How do I find a proprietary driver for the Intel graphics card I have?
I have an Intel corporation core processor integrated graphics controller (rev 18), and I am trying to get a proprietary driver for my graphics card so I can play Amnesia from the Humble Bundle.
I am a female that can easily follow directions but doesn't know much about Linux yet. If you give me precise directions, I will follow them so you can help me fix the problem. I would really appreciate it!
My laptop is a Dell n7010.
Additional info: I believe that it is the graphics card that is causing Amnesia to crash, but I am unsure. I have tried running it on the lowest possible settings, and it crashes after the first loading screen. :(
Also, I installed via the Ubuntu Software Center after purchasing the Humble Bundle. I have not tried the other games yet.
Solution 1:
My laptop also uses Intel graphics (it is a Toshiba Satellite model), and it does not use proprietary graphics drivers. The reason for this is because the official Intel drivers for Intel graphics are themselves open-source; thus no proprietary drivers are available.
If you continue to have issues running Amnesia that appear to be graphics-related, then the issue is most likely with the game itself having a bug.
Relevant links:
- Intel Download Center
- Linux Graphics Drivers from Intel
Solution 2:
I was able to get my Intel Sandy Bridge working.
First you need to have mesa-utils installed
you need need the s3tc library installed, it allows the texture compression needed by mesa
search for and install
libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
in the Software Center.
If you card can support it, the game will launch. There are several quality selections in the launch window that comes up so you can try low if medium doesn't work. Medium works for me, I haven't tried High as Medium is very nice.
I can tell you that apport seems to think that your gpu hangs so you may get the "System error encountered" box popping up but I had no hangs except when apport was gathering information and after I removed
apport, apport-gtk, apport-symptoms
I have been playing with no problems for the last 3-4 days. So if you can get it working you may have to uninstall those progrmas or disable apport to play without interruptions.
As was said in another answer there are no propriety drivers for Intel, at least not that I know of either.
{edit} If you tell the launch window for Amnesia to detect your card it will tell you it's unsupported but as I said it is working fine on my Intel.{edit}