Comment 9 for bug 669269

@Travis I'm happy to go through whatever investigative steps you feel are necessary, but I don't really know where to start.

Which package maintainers would have disabled OpenGL for this hardware profile? What's the level at which it's disabled, e.g. kernel drivers aren't loaded against the hardware or some X configuration option suppresses it or something else.

Was it a likely a conservative decision, such that if I invest time in specifically configuring the device there's a chance of getting OpenGL active again?

I have a vague recollection that I had Compiz running on this device in Jaunty, and a maverick change would explain this, and also suggests that the hardware itself is capable, even if a regression in Maverick made it wise to disable OpenGL.

I'm having problems with video playback on this device too, which would be explained in the same way - pipelining the pixels through OpenGL is I think how video players can be so responsive so without OpenGL the pipeline doesn't run nearly as smooth.