Few problems

[wiiija]

Hi all,

Decided to give Ubuntu a go tonight, briefly tried it from a USB stick first, liked it and installed.
While I love it in general I do have a few problems which I've been pulling my hair out about all night. Firstly I cannot get audio over HDMI working (acer revo R3610 ION based nettop).

Sound properties shows HDMI audio etc, its all selected but nothing, no sound at all, I figured it would be chipset drivers or something but nothing seems available for linux.

Secondly and something I am fairly surprised about is video performance, I've installed the drivers using Ubuntu hardware drivers application.
Firstly I have screen tearing which is noticeable even just by dragging windows around the desktop, this is both with desktop effects enabled and with them disabled.
Secondly I was using MPC-HC on windows 7 which has hardware accel, 1080p .mkv ran smooth as silk without a glitch, on the linux install I've tried VLC and it would not play ball with an .mkv, it runs it but its just a blocky jerky mess! I thought VLC had hardware accel now?

Any alternatives that will fully support hardware accel with ION chipset or is that just a nono on linux at the moment?


Cheers,
Sean

 

[wiiija]

Thanks for your help Rainmaker.

I've actually managed to sort everything! The screen tearing on desktop was due to compiz refreshing at 50hz instead of 60, so fixed that!
The 1080p playbck I fxed by installing mplayer/smplayer and using vdpau as the output, perfect now!

Last night was spent getting the wireless working which is now sorted AND I even got audio over HDMI working by uopdating the alsa drivers.

Very very happy now, everything is running smoothly

Sean