July 13, 2010 by Ivan
Install Intel Latest Driver To Your Ubuntu 10.04
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Since the nightmare crash between Xorg and Intel graphic card on Ubuntu Jaunty, now you have a good news. You can update your Intel driver to the latest update to this great hardware acceleration for playing h.264 video. Or in other words we now have Hardware acceleration for HD content with our Intel video cards. And as the new video standard on the HTML 5, h.264 video format will be used.
So if you have an intel video cards and using Ubuntu 10.04. You should install this Intel latest driver to have better performance with your video. Follow the steps below how to install Intel latest driver to your Ubuntu 10.04:
1. Update your apt source list:
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Add these two lines to your sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu lucid main #xorg-edgers PPA deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu lucid main #xorg-edgers PPA
3. Then run the comman below one by one:
$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 8844C542 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
4. Update your linux kernel to 2.6.35:
$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-6-generic linux-headers-2.6.35-6-generic
5. Restart your Ubuntu machine:
reboot
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Thanks for the guide. You might want to add instructions on how to revert the changes and downgrade back to the default Intel drivers should the latest intel drivers result in system instability ( which I experienced alot when i tried it) The user would need to install a package called ppa-purge
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
after installing ppa-purge the user can then downgrade back to the default Intel Drivers (and revert all changes made through using this PPA) by running sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers
Thanks For tips bigbrovar.
You are the best
looks good. I hope this solves a *very* irritating problem I've been seing with quadrapassel on intel cards
I did this and it decreased the performance on my computer. So I did what bigbrovar suggested and it seems to have taken everything back to how it was before.
However, when the Intel driver was first installed and after the reboot, I was unable to connect to the internet. I am connecting through a wireless network. I could see and connect to the network, but couldn't get online…
This is still the case now that I am back to the standard driver.
I'm wondering how to fix this =/ (Another computer, also running Ubuntu 10.04, never had any problems with the internet and connects just fine to the network and to the internet. I didn't change the driver on that computer.)
@luis: yes, it have a better perfomance or my Ubuntu too.
@PD: i wonder what is your Intelgraphic card, i'm using Intel GMA 945. and it's working good.
This is a bad choice of commands for modern Ubuntu users, instead use `add-apt-repository`:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
It will add the key and the repository, and the key then just follow through with the rest of the tutorial.
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-6-generic linux-headers-2.6.35-6-generic
I just do it with old fashion way.
But you have great tips.
Thanks for the tips Evan.
Don't work! After upgrading and installing on my 10.04 with Intel 945 Gnome freeze after 15-20 min. Before that it freeze after 1-2 min.
I hate Intel viodeocards.
i'm using Intel GMA 945 with this new intel driver and using Ubuntu 10.04. I wonder what's wrong with yours. You can revert it back. See bigbrovar comment how to revert it.
Today will trying turn on Compiz again. If it freeze – will revert back. Thanks for your work with ubuntu improving
Hi
I would like to ask is this something one who is using KUbuntu 10.04 has to do also? Since I am using KUbuntu 10.04 with a graphics from Intel GMA 3100? I just would like to know.
Haven't try with GMA 3100, but you can try. if something not working.
Then you can revert back. See bigbrovar comment on this post.Thanks.
No luck so far. It fails to update the kernel to 2.6.35 (complains that package does not exist). Without new kernel -no surprise- nothing works. Need to start up in safe mode (keep shift in while booting up) and revert as suggested by Bigbrovar. That worked just fine BTW. I assume there is a newer package (?) with a different name…?
Have an Asus 1001px with GMA3150 which completely sucks on playing up video in HD 720 (not to mention 1080). The new Intel drivers gave me some new hope. Not too much, but I would at least like to give this a try.
I assume it is my ignorance regarding Linux that makes me fail in this particular case… Some help is highly appreciated!