How can I use 'newer' version of Intel X drivers?

[Derek Broughton]

Christopher Kelley wrote:

>> From: derek at pointerstop.ca
>> 
>> Vincent Arnoux wrote:
>> 
>> > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 22:49, Chris G<cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>> >> Can anyone tell me how I go about getting the newer Intel display
>> >> drivers please.
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > For my part, I simply installed 2.6.30 Linux kernel:
>> > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-
>> image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
>> > and
>> > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/linux-
>> headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb
>> 
>> And not the 2.7.1 intel driver?  I'm pretty sure you need both.  I got
>> the driver by adding this ppa:
>> 
>> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xorg.list
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu jaunty main
>> 
> Do you get better openGL accelleration with these new drivers? OpenGL goes
> incredibly slow on my ubuntu 9.04 (kernel 2.6.28)

I had to check, but yes - I didn't get openGL _at all_ with the old driver.
-- 
derek