Linux intel mesa drivers

The Mesa 3D Graphics Library

Open source implementations of OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, OpenCL, and more!

Featured APIs

OpenGL ES is the mobile subset of OpenGL. It’s supported on all major mobile platforms, and is also the base for WebGL.

EGL is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs such as OpenGL or OpenVG and the underlying native platform window system.

OpenMAX is a non-proprietary and royalty-free cross-platform set of C-language programming interfaces, provides abstractions for processing of audio, video, and still images.

OpenCL is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs and other processors or hardware accelerators.

VDPAU

VDPAU is the Video Decode and Presentation API for UNIX. It provides an interface to video decode acceleration and presentation hardware present in modern GPUs.

VA-API

VA-API is an open-source library and API specification, which provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities for video processing.

Note

Even though Mesa provides implementations of the APIs listed above, not all combinations of drivers and APIs are formally conformant to their respective specifications.

Supported Drivers

Hardware

The R300 driver supports AMD’s Radeon R300 GPU series.

The R600 driver supports AMD’s Radeon HD 2000 GPU series. It’s officially supported by AMD, and is one of two Linux drivers for the hardware. More information…

The RadeonSI OpenGL and OpenCL driver supports AMD’s Southern Island GPUs and later. It’s officially supported by AMD, and is one of two Linux drivers for the hardware. More information…

The AMD RADV Vulkan driver supports AMD’s GCN and RDNA GPUs. It’s not officially supported by AMD, but it’s based on public information provided by AMD. More information…

The V3D OpenGL driver supports Broadcom’s VC5 and later GPUs, which is found in the Raspberry Pi 4. It’s officially supported by Broadcom, and is the official Linux driver for the hardware. More information…

The V3DV Vulkan driver supports Broadcom’s VC5 and later GPUs, similar to the V3D driver. More information…

The VC4 driver supports Broadcom’s VC4 GPU, which is found among other other things in most of the Raspberry Pis. It’s officially supported by Broadcom, and is one of two Linux drivers for the hardware. More information…

The Etnaviv driver supports the Vivante GCxxx series of embedded GPUs. It’s a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver, and is not endorsed by Vivante. More information…

The Freedreno driver supports the Qualcomm Adreno GPUs, from the A2xx series to the A6xx series. It’s a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver, and is not endorsed by Qualcomm. More information…

The ANV vulkan driver supports Intel’s Gen 7 hardware and later. It’s officially supported by Intel and is their official Vulkan driver for Linux. More information…

The Iris driver supports Intel’s Gen 8 hardware and later. It’s officially supported by Intel and is their next-generation Linux OpenGL driver. More information…

The Crocus driver supports Intel’s Gen 7 hardware and earlier. It’s based on Iris and the former i965 driver, but is not officially supported or endorsed by Intel.

Lima is a free and open source driver for the ARM Mali-4xx family of GPUs. It’s a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver, and is not endorsed by ARM. More information…

The Nouveau drivers supports a large set of NVIDIA chips, ranging from NV04 found in the Riva TNT card to NVF0 found in the GeForce GTX 780, as well as most of the Tegra GPUs. It’s a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver, and is not endorsed by NVIDIA. More information…

Panfrost is a free and open source driver for the ARM Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs. It’s a reverse-engineered, community-developed driver, and is not endorsed by ARM. More information…

Layered Drivers

The D3D12 driver is a Gallium driver that emits D3D12 API calls instead of targeting a specific GPU architecture. This can be used to get full desktop OpenGL support on devices that only support D3D12, as well as providing hardware acceleration for applications running under WSL. More information…

The SVGA3D driver gives a Linux virtual machine access to the host GPU for hardware-accellerated 3D when running either on VMware hypervisors (Workstation, Fusion, and ESX). It’s officially supported by VMware. More information…

The Venus driver is a virtual Vulkan GPU driver for sharing a GPU with a host for virtual machines. It uses Vulkan on the host to accelerate rendering. More information…

The VirGL driver is a virtual OpenGL GPU driver for sharing a GPU with a host for virtual machines. It uses OpenGL or OpenGL ES on the host to accelerate rendering. More information…

The Zink driver is a Gallium driver that emits Vulkan API calls instead of targeting a specific GPU architecture. This can be used to get full desktop OpenGL support on devices that only support Vulkan. More information…

Software rendering

The LLVMPipe driver is a high-performance software renderer. It’s useful for systems without a dedicated GPU, or in the process of bringing up a platform. It uses LLVM as a code-generator to dynamically compile efficient machine code for the CPU. More information…

The Softpipe driver is a reference software rasterizer; it’s slow but accurate. It’s mostly useful for testing, and on systems that lacks support for LLVM.

Legacy drivers

Note

Several drivers has been removed from the main branch, and now live on in the Amber branch where they are community maintained and only receive critical fixes.

The R200 driver supports AMD’s Radeon R200 GPU series.

The i915 driver supports Intel’s GMA 915G as well as the i830, i845 and i865 integrated GPU series.

The i965 driver supports Intel’s Gen 4 hardware and later. It’s used to be officially supported by Intel, but these days you should be using Iris or Crocus instead.

The OpenSWR driver is a high performance, highly scalable software renderer targeted towards visualization workloads.

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Установка драйвера Intel в Ubuntu

В отличие от драйверов видеокарт от других производителей, таких как Nvidia и AMD, часть драйвера Intel для интегрированных видеокарт встроена в ядро, а другая часть в пакет mesa-utils. Таким образом если вы используете последнюю версию ядра и свежую версию mesa-utils то, скорее всего, вы используете самую свежую версию драйвера Intel.

В этой статье мы рассмотрим как выполняется установка драйвера Intel в Ubuntu если он не установлен по умолчанию, а также как получить самую последнюю версию.

Официальный установщик драйверов Intel

Раньше существовал установщик драйверов от Intel, позволяющий установить последнюю версию драйвера в Ubuntu или Fedora, но потом компания прекратила поддержку этой утилиты. Скачать её можно здесь. Но последняя версия пакета вышла в 2018 году, и с тех пор уже вышло много новых ядер и новых версий дистрибутива Ubuntu. Сейчас в репозиториях Ubuntu версия драйвера более новая чем там.

Установка драйвера Intel в Ubuntu

Вы можете посмотреть какой сейчас драйвер видеокарты используется с помощью команды lspci:

Как видите, в данном примере используется i915, это драйвер видеокарты от Intel. Он работает и ничего больше устанавливать не нужно. Если же в этой строчке находится что-то другое, можно попытаться установить драйвер.

Для установки части драйвера для Xorg и Mesa достаточно установить в систему такие пакеты:

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-intel

sudo apt install mesa-utils

Если вы хотите получить самую последнюю версию драйвера можно воспользоваться специальным PPA. Для добавления репозитория в систему выполните:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers

Затем просто обновите систему и перезагрузите компьютер:

Выводы

Вот и все. Теперь вы знаете как выполняется установка драйвера Intel Ubuntu. В отличие от драйверов для Nvidia, в большинстве случаев здесь всё уже установлено. И вам не надо думать как поддерживать актуальную версию этого драйвера в своей системе. Если у вас остались вопросы, спрашивайте в комментариях!

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How to Install Mesa Drivers on Ubuntu [Latest and Stable]

Mesa itself is not a graphics card like Nvidia or AMD. Instead, it provides open source software implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and some other graphics API specifications for Intel and AMD graphics hardware. With Mesa, you can play high-end games and use applications that require such graphics libraries.

More information on Mesa can be found in this article.

How to install Mesa on Ubuntu?

Mesa comes preinstalled on Ubuntu with the open source graphics drivers of Radeon, Intel and Nvidia (sometimes). Though it probably won’t be the latest Mesa version.

You can check if your system uses Mesa and the installed versions using this command:

If for some reasons (like playing games), you want to install a newer version of Mesa, this tutorial will help you with that. Since, you’ll be using PPA, I highly recommend reading my in-depth guide on PPA.

Installing new Mesa graphics drivers may also need a newer Linux kernel. It will be a good idea to enable HWE kernel on Ubuntu to reduce the chances of conflict with the kernel. HWE Kernel gives you the latest stable kernel used by Ubuntu on an older LTS release.

Install the latest stable version of Mesa driver in Ubuntu [Latest point release]

The Kisak-mesa PPA provides the latest point release of Mesa. You can use it by entering the following commands one by one in the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade

It will give you the latest Mesa point release.

Remove it and go back to original Mesa driver

If you are facing issues and do not want to use the newer version of Mesa, you can revert to the original version.

sudo apt install ppa-purge

And then use it to remove the PPA as well as the Mesa package version installed by this PPA.

sudo ppa-purge ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa

Install the latest Mesa graphics drivers in Ubuntu [Bleeding edge]

If you want the latest Mesa drivers as they are being developed, this is what you need.

There is this awesome PPA that provides open source graphics drivers packages for Radeon, Intel and Nvidia hardware.

The best thing here is that all driver packages are automatically built twice a day, when there is an upstream change.

If you want the absolute latest Mesa drivers on Ubuntu and do not want to take the trouble of installing it from the source code, use this PPA by Oibaf.

The PPA is available for 20.04, 20.10 and 21.04 at the time of writing this article. It is no longer updated for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Open the terminal and use the following commands one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade

This will give you the latest Mesa drivers.

Remove it and go back to original Mesa driver

You can remove the PPA and the latest Mesa driver using the ppa-purge tool.

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

Now use it to disable the PPA you had added and revert the Mesa package to the version provided by Ubuntu officially.

sudo ppa-purge ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers

I hope this quick tutorial was helpful in getting a newer version of Mesa on Ubuntu. If you have questions or suggestions, please use the comment section.

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