IntelGraphicsDriver

The Intel graphics driver in X.Org intends to support all intel chipsets from the i810 and upwards. Please note that this driver does not support the GMA 500, found in various Atom-based designs.

A listing of known laptop graphics chips can be found at IntelLaptopChips.

Table may be out of date. For a better view of daily progress, please see the logs of the source code repositories. You may possibly want to refer to wikipedia for the graphics core/chipset mapping.

"DONE" means that it is implemented and relatively bug-free.
"MOSTLY" means that it is implemented but has some known bugs.
"WIP" means that someone has started on the initial implementation.
"BIOS" means only if supported by your BIOS. No software support. Yet.
"N/A" means that the feature is not supported by the hardware.
"N/N" means that the feature will not be implemented, because a better alternative is or will be available.
"TODO" means that someone needs to write the code. The required knowledge to write the code may or may not be known. Please ask on #intel-gfx if you want to get your feet wet on this.
"UNKNOWN" means that the current status of this item isn't known. You are free to update it if you know.

2D features	i810-i815	i830-i865G	915G-945G/G33	965G/G35	G4x	HD Graphics (Gen5)	HD Graphics - Sandy Bridge (Gen6)
Mode Setting	UMS	KMS	KMS	KMS	KMS	KMS	KMS
2D Acceleration	XAA	UXA/SNA	UXA/SNA	UXA/SNA	UXA/SNA	UXA/SNA	UXA/SNA
DRI	DRI1	DRI2	DRI2	DRI2	DRI2	DRI2	DRI2
Xv	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
XvMC	DONE	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
VA-API (MPEG-2)	N/A	N/A	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	DONE	DONE	DONE
VA-API (H.264)	N/A	N/A	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	MOSTLY	MOSTLY	DONE
sync to vblank	TODO	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Mesa 3D features	i810-i815	i830-i865G	915G-945G/G33	965G/G35	G4x	HD Graphics (Gen5)	HD Graphics - Sandy Bridge (Gen6)
Primitives	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
Textures	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
Hardware TCL	N/A	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	N/A	DONE	DONE
Shaders	N/A	N/A	UNKNOWN	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
Output	i810-i815	i830-i865G	915G-945G/G33	965G/G35	G4x	HD Graphics (Gen5)	HD Graphics - Sandy Bridge (Gen6)
Console restore	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
Dual-link DVI	BIOS	BIOS	BIOS	BIOS	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN
Dual head (Randr 1.2)	UNKNOWN	UNKNOWN	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
FB Console	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
TVout	BIOS	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
Other	i810-i815	i830-i865G	915G-945G/G33	965G/G35	G4x	HD Graphics (Gen5)	HD Graphics - Sandy Bridge (Gen6)
DPMS	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
LVDS Downclocking	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE	DONE
Suspend/Restore	TODO	TODO	TODO	TODO	TODO	DONE	DONE

The latest release is Intel 2011Q3 graphics package.

The Intel Linux Graphics Driver web portal: http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org.

The Intel graphics driver is currently maintained in the xf86-video-intel git repository in X.Org. To check out the current code, use:

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel

cg clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel

More instructions on using git to interact with the repository can be found at UsingGit.

The Intel graphics driver and hardware has support for sDVO ADD2 DVI Cards, which you can learn about at SDVOADD2Cards.

User guide for How to build driver from scratch
User guide for How to setup dual head
User guide for How to report bugs
User guide for Reporting suspend-resume issues

Please note that TV out support is usually provided by third-party encoder chips, which typically require separate drivers. Some of these drivers have not yet been written or included in the intel driver, thus while everything else may work fine, TV out may not be supported depending on the encoder chip paired with your graphics chip.