Intel Linux Graphics Installer

Intel Graphics Installer is an open source application that provides Linux users with a straightforward way to install the latest video drivers for their Intel graphics cards in any Linux-based operating system.

The program has been created because of the lack of graphical installers for the official Intel graphics and video drivers on the Linux platform. With it, you can rest assure that you’ll have all the latest optimizations, fixes and enhancements for your Intel graphics hardware.

Getting started with Intel Linux Graphics Installer

When running the installer, it will first locate and configure the software repositories required for updating your Linux system with the latest graphics drivers from Intel. It will also check to see what Intel graphics card is available on your machine.

In addition, the installer will retrieve the necessary information from the official website where the Intel Graphics Stack is stored, checks to see if your Linux distribution is supported, verifies if you use a compatible Linux kernel, checks available repositories, as well as the status of the package manager.

The installer automatically installs the latest Intel graphics drivers by ensuring the conscistentcy of the system, listing packages, setting up repositories, installing the required packages, and updating the package cache.

When installing the Intel video drivers with this native Linux installer, you will be able to see a report of what exactly was installed in your Linux machine. It will list all the added, updated, downgraded and removed components.

It is distributed as a native installer that works by default with the latest stable versions of the Ubuntu and Fedora Linux distributions. However, Intel also provides a source archive that allows users to configure, compile and install the program in other Linux OSes.

Bottom line

Overall, if you use Linux and your computer uses an Intel graphics card, you can use this native installer to get the best user experience with your current desktop environment.

What is new in this release:

• Supports Ubuntu 14.10 and Fedora 21 operating systems

What is new in version 1.0.8:

• Supports Ubuntu 14.10 and Fedora 21 operating systems

What is new in version 1.0.7:

• The xserver-xorg package will not be updated on either Ubuntu* or Fedora*
• Supports Ubuntu 14.04 and Fedora 20 operating systems

What is new in version 1.0.5:

• This release supports Ubuntu 14.04 and Fedora 20.

What is new in version 1.0.4:

• This release supports Ubuntu 13.10 and Fedora 20

What is new in version 1.0.2:

• Highlighted new features or fixed bugs:
• Kernel:
• hotplug improvements
• Stolen mem support.
• DDI code cleanups.
• Some refactorings around LVDS and DP code.
• Dynamic power well support for Haswell.
• Clarifications of the GPU hang/reset state transitions.
• Haswell ELD fixes.
• Broadcast RBG improvements and reduced color range fixes.
• Regression fix for 8-bit FB console.
• Preserve lane reversal bits on DDI/FDI ports.
• Page flip vs. GPU hang fixes.
• Fixup lid notifier vs. suspend/resume races.
• Panel fitter regression fix.
• Complete and detailed list can found at Maintainer's (Daniel Vetter) post.
• 2D drivers:
• Fix scanline waits for Haswell.
• Fix Haswell CRW PCI-IDs.
• Fix computation of clip extents for stippling.
• Support KMS on OpenBSD.
• Clean up sockets upon CloseScreen.
• Fix video playback on Intel0 Graphics Media Accelerator 3000, X3000, X3500, X3100, 4500, X4500, X4500HD, and 4500MHD.
• Honour LinearFramebuffer for clumsy PowerXpress integration.
• Restart vertex checks after lock contention.
• Handle Screen Pixmap recreation whilst exported via PRIME.
• Correct application of scale factors to video source offsets.
• Correct GPU limits for early Intel0 Extreme Graphics 1 and 2 and Intel0 Graphics Media Accelerator 900, 950, 3100, 3150 architectures.
• Prevent buffer leak if a non-fullscreen Window is closed with multiple pending swap events.
• Fix offset transformation for fallback gradient paths.
• Prevent Glamor from crashing if misconfigured.
• Prevent UXA from crashing if torn down during PreInit.
• Fix rendering of CompositeTriFan with recent Xorg.
• Fix rendering of multiple glyphs to very large destination surfaces.
• Fix several assertion failures.
• Allow XvMC to also target overlay/sprite planes.
• Prevent reuse of old framebuffers after a resize.
• Introduce copy-on-write support for cloning pixmaps.
• Prevent potential NULL dereference of damage when checking COW support.
• Fix invalidation of clone after dirtying the pixmap via the CPU.
• Prevent discarding an operation before requiring it for a fallback.
• Fix memory leak from replacing the clone under certain circumstances.
• Restore vsync on textured videos.
• 3D Drivers:
• Performance Improvements.
• Fix GPU hangs in Intel0 Core i3/i5/i7 and 2nd Generation Intel0 Core Processors with Intel0 HD Graphics.
• Fix hangs on 4th Generation Intel0 Core Processors with Intel0 HD Graphics, Iris Graphics, or Iris Pro Graphics.
• Fix Intel0 Graphics Media Accelerator 3000, X3000, X3500, X3100, 4500, X4500, X4500HD, 4500MHD VUE map inconsistency with gl_ClipVertex.
• Fix register allocation for uniform pull constants in 16-wide.
• Fix broken rendering in large shaders with UBO loads.
• Also do the Intel0 Graphics Media Accelerator 3000, X3000, X3500, X3100, 4500, X4500, X4500HD, 4500MHD SEND dependency workaround against other SENDs
• Add data cache messages definitions for 3rd Generation Intel0 Core Processors with Intel0 HD Graphics and newer platforms.
• Fix INTEL_DEBUG=shader_time for 4th Generation Intel0 Core Processors with Intel0 HD Graphics, Iris Graphics, or Iris Pro Graphics.
• Specialize SURFACE_STATE creation for shader time.
• Make INTEL_DEBUG=shader_time use the RAW surface format.
• Fix regression in intel_create_image_from_name stride handling.
• Avoid inappropriate optimization with regs_written gt.
• Do CSE on 3rd and 4th Generation Intel0 Core Processors with Intel0 HD Graphics, Iris Graphics, or Iris Pro Graphics varying-index pull constant loads.
• Media Drivers - Libva/Intel-vaapi-driver:
• H.264 encoding on Intel0 SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell:
• Profile: Baseline (BP), Main (MP) and High Profiles (HP).
• Entropy Coding: Context-adaptive variable-length coding (CAVLC) and Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC).
• Rate Control: CQP, CBR.
• Progressive frame.
• Multi Slice encoding.
• Configurable Group Of Pictures (GOP) Structure.
• MPEG-2 encoding on Intel0 IvyBridge and Haswell:
• Profile: Scalable (SP) and Main Profiles (MP).
• Progressive frame.
• Configurable Group of Pictures (GOP) Structure.
• Video process on Intel0 IronLake, SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell:
• Scaling on Intel0 IronLake, SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell.
• CSC on Intel0 IronLake, SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell.
• NoiseReduction on Intel0 SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell.
• Deinterlacing{Bob} on Intel0 SandyBridge, IvyBridge.
• Deinterlacing{Bob,MotionAdaptive} on Intel0 Haswell.
• Sharpening on Intel0 Haswell.
• ColorBalance on Intel0 Haswell.
• Optimization for H.264 encoding on Intel0 IvyBridge and Haswell.
• External buffer support:
• Flinked GEM buffer.
• Prime/DMA buffer.

Requirements:

• An Intel video card