[SOLVED] New Mesa packages in Extra and hardware video decoding

fmc000 · 2024-03-21 18:20:19

I posted a similar thread in the [Testing] forum with no success, now I try here as the Mesa packages landed in the "Extra" repository.

In short, the new Mesa packages support the latest Intel "xe" kernel module and so I decided to give them a try. This is what I was able to verify so far:

KDE Plasma 6 starts and runs perfectly;
Vulkan detects correctly the new module and all the tests I ran so far complete successfully;
intel_gpu_top segfaults;
Hardware video acceleration does not work (libva cannot load the iHD driver, probably because it does not recognise the kernel module);

I tried to replace the intel-video-driver (and its prerequisites) with that -git versions from the AUR but nothing changed. For reference, my laptop has a Iris XE integrated GPU on TigerLake chipset.

sudo intel_gpu_top
Failed to detect engines! (No such file or directory)
(Kernel 4.16 or newer is required for i915 PMU support.)
Segmentation fault

vainfo
Trying display: wayland
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
vaInitialize failed with error code 18 (invalid parameter),exit

cvlc Videos/Foo_Fighters-Lollapalooza_Chile_2022-Full_Show.webm 
VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari (revision 3.0.20-0-g6f0d0ab126b)
[00005bd3e58f5340] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
[00007f3878001ec0] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaInitialize: invalid parameter
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
[00007f3878001ec0] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: invalid parameter
Xlib:  extension "DRI2" missing on display ":1".
libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with operation failed
[00007f3878001ec0] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: operation failed

I'm hoping for suggestions. Thanks in advance for reading.

Last edited by fmc000 (2024-03-23 05:17:03)

progandy · 2024-03-21 19:00:12

For intel_gpu_top you could try the git version as well: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intel-gpu-tools-git

For intel-media driver, the build config looks broken: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/c … e63a0088aa
I guess you can try to replace ENABLE_NEW_KMD with ENABLE_XE_KMD in that file before building the -git package or try to add -DENABLE_XE_KMD=ON to the cmake command

fmc000 · 2024-03-22 19:17:46

progandy wrote:

For intel_gpu_top you could try the git version as well: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intel-gpu-tools-git
For intel-media driver, the build config looks broken: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/c … e63a0088aa
I guess you can try to replace ENABLE_NEW_KMD with ENABLE_XE_KMD in that file before building the -git package or try to add -DENABLE_XE_KMD=ON to the cmake command

Amazing suggestion! After adding DENABLE_XE_KMD=ON to the cmake command in the PKGBUILD the git package works. Now both vainfo and cvlc show that hardware acceleration is enabled!! I haven't tried the intel-cpu-tools git as I couldn't build the package due to meson errors I frankly don't understand.

I definitely think that -DENABLE_XE_KMD=ON should be added to the package.

Last edited by fmc000 (2024-03-22 19:18:42)

progandy · 2024-03-22 19:46:52

You can also file a bug report for the upstream repository, intel seems to have forgotten that one line during the rename of the build option.

Please mark the thread with [SOLVED] by editing the title of the first post if your problem is solved.

Last edited by progandy (2024-03-22 19:47:08)

fmc000 · 2024-03-23 05:28:18

progandy wrote:

You can also file a bug report for the upstream repository, intel seems to have forgotten that one line during the rename of the build option.
Please mark the thread with [SOLVED] by editing the title of the first post if your problem is solved.

Both done - https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1783

fmc000 · 2024-03-26 07:46:22

My bug report was closed as Intel devs this morning enabled XE by default in the driver. I suppose that Arch will get it when the next release is posted.

Arch Linux

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[SOLVED] New Mesa packages in Extra and hardware video decoding

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