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Linux Radeon OSS with vdpau (howto)
For the openSUSE xbmc users reading this thread:

NOTE the following important changes in my howto. You should also adapt your installation accordingly!

##### Recent CHANGES ######
- switched the packman-repo from factory to 13.1
- switched the mesa repo from pontostroy (now version v 10.1 git) to tobijk (version 10.0 RC2) to stabilize stuff

I recommend to also switch those, as Mesa 10.1 and packman factory are unstable. After every repo-change do a "sudo zypper dup"
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Fusion E-350, 4 GB RAM, SSD, openSUSE Tumbleweed 64bit KDE, Mesa-10.2.3, latest stable Kernel, XBMC FernetMenta-Git
Hi,
in the past I have complained about some issues in XBMC, related to temperature measurements.
I wish to apologize, as the actual problem was due to undocumented chipset used in Asus F2A85 motherboard (and similar from asus).
According to the latest news, there's support in kernel 3.12, thus the problem is gone.

Latest tests on xbmc and mesa are very good, and also interlaced videos play well on my iMac.

I understood that every new feature will be available in the mainstream soon, thus my strategy now is to wait for Lubuntu 14.04LTS
When ready, I'll try to add the hacked driver for remote control.

Thanks guys.
@fritsch
That is what I meant, that I installed 12.3 pre. I understand that they were not the same but I couldn't fix the problem

So I went back and purged fglrx, xbmc, and xbmc-bin. I went and reperformed all the apt-get installs from the how-to. I was only missing the vdpauinfo package. I then installed xbmc and xbmc-bin from the fernetmenta repo. Everything plays smoothly. I am not sure what the issue was before that prevented me from selecting a resolution higher than 1024x768.

@fritsch and @gfisher
Thank you for your time and patience. I know it's not easy dealing with stupid people.
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For Arch Linux users: I've uploaded a PKGBUILD to AUR for building Mesa 10.x Git development branch.

I'm currently using this (as packages built from mesa10-git 10.0.rc2.59696-1) on Arch x86_64, with a Zotac Zbox Nano AD10 (AMD E-350 Fusion APU), latest stable kernel 3.12.1-1, libdrm 2.4.49-1, xorg-server 1.14.4-1, all from official repos (i.e. no patches!), xbmc-git 20131104.be98367-1 from Git master, plus the usual XBMC dependencies
No freezes, good sound and image quality. Nice work, guys!

Link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mesa10-git/
Hello there! Been lurking quite a while and really appreciate your work here. Unfortunately I have a problem:

I followed your tutorial and after rebooting everything, the display outpoot looks ... well see for yourself:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9hldijihrldhkd....51.13.jpg

I'm running on a HP N54L with an AMD Turion II Neo, 2x 2.20GHz and a XFX Radeon R7 250, 1GB DDR5 RAM.
I assume that my Radeon is simply "too new" for the used drivers and now I'm seeking for confirmation, that this is the problem.

Since I cannot see anything on my display, I am not able set XBMC to debug mode, but I hope, that my information provided will suffice:

dmesg | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6478241/

cat ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6478243/

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6478247/

DISPLAY=:0 vdpauinfo | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6478249/

dpkg -l |grep mesa | pastebinit
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6478251/

glxinfo | grep -i interop says "Error: unable to open display"

vdpauinfo: cannot connect to X server
You probably need an even newer kernel. Never had a R7 myself somewhere. It's quite new, right?
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
Yes, it is quite new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_Rx_200_Series

So, I play the waiting game. Thanks for your reply!
With the release of 3.13-rc1 Ubuntu has released the mainline kernel releases to http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mai...c1-trusty/. I've installed these for saucy using the guide and trying them out to see how it works.

32bit:

Code:
wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-headers-3.13.0-031300rc1_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_all.deb
wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-headers-3.13.0-031300rc1-generic_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_i386.deb
wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-image-3.13.0-031300rc1-generic_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.13*.deb linux-image-3.13*.deb

64bit:

Code:
wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-headers-3.13.0-031300rc1_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_all.deb
wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-headers-3.13.0-031300rc1-generic_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_amd64.deb
wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/linux-image-3.13.0-031300rc1-generic_3.13.0-031300rc1.201311221535_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.13*.deb linux-image-3.13*.deb
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And - the important part: How did they work?
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
@fritsch so far I've tested a few web-dl shows with AAC 2.0, AC3 5.1 and a few movies with HD codecs with no issues on my setup. I am hoping these solve the weird dithering issue you pointed out a few days ago. No issues with picture quality yet and I will continue to test and report.
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Dithering is a manual xrandr option. Yeah I am running it also since the weekend. No issues yet.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
@fritsch thanks for the info. I've popped an xrandr option in startxbmc.sh for now and playing with it for a few days to see if it fixes my "greying" issue. So far I've watched everything from live tv to movies without any quirks or issues.
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(2013-11-26, 18:47)pyrodex Wrote: With the release of 3.13-rc1 Ubuntu has released the mainline kernel releases to http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mai...c1-trusty/. I've installed these for saucy using the guide and trying them out to see how it works.

This Kernel 3.13 is buggy.
I tried it and fails with interlaced files.

The same files can be seen with 3.12.0+
Logfiles or it never happened :-) (we had that before, right?)
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
(2013-11-26, 18:49)fritsch Wrote: And - the important part: How did they work?

It (3.13-rc1)does not work on my system (A10-5800K on Asus F2A85-M, used in i386 mode).

Mean, there is some generic problem with HDMI - no video signal comes out after GRUB phase.
But DVI output works OK. So, I just wonder, how to debug this issue?
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