Does Ubuntu 24.04 have a good driver for the Intel 630 GPU

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My primary reason for turning to Ubuntu is the fact that my Windows installation was not longer reliable on this old Dell Alienware system. This system has two Nvidia video cards plus on on-the-motherboard Intel 630 GPU.

My main purpose for this machine is running grid computing applications using BOINC, the manager which allocates system resources to programs written by engineers and scientists for various scientific applications.

One of these applications is Einstein which searches for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars. It uses CPUs and GPUs. Formerly when this machine ran Windows, many of the work units from Einstein utilized both CPU and GPU resources, some a combination of a CPU plus an Nvidia GPU and others a combination of a CPU and an Intel GPU.

In fact, another machine I have running Windows at present does receive work units needing the Intel GPU. However, work units coming to this Ubuntu machine never receive Intel CPU work.

This is due to the BOINC manager not requesting such for some reason. I have inquired whether this is a problem with the Linux version of BOINC but I have not yet received a definite answer.

So I must ask the Ubuntu community: does this 24.04 include a driver for the Intel 630 GPU? I have no idea where to go to find such information. Going to the Intel site is of no help as they primarily deal with Windows drivers. Any help would be appreciated.

Bill

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I would suggest putting the Ubuntu 24.04 ISO on USB, boot it up and try it out. I did a search on it and Ubuntu 24.04 should work fine but the driver comes from the linux kernel and not Ubuntu.
I would expect it to work with few issues

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I don’t understand why using a USB for booting will make a difference. Even using it for a live boot.

I have done extensive looking around and have determined that the Intel 630 GPU is indeed recognized on the system, and it works. There is an available test program that can be installed which one can run to show that it works. Thus, I have determined that apparently all is well with Ubuntu and that the problem is apparently with the BOINC software allocating resources to various tasks. For some reason it won’t assign work that uses the Intel GPU. Now that I’ve determined this, I’ll go back to that route.

Many thanks for your help.

Bill