Ubuntu 9.04: New Intel Graphics Drivers | Linux Today

Ubuntu 9.04: New Intel Graphics Drivers

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 10, 2009

“A nuisance to owners of Ubuntu 9.04 and Intel graphics chips
has been the problems with the graphics drivers. Even though Intel
manages its drivers in an exemplary open source way, 2D and 3D
acceleration has fairly much dragged so far. The reason is an
unhappy pairing of the current Kernel 2.6.28’s Kernel Mode Setting
(KMS) with Intel’s new UXA acceleration architecture that replaces
EXA and the newly added Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) in the
Kernel.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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