Graphics acceleration in Linux

[Ron_Weasley]

Hi folks

Just took delivery of this very impressive little box. Everything is working fine apart from one thing. I just CANNOT get graphics acceleration to work under Linux at all, so all video is very choppy - unwatchable in fact.

I have tried Mint and Ubuntu latest versions and various kernels. N150 acceleration is available in kernels 6.11 and later so both Mint and Ubuntu should work but they do not. I have even tried later kernel such as 6.12.3 and 6.12.13 but no joy. The video driver will not load.

Has anyone got the V1 working properly under Linux? Any tips or pointers?

Thanks

[dragonpoo]

Hey Ron, nice username!

Linux is an interesting beast. I assume you're decently familiar with it? What have you tried so far? You mentioned the kernel, which typically interfaces with the CPU, but not necessarily the GPU. These Mini PCs typically come with Windows drivers, so

There's a few commands you can use to see what hardware is on the system, including lspci and lshw (List PCI devices and List Hardware devices, respectively). There are plenty of tutorials online, if you want further information on using these commands. Some links that explain how to use them are:
https://itsfoss.com/check-graphics-card-linux/
https://net2.com/display-your-graphics- ... and-guide/
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... phics.html

Please let us know what you find out; chances are, someone else has the same question!

[Horst_Brack]

Linux Mint or Ubuntu LTS did not work for me neither.

I then tried the latest Ubuntu available:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 24.10
Release: 24.10
Codename: oracular

Kernel Version: 6.11.0-21-generic

This correctly detected the graphics driver.

lspci:

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-N [Intel Graphics]
DeviceName: Onboard - Video
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 7270
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

lshw:

*-display
Beschreibung: VGA compatible controller
Produkt: Alder Lake-N [Intel Graphics]
Hersteller: Intel Corporation
Physische ID: 2
Bus-Informationen: pci@0000:00:02.0
Logischer Name: /dev/fb0
Version: 00
Breite: 64 bits
Takt: 33MHz
Fähigkeiten: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
Konfiguration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 mode=1920x1200 resolution=3840,2160 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1200
Ressourcen: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:400-3ff irq:138 memory:6000000000-6000ffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:5000(Größe=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:4010000000-4016ffffff memory:4020000000-40ffffffff

modinfo i915

filename: /lib/modules/6.11.0-21-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko.zst
import_ns: PWM
import_ns: PWM
license: GPL and additional rights
description: Intel Graphics
author: Intel Corporation
author: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
import_ns: DMA_BUF
firmware: i915/mtl_gsc_1.bin
firmware: i915/skl_huc_2.0.0.bin

[Horst_Brack]

Just to add, I am using Wayland, not sure what you are trying to run.

And I have double boot with Windows and installed all updates including optional updates in Win11 before I installed Linux.

vainfo

Trying display: wayland
libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 24.3.4 ()
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints

VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointStats
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP9Profile1 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile1 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP9Profile3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile3 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileHEVCMain12 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain422_10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain422_12 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileHEVCMain444_10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain444_10 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileHEVCMain444_12 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCSccMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCSccMain : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileHEVCSccMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCSccMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileHEVCSccMain444 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCSccMain444 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileAV1Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCSccMain444_10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCSccMain444_10 : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP

[Ron_Weasley]

Linux Mint or Ubuntu LTS did not work for me neither.

I then tried the latest Ubuntu available:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 24.10
Release: 24.10
Codename: oracular

Kernel Version: 6.11.0-21-generic

This correctly detected the graphics driver.

That's great news - thanks so much. At least now I know I can get it to work without needing a bios update.

That said, I tried Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as already and that did not work, si I am very surprised that 24.10 did.

[Ron_Weasley]

Well just to update everyone...

Thanks very much to @Horst, I also managed to get video acceleration working (finally!) by installing Ubuntu 24.10 and Wayland.

That was a saga in itself, since the ****ing installer kept crashing for some bizarre reason. I finally managed to get it to run after N attempts by not selecting any options and just hitting enter all the way through until it came to choosing the install location. I did that manually to overwrite Mint and on booting into Ubuntu, there I was in a Wayland session and it was working.

Interestingly, Firefox was not accelerating anything, but mpv and Chrome do, so I can live with that.

The question now is how to I replicate that in Mint? Being a Windows guy, I find the Ubuntu UI somewhat unintuitive, but I guess I could get used to it. I'll see how it goes.

Anyways, at least I now know that the hardware works and I don't need to consider returning it, so thanks again everyone for your help.