GPU drivers: packages intel-media-va-driver-non-free and limfx1 not found

[nesavi]

I am attempting to get Intel oneAPI up and running on Ubuntu 18.04.4, but I am having some trouble installing the GPU drivers, as per this site https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/topics/graphics-linux-drivers.html

My PCI ID is 8086:3ea9, and when I follow the instructions given on the site, i.e. executing

cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intel-graphics.list
deb [trusted=yes arch=amd64] https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu bionic main
EOF
sudo apt-get update

and 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
  intel-opencl \
  intel-media-va-driver-non-free libmfx

I receive the following error messages: 

E: Unable to locate package intel-media-va-driver-non-free

and

E: Unable to locate package libmfx1

Does anyone know whether this even matters, and if so, how I can remedy the problem?

Thanks in advance.

[GouthamK_Intel]

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

Could you please let us know the oneAPI Base toolkit version which you are using?

Also, we observed that in the commands which you have attached in the query. It says

sudo apt-get install \

intel-opencl \

intel-media-va-driver-non-free libmfx

Whereas, the command which is provided in the below link is https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/topics/graphics-linux-drivers.html

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install \

intel-opencl \

intel-media-va-driver-non-free libmfx1

Could you please confirm whether you are following the exact same command or not? If not please try with libmfx1 let us know the outcome of it.

Also, please share the error logs, so that it will help us to debug more on the issue you are facing.

Thanks & Regards

Goutham

[nesavi]

Dear Goutham

Thank you very much for the taking the time to look into the issue I raised. The missing "1" is a copy+paste on my part, when I was writing my post. I apologize for the inconvenience on your part.

Since I posted the original post, I have reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04.4 and I install Intel oneAPI basekit 2021.1 Beta08 on it.

I have attached a log of the commands I executed in a terminal windows. At lines 76, 82 and 123 you will find the message I originally posted about.  Preceding the attempt to install those packages not found I executed the following to update my packages repositories:

lassen@lassen-NUC8i5BEHS:~$ cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intel-graphics.list
> deb [trusted=yes arch=amd64] https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu bionic main
> EOF
deb [trusted=yes arch=amd64] https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu bionic main

and then

lassen@lassen-NUC8i5BEHS:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease 
Hit:3 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease 
Hit:4 https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all InRelease 
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB] 
Ign:6 https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu bionic InRelease 
Get:7 https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu bionic Release [2,678 B]
Ign:8 https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu bionic Release.gpg
Get:9 https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [6,350 B]
Fetched 97.8 kB in 4s (26.7 kB/s) 
Reading package lists... Done

Here are the message relating to packages not found:

lassen@lassen-NUC8i5BEHS:~$ sudo apt-get install \
> intel-opencl \
> intel-media-va-driver-non-free libmfx1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package intel-media-va-driver-non-free
E: Unable to locate package libmfx1

and

lassen@lassen-NUC8i5BEHS:~$ sudo apt-get install intel-opencl intel-media-va-driver-non-free libmfx1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package intel-media-va-driver-non-free
E: Unable to locate package libmfx1

and

lassen@lassen-NUC8i5BEHS:~$ sudo apt-get install intel-media-va-driver-non-free libmfx1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package intel-media-va-driver-non-free
E: Unable to locate package libmfx1

I hope you find this useful.

Thanks in advance for looking into this.

Sincerely,

nesavi/Thomas

[nesavi]

Hi @GouthamK_Intel 

Any chance that you guys have had the opportunity to look in to this issue?

Regards,

nesavi

[Varsha_M_Intel]

Could you please try the instructions in the site below-

https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/installation-guides/ubuntu/ubuntu-bionic.html

Please let me know if it worked fo ryou.

[Varsha_M_Intel · Accepted solution]

There was an error in the instructions published to the software.intel.com site (the media packages are not available for Ubuntu 18.04.) We're working to get the content on that site updated.

Please use the following for now-

https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/installation-guides/index.html

[nesavi]

Hi @Varsha_M_Intel 

I will try your work-around and post my results here. Thanks for your response.