XMBC/Radeon graphics issues

kiwi · 17 May 2012 at 17:48

Hullo,

I've just installed XMBC on a headless server and bought a Sapphire HD 6450 to run sound + graphics through HDMI. After many hours of pulling my hair out trying to get sound working, I installed the catalyst closed source drive which sorted it.

Annoyingly, now the screen discolours every now and again. Any pointers would be appreciated, haven't touched an xorg.conf in rage in years!

Bigsy · 17 May 2012 at 18:08

Is the box just for XBMC? If so just stick openelec on it, will save a shed load of hassles.

kiwi · 17 May 2012 at 18:58

Bigsy said:
Is the box just for XBMC? If so just stick openelec on it, will save a shed load of hassles.

Nah it's got some other services on but wouldn't I have the same problem with it being the same chipset and driver combo?

phill1978 · 17 May 2012 at 21:32

cat 12.4 gave me some problems on linux too i think AMD need to get there **** together, and you thought the windows ati drivers were bad !

kiwi · 17 May 2012 at 21:47

It's not a huge deal as I'm waiting on the rasberry pi to be the front-end but it's slightly annoying to watch 1 out of every 20 in blue...

melvis · 18 May 2012 at 23:57

tbh if you only get the problem under catalyst its only going to be an fglrx issue which only AMD can fix if you report it at
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
but given there track record i wouldnt hold my breath.

kiwi · 19 May 2012 at 20:41

Like I said, I'm not great at graphics any more, would the open source driver do HDMI sound and graphics? I'm only using fglrx as the sound didn't work before I installed it

melvis · 23 May 2012 at 00:08

according to the archwiki the open source driver should do hdmi audio at least
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#HDMI_Audio

The audio module is disabled by default in kernel >=3.0. Add radeon.audio=1 to the end of your "kernel" line in /boot/grub/menu.lst to enable it.

might be something to look it

kiwi · 23 May 2012 at 19:39

melvis said:
according to the archwiki the open source driver should do hdmi audio at least
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#HDMI_Audio

might be something to look it

Tried that sadly to no avail

Although I was trying to use aplay as a test but that still doesn't work even now so maybe it was working with the grub line

kiwi · 4 Jun 2012 at 23:31

For the record, specifying radeonhd in xorg.conf rather than radeon fixed it. Probably should have read up a bit more before jumping to fglrx!

R088ieS86 · 5 Jun 2012 at 10:38

Hi kiwi, have you got the link for the driver to fix the sound? I'm having a bit of a bad time trying to get his working as well with a HD6450.

kiwi · 12 Jun 2012 at 21:32

R088ieS86 said:
Hi kiwi, have you got the link for the driver to fix the sound? I'm having a bit of a bad time trying to get his working as well with a HD6450.

You need to download this:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx