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I asked a similar question a while back, but since then things seem to have moved on, so perhaps someone can advise me of the current state of play.....
The hardware: An Acer Aspire One Netbook with a card that lspci identifies as an HD 4225/4250 (RS880M).
The problem: Getting it to play HD video (1920x1080 mp4 or mkv or indeed anything!). (Note: I'm not interested in 3D graphics, games or anything else! Just high-definition video, preferably over the HDMI output)
I know it can do it, because I've had it working under Slackware64-14.0 using the catalyst driver. However, the legacy catalyst driver hasn't been updated in over a year, is seriously buggy (frequently causing a black-screen lock-up on boot) and can only be used with obsolete kernels / xorg. A recent update of Slackware has now stopped xorg from starting at all!
Reading recent posts indicate that the latest kernels / mesa / etc now support hd video via vdpau. As a quick fix (and experiment!), I've thrown Mageia 4 RC1 on the machine. The repositories seem to contain relevant drivers for getting this up and running, if only I can identify them!
xorg.conf shows that the system is using the ati driver. Is this right? Shouldn't it be radeon something or another? lsmod shows a radeon module loaded. The repositories show lib64vdpau-driver-r600 and lib64-driver-radeonsi being available. But which is the appropriate one for a RS880M? The installed mesa is 10.0.2, but no indication is given as to whether it was compiled with vdpau enabled or not.
What do I have to do to get this working? And is there anything else that I need to install?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
(PS: If anyone from ATI is reading this, I have used AMD/ATI products since the K6-2, but thanks to your ham-fisted abandonment of this platform WHILST IT WAS STILL ON SALE, I will NEVER buy anything containing AMD or ATI again!)
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Pete
The hardware: An Acer Aspire One Netbook with a card that lspci identifies as an HD 4225/4250 (RS880M).
The problem: Getting it to play HD video (1920x1080 mp4 or mkv or indeed anything!). (Note: I'm not interested in 3D graphics, games or anything else! Just high-definition video, preferably over the HDMI output)
I know it can do it, because I've had it working under Slackware64-14.0 using the catalyst driver. However, the legacy catalyst driver hasn't been updated in over a year, is seriously buggy (frequently causing a black-screen lock-up on boot) and can only be used with obsolete kernels / xorg. A recent update of Slackware has now stopped xorg from starting at all!
Reading recent posts indicate that the latest kernels / mesa / etc now support hd video via vdpau. As a quick fix (and experiment!), I've thrown Mageia 4 RC1 on the machine. The repositories seem to contain relevant drivers for getting this up and running, if only I can identify them!
xorg.conf shows that the system is using the ati driver. Is this right? Shouldn't it be radeon something or another? lsmod shows a radeon module loaded. The repositories show lib64vdpau-driver-r600 and lib64-driver-radeonsi being available. But which is the appropriate one for a RS880M? The installed mesa is 10.0.2, but no indication is given as to whether it was compiled with vdpau enabled or not.
What do I have to do to get this working? And is there anything else that I need to install?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
(PS: If anyone from ATI is reading this, I have used AMD/ATI products since the K6-2, but thanks to your ham-fisted abandonment of this platform WHILST IT WAS STILL ON SALE, I will NEVER buy anything containing AMD or ATI again!)
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Pete
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