retitle 670377 Please provide better diagnostics
tags 670377 upstream
severity 670377 minor
Hi Jamie,
sorry for taking so long to come back to you.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Jaime Silva
<jaimealbertosi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: i965-va-driver
> Version: 1.0.16-4
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> When I run vainfo I get the following:
>
> jaime@inspironjaime2:~$ vainfo
> libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
> libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
> libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
> libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so init failed
> libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
> vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
> jaime@inspironjaime2:~$
>
> I don't understand why if this card is supported the library fails.
This lack of better diagnostics is indeed annoying here. Do you still
experience this problem with the updated packages from
debian/experimental?
If yes, then we need to talk to upstream about this issue.
> It is also weird that reportbug keeps saying the package is not installed
> after
> I purged it and reinstalled it:
That seems like a question for the debian user mailing lists.
kind regards,
Reinhard
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