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#1 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 05:25 PM

I'm installing Current onto an IBM ThinkCentre with an Intel I82865G video
controller. I chose Current beause of Xorg 6.9 that is said to have much
improved support for this chipset. Xorg is running great at 1280x1024 @
24 bpp so the basics are working just fine. I am hoping to get DRI
working since the 2.6.16.27 kernel provides the drm module.

Here's the odd thing. From the log file Xorg says DRI is enabled. When I
run either glxinfo or glxgears, they say it's not. Other than that, I'm
not finding any errors.

I don't know if PV monitors this group, but I am hoping to bring this to
his attention.

If need be, I can post log extracts and extracts from other system
utilities.

- Nate >>

#2 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 05:26 PM

Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I'm installing Current onto an IBM ThinkCentre with an Intel I82865G video
> controller. I chose Current beause of Xorg 6.9 that is said to have much
> improved support for this chipset. Xorg is running great at 1280x1024 @
> 24 bpp so the basics are working just fine. I am hoping to get DRI
> working since the 2.6.16.27 kernel provides the drm module.
>

Presumably you have AGP support running in your 2.6.16.27 kernel?

It's in the character devices section of the kernel configurator...

> Here's the odd thing. From the log file Xorg says DRI is enabled. When I
> run either glxinfo or glxgears, they say it's not. Other than that, I'm
> not finding any errors.
>

That's weird. Does glxgears give you a framerate that would indicate
it's not rendering in the hardware?

> I don't know if PV monitors this group...
>

Beyond what's in the changelog no one knows what Pat does...

#3 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 05:26 PM

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:46:10 -0500, Chris Sorenson wrote:

> Presumably you have AGP support running in your 2.6.16.27 kernel?
>
> It's in the character devices section of the kernel configurator...

I was trying the kernel Pat has in Extra ATM, not custom compiled.

>> Here's the odd thing. From the log file Xorg says DRI is enabled. When I
>> run either glxinfo or glxgears, they say it's not. Other than that, I'm
>> not finding any errors.
>>
>
> That's weird. Does glxgears give you a framerate that would indicate
> it's not rendering in the hardware?

Yes, the frame rate was very low. I know that Debian currently suffers
from a similar problem on this chipset and it is apparently an
imcompatibility between Mesa 6.4 and Xorg 7.0. Since Slackware is using
Xorg 6.9 I presumed it wouldn't be affected by this bug based on the
Debian bug reports.

I have since abandoned Slack on that machine as I didn't want to do a
bunch of compiling to get mplayer working (I gathered packages from all
over the Web and things were starting to look rather fragile). Then it
all broke when I enabled udev in an effort to enable KDE's auto device
discovery so mplayer could play a DVD. So, I don't have the machine to do
further testing on.

>> I don't know if PV monitors this group...
>>
>>
> Beyond what's in the changelog no one knows what Pat does...

I trust Andrea does! :^)

- Nate >>

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#4 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 05:27 PM

Nate Bargmann <n0nb.DO.NOT.SPAM@ME.networksplus.net> wrote:
>>> Here's the odd thing. From the log file Xorg says DRI is enabled.
>>> When I run either glxinfo or glxgears, they say it's not. Other than
>>> that, I'm not finding any errors.

I haven't tried -current myself, but my guess would be that you don't have
the following lines in xorg.conf:

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

> I have since abandoned Slack on that machine as I didn't want to do a
> bunch of compiling to get mplayer working (I gathered packages from all
> over the Web and things were starting to look rather fragile).

The easy way to install a full featured mplayer is to install makepack (
http://makepack.sourceforge.net/ ) and the type "make MPlayer install".
This will download, compile and install:
vstream-client
live555
nas
jack-audio-connection-kit
libgii
libggi
ladspa
xvidcore
libdv
libdts
libtheora
lzo
and of course also MPlayer with codecs.

Versions known to work fine with MPlayer are chosen, however if any of the
above software have already been installed as a Slackware package it will
not be overwritten, not even if it is an older version.

regards Henrik
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