Chromium libva error

[pezglobo]

chromium over wayland, with ozone X11 gives the error:
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)

and you have to pass the drivers manually, for example radeonsi on my case.
in xorg it doesn’t happens and I use OBS and MPV and it doesn’t happens either with wayland so…

[Yochanan]

Try setting the Preferred Ozone platform (chrome://flags/#ozone-platform-hint) to Auto.

@pezglobo

you have to pass the drivers manually

Says who? Pass them to what and how?

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[pezglobo]

@Yochanan

Pass them to what and how?

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi chromium

i mean That
It fixes the error on chromium

@Yochanan

Try setting the Preferred Ozone platform (chrome://flags/#ozone-platform-hint) to Auto.

This is on Auto already… and in auto in wayland it uses x11( and better for me to have vaapi support inside)

[pezglobo]

Idk if its a bug know or not, I’ll mark my answer like a fix because it’s a workaround but… I think chromium should detect well the system libva drivers :s