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: $ 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 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, 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 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 -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libva1 depends on: ii fglrx-glx 1:11-8-1 proprietary libGL for the non-free ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdrm2 2.4.21-1~squeeze3 Userspace interface to kernel DRM ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.7.1-4 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio libva1 recommends no packages. libva1 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
