hwaccel: rewrite of GPU hardware acceleration support #10597
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## Major Changes: - Multi-GPU detection and user selection (60s timeout, auto-select) - Intel Arc/DG1/DG2 dedicated driver installation - Intel Gen 9+ (UHD/Iris/HD 5xx-6xx) with compute-runtime from GitHub - Intel Legacy (Gen 6-8, HD 2xxx-5xxx) with stable repo drivers - AMD discrete GPU support with Mesa + firmware - AMD APU integrated graphics support - NVIDIA version-matched driver installation from CUDA repository ## Distro Support: - Debian 11 (Bullseye), 12 (Bookworm), 13 (Trixie/Sid) - Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 ## New Features: - GPU selection dialog for multi-GPU systems - Host NVIDIA driver version detection from /proc/driver/nvidia/version - APT pinning (Priority 1001) for NVIDIA version matching - Device permissions for /dev/dri, /dev/nvidia*, /dev/kfd - Modular helper functions for maintainability ## Helper Functions: - _setup_intel_arc() - _setup_intel_modern() - _setup_intel_legacy() - _setup_amd_gpu() - _setup_amd_apu() - _setup_nvidia_gpu() - _add_debian_nonfree() - _add_debian_nonfree_firmware() - _setup_gpu_permissions() Closes: Implements NVIDIA support properly (alternative to PR #10579)
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✍️ Description
Remark: Currently only tested on my Intel iGPU and Intel ARC Without Nvidia / AMD i cant test - so need user feedback
Distro Support:
New Features:
🔗 Related Issue
Fixes #10579
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