CM-iGT: Linux: Mint
Overview
- Linux on CM-iGT is Linux Mint 13 LTS with full-featured MATE desktop environment
- All necessary drivers and tools are already installed
- Networking, sound, video acceleration, 2D and 3D graphics and other features work out of the box
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Such features as TPM, GPIO and CAN are unsupported in the this release |
ATI Catalyst video driver
The proprietary ATI Catalyst video driver for Radeon HD 6250 GPU provides the following features:
- GPU accelerated video decoding XvBA (X-video Bitstream Acceleration)
- Dual-head support
- Up to 1920x1200 at 60 Hz resolution
- 1080p playback with media players that support XvBA (XBMC and VLC)
The ATI Catalyst driver and other required utilities were installed using the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates xvba-va-driver vainfo
XBMC and VLC
- XBMC and VLC are well known open-source media players
- Both of them use GPU accelerated video decoding and give exellent playback quality on CM-iGT
- Both of them compatible with the most popular video formats
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XVBA support has not yet been merged into the main XBMC code branch and was installed from Wolfgang Schupp repository |
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wsnipex/xbmc-xvba-frodo $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install xbmc
TPM
- currently unsupported
GPIO
- currently unsupported
CAN bus
- currently unsupported
