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Graphics devices & drivers

hendrack edited this page Mar 25, 2026 · 38 revisions

This page shall collect supported graphics devices and XLibre drivers that are supporting them. Those that are working with several drivers shall have separate entries. If you are unsure whether to add something or make a change to this page, just talk about it.

AMD

Model Kernel driver X driver Remarks
Radeon RX 5000 series amdgpu
Radeon R7 (Carizzo) APU + R7 M340 (Volcanic islands) dGPU amdgpu + amdgpu amdgpu + amdgpu 25.0.x: works, 25.1.x: works
Radeon R7 (Carizzo) APU + R7 M340 (Volcanic islands) dGPU amdgpu + amdgpu modesetting + amdgpu 25.0.x: works, 25.1.x: works
Radeon R7 (Carizzo) APU + R7 M340 (Volcanic islands) dGPU amdgpu + amdgpu modesetting + modesetting 25.0.x: crashes, 25.1.x: works

Intel

Model Driver Remarks
UHD Graphics 620 modesetting
HD Graphics 4000 modesetting Performs better than the DDX intel driver below and has no tearing.
HD Graphics 4000 intel
HD Graphics 3000 modesetting 25.0.x: works, 25.1.x: works

Nvidia

Nvidia drivers starting with 580.119.02 introduced an issue of flickering with compositors like picom or Xfwm, which is not an issue of XLibre. 580.105.08, 580.142 or 595.58.03 recommended.

Model Kernel Driver X Driver Remarks
Geforce 210 (Tesla, GT218) Nvidia 340 (patched) Nvidia 340 (patched) works well out of the box with stock XLibre and Linux kernels up to 6.19.5
Geforce GTX 560 (Fermi, GF114) Nvidia 390 (patched) Nvidia 390 (patched) works well out of the box with stock XLibre and Linux kernels up to 6.19.5
Geforce GT 710 nouveau xlibre-video-nouveau
Nvidia Proprietary Nvidia 470
Geforce GTX 760 (Kepler, GK104) Nvidia 470 (patched) Nvidia 470 (patched) works well out of the box with stock XLibre and Linux kernels up to 6.19.5
Quadro K1000m (Kepler) Nvidia Proprietary Nvidia 470 works out of the box with xlibre-25.1 on Linux/FreeBSD
GTX 970 (Maxwell 2.0) Nvidia Proprietary Nvidia 550.144.03 everything works perfectly, including all display outputs
Geforce GTX 1050/1070 (Pascal) Nvidia Proprietary Nvidia 570-580
RTX 30 mobile series (Ampere) Nvidia Proprietary Nvidia
RTX 3070 (Ampere) Nvidia Proprietary Nvidia 595.58.03
RTX 40 series (Ada Lovelace) Nvidia Open Kernel Module Nvidia
modesetting buggy
Nvidia Proprietary Nvidia
modesetting buggy
nouveau modesetting no acceleration (glamor)
RTX 2060 Proprietary 580-open (dkms) xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-580 had to symlink nvidia_drv.so into xlibre module path, 10-nvidia.conf file was not sufficient; built xlibre from source

Misc older onboard chips

Model Driver Remarks

References

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