Ubuntu – Getting drivers to work for intel gma 950

This is a similar situation to what I had with my Intel® 965GM. My system info was also showing my graphics card as unknown in Ubuntu 11.10, and after a while (a few days later I installed Ubuntu 11.10) my Unity 3D was broken. I could be able to select "Ubuntu" but it acted like I was using Unity 2D.

I found out that it is related to OpenGL and I applied this command:

1.Remove NVidia drivers

(I know you didn't install any NVidia drivers, I also didn't install but in my case there were NVidia drivers installed somehow.)

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

2.Remove your xorg.conf

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

3.Reinstall xorg completely

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64

4.Re-configure Xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

5.Restart your computer

sudo reboot

After I applied all of these commands, my Unity 3D was back and when I check system info, this time Ubuntu recognized my Intel graphics.

There aren't drivers to download and install as you would do in Windows. Intel provides open source graphics drivers for some of its GPUs, including GMA4500M. The hardware should be recognized, as you have attested, and work reasonably well, though it's not suitable for any serious gaming.

If you want help with the bugs, post a question with detailed explanations.