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From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:39:16
Message-Id: 200710292131.52928.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more by Philip Webb
1 Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 071029 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
3 > > What versions of Mesa and xf86-video-i810 are you running?
4 >
5 > 'mesa-progs-6.5.2' (latest available).
6
7 Get the one from testing, 7.0.1. But what you need is
8 media-libs/mesa; mesa-progs is just glxinfo/glxgears.
9
10 > 'xf86-video-i810-2.1.0' ( 2.1.1 is in testing (~)).
11
12 Get the newest one, as there's much development in the intel driver.
13
14 > Section "Device"
15 > [...]
16 > Driver "intel"
17
18 Looks good.
19
20 > I tried permutations of Options suggested on Forum posts without
21 > success (I haven't asked on the Forum myself): eg adding 'Option
22 > "DRI" "true"', which seems merely to duplicate "Accel" above.
23
24 The man page of i810 says only NoAccel and DRI exist, and both
25 default to "use it", so your settings don't change anything.
26
27 > I am a bit confused by the requirement for 2 drivers i810
28 > i915 . The same dir has i810_dri.so i915tex_dri.so i965_dri.so
29 > (all from Mesa). Is it using the wrong driver ?
30
31 No, it should auto-detect which of those drivers it needs. It's
32 just that your lib is too old for the newer G33,
33
34 Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>