Hello folks, my problem looks as follows:

- I have a Barebone X27D which is running Debian "Lenny"
- Its chipset is : Intel® 945GC+ICH7 Express
- It has onboard graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (GMA950)

Debian has its own drivers for this graphics, which are working much slower than on Windows, and doesn't provide features as "sending PC to sleep, hibernate etc. "

Searching for drivers on the official Intel site i found a link, to http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2009Q3.html
Here some Graphic-Drivers are avaiable, which i couldn't compile / install 2 months ago, because I'm a Linux newby


Maybe some experienced Linux user would kindly guide me through the installation?

I haven't compiled these drivers myself but you should know that almost all released Open Source Software comes with documentation either in the form of a README or INSTALL file included in the source archive or a web, Trac or Wiki page listing instructions. For the Intel drivers the instructions are at http://intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html. The first thing you should do is read that page a few times. Then find out if you *really* want to do this for the right reasons: you should not compare mcrsft driver functionality with GNU/Linux driver functionality. Especially if it depends on say platform-specific features then functionality, quality or performance may not be the same or comparable. Then decide if you want to build the 2D driver only or the whole stack, then translate the package names of the dependencies from Fedora to Debian.

Let us if you can perform these steps.

Hi - sorry that you are having problems. I also am a relative "newbie" in this area and had the same "poor performance" issues with the embedded intel graphics.

I gave up and installed a $65 Nvidia pci-express card and used ENVYNG (http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html) to fetch and install the most suitable nvidia driver.

problem solved .. it was worth $60 to me anyway!!!!

best wishes
brad

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