> 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
