Ubuntu – Is it safe to install updated Intel drivers from the x-swat PPA

intel graphicsppa

Is it safe to install updated Intel drivers for Ubuntu 11.10 from the following PPAs?

ppa:glasen/intel-driver
ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

Here's my system spec.

Sony Vaio S-series VPCSE190X
Intel Core i7-2640M processor (2.80GHz / 3.50GHz with Turbo Boost)
AMD Radeon HD 6630M (1GB) hybrid graphics with Intel HD Graphics 3000

Please share your experiences.

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My experience with crashes says if it is not broken dont try to fix it. Drivers from repos work fine for me but I have read many who have broke their installation due to third party drivers. So unless current drivers don't work for you don't try it.

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The repo is maintained by a Canonical employee so as far as "trust" goes, you should be pretty safe with this one.

But whether or not it fixes things, is another question. It could make things worse, but you can always use ppa-purge to remove the PPA and reset the packages back to their sock Ubuntu versions.

Ubuntu – How to install nVidia graphics drivers from “X-Swat” ppa

On the launchpad page, nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 is the name of the source package (you can't install it). this package once built generates the packages you're looking for.

See that page detailing the content of the source package

Basically you need to type the following command instead:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-331

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