[Oneiric] Video acceleration doesn't work with fglrx

[Adam Niedling]

I have Ubuntu 11.10 with an ATI HD 4330 and the following packages (all from official Ubuntu repo):
libva1: 1.0.12-2; libva-dev: 1.0.12-2; xvba-va-driver: 0.7.8-1ubuntu1; fglrx: 2:8.881-0ubuntu4.1

$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.32.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateContext(): status 11
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so init failed
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

I was able to make video acceleration work with packages from www.splitted-desktop.com so this is not a hardware problem.

Bug #773466 and bug #642907 are similar but they are related to the nvidia driver.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libva1 1.0.12-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 0ff88a863b7c71874159c799a79ffb9c
CheckboxSystem: c69722ecac764861be52925fa50b4dcc
Date: Thu Dec 8 21:34:42 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libva
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (56 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Looks like fglrx package doesn't create symbolic link from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so to ../va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so in your case. So probably fglrx bug.

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

RussianNeuroMancer: that is not the case:
$ ls -l /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2011-05-30 09:32 /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so -> ../va/drivers/fglrx_drv_video.so

(However when I installed fglrx with apt-get in the command line even glxgears didn't work. Had to use the additional drivers tool. This does not concern this bug because glxgears does work now.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

There was no explanation why this is a duplicate of bug #821691. I just upgraded to Precise and this is still an issue:

libva1: 1.0.15-4; libva-dev: 1.0.15-4; xvba-va-driver: 0.7.8-1ubuntu3; fglrx-updates: 2:8.960-0ubuntu1

$ vainfo
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":1".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":1".
xvba_video: XVBA_CreateContext(): status 11
libva error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so init failed
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

$ ls -l /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 ápr 21 20:50 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so -> xvba_drv_video.so

$ ls -l /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/xvba_drv_video.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114480 ápr 21 20:50 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/xvba_drv_video.so

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

I made a clean installation of Precise x64 and video acceleration is working now:

$ vainfo
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.32 (libva 1.0.15)
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.7.8
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD