I'm sorry, an Alienware (highly overpriced piece of crap btw) without a dedicated GPU? I find that hard to believe.
Alienware is ment to play games on, and you can not play games properly on a integrated GPU (well except for Dolphin maybe
)
Make sure you are not running some kind of AMD or NVIDIA card, try installing Speccy in Windows and maybe it shows you
If it doesn't show you, then search for your laptop/computer model number on the internet.
As a last resort (if you have a desktop), you can always pull the graphic card directly out of your computer and have a look at it.
If you have a NVIDIA card then download your driver from here (for both Windows and Linux).
If you have an AMD card then download your driver from here (for both Windows and Linux).
Also like lok1 said, first upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04, since it comes with newer drivers for everything, and should be much more stable then 13.10.
13.10 will be unsupported soon anyways.
I would not recommend updating your kernel by the way, I rather have you updating your whole OS. Updating your kernel means some programs may break, since they may rely on certain ways to access parts of your kernel. These ways to access parts of your kernel may have changed, or these parts may have been removed all together. When possible, just stick with the kernel the OS came with, since it was made for it.
Lastly, an explanation about Mesa.
Alienware is ment to play games on, and you can not play games properly on a integrated GPU (well except for Dolphin maybe
)Make sure you are not running some kind of AMD or NVIDIA card, try installing Speccy in Windows and maybe it shows you
If it doesn't show you, then search for your laptop/computer model number on the internet.
As a last resort (if you have a desktop), you can always pull the graphic card directly out of your computer and have a look at it.
If you have a NVIDIA card then download your driver from here (for both Windows and Linux).
If you have an AMD card then download your driver from here (for both Windows and Linux).
Also like lok1 said, first upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04, since it comes with newer drivers for everything, and should be much more stable then 13.10.
13.10 will be unsupported soon anyways.
I would not recommend updating your kernel by the way, I rather have you updating your whole OS. Updating your kernel means some programs may break, since they may rely on certain ways to access parts of your kernel. These ways to access parts of your kernel may have changed, or these parts may have been removed all together. When possible, just stick with the kernel the OS came with, since it was made for it.
Lastly, an explanation about Mesa.