Llano on Mint 14 64bit

[noko]

Since I had an A8-3870 and ITX AsRock board, 4gb of DDR 1600 ram I figure I put something together. Anyways Linux Mint 14 boot disk loaded and can actually use the APU now for graphics. Except if I set my motherboard to PCI-E boot with HD 6670 Mint will not load using the 6670. If I set to APU for graphics Mint will not load. Only if I select PCI-E but use the motherboard output will Mint 14 load. I figure later I show some pics of new rig with dual graphics and after I load Mint onto the hard drive. Hopefully this isn't another round of linux which in the past crashed and I ended up loading Windows.

[jimmt]

I had some strange issues with my Trinity APU and Linux similar to yours only if i used the AMD driver. If I used Opensource driver no issues.

[noko]

lol, well after a few installations and attempts, 13.4, Mint own proprietary driver they all would give a blank screen. The in house Linux driver works for the APU but did not see the 6670.

So I just loaded Win 8 and be done with it. I just don't have the time to figure it all out once again. I did have some better hopes for Mint with the time of passage with APUs being out.

[FiggyG]

Yeah, the switchable graphics/hybrid crossfire on Linux is in rough shape. If you plan on using said system for a HTPC and want to use Mint, I'd wait for Mint 15, take out the discrete GPU, pull in a new kernel and xorg radeon driver. AMD recently released UVD2+ for Linux and it interfaces with nVidia's VDPAU specification (think DXVA for Linux, Intel uses VA-API). However, that driver still lacks proper power management and the integrated GPU won't clock up to normal speeds.

[noko]

I will probably get another hard drive, maybe a USB 3 external and use that for Linux testing. Keeping the 6670 in the box. Just bought Modo 701 (upgrade) which also has a Linux version now. So gaming and some of the other software I use is on Linux. I just wish Mint would have a set version with minor updates and not full fledge new OS's.