How To Install Latest Intel Driver 2.12 On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

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Submitted by bnight (Contact Author) (Forums) on Mon, 2010-07-05 18:22. :: Ubuntu | Desktop

How To Install Latest Intel Driver 2.12 On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

After a long time waiting the most interesting update of the Intel drivers for linux is now a fact. We can now have 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. As an owner of U400-138 with Intel 4500 MHD I have been waiting for this over a year but now I can play 720p without an issue. And so here is how to install this.

First let's add the Xorg-edgers repo.

$ gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

And add these two lines at the end of the file:

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

After that we need to install everything:

$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 8844C542
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Now we have installed everything but also we need to install the latest Linux kernel 2.6.35 - we can do this like that:

$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-6-generic linux-headers-2.6.35-6-generic

Now we only have to restart and we have a full working system with the latest Xorg drivers for Intel, latest Kernel and hardware acceleration for h.264. My test system give me smooth play of 720p HD movies now. And it's working really great.


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Is it for Clon PC
Submitted by Rosendo (not registered) on Tue, 2010-08-03 18:32.

I'm not sure but that what I have been looking for, I have a clon PC. The Motherboard is an Intel DG41TY version: AAE47335-300, Processor is Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400  @ 2.66GHz  and 4GB of memory.

The problem is that I edit video, it has been a year now since I start editing with ubuntu using Kdenlive, Openshot video Editor but it always crash, with some search i have found that linux doesn't have sufficiente accelaration but I never figure out what to do. Also I do Recording sound and with rt kernel have I solved the problem with latancy.

 Could you help me configure a clon CP to edit video or I just need to install this new Intel driver? plus I would like to show the power of linux here in my country Guatemala specially in my town called Todos Santos Cuchumatán, a pour town but somebody are starting to buy a CP with a pirate copy of M$ installed.

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add files to sources.list.d folder vs. sources.list edits
Submitted by Saint DanBert (not registered) on Sun, 2010-07-18 00:17.

I usually create a file  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/package.list  that contains the "deb ..." lines for PPA repositories.  In addition, I add remarks to describe why I care about this PPA and the security details. I do this instead of a flock of edits to /etc/apt/sources.list itself.

When I update my Ubuntu edition, I can update these files and then have all of my favorites to use again.

If I need to back out PPA use, I can rename this one file easily and then apt-get won't see it any more.  I also edit the remarks in the file to explain why I have it disabled.

I don't understand why more folks don't use this.

~~~ 0;-Dan

 

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a little help please....
Submitted by ubuntu noob (not registered) on Sat, 2010-07-17 07:27.

a little help please.... :-(

 i followed the instructions and after i do the last step i get a message:

 E: Couldn't find package linux-image-2.6.35-6-generic

 am i missing something here?

thanks for any help you guys can offer. i'm a complete noob to linux.

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Re: a little help please....
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Tue, 2010-08-31 10:00.

you just need to check what is the latest available image apt-cache search linux-image

atp-cache search linux-image

For me, it was  linux-image-2.6.35-19-generic

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Re: a little help please....
Submitted by Turin (not registered) on Fri, 2010-07-30 19:53.

You can try:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-12-generic linux-headers-2.6.35-12-generic

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Thanks again!
Submitted by Grimshake (not registered) on Wed, 2010-07-14 00:37.
It worked great on my acer a1 netbook but not on my hp mini, for the mini i had to update the drivers like posted here and then enable opengl (see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4666543 ). 
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Awesome!!!
Submitted by Grimshake (not registered) on Wed, 2010-07-14 00:00.
Omg thank you so much! i spent a few days trying to find a way to fix this up, it was the only thing keeping me from enjoying ubuntu LL on my netbook...now i finally can =D
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Excellent
Submitted by Fast_Wyvern (not registered) on Fri, 2010-07-09 12:09.
Many thanks, worked perfect on my Advent Verona
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Breaks b43 & STA drivers.
Submitted by masternetra (not registered) on Thu, 2010-07-08 13:07.
Followed the instructions and upon restart b43 as well as STA wireless drivers were broke. Thus not recommended if your computer uses a bcm43xx card for wireless.
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Re: Breaks b43 & STA drivers.
Submitted by -samuel- (not registered) on Tue, 2010-08-03 05:33.

there is a new version of this driver that works in kernel 2.6.35. I use that ;)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu5/+build/1781446/+files/bcmwl-kernel-source_5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu5_i386.deb

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I think you want to replace
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Thu, 2010-07-08 01:21.

I think you want to replace "apt-get" with aptitude

george

 

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Re: I think you want to replace
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Thu, 2010-07-08 17:33.

Might as well get used to apt-get. aptitude will be removed from 10.10 (Meerkat).

Source: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/aptitude-removed-from-ubuntu-1010.html

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Thanks
Submitted by Biji (not registered) on Tue, 2010-07-06 16:14.

Thanks,

need to remove first:

sudo aptitude remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

answer Y

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HW not supported
Submitted by kaki (not registered) on Mon, 2010-07-05 18:13.
Acording http://intellinuxgraphics.org/h264.html your hardware are not supported (G45) for h264 hw acceleration
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This will give you major breakage with xserver-xorg-video-nouvea
Submitted by nyarnon (not registered) on Mon, 2010-07-05 17:39.
This will give you major breakage with xserver-xorg-video-nouvea a lot of dependencies are not satified by this ppa.
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Re: This will give you major breakage with xserver-xorg-video-no
Submitted by bigbrovar (not registered) on Thu, 2010-07-08 14:51.
You forgot to add a way to revert back in case things didnt work quite right. The xorg-edgers ppa contain a package called ppa-purge which does just that. to revert changes made in the guide back to ubuntu default just do a  sudo  ppa-purge xorg-edgers  this would disable the ppa and revert you back to the default ubuntu X packages
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Re: Re: This will give you major breakage with xserver-xorg-vide
Submitted by Phk (not registered) on Mon, 2010-08-16 17:14.

 Yes, i need a way to undo these settings... Now my X freezes once in a while.. totally. I have to power down (4secs in power button)....

 I even tried the kernel i had before, but it still hangs...

 Any ideas?

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