Hardware acceleration with intel 865G

[Member jin]

Hi, I’m trying to use Hardware acceleration with Intel 865G chipset in order to use Kodi media center.

$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

On a fresh antix21 install kodi launches but displays a green screen where one cannot recognize the selected menus although moving the mouse moves some pixels.
Here is the error while launching kodi in the console :

display: :0.0   screen: 0
libva info: VA-API version 1.10.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i915_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
libvdpau-va-gl: Device::Resource::Resource(): gl error 1280
Error creating VDPAU device: 25

Same error whith command vainfo

Indeed there is no file named i915_drv_video.so in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/, but only i915_dri.so. I tried to install some packages that may contain it whithout success (libvdpau-va-gl1, i965-va-driver, intel-media-va-driver, firmware-misc-nonfree). Actually it looks like it is not shipped with any package at all https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704801

I also tried
export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965

wich leads to a similar error message :

$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.10.0
libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'i965'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_8
libva error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

Trying to symlink i915_drv_video.so to i915_dri.so doesn’t work.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i915_dri.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i915_drv_video.so

gives

$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.10.0
libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'i915'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i915_drv_video.so
libva error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/i915_drv_video.so has no function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

would this mean my chipset doesn’t support hardware aceleration or this feature is not supported under linux by now ?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by jin.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by jin.

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I’m afraid your graphic is not supported for hardware acceleration, did you have a look at this thread ?
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/can-not-launch-kodi-18-9-on-antix-19-4/

[Member jin]

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Oh thank you, this brings a lot of clarity to the issue ! I was not able to find this thread while searching for various keyword in this website. Now even the complete thread name returns no result… Would I have missed an alternative search form ? I used the one on the top right.

This issue commonly arises when someone tries to use a recent kodi with an old GPU needing the i915 driver. I don’t clearly understand whether the bug comes from new kodi development practices or the driver’s packaging, but it may be fixed by using an older version of kodi, wich is sufficient for my needs.
My intel chipset seems pretty old though. I will run some tests, but for the time being it is only able to play videos up to 720p quality.

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Please use this field for search, the field on the top right searches on antiX’s homepage.

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[Member jin]

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Thank you for the screenshot.

I can’t manage to install an older version of kodi on antix21. I was able to find here some .deb packages that fit my architecture, but I had to downgrade up to 17.3, and the huge number of dependencies required for this would certainly break my installation. The latest kodi version reported to work with my chipset was 18.4 Leia, wich may have less dependencies issues, but I can’t find any binaries for Debian and checking the compiling process on github was terrifying.

Any idea of how I could manage to install it ? Maybe some appimage lying around ?

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