[opensuse] 10.2 new install - xorg/intel graphics question
My 10.2 boxed set finally arrived, and as it turns out, I just happened to have a new duo-core intel machine to install it. Yast detected everything with no special settings required, and the default 64-bit OS install was quick and easy. In short, everything is screaming fast, and working beautifully, with one exception: Xorg is configured as a frame buffer. The machine has enough horsepower to make that not so painful, but I have a feeling the onboard intel video is capable of much better things - can somebody clue me in on how to unleash the inner beast and get the video performance this thing is capable of? Here is the lspci info on the video: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82946GZ/GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 5354 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at 50100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Memory at 40000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 20e0 [size=8] Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 29 December 2006 23:32, J Sloan wrote:
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In short, everything is screaming fast, and working beautifully, with one exception: Xorg is configured as a frame buffer. The machine has enough horsepower to make that not so painful, but I have a feeling the onboard intel video is capable of much better things - can somebody clue me in on how to unleash the inner beast and get the video performance this thing is capable of?
Is it possible you're seeing the flip side of this bug: <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229365>?
Here is the lspci info on the video:
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Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 29 December 2006 23:32, J Sloan wrote:
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In short, everything is screaming fast, and working beautifully, with one exception: Xorg is configured as a frame buffer. The machine has enough horsepower to make that not so painful, but I have a feeling the onboard intel video is capable of much better things - can somebody clue me in on how to unleash the inner beast and get the video performance this thing is capable of?
Is it possible you're seeing the flip side of this bug: <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229365>?
It may well be the flip side, having a completely different solution. Here's the thing, I'd heard from several sources that the Intel 965 video chips were the best bet for FOSS accelerated 3D graphics. So either the code with the i965 support didn't make it into 10.2, or there is some xorg.conf tweaks to enable the DRI modes this thing is capable of... So, has anybody here got working i965 graphics? By working, I mean full 2D/3D support, and not just a vesa FB mode. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
J Sloan wrote:
My 10.2 boxed set finally arrived, and as it turns out, I just happened to have a new duo-core intel machine to install it. Yast detected everything with no special settings required, and the default 64-bit OS install was quick and easy.
In short, everything is screaming fast, and working beautifully, with one exception: Xorg is configured as a frame buffer. The machine has enough horsepower to make that not so painful, but I have a feeling the onboard intel video is capable of much better things - can somebody clue me in on how to unleash the inner beast and get the video performance this thing is capable of?
It turned out to be trivially easy - I needed only to edit xorg.conf by hand, to substitute the i810 driver for the fbdev driver chosen by yast, and add a line to load the dri module. The resulting video performance, while not quite as fast as with the nvidia cards, is nevertheless quite snappy and usable. The video chipset detection during the install failed here, as it should have been able to provide a default xorg.conf similar to the one I created by hand. Worth a bugzilla? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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