vainfo requires a nvidia sofile not in repositories
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libva-utils (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
vdpau-video (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
$ ls -la /usr/lib/
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/
$ apt-file search nvidia_drv_video.so
$
The bug report interface does not allow me to say it's in the 'vainfo' package, so I had to use what ubuntu-bug made me use, libva-utils.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: vainfo 2.6.0+ds1-1
Uname: Linux 5.6.0-19.
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ICEWM
Date: Fri Aug 7 14:21:03 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-08 (942 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: libva-utils
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-01 (97 days ago)
modified.
mtime.conffile.
tags: | added: hirsute impish jammy |
Yeah the package missing is vdpau-va-driver, which is in previous releases of Ubuntu, but for some reason was dropped for Canonical.
This breaks numerous things on 20.04 when using the Nvidia proprietary drivers.
What's crazy is that this actually isn't Nvidia's fault, Ubuntu dropped the package.
Can you guys please add the package to the repositories for Focal like you have for previous versions?
Link to the files for the package in the bionic repos:
https:/ /packages. ubuntu. com/bionic/ amd64/vdpau- va-driver/ filelist
That package does not exist on Focal.