2014-05-11, 21:44
First of all, thank you very much for all the work laid down into this project!
Secondly, my experiences:
My goal was to go from the xvba-solution on my Fusion E350 to the vdpau. At first I tried to do that without re-installing ubuntu, but that failed. And in doing so I screwed up the fully working setup I had, but it worked good enough for my kids, luckily enough. So I decided to follow the How-to and do the re-installation and it was a very good how-to! (Even though the mini-installation took me four hours, but that was because, as we say in Sweden, SBS (skit bakom spakarna), so no shadow on the how-to!)
After checking that everything worked fine, I wanted to install unity, i.e. ubuntu-desktop. In doing so, I was aware that it would install pulse-audio as well. So the HD-audio was screwed up, but then i found a guide that said that all one has to do is to remove pulse-audio and even though the (meta-)package ubuntu-desktop is removed, unity is still available. So removing pulse-audio, and prior to that setting upp lightdm as you worked out earlier.
I wanted to mention this in the thread if any other user want to have install a desktop environment without losing HD-audio.
So now I am very satisfied with my system and I look forward to loose another night's sleep when vdpau gets obsolete, hopefully years from now...
All the best to all of you!
**
Bjorn
Secondly, my experiences:
My goal was to go from the xvba-solution on my Fusion E350 to the vdpau. At first I tried to do that without re-installing ubuntu, but that failed. And in doing so I screwed up the fully working setup I had, but it worked good enough for my kids, luckily enough. So I decided to follow the How-to and do the re-installation and it was a very good how-to! (Even though the mini-installation took me four hours, but that was because, as we say in Sweden, SBS (skit bakom spakarna), so no shadow on the how-to!)
After checking that everything worked fine, I wanted to install unity, i.e. ubuntu-desktop. In doing so, I was aware that it would install pulse-audio as well. So the HD-audio was screwed up, but then i found a guide that said that all one has to do is to remove pulse-audio and even though the (meta-)package ubuntu-desktop is removed, unity is still available. So removing pulse-audio, and prior to that setting upp lightdm as you worked out earlier.
I wanted to mention this in the thread if any other user want to have install a desktop environment without losing HD-audio.
So now I am very satisfied with my system and I look forward to loose another night's sleep when vdpau gets obsolete, hopefully years from now...
All the best to all of you!
**
Bjorn