2014-08-12, 16:07
This has been driving me crazy every time a new Gotham version releases and it's difficult to believe no one else has experienced this.
On Gotham, when subtitles are turned on, subs that end up more than one line seem to reliably and consistently cause a (very) hard crash on my setup. The video will freeze completely, audio will continue for about 5 seconds and stop, and I cannot do anything except reboot the system manually. I cannot switch to the ubuntu text terminal (ctrl-alt-f1), and nothing on the system seems to respond.
I have been testing this off and on since the early Gotham releases and every version has the same issue. The latest version I tested was 13.2~git20140802.1103-beta3-0trusty. I am currently running 2:12.3+dfsg1-3ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 with the latest updates on kernel 3.13.11-03131102-generic. I have an AMD A10 7850K, running on the latest AMD proprietary drivers (14.6 Beta) but I tried a number of different revisions over the last few months. Vertical blank sync is turned on (always) in XBMC and the Catalyst CP.
I have heard and read a few things here and there that have me believing some people are running the AMD A10 7850k using a different set of open drivers (Gallium3D or something? RadeonSI?) but other than benchmarks and passing mentions, I found no concrete, reliable information on how to get these or set them up. For example, see right here. I sent an email to the author about two months back but he never replied. I still want to try those damn drivers to see if they're better than AMD's shit ones, but I still have no idea of how to get them or configure them. The few tries I made at getting the OSS drivers on always resulted in X not finding any valid drivers and putting me in software rendering for everything.
If anyone can help in troubleshooting the subtitle issue or can offer guidance in correctly installing the alternative drivers for A10 7850K APUs, I'm all ears. Thanks.
On Gotham, when subtitles are turned on, subs that end up more than one line seem to reliably and consistently cause a (very) hard crash on my setup. The video will freeze completely, audio will continue for about 5 seconds and stop, and I cannot do anything except reboot the system manually. I cannot switch to the ubuntu text terminal (ctrl-alt-f1), and nothing on the system seems to respond.
I have been testing this off and on since the early Gotham releases and every version has the same issue. The latest version I tested was 13.2~git20140802.1103-beta3-0trusty. I am currently running 2:12.3+dfsg1-3ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 with the latest updates on kernel 3.13.11-03131102-generic. I have an AMD A10 7850K, running on the latest AMD proprietary drivers (14.6 Beta) but I tried a number of different revisions over the last few months. Vertical blank sync is turned on (always) in XBMC and the Catalyst CP.
I have heard and read a few things here and there that have me believing some people are running the AMD A10 7850k using a different set of open drivers (Gallium3D or something? RadeonSI?) but other than benchmarks and passing mentions, I found no concrete, reliable information on how to get these or set them up. For example, see right here. I sent an email to the author about two months back but he never replied. I still want to try those damn drivers to see if they're better than AMD's shit ones, but I still have no idea of how to get them or configure them. The few tries I made at getting the OSS drivers on always resulted in X not finding any valid drivers and putting me in software rendering for everything.
If anyone can help in troubleshooting the subtitle issue or can offer guidance in correctly installing the alternative drivers for A10 7850K APUs, I'm all ears. Thanks.
