Intel Graphics Card Linux Drivers

Looks like the future is perfect for Intel 845, Intel 855 and Intel 910 graphics chip-sets on Linux.

On my Mint 10 (aka Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat)... I was finally able to get all my resolutions and Graphics Acceleration after ages.


Okay, so initially the Framebuffer device (fbdev) was the default graphics device on Ubuntu 10.10 (aka Mint 10) and thus the intel driver is not loaded. In order to force loading the intel driver create the file

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

To create this file you must be root... here's how you could do it:

Compiling your own Kernel

Okay... for newbiees compiling the kernel becomes a tough task. Since the typical "./configure && make" will not work for the kernel package. So, this is a step by step walk-through to how to do it.

NOTE: The command `uname -r` gives the kernel version number and will vary from system to system.

1) Firstly download a kernel from here.

2) Extract the tar-ball (with "tar -xvf kernel-file-name")

3) Okay now "cd" to the extracted folder.