[SOLVED] Intel X3100 DRI problems

bhagany · Last edited by bhagany on Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:57 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello all,

I've been working on getting direct rendering working on my Thinkpad T61 for about a week, but I've gotten to the point where I don't really know what to do. As a basic overview, I'm using the latest versions of the tuxonice kernel (with appropriate Intel support), xorg, mesa, and the i810 driver. I am having the same problem detailed here. According to the comments, this bug should be fixed as of i810-2.2.0.90, but I still experience it. Should I reopen that bug?

In an effort to get around this, I came across this forum post that recommended downgrading to i810-2.1.1. I have done this, but now X won't even start. I get the following errors:

dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//i810_drv.so: undefined symbol: ExaOffscreenMarkUsed
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//i810_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "i810" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

I suspect that I need to re-emerge something, but I don't know what. I've already tried re-emerging xorg-server and mesa. What else should I do about this?

Thanks for your help.

edit: Also, just wanted to mention that this last error is very resistant to googling.

d2_racing · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:18 am Post subject:

Can you post your emerge --info and also your /etc/X11/xorg.conf plz.
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bhagany · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:12 am Post subject:

Certainly.

emerge --info

bhagany · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:48 am Post subject:

erikderzweite · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 117

What version of xorg-server do you use? I have x3100 and DRM works all right. I use xf86-video-i810-2.1.1, x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r5, media-libs/mesa-7.0.2 and x11-base/x11-drm is not installed.
Xorg.conf snippet:

bhagany · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

I was using xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r5, mesa-7.0.2, and xf86-video-2.2.x (I tried various versions). I tried to downgrade to xf86-video-i810-2.1.1, but ran into the problem that I stated above, and nobody seems to have an answer to that one. So I went back to the newer version.

Then I tried upgrading to xorg-server-1.4.x, and had another problem with X freezing whenever I hit control, alt, shift, or delete. However, direct rendering worked. I found people were having similar problems when they were using a hardened profile (as I was), so I switched from that to a regular desktop profile. That involved upgrading gcc, glibc, and the whole ball of wax. My system is recompiling now.

By the way, if I'm reading your xorg.conf right, I don't think you're using the i810 driver, but instead the generic intel one. Not that you should change it, if it works.

Carnildo · Guru Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Posts: 465

As far as I know, the 2.2.0 drivers don't provide direct rendering with xorg-server 1.3. You'll want either the 2.1.1 drivers with the 1.3 server, or the 2.2.0 drivers with the 1.4 server. You might also try the 2.2.1_pre20080125 drivers with the 1.4 server.

bhagany · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject:

Yup, my goal right now is to get things up and running with xorg-server-1.4 and the 2.2.0.90 driver. I had it working before, except for the hardened profile problem I mentioned. Unfortunately, the 2.2.0.x drivers don't try to pull in xorg-server-1.4 as a dependency (which is ~ masked); portage is content to leave it at 1.3.

bhagany · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject:

Update: switching profiles worked. I've got direct rendering without any obvious X issues using a desktop profile, and the ~ masked versions of the packages I mentioned before.

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:44 am Post subject:

Great news.
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wyv3rn · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject:

Ran into this myself when moving my old laptop install to new laptop. The dlopen error is caused because i810_drv is being linked bind NOW instead of LAZY, which does not work on hardened profile. You can see this by running scanelf -a on i810_drv.so. You can work around this by using:

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,lazy" emerge xf86-video-i810

I will be opening a bug about this because other drivers are linked for lazy binding and I think this is supposed to be taken care of in an eclass somewhere, but for some reason is not applying to xf86-video-i810.

termite · Guru Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 465

Just to be clear, could you post which version of xorg-server and the i810 drivers you're using? I'm getting my new T61 in a couple of days and would love to the install to be as trouble-free as possible!

wyv3rn · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221121