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[ubuntu] lazy question--why are the intel video drivers sooooo bad?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – this is not a constructive criticism or an intelligent post, but i am curious about the answer. WHY DO THE INTEL VIDEO DRIVERS SUCK SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH? watching flash videos should not require cutting edge technology. even with the new driver in 9.10, full-screen videos stutter distractingly, as does the process of dragging windows across the screen. games that have a linux-native port, such as q3, run fine under windows with native resolution and max setting; on linux they are unplayable even at 640x480. why is this? these drivers are being officially programmed by intel employees, right? i understand it has something to do with their "open-source technology center," but i can't figure out if that means they're actually programming the drivers or just releasing the source and then washing their hands of whatever the community comes up with. why is my life so hard? (it's not. i realize this is a silly thing to whine about. but it's the main thing that keeps me from completely switching to linux; i always boot windows to watch movies and play games.) (Hardware)

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Hi folks, it's been a while since i have been here.

I have purchased ASUS-1225C which has intel Atom N280(cedar trail) with integrated gma3650 graphics chip.

Recently Intel released their opensource driver tool (https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloa...hics-installer) which auto-selects the right drivers for your intel chipset. Because I started using Steam on Linux to play some older games I thought I would use the Intel 'official' drivers to ensure I get the best performance.

I installed a copy of BackTrack 5 R2 (Ubuntu 10.04) to my HDD and dual-booted with Windows 7. After a bit of tweaking I set about updating the native Intel drivers because it was only allowing me to choose between 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions and I have a widescreen laptop.

Uninstalled current drivers, added the new repository, and updated the latest Intel drivers. Start X and voila!

As seen on this thread, it seems that the missing part to be able to run DirectX on Linux natively are vendor drivers.

What exactly are vendor driver? Are they drivers interfacing a specific model of a component, or a family, or even any of them? What are they coded in? ASM and C most likely?

How would someone (or a team) create these drivers for Linux? How would it be integrated into Linux?

Hello,

I am new to Ubuntu (2 months) and I need a little help with an issue regarding screen saturation. Okay, I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 32-bit on my 2006 Acer Travelmate 290. Yes, it is a piece of ****. It has an old Intel video card with 64mb of VRAM. It has an Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Controller. I cannot find any drivers for it on the internet.

Ok, Josh answered almost immed.! I need to know specifically, now that I am using Nvidia card effectively, do I need to allow update manager to update the intel gr. drivers?

I must add, I believe I know why Update Manager is telling me I need to update those Intel gr. drivers.

So I'm running Ubuntu 12.10, and I use Linux exclusively on all my machines because I prefer it, and don't really have a need to have Windows installed.

Lately, especially since the release of Steam for Linux, I've been using my Ubuntu desktop PC for more and more gaming on Linux, but I've had one issue.

With chrome open I can watch a video on youtube. At a certain time from watching it, the video gets slower. You can see the video and sound slowing. Eventually it gets so slow that it just stops all together. I have tried this with firefox also.

I have an ATI graphics card and installed the proprietary drivers.

I have recently reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04 and replaced hard drives and video cards (both nvidia) but changed drivers as I went from a 7600gt with the 173 driver to GT 640 with 310 driver.