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placeybordeaux

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Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 5

Radeon HD 5850 can't get HDMI sound + openCL + dual moniter

So i have a Radeon HD 5850 and so far I have only been able to get the dual moniters working with the free driver, and the HDMI sound working with the propritery drivers.

I am not afraid to downgrade packages, but currently I am on the free drivers and flash isn't working, openCL isn't working and HDMI sound isn't working.

What version of the drivers should I get?

fhtah

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Registered: 2012-11-28

Posts: 3

Re: Radeon HD 5850 can't get HDMI sound + openCL + dual moniter

Hi I have HD4850 and HDMI sound used to work nice with free driver and dual monitor setup  - I had to add kernel option radeon.audio=1 and
ensure sound is unmuted.
I have been using this ( xbmc running on 2nd screen ) for long time.
After kernel update from 3.9 to 3.10 my  system stopped booting with that option though.
They say opencl is not supported with free driver.

So you can give a try with radeon.audio=1 anyway, just have boot option to start also without it
in case you get 'boot to death' like me on 3.10-x.