I need help finding and installing the drivers I need to use Linux properly.

[Almirage]

Currently, I am running Linux using measures I shouldn't have to due to how otherwise the screen will turn off. It is the same kind of problem described here:
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=94299

As mentioned by the user xenopeek in that thread, I'm supposed to permanently fix this issue by installing the necessary graphics drivers for my laptop. However due to how the driver manager gives no results, and because Intel has no automatic and convenient method for finding which ones I need to have, I'm lost.

Here is the information I received about my computer from entering inxi -Fc 0 into the terminal:

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System:
  Host: HP-Pavilion-11-x360-PC Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: MATE 1.20.1 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion 11 x360 PC 
  v: 0975100002405F00010420180 serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 2209 v: 57.33 serial: <root required> 
  UEFI: Insyde v: F.08 date: 05/09/2014 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium N3520 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  Speed: 2166 MHz min/max: 500/2416 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 2166 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display 
  driver: N/A 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: fbdev unloaded: modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~76Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-20-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Ralink RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci 
  IF: wls1f0 state: down mac: 9c:ad:97:95:0b:07 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
  driver: r8169 
  IF: ens3 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 64:51:06:ac:dd:20 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 126.77 GiB (27.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500LT012-1DG142 size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 452.41 GiB used: 126.69 GiB (28.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 
  ID-2: /boot size: 704.5 MiB used: 79.2 MiB (11.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 3.89 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 165 Uptime: 3h 28m Memory: 3.75 GiB used: 1.11 GiB (29.6%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.27

[WharfRat]

I'm afraid to answer this after celebrating earlier this morning.

It seems that card is a little peculiar.

See this topic's last answer.

That would be the easiest way to get the intel driver to load.

Otherwise check Intel's site

[WharfRat]

As a last ditch effort for the graphics

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xed admin:///etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

and add these lines

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Section "Device"
       Identifier "Intel Graphics"
       Driver     "intel"
       Option     "NoAccel"   "uxa"
       Option     "DRI"       "False"
       Option     "TearFree"  "true"
EndSection

I'm curious to know if this will work.

If it breaks then run back to windows with my blessing

[Almirage]

Unfortunately it's too late for me to apply those fixes. I'll have to see if I have better luck next time with hardware support.

[Hoser Rob]

I looked at that linked thread in the 1st post and xenopeek isn't actually really saying that you need to install drivers. That thread isn't about Intel video. ANd as mentioned you aren't going to find binary drivers for Intel cards.

ALso I'm not entirtely sure that creating that 20-intel.conf file is going to fix anything but it won't break anything AFAIK.

What I'm concerned about is this from your inxi output:

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Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display 
  driver: N/A 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: fbdev unloaded: modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~76Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5

According to that, you're not using the modesetting driver, which is the Intel driver in Mint 19.x. WHy not? Did you add the "nomodesetting" parameter to your grub file? If so undo that.

It also says youtr OpenGL renderer is llvmpipe. That's not good, you're getting zero 3D video hardware acceleration.

Here's a thread involving thre exact same video, started by one of the most knowledgeable users here. In fact I think it's the only one I;ve seen where he was asking, not answering. And his machine is using the modesetting driver. It'd be worth reading for sure:

viewtopic.php?t=281275