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hello i'm new to linux

i'm using Toshiba c850 notebook and i can't install ' intel HD graphics 3000 ' driver on ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (32 bit)

the problem is when i play HD movies , video is not smoothly playing. and every time i boot up my notebook on ubuntu i have to adjust my screen brightness.it goes maximum level every time i restart my notebook.but in windows it works fine and HD videos play smoothly.

please help friends. Thanks

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a) Intel Grpahics card drivers are open sourced and in inbuilt in kernel. So ubuntu doesn't require installation of these driver. Run dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-intel to check the status of the driver package: it should be installed.

b) brightness issue:

  1. If your brigtness key not working . try following else skip to step 2

    execute sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

    Change this line

    GRUB_CMLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

    to something like below

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor"

    Execute sudo update-grub and reboot . See if brightness keys are working.

  2. It is still possible ubuntu won't remember your brightness settings. So you have to change brightness each time.

    Try following for paths shown by ls /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness and replace accordingly.

    example paths will be like

    /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

    1. For the above path Get the maximum brightness:

    cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness

    Try a lower value to set the brightness, say output is 16 so I will try with half of it

    echo 8 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

    If this works, make this happen in each login automatically by doing the following

    sudo gedit /etc/rc.local

    Enter this line just before exit 0. It should look like

    echo YOUR_VALUE_HERE > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness exit 0

  3. HD video issue. Try a different player like vlc. If the problem is there you may want to update drivers from xorg-edgers ppa. Though generally it doesn't require & intel HD can play HD videos without any extra update. See How do I install drivers for an Intel HD Graphics?

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  • thanks for your help.brightness issue is now ok.but Intel HD Graphics issue is still there.i tried using VLC and Totem Movie player.and i xorg drivers using these commands sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade but issue is still there. Dec 24, 2012 at 14:58
  • i installed xrog drivers* using these --> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Dec 24, 2012 at 15:06

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