The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

roi.dm · 2012-10-18 19:32:03

try adding this into your profile/environment

export CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling

ChemBro · 2012-10-18 20:55:16

kuglee wrote:

Hardware acceleration is not working for me for a long time. I'm also using 12.6 beta becasue of the mobility hd4330 card.

Wrong driver. 12.6-legacy is the right one for you. Your video card isn't supported by the "normal" Catalyst driver since 12.6.

MisterAnderson · 2012-10-19 09:37:01

Love that it's back in the official repos! Thanks to Vi0L0 for their work.

I of course realised today that I didn't add fglrx to /etc/modprobe.d/ so I've been running with no acceleration for 3 months :S

Last edited by MisterAnderson (2012-10-19 09:37:33)

Foks · 2012-10-19 22:03:41

Hi everybody,
For a long time I'm trying to get xvba acceleration work flawlessly on my legacy HD3470.
I am running x86_64 system and catalyst 12.6-legacy on it, and 3D acceleration in games work fine, so I assume the driver is configured properly. (kernel module in use is fglrx_pci).

And I'm trying to use mplayer-vaapi to play h.264 video in MKV container. But actually I have twice more CPU loading when I use -va vaapi -vo vaapi (about ~90% cpu) then when I start mplayer simply with -vo xv (about 40%). Here is the log of mplayer:

mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi X.mkv -ao sdl 
MPlayer SVN-r35107-4.7.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
198 audio & 409 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing X.mkv.
libavformat version 54.25.104 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (flac), -aid 0, -alang rus, ...
[lavf] stream 2: subtitle (ass), -sid 0, -slang rus, ...
[lavf] stream 3: audio (flac), -aid 1, -alang jpn, Original
[lavf] stream 4: subtitle (ass), -sid 1, -slang rus, ...
VIDEO:  [H264]  1280x720  0bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 title: ...
 creation_time: 2012-10-11 18:39:32
Load subtitles in ./
libva info: VA-API version 0.33.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_32
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 54.53.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffflac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg FLAC audio)
==========================================================================
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 48000Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
AO: [sdl] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
[swscaler @ 0x104f520]using unscaled yuv420p10le -> yuv420p special converter
VO: [vaapi] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12 
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
A:   2.9 V:   2.3 A-V:  0.649 ct:  0.050   0/  0 74% 90%  0.8% 50 0 


           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

A:  55.9 V:  55.9 A-V:  0.005 ct:  0.056   0/  0 38% 42%  0.5% 244 0

The proprietary xvba-video 0.7.8-5 is installed on my laptop. And also sometimes when I start mplayer with "-va vaapi -vo vaapi" the system hangs completely, and only hard reboot can fix this issue. I have tried installing OS version of xvba-video (0.8.0), but it hangs my system too often. I even hardly ever can start watching video with xvba 0.8.0.

Can you help me, guys?

Add: Tried installing xvba-video-open-0.8.0 again from community repos. Mplayer shows me the following error:

xvba_video: error: Assertion failed in file xvba_image.c at line 453


MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: flip_page
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

Add2: My desktop manager is KWin, is it the case? Btw, in fullscreen mode compositing is automatically disabled and video plays smooth and tear-free, but CPU usage is still about 90%.

Last edited by Foks (2012-10-19 22:33:03)

Unia · 2012-10-20 10:47:20

Two things I can think of:

1. Try another player to see if mplayer is the culprit (for example, wrong configuration file on your end);
2. Try what's mentioned in the NOTE in the Wiki:

Note: If Tear Free Desktop is enabled it's better to use:
Options -> Preferences -> General -> Video (tab) -> Output driver: vaapi
If Video Output vaapi:gl isn't working - please check:
vaapi, vaapi:gl2 or simply xv(0 - AMD Radeon AVIVO Video).

Last edited by Unia (2012-10-20 10:48:33)

Foks · 2012-10-20 18:21:28

Unia, thank you for your answer.

I tried using VLC and it shows about 30% cpu without acceleration and about 20% with. It seems that my problem is related to mplayer. I will continue searching in this way.

Another question still bothers me: why can't I use xvba-video-open 0.8.0 ?

snack · 2012-10-20 18:40:43

Foks wrote:

Another question still bothers me: why can't I use xvba-video-open 0.8.0 ?

If I'm correct, AMD dropped XVBA some time ago and left it to the community. This generated XVBA 0.8 which is ~ abandoned.

Unia · 2012-10-20 18:41:38

I don't know, I can use it. If you are using Catalyst from AUR or the unofficial repository, then perhaps because xvba gets build against the driver and xvba-video-open is built again catalyst-dkms?

So, try using either xvba-video-open and catalyst-dkms from [community], or xvba-video and catalyst from AUR or the unofficial repo.

Vi0L0 · 2012-10-20 19:08:30

snack wrote:

Foks wrote:
Another question still bothers me: why can't I use xvba-video-open 0.8.0 ?
If I'm correct, AMD dropped XVBA some time ago and left it to the community. This generated XVBA 0.8 which is ~ abandoned.

Not only ~ abandoned, but also crippled - because community's version of xvba is missing some functions, that's why it's not working well (or not working at all)

Unia wrote:

I don't know, I can use it. If you are using Catalyst from AUR or the unofficial repository, then perhaps because xvba gets build against the driver and xvba-video-open is built again catalyst-dkms?
So, try using either xvba-video-open and catalyst-dkms from [community], or xvba-video and catalyst from AUR or the unofficial repo.

There should be no difference when comparing catalyst from [community] with the one from [catalyst] / AUR - libs are the same, module compilation method is same (well here -generator differs a bit because it's additionally using user's flags from makepkg.conf, but it should be good for him only ).
xvba-video comes precompiled. And i doubt that xvba-video-open is using catalyst's libs when compiling (i'm not sure though).

I remember that sometimes i had to reinstall xvba-video / mplayer-vaapi and restart X / reboot to make it work right.

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2012-10-20 19:11:06)

Foks · 2012-10-20 19:56:38

Guys, It was a false alarm, the video which I tried to play was not supported by vaapi. I have tried another video and mplayer shows different log output:

VO: [vaapi] 1280x720 => 1280x720 H.264 VA-API Acceleration 
[VD_FFMPEG] XVMC-accelerated MPEG-2.

CPU load is much lower now and xvba-video-open works well with this video. However, it still fails to fallback to YUV2 (and crashes instead) with that first video, so there must be a bug.

libgradev · 2012-10-22 11:26:40

Tried 12.9 beta - rolled back to 12.8.

There seems to be issues with Wine using the 12.9 beta driver. These happen on Xorg 1.12 and 1.13 so I guess AMD made a driver change.

I am noticing 'forever' stalling loading some games (DA2 for example) with the following output spamming the console:

err:d3d_draw:drawStridedFast >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION (0x506) from glDrawArrays @ ../../../dlls/wined3d/drawprim.c / 60
fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status FBO status GL_FRAMEBUFFER_INCOMPLETE_DRAW_BUFFER (0x8cdb)
fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status 	Location SFLAG_INRB_MULTISAMPLE (0x200000).
fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status 	Color attachment 0: (0x12d54f8) WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM 1920x1080 2 samples.
fixme:d3d:context_check_fbo_status 	Depth attachment: (0x12c88b8) WINED3DFMT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT 1920x1080 2 samples.

Other applications are showing display corruption on recent (1.5.x) wine versions.

oniichan · 2012-10-23 17:31:02

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=150667

Well, I guess I'm stuck.

Cdh · 2012-10-24 10:11:07

12.10 without x.org 1.13 support.
12.11 beta with x.org 1.13 support
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l … ng=English

Unia · 2012-10-24 11:00:14

Cdh wrote:

12.10 without x.org 1.13 support.
12.11 beta with x.org 1.13 support
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l … ng=English

Always exciting to see new drivers! Altho, I do currently run 12.9 beta with Xorg 1.13. Can we also get Xorg 1.13 working with 12.10?

Who has tested these?

jfernyhough · 2012-10-24 11:22:01

I've just installed the 12.11 drivers in Ubuntu (don't shoot me ). They seem to be working OK (first impressions) but you'll need to add a signature to /etc/ati/signature to get rid of the watermark (as normal for their beta releases).

lordheavy · 2012-10-24 11:53:31

Unia wrote:

Cdh wrote:
12.10 without x.org 1.13 support.
12.11 beta with x.org 1.13 support
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l … ng=English
Always exciting to see new drivers! Altho, I do currently run 12.9 beta with Xorg 1.13. Can we also get Xorg 1.13 working with 12.10?
Who has tested these?

12.10 are not working with xorg-server 1.13, 12.11b are working fine (when watermark is removed ).

Unia · 2012-10-24 12:46:20

So which is recommended? Downgrading Xorg and use 12.10, or keeping Xorg1.13 and using the beta?

lordheavy · 2012-10-24 12:54:19

Unia wrote:

So which is recommended? Downgrading Xorg and use 12.10, or keeping Xorg1.13 and using the beta?

I will push the 12.11 beta drivers in the testing repos tonight with the watermark removed.

Last edited by lordheavy (2012-10-24 12:54:34)

Cdh · 2012-10-24 13:26:38

lordheavy wrote:

I will push the 12.11 beta drivers in the testing repos tonight with the watermark removed.

Are you sure that's legal?

On a related note:
What's the latest status of powerXpress/enduro?
There's catalyst-total-pxp in the AUR but it still wants to replace libgl something... Should it be ready to work in the repos?
Does anyone know anything about muxless ("enduro") support?

lordheavy · 2012-10-24 13:46:19

Cdh wrote:

lordheavy wrote:
I will push the 12.11 beta drivers in the testing repos tonight with the watermark removed.
Are you sure that's legal?

Why shouldn't it be legal ?

Cdh wrote:

On a related note:
What's the latest status of powerXpress/enduro?
There's catalyst-total-pxp in the AUR but it still wants to replace libgl something... Should it be ready to work in the repos?
Does anyone know anything about muxless ("enduro") support?

No plans for these.

Cdh · 2012-10-24 14:04:09

lordheavy wrote:

Cdh wrote:
lordheavy wrote:
I will push the 12.11 beta drivers in the testing repos tonight with the watermark removed.
Are you sure that's legal?
Why shouldn't it be legal ?

Removing a watermark from a proprietary driver by patching some file... I mean, it's not a user doing it for him/herself, archlinux will "redistribute" that driver. Better safe than sorry.

lordheavy wrote:

Cdh wrote:
On a related note:
What's the latest status of powerXpress/enduro?
There's catalyst-total-pxp in the AUR but it still wants to replace libgl something... Should it be ready to work in the repos?
Does anyone know anything about muxless ("enduro") support?
No plans for these.

Ok, thanks.

Last edited by Cdh (2012-10-24 14:04:35)

lordheavy · 2012-10-24 14:17:24

Cdh wrote:

lordheavy wrote:
Cdh wrote:
Are you sure that's legal?
Why shouldn't it be legal ?
Removing a watermark from a proprietary driver by patching some file... I mean, it's not a user doing it for him/herself, archlinux will "redistribute" that driver. Better safe than sorry.

I just replace a part of their new driver with a part of their old driver. It's their code, not mine.

Unia · 2012-10-24 14:29:16

Catalyst-dkms 12.10 from [community] works properly, you just have to rollback Xorg to 1.12.

lordheavy · 2012-10-24 14:31:20

Unia wrote:

Catalyst-dkms 12.10 from [community] works properly, you just have to rollback Xorg to 1.12.

It's the reason for an update to 12.11beta drivers

Unia · 2012-10-24 14:39:37

I guessed Thought I'd just inform other readers in case they don't want to run beta software.

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