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I am using 64 bit ubuntu 13.04 on a system running optimus technology - Nvidia 635M and an intel integrated card.

Recently came across this article for Intel Linux Graphics Installer:
http://networkedblogs.com/LHlmO

Now I am wondering if I need this installed? If yes, then would also like to know what graphics drivers are currently running the intel card on my system then?

UPDATE - Per Qasim's response tried installing, but even after adding the two keys provided on their website, Software Center gives me the below warning:

Lintian check results for /home/charlie/Downloads/intel-linux-graphics-installer_1.0.1_amd64.deb:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
E: intel-linux-graphics-installer: malformed-deb-archive found 4 members instead of 3

Let me know why am getting this message and what it means?

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Yes you need to install Intel Graphic Driver

The question is why ?

The answer is

  1. It has Intel Hardware Acceleration For Intel 3D ( VA-API ).

  2. ( VA-API ) also save battery power, I have done lots of testing so i will recommend to install Intel drivers. https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads

  3. For Vmware user's 3D acceleration is ON by default and you don't need to do any tweaks for 3D acceleration

You check full details on ( VA-API ) on my answer, You can install it manually check my answer VA-API (Hardware Acceleration For Intel / AMD GPUs), But intel drivers updated VA-API package.

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