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** Check "Use GPU acceleration (experimental)" checkbox.
 
** Check "Use GPU acceleration (experimental)" checkbox.
 
* Add development Linux Mint repository to your repositories list, it contains bugfixes that steel not in main release.
 
* Add development Linux Mint repository to your repositories list, it contains bugfixes that steel not in main release.
** Menu->Control Center->Software Sources->LinuxMint Software
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** Menu->System Tools->System Settings->Software Sources->LinuxMint Software
 
** Check "Unstable packages (romeo)" checkbox.
 
** Check "Unstable packages (romeo)" checkbox.
 
* Update your system to get latest packages set
 
* Update your system to get latest packages set
 
** sudo apt-get update &&  sudo apt-get upgrade
 
** sudo apt-get update &&  sudo apt-get upgrade

Revision as of 17:21, 9 January 2012

Prepare installation media

  • A USB DVD/CD-ROM drive or a USB Flash drive of at least 1GB should be used as installation media.
  • Download Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" - CD or Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" - DVD.
  • For installation with a USB DVD/CD-ROM - flash the downloaded image directly onto a DVD/CD.
  • For installation with a USB Flash drive, please use the "Startup Disk Creator" utility to create a LiveUSB.

Base installation of Linux Mint 12

  • Standard Linux Mint installation - choose timezone, partitions, username, password etc.
  • Unplug USB DVD/CD-ROM / USB Flash drive and reboot
  • Login using previously selected username and password.

ATI Catalyst video driver

  • 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 xvba-va-driver vainfo
  • Note: system reboot is required to after the installation of the fglrx driver.

XBMC with XvBA

  • XBMC is a well-known free and open source media player and entertainment hub for digital media.
  • There is XBMC release with direct XvBA support.
  • It requires fglrx driver (version >= 8.911) that still not present in Linux Mint 12, need to download and install it manually:
sudo wget -P /tmp http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/2:8.911-0ubuntu1/+build/2952743/+files/fglrx_8.911-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/fglrx_8.911-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  • Now you can add XBMC XvBA repository and install the media player
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wsnipex/xbmc-xvba
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-bin
  • XBMC will support HW video acceleration out of the box.

Tips and tricks

  • Fix VLC media player window style:
    • Open VLC player, go to the Tools->Preferences->Interface
    • Set "Force window style" option to "GTK+".
  • Enable video acceleration on VLC media player:
    • Open VLC player, go to the Tools->Preferences->Input & Codecs
    • Check "Use GPU acceleration (experimental)" checkbox.
  • Add development Linux Mint repository to your repositories list, it contains bugfixes that steel not in main release.
    • Menu->System Tools->System Settings->Software Sources->LinuxMint Software
    • Check "Unstable packages (romeo)" checkbox.
  • Update your system to get latest packages set
    • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade