ati proprietary drivers

[amkrisis]

Hey

WHat's the easiest way to install the ati proprietary drivers?
I tried it yesterday based on a guide I found online, but failed to make it work.
Are the really needed to make Boxee work?
I have some issues running the Ubuntu proprietary drivers, but i don't think this is gfx related? (see bug thread)

SO if anyone has an easy to follow guide, that would be awsome.

I'm running an X1600 Mobility on Ubuntu 8.04

[agw]

The easiest way is to use EnvyNG to load the ATI catalyst drivers. Note that it is about two releases behind - I think EnvyNG will load 8.6 and the current release is 8.8 from ATI (ATI is getting pretty regular with these updates - I think about once a month).

http://albertomilone.com/envyfaq.html#A

If you want to try the latest release from ATI, I think you need to add sudo sh to the command line to launch the ATI installer. This worked for me previously using 8.7 on a clean Ubuntu install:

sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run

[skywise]

I tried installing the 8.8 driver from the ATI site and the kernel driver doesn't seem to want to load, but doesn't say why.
I'm running a fully patched Ubuntu 8.04 with a 2.6 kernel.

Anyone have any ideas?

[tsella]

the easiest way would be to use the ubuntu restricted drivers repos. this will also assure (take with grant of salt) that when kernel updates are made available, the driver will update too.

there's quite a thorough howto at ubuntu help site - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

[gswd]

I enabled the proprietary ati drivers tonight because I was getting the green and magenta screen images during video playback. Now I get only about 1/6th of the video with "lines" throughout the rest of the screen playback area. Plus I am getting a significant audio/video sync lag.

[tsella]

@gswd please provide a screenshot and your /tmp/<username>-xbmc.log

[gswd]

screenshot1
http://testinginprogress.com/boxee/screenshot002.jpg
screenshot2
http://testinginprogress.com/boxee/screenshot003.jpg
log file could not be posted to pastebin.
http://testinginprogress.com/boxee/steveo-xbmc.log

[skywise]

'ghost issue'
try this thread http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=148

sky

[tsella]

yep, specifically http://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=1371&postcount=5

[gswd]

Thanks. That worked. Now, what about that status line that now appears at the top of the screen that gives free memory, Frame rate and CPU usage? Was not there before the advanced settings file was created.

[marcel]

hi gswd

To remove the status line change the log level in the advancedsettings.xml (~/.boxee/UserData/advancedsettings.xml)from 0 to 3 as shown below.

<advancedsettings>
<loglevel>3</loglevel>
</advancedsettings>

[gswd]

Okey Dokey. Will do that.