Install Intel GMA 4500MHD driver to Ubuntu8.04

 

I bought a ThinkPad SL410 notebook.

It uses  GMA 4500MHD video card, and is not working with my Ubuntu8.04 which is installed in an usb removable disk.

 

 

The Intel® G45 Express Chipset driver is released here.

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/

 

I made the G45 video device with the following steps.

 

# sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev
# sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
# sudo apt-get install x11proto-xinerama-dev
# sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev  libdrm-dev xorg-dev

download libdrm-2.4.6, xf86-video-intel-2.7.0 depends it.

# tar zxvf libdrm-2.4.6.tar.gz
# cd libdrm-2.4.6
# ./configure
# make
# sudo make install <-- you might need to modify the Makefile, remove the test dir from subdir macro.

# cd ../
# tar zxvf xf86-video-intel-2.7.0.tar.gz
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/
# ./make
# sudo make instlall

 

* I also tired versions above xf86-video-intel-2.7.0 , but all of them need xorg-server >= 1.6 .

But I could not upgrade the xorg-server to 1.6 under ubuntu 8.04, so I failed with the xf86-video-intel-2.8/9.

Anyhow, this xf86-video-intel-2.7.0 supports GM45 video device.