Is there any chance I could get video acceleration with the proprietary or open source drivers?
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Originally posted by SolidSteel144 View PostI just can't get any video drivers to work...
But read this page carefully: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
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8.10 should work with the radeonhd driver in the 8.10 repository. The installer defaults to the radeon driver, which produces a black screen.
I just installed 8.10 from the liveCD. Let it run until drive activity stops, wait a bit longer, then open a text terminal (<ctrl><alt><F3>) and from there you can use nano (as sudo) to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Add the line
Driver "radeonhd"
to the device section of the xorg.conf file, save and restart X and all should be well.
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The open source drivers should work OK with the HD4870 as long as you get the most recent code, ie you probably have to download and build from git. I don't know how current the code is in the 8.10 packages. You won't get video acceleration with the open source drivers on HD4xxx yet but if you use the -x11 output you should get OK video playback performance.
EDIT - just saw rbmorse's post; if radeonhd in 8.10 works just use that.Test signature
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Does the latest radeonhd from git support the RV770?
If so, the science project would be to install 8.04, install git and build the latest radeonhd into 8.04, then do a global search and replace of the word "hardy" with "intrepid" in the file /etc/apt/sources.list then open a terminal and:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
In theory that should give you 8.10 (Beta) plus all updates.
Do you feel lucky?
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Originally posted by rbmorse View PostIf so, the science project would be to install 8.04, install git and build the latest radeonhd into 8.04, then...
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