Missing video hardware acceleration

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Missing video hardware acceleration

Post#1 by Ed_P » 22 Sep 2022, 04:07

Any suggestions on dmesg and lspci commands I need to run to figure out what I need to resolve this. :) Plus any other commands that may help.

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When I figure out what I need I'll be back for help how to get it. :happy62: :D
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Post#2 by ncmprhnsbl » 22 Sep 2022, 06:02

usually /var/logXorg.0.log should give a clue
othrwise lspci | grep -i vga or smthng like to see what sort of hardware and lsmod to see what kernel modules are in use..
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Post#3 by babam » 22 Sep 2022, 07:09

Ed_P,

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# getmod -m intel-media-driver
Add /etc/profile.d/intel-media.sh

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#!/bin/sh

export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
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Post#4 by Ed_P » 22 Sep 2022, 14:51

Thank you guys, :friends: I will keep you posted on my results.

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Ok, what I've got.

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root@porteus:/home/guest# lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 9a49 (rev 01)
root@porteus:/home/guest# dmesg | grep error
[    1.897923] squashfs: SQUASHFS error: Filesystem uses "zstd" compression. This is not supported
root@porteus:/home/guest# lsmod | grep intel
intel_gtt              16384  1 i915
btintel                12288  1 btusb
bluetooth             286720  4 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,btusb
kvm_intel             131072  0
kvm                   286720  1 kvm_intel
crc32c_intel           16384  0
ghash_clmulni_intel    12288  0
aesni_intel           159744  0
aes_x86_64             16384  1 aesni_intel
crypto_simd            12288  1 aesni_intel
glue_helper            12288  1 aesni_intel
cryptd                 16384  3 crypto_simd,ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel
root@porteus:/home/guest# ls /mnt/live/memory/images/intel*
/bin/ls: cannot access '/mnt/live/memory/images/intel*': No such file or directory
root@porteus:/home/guest# 
"vga" was a better match than my using "video" for my searches and shows a match in lspci.

I created the intel-media-driver module using getmod as suggested and put it in the modules folder but it didn't load. I suspect it was the "zstd" error. How do I handle that problem?
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Post#5 by babam » 22 Sep 2022, 17:31

Are you using Porteus 4.0?
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Post#6 by Ed_P » 22 Sep 2022, 17:44

For this yes. Would a xzm2dir / dir2xzm work?
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Post#7 by babam » 22 Sep 2022, 17:49

Oh no, Porteus 4.0 is old/outdated (xorg-mesa), doesn't support the latest hardware (hardware acceleration).
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Post#8 by Ed_P » 23 Sep 2022, 06:25

babam wrote:
22 Sep 2022, 17:49
Porteus 4.0 is old/outdated (xorg-mesa), doesn't support the latest hardware (hardware acceleration).
:wall: Thanks babam. Sorry to hear that.
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Post#9 by ncmprhnsbl » 25 Sep 2022, 02:26

um, this isn't about "video hardware acceleration", but your video card (kernel)driver not loading (probly using vesa as a fallback)
intel-media-driver is just for "hardware"(ie. graphic card) decoding of media(ie. a video(movie)) with mpv or the like.
more likely, some missing firmware, or old xorg driver doesn't work with newer hardware.. same upshot tho, for the second..
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Post#10 by Ed_P » 25 Sep 2022, 03:09

Thanks ncmp.
ncmprhnsbl wrote:
25 Sep 2022, 02:26
but your video card (kernel)driver not loading
What do I search for to verify that?
ncmprhnsbl wrote:
25 Sep 2022, 02:26
or old xorg driver doesn't work with newer hardware.
Is there a way to create the missing driver as a module from 5.0 in 4.0? :%)
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Post#11 by ncmprhnsbl » 25 Sep 2022, 04:07

Ed_P wrote:
25 Sep 2022, 03:09
What do I search for to verify that?
lsmod with no grep ...and /var/log/Xorg.0.log ..
porteus system info has all this and more one place...
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