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Questions tagged [i915]

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Why is the Intel HD Graphics driver called i915?

The only references to i915 I can find are indeed to the linux kernel driver for the intel chips. Intel just seems to call them HD graphics whatever. Intel 915 seems to refer to some Pentium 4 chipsets but they are unrelated to the current graphics…
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Dual monitors with 2 videos driver with xrandr 1.4

I'm trying to dual-screen with 2 differents video card drivers (i915 & nvidia) but as you can see xrandr is only listing nvidia provider. I am using Arch Linux. I unsuccessfully tried finding where xrandr gets the provider list. [x@epoch ~]$ xrandr…
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What is i915.modeset=1 for?

I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 and since I upgraded to kernel 3.12.8 (build from source, including ubuntu patches) on a ivybridge video, the boot spash screen was flickering and messing up. So I googled around and tried adding i915.modeset=1 paramenter to…
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HDMI monitors not correctly detected after suspend if laptop lid closed

When my Dell XPS 15 9570 laptop is on, the monitor plugged in the HDMI port is correctly detected. Unplugging the monitor also works as expected. However, when waking up from suspend by briefly lifting the lid open, the HDMI port is not…
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Firmware issues at startup (Debian 9 - Firmware i915 and rtl8168g-2

Here is the problem displayed by dmesg $ sudo dmesg | grep error [...] [ 7.792141] i915 0000:00:02.0: Direct firmware load for i915/bxt_dmc_ver1_07.bin failed with error -2 [...] [ 11.977510] r8169 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for…
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Why is the Mesa OpenGL driver for Intel chips called i965?

As I understand, most Intel GPUs are supported on Linux by two different components : i965 (the Mesa/OpenGL part, supporting all recent Intel GPUs) and i915 (kernel part, similarly supporting all recent Intel GPUs). The relationship between the two…
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How to drive an external monitor that does not send hotplug info over HDMI?

Since a few days I have the Dasung Paperlike HD device and after using it for one day I'm afraid the utility that comes with it, did something it shouldn't have done. Hot-plug events First, of all, it doesn't seem to receive hot-plug information…
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i915 Intel Skylake: System-freeze after wake up from hibernate (suspend to disk)

The problem is that very often (not always) after I supend to disk (hibernate) and try to wake up the machine using the power button, the display freezes and nothing more is happening, it just hangs at a black screen. Even the login-shells at ALT…
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DisplayPort and Intel HD cause GPU hangs

My system has problems with the displayport connection. This is indicated by several problems that, at the first glance, do not have anything in common. The reason why I claim DP for being the cause, is that when I connect another monitor via DVI…
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i915 driver stuck at 40hz on 165hz screen

I have i7-10875H processor on my laptop. I have disabled the NVIDIA dGPU, so the problem is only about intel drivers. I'm using Debian 11. Tested with Kernels: 5.10.0-9-amd64 5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 I have used both Xorg and Wayland, the notebook…
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MacBook Pro 9.1 (mid 2012) enable GPU switching in Debian 9.3

I work in deep learning projects and I need to run my MBP on Linux for running demos. I have installed Debian Linux 9.3 and everything is fine, except for the GPU which is always on. I cannot find a way to turn it off and switch to integrated Intel…
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Pause a process based on screen blank status?

I am running Debian 9 but this is a more universal Linux question. I have an Intel NUC (i5-4250U) with integrated graphics. When I run memory-intensive tasks in the background my system lags graphically. I am using the built-in i915 driver. I have…
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Tearing issue with archlinux/skylake hd530/gnome 3.22 wayland

I've installed archlinux+Gnome 3.22. Everything is working fine except i915 mod (I think) because I can see display tearing, mostly in firefox. I tried every 20-intel.conf configurations. I installed xf86-video-intel and then I removed it. No…
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Problem with IOMMU passthrough of i915 after Debian update

Yesterday, after six stable months I upgraded my Debian 10 box to Debian 4.19.98-1+deb10u1 (2020-04-27). I am running a KVM hypervisor and Windows 10 Pro as a VM on that box. The Win VM uses the i915 graphics adapter from the Intel(R) Core(TM)…
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i915 Graphics, Fedora 28, Resolution and Display Issues

I've lovingly installed Fedora 28 (actually 27, then upgraded into 28 -- but this occurred at the start of the 27 install), onto my Dell Inspiron 1545. PROBLEM STATEMENT: I have to use NOMODESET to even receive a useable GUI. Without that switch…
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