AMD E350 with ATI Radeon HD - very slow on video playback

[anon222]

Wow, never heard of needing to update CPUs microcode. But I used Windows many years, so it's handled here by Windows updates maybe? Don't wanna invade this thread though. Just installed intel microcode package and my microcode version changed from 0xa1 to 0xa4.

Btw, for me, playback is faster in GNU/Linux than Windows, but I don't have a integrated GPU. I don't even use proprietary drivers.

Btw found this:

Warning: With linux 3.17-2 and linux-lts 3.14.21-2 and newer versions, Intel microcode updates are not triggered automatically any more. Many AUR kernels have followed the path of the official ARCH kernels in this regard: with linux-ck 3.16.6-3, Intel microcode updates are not triggered automatically any more.

Will it concern even us later?

That's because arch hasn't enabled microcode loading support.
In order for early loading to work in custom kernels, "CPU microcode loading support" needs to be compiled into the kernel.
If you stick to the Ubuntu kernels it will work. Not sure if Jerry enables CPU microcode loading support in the custom kernels.

[quote author=misko_2083 link=topic=644.msg12937#msg12937 date=1426501556]
You could reduce the swap use. That will speed up your PC.
By default it's set to 60.
IMPROVEMENT, Now that I have the swapiness at 10 its much better but still halts on video, i had no time to do the rest my time inf front on this (Family Computer) is limited will try the microcode tonight and share results

Regards

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Good to hear. Ubuntu sets it to 60, that's usefull if you are running server. Not really a good value for the desktop use. On a PC with 786MB of RAM I would set the swapiness to 5.
I've never had an APU.  Not any experiance with that, my friend. I've used only AGP/PCI-e cards and onboard graphics.

check if the kernel module is loaded

Code:

lsmod | grep radeon

Display graphics info

Code:

inxi -G

Sometimes it's just the flash player and nothing can be done about that. Adobe droped development for linux and Firefox uses flash player 11.2. Adobe still releases security pathes for 11.2. If Chome works ok you could just use that. Chrome uses a  Pepper Flash Player and it can't work with Firefox. Pepper Flash Player uses a different interface with the browser than Adobe Flash Player.