Bug 2102862 - Build with the i915g driver enabled?
Summary: Build with the i915g driver enabled?
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2100212
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mesa
Version: 36
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-06-30 20:47 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2022-07-14 02:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-07-14 02:43:41 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2022-06-30 20:47:52 UTC 
Users of some Intel Core2 systems (like the Dell Inspiron 530n that I have, which Dell officially shipped with Linux available preinstalled) would benefit from being able to run the latest GTK4 apps and GNOME Shell / Mutter / etc. on the GPU, if at all possible.

Mesa recently deprecated the i915 driver, favoring the i915g driver as its replacement, as far as I understand.

However, from https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/how-do-i-tell-fedora-to-use-the-i915g-driver-instead-of-i915/20618/ it seems the i915g driver is not built by default in the mesa packages provided by Fedora.

Building packages myself is way beyond my skillset, and I would appreciate my OS providing those drivers for me out of the box.
Comment 1 Pete Walter 2022-07-14 02:43:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2100212 ***
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