<div dir="ltr"><div>uh-ohhhhhh<br></div>I installed 13.12 with the force option and it installed. then the machine said it needed a reboot. so I did and now X doesn't work. so this is way deeper than I had hoped it would be but it is too late to go back now! so I had read that you need to reinstall X after an FGLRX upgrade. I need to go to work now but if you could tell me how to do this it would be great. After we get done with this I am going to have a bunch of instructional files. that is what I do now.... I copy the instructuions into a file and put that into a folder entitle 'computer instructions so I don't have to bug anyone about my little problems and so I can help someone with the same problem.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">figured out the installation (sh <file>) but now it is telling me to uninstall the previous installation of fglrx (which I am doing with apt-get remove). But to remove it it is installing a package called :<div>
<br></div><div><div>The following NEW packages will be installed:</div><div> fglrx-amdcccle-updates fglrx-updates</div></div><div><br></div><div>SO should I continue with the installation of 13.12 after the updates are installed?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">okay.... is installed but they are up to version 13.12 . Time for an upgrade. I d/l the new driver butdon't know how to install it. The file is a .run file . './<file name> isn't working and the release notes don't give any indication. So what do I do?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>mb@host:~$ sudo dpkg -l fglrx<br>
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold<br>
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Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend<br>
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)<br>
||/ Name Version Architecture Description<br>
+++-==============-============-============-=================================<br>
ii fglrx 2:13.200-0ub amd64 Video driver for the
AMD graphics<br>
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Compare that against the active driver sets from AMD's site.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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-mb</font></span><div><div><br>
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On 12/26/2013 03:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hey Mike..... how do I see what the current version
of fglrx is? I tried locate and I think it is 9 or 10 as there
are a coupke of files.... one is:
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<div>/etc/X11/Xsession.d/10fglrx</div>
<div>and the other</div>
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<div>/usr/lib/pxpress/lib/10fglrx</div>
</div>
<div>or</div>
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<div>/usr/src/fglrx-9.000</div>
</div>
<div>and then a bunch of files built off of that directory.</div>
<div>.... then I just noticed:</div>
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<div>/lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:08 PM,
Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div>Ok, I think the problem is likely with the format of
the video, it doesn't sound like they're being hardware
decoded, as I don't even see a blip on the cpu when the
gpu is doing the decode. Basically you don't have
enough processing that it's dragging your system down
with it. If VLC, Totem, or whatever all behave the
same, it's a system resource issue.<br>
<br>
I'd make sure you upgrade your drivers from actual
AMD/ATI site, as the ones in repo tend to be old, you
might just have some rendering challenges. They've also
steadily added codecs over time for what they can
decode, so it might be fixed. Don't install the radeon
driver, just upgrade the fglrx proprietary blob driver.<br>
<br>
The other option is change your recording format to
something that doesn't kill your cpu. You can also
transcode or reencode the existing videos. I'd
recommend just using straight h.264 as it's all but
standard and supported by most gpu's for decode now.
Plenty of info and apps out there to do this, but not my
forte to point you at any one. I never make videos, I
just download straight h.264 or xvid videos that give me
no grief.<br>
<br>
What format *are* these in? Not just the container (ie.
mkv), but the actual codec in use. VLC will tell you if
you look under Tool menu, and Codec Properties when the
file is loaded.<br>
<br>
Reply to all for the list too, might help someone else
out here without me having readd them back in disjointed
thread fashion. :)<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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-mb</font></span>
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On 12/26/2013 12:13 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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<div>I'm not sure if I need to say this but xbmc
videos play with no problem; the problem is with
home recorded videos. If I upload the videos to
you tube they will play fine. As for the output
of: lsmod | egrep 'fgl|rade'</div>
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<div> fglrx <a href="tel:4325524%20%C2%A0223" value="+14325524223" target="_blank">4325524
223</a> <br>
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<div> I do not seem to have a radeon driver. I did
apt-cache search to see I could figure out what
to install.... and out of the list that printed
up of interest (i think) is: </div>
<div> fglrx-updates - Video driver for the AMD
graphics accelerators</div>
<div>and<br>
<div> rovclock - utility to control
frequency rates of your Radeon card</div>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>htop just showed vlc at the top of the list
when I started it with cpu usage between 10% and
80%.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I also just tried it with
totem (slow video and no sound) and
gnome-mplayer (slow video, normal sound which
rushes ahead)<br clear="all">
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<div class="gmail_extra">$ apt-cache search radeon<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_extra">libdrm-radeon1 -
Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel
DRM services -- runtime</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">libdrm-radeon1-dbg -
Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel
DRM services -- debugging symbols</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">radeontool - utility to
control ATI Radeon backlight functions on
laptops</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">xserver-xorg-video-ati
- X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver
wrapper</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">xserver-xorg-video-ati-dbg
- X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver
wrapper (debugging symbols)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">xserver-xorg-video-radeon
- X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display
driver</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg
- X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display
driver (debugging symbols)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">xvba-va-driver -
XvBA-based backend for VA API (AMD fglrx
implementation)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">fglrx - Video driver
for the AMD graphics accelerators</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">fglrx-amdcccle -
Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics
accelerators</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">fglrx-amdcccle-updates
- Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics
accelerators</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">fglrx-dev - Video
driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
(devel files)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> fglrx-updates - Video
driver for the AMD graphics accelerators</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">fglrx-updates-dev -
Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
(devel files)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">mplayer2 - next
generation movie player for Unix-like systems</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">rovclock - utility to
control frequency rates of your Radeon card</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">atitvout - ATI TV Out
Support Program</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">gatos - ATI
All-in-Wonder TV capture software</div>
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