Fitlet: Installing Linux Mint 17.2
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Prepare installation media
- A USB DVD-ROM drive or a USB Flash drive of at least 2GB should be used as installation media
- Download Linux Mint 17 "Rebecca" - MATE (64-bit)"
- For installation with a USB DVD-ROM - flash the downloaded image directly onto a DVD
- For installation with a USB Flash drive, please follow How to install Linux Mint via USB tutorial
Base installation of Linux Mint
- Follow the standard Linux Mint installation procedure - choose timezone, partitions, username, password etc.
- Disconnect the installation media and reboot.
- Login using previously selected username and password.
ATI Catalyst video driver
- fglrx is a proprietary ATI Catalyst video driver that provides XvBA (X-video Bitstream Acceleration) support.
- Install fglrx driver and other required utilities with the command below:
sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates xvba-va-driver vainfo
- Note: system reboot is required after the installation of the fglrx driver.
Kodi and VLC
- Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) and VLC are well known free and open-source multimedia players
- Both of them use GPU accelerated video decoding and give excellent playback quality
- Both of them compatible with the most popular video formats
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kodi vlc
- Kodi will support GPU accelerated video decoding out of the box
- In VLC you need to check Tools->Preferences->Input and Codecs->Use GPU accelerated decoding checkbox to take advantage of GPU accelerated video decoding
Thermal monitoring
- Default 3.13 kernel doesn't support thermal sensor for fitlet CPU, you will need to upgrade the kernel
- Go Update Manager->View->Linux kernels and choose 3.16.0-38, perform reboot after completion of the update
- Install tools for monitoring CPU and storage temperature
sudo apt-get install lm-sensors hddtemp
user@fitlet ~ $ sensors k10temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +60.9°C (high = +70.0°C) (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = +104.0°C)
user@fitlet ~ $ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: SanDisk SD6SF1M064G: 42°C