Bug#848826: vainfo does not give any details about video acceleration or anything at all.

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2016-12-20 00:37:46, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> On 2016-12-20 04:56:54, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> > Package: vainfo
> > Version: 1.7.3-2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > I was trying vainfo when I saw the following -
> > 
> > $ vainfo
> > libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4
> > libva info: va_getDriverName() returns -1
> > libva error: va_getDriverName() failed with unknown libva
> > error,driver_name=(null)
> > vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
> 
> So I guess you are not running this from a terminal running in X?

Or you do not have i965-va-driver installed, which you should get automatically
if you do not have recommends disabled.

Regards
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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