Bug 1011164

Created attachment 702828 [details]
lspci of affected machine

Trying to use vaapi on the following hardware does not work:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J3355B-ITX/index.de.asp

I'm getting the following error:

vdr:~ # vdpauinfo
display: :0   screen: 0
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.3
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns -1
libva error: va_getDriverName() failed with unknown libva error,driver_name=(null)
API version: 1
Information string: OpenGL/VAAPI backend for VDPAU

When trying to explicitly select the i965 driver:

vdr:~ # export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965
vdr:~ # vdpauinfo
display: :0   screen: 0
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.3
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns -1
libva info: User requested driver 'i965'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39
vdpauinfo: intel_driver.c:100: intel_driver_init: Assertion `VA_CHECK_DRM_AUTH_TYPE(ctx, VA_DRM_AUTH_DRI1) || VA_CHECK_DRM_AUTH_TYPE(ctx, VA_DRM_AUTH_DRI2) || VA_CHECK_DRM_AUTH_TYPE(ctx, VA_DRM_AUTH_CUSTOM)' failed.
Abgebrochen (core dumped)

The funny thing is that mplayer seems to work just fine when giving the option "-vo vdpau". According to its output it is indeed using vdpau.

According to the Intel documentation this graphics hardware is fully supported under Linux.

Since I have a test setup, I'm more than willing to test any updates.