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leopseft

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Registered: 2018-09-05

Posts: 29

[Solved] Iris or i915 in use?

Hello friends.

The cpu is a 11th Gen Intel i7-1165G7 (@2.80GHz) with the intel Iris Graphics.
Initially I have removed the xf86-video-intel as it seemed to cause issues with the graphics.

Today, after one year I reinstalled the driver xf86-video-intel and seems to work just fine. But.

I 've noticed that with the latest mesa I supposed to work with the new Iris driver, but I only see i915 in use.

$ lspci -v
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        DeviceName: Onboard - Video
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 12e1
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 140, IOMMU group 1
        Memory at 601c000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at 4000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

Am i missing something?

I have installed: mesa, lib32-mesa, xf86-video-intel and intel-media-driver. No config in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ no parameters for Early KMS.
Is this setup the right one for my machine?

Last edited by leopseft (2022-04-28 16:54:06)

dogknowsnx

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Re: [Solved] Iris or i915 in use?

"i915" is the name of the kernel module - "iris" is mesa's Intel driver (i915/i965 drivers have been removed from mesa >=22 and are now part of the legacy package 'mesa-amber') - hope this helps...

Last edited by dogknowsnx (2022-03-26 19:45:14)

leopseft

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Registered: 2018-09-05

Posts: 29

Re: [Solved] Iris or i915 in use?

Alright, so this means that I'm already using the Iris Driver.
My main problem that made me doubt about my configuration was that I see sometimes one thin green-yellow line flashing at the tty top during reboots.