2013-10-20, 09:27
Hi All
Today I decided to give the OSS drivers a try, starting with a fresh install. Unfortunately after installing everything I got a high-CPU usage. A quick check of dmesg provided quite a clear hint of what was going on:
A quick check to /lib/firmware/radeon confirmed that such firmwares were missing (but I started with a fresh install... shouldn't be there??). I was able to fix the problem with
I'm not necessarily recommending that ppa ... but is the one I found...
After this (and Kernel reinstall) CPU went down to 10% with XBMC running.
Hope this info helps others... and maybe somebody can explain me why the firmware was not there from the beginning (other Redwood files were there)
Today I decided to give the OSS drivers a try, starting with a fresh install. Unfortunately after installing everything I got a high-CPU usage. A quick check of dmesg provided quite a clear hint of what was going on:
Code:
dmesg | egrep 'drm|radeon'
[ 2.199341] radeon 0000:05:00.0: radeon_uvd: Can't load firmware "radeon/CYPRESS_uvd.bin"
[ 2.217346] smc: error loading firmware "radeon/REDWOOD_smc.bin"
[ 2.217350] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/REDWOOD_smc.bin"
[ 2.217360] radeon 0000:05:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration
A quick check to /lib/firmware/radeon confirmed that such firmwares were missing (but I started with a fresh install... shouldn't be there??). I was able to fix the problem with
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dtl131/mediahacks
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware
I'm not necessarily recommending that ppa ... but is the one I found...
After this (and Kernel reinstall) CPU went down to 10% with XBMC running.
Hope this info helps others... and maybe somebody can explain me why the firmware was not there from the beginning (other Redwood files were there)