Ubuntu – Intel Graphics Installer vs stock driver

intel graphics

I am running a Haswell ultrabook and just read about the Intel Graphics Installer, and Kubuntu 14.04.

I want to know, if there's an advantage, if I install.
If it's not running for 14.04, what would be the advantage if I install on 13.10?

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Thanks.

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The intel-linux-graphics-installer v 1.0.4 does not support Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. You will receive an error that this distribution is not supported when trying to run the installer. I would guess vs 1.0.5 will include 14.04 LST support as 14.04 is mentioned in the documentation.

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Yes you need to install Intel Graphic Driver

The question is why ?

The answer is

It has Intel Hardware Acceleration For Intel 3D ( VA-API ).
( VA-API ) also save battery power, I have done lots of testing so i will recommend to install Intel drivers. https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads
For Vmware user's 3D acceleration is ON by default and you don't need to do any tweaks for 3D acceleration

You check full details on ( VA-API ) on my answer, You can install it manually check my answer VA-API (Hardware Acceleration For Intel / AMD GPUs), But intel drivers updated VA-API package.

18.04 Intel-Graphics – How to Upgrade Intel Graphics Driver

Sorry, but if you need to ask how to do that ... just don't. You are more than likely to hose your system. I see already 1 issue: the mesa version in your download is 18.0. Ubuntu 18 is on Mesa 18.1 so it is already a newer version than the one you will download. That might be a problem.

There is a FAR easier method for doing this: use the PPA for it (see this launchpad page). It was updated 5 hours ago so you might be in luck. You can add it with this command and it will add all the packages listed on the website; you will need the package xserver-xorg-video-intel.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers

From the description of this PPA:

This PPA provides updated X (2D) and mesa (3D) free graphics drivers for Radeon, Intel, and Nvidia hardware. Updates packages provide:

All packages are automatically built twice a day when there are upstream changes

Vulkan 1.1+ on recent Intel and Radeon GPU

OpenGL 4.5+ support and new OpenGL extensions: http://mesamatrix.net

OpenCL support with updated libclc

gallium-nine support installed by default.

VDPAU and VAAPI Gallium3D accelerated video drivers

OpenMAX IL Bellagio and XvMC only on zesty and older - disabled since artful due to not being broadly used

packages built against latest LLVM

Disabled Ubuntu MIR

If the features you mention are not in there yet you could ask about it on the Phoronix forums. Those are the people that will update the drivers for us.

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