[Libva] VAAPI and External GPU simulatenously?

[Perry Hung]

Perfect. Thanks a lot.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Xiang, Haihao <haihao.xiang at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Perry,
>
> The current X11 connection on your system works with your NVIDIA GPU,
> you can use VAAPI on drm mode with your Intel GPU. I sent a patch to
> this list to add an option to vainfo tool, you can use 'vainfo --
> display drm' to show available profile/entrypoint pairs with i965
> driver.
>
> Thanks
> Haihao
>
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Would anyone know a more appropriate place to ask?
>>
>> I poked around on #intel-gfx and was told most of the VAAPI guys
>> frequent this list.
>>
>> many thanks.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Perry Hung <perry at leaflabs.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I spent some more time playing with this and it appears that DRI2
>> > is
>> > enabled on the Intel driver. I have marked the driver as inactive
>> > on
>> > Layout0. It appears to me that everything is configured correctly
>> > and
>> > that DRI is enabled. I have atteched a copy of xorg log.
>> >
>> > Any idea what this assertion means?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Perry Hung <perry at leaflabs.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I'm trying to use VAAPI for HEVC and h264 decode on a Devil's
>> > > Canyon
>> > > system running the latest 4.2.5 kernel running Arch Linux.
>> > >
>> > > There is an NVIDIA GPU driving 3 monitors and doing some compute,
>> > > and
>> > > I'd like to simultaneously use Intel quicksync. The integrated
>> > > GPU has
>> > > no monitors connected to it, but as far as I can tell has kernel
>> > > support, and the i915 module is loaded:
>> > >
>> > > $d mesg | grep i915
>> > > [    6.869230] i915 0000:00:02.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
>> > > [    6.937495] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: bound 0000:00:02.0
>> > > (ops
>> > > i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
>> > > [    6.937499] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20150522 for
>> > > 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
>> > > [    6.948090] i915 0000:00:02.0: No connectors reported
>> > > connected with modes
>> > > [    6.948336] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb1: inteldrmfb frame buffer
>> > > device
>> > > [    6.948338] i915 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > $ lsmod | grep i915
>> > > i915                 1056768  2
>> > > drm_kms_helper        102400  1 i915
>> > > intel_gtt              20480  1 i915
>> > > i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 i915
>> > > drm                   286720  7 i915,drm_kms_helper,nvidia
>> > > video                  32768  1 i915
>> > > button                 16384  1 i915
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > When I attempt to check the vaapi capabilities of the Intel
>> > > driver
>> > > with vainfo, I get the following assertion:
>> > >
>> > > $ LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 vainfo
>> > > libva info: VA-API version 0.38.0
>> > > libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
>> > > libva info: User requested driver 'i965'
>> > > libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
>> > > libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_38
>> > > vainfo: intel_driver.c:100: intel_driver_init: Assertion
>> > > `(((struct
>> > > drm_state *)(ctx)->drm_state)->auth_type == (VA_DRM_AUTH_DRI1))
>> > > ||
>> > > (((struct drm_state *)(ctx)->drm_state)->auth_type ==
>> > > (VA_DRM_AUTH_DRI2)) || (((struct drm_state
>> > > *)(ctx)->drm_state)->auth_type == (VA_DRM_AUTH_CUSTOM))' failed.
>> > > zsh: abort (core dumped)  LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 vainfo
>> > >
>> > > My question is, is this a supported configuration? Do I need to
>> > > reconfigure xorg, or connect the iGPU up to a screen?
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