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△! Make sure you have run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade after OS installation.
2.2.1 Installing Basic Package
For SS1 user, you can skip to section 2.2.1.4 directly, 2.2.1.1 – 2.2.1.3 should have been installed
already (may different for few products based on the requirement of our customers).
You can download driver/middleware from our site https://www.sophon.ai/drive/view.html?id=22.
Follow below each section to install all packages one by one. Package name may be changed in
later release due software updated.
2.2.1.1 msdk_16.5.1125-1_amd64_SS1.deb
The purpose of installing msdk is to drive intel CPU for hardware video decoding, you can also select
the other two methods to drive it. (some intel CPU may not support hardware video decoding)
Method 1: drive intel CPU by intel method, you can refer to info like as https://software.intel.com/en-
us/articles/how-to-setup-media-server-studio-on-secondary-os-of-linux
Method 2: using a third part GPU for video decoding. Refer to related GPU product’s user guide for
how to do that in Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 64-bit.
Here we’ll introduce how to install BITMAIN msdk, we make sure it works in SS1 server, but we do
not guarantee it can be used in the other computer/server due to it rely on the hardware environment
strictly. Contact BITMAIN please when you meet trouble in doing so.
△! BE SURE to close GUI mode and enter Command Line Interface, you can switch to CLI mode
from GUI by pressing “Ctrl + Alt + F1” on the keyboard. (switch back by “Ctrl + Alt + F7”)
Again, for msdk_16.5.1125-1_amd64_SS1.deb, you MUST NOT install it in GUI mode, otherwise,
system will run into abnormal status sometimes due to video driver confliction.
Install it by following command in the directory where the package is located (file name may be
changed in later release):
sudo dpkg -i msdk_16.5.1125-1_amd64_SS1.deb
Following the prompt message to key in “yes” and press Enter to continue:
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Notice:
this package can not be uninstall, and will roll kernel back to version 4.4.
Once installation starts, do not corrupt it by any operation or power off.
Otherwise, GUI will be destroyed and user have to enter console by Ctrl+Alt+F1
Continue:(yes/no) yes (key in yes and press Enter to continue)
Remove other libdrm/libva
Remove old MSS install files ...