Fix the annoying messages : mei_me

The message look like this, see bellow, the console gets these annoying messages every 5 seconds.

[65.456035] mei_me 0000:00:03.0: reset: connect/disconnect timeout.

 MEI stands for "Intel Management Engine Interface", and it can be disabled from the Bios, or you can I blacklist the module, and if you want you can remove it.

To blacklist the module :

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

and type mei-me and press Ctrl+X to save it.

To remove the module simply type this command, with the power of root :

rmmod mei-me

     

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Intel Graphics Installer tool for Linux

It is rare to find Companies of hardware interested in Linux , well, at least not with Intel , which has recently launched what is known as Intel Graphics Installer, which is a graphical application that Intel itself develops to install the latest version of the Graphic card definition and to make easy to update.

The application is available to work on Ubuntu and Fedora only , and is available for 32 and 64 bits, you can download it from the following link depending on your distribution.

     

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