Bug#762376: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: kaffeine not working woth radeon but with intel graphics

[Michel Dänzer]

On 29.09.2014 04:02, M G Berberich wrote:
> Am Montag, den 22. September schrieb Michel Dänzer:
>> On 22.09.2014 01:24, M G Berberich wrote:
>>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
>>> Version: 1:7.4.0-2
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> on a Intel Core i7 4770 system with a Radeon R7 240 graphics card,
> That’s a Radeon R7 250 – sorry.
>>> kaffeine does not work properly when the displays are connected to the
>>> radeon. In this case kaffeine does not show video.
>>>
>>> If the displays are connected to the Intel HD onboard-graphics
>>> kaffeine works fine and shows video.

[...]

>>> VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus:
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0412] (rev 06)
>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland XT [Radeon HD 8670 / R7 250] [1002:6610]

[...]

>> Any terminal output from kaffeine would be interesting as well.
>>
> Attached.

[...]

> vo_vdpau: vdpau API version : 1
> vo_vdpau: vdpau implementation description : G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0
> vo_vdpau: maximum video surface size for chroma type 4:2:2 is 16384x16384
> vo_vdpau: maximum video surface size for chroma type 4:2:0 is 16384x16384
> vo_vdpau: VideoSurface doesn't support yuy2, sorry.

Looks like kaffeine tries to use VDPAU with the Radeon GPU, but fails. 
Can you clarify with someone knowledgeable about kaffeine whether it 
falls back to XVideo in that case, or how you can explicitly choose XVideo?


> X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
>   Extension:    151 (Uknown extension)
>   Minor opcode: 17 (Unknown request)
>   Resource id:  0x3f

What does

	xdpyinfo -queryExtensions|grep 'opcode: 151'

say?


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