Compiling and/or upgrading graphics drivers in Linux is a complex and error-prone task. Here is a user guide for how to build the driver from scratch. If you are not experienced doing this, we recommend that you get precompiled packages from one of the many Linux distributions.

Source code repositories

1) X.org 2D driver
The Intel driver for X.org is available from the public X.org git repository:

$ git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel

2) Mesa 3D GL driver
The GL drivers are available from the public Mesa git repository:

$ git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa

3) DRM kernel module
The DRM kernel modules are available from the public DRM git repository:

$ git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm

4) AGPGART kernel module
The AGPGART kernel modules are maintained in Linux kernel.

The latest (unstable) upstream driver components (recommend to developers)

2D driver: xf86-video-intel master branch
3D driver: mesa master branch
DRM: drm master branch
AGPGART: agpgart shipped in the latest Linux kernel

The latest stable driver components (recommend to ordinary users)

2D driver: xf86-video-intel 2.4.0 release
3D driver: branch mesa_7_0_branch commit 97eb33529ae2f96220eec5238d8d0e9a07ce91d5
DRM: drm module shipped in Linux kernel 2.6.26-rc8
AGPGART: agpgart module shipped in Linux kernel 2.6.26-rc8
Download: Here's IntelGfx-20080725.tgz including all of the above components plus agpgart backport patch against kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25.
Requirement: xserver 1.4.x or server-1.4-branch is recommended. Note xserver 1.5 is not compatible with mesa 7.0.x.