I could not find the latest driver for my ATI 4200 of my HP 625 in the repositories of Ubuntu 11.04. I was trying to get VAAPI running for hardware accelerated h264 video playback in VLC. I did not work.
After some research I managed to get the driver running – but still no VA video!
It should be working with the stuff from from the ubuntu x-team:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
If you want to install the linux drivers from AMD start with removing ubuntu’s fglrx (if it was installed by jockey) with
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
Downloading the driver in a new directory
Downloading the driver in a new directory
mkdir ~/Downloads/amd
cd ~/Downloads/amd
wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-5-x86.x86_64.run
With the downloaded script we can start building the packages:
sudo sh ati-driver-installer-11-5-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/natty
Install the built packages with
Install the built packages with
sudo dpkg -i *deb
sudo aticonfig --initial -f
will detect your grafx adapter. After a reboot my ATI 4200 was working with the new driver!
sudo aticonfig --initial -f
will detect your grafx adapter. After a reboot my ATI 4200 was working with the new driver!
The lates drivers are available from ATI driver download . Just replace the download-link in the “wget-command”.
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