video using the AMD APU
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How can I watch HD video on VLC using the AMD APU?
On Ubuntu, it is possible with http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/fglrx, however this is non-free software.
Is there a workaround?
what happends when you try to play video on your laptop?
it should render with the cpu?
The video plays. It does render with the CPU, which really heats it up.
You can use the 4.1.4 kernel to install radeon drivers from the jxself repository. "using jxself repository method" scroll down on this link https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel
> scroll down on this link ...
Or click directly to
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel#toc8
:)
(you can dig the name of that anchor from the page source code, quite handy sometimes, more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_anchor#Anchor)
With an AMD APU/GPU, it is not possible to benefit from 3D acceleration, and even less from video acceleration, using fully free software. The "free" radeon driver relies on a non-free blob to function, which is not present in Linux-libre, the kernel Trisquel uses.
Your only choice is to switch to an Intel IGP, or a NVIDIA graphics card using Nouveau (Maxwell-generation cards have no Nouveau support, though).
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