Re: git: ef1f7856c102 - main - multimedia/libva-nvidia-driver: better document how to run

From: Jan Beich <jbeich_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:43:08 UTC
Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> writes:

> Hi Jan,
> Thanks for the better documentation.
>
> On my (current amd64) boxes, 'nv-sgl vainfo' gives
>
> Trying display: wayland
> Trying display: x11
> libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
> libva info: Trying to open /usr/local/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
> libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
> vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
>
>
> Instead of /usr/local/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so there is
> /usr/local/lib/dri/nvidia-drm_drv_video.so, installed by
> multimedia/libva-nvidia-driver.
>
> #pkg info -l libva-nvidia-driver-0.0.14_1
> libva-nvidia-driver-0.0.14_1:
>         /usr/local/lib/dri/nvidia-drm_drv_video.so
>         /usr/local/share/licenses/libva-nvidia-driver-0.0.14_1/LICENSE
>         /usr/local/share/licenses/libva-nvidia-driver-0.0.14_1/MIT
>         /usr/local/share/licenses/libva-nvidia-driver-0.0.14_1/catalog.mk
>
>
> Shouldn't vainfo be able to find the right lib?

Can you try https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=6a391a807ce8 ?