Comment # 51 on bug 1011158 from Hubert Mantel

(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #49)
> I no longer remember the details, but I'm afraid you still set 
> 
>   LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965
> 
> as a minimum. Leap 42.2/sle12-sp2 hasn't seen a fundamental graphics stack
> update
> (at least no Xserver update). So you may need to do something similar as in
> comment #30, i.e. at least update xorg-x11-server of X11:XOrg. I don't know
> which patch Max added. His repo is gone meanwhile and he is on sick leave
> until begin of July.

I forgot to mention: I tried explicitly setting this environment variable, but
it just leads to the core dump as before.

But thanks for the hint with the updated X server. Will try this tonight. I
tried to use the one from Max's home project, but unfortunately it is gone.

But even if this will solve my problem, some questions remain:

1. Why don't we have the most recent firmware version any longer?
2. Why can't the kernel correctly load the firmware? This has worked before and
seems to be fixed again in a more recent kernel.

Of course using this newer kernel is totally acceptable for me and if the
patched X server solved the problem, I'm fine. But there still seems to be
something fishy at least in the currently available official kernel then. But I
understand this is not a problem of the X guys then :)

Thanks a lot for your quick answer!