libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with unknown libva error
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Arch Linux 6.6.10-zen1-1-zen, x11.
VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.20.1), nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11, NVIDIA kernel driver version: 545.29.06
The hardware decoding is not working neither in firefox nor in chromium or vlc.
The vainfo is crashing on x11 but works on DRM.
I mentioned my problem in other issue some time ago.
uname -a
Linux a66 6.6.10-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:20:18 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
NVD_LOG=1 LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia vainfo
% NVD_LOG=1 LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia vainfo
Trying display: wayland
Trying display: x11
libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with unknown libva error
1726.304124993 [8365-8365] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2140 __vaDriverInit_1_0 Initialising NVIDIA VA-API Driver: 10
1726.304134250 [8365-8365] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2149 __vaDriverInit_1_0 Now have 0 (0 max) instances
1726.304136815 [8365-8365] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2175 __vaDriverInit_1_0 Selecting Direct backend
1726.310611388 [8365-8365] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/direct-export-buf.c: 85 direct_initExporter Found NVIDIA GPU 0 at /dev/dri/renderD128
1726.310619653 [8365-8365] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/nv-driver.c: 246 init_nvdriver Initing nvdriver...
1726.310640583 [8365-8365] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/nv-driver.c: 264 init_nvdriver NVIDIA kernel driver version: 545.29.06, major version: 545, minor version: 29
1726.310645362 [8365-8365] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/nv-driver.c: 271 init_nvdriver Got dev info: 900 1 2 6
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.20.1)
vainfo: Driver version: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend]
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileAV1Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain12 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444_10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444_12 : VAEntrypointVLD
1726.400928736 [8365-8365] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2050 nvTerminate Terminating 0x55d0751d5410
1726.401010310 [8365-8365] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2064 nvTerminate Now have 0 (0 max) instances
NVD_LOG=1 vainfo --display drm
x@a66 ~ %
Trying display: drm
2421.729795953 [8525-8525] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2140 __vaDriverInit_1_0 Initialising NVIDIA VA-API Driver: 31
2421.729806553 [8525-8525] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2149 __vaDriverInit_1_0 Now have 0 (0 max) instances
2421.729810651 [8525-8525] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2175 __vaDriverInit_1_0 Selecting Direct backend
2421.736128922 [8525-8525] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/direct-export-buf.c: 85 direct_initExporter Found NVIDIA GPU 0 at /dev/dri/renderD128
2421.736137638 [8525-8525] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/nv-driver.c: 246 init_nvdriver Initing nvdriver...
2421.736161885 [8525-8525] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/nv-driver.c: 264 init_nvdriver NVIDIA kernel driver version: 545.29.06, major version: 545, minor version: 29
2421.736166654 [8525-8525] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/nv-driver.c: 271 init_nvdriver Got dev info: 900 1 2 6
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.20.1)
vainfo: Driver version: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend]
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileAV1Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain12 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444_10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444_12 : VAEntrypointVLD
2421.824544742 [8525-8525] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2050 nvTerminate Terminating 0x5604ddb28a30
2421.824621860 [8525-8525] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2064 nvTerminate Now have 0 (0 max) instances
sudo lspci -knn | grep nvidia
Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
% nvidia-smi
Sun Jan 14 02:05:16 2024
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 545.29.06 Driver Version: 545.29.06 CUDA Version: 12.3 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A |
| 55% 47C P3 40W / 270W | 1085MiB / 8192MiB | 19% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 580 G /usr/lib/Xorg 549MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 843 G /sbin/budgie-wm 237MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1142 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 220MiB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
lsmod
130 x@a66 ~ % lsmod | grep nouveau
1 x@a66 ~ % lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 118784 6
nvidia_uvm 3481600 0
nvidia_modeset 1585152 7 nvidia_drm
video 77824 1 nvidia_modeset
nvidia 62402560 129 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
vlc
% vlc
VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari (revision 3.0.20-0-g6f0d0ab126b)
[0000558362d00550] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0000558362d8e6b0] main playlist: playlist is empty
libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with unknown libva error
[00007f50c4001f70] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaDeriveImage: operation failed
[00007f50cc000c70] main video output error: video output creation failed
[00007f50e000de10] main decoder error: failed to create video output
I've attached the vlc --verbose=2, hope it helps.
video.log
Video Engine utilization: 0% (in nvidia-settings)
Let me know if I can provide more details.
Thanks!
Check if you have the kernel option:
nvidia-drm.modeset=1
Use the shell command:
cat /proc/cmdline
Check if you have the kernel option: nvidia-drm.modeset=1
I do.
x@a66 ~ % cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen root=UUID=... rw nvidia-drm.modeset=1 loglevel=3 quiet
x@a66 ~ % sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset
YJust some info regarding the false error:
"libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with unknown libva error"
i.e. as you are saying:
"The vainfo is crashing on x11 but works on DRM."
This is just a pecularity with vainfo in the package libva-utils.
It's testing:
Trying display: wayland
Trying display: x11
and gives up and prints the error. A proper behaved vainfo would just continou with testing drm:
Trying display: drm
and it would have found it. This is reported here:
intel/libva-utils#356
(By the way, the above "error" is unrelated to your problems.)
Now in firefox about:config set:
media.av1.enabled false
This way we disable av1 and it should fallback to vp9 8bit on youtube.
Then play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFVpSwgCkCo
Make sure you run at 4k 60fps and also right click mouse and choose "stats for nerds". Here you can see Codecs: it should be vp09.
Check in nvidia-settings if "video engine utilization" now works.
Thank you for the answer
The Video engine utilization still 0%.
The GPU utilization however jumps from 10% up to 40-50% and CPU from 1% up to 20%.
Codecs: vp09.00.51.08.01.01.01.01.00 (315) / opus (251)
Let me know if it's makes sense to rename the issue to something like glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaDeriveImage: operation failed.
It's the error I saw in VLC console.
Check that your local ffmpeg supports vaapi:
ffmpeg -hwaccels
Should say something like:
Hardware acceleration methods: vaapi
Also, perhaps there is a problem with your local firefox installation?
You could
sudo apt-get install mpv
and assuming you got some local movie.mkv
mpv --vo=gpu --hwdec=vaapi-copy movie.mkv
Then again check Video Engine Utilization..
That works here.
% ffmpeg -hwaccels
ffmpeg version n6.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 13.2.1 (GCC) 20230801
configuration: --prefix=/usr --disable-debug --disable-static --disable-stripping --enable-amf --enable-avisynth --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-lto --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gmp --enable-gnutls --enable-gpl --enable-ladspa --enable-libaom --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libdav1d --enable-libdrm --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgsm --enable-libharfbuzz --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libjack --enable-libjxl --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libplacebo --enable-libpulse --enable-librav1e --enable-librsvg --enable-librubberband --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libtheora --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpl --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxcb --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc --enable-opencl --enable-opengl --enable-shared --enable-version3 --enable-vulkan
libavutil 58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
libavcodec 60. 31.102 / 60. 31.102
libavformat 60. 16.100 / 60. 16.100
libavdevice 60. 3.100 / 60. 3.100
libavfilter 9. 12.100 / 9. 12.100
libswscale 7. 5.100 / 7. 5.100
libswresample 4. 12.100 / 4. 12.100
libpostproc 57. 3.100 / 57. 3.100
Hardware acceleration methods:
vdpau
cuda
vaapi
qsv
drm
opencl
vulkan
The mpv command worked for me!
Video Engine utilization: 16-19% (vp9 3840x2160 59.940fps 10 bit)
The overall GPU utilization still high(46% vs 7% on pause), but the cpu usage is ~0%. I think its a good sign.
The question is: what's wrong with my fresh firefox installation, chromium and vlc? I've created a new profile in about:profiles, but it still doesn't using the HW acceleration.
With media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled=true, Firefox reports the HW acceleration codecs but doesn't use them.
chromium and vlc you can forget. This library does not support those apps.
If your mpv is 0.35 or newer
mpv --version
then
--hwdec=vaapi
instead of
--hwdec=vaapi-copy
should work which is more efficient.
Regarding firefox, I should go through
https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver
very carefully so nothing important was missed setting things up. Otherwise you need to figure out what has happened in arch's firefox. The version and so on asking others if they experienced something similar.
I regret taking shortcuts for fixes, rather than actually getting down to the precise causes..
But just for the records, the specific error mentioned in the title (which isn't the problem here, but at the same time I don't think it's entirely unrelated) can be fixed by compiling libva with the -Dwith_legacy=nvctrl arch-meson build option.
Following this advice #258 (comment) I've removed previously hardcoded MOZ_DRM_DEVICE from /etc/environment and installed libva-git with -Dwith_legacy=nvctrl.
/etc/environment
% cat /etc/environment
#
# This file is parsed by pam_env module
#
# Syntax: simple "KEY=VAL" pairs on separate lines
#
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia
NVD_BACKEND=direct
Now I don't have any errors in vainfo:
% NVD_LOG=1 vainfo
% NVD_LOG=1 vainfo
Trying display: wayland
Trying display: x11
520.236233291 [3256-3256] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2140 __vaDriverInit_1_0 Initialising NVIDIA VA-API Driver: 10
520.236242739 [3256-3256] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2149 __vaDriverInit_1_0 Now have 0 (0 max) instances
520.236245504 [3256-3256] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2175 __vaDriverInit_1_0 Selecting Direct backend
520.242476106 [3256-3256] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/direct-export-buf.c: 85 direct_initExporter Found NVIDIA GPU 0 at /dev/dri/renderD128
520.242484070 [3256-3256] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/nv-driver.c: 246 init_nvdriver Initing nvdriver...
520.242506542 [3256-3256] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/nv-driver.c: 264 init_nvdriver NVIDIA kernel driver version: 545.29.06, major version: 545, minor version: 29
520.242511621 [3256-3256] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/direct/nv-driver.c: 271 init_nvdriver Got dev info: 900 1 2 6
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.21 (libva 2.20.1)
vainfo: Driver version: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend]
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileAV1Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain12 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444_10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444_12 : VAEntrypointVLD
520.344225598 [3256-3256] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2050 nvTerminate Terminating 0x56dd3802a410
520.344301118 [3256-3256] ../nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.11/src/vabackend.c:2064 nvTerminate Now have 0 (0 max) instances
The firefox still doesn't used the HW acceleration.
I've tried MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1 firefox and now it's worked.
I'm not sure how safe is MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX. I also remember that it's worked before without this flag. It seemed to me like it's something redundant, but it's not.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/v0esaq/linux_users_good_news_seems_like_the_bug_that/
Thank you everyone for the help.
The issue is fixed for me. Let me know if I should close it.
That's coming and explained in #6 (comment)
Congrats!
Looks to me that the only real problem was that
MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1
was needed.
Sometimes one might think it's something really complicated only to find out..no.
I think you can close this now.