CM-iGT: Linux: Mint

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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
Admolition note.png 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
Admolition note.png 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

See also