How to install latest nvidia drivers during ubuntu install

#How to install latest nvidia drivers during ubuntu install update#

вЂStefanвЂ™ seems to be updating his PPA quite frequently (updates usually arrive within few days Intel has released them) which is why I prefer this PPA. And also remember that, these are вЂhotвЂ™ updates and might contain bugs, so please use it at your own risk. Others such as GMA 500 вЂ¦ are not supported. This only supports Intel i810 chipset and up.

#How to install latest nvidia drivers during ubuntu install update#

If you use Ubuntu then these updates do take their time to get into the UbuntuвЂ™s official OS update repositories (until theyвЂ™re properly tested and proven to be stable, I think), but if you canвЂ™t wait till then, then you can use following PPA provided by вЂStefan GlasenhardtвЂ™ for that. Usually, itвЂ™s the gamers who go crazy about the getting the latest GPU drivers, but for both performance improvements and fixing bugs, you should update your Intel GPU driver nevertheless. And because of this, Intel is less criticized by the core GNU/Linux OS developers, but then again, according to some experts, there are few Intel GPU products that вЂlackвЂ™ proper documentation as well -). However they too have pretty decent GPU products that give mediocre performances which suits for basic computing tasks.ДЄnd interestingly, unlike both Nvidia and ATI, Intel is drifted towards the open source system and releases their GPU drivers under two main open source licenses (вЂMITвЂ™ and вЂGNU GPL v2вЂ™). When compared to вЂNvidiaвЂ™ or вЂATIвЂ™, Intel is still a bit behind when it comes to designing GPUs.