[barthand]

Yeah. Follow the how-to please. Cannot help you further.

I followed the how-to from the first post and results were unfortunately the same (vainfo returning correct output only when DISPLAY was not actually pointing to running X server),

I almost lost hope, but finally I get it working. :-)

Conclusion had to be that probably X server is somehow not loading i965 drivers. I looked up /var/log/Xorg.0.log, searching for either intel or i965 - nothing was there.

So what I did was to add the file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf, with the following content:

Code:

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "intel"
  Driver      "intel"
EndSection

Then you should just restart the X server, observe how i965 drivers are loaded in Xorg.0.log and finally - enjoy the proper output from vainfo (and obviously HW-accelerated videos in Kodi!).

Hope it helps someone! (I got stuck on that for several hours...)

Just to remind you: all of this happened to me on Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop.

Thanks fritsch for all your help again!