Mesa 20 and iris for Gen8+ intel integrated gpu's

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Mesa 20 was included in the most recent tumbleweed snapshot, which should bring support for use of the iris Intel driver on Gen8 (broadwell) and higher igpu’s instead of i965. Looking at:

glxinfo | grep 'GL vendor'
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center

it reports that i’m using the old driver (new driver should just say ‘Intel’). Does this mean it wasn’t enabled at build time or that I need to enable it manually?

Thanks!

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For anyone wondering, this is a workaround for now.

Force the new iris driver with

<driconf>  <device driver="loader" kernel_driver="i915">
    <option name="dri_driver" value="iris" />
  </device> </driconf>

in ~/.drirc