Then, copy and paste the below text content into text editor. For that, enter the below command in your Terminal window to open the text editor with administrative privileges. If you use Ubuntu 12.04, then you can enable the ‘SNA’ feature (disabled by default) of Intel Sandy Bridge architecture which improves both 2D and 3D performance. Then reboot your PC to finish up the installation (if you know of another PPA that holds up-to-date packages for those older versions of Ubuntu, then you’re welcome to let me know). Sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel Sudo apt-add-repository ppa:glasen/intel-driver So, to install these Intel GPU drivers in Ubuntu, open your Terminal and enter the below commands.
Other Ubuntu users will get older drivers (newer than the ones included by default in the OS anyway). But its the current release of Ubuntu (currently it’s ‘12.04 LTS’) that will receive the up-to-date drivers (as of writing this post it holds the ‘8.04’ version of the 3D package and version ‘2.20.2’ of the 2D package which were released only a few days ago). It holds packages for Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and 12.04 Precise Pangolin. ‘Stefan’ seems to be updating his PPA quite frequently (updates usually arrive within few days Intel has released them) which is why I prefer this PPA. And also remember that, these are ‘hot’ updates and might contain bugs, so please use it at your own risk. Others such as GMA 500 … are not supported.
This only supports Intel i810 chipset and up. If you use Ubuntu then these updates do take their time to get into the Ubuntu’s official OS update repositories (until they’re properly tested and proven to be stable, I think), but if you can’t wait till then, then you can use following PPA provided by ‘Stefan Glasenhardt’ for that. Usually, it’s the gamers who go crazy about the getting the latest GPU drivers, but for both performance improvements and fixing bugs, you should update your Intel GPU driver nevertheless. And because of this, Intel is less criticized by the core GNU/Linux OS developers, but then again, according to some experts, there are few Intel GPU products that ‘lack’ proper documentation as well -). However they too have pretty decent GPU products that give mediocre performances which suits for basic computing tasks.Īnd interestingly, unlike both Nvidia and ATI, Intel is drifted towards the open source system and releases their GPU drivers under two main open source licenses (‘MIT’ and ‘GNU GPL v2’). When compared to ‘Nvidia’ or ‘ATI’, Intel is still a bit behind when it comes to designing GPUs.
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