Bug#1037062: libva: Libva 2.17.0 breaks video acceleration in Chromium-based browsers
Source: libva
Version: 2.17.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: neopowermaster@protonmail.ch
Dear Maintainer,
After a few weeks using Debian testing I see that the video acceleration does
not work in chromium based browsers, after trying many configurations, I see
the upstream release notes and specify that in version 2.17 "x11: add basic
DRI3 support" and in the following version 2.18 "x11: allow disabling DRI3 via
LIBVA_DRI3_DISABLe env var".
That environment variable only works if you have the latest version 2.18.
(Tested on another distro).
Then reviewing the issues in github, there is this one where the problem is
reported, then they added that workaround in 2.18.
https://github.com/intel/libva/issues/677
I know that Bookworm is soon to be released as stable and that it is not
possible to upload the new version due to the full freeze. But I think it is
important that later you can backport a new version where can be used the
workaround that upstream suggests.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=es_VE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_VE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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