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I've just installed Ubuntu 13.10. I have a Radeon HD 4570 card and I want to use the hardware acceleration capabilities that were introduced with linux 3.10 in the mesa 9.2

So my question is: since I have a linux 3.11 and mesa 9.2, do I really need to compile the mesa library with --enable-vdpau option enabled? I have installed the libvdpau from the repository but no acceleration. Should I compile and then install the latest mesa(I don't want to mess my newly installed Ubuntu 3.10)?

Thanks!

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  • Ohh..for all the devils, I've just compiled and installed mesa 10. Now vdpau is working, but guess what: glxinfo reports my gl version to 2.1
    – fioan89
    Commented Oct 20, 2013 at 15:23

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Ubuntu does not ship XVMC and VDPAU drivers Mesa required for Radeon VDPAU by default. However, you can get VDPAU for Radeon working easily, simply by installing only the libg3dvl-mesa package for your architecture from Oibaf PPA. You don't even have to upgrade to the latest Mesa from the PPA or recompile it. Here are the download links

Recently the graphics drivers from Oibaf PPA work brilliant, however I still prefer stock packaged Ubuntu drivers for stability and for keeping my system minimalistic

After you revert from Mesa 10 to stock 9.2.1 Mesa, you can simply do the following :

1) Download and install the deb depending on your architecture

2) sudo apt-get install libvdpau1 vdpauinfo

3) Reboot.

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