Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #18267, comment 14


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07/08/2023 02:06:08 AM (22 months ago)
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    1 I can only speak to Intel.  I believe the best characterization of xf86-video-intel is "unmaintained" and has been so since 2014 when it became clear that there would not be another release.  That is around when I started using the modesetting driver, which comes with xorg-server, and it has been trouble free and been improved over time.  If you build xorg-server with --enable-glamor it will use GPU acceleration.  If you have newer hardware xf86-video-intel does not have code to support it nor is there any interest upstream in providing it.
     1I can only speak to Intel.  I believe the best characterization of xf86-video-intel is "unmaintained" and has been so since 2014 when it became clear that there would not be another release.  That is around when I started using the modesetting driver, which comes with xorg-server, and it has been trouble free and been improved over time.  If you build xorg-server with --enable-glamor it will use GPU acceleration provided by whatever Mesa driver is available for your card.  If you have newer hardware xf86-video-intel does not have code to support it nor is there any interest upstream in providing it.
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    33If you have xf86-video-intel installed you need