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keeyan

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Registered: 2019-07-01

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] Intel UHD Graphics for 10th Generation core i5-1035G1

I recently got a new computer (specifically this one: https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing … -pdt.html) and the installation process worked fine and I got everything running without any issues (other than dumb mistakes on my part).

However, once I tried to watch videos with SMPlayer or VLC or even YouTube, it wouldn't work. It seems the problem is that Hardware Video Acceleration isn't working.

I followed the guides and installed `intel-media-driver` and added `export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD` to my `.xinitrc`. Although I still am having no luck.

Changing the driver in SMPlayer to X11 or XV seems to work, however this is not using Hardware Video Acceleration.

To get YouTube and web videos to work in Firefox I set my xorg.conf file to this:

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Intel Graphics"
  Driver "intel"
  Option "NoAccel" "True"
  Option "DRI" "False"
EndSection

as stated in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics

This also fixed an issue where programs like Godot or Steam would not work properly (the screen would not refresh on user input)

Of course, this is disabling hardware video acceleration, so there are some performance issues.

I was wondering if there are any known issues with 10th generation processors, and if there is any way I can get Hardware Video Acceleration working?

Last edited by keeyan (2020-01-29 14:17:13)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,479

Re: [SOLVED] Intel UHD Graphics for 10th Generation core i5-1035G1

That config literally breaks quite a few things. What are the actual issues you are getting that "Youtube and web videos don't work"? FWIW I'd suggest you remove that config file as well as xf86-video-intel (it is barely maintained and the things you describe very much sound like issues inherent to it) reboot and retry.

If you still get issues, read your dmesg and check if you get logs similar to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=250765 and in case install linux-lts or an older 5.3 kernel and wait for the 5.5 kernel push.

Last edited by V1del (2020-01-29 13:45:46)

keeyan

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Registered: 2019-07-01

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Intel UHD Graphics for 10th Generation core i5-1035G1

Thanks V1del. That solved my issue. I had xf86-video-intel in the list of packages to automatically install in my setup scripts from an older computer and it automatically installed. As soon as I removed it and rebooted (also removing the xorg.conf file) everything seems to be working well without any issues.

P.S. When I said YouTube videos are not working I meant they just don't load at all (with the spinning loading icon). After a few seconds YouTube says "...try restarting your device..."

Thanks for your help.