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[INTEL] how to upgrade driver

Hi all

My laptop was broken, needed to replace the HDD.
So I did replace it and installed Ubuntu 12.04 (previously it was Windows 7)
Now, I installed Diablo 3 with playonlinux and Wine.
Install went fine, but when I click on play it says that my graphical drivers needs to be updated.

Now, I believe I don't have a seperate graphical card (onboard)
The processor I have is a Intel Pentium P6200.

Does anyone know how I can update this driver?

Thanks

Dragonix

Hi,

could you please post the output of

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iA3 graph

or if this doesn't show any output use

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iA3 video

this will show us which graphics adapter you're using and which module is loaded.

It would also be good to know which kernelversion you're running, you can check this with uname -r

Markus

Thanks!
Unfortunately, it has to wait until I get back home (most likely on Friday)..
But I will keep this thread posted!

P6200 is a cut down intel 'Arrandale' CPU.

From the tests I've seen the newer intel 'sandy bridge' and 'ivy bridge' intergrated video is only just capable of playing Diablo 3 at low resolutons (1024x768 or smaller) with low detail, and even then they get _very_ slow framerates.

Arrandale intergrated video isnt as fast as the sandy bridge/ivy bridge intergrated video, WINE tends to run slower than native windows installs.

If you want to try it, I'd probably get newer drivers etc fom xorg-edgers-

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

All in all IMO even if you get it running it will be at very low resoltuions and detail levels, and will still run very badly.

hmm.. damn..
The laptop was only for school and internet browsing things.
I will try the link (hopefully today) and see how it goes.

Thanks for the advice!

Quote:

Originally Posted by markush (Post 4838308)

Hi,

could you please post the output of

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iA3 graph

or if this doesn't show any output use

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iA3 video

this will show us which graphics adapter you're using and which module is loaded.

It would also be good to know which kernelversion you're running, you can check this with uname -r

Markus

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iA3 graph

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)

        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0379

        Kernel driver in use: i915

        Kernel modules: i915

Quote:

Originally Posted by cascade9 (Post 4838723)

I did following commands

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwibber-daily/ppa

Afterwards I tried again, but no success :(
So I cannot run it on this laptop?

Just a question, is it hard (and do-able) to change the processor?

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragonix (Post 4838974)

...

Just a question, is it hard (and do-able) to change the processor?

this depends on your knowledge. Normally you will have no advantages of a new processor because you still limited by the mainboard and the bios.

I would recommend to install a more lightweight distribution. But I think in your case the restriction is the intel-graphics. If it were a desktop you could put an additional graphics-card into the machine, but I suppose that this is not possible with a laptop.

My friend has a Intel i5 with integrated graphics and Windows 7, 4GB of RAM, but many of the games which her children want to play don't run. I would say, that in general Intel onboard-graphics isn't suitable for your needs (but I'm no expert).

As for your original question: I don't think that you can update the driver, as far as I know, there's only the kernelmodule for the intel adapter (i915) and you could only install a more recent kernel, but since you're running a recent version of Ubuntu, I doubt that this would be useful.

Markus

I even got 5 GB RAM..
Anyway, thanks for the support and help!
Much appreciated!

So overall, Intel processors with onboard graphics-card is not suitable to play recent games ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragonix (Post 4838974)

I did following commands

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwibber-daily/ppa

Afterwards I tried again, but no success :(
So I cannot run it on this laptop?

Why did you add gwibber-daily/ppa?

It might still be possible to get it running...I dont know if yuo have gallium 3d installed, etc..

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragonix (Post 4838974)

Just a question, is it hard (and do-able) to change the processor?

How hard it is to change the CPU in a laptop, or if its even possible varies from manufacturer to manufacturer and model to model.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragonix (Post 4839265)

So overall, Intel processors with onboard graphics-card is not suitable to play recent games ;)

Depends on the game. Many games will run fine with intel graphics, its the 'heavy' games that will refuse to run or run very badly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragonix (Post 4839265)

I even got 5 GB RAM..

For you info, 5GB of RAM will actually be slightly slower than 4GB/6GB/8GB/etc. due to 'dual channel RAM'.

Quote:

Originally Posted by markush (Post 4838990)

I would recommend to install a more lightweight distribution. But I think in your case the restriction is the intel-graphics. If it were a desktop you could put an additional graphics-card into the machine, but I suppose that this is not possible with a laptop.

Never common, and now virutally unused, but it was possible to upgrade video cards in some laptops with MXM slots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_PCI_Express_Module

Quote:

Originally Posted by markush (Post 4838990)

As for your original question: I don't think that you can update the driver, as far as I know, there's only the kernelmodule for the intel adapter (i915) and you could only install a more recent kernel, but since you're running a recent version of Ubuntu, I doubt that this would be useful.

Its not just the kernel that provides support, other bits and pieces (e.g. xorg) are also important.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cascade9 (Post 4839296)

...
Its not just the kernel that provides support, other bits and pieces (e.g. xorg) are also important.

Well, the kernelversion is responsible for the hardwaresupport. Maybe that a recent version of xorg would be good, but what I wrote about the kernel is also true for xorg and other packages, if you have a recent version of Ubuntu installed you will probably have already recent versions of all packages.

Markus

Quote:

Originally Posted by cascade9 (Post 4839296)

Why did you add gwibber-daily/ppa?

It might still be possible to get it running...I dont know if yuo have gallium 3d installed, etc..

No, what is that?

Gallium 3D is a open source 3d version-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D

As far as I know it isnt the standard 3d version for late model intel video chip, and installing it may break your desktop, display or have other unwanted effects.

Its not worth trying IMO.

Lets say that my laptop do breaks down, will I be able to fix it with reinstalling Ubuntu?

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragonix (Post 4839476)

Lets say that my laptop do breaks down, will I be able to fix it with reinstalling Ubuntu?

As I understand cascade9 he means that you probably can't access your desktop when it doesn't work. I've only few experience with Ubuntu, but it should be possible to start the computer into runlevel 3 (without X11) and then start X11 with the startx command. The advantage is that if X11 breaks due to the driver, you can go back to the console with <CTRL><ALT><BACKSPACE> and if you reboot, you're again on the console and can uninstall the driver. So: no need to reinstall the complete OS.

Markus

Oke, if so, then I will give it a shot
Thanks for all the support!