Hi,
I have recently moved from Arch to Fedora and am looking to get some hardware acceleration going, I have installed all the intel libva drivers however when I run vainfo I get the below error. I have tried adding and removing drivers one at a time but it always gives the same output, This did work with the same driver on Arch but I was wondering if this could be a version thing? as my CPU is rather new so maybe something somewhere hasn’t made it this far up stream, have any of you experienced anything like this?
Error
$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.6.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_6
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
source (github): tsoernes commented on Jun 10, 2017:
“libva-intel-driver was available in RPM fusion repo’s, installing it fixed the issue.”
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I have actually found myself all over google looking for anyone else having this issue the last couple days but came up empty. Unfortunately as per the Driver section on my post I already have installed libva-intel-driver-2.4.0-1.fc31.x86_64. I have tried reinstalling this but no luck. I have even this afternoon tried booting the live media and doing a fresh VAAPI install on that and get the same error, which eliminates any conflicts
Hi All,
After a few more hours tonight I have managed to crack it, it seems there are some issues with the new iGPU and the VAAPI driver however if you make sure intel-media-driver is installed then set the LIBVA driver to iHD with export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD it starts working again