[Libva] VAAPI, VDPAU and ATI Radeon HD7750

[G. Richard Bellamy]

Okay, I've subscribed to this list... thanks for moving the thread to the
appropriate list.

I've forced EXA in this log. Should I put things back to glamor and send
that log?


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Christian König
<christian.koenig at amd.com>wrote:

>  Dropping libva list since the problem isn't related to libva at all.
> Adding the xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org list instead.
>
> Something is indeed wrong with your DDX installation. Please provide the X
> log, usually found under /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
> Am 14.05.2014 06:35, schrieb G. Richard Bellamy:
>
>  Christian,
>
>  Thank you for taking an interest... as you can see from the output of
> glxinfo [1], I've definitely got a problem, given that it's clearly trying
> to use swrast_dri.
>
>  I did some reading about DDX [2], since that's the first time I've seen
> that term. From what I can tell, my system is pretty hosed using either
> glamor or EXA for hardware acceleration - both settings still result is
> glxinfo not finding the radeon dri driver (which I checked, and _does_
> exist at /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so).
>
>  [1]
> % LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo > glxinfo.txt 2>&1
>
>  [2]
>   ​
> http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/06/the-linux-graphics-stack/
>  http://fs.mupuf.org/mupuf/nvidia/mesa.svg
>  http://fs.mupuf.org/mupuf/nvidia/archi.svg
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com
> > wrote:
>
>>  I don't see anything not working correctly off hand (except for the
>> obvious error message).
>>
>> What's the output of gfxinfo? And does glxgears or any other trivial 3D
>> example work properly? Maybe the DDX isn't working correctly.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christian.
>>
>> Am 13.05.2014 17:36, schrieb G. Richard Bellamy:
>>
>>  Christian, the OP has vdpauinfo output (as well as a strace).
>>
>>  Attached is my dmesg.
>>
>>  -rb
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Christian König <
>> christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Richard,
>>>
>>> please provide the output of dmesg and vdpauinfo.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Christian.
>>>
>>> Am 12.05.2014 19:10, schrieb G. Richard Bellamy:
>>>
>>>   Hello All,
>>>
>>>  I've been troubleshooting an issue with VAAPI + VDPAU and my ATI
>>> Radeon HD7750, on Arch Linux with the following packages:
>>> libva <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libva/>
>>> libvdpau <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libvdpau/>
>>> libva-vdpau-driver<https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libva-vdpau-driver/>
>>> ati-dri <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ati-dri/>
>>> xf86-video-ati<https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xf86-video-ati/>
>>>
>>>  Namely, I cannot get the configuration to work as expected, and both
>>> vainfo and vdpauinfo error out, as does XBMC, which is my end-goal for
>>> getting hardware acceleration working.
>>>
>>>  % export DISPLAY=:0
>>>  % export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=vdpau
>>> % export VDPAU_DRIVER=radeonsi
>>>  % vainfo
>>> libva info: VA-API version 0.35.1
>>> 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
>>> zsh: exit 3     vainfo
>>>  % vdpauinfo
>>> display: :0   screen: 0
>>> Error creating VDPAU device: 23
>>> zsh: exit 255   vdpauinfo
>>>
>>>  Attached are strace outputs.
>>>
>>>  Furthermore, in my completely n00b attempt to figure out what's going
>>> on, I've stepped into the code using gdb, and tried to trace where the
>>> failure is... and it looks to me like no matter what I tell libva, it
>>> ALWAYS goes looking for libatiadlxx.so, which is the proprietary ATI
>>> drivers.
>>>
>>>  Any help on how to proceed with my troubleshooting? I've read through
>>> the documentation in va.h and the API diagram, and am trying to wrap my
>>> head around how the various pieces-parts go together and move around each
>>> other, and I have to say I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. It's all very
>>> fascinating, but not my normal digs, so I'm hoping one of you can give me
>>> some guidance on how best to run this down, and hopefully turn this into a
>>> patch if it's not too difficult... or a hopefully good bug report if a
>>> patch is beyond me.
>>>
>>>  Regards,
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
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