MediaBox Blog

If you read my previous article, MediaBox has switched to the radeonhd driver you would realise that MediaBox is now running using the radeonhd driver instead of the AMD Catalyst fglrx driver. In this article I will explain how to get the radeonhd master source code, apply the HDMI Audio patch from Christian König, build and install the driver and finally edit the xorg.conf to enable HDMI audio. Before I start though I would like to give a big thanks to Christian for his hard work in creating the patch for the open source community.

Edit:

Since writing this article, the HDMI audio patch from Christian has now been merged to master. I have now edited the article so that there is no need to apply any patches.

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As some of you may already know AMD/ATI are releasing documentation for their GPU's to the public. What this means to you and me is that the open source community can now write a fully functional open source driver. We no longer have to rely on the buggy Catalyst drivers, even though AMD have gone to great lengths to improve the fglrx driver in past months.

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For those of you who are having HDMI audio issues with the RS780, you will be happy to know that AMD have released the Catalyst 8.9 drivers which has a fix HDMI audio (among many others).

You can find the x86 version here http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html

I had been playing with the idea of controlling the MediaBox using my PSP for some time now. So I sat down and decided to take the plunge and give it a go. And this is what I have so far

Download PSP Remote v0.1

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For sometime I had trouble trying to get audio working over the HDMI port. I finally managed to get it working. I'm not sure if this is because of the latest ATI Catalyst 8.7 drivers or if it was something I had missed in the past.

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