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    Excited about the newly added Xvideo support in the radeon driver, I installed a pre-packaged Ubuntu package of the latest git from



    It claimed to support Xv when I did xvinfo. However when I tried (on a mobility x1400 btw) to play movies (in mplayer and totem), the movie display was all white, and the computer crashed hard after a few seconds (still with some HDD activity).

    Oh well, hopefully soon

    Hmm, I got that package yesterday, and now I see that there's a newer one. Time to try it again

  • #2
    Originally posted by elenius View Post
    Excited about the newly added Xvideo support in the radeon driver, I installed a pre-packaged Ubuntu package of the latest git from



    It claimed to support Xv when I did xvinfo. However when I tried (on a mobility x1400 btw) to play movies (in mplayer and totem), the movie display was all white, and the computer crashed hard after a few seconds (still with some HDD activity).

    Oh well, hopefully soon

    Hmm, I got that package yesterday, and now I see that there's a newer one. Time to try it again
    try enabling EXA as well:
    Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"

    Also try again with the latest drm installed from git.

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    • #3
      Also, are you setting the port of the Textured Video adapter (as you saw from xvinfo) when starting your video app?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by agd5f View Post
        try enabling EXA as well:
        Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"

        Also try again with the latest drm installed from git.
        I tried it with the 3/28 version. With EXA enabled, X freezes right after logging in. Without it, same behavior as before.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by elenius View Post
          I tried it with the 3/28 version. With EXA enabled, X freezes right after logging in. Without it, same behavior as before.
          I have exactly the same behavior on a Lenovo T60 with X1300. And I tried to remove fglrx driver, to use different kind of combinations of options in xorg.conf, but none got succeeded.

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          • #6
            EXA on my rv515 fails unless I load the drm, I'll see what we can do but really accel with out a DRM is a pain in the ass, and I'm all for disabling it in radeon to simplify the codepaths.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by airlied View Post
              EXA on my rv515 fails unless I load the drm, I'll see what we can do but really accel with out a DRM is a pain in the ass, and I'm all for disabling it in radeon to simplify the codepaths.
              Sorry, but what's this DRM thing and how do I install it?

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              • #8
                Workaround for hard lock up problems (fglrx)

                690G IGP ATI x1250 128MB fedora 8 x68_64 latest proprietary fglrx from AMD website

                As wolf said, my post should be moved to fglrx, but interesting anyway.

                Now I believe locks are due to memory allocation issues, and has nothing to do with userland apps or games.



                Good luck.
                Last edited by c247; 01 April 2008, 07:39 PM. Reason: title

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by c247 View Post
                  ATI x1250 IGP 128MB

                  No lock ups now, using standard configuration. I was having complete lock ups when playing urbanterror. Short answer, use amdcccle to set all 3D options to on (always on)

                  More info about what I tried here:



                  Good luck.
                  Thanks for the tip, but we are having a different issue which involves radeon driver instead of fglrx.

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                  • #10
                    Tried with latest RadeonHD (4/1 version) from the same source. No Xv or xrandr support yet, so sticking with regular Radeon.

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