It looks like x11-libs/libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4-r3 is missing symlink creation for radeonsi driver. Workaround is to create symlink manually: # ln -s vdpau_drv_video.so radeonsi_drv_video.so in /usr/lib64/va/drivers/. I am not familiar with makefiles but I guess that this line (or something which is initial source of it) is buggy: libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4/src/Makefile.in:DRIVERS = nvidia nouveau s3g # native VA-API driver is too old, so use \ It should contain also radeonsi (and maybe other ones). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.have VIDEO_CARD="radeonsi" in make.conf 2.launch vainfo Actual Results: $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 0.38.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/va/drivers/radeonsi_drv_video.so libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1 vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit Expected Results: $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 0.38.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/va/drivers/radeonsi_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_38 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 0.38 (libva 1.6.0) vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems VDPAU backend for VA-API - 0.7.4 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG4Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG4AdvancedSimple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Baseline : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.20.1 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma/systemd, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.21-r1, 4.2.0-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.2.0-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_X4_750K_Quad_Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8190056 total, 5475748 free KiB Swap: 9096188 total, 9096188 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 00:45:02 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p42 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p42::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.22.0::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.10::gentoo, 3.3.5-r1::gentoo, 3.4.3::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.3.1-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r3::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r1::gentoo 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radeonsi have native vaapi support (since mesa-10.4 or so). So why do you want to use libva-vdpau-driver? See bug 549564.
So how to make that native support working? I encountered the following error when trying to display gstreamer window (using gst-launch-1.0): libva info: va_getDriverName() returns -1 libva error: va_getDriverName() failed with unknown libva error,driver_name=(null) So I started digging what is missing and ended up with adding vdpau useflag and finally error changed to mentioned: libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/va/drivers/radeonsi_drv_video.so libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
(In reply to Alexander Tsoy from comment #1) > radeonsi have native vaapi support (since mesa-10.4 or so). So why do you > want to use libva-vdpau-driver? See bug 549564. Exactly. I don't think we want to use libva-vdpau-driver for radeonsi since it has native support.
