Graphics driver
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,refer Identify graphics card section.
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
Troubleshooting
Identify graphics card
If you are unsure about your graphics card, information about the particular video cards that are installed in the computer may be found in the list of PCI devices.
Install the package pciutils first using the command:
#apk add pciutils
Now use lspci command from the pciutils package to identify the graphics card as follows:
lspci -k | grep -EA3 "VGA|3D|Display"