Video Driver question

business_kid · 12-22-2020, 01:48 PM

I have the sucky, gutless HD4000 Ivy Bridge GPU. I got this recently from vlc

Code:

bash-5.0$ vlc mast5049-hls-16x9-1080p-mast5049-hls-16x9-1080p.mp4
VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7)
[000000000236c3c0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
libva info: VA-API version 1.9.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
[00007f0df756ead0] avcodec decoder: Using Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile - 2.4.1 for hardware decoding
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread

It's the bit in Red I'm noticing. That's my editing, but I wanted to know if I should have that '/usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so' what package provides it. In turn I promise to buy a video card that sucks less next time.

pan64 · 12-22-2020, 01:53 PM

that is just an info, vlc tried to find a driver. And sometimes it tries non-existent ones (=not installed). That is not an error (or even not a warning), just how it was implemented. As you can see finally a working function was found, so if the file was played you do not need to worry about it at all.

teckk · 12-22-2020, 02:07 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ocessing_units

I've got one of those. i5 3470
It works fine with

Code:

pacman -Si  xf86-video-intel 
...
Name            : xf86-video-intel
Version         : 1:2.99.917+913+g9236c582-1
Description     : X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://01.org/linuxgraphics
...
Provides        : xf86-video-intel-uxa  xf86-video-intel-sna
Depends On      : mesa  libxvmc  pixman  xcb-util>=0.3.9  systemd-libs
Optional Deps   : libxrandr: for intel-virtual-output
                  libxinerama: for intel-virtual-output
                  libxcursor: for intel-virtual-output
                  libxtst: for intel-virtual-output
                  libxss: for intel-virtual-output
Conflicts With  : xorg-server<1.20  X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION<24
                  X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION>=25  xf86-video-intel-sna
                  xf86-video-intel-uxa  xf86-video-i810  xf86-video-intel-legacy
Replaces        : xf86-video-intel-uxa  xf86-video-intel-sna
Download Size   : 720.31 KiB
Installed Size  : 2209.66 KiB
...

I don't have vaapi installed. I don't have a i965_drv_video.so

That HD4000 has not given me any problem. It'll play anything.

From the arch wiki

Quote:

Note: Some (Debian & Ubuntu, Fedora, KDE) recommend not installing the
xf86-video-intel driver, and instead falling back on the modesetting driver for
Gen4 and newer GPUs (GMA 3000 from 2006 and newer).

business_kid · 12-23-2020, 04:05 AM

Legacy drivers?

The hd4000 is capable but slow; The i810 is incapable, iirc.

I was getting no 3D output, and found many drivers were obsolete/deprecated and I installed the recommended drivers. One place you really notice it is doind a classic 3D test, e.g. the Egyptian pyramids in Google Earth.