What gives you: dpkg -l|egrep "fglrx|xvba" and uname -a On 27.08.2011 11:38, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > tags 639402 moreinfo help > reassign 639402 libva1,fglrx-driver > stop > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 22:49:31 (CEST), Guillermo Marcus wrote: > >> Package: libva1 >> Version: 0.32.0-1+sds2 >> Severity: important >> Tags: lfs >> >> When using the Catalyst 11.7 or 11.8 driver for AMD available in testing or >> unstable, hardware video acceleration does not work. vainfo reports errors in >> the driver, as: >> >> $ vainfo >> libva: libva version 0.32.0 >> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". >> libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0 >> libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so >> xvba_video: XVBA_CreateContext(): status 11 >> libva error: /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so init failed >> libva: va_openDriver() returns -1 >> vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit >> >> however, when using the package from Splitted Desktop (and fixing the paths), >> the output is: > > What is splitted desktop, and how is that package different to ours? > >> $ vainfo >> libva: libva version 0.32.0-sds2 >> Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". >> libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0 >> libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so >> Segmentation fault > > for this, we'd need a Backtrace: > http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace > >> Also, when using the AMD Catalyst driver as installed by the AMD script, it >> works fine. >> >> This tells me two things: The libva, while the same version, does not seem to >> include the same patches as the Splitted Desktop version, > > see my question above > >> and the xvba-va- driver packaged in xvba-va-driver is not the same >> generated by the AMD package. If I remember correctlz, this was >> working before in Catalyst 11.6 > > We (Debian) cannot support packages that you have downloaded from other > sources than Debian. Sorry. > >> In any case, support for AMD XvBA in VA API is broken, even when the pieces >> are >> there. I could get it to work by: >> >> 1. Install the AMD driver directly >> 2. Download and compile the libraries from Splitted Desktop > > I've copied the fglrx driver maintainers for their input, as I don't > even have ATI hardware. >
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