Update linux graphics driver on linux, we strongly recommend that you install the closed-source graphics driver from the graphics card manufacturer's web site. to figure out which graphics card you have installed, use the command: % lspci | grep vga in the above case, the graphics card is a nvidia quadro4 900 xgl.. to check the version of the graphics driver, try:. The intel linux graphics installer only supports ubuntu 13.10 and 13.04 (and fedora), and even though the drivers should work on other ubuntu-based linux distributions like linux mint, the installer doesn't work and the intel repository isn't added automatically.. The tool aims to simplify both installation and updating of drivers for intel’s graphics cards so that users are able to get the best performance out of their hardware and stay "up-to-date with the latest intel graphics stack for linux"..
Easy linux tips project. search this site. those developers have adapted the nvidia drivers to ubuntu and linux mint, so that they should work well in these linux distributions. with that action, the possibility of updates from graphics-drivers will have disappeared.. The recommendation that i got from that post was that cinnamon does not run very good on the intel ironlake graphics chip. the xfce or mate editions of mint will definitely work better.. Everyhing gets installed, but when you run the intel-linux-graphics-installed and click "begin" it says distribution not supported. mine is rebecca 17.1 mate 3b bits. but still i like the ideo of being able to update intel drivers..
