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Energyman: OK, but I'm already running 3.2.X - so I'm expected to *downgrade* - or at least freeze - the rest of my machine simply because ATI want to drop support for something only 12 months old? I...

Just over a year ago, I bought an Acer "Netbook". I need a small, portable device that can handle HD video, and it fits the bill perfectly. I use mplayer-vaapi, and it does everything I need.

And...

I think I might have found a solution to this problem! Well, sort of.... Let me explain....

I'm running Slackware 64 13.37, with the standard KDE desktop (4.6.something from memory). Today, I...

Ah! Apologies for that! We've only just got the earlier version over this side of the pond, so I was a bit hazy about the full spec!

But I suspect that the HD problems will be the same, as this...

Interesting! I bought an Aspire One 721 a few weeks back, installed Slackware 13.37, and everything worked instantly!

I've since compiled my own kernel, to get rid of all the stuff I didn't need,...

Hm! That doesn't sound good - looks like the only person doing any development work on this has quit! I wonder where this leaves the project?

Having said that, at least he seems to have uploaded...

A link to where you got those would be much appreciated, when you find them!

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I've been having similar problems (see thread mplayer-vaapi crashing). I'm running Slackware64, and installed all the files from the splitted desktop website.

Mplayer-vaapi does actually play the...

Thanks, Bridgman, that makes a degree of sense. But I thought one of the points of HDMI was to enable devices to identify themselves and their resolutions without intervention!

Depending on how I...

I thought I had already tried it as a user, but went back to check again: and no, there's still only the "information" tab available for the secondary display.

I think there may be a clue in that...

In the "Start menu" there are two options for the Catalyst Control Center: One to run it as a user, the other to run it as an administrator (root). Only the latter allows you to make any changes, so...

Well, this was a fresh install of Slackware on a new laptop, so there shouldn't have been any issues. But just to be sure, I un-installed as suggested, re-booted and re-installed the catalyst...

ExCyber: No, I get exactly the same if I run your suggested command from the console. My sttings window looks exactly like RemcoL's, except that it has only one tab: Information.

The other three...

OK, I've made a little progress here, but it doesn't help a lot - partly because of my ignorance!

Going back five years or so, it appears that it was not uncommon for mplayer to crash in this...

RemcoL: What version of the Catalyst drivers are you running? And is it 32 or 64 bit?

I'm running 11.5 x86_64 on Slackware 64, and have a default install. My desktop is KDE4.

My control panel...

Er, yes - but as I explained in my original post, that's for windows! That menu and slider don't exist in the Linux version - at least, not on mine....!

My question precisely!

It does it in Windoze as well, but at least there you *do* have a control to adjust it - even if it is well hidden!

Thanks for the tips! I'm just about to shoot off to...

'Fraid I'm using the FULL version, and it definitely doesn't work with libva-0.32! The best success I've had is with 0.31-sds4.

There doesn't seem to be any way of filing bug reports to the...

Now the tricky one!

Computer: Acer Aspire One 721
Gfx: Radeon 4200 (RS880)
Driver: Catalyst 11.5
System: Slackware63 13.37
Kernel: 2.6.38.6

vainfo:

A couple of questions - the easy one first! (I'll post the tricky one separately!)

Computer: Acer Aspire One 721
Gfx: Radeon 4200 (RS880)
Driver: Catalyst 11.5
System: Slackware63 13.37...