yet

[tarasian666]

EDIT: XBMC launches now. Performance is abysmal, though. The 3 Ghz Dual Cores both idle at around 90% load on the menu in a freshly booted system. Media collection of zero files. Video Streaming in XBMC is impossibly shitty, but the same streams work fine when opened in Chromium on the XBMCbuntu desktop. I'll open another thread with additional info tomorrow.

the same by me, in menu load 80-100% but when watching video <50%
athlon x2 6000+
ati radeon HD 3200

[wsnipex]

@tarasian666: you need fglrx-legacy. follow the _legacy_ steps from here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1138272

after that add the xvba ppa. details see here(towards the end of the 1st post): http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996

[tarasian666]

@tarasian666: you need fglrx-legacy. follow the _legacy_ steps from here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1138272

after that add the xvba ppa. details see here(towards the end of the 1st post): http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996

helped only

Vertical Sync: Always on

What if i install the latest version of xbmcbuntu and then install legacy drivers? Will it work?

[tarasian666]

Hello,

Thanks for this thread, it helped me a lot because I have a ATI HD3470.

After I ran the Commands from Post 8 my Setup upgraded from 12 Beta 1 to 13 Alpha1 ... Is it possible to downgrade to 12 Final?.

If yes, how ?

I want to downgrade because yatse doesn't seem fully functionally with xbmc 13 yet

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:wsnipex/xbmc-xvba
#and for sure
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc*
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wsnipex*
#add stable repo
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wsnipex/xbmc-xvba-frodo
#remove 13alpha and install frodo
sudo apt-get remove xbmc xbmc.bin
sudo apt-get clear
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc.bin

[wsnipex]

@tarasian666: you need fglrx-legacy. follow the _legacy_ steps from here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1138272

after that add the xvba ppa. details see here(towards the end of the 1st post): http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996

helped only

Vertical Sync: Always on

What if i install the latest version of xbmcbuntu and then install legacy drivers? Will it work?

Yes, if done correctly. That means not just installing the drivers from the AMD installer, because they don't work with xorg 1.13, which is included in xbmcbuntu(and ubuntu 12.10). You will need to downgrade a slew of packages to older versions.
This PPA should take care of it: https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx

BUT: fglrx-legacy 13.1 is reported to be broken for V-Sync, which makes it unusable with Xbmc.
In short, save yourself the pain and stay with a xbmcbuntu based on ubuntu 12.04(precise)

[un1versal]

see this http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1321833

Done, no?

uNi

[michaelrtm]

Thanks!

Had the same problem loading off the live disc, with an upgrade, and fresh install.

Time for bed now, and I'll fix it in the morning (hopefully my wife doesn't want to watch anything in the mean time...)

Edit: Is there a way to stop the drivers from ever updating, maybe a rule I can put into apt?