I have searched blogs and forums, installed several drivers, but can't find a solution that can provide equivalent video quality as that of Windows 7. Kindly help.
Video quality specially color is too bad while playing with any media player. Configuration details are:
- Ubuntu – 12.04
- Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated
- The results of the following commands are
a) sudo lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
b) find /dev -group video
/dev/fb0
/dev/dri/card0
/dev/dri/controlD64
/dev/agpgart
c) glxinfo | grep -i vendor
server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: ATI
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
d) sudo lshw -C video
*-display:0
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 0c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:44 memory:fea00000-feafffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:efe8(size=8)
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary)
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 0c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:feb00000-febfffff
I have spent days installing various drivers, and then un-installing but can't come up with a solution. Please help.
Best Answer
I have a Dell desktop, running Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity 2D), with a Intel 82865G integrated video and it suffers the same thing.
That being said, I did install the drivers from Stefan Glasenhardt's PPA and the graphic quality of videos improved. Still not 100% but a lot better. Not sure if you had tried these or not; but they did make an improvement for me.
The PPA is: ppa:glasen/intel-driver and details for the PPA can be found at: https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/intel-driver
Hope it helps. If you have tried it; sorry to waste your time.