fedy VS intel-vaapi-driver

Install Fedora, then install fedy

I am a Linux noob and I decided to start on Fedora (KDE spin) but I found it really hard to install NVIDIA drivers. I couldn't get them to work no matter what I tried. I then found this piece of software called Fedy that seems like it would help me but I haven't seen it recommended anywhere.

Try Fedy to just install all that stuff and the codecs. Glorious little tool that doesn't get enough love. https://github.com/rpmfusion-infra/fedy

Despite rumors that RpmFusion won't do it (which are untrue and based on ONE maintainer saying he personally was not interested), efforts are alive and well to bring the support to RpmFusion - see github and bugzilla for rpmfusion - so I would suggest just being patient and giving them the time they need.

Install a tool called Fedy (here) it has some cool tweaks for fedora. But what you need is in the drivers tab, install the broadcom drivers. But only do this if you actually have a broadcom card! If your card is mediatek, it should work but sometimes its hit or miss, even on windows. If its intel, you should not have any problems. Try other distro like popOS or ubuntu in live usb (you dont need to install it) and see if wifi is better. You can also try to install a different more recent or slightly older kernel, it might be a bug with your wifi drivers in the current kernel nobara uses. Other distros also have different kernels so you can check how the wifi behaves in them as i said.

I wasn't convinced, so I dug through some Github issues until I found this one h624 support for GM45 - issue #544, in which someone mentioned that the crocus driver supports VAAPI but several people mentioned that it seems like h264 decoding doesn't work.

i965-va-driver is dead and no longer maintained by Intel. Version 2.4.1 is the last release of that driver (see https://github.com/intel/intel-vaapi-driver/releases).

$ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.14.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_14 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 1.14 (libva 2.14.0) vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop - 2.4.1 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD Installed Packages Name : libva-intel-driver Version : 2.4.1 Release : 8.fc36 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 7.9 M Source : libva-intel-driver-2.4.1-8.fc36.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : rpmfusion-free Summary : HW video decode support for Intel integrated graphics URL : https://github.com/intel/intel-vaapi-driver License : MIT and EPL Description : HW video decode support for Intel integrated graphics. : https://01.org/intel-media-for-linux Installed Packages Name : ffmpeg Version : 5.0.1 Release : 3.fc36 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 2.1 M Source : ffmpeg-5.0.1-3.fc36.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : rpmfusion-free Summary : Digital VCR and streaming server URL : http://ffmpeg.org/ License : GPLv3+ Description : FFmpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video : broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital : VCR. It can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio : and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash.

Mesa crocus

libva-intel-driver didn't work for me, but installing intel-media-driver from nonfree rpm-fusion seemed to do the trick. leaving this here for anyone with the same issue.

And I have already complied and install tar ball from https://github.com/intel/intel-vaapi-driver. So, libva-driver-intel is trying to install this right?

In general, Vaapi stuff is really hard to get running. Theres a bunch of different drivers per vendor and different (package-)names for the same thing in different distros, most tutorials dont even mention the GPU theyre using and point to other drivers .. Its a mess really. For example if you google Intel Vaapi the first result is: https://github.com/intel/intel-vaapi-driver. Which is the wrong one. Of course if would be to comfortable for them to mention the supported models in their readme. I have an Intel RKL GPU so I need intel-media-driver, found that out through trial and error.