Comment 85 for bug 1816497

Hi Olivier,

As per your comment here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-team-updates-monday-2nd-november-2020/19154/7 I tried this with the latest/edge version of the snap:

$ snap info chromium

...

tracking: latest/edge
refresh-date: today at 10:13 CET
channels:
  latest/stable: 86.0.4240.183 2020-11-04 (1382) 252MB -
  latest/candidate: 86.0.4240.183 2020-11-04 (1382) 252MB -
  latest/beta: 87.0.4280.47 2020-11-05 (1385) 254MB -
  latest/edge: 88.0.4315.5 2020-11-06 (1386) 256MB -
installed: 88.0.4300.0 (1380) 256MB -

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.1 and when I run it, I see the following errors:

$ LIBVA_MESSAGING_LEVEL=2 snap run chromium

...

libva info: VA-API version 1.9.0
libva info: Trying to open /snap/chromium/1380/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
libva info: Trying to open /snap/chromium/1380/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[130715:130715:1106/111245.061240:ERROR:vaapi_wrapper.cc(549)] vaInitialize failed: unknown libva error

...

I don't really get why it's searching for the *_drv_video.so when the files there all of the *_dri.so kind:

$ ls /snap/chromium/1380/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/
i915_dri.so kms_swrast_dri.so r200_dri.so radeon_dri.so virtio_gpu_dri.so
i965_dri.so nouveau_dri.so r300_dri.so radeonsi_dri.so vmwgfx_dri.so
iris_dri.so nouveau_vieux_dri.so r600_dri.so swrast_dri.so

I do have an Intel HD Graphics 620 and here is my vainfo:

$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.6.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 20.1.1 ()
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
      VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointStats
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD