How To Update Your Intel Drivers [Arch linux]

If you are using Intel chipsets and processors, you have to update your drivers. This is how to set that up easily in Arch linux.

Use the package manager to download intel-ucode.

$ pacman -S intel-ucode ## this will be downloaded from community repositories and get updates automatically if there's a new version

To set this up automatically and you don't have a custom kernel (if you have one, then YOU should know how to set this up) run grub-mkconfig.

$ grub-mkconfig

This will edit your grub.cfg file and add a line for the intel-ucode.img file.

After running it you can check the grub config file with:

$ sudo less /boot/grub/grub.cfg ## you should scroll down and look for instances of this line up to the end of the file.

           echo    'Loading Linux linux ...'
        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/vol1-root rw
        echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
        initrd /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux.img

P.S. Unless you know what you're doing, you should not edit the grub file manually.

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