I have just installed Bookworm on my ancient Lenovo T520 (2011),
replacing Bullseye. I suspect the problem is somewhere in the video
driver chain. Any thoughts on how to proceed further with this?
Upon trying to run chromium, I get:
charles@jhegaala:~$ chromium &
[2] 33609
charles@jhegaala:~$ libva error:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
charles@jhegaala:~$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
32502 pts/8 00:00:00 bash
32506 pts/8 00:00:04 emacs
33609 pts/8 00:00:00 chromium
33630 pts/8 00:00:00 chromium
33631 pts/8 00:00:00 chromium
33633 pts/8 00:00:00 chromium
33656 pts/8 00:00:00 chromium
33657 pts/8 00:00:00 chromium
33688 pts/8 00:00:00 ps
charles@jhegaala:~$ killall -9 chromium
charles@jhegaala:~$
[2]+ Killed chromium
charles@jhegaala:~$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
32502 pts/8 00:00:00 bash
32506 pts/8 00:00:04 emacs
33695 pts/8 00:00:00 ps
charles@jhegaala:~$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0
libva info: Trying to open
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so libva info: Found init
function __vaDriverInit_1_17 libva error:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed libva info:
va_openDriver() returns 1 libva info: Trying to open
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init
function __vaDriverInit_1_8 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.17 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Sandybridge
Mobile - 2.4.1 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
charles@jhegaala:~$
Display is:
root@jhegaala:~# lspci -vs 2.0
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if
00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T520 Flags: bus master,
fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28, IOMMU group 0 Memory at f0000000
(64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit,
prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 6000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
root@jhegaala:~# grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz
root@jhegaala:~#
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