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Installation and configuration of XBMC on Ubuntu based OS with AMD HD Graphic (tested with Zotac AD02 and AD10)

The Goal:

Installing and configuring all the necessary to get a fully functional, stable and great XBMC media center on AMD Plateform using prorietary ATI driver and Hardware acceleration.

Software:

This configuration guide has been tested under Ubuntu based OS running 11.10 TLS and 12.04 TLS (desktop versions of Xubuntu and Lubuntu)

Hardware:

This configuration guide has been tested on Zotac AMD Based HTPC: ZOTAC AD02 and ZOTAC AD10

These two HTPCs are quite the same; One major difference is the included and optional USB IR receiver for Zotac AD10, associated with its nice MCE remote control.

Also, only the Zotac AD02 has an SPDIF output to serve Digital sound, digital sound for Zotac AD10 will be achieved using HDMI ouput

Both of them are embedded with an AMD E350 CPU with ATI Radeon HD able to deal with 1080p video and 5.1 Digital audio :-)

Zotac AD02 Model : AMD E-350 APU Platform (dual-core) (1.6 GHz) AMD Radeon™ HD 6310

Zotac AD10 Model : AMD E-350 APU Platform (dual-core) (1.6 GHz) AMD Radeon™ HD 6310

Step 1: Install your system

First choose your Ubuntu version to install. This guide will only be fully applicable with an Ubuntu based version.

I do not recommend using Ubuntu classic version as it provides by default a very resource consuming interface (Unity) and has a lot of problems and bugs running ATI proprietary driver!

As far as I know and as far as I tested, the only Ubuntu bases distributions with absolutely no issue with the ATI proprietary driver are:

• Xubuntu : Ubuntu based version with XFCE desktop
• Lubuntu : Ubuntu based version with LFCE desktop

I would recommend Lubuntu in the case of a XBMC dedicated system (but that’s all my personal choice and therefore i prefer to use Xubuntu) as it has a really low resource consuming desktop interface.