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Re: Firmware and libva2 backports



Hi Sebatian,

Thanks for the quick reply :-)

Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> writes:
> On 2022-04-21 16:51:22, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
[snip]
>> > Another thing that would be nice to have in backports is newer libva2 (and related packages libva-drm2, libva-wayland2, libva-x11-2). VAAPI hardware accelerated video decoding is not working in
>> > latest Chromium based browsers like Chrome, Brave with libva2 from stable, libva2 from testing works but it pulls libc upgrade and creates FrankenDebian.
>> >  
>> 
>> I've done this one in past releases.  In addition to libva2, it needs
>> intel-vaapi-driver, and also libdrm.  Finally, I seem to remember that I
>> experienced graphics corruption on my system unless I tightened the
>> dependencies so that these three packages built against the versions in
>> backports rather than in stable.
>
> Also don't forget to backport intel-gmmlib and intel-media-driver.
>

Oh, those are new!  Is this a refactoring, or does the use of these
packages depend on the firmware-nonfree binary blobs IIRC needed for
hardware acceleration on non-ancient Intel GPUs?  I think that's in
firmware-misc-nonfree, no?

Kind regards,
Nicholas

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