GLX Direct Rendering on a Intel 85GME (SOLVED)

nidoranz · n00b Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 16 Location: holland

Ive installed Gentoo on my Toshiba A30. It's working pretty good now, but the main problem i have is that i can't get direct rendering to work on it.
It is a P4m 2400Ghz, it has an Intel 852GME graphics chipset.
I currently use the 3.6.8-gentoo-r3 kernel, compiled with an
I810/815 framebuffer (it doesn't provide a /dev/fb* though),
character devices, /dev/agpgart, intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support,
character devices , Direct Rendering Manager, Intel 830M,845G, 852GM, 865G

I use Xorg-x11 6.7.99.904 (6.8 crashes), using Fluxbox as my WM.
I've tried about everything I could find on the net, but most guides are made for a 2.4 kernel with xfree.

How do i get this thing to work?
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arrruken · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 48

According to Intel's website, the 852GME is your motherboard chipset and not graphics. Are you sure you have Intel Extreme Graphics or is it another company like ATI(which most A30's I found had).
Also, exactly which A30 is it? There are different models.

asph · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:50 pm Post subject:

i also use the i810 driver, and i fixed the dri with a patch called "i915", you have to apply it on the kernel, and then activate it under the agpart menu.. there are some posts on the forums talking about this

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nidoranz · n00b Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 16 Location: holland

It is a Toshiba A30-404. The site says this on the graphics specs: (dutch site, translated a little
# type : Intel® 852GME
# memory size : tot 64 MB
# memory type : DDR RAM (UMA=shared)

I am pretty sure it is an Intel Extreme graphics thingie. I don't tools on the standard windows installation on this thing, but enough Intel Extreme stuff.
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nidoranz · n00b Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 16 Location: holland

What i did was i applied the i915 patch (which didn't went really good, but I got it done), installed it as a module, and recompiled the kernel to get rid of the built-in i810 drivers.
Then i emerged the xorg 6.8.0.

at this point, root could get a 1000fps score. but normal users got a Segmentation Fault.

Then i took a look at /dev/dri/card0. It had a mode of 660. i su'ed and made it 666 and it worked like a charm. Then i put the DRI section in with the 0666 mode and it works great.

Thanks for the help.
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