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Subject: Re: libvdpau: cannot open shared object
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:44:43 +0100
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Hi!

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> I just want to add that I ran:
> 'guix environment --ad-hoc vdpauinfo -- vdpauinfo'
> on my x86_64 GuixSD machine and I got the following:
>
> display: :0.0   screen: 0
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object =
file: No such file or directory
> Error creating VDPAU device: 1

Same here.

I searched for =E2=80=9Clibvdpau_i965.so=E2=80=9D on the intertubes and it =
seems to be a
problem =E2=80=9Ceveryone has.=E2=80=9D  For instance:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D869815

So it seems that we lack a driver package.

Ludo=E2=80=99.