Laptop drivers

[peter_parker]

Hey guys,

I have a Compaq Presario CQ60-220US Notebook PC that i installed ubuntu 10.4 on.

i have a feeling i need to upgrade my video drivers on this laptop, because i have issues playing streaming videos (flash, etc) over the web. They play pretty choppy sometimes.

And even some of my videos played on VLC have issues.

I went on the website and tried to look for drivers. But they didnt have anything for linux at all...

Am i S.O.L. on this? What if i wanted to update my sound drivers or whatever...

Thanks in advance.

[lovinglinux]

Go to "System >> Administration >> Hardware Drivers" and activate the latest video driver.

[peter_parker]

When i go there, it goes through a scan and then shows "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system". It has nothing else listed...

[flick]

Are your graphics card or cards Intel? Nvidia? Something else?

[peter_parker]

Finding my product number and from the site i pull:

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M

Using command: sudo lspci -v | less

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Int
egrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 5110 [size=8]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0
Enable+
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 07)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at 92500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3