Okay and now the very weird thing is that suddenly, it *does* work. I haven't noticed changing anything. I tried Intel's Driver Update utility, but it would only find stuff starting from series 6. Somewhere along the ride of trying to change drivers it changed? I didn't even notice, but at first the text was more blurry.
Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Modded Driver
Nevertheless, I have no issues at this point. The driver used for this Mobiel 4 series chip is the same as the one used for Windows 7 - at least the same version numbering. So apart from the oddity at the start (which I don't understand) I have no issues atm in Windows 10.
Thanks. But it works fine (now) in Windows 10 and it also has a driver in Linux that apparently functions well (although some people in Linux want to make me believe that it might not run all that well). I have been using this "series 4" in Linux for at least 6 months without any real problems.
(These Intel RST(e) driverpacks contain an AHCI/RAID driver named iaStorA.sys and additionally an SCSI filter driver named iaStorF.sys. They are designed for newer Intel chipsets except X79/X99 running in RSTe mode.)
After calibrating, everything looks as it should. However, during a reboot, the custom profile loads (you can see the changes), but seconds later it all goes back to the default settings of the intel driver!!! This is crazy, since it means that it is impossible to do any kind of meaningful colour-dependent work on systems with this chipset. I have tried using the colour management facility in the driver, but it is less than useless.
I used to have the same problem. You need to do two things to get your custom color profiles going in Win 7 with Intel chipsets. First: if you haven't done so already, go into color management (just type it into the search field on the start menu), add your profile in the 'Devices' tab if it isn't there already and then 'Set as default'. Under the 'Advanced' tab click 'Change System defaults' and a new color management window will pop up. Go into the 'advanced' tab again and tick 'Use Windows display calibration'. For some reason the intel drivers will still override Windows tho so you'll also need to disable igfxpers.exe in the startup (use msconfig or CCleaner to change it).
This has stopped the intel driver dominating colour management, which is something it does not do well. Interestingly, although things are certainly much better now, my colour calibrations are still not as effective as on my non-Intel graphics pc.
Perhaps Intel chipsets are just not suitable for any colour sensitive applications. Perhaps Intel could issue a driver update, that would allow users to choose to turn off the Intel colour management facility? Or, perhaps to enable it to be used with 3rd-party calibration hardware?
This article provides a list of motherboard chipsets made by Intel, divided into three main categories: those that use the PCI bus for interconnection (the 4xx series), those that connect using specialized "hub links" (the 8xx series), and those that connect using PCI Express (the 9xx series). The chipsets are listed in chronological order.
[4] VT-d is inherently supported on these chipsets, but may not be enabled by individual OEMs. Always read the motherboard manual and check for BIOS updates. X38/X48 VT-d support is limited to certain Intel, Supermicro, DFI (LanParty) and Tyan boards. VT-d is broken or non existent on some boards until the BIOS is updated. Note that VT-d is a chipset Memory Controller Hub technology, not a processor feature, but this is complicated by later processor generations (Core i3/i5/i7) moving the MCH from the motherboard to the processor package, making only certain I series CPUs support VT-d.
Not listed below is the 3450 chipset (see Xeon chipsets) which is compatible with Nehalem mainstream and high-end processors but does not claim core iX-compatibility. With either a Core i5 or i3 processor, the 3400-series chipsets enable the ECC functionality of unbuffered ECC memory.[65] Otherwise these chipsets do not enable unbuffered ECC functionality.
The Cougar Point Intel 6 series chipsets with stepping B2 were recalled due to a hardware bug that causes their 3 Gbit/s Serial ATA to degrade over time until they become unusable. Stepping B3 of the Intel 6 series chipsets will have the fix for this. The Z68 chipset which supports CPU overclocking and use of the integrated graphics does not have this hardware bug, however all other ones with B2 did.[66] The Z68 also added support for transparently caching hard disk data on to solid-state drives (up to 64 GB), a technology called Smart Response Technology.[67]
C232 and C242 chipsets do not support CPU integrated GPUs, as they lack FDI support. Officially they support only Xeon processors, but some motherboards also support consumer processors (6/7th generation Core for C230 series, 8/9th generation Core for C240 series and its Pentium/Celeron derivatives).
The mod is far from perfect, as integrated GPU functionality is missing and the primary PCI-Express suffers from, well, not working at all, but proof of concept that Coffee Lake does work on Z170 chipsets is just the start. If these can be fixed by changing drivers, testing this modification on another motherboard or general tinkering, then Intel will certainly have some more questions to answer.
The Intel graphics driver is part of the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver package, which is installed on all Ubuntu systems by default. And since it isn't a proprietary driver package, it doesn't show up in jockey (aka the Hardware Drivers application).
The Community Networking Driver for ESXi VMware Fling provides an easy way to expand the drivers available for installing the ESXi hypervisor on commodity, off-the-shelf hardware, as used by labs. The installation process is straightforward and only requires downloading the file, copying it to the ESXi host (or creating a custom ESXi image using the Image Builder), and then installing the Community Networking Driver for ESXi using the command line.Subscribe to 4sysops newsletter!The Community Networking Driver for ESXi is closely related to another VMware Fling called the USB Network Native Driver for ESXi. This adds support for the most popular USB network adapter chipsets found on the market. These include the ASIX USB 2.0 gigabit network ASIX88178a, ASIX USB 3.0 gigabit network ASIX88179, Realtek USB 3.0 gigabit network RTL8152/RTL8153, and Aquantia AQC111U.
The i915 kernel module comes as part of the intel driver (inside the xorg-x11-driver-video rpm) and that is described in the opensuse graphic card practical theory guide, albeit I concede its not obvious to anyone who has not looked at this a bit. In such a case, one can also check the contents of a graphic driver rpm to see EXACTLY what is inside (for driver support) and there is guidance here for that:
As noted, the situation is still in flux. In addition to the Intel driver, and the proprietary Intel IEGD driver, I note there is also a EMGD intel driver, and I have not yet read of anyone using that driver.
In regards to the on-die GPU, the Clarkdale IGP is supported by the Linux 2.6.33 kernel DRM and is also supported by the xf86-video-intel DDX driver and Mesa after being previously known as the IGDNG with there being initial support for this new Intel graphics processor more than six months ago. Subsequent updates to the Intel IGDNG support delivered a new shader compiler and other improvements. 2ff7e9595c
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