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[edit] Introduction

The scope of this wiki is to cover in detail the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 graphics processor, including driver installation and troubleshooting.

[edit] Driver Installation

[edit] Open Source Intel Driver

Install the driver:

# pacman -S xf86-video-intel

Use gft to generate the Xorg Modeline values and then edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add these values to the Monitor section, for example:

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Monitor0"
 VendorName "unknown"
 Modeline "800x600" 40.12 800 848 968 1056 600 601 605 628 #60Hz
EndSection

Lastly, add the following to the "Device" section, replacing the existing Driver value if present:

VideoRam       229376
Option "CacheLines" "1980"
Driver      "intel"

[edit] Tips

Few additions that will speed up your card performance big time:

Add this to the driver's section in xorg.conf:

Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

And add this to /etc/profile:

export INTEL_BATCH=1