Bug#800658: Please consider shipping my /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99-select-vdpau-driver script in libvdpau1

[Luca Boccassi]

On Oct 5, 2015 22:21, "Andreas Beckmann" <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-10-03 17:34, Alexander Kurtz wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 15:39 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> >> But libvdpau itself already has code to look for the available
> >> drivers and pick one, and the env var is left so that the user can
>
> >> better trying to fix it in the library itself, if possible, before
>
> I agree that this should be fixed in the autodetection code in the
library.
>
> > Without my script, I get this:
> >
> >       $ vdpauinfo
> >       display: :0   screen: 0
> >       Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
> >       Error creating VDPAU device: 1
>
> So this is more or less a duplicate of #786655 (and probably #617940 as
> well).
>
>
> One issue I see with the script (or any filesystem enumeration approach)
> is if there are two drivers supporting a device, the wrong one will be
> chosen :-)
>
>
> I don't have time to dig into libvdpau (nor do I have interesting
> hardware for testing), so any help is welcome!

I have an optimus laptop which should be an ideal test environment, I'll
try and have a look.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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