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x02sstrikewyvern

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Registered: 2025-06-14

Posts: 1

VAAPI fails with Radeon RX7900XTX: tested with ffmpeg, vainfo

Trying display: wayland
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so init failed
vaInitialize failed with error code 2 (resource allocation failed),exit

Started happening a couple days ago.
inxi: https://pastebin.com/QFQkQKTU

Can't use my GPU's VAAPI for video enc/dec anymore

As far as I am aware, I haven't installed anything new, only updated, but because of the type of error, I'm not really even sure how to start troubleshooting this.

Happens both under repo's mesa and mesa-git

Last edited by x02sstrikewyvern (2025-06-14 06:36:27)

Xephon

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Registered: 2024-12-22

Posts: 133

Re: VAAPI fails with Radeon RX7900XTX: tested with ffmpeg, vainfo

Could happen when vaapi chooses headless GPU as a rendering device
What are the outputs of

vainfo --display drm --device /dev/dri/renderD128
vainfo --display drm --device /dev/dri/renderD129