Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[oibaf]

lorn10 libva 2.14 is already on jammy.
towo2099 probably they recompiled it for newer libva.

Anyway, if you want newer stuff you don't need to wait for 24.04, just use kinetic, it is very stable, a better base if you need latest updates.

[towo2099]

They recompile nothing, steam debian package downloads the original client from valve, there is no steam binary in that package.
And even in Ubuntu it's the same procedure.

[oibaf]

If you really need newer libva you may as well manually download the version in kinetic and install it on jammy. It's not guaranteed to work, but it probably will.

[lorn10]

Okay, I am now on the Mesa 22.4.0 branch and it looks that I have still libva 2.12.0 and not 2.14.0 Maybe I am missing here something oibaf ?

urs@iMac-test:~$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.14.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_14
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.14 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 22.4.0-devel for AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.15.0-52-generic, LLVM 14.0.6)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
​

Different topic.
What is the current situation regarding OpenCL support in the oibaf PPA builds? At least regarding the use of clover I always get in clinfo:

Number of platforms 0

[lorn10]

And maybe illwieckz can give here some input what currently the best way is to build clover with LLVM14 and LLVM15. Thanks!

Addition, - it looks that LLVM was updated, the latest oibaf builds are now on LLVM 15.0.4:

urs@iMac-test:~$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.14.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_14
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.14 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 23.0.0-devel for AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.15.0-52-generic, LLVM 15.0.4)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc​

However, libva is still on 2.12.0 which means that VA-API on the crocus driver is not supported.

Addition 2: The OpenCL support via clover works now. The solution was to install the following package:

sudo apt install mesa-opencl-icd​

And I have installed also the ocl-icd-opencl-dev package but it will most likely be installed with the above one (so far needed).

sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev

After that I have in clinfo:

Number of platforms 1
Platform Name Clover
Platform Vendor Mesa
Platform Version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 23.0.0-devel (git-ae76bba 2022-11-13 jammy-oibaf-ppa)
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_icd
Platform Extensions function suffix MESA​

[HyperDrive]

oibaf, Vulkan seems to be broken at least on Ivy Bridge. I opened a mesa bug, but it could be a packaging bug. Could you please verify? Thanks in advance!

[illwieckz]

And maybe illwieckz can give here some input what currently the best way is to build clover with LLVM14 and LLVM15. Thanks!

oibaf lorn10 in case that helps, this is how I currently build current LLVM main branch:

https://gitlab.com/illwieckz/i-love-compute/-/blob/13ff409510acda573dda6eb9aa7902ae4f3c9382/scripts/user-mesa#L156-177

[oibaf]

oibaf, Vulkan seems to be broken at least on Ivy Bridge. I opened a mesa bug, but it could be a packaging bug. Could you please verify? Thanks in advance!

Nice it was fixed.

[oibaf]

oibaf lorn10 in case that helps, this is how I currently build current LLVM main branch:

https://gitlab.com/illwieckz/i-love-compute/-/blob/13ff409510acda573dda6eb9aa7902ae4f3c9382/scripts/user-mesa#L156-177

Thnaks, but I don't plan to build llvm snapshots.

[oibaf]

Okay, I am now on the Mesa 22.4.0 branch and it looks that I have still libva 2.12.0 and not 2.14.0 Maybe I am missing here something oibaf ?

urs@iMac-test:~$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.14.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_14
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.14 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 22.4.0-devel for AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.15.0-52-generic, LLVM 14.0.6)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
​

libva 2.16 is available on kinetic, not in jammy as I said earlier.
jammy should natively has 2.14: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+source/libva