Difference between revisions of "Fitlet: Installing Linux Mint 17.2"

Revision as of 11:59, 28 May 2015

A USB DVD-ROM drive or a USB Flash drive of at least 2GB should be used as installation media
Download Linux Mint 17 "Rebecca" - MATE (64-bit)"
For installation with a USB DVD-ROM - flash the downloaded image directly onto a DVD
For installation with a USB Flash drive, please follow How to install Linux Mint via USB tutorial

Follow the standard Linux Mint installation procedure - choose timezone, partitions, username, password etc.
Disconnect the installation media and reboot.
Login using previously selected username and password.

fglrx is a proprietary ATI Catalyst video driver that provides XvBA (X-video Bitstream Acceleration) support.
Install fglrx driver and other required utilities with the command below:

sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates xvba-va-driver vainfo

XBMC and VLC are well known free and open-source multimedia players
Both of them use GPU accelerated video decoding and give exellent playback quality
Both of them compatible with the most popular video formats

sudo apt-get install xbmc vlc

XBMC will support GPU accelerated video decoding out of the box
In VLC you need to check Tools->Preferences->Input and Codecs->Use GPU accelerated decoding checkbox to take advantage of GPU accelerated video decoding

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 * fglrx is a proprietary ATI Catalyst video driver that provides XvBA (X-video Bitstream Acceleration) support.
 * Install fglrx driver and other required utilities with the command below:
-  sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates xvba-va-driver vainfo
+  sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates xvba-va-driver vainfo
 * Note: system reboot is required after the installation of the fglrx driver.