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Other video drivers can be found in the xorg-drivers group. For NVIDIA Optimus enabled laptop which uses an integrated video card combined with a dedicated GPU, see NVIDIA Optimus.For Intel graphics on 4th generation and above, see Intel graphics#Installation for available drivers.In order for video acceleration to work, and often to expose all the modes that the GPU can set, a proper video driver is required: If vesa is not found, Xorg will fall back to kernel mode setting, which includes GLAMOR acceleration (see modesetting(4)).If that is not found, it searches for vesa ( xf86-video-vesa), the generic driver, which handles a large number of chipsets but does not include any 2D or 3D acceleration.If it cannot find the specific driver installed for the hardware (listed below), it first searches for fbdev ( xf86-video-fbdev), which does not include any 2D or 3D acceleration.Xorg searches for installed drivers automatically: You can search the package database for a complete list of open-source video drivers: However, userland support is required for OpenGL and 2D acceleration in X11.įirst, identify the graphics card (the Subsystem output shows the specific model): The Linux kernel includes open-source video drivers and support for hardware accelerated framebuffers. They are pointed out in the relevant sections.įinally, an xorg group is also available, which includes Xorg server packages, packages from the xorg-apps group and fonts. Xorg can be installed with the xorg-server package.Īdditionally, some packages from the xorg-apps group are necessary for certain configuration tasks. 8.12 Xorg-server Fatal server error: (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit.