Bug#639402: libva1: libva does not work with fglrx driver in repository

[Guillermo Marcus]

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.

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