Bug#670377: i965 driver doesn't work on my 945GME

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2014-11-05 09:00:26, Dominique Brazziel wrote:
> "Problem: no VA support for intel G45 and others
> reason: missing i915_drv_video.so, which is not delivered by any package
> solution: Should the installed i965_drv_video.so be loaded instead of
> the missing i915_drv_video.so?"

I suspect that your chip is not supported and that's why vainfo crashed.
What's the exact chip you are using?

> After looking at the source for vainfo, I tried to load
> i965 and got a segfault:
> 
> env LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 VA_INTEL_DEBUG=1 vainfo
> libva info: VA-API version 0.36.0
> libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
> libva info: User requested driver 'i965'
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
> libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_36
> g_intel_debug_option_flags:1
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The crash is fixed in intel-vaapi-driver 1.4.1-2.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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