There is a new graphic driver available - EMGD 1.16 Intel® Embedded Media and Graphics Driver
- Better 2D, 3D (Visual Effects) support.
- Hardware-accelerated Mplayer
- Hardware-accelerated flashplayer
Prepare installation media
- A USB DVD/CD-ROM drive or a USB Flash drive of at least 1GB should be used as installation media
- Download Linux Mint 13 "Maya" - MATE (32-bit)"
- For installation with a USB DVD/CD-ROM - flash the downloaded image directly onto a DVD/CD
- For installation with a USB Flash drive, please use the "Accessories->ImageWriter" utility to create a LiveUSB or follow How to install Linux Mint via USB tutorial.
Base installation of Linux Mint 13
- Follow the standard Linux Mint installation procedure - choose timezone, partitions, username, password etc.
- Disconnect the installation media and reboot
- Login using previously selected username and password.
Downgrade xserver-xorg to 1.9 version
- Create file /etc/apt/preferences.d/xorg.1.9.pref
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Package: xorg xserver-xorg*
Pin: release a=maverick-updates
Pin-Priority: 1001
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# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates main restricted universe multiverse
# maverick is unsupported officially, but the archives are still available
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates main restricted universe multiverse
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
- Edit /etc/default/grub:
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# add "psb_gfx.dummy=1" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, it should look like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash psb_gfx.dummy=1"
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sudo update-grub2
- Download emgd-dkms_1.16.3196.deb and emgd-bin_1.16.3196.deb
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sudo dpkg -i emgd-bin_1.16.3196.deb emgd-dkms_1.16.3196.deb
Mplayer-vaapi
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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:sander-vangrieken/vaapi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer-vaapi
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$ mplayer /home/user/Videos/Terminator_Salvation_Trailer_H264_1920x800.flv
Hardware-accelerated flashplayer
- Download libflashplayer_2_0_05092012.so
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sudo cp libflashplayer_2_0_05092012.so /opt/mint-flashplugin-11/libflashplayer.so
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