Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[oibaf]

Put in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc these two lines

VDPAU_DRIVER=r600
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=vdpau

There is no need for this.

[agd5f]

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.

You shouldn't be using vdpau-va-gl. As I said before it's a vdapu emulator for systems that don't support vdpau.

[SolidSteel144]

No xserver-xorg-video-intel package for Trusty?

[a user]

since a week or so this drivers seem to have a strange bug.

i was playing hearthstone with wine and since then it is unplayable as some of the texts are unreadable. in particular it is the the numbers for attack, health and mana costs and some others.

The effect seen is as if the text color changes 100 times per second while it looks most of the time as transparent or similar to the background, thus unreadable.

i already verified that its caused by these libs from the oibaf rep. i was hoping that it gets fixed in one of the following updates but it persists now since a week or more.

anybody an idea?

[Guest]

On a fresh install of 14.04 earlier, libwayland-egl1-mesa wants to be uninstalled. Doing this breaks glamor, and thus seems to lead to no 3d acceleration on my 7850 (using llvmpipe).

[oibaf]

On a fresh install of 14.04 earlier, libwayland-egl1-mesa wants to be uninstalled. Doing this breaks glamor, and thus seems to lead to no 3d acceleration on my 7850 (using llvmpipe).

Please retry in a hour with the updated mesa packages.

[Guest]

Hi oibaf, a quick question if i may (apologies if it's been mentioned already, this is a very big thread and i only read ~90 pages in).

On the ppa's page on launchpad, you mention:

* First you need to install the libg3dvl-mesa (saucy) or mesa-vdpau-drivers (trusty) package:
sudo apt-get install libg3dvl-mesa
sudo apt-get install mesa-vdpau-drivers

Both of these AND 'libvdpau1-drivers-mesa' are available to be installed for Ubuntu 14.04 (but with exclusivity).

To help highlight a source of confusion:
Quote Originally Posted by agd5f View Post
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 vdpau natively. Install one of the libg3dvl-mesa and mesa-vdpau-drivers packages.

As it is, the apt descriptions alone for each package don't exactly make it very clear which are required:
libg3dvl-mesa - xvmc and vdpau Gallium3D video acceleration drivers
mesa-vdpau-drivers These libraries provide the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix.OpenMAX IL Bellagio and XvMC libraries are also included.They provide accelerated video playback (incl. H.264) and video
post-processing for the supported graphics cards. This package enables support for VDPAU for some gallium drivers.
libvdpau1-drivers-mesa - This package enables support for VDPAU, OpenMAX IL Bellagio and XvMC for some gallium drivers.


Personally, I'll follow advice and stick to 'mesa-vdpau-drivers' here on Ubuntu 14.04 as instructed, but i was just curious about what the difference is between these packages (why does this new package exist?) and why is 'libg3dvl-mesa' also still available for trusty if it is necessary switch away from it?

Much appreciated!

[Guest]

Please retry in a hour with the updated mesa packages.

Works fine now; thanks!

[oibaf]

@Linux_Chemist:
Unless you did something wrong libg3dvl-mesa and libvdpau1-drivers-mesa are just packages aliases for mesa-vdpau-drivers (to ease upgrade). They were used for saucy and initial official Ubuntu version.

[Guest]

@Linux_Chemist:
Unless you did something wrong libg3dvl-mesa and libvdpau1-drivers-mesa are just packages aliases for mesa-vdpau-drivers (to ease upgrade). They were used for saucy and initial official Ubuntu version.

Ahh, i see, no worries then, thanks!