[Claudio.Sjo]

I just want to say thank you for posting such a great howto. I was able to get this working on my main HTPC last night running Debian (Jessie).

CPU: AMD A8-5500 APU
GPU: [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7560D]

xbmc gotham alpha9 running vdpau on my video sources w/ no artifacts or issues at all (yet). No frame drops and uber-low cpu usage!

Thanks so much!

I have the same APU and i too run Debian Jessie (64 bit). I never had artifacts or significant issues like the people around here.
But i compile everything from git myself from the kernel to mesa and xbmc too.
May be just this igp works better with oss radeon (it had issues with kernels 3.11 and up to 3.12 rc4 with random system freezing but since it was smooth sailing).
Or is the distribution ? (couldn resist ).
Seriously, this APU works very very well with radeon, not just in xbmc but in games too. And it doesnt overheat even with the tiny default cooler.

Hi Guys,
I have an A10-5700 that is very close to your APU-
I'm still running on Lubuntu 12.10 with patched radeon drivers and XVBA.
When I read success stories, I'd wish to get details, as I'll be forced to upgrade soon.
May you please explain your installation step-by-step? Or pointing to the instruction and explain if you did exactly what is written or not.
Even via PM if you don't want to do that within the thread.

Thanks,
Claudio