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Hardware Acceleration (?) Not Working? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by theselfhoster@sopuli.xyz to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I don't know what to do. I've tried searching through google and all the answers don't seem to work. When I use Firefox (this is librewolf but it's the same on Firefox), games like Tetr.io or Friday Night Funkin lag real bad but they're buttery smooth on Chrome or Chromium. I have an iGPU and a "Cedar" AMD GPU according to lspci. Someone please help me, I don't wanna use Chromium just to get good performance. Please tell me if I need to provide more information.

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[–] Comexs@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I sure you have but have you tried checking the out put of vainfo Arch wiki since Firefox only supports Hardware acceleration with VA-API.

[–] theselfhoster@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children) 
libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-nonfree/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-freeworld/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-nonfree/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-freeworld/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit```

This is what I got, I still dunno what it means.
[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

which gen is your igpu? Older intel igpus need libva-intel-driver pkg installed (on Arch, not sure whats the Fedora equivalent) and the env variable LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME set to i965.

See also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration#VA-API_drivers.

[–] theselfhoster@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

According to fastfetch it's a "Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd gen core processor"

When I tried to run "LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 firefox" it spat out "restorecon: SELinux: Could not get canonical path for /home/[myusername]/.mozilla/firefox//gmp-widevinecdm/ restorecon: No such file or directory."