i915 and xorg - how?

stormer · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject: Exactly same output

This is exactly same output. Maybe Xorg-6.8.2-r1 is not patched with suse stuff. I'll try previous this afternoon.

Just a question, as frame buffer I'm using vesafb-tg, should I use i810fb or intelfb with this card?
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Klavs · Guru Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 536 Location: Denmark

Unfortunately I don't use framebuffer - so I have no idea

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stormer · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: Maybe it is frame buffer cause

Maybe the vesafb is the problem, I'll try without frame buffer
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Parabola · n00b Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 54

Well, using 2.6.11.2 and 6.8.2-r1 I still cannot get the i810 X.org driver working.

On the other hand, I was able to get a widescreen VESA mode (1680x1050) working and that is what I will be using for now, until 6.8.3 supports the i915GM.
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Klavs · Guru Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 536 Location: Denmark

I'm an idiot guys.

I just accidently wiped my xorg-x11 - and when I unpacked my package of xorg-x11-6.8.2 it didn't work, which it should have (I thought

I have it running now - and found that I had actually installed a dri driver on top (no package - just plain ugly) - and thats why it works.

So follow the guide on my homepage - http://vsen.dk - I've put a link to where you can the snapshots.
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Parabola · n00b Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 54

ah!! That explains it.

Well, for now this 1680x1050 in VESA mode is just fine, although a bit slow. It'll work until 6.8.3 comes out.
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stormer · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:10 am Post subject: Given a try to XFree 4.5.0

Hi, I tried today XFree86 4.5.0. This time X detected my card, but I endded up whith no DRI. It says it can't find drm devices. In fact /dev/dri/ is empty. Then I noticed an other thing, each time I load X, (Xorg or XFree86) I get an error from kernel saying no more MTRRs. Anyone have this output from kernel.
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stormer · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:16 am Post subject: i8k

Klavs, on your site you say you need to get i8k working. Just add i8k.force to your kernel params and then it workd like a charm Note, I started writing a script to contrôle fans because termal sensors indicates high peek some time, this make your fan switch from level 1 to 2 too fast.
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Klavs · Guru Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 536 Location: Denmark

I have forced it in - but I still couldn't control my fans

If you could detail what you did to stop your fans, I'd be very happy

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Revellion · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject:

for most i8xx family Intel Onboard Graphic cards the Xorg 6.8.2 series fixes the issues. So was the case for me on one of my boxes. it can't hurt to install the xorg 6.8.2 (Note: it's ~x86'ed in portage)
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Parabola · n00b Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 54

stormer · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: Not sure

I'm not a master of i8k, I don't even red the code. But you can find lot of usfull information in /usr/share/doc/i8kutils-1.25/.

First select i8k in kernel:

stormer · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject: Using dri

I've installed dri snapshot as mentionned on Kevs website and install script juste works. I now have /dev/dri/card0. I've compile stable XFree86 4.5.0 and every thing works (I messed up with kbd). Since Gentoo Xorg developper decided to put X11R6 in /usr, it's hard to test other X server. You need to edit /etc/ld.so.conf to find XFree libs first. Same for your path.

Now that it works, I tried tuxrace and Quake3. Both works. Next step was to wath DVD, but I found that this was not possible because I can't get DMA working out of the PHILIPS combo drive. Here is the output from hdparm:

UB|K · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject:

hello guys, thanks to this thread i've managed to get dri working on my new laptop (with i915GM card) but my problem is that, what ever i change in xorg.cong, i get a 1024x768 res so i can't have a widescreen display (my monitor is WXGA 15,4" and it sould run at 1280x800).
Here's a part of xorg.conf:

hicsuget · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Suburban MD

Thanks to Klav's snapshot I was able to get 1680x1050 running. Oddly, though, if I try to load right into Gnome I get some "PCI bus device not found" error message. If I start X using Fluxbox the 1680x1050 comes right up, and then I can start Gnome from within Fluxbox in 1680x1050 without any errors. This is no big deal -- I'm in the process of switching away from using Gnome for other reasons.

I do have some lingering problems with Linux on my Inspiron 6000, though. Whenever I close the lid while Linux is up and running, the screen goes black and refuses to come up again. I have to mash down on the power button a few times to shut down, and that wreaks havoc on my mounted filesystems. I've tried dozens of different kernel configurations with APM and ACPI, but nothing has worked.

Also, Gentoo and Grub see my internal HD as /dev/sda, but Debian sees it as /dev/hda. Any reason why this might be?

And last, I emerged tpconfig to try to get the scroll-thingies on the touchpad to work. When I run it I get a fatal error that says "No Synaptics or ALPS touchpad device found." When I run dmesg I see:

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gentood · Apprentice Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 157 Location: Sweden

What do you guys get on glxgears? Have you been able to enable dri?

stormer · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject: Thanks

Thanks for the clue, I'll try to get information about PIO bus and speed associated to it. For DRI and glx gear I got 1200 frames per second with default size, and near 50 frames when maximize. I'm using XFree86 4.5.0. Quake run fluently, I havent tried Unreal yet. For ALPS I have the opposite message, which is enabling hardware tapping, and that sucks. XFree does not seam to reconize it, and standard conf from kernel is bad.
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stormer · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:28 am Post subject: Still messing with dma and openGL

Hi,

I've not been able to get dma works on cd. It's seems that ide_generic load cdrom before any piix driver and when piix driver load, it end up with a busy error. When I remove ide_generic from kernel, the cdrom is loaded by libata but not assigned to any devices. Any have this working ?

Also, I've tried dri snapshot on Xorg 6.8.2. i810 driver works, dri works, but when I try gl app, it seems that X use mesa non accelerated library.

Thanks for any help,
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VinzC · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:48 am Post subject:

Hi all.

See my post. I haven't been able to use DMA under Window$ either (dual booting). It's stuck in PIO mode. So I would not care too much for the moment. Probably the hardware has no correct drivers yet or does simply not support DMA (conceivable?).

Note I've noticed a tremendous difference between my Athlon XP 1700+ and my laptop when compiling. My laptop ran about 25% faster than my tower.
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djpenguin · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 386

Hey folks, I'm trying to work with this problem as well, on an ASUS Z71A notebook with a 15.4" WXGA screen (1280x800) using 2.6.11-gentoo-r4

So far, I have managed to get Xorg 6.8.2-r1 working only with the vesa driver, and only in 1024x768 mode. I'm still waiting on ASUS to give me the horizontal and vert refresh ranges (since they didn't bother to include that info in the manual) of the panel, at which point I'll hopefully be able to generate some working modelines and coax this thing into displaying the proper resolution.

Incidentally, the 2GHz Dothan chip it carries (running at only 1500MHz according to /proc/cpuinfo) is without question the fastest chip I have ever had the pleasure to work with. Even with only 512MB of memory, it beats the hell out of my 2.53GHz Northwood B with 1024MB memory.