Bug#893597: i965-va-driver: GPU hang on hardware encode

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 10:30 +0100, Christian Schlüter wrote:
> hardware video encoding to h264, hevc, vp8 and vp9 leads to a GPU
> hang
> on KBL.
> Mpeg2 encoding is possible.
> Works with i965_drv_video.so built from git master.

Hi,

As mentioned in README.Debian,, modern Intel GPUs require non-free
shaders. You need to to use the i965-va-driver-shaders package from
non-free instead.

It would be nice if using the wrong package lead to warnings instead of
GPU hangs, but I don't know how easy that would be to implement.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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