Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[oibaf]

Fails on AMD also. Could it be another building issue with this repo or should I report it upstream?

Yes, report the bugs upstream, I am not aware of PPA specific problems.

[akaWolf]

Ubuntu 14.04

Hello!
I install Ubuntu 14.04 on my PC with ingegrated Intel HD Graphics 4600.
I also add that PPA and update all packages. After that I have:

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.2.0-devel (git-678cf96 trusty-oibaf-ppa)
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL extensions:

But I want to use a hardware rendering.
How to do that?
Thanks

[akaWolf]

I don't know why, but system is not trying to load a i915_dri.so: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7066804/

[kmod]

I just acquired a netbook with Radeon HD 6310. I was able to set up vdpau for deconding with the libvdpau-va-gl1 driver(followed by uncommenting the last two lines in the config file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20vdpau-gl), but it has stopped working after todays update. Maybe libdrm-radeon has changed?

A possiblly related question is where to get r600_drv_video.so?

$vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 0.34.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

$ vdpauinfo
display: :0.0   screen: 0
[VS] Software VDPAU backend library initialized
libva info: VA-API version 0.34.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
API version: 1
Information string: OpenGL/VAAPI/libswscale backend for VDPAU

Video surface:

name   width height types
-------------------------------------------
420     1920  1080  NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 
422     1920  1080  NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 
444     1920  1080  NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 

Decoder capabilities:

name               level macbs width height
-------------------------------------------

Output surface:

name              width height nat types
----------------------------------------------------
B8G8R8A8             0     0    -  
R8G8B8A8         32624 32624    -  
R10G10B10A2      32624 32624    -  
B10G10R10A2      32624 32624    -  
A8               32624 32624    -  

Bitmap surface:

name              width height
------------------------------
B8G8R8A8         16384 16384
R8G8B8A8         16384 16384
R10G10B10A2      16384 16384
B10G10R10A2      16384 16384
A8               16384 16384

Video mixer:

feature name                    sup
------------------------------------
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL             -
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL     -
INVERSE_TELECINE                 -
NOISE_REDUCTION                  -
SHARPNESS                        -
LUMA_KEY                         -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L1        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L2        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L3        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L4        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L5        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L6        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L7        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L8        -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L9        -

parameter name                  sup      min      max
-----------------------------------------------------
VIDEO_SURFACE_WIDTH              -  
VIDEO_SURFACE_HEIGHT             -  
CHROMA_TYPE                      -  
LAYERS                           -  

attribute name                  sup      min      max
-----------------------------------------------------
BACKGROUND_COLOR                 -  
CSC_MATRIX                       -  
NOISE_REDUCTION_LEVEL            -  
SHARPNESS_LEVEL                  -  
LUMA_KEY_MIN_LUMA                -  
LUMA_KEY_MAX_LUMA                -

Not sure if missing r600 is the reason as it was never there and vdpau decoding was working yesterday before the update.

Hope that someboday can help. Thanks.

[oibaf]

Packages name changed recently on trusty, I synced them from the updated Ubuntu ones. For more info see:

https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers/

[agd5f]

I just acquired a netbook with Radeon HD 6310. I was able to set up vdpau for deconding with the libvdpau-va-gl1 driver(followed by uncommenting the last two lines in the config file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20vdpau-gl), but it has stopped working after todays update. Maybe libdrm-radeon has changed?

Don't use libvdpau-va-gl1. That emulates vdpau using va-api and gl for drivers that don't support vdpau. The performance will not be good. The radeon driver supports vdapu natively. Install the libg3dvl-mesa and mesa-vdpau-drivers packages.

[kmod]

Don't use libvdpau-va-gl1. That emulates vdpau using va-api and gl for drivers that don't support vdpau. The performance will not be good. The radeon driver supports vdapu natively. Install the libg3dvl-mesa and mesa-vdpau-drivers packages.

With libvdpau-va-gl1 smplayer plays 720p on this not very strong machine with ~9% cpu and smooth like butter, without it is about ~120% (two cores) and stutters. The improvement on flash performance (Youtube only) is also spectacular, it is a difference between ~20% and 120%. I had libg3dvl-mesa installed but there is no mesa-vdpau-driver in my repo, this is on Ubuntu 13.10 (is the missing r600 from mesa-vdpau-driver?)

[oibaf]

With libvdpau-va-gl1 smplayer plays 720p on this not very strong machine with ~9% cpu and smooth like butter, without it is about ~120% (two cores) and stutters. The improvement on flash performance (Youtube only) is also spectacular, it is a difference between ~20% and 120%. I had libg3dvl-mesa installed but there is no mesa-vdpau-driver in my repo, this is on Ubuntu 13.10 (is the missing r600 from mesa-vdpau-driver?)

You just need libg3dvl-mesa . r600 and other drivers are in /usr/lib/*/vdpau/ .

[kmod]

You just need libg3dvl-mesa . r600 and other drivers are in /usr/lib/*/vdpau/ .

Hi, so do I just symlink /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_r600.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
so that the system can find it?

(see the error in vainfo and vdpauinfo in first post, linking /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vdpau_drv_video.so did not work)

[kmod]

OK, I figured it out after a lot of googling.

Remove vdpau-va-gl and its configuration file
Put in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc these two lines

VDPAU_DRIVER=r600
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=vdpau

Then reboot. Now vdpau works and vdpauinfo no longer complains about missing r600. I don't know if it is obvious to everyone to put those two lines in X's init file but I have a hard time finding any instruction other than that the driver is already there. Maybe this will help someone else with same problem. It may be good to say a few words about this in the instructions for using the ppa on launchpad. That would help the not so experienced users a lot.

P.S. It seems that vdpau-va-gl is not very stable on this machine, apparently vdpau stops working randomly on reboot here. It might not be because of the update yesterday that vdpau was broken.