On Sun Jul 28, 2024 at 06:52:04PM GMT, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Jul 28 18:37:55, rafael@sizeofvoid.org wrote:
> > On Sun Jul 28, 2024 at 06:35:37PM GMT, Jan Stary wrote:
> > > Before I get down the rabbit hole,
> > > is there any way to tell which codecs
> > > my inteldrm is able to decode/accelerate
> > > and how much it is worth it?
> 
> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/libva-utils && make install && vainfo
> 
> Thanks for the quick hint. This is what vainfo -a has to say:
> 
> Trying display: x11
> libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/local/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
> libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/i965_drv_video.so
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/local/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
> libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
> vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
> 
> Note the filepaths: indeed,
> 
> ls: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/i965_drv_video.so: No such file or directory
> ls: /usr/local/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so: No such file or directory
> 
> I have intel-vaapi-driver-2.4.1 installed,

You need to upgrade to intel-vaapi-driver-2.4.1p0.
intel-vaapi-driver-2.4.1 is no longer in sync with xenocara -current.

Our libva searches /usr/local/lib/dri/ and /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/
for drivers since the last change.

> which provides a single file, namely
> 
> /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/i965_drv_video.so
> 
> but vainfo doesn't seem to even try that.
> Is there a way to tell vainfo to try that?
> (libva-utils is a bunch of binaries with no manpage.)
> 
> 	Jan
> 
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