- LINUX MINT HOW TO INSTALL INTEL GRAPHICS DRIVER DRIVERS
- LINUX MINT HOW TO INSTALL INTEL GRAPHICS DRIVER UPDATE
- LINUX MINT HOW TO INSTALL INTEL GRAPHICS DRIVER DRIVER
This driver works with the i915 kernel module to enable the X server, which previously handled all of the video output as well as user input in Linux. This driver is known as xserver-xorg-video-intel in the Ubuntu repo. Older Linux distros used to come with the “Intel” Xserver driver. It’s distributed with the kernel, and is used by all Intel Linux setups. The kernel driver for Intel hardware is called i915. If you don’t want to tweak anything, you can just use what the distro provides, but you also have the choice to try other things! It’s the same with Intel, but the users are more exposed to the inner workings since it’s not a secret.
LINUX MINT HOW TO INSTALL INTEL GRAPHICS DRIVER DRIVERS
A graphics driver such that nVidia releases actually has a bunch of different drivers within it, not just one.
I’ve tried to learn what the real deal is with the many different Intel driver bits that are around. This led to the famous image of Linus Torvalds giving a gesture of an avian variety to nVidia as a whole. It’s nVidia that continues to plow ahead with closed source everything, refusing to cooperate with open-source devs, making the nVidia open drivers pretty close to unusable for many GPUs. With Intel, there are no closed source drivers… all of the work Intel does to create drivers is open source, and I think that has been true of AMD (graphics) as well for a while too. With a closed-source driver like the ones offered by nVidia, everything is included in the downloadable driver package. There is a lot of misinformation out there about the various driver bits. For devices that are plugged into the laptop’s HDMI or other graphics port, those may be connected directly to the dGPU without going through the Intel iGPU.įor Intel graphics users, the situation can be confusing.
This is the usual configuration for nVidia laptops while using the laptop display. The G3 also has an nVidia dGPU (discrete GPU), which uses Optimus (Windows) or Prime (Linux) technology to deliver rendered frames across the PCIE bus to be displayed by the Intel iGPU (integrated GPU). Intel graphics, though, I do have a bit of experience with, as my Swift and my G3 (Dell) both use it. # In order to enable or disable this script just change the executionĪfter saving the rc.local script reboot into your new resolution.It’s probably nice for AMD graphics users too, but I haven’t seen that, so I know very little about it. # Make sure that the script will “exit 0″ on success or any other # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. If you have the resolution that you want then navigate to /etc/rc.localĪs root edit the rc.local script file to resemble the sample below to indicate your desired resolution:
Logout and log back in – you should have the correct resolution. Select the one you want and type similar to the example below: Unless you’ve disabled it, like myself.Ī list will show for the available resolutions
LINUX MINT HOW TO INSTALL INTEL GRAPHICS DRIVER UPDATE
Note that the effective initrd.img file (probably in /boot) must be updated (I’m not 100% about it, but it seems like the update tool did it): Odds are that the kernel modules related to graphics are loaded from the initrd.img, and not /lib/modules, as part of displaying the graphical splash screen (Plymouth) until Gnome is up and running. In case someone needs to fake Linux Mint… Namely, adding the file /etc/apt//intellinuxgraphics.list with the following: deb xenial main #Intel Graphics driversįor the record, this is /etc/lsb-release for Linux Mint 18.1: DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMintĭISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 18.1 Serena" And for the record, it really helped with those graphics issues.īy the way, among the things it did was to add an apt-get repository. That is, saying this: DISTRIB_ID=UbuntuĪnd then run the tool again. First, save the real one: $ sudo mv /etc/lsb-release /etc/lsb-release-mintĪnd then edit /etc/lsb-release to mimic Ubuntu. So I tricked it by replacing the file it checks (a thanks goes to strace). Easily fixed with $ sudo apt-get -f installĪnd then launch the tool itself: $ sudo intel-graphics-update-toolĪnd this is where the tool refused, because the distribution doesn’t match. That didn’t work all that nice, because there were missing dependencies. So I downloaded it, and installed it: $ sudo dpkg -i intel-graphics-update-tool_2.0.2_b Which is fine, since Mint 18.1 is derived from this distribution exactly. In particular, the Graphics Update Tool 2.0.2 is intended for Ubuntu 16.04. Intel supplies an tool for doing this automagically on a selected list of distributions. So obviously, I went for updating the graphics stack. Running Linux Mint 18.1 (kernel 4.4.0-53) on a Gigabyte Brix BACE-3160 (with an i915 graphics controller), I had all kind of minor graphics artifacts (in particular a sluggish mouse pointer and Kodi felt heavy). This post was written by eli on February 4, 2017