It's time to try 3D acceleration on SuSE 9.1. I'm using an Intel 865G chip, and obtained the i915 driver from Intel's site at http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010512.htm
I should mention that the whole reason I'm attempting to use the i915 driver, not tested by Intel on SuSE 9.1, is that I'm currently using the i810 driver, but DRI isn't working for me. If anyone can guess what the problem might be, based on the attached output, that would be great too. First, some facts:
YaST does report that acceleration is enabled for the card.
My XF86Config file does correctly reference the i810 driver in the "Device" section, as well as enabling the 'dri' and 'glx' modules.
According to http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html , the 'i810' driver is actually the XFree86 server driver, while the DRI/DRM kernel driver is 'i830'. /sbin/lsmod does show this loaded:
I don't know how good the support of the intel family is in XFree86. All major distributions have switched to Xorg, you should try this as well. Xorg is shipped beginning with SuSE 9.2. We have some 865G running with that release and they seem to work fine with DRI. The i810 XFree86/Xorg driver is responsible for all intel chips, so the configuration is fine.
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [...] drmOpenDevice: minor is 14 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999) drmOpenDevice: Open failed
Appearantly, XFree cannot talk to the kernel module. Maybe your kernel
is too old? What does the syslog say?
Matthias
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