Comment 0 for bug 914631

mesa-utils is required for the GNOME System Settings 'System Info' panel to display info about the computer's graphics card driver. Otherwise a rather unhelpful "Unknown" is displayed. mesa-utils was actually in main already (as part of the mesa source package) until Maverick when it was split off as a separate tarball (mesa-demos) that gets released at the same time and by the same people as the main mesa package.

$ apt-cache show mesa-utils
Package: mesa-utils
Priority: extra
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 148
Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Source: mesa-demos
Version: 8.0.1+git20110129+d8f7d6b-0ubuntu2
Replaces: xbase-clients (<< 6.8.2-38)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libx11-6
Filename: pool/universe/m/mesa-demos/mesa-utils_8.0.1+git20110129+d8f7d6b-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 30286
Description-en: Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities
 This package provides several basic GL utilities built by Mesa, including
 glxinfo and glxgears.
Homepage: http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: mesa-utils 8.0.1+git20110129+d8f7d6b-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.14-generic 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 11 03:16:40 2012
SourcePackage: mesa-demos
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)