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I have 3rd gen Intel mobile CPU i5-3210M, with integrated HD4000 graphics.How can I tell what driver version (i915) I have and does it support Vulkan? What Mesa version I have in Kubuntu 16.10?

What happens if I run a game made with Vulkan API without Vulkan support in driver?

Hrvoje T
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    `glxinfo | grep version` to see which mesa version you have. In my case on KDE 16.10 this is 12.0.3. – Bruni Nov 07 '16 at 10:05
  • Thanks @Bruni. I can see now that I have Mesa 12.0.3 too. And in Mesa wiki website I read that version 12.0 supports Vulkan 1.0 https://postimg.org/image/rm37shrtl/ – Hrvoje T Nov 07 '16 at 11:06

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a Simple way is to look the unofficial vulkan gpu database https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org

The best way is to install vulkaninfo utility from your repository manager, like apt-get install vulkaninfo, emerge or pacman

It does depend upon hardware, though, most of the late decade gpu are compatible. Then, it needs support from drivers, o.s. and game.

I'm afraid in your case, i915, does not support Vulkan at all (see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Vulkan for more about i915 not being able to run Vulkan software)

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According to Intel: (Intel open source graphics drivers and vulkan graphics api) support for Vulkan is seamlessly built into Linux PC distributions.

Whether or not Vulkan or OpenGL support is built into a given game is up to that game's developer not to your hardware/firmware or software drivers.

As comment below points out the above "seamless" integration is for 6th generation CPUs. For IvyBridge (HD4000) and newer Vulkan support it is built into Mesa 13 Intel-Vulkan driver that can be downloaded here: (archlinux.org vulkan-intel) and is discussed in detail here: (Mesa 13). Note Mesa driver 13 was released November 1, 2016 and is a great improvement over version 12.

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  • 'The Intel’s Open Source Vulkan driver for 5th generation Intel® Core™ processors and 6th generation Intel® Core™ processors (code-named Broadwell and Skylake) passes the Vulkan 1.0 Conformance Test Suite on these platforms and has experimental support for older platforms.' – Hrvoje T Nov 07 '16 at 10:21
  • @HrvojeT So right you are. I've updated the answer for HD4000 models. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Nov 07 '16 at 10:38
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    and also Mesa 12.0 according to Mesa wiki https://postimg.org/image/rm37shrtl/ – Hrvoje T Nov 07 '16 at 11:09
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    Yes Mesa 12.0 first introduced Vulkan support I believe. But the last link says how it was much improved under Mesa 13.0 which was released 6 days ago. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Nov 07 '16 at 11:15
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It appears that if the GPU isn't running an ancient driver, it mostly definitely supports Vulkan.

So you can check if the old "radeon" driver is in use with:

lspci -v | grep --after-context=12 VGA | grep "Kernel driver in use:" | cut --delimiter=":" --fields=2 | xargs | grep --quiet --invert-match "radeon"; echo $?

Alberto Salvia Novella
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