From nvidia trying intel video card

joey_g · n00b Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 44

I've been using my nvidia card but it is no longer supported plus it has problems rendering in KDE -- problems I basically gave up on fixing. I want to give intel a try since it's a well understood architecture (I think) and might solve the corruption in KDE artifacts.

I have this video card: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE and i'm confused which driver to use. I know there is the i810, i830 and i915. But which one is right for my video card? I plan to add VIDEO_CARDS="intel" to make.conf and re-emerge xorg-server which will also install x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.1.1. This article helped me a little bit: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA

d2_racing · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:48 am Post subject:

Hi, I think that you need to enable theses 2 :

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:06 am Post subject:

While making d2 racing's changes, also set things up to only use the i915 module. That will make openGL work, even though it's technically not supposed to work with an i830 chipset. I do that with my old Toshiba laptop, and it works like a charm.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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joey_g · n00b Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 44

I'm having problems installing xf86-video-intel-2.1.1. It fails with this message:

In file included from i810.h:58,
from i810_accel.c:55:
/usr/include/GL/glxint.h:28:19: error: GL/gl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from i810.h:58,
from i810_accel.c:55:
/usr/include/GL/glxint.h:95: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'GLboolean'
make[3]: *** [i810_accel.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.1.1/work/xf86-video-intel-2.1.1/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.1.1/work/xf86-video-intel-2.1.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.1.1/work/xf86-video-intel-2.1.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
ERROR: x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 failed.

I have media-libs/mesa installed and I've compiled the intel video drivers from the kernel. It might be related to my nvidia drivers that I unemerged but there were error messages about glx or similar not being removed properly.

astaecker · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject:

Try

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject:

Before you do that, make sure your /etc/make.conf includes the line VIDEO_CARDS="intel" and recompile mesa. Then try xf86-video-intel.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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joey_g · n00b Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 44

The problem was that libglx.so already existed and so mesa and xf86 would not install. So I manually removed libglx.so and the recompile worked fine. Now I'm back in KDE and it's (of course) much slower with composite enabled. And incredibly I still seem to have the same problem: For those of you who use KDE4 with composite enabled is the black kicker or Task Manager really suppose to be a little bit transparent towards the center?