Zorin 17.3pro on Blackview Acebook 12 fails to load Mesa Intel Iris Graphics

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Hello,
i am trying to solve the following prob:

On my Blackview Acebook with Intel Mesa Grub doenst want to load Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics. Instead llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits) is loaded. To start up i have to enter recovery mode, otherwise the screen keeps dark. In a view cases the correct driver is loaded from startup. Tryied to fix this with modifying grub on startup, unlikely no change of behavior. The system is up to date, all drivers are updated. Changing Windows from Wayland to X11(Xorg) doenst help out.

Any idea to fix this is welcome. I dont kow why loading Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics fails. HW is an Blackview Acebook12 with Intel environment.

Thx in advance

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You have really new hardware. I'd try it with the newest kernel so that the drivers are included. You can install a newer kernel e.g. 6.16 or 6.15 easily with the cappelican mainline installer tool:

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In addition to a newer kernel you might need the latest Mesa release. (Zorin is a fork of Ubuntu).

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This ppa you can use to install new mesa driver:

Or in another thread there was mentioned this ppa:

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thx - updated from 6.8 to latest available 6.12 - in the first shot it looks like the prob is solved - maintaining if this will be stable. As of now i untouched MESA

Additionally the F-buttons do there job like brightness- and volumecontrol

Big thx to Forpli & swarendor437 - unbelivable support in this forum

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You can set this kernel to default at boot with this guide:

Edit: You don't need to do this - your kernel is automatically set to default as @Aravisian told.

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Admittedly, the current default is that it will boot to the latest installed kernel.
The only need to change that is if a user is relying on an earlier kernel, but does not wish to try to block later kernel upgrades.

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Thanks for the correction! This means that you only have to set an older kernel to default if it has been replaced by a newer kernel, e.g. through an update or upgrade.
If you install Zorin 17.3 and then manually install an older kernel such as the 5.15 kernel, then you don't have to do that either?

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You would need to set the new default if you install the 5.15 kernel, if the Zorin 6.8 kernel remains installed.

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@Aravisian Do you know if kisak mesa fresh ppa can still be used in Zorin 17.3 as it is based on kernel 6.8 (the same as in ubuntu 24.04 which is supported) although support for Jammy/ubuntu 22.04 has been discontinued?

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Yes, it can, as the packaging is still (and will remain) compatible.
However, the ernst ppa posted recently by @Hanselinux and by @Sorro

may be preferred by many users due to the packages being newer...

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So you wouldn't recommend ppa kisak mesa stable? Are there the packages even older than in ppa kisak mesa fresh?

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I would recommend Kisak PPA.

They are both still good and applicable.

The Ernst PPA is the Unstable newer Beta packages - which may help those with the Newest Hardware - and some people just... believe that the later package always equals good and better, not matter what.

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There are two ppas of kisak -fresh and stable. Which one would you prefer?

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I always prefer stable.

That said, the user needs determines which they should use. Just as long as they are aware that when using the later Unstable Packages, they may find themselves to be Bug Testers.

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Many thanks for the detailed answers!
That helps me a lot to be able to give better advice.

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