On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 02:19:42AM -0400, William Park wrote: > For NVidia cards, I just download/install > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-aaa.bb-no-compat32.run > It's one file, and it's easy. To run mplayer with VDPAU, I just set > vo=vdpau > in the configuration file. > > I assume it's the same for AMD cards. I don't have AMD cards, so don't > know. > > For those with Intel HD Graphics, how do you download/install driver? > I went to Intel site, and it's utterly confusing. I just want Intel's > driver, so I can try out VAAPI.
I thought the intel chips (except the few older atoms with powervr graphics) had open source drivers. On debian this package appears relevant: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/i965-va-driver Some info on using such a driver in case it doesn't automatically work: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/10/enable-hardware-acceleration-on-intel-graphics-cards-in-ubuntu/ -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
