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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Ubuntu Graphic Quality Issue? Post 302342155 by Leppie on Friday 7th of August 2009 02:16:16 PM
Old 08-07-2009
The Intel Linux Graphics page has a link to the 2009 Q2 versions of the drivers. I don't know about where you live, but where I come from it's still 2009 so these drivers are not so "severely out of date".

In Ubuntu installing video drivers is much the same as for Debian (Ubuntu is a Debian distro). If you do some searches, you will find enough info on installing video drivers under Debian.

Have a look at your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, especially the Section "Device" part. If you have an entry Driver "vesa", it's using the generic vesa driver. Change it to Driver "intel" and add the line Option "dri" "true" for 3d.

if you want more info, you should provide more info (like your xorg.conf, etc.)

Last edited by Leppie; 08-07-2009 at 07:21 PM..
 

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VESA(4) 						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							   VESA(4)

NAME
vesa - Generic VESA video driver SYNOPSIS
Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "vesa" ... EndSection DESCRIPTION
vesa is an Xorg driver for generic VESA video cards. It can drive most VESA-compatible video cards, but only makes use of the basic stan- dard VESA core that is common to these cards. The driver supports depths 8, 15 16 and 24. SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards. There are some known exceptions, and those should be listed here. CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details. This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver. The driver auto-detects the presence of VESA-compatible hardware. The ChipSet name may optionally be specified in the config file "Device" section, and will override the auto-detection: "vesa" The following driver Options are supported: Option "ShadowFB" "boolean" Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default: on. This option is recommended for performance reasons. Option "ModeSetClearScreen" "boolean" Clear the screen on mode set. Some BIOSes seem to be broken in the sense that the newly set video mode is bogus if they are asked to clear the screen during mode setting. If you experience problems try to turn this option off. Default: on. SEE ALSO
Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7) AUTHORS
Authors include: Paulo Ce'sar Pereira de Andrade. X Version 11 xf86-video-vesa 2.3.1 VESA(4)
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