Installed Radeon 6870 - bad video performance in VLC

I've added a Radeon GPU to my i3-530 which used to handle video. I installed the opensource drivers and I get occasional lags, choppy parts during video playback using VLC. I tried adding the following to my radeon conf as per wiki but that caused tearing:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
EndSection
I assume KMS is enabled, since that's the default. I don't know how to check though. What could be going wrong?
Thanks

I tried. The way I understand he's simply telling me to install the packages he has listed, correct? I did that via AUR and yaourt. As I said, I could install most of them but not mesa-full. I'm trying again now so I can post the error I get....
Didn't do anything different than the last two times and this time mesa-full installed successfully. Some packages still don't want to cooperate but I'll reboot and see where I stand.
Problem persists. I get an error installing lib32-libdrm-git:
error: target not found: gcc-multilib
and I think that x86_64 doesn't apply to me on my intel CPU so now I've installed everything and the videos still have their stutter moments. Makes me want to cry. I should be studying for exams but this is such a nice excuse not to...
Last edited by hypertyper (2012-01-11 10:40:28)

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