Ubuntu – How to enable hardware acceleration for an ATI Radeon HD5450

11.10ati

i have followed the steps from the links
Is my ATI graphics card supported in Ubuntu?
and
How can I enable hardware acceleration for an ATI Radeon HD?

my vainfo output is

libva: libva version 0.32.0

Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0

libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so

libva: va_openDriver() returns 0

vainfo: VA API version: 0.32

vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.7.8

vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints

      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD

      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

which is the same as in the post above but i have choppy video even playing 720p.
Graghics in System info display this

Driver VESA:PARK
Experience Standard

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The output of sudo glxinfo | grep -i direct is:

direct rendering: Yes 
GL_AMD_multi_draw_indirect, GL_AMD_name_gen_delete, 
GL_ARB_draw_indirect, GL_ARB_draw_instanced, 
GL_EXT_copy_buffer, GL_EXT_copy_texture, 
GL_EXT_direct_state_access,

The output of sudo lspci | grep VGA is:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5430 Series]

Best Answer

wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run
sh amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run

Then choose to build package for your detected distribution. Then you can install the .deb package with

sudo dpkg -i fglrx_8.930-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb fglrx-amdcccle_8.930-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb fglrx-dev_8.930-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

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Ubuntu – How to enable hardware acceleration for an ATI Radeon HD

Tested for Ubuntu 11.10 and any supported card ATI card using binary driver (only cards that support UDV2, radeon hd 4000 or higher)

Hardware video acceleration is only enabled if you are using the binaries from ATI, either install them using the Additional Driver tool or manually from the ATI site, the last method is preferred since the current package in the Additional Driver tool is quite buggy.

This post contains all the information needed to install/switch/remove drivers for ATI cards.

After this is done you still need a way to connect the media player to the hardware acceleration feature present in your new drivers.

To do that by installing xvba-va-driver, libva-glx1 and vainfo. Open a terminal and use this command, or look for the packages using the Ubuntu Software Center

sudo apt-get install xvba-va-driver libva-glx1 vainfo

After the packages are installed open a terminal (if not using it) and type vainfo, you should get an output like the following

 libva: libva version 0.32.0
 Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
 libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
 libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
 libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
 vainfo: VA API version: 0.32
 vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.7.8
 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
 VAProfileH264High               :  VAEntrypointVLD
 VAProfileVC1Advanced            :  VAEntrypointVLD

If not something is wrong (drop a comment for more help).

If you get a similar output your drivers are installed and any video player with hardware decoding capabilities should pick it up automatically or allow you to enable this in the player's settings.

For a list of player capable of using hardware video decoding have a look here, the list is not as complete as I wanted but its a good starting point for information.

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Ubuntu – How to enable hardware acceleration for an ATI Radeon HD