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Asked: 2015-06-09 10:27:44 +0800 CST

How to install the correct intel driver onto Ubuntu 14.04

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My laptop is kinda sluggish but I think it has to do with the graphics.

The whole system freezes when trying to encode or transcode a movie.

All my research leads to the valleyview Gen7 graphics.

I opened additional drivers and nothing shows up.

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  1. I don't know what laptop you have, but I suspect your issue has nothing to do with the graphics drivers. Ubuntu 14.04 already comes with Intel graphics drivers. Intel develops these drivers in the open and in the upstream kernel and Xorg trees.

    The system freezing when trying to encode or transcode a movie, is likely due to simply overloading the system. Valley View is Intel Atom, which is their very low power X86 processor line. If you are trying to encode or transcode a movie in very high quality, you are probably running out of memory and hitting swap (if you even have any), probably using up all processing resources to perform the work, and depending on what type of hard drive you have, the disk I/O will bring your system to a crawl.

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