Question / Help Intel GPU and linux

[Tom Tucker]

Is there a trick to get OBS Studio to work on a linux machine with Intel graphics?

I have tried 2 different machines, tried linux mint 18.2, ubuntu 16.04, ubuntu 17.04. I have installed the updated intel graphics for linux available here:

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/intel-graphics-update-tool-linux-os-v2.0.2
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/intel-graphics-update-tool-linux-os-v2.0.2
and every time I get the following: "Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drives may need to be updated."

And yet, on the same machines, if I install Windows 7, OBS Studio works just fine.

The machines in question have intel ironlake mobile HD graphics, i5 processors, 4gb ram

Is there something I am doing wrong? and if so, what?

 

[Harold]

Ironlake integrated gpus are too old. They lack opengl 3.2 support.

 

[David Carver]

I have not tried it but you might be able to at least get things running using Google's SwiftShader opengl implementation. It uses the CPU instead of the gpu, but I have no idea how well it will work, and you will be putting a lot of overhead on your CPU that it wouldn't normally have using this method.

https://github.com/google/swiftshader

 

[Mirppc]

On linux i was able to get OBS to run on an Intel HD3000 on a laptop of mine. Sadly the thermal padding and paste failed and i am no longer able to use that machine.