Intel Video: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 18:47, 12 January 2025

This page documents the graphics driver for Intel GMA on-board graphics cards and Intel iGPU and dedicated graphics cards (excluding PowerVR-based models). Install the following packages as needed:

mesa-dri-gallium: necessary Mesa drivers for all Intel Graphics.
mesa-va-gallium: Mesa vaapi drivers for all Intel video decoding acceleration. You want one of the below too.
intel-media-driver: VAAPI driver, for hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding. What you want since Intel Broadwell.
libva-intel-driver: VAAPI driver, for processors older than Broadwell.
linux-firmware-i915: Needed if the i915 driver complains about firmware being missing in dmesg

Use environment variables

For all Intel Graphics up to Haswell, the user must manually select crocus Mesa driver in order to let the graphics work properly:

export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=crocus

For newer Intel Graphics, if automatic driver selection does not work and bugs such as missing mouse cursor under Sway occur (no hardware graphics acceleration), the user can manually select iris driver:

export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=iris

Legacy drivers

Legacy drivers like xf86-video-intel which have known Issues. Use these, only if nothing else works.

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-Modern Intel GPUs should work out of the box on Alpine Linux 3.13+ using the kernel i915 driver and mesa i915 or i965 driver. When running on 3.12 or before, nomodeset must be removed from the [[Kernel parameters]].
+This page documents the graphics driver for Intel GMA on-board graphics cards and Intel iGPU and dedicated graphics cards (excluding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units#PowerVR_based PowerVR-based models]). Install the following packages as needed:
-== See also ==
+* {{Pkg|mesa-dri-gallium}}: '''necessary''' Mesa drivers for all Intel Graphics.
-* [[Kernel Modesetting]]
+* {{Pkg|mesa-va-gallium}}: Mesa vaapi drivers for all Intel video decoding acceleration. You want one of the below too.
-* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics Intel graphics on Arch Linux wiki]
+* {{Pkg|intel-media-driver}}: VAAPI driver, for hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding. What you want since Intel Broadwell.
+* {{Pkg|libva-intel-driver}}: VAAPI driver, for processors older than Broadwell.
+* {{Pkg|linux-firmware-i915}}: Needed if the i915 driver complains about firmware being missing in dmesg
+== Use environment variables ==
+For all Intel Graphics up to Haswell, the user must manually select '''crocus''' Mesa driver in order to let the graphics work properly:
+<pre>
+export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=crocus
+</pre>
+For newer Intel Graphics, if automatic driver selection does not work and bugs such as missing mouse cursor under [[Sway]] occur (no hardware graphics acceleration), the user can manually select '''iris''' driver:
+<pre>
+export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=iris
+</pre>
+== Legacy drivers ==
+{{Main|Xorg}}
+Legacy drivers like {{Pkg|xf86-video-intel}} which have [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Installation known Issues]. Use these, only if nothing else works.
+[[Category:Hardware]]
 [[Category:Drivers]]
+[[Category:Graphics]]