How to Install the latest Intel Graphics Driver in Ubuntu 17.10?
I was trying this but get errors: installing-intel-graphics-driver-in-ubuntu-16-04
Error message:
Checking if Intel graphics card available...
• checking for i915 module in /sys/module
• i915 module found
Checking if Intel graphics card available... OK
Retrieving information from 01.org...
• fetching https://download.01.org/gfx/ilg-config.cfg
• saving to /home/sujan/.ilg-config
• fetched 1626 bytes
• fetched 9818 bytes
• fetched 12301 bytes
• looking up [Ubuntu artful] configuration
Retrieving information from 01.org... OK
Checking distribution... Failed
Solution 1:
Until now Intel doesn't offer support for Ubuntu 17.10. I'm using updated drivers from ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
with 2 external monitors, so far without any problems on integrated graphic:
$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 [8086:5912] (rev 04)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation HD Graphics 630 [1849:5912]
Kernel driver in use: i915
You can install Updated and Optimized Open Graphics Drivers from PPA repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
Solution 2:
Just change temporarily /etc/lsb-release
to correspond to Zesty Zapus, it will work fine.
First, make backup
sudo cp /etc/lsb-release /etc/lsb-release.backup
Then edit the file
sudo -H gedit /etc/lsb-release
Replace contents with:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=zesty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 17.04"
When you are done installing the tool and the drivers, simply revert the changes:
sudo rm -f /etc/lsb-release
sudo cp /etc/lsb-release.backup /etc/lsb-release