2014-04-06, 20:30
Hey guys,
First of all: many thanks to everybody contributing in this forum. Especially to fritsch for putting together this guide.
I have been playing around with this stuff since many days now and frankly I'm getting frustrated ...
I got my HTPC set up by a colleague who used XBMCbuntu Frodo 12.2 with xvba-support and ATi fgrlx drivers. All in 32bit architecture! Everything worked fine. Instead of following the 'never-change-a-running-system' principle I decided to update the whole thing. That's when I found this thread. To cut a long story short:
I updated to Ubuntu 13.10 and Kernel 3.13.8 (32bit) and tried the OSS driver as well as the proprietary. I tried tons of ppas but never got the vdpau acceleration to work. And yes, I followed the instructions from page one except one fact as I do not have 64bit installed. (I got a software raid on the same machine and prefer not to give it a try to install everything from scratch and find out if the raid is still alive afterwards)
==> Does any of you know if there is a working setup based on 32bit architecture? I do not expect way more than 'yes' or 'no' ;-)
Currently I'm running on xvba again (ppa:wsnipes/xbmc-xvba) with proprietary drivers (fglrx 13.35.5 [Mar 12 2014] with 1 minors) Otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch movies at all.
Many thanks for taking the time reading my story.
First of all: many thanks to everybody contributing in this forum. Especially to fritsch for putting together this guide.
I have been playing around with this stuff since many days now and frankly I'm getting frustrated ...
I got my HTPC set up by a colleague who used XBMCbuntu Frodo 12.2 with xvba-support and ATi fgrlx drivers. All in 32bit architecture! Everything worked fine. Instead of following the 'never-change-a-running-system' principle I decided to update the whole thing. That's when I found this thread. To cut a long story short:
I updated to Ubuntu 13.10 and Kernel 3.13.8 (32bit) and tried the OSS driver as well as the proprietary. I tried tons of ppas but never got the vdpau acceleration to work. And yes, I followed the instructions from page one except one fact as I do not have 64bit installed. (I got a software raid on the same machine and prefer not to give it a try to install everything from scratch and find out if the raid is still alive afterwards)
==> Does any of you know if there is a working setup based on 32bit architecture? I do not expect way more than 'yes' or 'no' ;-)
Currently I'm running on xvba again (ppa:wsnipes/xbmc-xvba) with proprietary drivers (fglrx 13.35.5 [Mar 12 2014] with 1 minors) Otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch movies at all.
Many thanks for taking the time reading my story.