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  • 8of9
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    This new update is already a step forward, it solves some problems, and this feature is not even mentioned in the release file.
    The driver can do overscan through the amdccle which gives me for the first time a fullscreen picture without tricks on my Toshiba LCD panel.
    Also there is now a tab with HDTV setup and a colourbar frame for adjusting the colour quaility.
    Therefore my guess is video accel in the near future...

    awaiting the news

    8of9

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  • GreekGeek
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    Hi Yall & Evan,

    Hmmm. I've just re-read the "Offical Support List" & ....

    <snip>
    AMD Desktop Product Family Support
    ATI Radeon? HD 5800 Series
    <snip>

    Specifically the HD 5700 Series is *not* mentioned. Hence, there is only some sort of partial support.

    Any insights on this Bridgman?

    Howz about other users of the HD 5700 series?

    Evan, do you get any error messages when trying to intall Cat-9.10? Does it install ok & then give you that PIA hardware no supported blah, blah, blah....?

    GreekGeek :-)

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  • evanjfraser
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    Originally posted by GreekGeek View Post
    Hi Yall & Evan,

    when trying to install Catz 9.10, did you...

    cd /usr/share/ati
    sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh
    cd /whatever directory you have the cat-9.10.
    sh *.run

    *BFN*

    GreekGeek :-)
    Hi GreekGeek, there's no fglrx-uninstall.sh script as part of the ubuntu restricted fglrx driver. Although I did uninstall all the fglrx* packages and xorg-driver-fglrx package first before installing cat-9.10

    Cheers, Evan.

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  • GreekGeek
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    Hi Yall & Evan,

    when trying to install Catz 9.10, did you...

    cd /usr/share/ati
    sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh
    cd /whatever directory you have the cat-9.10.
    sh *.run

    *BFN*

    GreekGeek :-)

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  • evanjfraser
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    Originally posted by dmbtech View Post
    Hello, thanks for the response. Do you happen to know if the driver in ubuntu supports the Radeon HD 5770 (I prefer to be lazy ).
    The 5750 seems to work fine in ubuntu 9.10 with the supplied restricted driver, except that the "unsupported hardware" overlay shows up in the bottom RH corner of the screen.

    I cant get the 5750 to work at all with the catalyst 9-10 driver from amd though.

    I expect the 5770 would be similar...?

    cheers Evan.

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  • d2kx
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    Originally posted by phtpht View Post
    Is this the compatibility with the 2.6.31 kernel? :-) Seriously, does it work with this kernel?
    Yes, it supports Linux 2.6.31.

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  • dmbtech
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    Originally posted by bridgman View Post
    The version in Ubuntu 9.10 is an earlier version of the code specifically for Ubuntu; the Catalyst 9.10 driver should contain additional changes.
    Hello, thanks for the response. Do you happen to know if the driver in ubuntu supports the Radeon HD 5770 (I prefer to be lazy ).

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  • linuxjacques
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    I can just barely watch blu-ray bitrate HD video currently on my
    2.4GHz C2D iMac with Radeon HD 2600 XT, as long as I am watching
    h264 video and using both cores. There are still occasional glitches.

    If the video is VC1 encoded, mplayer uses only one core and
    it's unwatchable.

    I would *love* to not have to boot into OSX just to watch my HD videos.

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  • WhiteRabbit
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    I think we're all thinking about the mplayer UVD usage thing here.

    Perhaps ATI just made a huge mistake or maybe they want us to know that they are releasing it. Who really knows... all that I know is that if I can watch HD on my linux distro even with fglrx I'll be using it to watch movies a lot more.

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  • Arceliar
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    Catalyst 9.10 also contains a major advancement too, which will be exposed in the near future.
    So apparently, mplayer doesn't crash when using UVD any more.
    How, may I ask, can mplayer be configured to use UVD?
    My idle speculation is that a public release of XvBA support might be the 'major advancement'. I mean, if I were working for AMD and in a place to make these kind of decisions, I'd try to release to coincide with a few of the more popular distribution upgrades, if possible. And those semi-legitimate looking benchmarks on Gwenole Beauchesne's blog seem to suggest that it could be ready for a release by about now.

    But I could be (and likely am) completely wrong.

    Still, no obvious regressions so far on this end, so good release.

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