These drivers are provided and maintained by the linux distribution vendors. Intel hd hd530hd520, skylake 6th generation of intel cpus video card problems list and solutionsquick fixes for linux. Each virtual machine is presented a virtual gpu vgpu, which has equivalent features as the underlying physical gpu pgpu, so i915 driver can run. Ubuntu has intel video drivers by default in the package xserverxorgvideointel. Intel gvtg is a graphics virtualization technology which shares the gpu among multiple virtual machines on a timesharing basis. The first 915 chipset was released in june 2004 and soon after 1, a driver for this chipset was added to the linux kernel see also 2. Heres a guide for installing the intel graphics driver in. Starting with i810, intel outsourced the driver to tungsten graphics, but commissioned it. This excludes a set of soc platforms with an sgx rendering unit, those have basic support through the gma500 drm driver. As linux becomes more userfriendly and game developers add linux support, the biggest question outside of what physical card to buy seems to be graphics driver performance. Recently intel started including their graphics drivers into the mainline linux kernel.
Since intel provides and supports open source drivers, intel graphics are. The drm i915 driver supports all with the exception of some very early models integrated gfx chipsets with both intel display and rendering blocks. How to install and configure graphics drivers in linux. Most linuxbased distributions include intel graphics drivers.
The intel graphics for linux site describes other ways you can obtain drivers. Starting with i810, intel outsourced the driver to tungsten graphics, but commissioned it as an open source one for linux. All intel igpus are supported by a kernel module called i915. While the module is called i915 its actually a general driver for all intel igpus. Well, that p4 chipset is the reason for the driver name. Diverting from the defaults will mark the kernel as tainted from linux. Heres a guide for installing the intel graphics driver in ubuntu 16. Fix for intel i915 gpu freeze on recent linux kernels hobo. Contact your operating system vendor osv and use their distribution for driver access and support. Fix for intel i915 gpu freeze on recent linux kernels. Having suffered intermittent, sporadic gpu freezes on my lenovo x270 kabylake work laptop since kernel 4.
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