Graphics driver: Difference between revisions

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Many desktop environments need a graphics driver to work properly. Install Mesa drivers for all graphics cards before installing a desktop. Mesa-gallium is an open-source OpenGL implementation that supports a variety of hardware and software drivers, including Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and more.

mesa-dri-gallium: Mesa drivers for all Graphics cards.
mesa-va-gallium: Mesa vaapi drivers for all video decoding acceleration.

Graphics cards of recent vintage may need additional drivers to work at their full potential. Install additional graphics drivers from the below depending on your hardware. If you are unsure about your graphics card, use lspci from pciutils package to identify the graphics card:

lspci -k | grep -EA3 "VGA|3D|Display"

Then, install an appropriate driver.

For Intel video chipsets, see Intel Video
For AMD Radeon Chipsets, see Radeon Video
For Nvidia Chipsets, see Nvidia Video
For legacy Xf86 drivers Xf86 Video

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-Many [[Desktop environments and Window managers|desktop environments]] need a graphics driver to work properly. Graphics cards of recent vintage need a driver to work. So one needs to install one of the below graphics drivers before installing a [[Installation#Post-Installation|desktop]]:
+Many [[Desktop environments and Window managers|desktop environments]] need a graphics driver to work properly. Install Mesa drivers for all graphics cards before installing a [[Installation#Post-Installation|desktop]]. Mesa-gallium is an open-source OpenGL implementation that supports a variety of hardware and software drivers, including Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and more.
-* {{Pkg|mesa-dri-gallium}}: '''necessary''' Mesa drivers for all Graphics cards.
+* {{Pkg|mesa-dri-gallium}}: Mesa drivers for all Graphics cards.
+* {{Pkg|mesa-va-gallium}}: Mesa vaapi drivers for all video decoding acceleration.
-Mesa-dri-gallium is an open-source OpenGL implementation that supports a variety of hardware and software drivers, including Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and more.
+Graphics cards of recent vintage may need additional drivers to work at their full potential. Install additional graphics drivers from the below depending on your hardware. If you are unsure about your graphics card, use <code>lspci</code> from {{pkg|pciutils}} package to identify the graphics card: {{cmd|<Nowiki>lspci -k | grep -EA3 "VGA|3D|Display"</Nowiki>}}
-Information about the video cards that are installed in the computer may be found using <code>lspci</code> command, which is not available by default. Refer the [[How_to_get_regular_stuff_working#Hardware_Management|instructions]] to install {{pkg|pciutils}} package.
-To identify the graphics card (the Subsystem output shows the specific model), issue the below command:
-{{cmd|<Nowiki>lspci -v | grep -A1 -e VGA -e 3D</Nowiki>}}
 Then, install an appropriate driver.
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 * For AMD Radeon Chipsets, see [[Radeon Video]]
 * For Nvidia Chipsets, see [[Nvidia Video]]
+* For legacy Xf86 drivers [[Xf86 Video]]
+== See also ==
-For details on legacy Xorg drivers refer [[Xorg]] page.
+* [[Kernel Modesetting]]
+* [[Uvesafb|Generic FB driver]]
 [[category:Graphics]]
-[[category: Drivers]]
+[[category:Drivers]]
-[[category: Desktop]]