Need to add i915.alpha_support=1 to GRUB file?

[Chandramouli_P]

Hello,

Below is the environment details:
Operating System: Ubuntu-18.04.2
Kernel Version: 5.2.7-050207-lowlatency
Model Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) 8th Gen i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (6 Cores)
RAM: 4 GiB DDR4
Intel OWT version: 4.2.1

When installing OpenVINO toolkit, do I need to add "i915.alpha_support=1" to GRUB configuration file? Because, my kernel version is greater than 4.14 version. Please confirm.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Chandramouli.

[Chandramouli_P]

Hello Team,

Any update would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Chandramouli.

[Chandramouli_P]

Hello Team,

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Chandramouli.

[Chandramouli_P]

Hello Team,

Any update would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Chandramouli.

[Chandramouli_P]

Hello Team,

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Chandramouli.

[Qiujiao_W_Intel]

Which OpenVino version do you install? You should follow related software requirement by OpenVINO.

[Chandramouli_P]

Hello Qiujiao,

Thank you for your reply. We are using the latest version of OpenVINO (l_openvino_toolkit_p_2019.2.275). As per the recomondations, If we use 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processor, we will need to add i915.alpha_support=1 to /etc/default/grub file.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Chandramouli.
   

[Chandramouli_P]

Hello Team,

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Chandramouli.

[Qiujiao_W_Intel · Accepted solution]

Is there any problem when adding i915.alpha_support=1 to /etc/default/grub file? We didn't add this setting in our 5.0.0-37-generic kernel manually when installing OpenVINO and it works well. 

[Chandramouli_P]

Hello Qiujiao,

Thank you for your reply. If we do not add also, we haven't faced any issues.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Chandramouli.