How to Install The Latest Intel Linux Graphics Driver on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail

I have written a post about Intel's simple tool to download and install the latest Intel Linux Graphic driver. In that post, the instal...Read more »

Always full of Surprises - Intel Linux Wireless Drivers

You always think that device support is very good in Linux for old drivers. You think that Intel wireless drivers are especially well suppor...Read more »

Atom Power Usage Reduced with kernel 2.6.36

As expected, the intel_idle driver includes ATM-C4 and ATM-C6 CPU power saving modes in kernel 2.6.36, even if your BIOS doesn't annou...Read more »

Setting Up VAAPI Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding for Ubuntu 10.04 (example Intel Poulsbo GMA 500)

(For the more detailed  guide for Ubuntu 9.10 , which works much better for me, including suspend to ram, see here. ) This is just a really,...Read more »

How to set up X and VAAPI Accelerated HD Video on the MSI Wind U110 (GMA500 - Poulsbo) and Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

The following guide is now slightly outdated as Ubuntu 10.04 is out and new drivers are necessary, also some of the repositories I originall...Read more »

X Video finally works - Poulsbo and Linux on the MSI Wind U110 - Fix for BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000

If you tried to get poulsbo to run on your system and you get a message like this, you should try the fix posted below. "kernel BUG: un...Read more »

More News on Intel and its GMA 500 under Linux

The LinuxJournal wrote two articles about the horrible Linux support for Intel's GMA 500 graphics chipset. How to kick your friends in t...Read more »

Why you're screwed with the Intel Poulsbo Chipset

Let me tell you why you're not only screwed when you want to run Poulsbo systems on Linux: Intel does not only have bad support for Linu...Read more »

Intel Graphics Users: Don't Upgrade Your Ubuntu

As phoronix points out , the intel driver woes in the newest Ubuntu version 9.04 are so bad, you should probably skip this distribution upgr...Read more »

Mode Setting with IntelFB

Let me begin by stating that the intelfb driver is very old already. And there are issues. Mode setting with "non-CRT" devices us...Read more »

Setting up wireless with Mandriva 2007

I rarely install Linux on laptop. It was great to have one and saw how Linux distros progressed in this area. Since last week, I have been a...Read more »

AMD Opteron vs Intel Itanium

Recently, I attended a seminar on Grid Computing and HPC. The organizer invited an Indian speaker, a sales director of SUN India, Mr Mohan....Read more »