[mythtv-users] AMD Radeon HD 5450

[Josu Lazkano]

Thanks Stephen!

I change again to Jessie, and it works aout of the box. I just select
VDPAU in the playback profile.

Thanks for the help.

Regards.

2015-01-19 2:13 GMT+01:00 Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:44:12 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>
>>2015-01-18 10:16 GMT+01:00 Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com>:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> I installed a AMD Radeon HD 5450
>>> (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3631) in a
>>> frontend to get audio/image with HDMI.
>>>
>>> I am using Debian Jessie, how could I install and configure it?
>>>
>>> Which drivers need I install? Which is the Video Playback profile for this card?
>>>
>>> This is my first time with AMD cards, I always use Nvidia cards.
>>>
>>
>>Hello again,
>>
>>I change from Debian Jessie to Debian Wheezy. Installed opensource
>>drivers, this the dmesg output:
>>
>># dmesg | grep "drm"
>>[    4.565481] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
>>[    5.100356] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
>>[    5.112899] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (CEDAR
>>0x1002:0x68F9 0x1458:0x21F7).
>>[    5.112921] [drm] register mmio base: 0xFEAE0000
>>[    5.112922] [drm] register mmio size: 131072
>>[    5.113083] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=512M, BAR=256M
>>[    5.113084] [drm] RAM width 64bits DDR
>>[    5.113162] [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready
>>[    5.113163] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
>>[    5.113176] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
>>[    5.113860] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
>>[    5.126303] [drm] Loading CEDAR Microcode
>>[    5.521170] [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000000000040000).
>>[    5.521319] [drm] fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x20000c00
>>and cpu addr 0xffff880129c86c00
>>[    5.521323] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
>>[    5.521324] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
>>[    5.521423] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
>>[    5.538023] [drm] ring test on 0 succeeded in 1 usecs
>>[    5.538400] [drm] ib test on ring 0 succeeded in 0 usecs
>>[    5.538671] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
>>[    5.538673] [drm] Connector 0:
>>[    5.538674] [drm]   HDMI-A
>>[    5.538675] [drm]   HPD2
>>[    5.538676] [drm]   DDC: 0x6460 0x6460 0x6464 0x6464 0x6468 0x6468
>>0x646c 0x646c
>>[    5.538678] [drm]   Encoders:
>>[    5.538679] [drm]     DFP1: INTERNAL_UNIPHY1
>>[    5.538680] [drm] Connector 1:
>>[    5.538681] [drm]   DVI-I
>>[    5.538682] [drm]   HPD4
>>[    5.538684] [drm]   DDC: 0x6450 0x6450 0x6454 0x6454 0x6458 0x6458
>>0x645c 0x645c
>>[    5.538685] [drm]   Encoders:
>>[    5.538686] [drm]     DFP2: INTERNAL_UNIPHY
>>[    5.538687] [drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
>>[    5.538688] [drm] Connector 2:
>>[    5.538689] [drm]   VGA
>>[    5.538690] [drm]   DDC: 0x6430 0x6430 0x6434 0x6434 0x6438 0x6438
>>0x643c 0x643c
>>[    5.538692] [drm]   Encoders:
>>[    5.538693] [drm]     CRT2: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
>>[    5.538724] [drm] Internal thermal controller with fan control
>>[    5.538760] [drm] radeon: power management initialized
>>[    5.623619] [drm] fb mappable at 0xD0142000
>>[    5.623621] [drm] vram apper at 0xD0000000
>>[    5.623623] [drm] size 8294400
>>[    5.623624] [drm] fb depth is 24
>>[    5.623625] [drm]    pitch is 7680
>>[    5.623713] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
>>[    6.069849] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
>>[    6.069852] drm: registered panic notifier
>>[    6.069877] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.16.0 20080528 for
>>0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
>>
>>The video playback is not well, I try with "VDPAU Normal" and "OpenGL"
>>playback profiles, but nothing.
>>
>>The audio doesn't play throw HDMI, in the audio configuration says
>>"HDMI Audio Output (No connection detected)".
>>
>>Anyone with this card? (AMD Radeon HD 5450).
>
> Have you found the Wiki VDPAU page?
>
>   http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU
>
> It does have some setup info for AMD/ATI cards.  I also found this on
> a quick Google:
>
>  http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2014-April/362427.html
>
> AMD cards these days can apparently use either VAAPI or VDPAU, but I
> have not really followed the discussions of it as I only have Nvidia
> and Intel GPUs.
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Josu Lazkano