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eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 5:18 PM

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Internal graphics is Enabled in the BIOS (one thing I found through search), and vainfo gives me this:

error: can't connect to X server!
libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0
libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'iHD'
libva info: Trying to open /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_15
libva error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
vaInitialize failed with error code 1 (operation failed),exit

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I can run frigate by commenting out hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi under ffmpeg:, but it obviously increases CPU usage

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seems like most folks are running Ubuntu and have success installing the HWE kernel, but I think that's a hack for Debian

mortal ridge Apr 16, 2024, 5:22 PM

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I think some people are, you may want to try installing some of the other packages along with that one https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/blob/d7ae0eedf89e14f297093ac5c8042862034cbaeb/docker/main/install_deps.sh#L61-L63 to see if it makes a difference since frigate needs others as well.

Is that vainfo output from inside the frigate container or the host?

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 5:23 PM

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from the host

mortal ridge Apr 16, 2024, 5:25 PM

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maybe also see what lspci -k says

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 5:25 PM

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I think I've installed all of those

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oh, it's an i915?

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-N [UHD Graphics]
    DeviceName: Onboard - Video
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-N [UHD Graphics]
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915

mortal ridge Apr 16, 2024, 5:26 PM

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i915 is another name for iHD

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i965 is the older one

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(great naming intel)

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 5:27 PM

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no kidding

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I get the same if I don't choose a driver and run vainfo from the container

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I saw some mention of secure boot, which is disabled

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installing those dependencies didn't help, unfortunately.

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root@rcoleman-linux:/opt/frigate# vainfo
error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or not set in the environment.
error: can't connect to X server!
libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17
libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_8
libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

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same thing inside and out of the container

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I guess I can try the 6.5 kernel tonight

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The 6.6 kernel seems to lock up the Beelink box hard somehow, in that it's hard to even get into the BIOS afterward. I don't know what the heck it's doing

mortal ridge Apr 16, 2024, 5:39 PM

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man, that's very odd

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 5:41 PM

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I was freaking out a bit last night, but I was able to get into the boot menu with F7 to re-choose my SSD. Before that, simply repeatedly pressing escape was enough to get into the full BIOS, but that just stopped working 🤷

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network was flashing, but no video output, couldn't SSH, no idea what was going on

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I was just transplanting the exact same SSD from my old Lenovo Thinkcenter to the Beelink and I figured it would just be a drop-in replacement, but there's always that one thing....

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5 hours later, having nearly broken it so nothing works, I went back to the older kernel and just left it 🙂

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:10 PM

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which beelink is this? I just bought one like a week ago and not having any issues using vaapi

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I have bookworm but also using casaos so stuff like frigate are ran in containers

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:12 PM

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https://a.co/d/28NT3ZC

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:12 PM

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heh thats the exact one i have

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:12 PM

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Hmmm

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I'm using all containers, too, but I get the same on the host. Maybe I'll try a live bookworm thumb drive

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:14 PM

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wait.. mines the pro.. it looks and has those sam specs but the listing on amazon is diffrent from the beelink store. same price too

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BYJ9BC15

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:15 PM

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I think I did a dist upgrade to bookworm on this, so maybe something to do with that

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You're running the 6.1 kernel?

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:16 PM

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maybe. I just installed bookwork then immediatly slapped casaos on it and away I went

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:16 PM

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uname -a

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:17 PM

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6.1.0-18

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:17 PM

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Ok, I'm on -20

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And vainfo works for you?

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:18 PM

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vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 23.1.1```

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:19 PM

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If it doesn't fail, then yeah

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:19 PM

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tough little machine

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:20 PM

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I like it. It's even smaller than the think center, and easier to get to the bits

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I think I need to poke around in the bios some more

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:20 PM

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yea using mine for my moms frigate with her 7 cameras. access it remotely which is why I just slapped casaos on it

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:21 PM

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Feels a bit like a plastic toy, but high performance at low power

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:21 PM

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yea

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:22 PM

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Way cheaper than similar NUCs

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:22 PM

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mines sitting in towel closet with just gaps around the door for ventilation and it remains cool

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:23 PM

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Mine is going to consolidate 3 servers when I'm done, saving a bunch of power at higher performance

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:23 PM

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yea i almost bought a second

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for that. to replace my server here

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:24 PM

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I started moving to faster machines with ESPHome and voice/wakeword. Building that takes forever on my old HA machine

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Frigate is okay even without vaapi for now

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:27 PM

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what you gonna run for docker management?

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:27 PM

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Docker compose

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Same as I have been using

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:28 PM

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casaos is great for a ui aspect especially remotely but i cannot for the life of me figure out how to mount a tmp for frigate to cut back on ssd

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ah

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:29 PM

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I'm okay with a giant docker-compose file and profiles

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If I can't get those commands to work on the host, I don't expect it from the container, though

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:30 PM

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I didn't have to use the i965 driver or anything. just using the vaapi preset in frigate and it all worked

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:30 PM

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The container installs the drivers

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Just doesn't work for me

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That's why I'm suspicious of a bios setting

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Some security thing

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One of the other commands gave an MMIO access failure, and one dude tracked that down to secure boot. Bit that's disabled on mine. Might be related, though

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:33 PM

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I peeked in the bios but changed nothing

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I wanted to make sure the machine was going to auto restart in the evnt of a power outage

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:34 PM

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Yeah, I need to look at that too

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I'm just down the rabbit hole on this vaapi thing

sleek dirge Apr 16, 2024, 6:35 PM

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prob just some glitch in the matrix..start over lol

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unless you got a lemon.. fingers cross for that not to be the case

eager zinc Apr 16, 2024, 6:36 PM

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With so much stuff in containers, that's probably not such a big deal. Bit I would hate to waste the time and have it not help

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That's why I'm think that a live boot stick might be interesting

mortal ridge Apr 16, 2024, 6:48 PM

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eager zinc That's why I'm think that a live boot stick might be interesting

yeah I'd be curious on that

mortal ridge Apr 17, 2024, 2:51 PM

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did you have a chance to try it?

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 3:08 PM

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No, didn't have time last night.

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It's kind of a pain to keep bringing the server up and down, since it's running a ton of stuff and my house doesn't really work when it's down 🙂

mortal ridge Apr 17, 2024, 3:40 PM

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yeah I can imagine :/

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 4:32 PM

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works fine from the latest bookworm live boot, so 🤷

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 4:56 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/whoa-deja-vu-matrix-glitch-black-cat-glitch-in-the-matrix-keeanu-reeves-gif-14603491

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ok we should be able to post images in threads

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come on now

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 4:56 PM

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truly weird and confusing. I tried the -18 kernel with the same failure

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 4:57 PM

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something might have borked when you did the dist upgrade

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 4:58 PM

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no idea. I haven't figured out how to get more info about why the driver init failed

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I also made an executive decision to allow images/embeds in this channel

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hmmm:
ioctl(3, DRM_IOCTL_I915_GETPARAM, 0x7ffe6445eff0) = -1 ENOEXEC (Exec format error)

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:06 PM

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that sounds like a bork during an update/change to me

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 5:08 PM

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luckily, everything else is working, including Frigate without vaapi support. But that also makes me less interested in reimaging

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I'll figure it out, it's just a challenge 🙂

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:09 PM

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you did pass the driver into the container correctly?

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 5:09 PM

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I'm just doing all this from the host now

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container is priviledged

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:11 PM

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i still passed the d128 into mine

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 5:12 PM

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this is what's failing in teh container and the host, so until I get this working on the host, I don't think the container is the issue:

rcoleman@rcoleman-linux ~/docker % sudo intel_gpu_top
intel_gpu_top: ../tools/intel_gpu_top.c:1932: init_engine_classes: Assertion `max >= 0' failed.
[1]    19951 IOT instruction  sudo intel_gpu_top

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rcoleman@rcoleman-linux ~/docker % sudo intel_gpu_top -L
card0                    Intel Alderlake_n (Gen12)         pci:vendor=8086,device=46D1,card=0
└─renderD128

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it clearly sees it

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:14 PM

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have you tried reinstalling the driver?

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 5:14 PM

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1000000 times

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:15 PM

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yea you got way more patience than me.. i would have wipd and redone it all over by now

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 5:16 PM

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that will spawn more hours of figuring out what I don't have and need to install when literally everything else works

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base Debian 12 has pretty much nothing

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:17 PM

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I dunno what casaos installed extra but i usd th same debian image

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e key

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I did a quick search what you postd abov. this poppd up https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1371

GitHub

Alder Lake init failed · Issue #1371 · intel/media-driver

Hi, I'm trying to get vaapi to work on an intel i7 12700 (alder lake), the pc is running centos8 vainfo: Found init function _vaDriverInit_1_14 /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed va_op...

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 5:19 PM

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I didn't have to install anything on the live USB image, it just worked out of the box

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:19 PM

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ya same

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i literally installed debian via usb, slapped casaos and then away I went.. no additional drivers or anything

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 5:27 PM

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looked through that issue and the error is the same (but pretty generic), but the strace is different. I'm getting that "exec error", which seems interesting

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:29 PM

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they also had suggested to reinstall the libva-drm2 as well. I don't have vainfo installed on host on my machine

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 5:39 PM

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that didn't help. I'm rebuilding the intel_media_driver now 🙂

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my device ID has been in the driver foreverr, so it isn't the same issue as in the one above

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:39 PM

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just checked my downloads folder to make sure which debian i did grab and yea it was this image debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst

eager zinc Apr 17, 2024, 5:40 PM

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I wonder if Debian has a "fix this installation" mode, like MacOS does. Non-destructive, fix the stuff that users won't normally touch

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I'm rebuilding the driver now for fun, so let's see

sleek dirge Apr 17, 2024, 5:41 PM

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no idea. aside from this time I only ever installed it once before cause they kept a 32 bit image around longer

eager zinc Apr 18, 2024, 4:46 AM

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Finally figured it out. Some web searching pointed out that the ENOEXEC error that I saw in the strace was related to missing or invalid firmware, and I noticed that I didn't have the i915 firmware in /lib/firmware. When I tried to install the firmware-misc-nonfree package, I realized that it moved from the non-free component to non-free-firmware component in bookworm. After fixing that in /etc/apt/sources.list, installing the firwmare, and rebooting, everything works as expected

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I went as far as building the whole intel graphics driver packages from source with debug enabled and started to add my own debug before I decided that I was going down a rabbithole that I was unlikely to escape

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this was the key: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7e166f02-db00-9b18-dad0-7e04c348a920@intel.com/
>>>>> -ENOEXEC if HuC firmware is invalid or mismatched,

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I still essentially spent the hours that I would have spent reimaging and restoring what I had, but at least I learned some stuff 🙂

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and now that I built my own driver stack, I'm on the latest. so there's that

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