I have a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with 14.04 (my first serious go with linux outside of a server) and oem video drivers installed, but nothing requiring 3d acceleration is working.
lspci | grep VGA
gives me:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)
and lshw -c video
outputs
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:63 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
modinfo i915
gives me this
filename: /lib/modules/3.13.0-51-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
license: GPL and additional rights
description: Intel Graphics
author: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
license: GPL and additional rights
srcversion: EAE574025ED8FCDDFFC9401
... deleted for brevity ...
depends: drm_kms_helper,drm,video,i2c-algo-bit
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.13.0-51-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
I enabled WebGL in Chrome as posted in another question and I get a false positive that everything is working in chrome://gpu
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Flash: Hardware accelerated
Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated
Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
Threaded Rasterization: Enabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
Any guidance would be much appreciated for an ubuntu n00b.