hardware acceleration not working[solved]

[Adel Ahmed]

Hi everyone
I can't seem to get hardware acceleration to work in most my applications, I see the following in my vivaldi broswer vivaldi://gpu page:

[rab0171610]

Someone else may have had the same issue you are having and can help you better than I can. I had a totally unrelated firmware error recently and filed a bug upstream which was fixed in a subsequent release of linux-firmware.

This article is over a year old, but touches on some of the firmware loading process for your particular hardware, the "firmware requirements around the GuC micro-controller" and the failed to fetch firmware with error 2.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GuC-Firmware-ADL-P-Linux-5.19

I am curious what version of linux-firmware is installed on your system and what use flags:

[Adel Ahmed]

the files exist but under a different directory:

[rab0171610]

That might be expected, I use systemd (merged usr.)

[rab0171610]

Until someone else weighs in, I can only suggest, for troubleshooting purposes, to try a newer, unstable kernel version in the 6.2. 6.3 or 6.4 series to see if you can replicate the issue. Try it with the binary kernel of the same series (6.1) to see if it is a kernel configuration issue which might be unlikely as I see from your other posts that firmware is loading correctly for the wifi. You could also try the unstable version of linux-firmware or downgrade to the previous stable version 20230404 to see if the issue persists. If all else fails, you could file a bug either upstream at kernel.org or here at gentoo for linux-firmware. Some might see this as an extreme measure, but there is also the option to rename or move your current firmware directory and download and extract the latest linux-firmware from kernel archives and copy it to /lib/firmware to see if the issue persists. The i915 team is very responsive and active in kernel development and will probably address the issue if it is a bug.
As I said, someone here may have had the same issue with the same hardware and may already have a working solution. I wish you luck.
Edit: To clarify, I meant that you could always move or rename the /lib/firmware/i915 directory, then copy the files from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/i915 to /lib/firmware/i915 to see if the problem persists with the latest versions of the relevant firmware files.

[Adel Ahmed]

I've tried the simpler of those solution which was to use the unstable sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20230625 but it failed with the same error
I will try and see which fo the other solutions I can apply before I open a bug report

[rab0171610]

Also maybe see what happens when you use a Live Linux iso from one of the main distros . . . if you don't get any firmware feedback with dmesg there (which is possible) check to see if hardware acceleration/graphics appear to be functioning normally.

If all else fails and you file a bug report upstream, you could disable the compression use flag on the firmware and reinstall. It probably won't make any difference but may simplify things if the firmware in /lib/firmware is uncompressed while troubleshooting the bug.

[rab0171610]

Also, double check the wiki to make sure you haven't misconfigured or missed anything
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel#GuC.2FHuC_firmware

[Adel Ahmed]

I've followed the steps in the wiki, and just to be cautious I've added this command line arguments to the kernel in grub.cfg:

[Adel Ahmed]

I've tried kernel 6.4 as well, but the same error shows up unortunately

[logrusx]

[Adel Ahmed]

My other gpu issues are not for this device
I tried removing the xompression but it didn't make any difference

[Adel Ahmed]

update:
changing kernel version from 6.1.38 to 6.4.2 has shown soem promise, the guc firmware is being loaded now, the dmc version is still not

[rab0171610]

If you have time, try with the sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin to rule out any kernel configuration problems. And then at this point you should file a bug at Kernel.org Bugzilla for i915 linux-firmware. The problem persists on latest stable kernel (6.4) and long-term kernel (6.1). Your firmware is present in /lib/firmware. The problem persists with multiple versions of linux-firmware. The problem persists with or without firmware compression. Make sure to detail all of that in your bug report as well as the dmesg output with firmware failed to fetch output you provided here.

[logrusx]

Now that I reviewed the thread again, I realized I have to do a few restarts until ungoogled-chromium picks HW acceleration. It also affects the chromium build from the main tree. Vivaldi is chromium, so it's very likely the same issue. This behavior appeared somewhere around Linux kernel 6.0.8 and it's not necessarily kernel related as when I noticed it, I was indeed trying new kernels, but reverting to 6.0.8 didn't solve it in a consistent manner. Since then I would try a few system restarts until I see if it's able to pick hw acceleration and would not restart my laptop until it's necessary, I'd only put it to sleep.

Also, 6.4 kernels have big issues and I don't think they are suitable even for a desktop. At least not yet. I'm currently using 6.1.31 and testing 6.1.38 both of which seem to work equally bad in this regard and equally well otherwise.

Best Regards,
Georgi

[rab0171610]

The 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4 kernels work fine for my hardware and setup on 3 machines. I guess everyone's mileage will vary. If you have older hardware that works with the 6.1 kernel series without tons of out of tree drivers, that's great. As to whether or not it is suitable for a desktop I can only say it is working fine here. Arch Linux and variants use the latest kernels. But I respect your opinion.
The OP's firmware failing to load will definitely result in hardware acceleration and power management being disabled. If using a full on desktop environment, it would likely lead to using fallback llvmpipe, which is extremely slow. I think this particular firmware issue would affect more than the browser.

[logrusx]

[rab0171610]

Everyone has different levels of reading comprehension skills.

[Adel Ahmed]

let's all use whatever kernel version that works for us and leave it at that .
i have some updates, I have tried the binary kernel and it can load the huc & guc firmware, but not the DMC firmware:

[logrusx]

[Adel Ahmed]

I do not have the nvidia binary on this laptop, thee other thread was for another laptop
I will experiment with restarts and see what we ccan do

[Adel Ahmed]

I have restarted a few times while running the same kernel config(for 6.4.2 not kernel-bin) and I see the firmware is being loaded just fine:

[yerknows]

This is one of those posts that gets left in case someone else searches this dmesg output and experiences the same confusion.

In my case, how I got to:

[pietinger]

yerknows,

Welcome to Gentoo Forums!

Maybe do a "emerge --sync" and update linux-firmware. (there was an update before some days) =>