Intel Corporation 945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics

[rolyat]

I am kinda of lost. I hav recently bought a new motherboard and it contains this as the video Intel Corporation 945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller. It is a PCI express board but for right now I am just running the integrated video. My question is how do you install a driver for it to get 3D acceleration. Inside the kernel there is no where to check it. I am a complete newb and the old computer I had, had a AGP nvidia card and installing the driver to get 3D working was quite easy. Could someone point me in the right direction to install 3d on this chipset?

[rolyat]

Nobody with similar hardware here is some out put from lspci:

[carl.anderson]

I've got the same card and I'm trying to get hardware accel support. Has this been solved yet?

[madhusker]

x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 installed.

I tried to unmask this and go to 6.8.99 per the above howto link and it wants to ~x86 the entire xorg universe!

I started adding masked packages to package.keywords and gave up after the last one listed here:

#x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86
#x11-apps/setxkbmap ~x86
#x11-libs/libX11 ~x86
#x11-proto/kbproto ~x86
#sys-apps/man ~x86
#x11-misc/util-macros ~x86
#x11-proto/xextproto ~x86
#x11-proto/xproto ~x86
#x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto ~x86
#x11-proto/inputproto ~x86
#x11-libs/libXau ~x86
#x11-proto/bigreqsproto ~x86
#x11-libs/libXdmcp ~x86
#x11-proto/xcmiscproto ~x86
#x11-libs/xtrans ~x86


~ # emerge info
Portage 2203-svn (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python: 2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache: 2.3
dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.ccccom.com"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups curl dga divx4linux dri dts dvd dvdread emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran frontendolny gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut gpm gstreamer gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 isdnlog java joystick jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 mng mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres pppd python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real reflection rtc samba scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev v4l vcd video_cards_i810 vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[...]

according to Intel's release notes for their driver for the Intel Corporation 945G/GZ Express onboard VGA controller, there is no 3D Acceleration support.

[madhusker]

Emerging the new xorg works.

This is my glxgears output. The 621 was before I hit full screen. That puts it about 105 fps at 1600x1200 resolution. No complaints here! This has to be the best integrated video I have ever seen!

The only problem I have in X is that motion video can go 16 color like sometimes. Once it starts doing this it cannot be fixed until restart it seems.

~ $ glxgears
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x25
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x27
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x29
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2b
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2d
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2f
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x31
3108 frames in 5.0 seconds = 621.456 FPS
528 frames in 5.0 seconds = 105.527 FPS
537 frames in 5.0 seconds = 107.206 FPS
528 frames in 5.0 seconds = 105.553 FPS
528 frames in 5.0 seconds = 105.450 FPS
528 frames in 5.0 seconds = 105.558 FPS
547 frames in 5.0 seconds = 109.378 FPS
564 frames in 5.0 seconds = 112.790 FPS
550 frames in 5.0 seconds = 109.981 FPS

[madhusker]

For sake of being complete. You also need CVS DRI to build the i810 module. Also the modline in my config is the key to making the Dell2007 flat panel work. Without that it craps out because the signal does not match the panel (so it says). A normal CRT shows the required 1600x1200 at 60Hz, yet the Dell 2007 says it is out of range. Insert the modline below and viola.

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Dell2007"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "LIRC-Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/lircm"
Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "2007FP"
VendorName "Dell"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Modeline "1280x1024" 108.88 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1060 -HSync +Vsync
Modeline "1600x1200" 160.96 1600 1704 1880 2160 1200 1201 1204 1242 -HSync +Vsync
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel945G"
# Driver "vesa"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Intel"
BoardName "945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Dell2007"
Device "Intel945G"
Monitor "2007FP"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
# Option "Composite" "Enable"
# Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection