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

[hcasarrubias]

Now that I ran the updates its worst....meaning slower and even the windows you can see them load like a Windows machine without video drivers

[Valtam]

Try the second one in the list.

[hcasarrubias]

I have tried them all, and they take very long time to load, or change about 5 minutes for the blue bar to complete the process and the results are the same, worst or slower than before the updates. I Have a Gygabyte MB with the AMD -350 integrated and 2gb of ram DDR3 ...oh Hd is 500gb SATA-3 NOT Solid.

[Dookus]

Worth a try downloading the Linux Driver from

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download 

Open a terminal

sudo sh /home/your_username/Downloads/amd-driver-installer-XXXXXXXX.run

change the values to suit your system and downloaded file.

[hcasarrubias]

same results, what bugs me is that with XP and original drivers it is much better i guess the APU with GPU integrated is too new for linux

[hcasarrubias]

Try the second one in the list.

THIS IS AN OLD THREAD...but i'm trying to give a shot with the new 2.2 release, are there any updates on the integrated GPU processors? after talking to many Ubuntu based users and reading diferent forums, there has been alot of video playback or 3d issues with this kind of cpu's.

Any Feedback or comments?

[hcasarrubias]

STARTING TO SEE THE LIGHT....

I have tried different browsers to determine if the problem is drivers or flash or resourses, and this are the results

Firefox ,  very slow video playback on web streaming,even after fully cached.
Chromium, almost Flawless still some halts but much better, full screen pretty bad still
Chrome, after fully cashed and all other apps closed, even at full screen HD its pretty good with just minimal halts.

Any thoughts

I Have 2 Gigs of RAM and the Video Ram share is Auto on the BIOS.

[anon222]

You could reduce the swap use. That will speed up your PC.
By default it's set to 60.
The Linux kernel provides a tweakable setting that controls how often the swap file is used, called swappiness.
A swappiness setting of zero means that the disk will be avoided unless absolutely necessary (you run out of memory), while a swappiness setting of 100 means that programs will be swapped to disk almost instantly. If it's set to 60, the swap file will be used fairly often if the memory usage is around half of my RAM. You can check your own system's swappiness value.
Ctr+Alt+T to open Terminal then type in:

Code:

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

Should be 60.
As I have 3 GB of RAM, I've turned it down to 10. The swap file will then only be used when my RAM usage is around 90 percent. To change the system swappiness value, open /etc/sysctl.conf as root.

Code:

gksudo leafpad /etc/sysctl.conf

Then, add this line to the end file:

Code:

vm.swappiness = 10

Save it: File...Save.
Reboot for the change to take effect.
Now check it again.

Code:

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
10

To calculate your swap Formula

free -m (total) / 100 = A

A * 10

Code:

free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3009       2689        320         47         51        993
-/+ buffers/cache:       1644       1364
Swap:         3068          0       3068

total is 3009 / 100 = 30.09 * 10 = 300.9
That means when 10%, 300.9 MB of ram is left then it starts to use the swap.

I assume you are using propriatary drivers.
Next, you could install microcode. This is usefull only for AMD processors from the year 2006 and up. Your is newer I think.

Code:

sudo apt-get install amd64-microcode

Reboot after that.
Now check whether the microcode has been loaded properly.

Code:

dmesg | grep microcode

You should see several reports about the applied microcode.

[hcasarrubias]

WOW that is way ahead of my current little linux knoledge but I understand the Idea, to translate to Windows Language, I have to reduce the swap file by getting more ram.


I was thinking about Upgrading to 4 G cuz I will still use WIN7 from time to time
would that help on Linux Lite?


I also noticed that CPU usage its HUGHE when playback HD video using both cores at maximum.


Is the built in GPU still not being used correctly by the Catalyst driver?


Regards and thanks alot i will verify the memoty settings tonight

[hcasarrubias]

Next, you could install microcode. This is usefull only for AMD processors from the year 2006 and up. Your is newer I think.

Code:

sudo apt-get install amd64-microcode

Reboot after that.
Now check whether the microcode has been loaded properly.

Code:

dmesg | grep microcode

You should see several reports about the applied microcode.
[/quote]

Yes My CPU has a built in HD RADEON 6130 and it was released in 2011 i bought it in late 2012 as a low end economy solution to a fried (ATHLON X2 MB with DDR2 RAM).

i will try the micro code as well

Thanks alot for all the support will post results