Final 12 months Intel made obtainable a packaged “Arc Graphics Driver” for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and later Ubuntu 23.04 to supply a DKMS-backported kernel driver and packaged Mesa driver to make it simpler to make use of Arc Graphics (DG2/Alchemist) through the section when the upstream kernel assist was nonetheless stabilizing and never but discovered out-of-the-box on Linux distributions on the time. This week marked one other uncommon replace for this packaged driver.
The Intel Arc Graphics Driver for Ubuntu Linux is successfully only a snapshot of the i915 kernel driver and Mesa driver elements for straightforward deployment on current Ubuntu releases — it is not any particular sauce or proprietary driver bits. This week the Intel Arc Graphics Driver for Ubuntu was up to date. There is not a change-log but it surely seems to have been up to date for including 14th Gen Intel Core “Raptor Lake Refresh” graphics assist. Whereas the main target of this packaged driver has been on Arc Graphics (Alchemist) discrete GPUs, it continues to assist eleventh Gen Tiger Lake and newer built-in graphics too in the case of official assist. The brand new package deal provides within the 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh.
No different adjustments are talked about however presumably only a newer i915 and Mesa model in use. Solely Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04 are supported for the reason that just lately launched Ubuntu 23.10 has nice upstream assist from Linux 6.5 + Mesa 23.2 for the most recent Intel discrete and built-in graphics.
These can discover this packaged Ubuntu driver by way of Intel.com. For many customers although I actually would not advocate it however quite sticking to upstream updates as near Git as you’re feeling — the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA offers newer secure and growth snapshots plus there are numerous PPAs for Mesa secure and Git snapshots there just like the fantastic Oibaf PPA. These sources are up to date way more typically than this occasional packaged driver launch. In any occasion, this new packaged driver is offered for individuals who need it.
