Comments on: Poulsbo update: cleaner, faster, stronger, video playback acceleration

By: dragonmule

dragonmule — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:15:39 +0000

About the Fluendo and Gstreamer. Here are codecs I have of theirs which came loaded OEM.

gst-inspect-0.10 |grep flu
flump3dec: flump3dec: Fluendo MP3 Decoder (IPP build)
flumpeg2vdec: flumpeg2vdec: Fluendo MPEG-2 Video Decoder
fluvadec: fluvadec: Fluendo Hardware Accelerated Video Decoder
fluwmvdec: fluwmvdec: Fluendo WMV Decoder
flumms: flummssrc: Fluendo MMS source
flurtp: flurtpasfdepay: RTP packet parser
fluwma: fluwmsdec: Fluendo WMS Decoder
fluwma: fluwmadec: Fluendo WMA Decoder (STD + PRO Stereo + LSL + WMS)
fluasf: fluasfcmdparse: Fluendo ASF Command Parser
fluasf: fluasfdemux: Fluendo ASF Demuxer
flumcaacdec: flumcaacdec: Fluendo AAC Decoder
flumpeg4vdec: flumpeg4vdec: Fluendo MPEG-4 ASP Video Decoder
flumpegdemux: flutsdemux: MPEG Transport stream demuxer
flumpegdemux: flupsdemux: MPEG Program Demuxer

720p and 1080p h264 hardware accelerated with gstreamer and these codecs plays back very clean. This surprised me as I remembered gstreamer as slow from past experience. Gstreamer still seems to not work as well as mplayer for non-HD videos.

By: iczer1

iczer1 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:27:10 +0000

Hi Orkestra,

I had the same problem when I first restarted fedora after installing the driver.
It is due to the fact that you need a mem=1900MB or whatever in the kernel options.
Early posts of poulsbo indicated this.

BR,

Felix.

By: joebie

joebie — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:25:48 +0000

First of all thank you!

It almost worked like a charm, I found that without the “time” package akmod will fail to compile the psb module.

I will try kde soon I will let you know how it goes.

Ps. My netbook is an ASUS EEEPC 1101HA and sound doesn’t work but wlan0 and eth0 both work fine. Sound did work on ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala but no network there.

By: Orkestra

Orkestra — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:30:41 +0000

what i’ve done :

-enabled rpm fusion repository.

-as root:
rpm -Uvh http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/poulsbo/i586/poulsbo-repository-release-11-1.noarch.rpm
yum install xorg-x11-drv-psb.
The install seems to be correctly done.

-I’ve check that the kernel-devel is i586.

-I’ve reboot and everything was alright.

-I copy/paste your xorg.conf in /etc/X11

and when i reboot: black screen with blinking line…

I’m on an Acer Aspire One 751h. Maybe the problem is just that the screen resolution asked in the xorg.conf was too high? I’ll retry. If the problem persist i’ll try ctrl+alt+f2 and look /var/log/Xorg.0.log

By: adamw

adamw — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:02:22 +0000

samusishere seems rather confused so I’m really not sure what’s going on there. Are you sure you actually got the driver successfully installed? If you try and run X with the modified xorg.conf but without the driver actually being there, a black screen with a blinking line sounds a lot like what you’d get. ctrl-alt-f2 should get you a text console, you could log in there and look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. It should tell you what’s wrong.

By: Orkestra

Orkestra — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:46:07 +0000

Hello!

I’m new in the fedora community and i have the same problem as samusishere (the black screen with a blinking line). Is your last answer (august 13 at 9:51 pm) for samusishere or Jgendreau? Or for the both of them?
I would prefer that i haven’t to reinstall fedora again :/

However, thanks a lot for your work

(and sorry if there some mistakes in my english)

By: adamw

adamw — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:51:44 +0000

I’ve seen that occasionally. I _suspect_ it may have something to do with heat, but our systems are different, after all. There are discussions about similar issues in the Ubuntu forum thread, and some suggestion that disabling DRI in xorg.conf might help (though that would presumably break 3D acceleration). I haven’t tested that myself yet.

By: JGendreau

JGendreau — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:51:43 +0000

Hey Adamw,

Great job, I followed your instructions to the t and all works great. only issue I’m having is freezing randomly. Acer Aspire one 751h Fedora 11 . I’m not sure what is causing the system to lock up, Random Web pages and programs. and when I say locked up No programs function. I still see the curser moving but I can’t shut down access tabs out programs. I have to cold boot the system to regain control.

Any guess on the cause? I did install the original version from the 11th

By: samusishere

samusishere — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:18:05 +0000

um i was able to get the package installed via nano….. however once i rebooted x would not start and all i got was a black screen with a blinking line. i had to reinstalll…… would u know what may have caused x to fail at start and if it happens again what can i do

By: adamw

adamw — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:38:59 +0000

thorsten: I always get that oops on booting, but it doesn’t appear to affect the actual functioning of the system.

The kernel-devel dependency should be satisfied via akmods, I don’t have any control over that chain…