News Intel Releases First Arc Graphics Driver Package For Ubuntu

[Admin]

Intel has officially released its first graphics driver package, designed for Linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. The new driver stack will allow any PC user to quickly set up an Arc GPU in their system as if it were a Windows-based system.

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[Eximo]

Neat.

 

[mitch074]

to be fair, on most distros the matter of installing any graphics drivers requires you to:
get the latest kernel
get the latest Xorg release
get the latest Mesa release
And many distros have repositories with bleeding edge builds of these elements. Configure the repository(ies) and update your packages, reboot : more often than not, that's enough to make your brand new GPU work.

 

[anticeon]

to be fair, on most distros the matter of installing any graphics drivers requires you to:
get the latest kernel
get the latest Xorg release
get the latest Mesa release
And many distros have repositories with bleeding edge builds of these elements. Configure the repository(ies) and update your packages, reboot : more often than not, that's enough to make your brand new GPU work.

i think Manufacture driver is better because it is not limited to the Open Source code, maybe some of the code especially Hardware Acceleration for Decoding and Encoding Video is not Free.
also GPU Decoder code for certain DRM content might also be not open source

 

[mitch074]

Yeah, no - that was debunked a decade ago. AMD actually recommend the open source driver for all uses except certified CAD work - and even then only the user space components are closed source. Intel didn't bother with a closed source driver at all.