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neoroses

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Registered: 2014-01-29

Posts: 7

Stable ati driver installed, but still issues

Hi folks

I followed this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst

and everything went smoothly, everything installed fine and the accc is showing my graphics card and lets me change the settings.

Now i only installed it because i could not get flash videos to play smoothly on full screen, it was by default using the ati-dri driver. No matter what i tried i could not sort this issue so i installed the stable amd catalyst driver and control centre. It boots fine but videos are still choppy (when on full screen) and the movement of windows around is slow and tearing. i followed the instructions on the the wiki to fix these things but nothings has worked.

before installation of the driver window movement was smooth also

I assume if the driver was not installed properly i would not even be able to boot into a gui? everything looks pretty its just when i come to drag windows about and like i say watch youtube.

Cheers guys, i can post more info later if needed.

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Stable ati driver installed, but still issues

I assume if the driver was not installed properly i would not even be able to boot into a gui? everything looks pretty its just when i come to drag windows about and like i say watch youtube.

Every video card has a "backup" video driver called "vesa". So if you didn't install the driver properly, you still can login into KDE, Gnome, whatever, with the vesa driver. Result: everything is super choppy.

So all in all: Your video driver isn't installed correctly.

neoroses

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Registered: 2014-01-29

Posts: 7

Re: Stable ati driver installed, but still issues

i meant "i assume it was installed properly" as it boots in to a gui, but the vesa would explain this. Should i just start the whole process again in a fresh install? Is there a way to stop the choppy video playback using the ati-dri? id happily use that as everything else worked fine with that. I tried the usual suggestions like stopping flash using hardware acceleration. and but this was to no avail.

Any suggestions?

cheers

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Stable ati driver installed, but still issues

Any suggestions?

The less information you share, the less someone is able to help you.

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: Stable ati driver installed, but still issues

Should i just start the whole process again in a fresh install?

No, there shouldn't be any reason to do anything that drastic. If the open source Radeon driver works well for you then I think it would be a better idea to use it instead of the Catalyst driver. Just uninstall the Catalyst driver and install the Radeon driver.

What computer are you using? What video card are you using?

What are you trying to watch? If it's just things like YouTube videos then consider using a helper application such as "youtube-dl" and using a video player such as "mpv". You'll still be able to watch the video while it's downloading, but you won't have to deal with those stupid clunky sometimes-works sometimes-doesn't Flash video players. I don't know how anyone does.

Ha, I just realized, you're dealing with Flash for Linux (which is kind of deprecated and not being developed any more) and Catalyst for Linux(which is kind of deprecated and not being developed any more). Sounds tricky.

neoroses

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Registered: 2014-01-29

Posts: 7

Re: Stable ati driver installed, but still issues

ok thanks for your help guys and sorry for the lack of info! i wrote the post at my day job and am now at my night job so am still away from the laptop in question! so i still cant provide any info...yet.

yea it is just youtube that's the issue, avi, mp4 ect all play ok. I am using cinnamon desktop on it, i havent tried any other software no but its my mrs laptop and she just wants to be able to use youtube as its intended lol! (this issue has occurred on all distros i have tried on it)

however i have just installed on my brother laptop which has a AMD  AMD A4-5000 WITH radeon HD, and installed flashplugin and that worked fine. and it is a similar hardware set to the laptop in question. I used gnome with this, is that likely to have an effect on flash? i have never experienced difficulties when switching environments.   

I give proper hardware info tomoz when im actually with the laptop lol!