> This should be the Intel 4500 integrated gpu, which is part of > the i915/i965 family. It needs: > > - an intel kernel module
According to `lsmod | grep '^i'` I have `i915` loaded. Is that the one? > - X11 running the intel video driver Interesting. I was using the `modesetting` driver. So I installed `xserver-xorg-video-intel` and then put % cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Corporation 965GM" Driver "intel" EndSection % to force Xorg to use that `intel` driver (since apparently by default nowadays it tries only `vesa`, `fbdev`, and `modestting`). The end result appears to be the same, tho :-( At least, all the error messages I get are the same. > - libva-drm2 > - libva-x11-2 > - libva2 > - i965-va-driver Check! > It will support MPEG2 accelerated decoding but not H264, H265 or > any of the newer codecs -- and Youtube may not be supplying old > codecs these days. That might be part of the problem, indeed. Tho the `vainfo` failure suggests that even MPEG2 isn't working. I tried to view an MPEG2 video with totem/xine/mplayer and that didn't work either (it doesn't eat up all the CPU, instead they just "sit there", sometimes emitting the same kind of VA errors as shown earlier). Stefan