Ubuntu Gets Another ATI Catalyst Driver Handout

[Kano]

@yaji

That driver ONLY works with Xserver 1.7. It would work with other systems then the full installer would be available.

[krionius]

@krionius

32 or 64 bit?

Its 64 bit.

[raulromania]

btw, the watermark is gone now for my hd 5650 mobility.. so this 10.4 beta (10.3-333) contains support for it at last.

Yeeey ... this is the info i needed
Big thanks!

... finally *sigh*

[monraaf]

Anyone tested this driver with Unigine Tropics? I can see the menu and the fps counter but the rest of the screen is just black with this driver.

[yaji]

@yaji

That driver ONLY works with Xserver 1.7. It would work with other systems then the full installer would be available.

Yes, I know, I'm using Ubuntu 10.4 b1, so it should work.

[Vi0L0]

@ arch64 hd4850 2.6.32.10:
Muuuaahaha! =]
I have just installed mplayer-vaapi-pulse (from aur) and theres no flickering at all (on fullscreen ofcourse), colours seems fine, subtitles are working (on smplayer)!
On every video file ive tested/got - rmvb, mov, divx, xvid, h264!

$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.31.0-sds5
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA API version: 0.31
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA API - 0.6.9
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointIDCT
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointIDCT
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD

mplayer -vo vaapi:gl -va vaapi file.avi
or with smplayer you need to specify own video output as: vaapi:gl

Now thats a surprise! Great!

As timong wrote - its not working on hes 5650 mobility so it probably doesnt work with whole 5xxx line.

Plus - when v-sync is enabled games are finally fast!

Darn!
Good job ATI! =P

Ps. i have also installed: libva-sds and xvba-video (from aur)

[krionius]

Anyone tested this driver with Unigine Tropics? I can see the menu and the fps counter but the rest of the screen is just black with this driver.

Same here with 5650 mobility and 10.3-333

[Vi0L0]

Anyone tested this driver with Unigine Tropics? I can see the menu and the fps counter but the rest of the screen is just black with this driver.

Its working fine on hd4850 arch64... although its slower than with previous catalyst release

[monraaf]

Same here with 5650 mobility and 10.3-333

Great, I have an HD 5750. So it looks like yet another bug specific to Evergreen .

[Yfrwlf]

You make it sound like we're being ungrateful for AMD's decisions to show the rest of us the middle finger.

Sorry AMD! We're really terribly sorry that we're not using the outdated, crap distros you're supporting officially.

Please continue to support specific distros only instead of Linux in general. It makes all our lives easier and generates more love towards you by every Linux user.

Well if it takes a little more work to update their main general Linux distro installer than it does to release a DEB package, that could be why. Things of course shouldn't be this way though, like if there was, oh, packaging/installation STANDARDS.