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Need graphics card driver for HP G7-1310

Asked by Michael Allen

I am a new Ubuntu user. I have installed on my brand new HP G7-1310us. I am attempting to enable COMPIZ as I am a big fan of the 3D Cube desktop. I have it setup on other machines. but I am unable to enable the "extra" setting for the visual effects. I am sure this is a graphics driver issue. But I am unsure how to figure out which driver I need and where to get it from. The other machines I have just found it in the "hardware drivers" manager under system-admin-hardware drivers. but only my wireless card seems to detect that it needs a proprietary driver.

Someone please help me out so I can keep using this awesome software! The card I have is Intel HD Graphics 3000 and I am using ubuntu 10.4.

Instructions for a five year old are preferred!!!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) said : 		#2

You need Ubuntu at least 11.04 for Sandy Bridge graphics to work properly (I think there are also folks who have it working on 10.04 using a backported kernel/X/mesa, etc.)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Why install an old release too, Oneiric has a lot later drivers and kernel which will support your hardware better.

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Michael Allen (mchl-allen) said : 		#4

Okay, I have upgraded to 11.10 as suggested and I am in the middle of doing system updates (all 359 of them). here is the output of the command that actionparsnip posted for me:

michael@G7-Notebook:~$ sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a
[sudo] password for michael:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:41 memory:c0000000-c03fffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:4000(size=64)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux G7-Notebook 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
michael@G7-Notebook:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

you may want to get updated. Your kernel is not the latest. You should run:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get clean

HTH

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Michael Allen (mchl-allen) said : 		#6

Okay, I no longer have a graphics driver issue. Just need to figure out the compatibility of unity and the compiz cube. I was looking here http://www.noobslab.com/2011/10/enable-compiz-desktop-cube-in-ubuntu.html and was hoping this instruction walk through would solve the problem but no joy. Any suggestions on this one?

Thanks for all the input thus far by the way!

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Michael Allen (mchl-allen) said : 		#7

I am going to consider this issue solved since my original problem has been corrected. Thanks for the input everyone! this forum has been great so far.