Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 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?
Yes. > > - 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`). Yup. > > 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). Does mplayer give any more interesting errors? -dsr-
