AMD: Installing Linux Mint 20
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Supported devices
- This guide is valid for fit-PC3/3i, fit-PC4, fitlet1, fitlet1-H/T
Prepare installation media
- A USB Flash drive of at least 2GB should be used as installation media
- Download Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" - Cinnamon (64-bit)
- For installation with a USB Flash drive, please follow How to install Linux Mint via USB tutorial
Base installation of Linux Mint
- 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.
Video acceleration drivers
$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install va-driver-all mint-meta-codecs vainfo
Then run vainfo command, you should see list of supported profiles, for example on fitlet1:
$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.6.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 20.0.8 for AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0, 5.4.0-40-generic, LLVM 10.0.0)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
MPV media player
- Well known free and open-source multimedia player
- Supports GPU accelerated video decoding and gives excellent playback quality
- Compatible with the most popular video formats
$ sudo apt install mpv youtube-dl mint-meta-codecs
For example, fitlet1 is capable to play full HD video from the local file:
$ mpv -fs ~/Videos/big_buck_bunny/big_buck_bunny_1080p_h264.mov (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 1920x1080 24.000fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (aac 6ch 48000Hz) AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 5.1 6ch float Using hardware decoding (vaapi). VO: [gpu] 1920x1080 vaapi[nv12] AV: 00:09:56 / 00:09:56 (99%) A-V: 0.000 Cache: 0s+0KB
Or the same content directly from the youtube:
$ mpv -fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPvKTCo4YD0 (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 1920x1080) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (opus 2ch 48000Hz) AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float Using hardware decoding (vaapi). VO: [gpu] 1920x1080 vaapi[nv12] AV: 00:09:56 / 00:09:56 (99%) A-V: 0.000 Cache: 0s