IntelGraphicsDriver

The Intel graphics driver in X.Org intends to support all intel chipsets from the i810 and upwards. Please note that this driver does not support the GMA 500, found in various Atom-based designs.

A listing of known laptop graphics chips can be found at IntelLaptopChips.

Table may be out of date. For a better view of daily progress, please see the logs of the source code repositories. You may possibly want to refer to wikipedia for the graphics core/chipset mapping.

2D features

i810-i815

i830-i865G

915G-945G/G33

965G/G35

G4x

G5x(placeholder)

Mode Setting

UMS

KMS

KMS

KMS

KMS

N/A

2D Acceleration

XAA

UXA

UXA

UXA

UXA

N/A

DRI

DRI1

DRI2

DRI2

DRI2

DRI2

N/A

Xv

DONE

DONE

DONE

DONE

DONE

N/A

XvMC

DONE

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

VA-API (MPEG-2)

N/A

N/A

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

DONE

N/A

VA-API (H.264)

N/A

N/A

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

MOSTLY

N/A

sync to vblank

TODO

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

Mesa 3D features

i810-i815

i830-i865G

915G-945G/G33

965G/G35

G4x

G5x(placeholder)

Primitives

DONE

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

Textures

DONE

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

Hardware TCL

N/A

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

N/A

Shaders

N/A

N/A

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

Output

i810-i815

i830-i865G

915G-945G/G33

965G/G35

G4x

G5x(placeholder)

Console restore

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

Dual-link DVI

BIOS

BIOS

BIOS

BIOS

UNKNOWN

N/A

Dual head (Randr 1.2)

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

FB Console

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

TVout

BIOS

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

Other

i810-i815

i830-i865G

915G-945G/G33

965G/G35

G4x

G5x(placeholder)

DPMS

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

LVDS Downclocking

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

N/A

Suspend/Restore

TODO

TODO

TODO

TODO

TODO

N/A

The latest release is Intel 2009Q4 graphics package.

The Intel Linux Graphics Driver web portal: http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org.

The Intel graphics driver is currently maintained in the xf86-video-intel git repository in X.Org. To check out the current code, use:

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel

or

cg clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel

More instructions on using git to interact with the repository can be found at UsingGit.

The Intel graphics driver and hardware has support for sDVO ADD2 DVI Cards, which you can learn about at SDVOADD2Cards.

Please note that TV out support is usually provided by third-party encoder chips, which typically require separate drivers. Some of these drivers have not yet been written or included in the intel driver, thus while everything else may work fine, TV out may not be supported depending on the encoder chip paired with your graphics chip.