The old Intel driver works under Ubuntu 14.05 LTS. And you can get them working on newer releases also. [1] The Ubuntu Wiki on this is horribly misinformed and

The old Intel driver works under Ubuntu 14.05 LTS. And you can get them working on newer releases also. [1] The Ubuntu Wiki on this is horribly misinformed and out of date. The gma500 driver included in Linux also works very well, but lacks the accelerated features. [1] https://github.com/EMGD-Community/intel-binaries-linux https://github.com/EMGD-Community/intel-binaries-linux