Wednesday, April 29, 2009

ATI RadeonHD Video drivers in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

Want XVideo support for playing movies on Ubuntu with a RadeonHD card?  Add the following repos for the latest GIT packages.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Add public key



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Sample Xorg.conf (from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1077127&page=2 )

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "radeonhd"
Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
Option "DRI" "on"
Option "VideoOverlay" "off"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "on"
Option "TexturedVideo" "off"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

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