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Arkranur

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Registered: 2013-07-27

Posts: 23

Gallium3D i915 Intel drivers now available in the AUR.

I have updated the mesa-full-i915g in the AUR.

It no longer builds from the git master branch, but rather from the latest stable release. It's PKGBUILD is a fork of the mesa PKGBUILD from the official repositories and the three packages it builds, intel-dri-i915g, mesa-i915g, and mesa-libgl-i915g are intended to replace intel-dri, mesa, mesa-libgl respectively. It's 32-bit version for x86_64 architectures is also available as lib32-mesa-full-i915g.

Once the driver is installed, in order to check if you are using the Gallium3D driver: restart X, and then execute

 glxinfo | grep OpenGL 

and you should see "Gallium 0.4" on the second line. If it doesn't show up, you probably have a Sandy/Ivy Bridge Intel video card and this driver won't work for you.

So far I've seen a small performance boost using this driver (at least when running RetroArch).

vinipsmaker

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Registered: 2011-04-15

Posts: 34

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Re: Gallium3D i915 Intel drivers now available in the AUR.

Sorry to bother, but can you inform what OpenGL version the Intel Gallium driver is supporting?

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