i810 DRM not working after xorg-X11 upgrade

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db_404 · Post by **db_404** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:21 am

After the recent version bump in xorg-x11 3D acceleration seems to have stopped working.

Up until that point, 3D acceleration was working pretty well (for an older IBM chipset) - was even running Beryl on it.

Chipset is i810:

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00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)

I see this in xorg logs:

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(II) I810(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.3
(II) I810(0): [drm] created "i915" driver at busid "pci:0000:00:02.0"
(II) I810(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe0271000
(II) I810(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe0271000 to 0xb7a8d000

...which looks like things are going well...
then..

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(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
(II) Loading local sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libGLcore.so
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) GLX: Initialized MESA-PROXY GL provider for screen 0

uh oh - no Beryl for me...

Any thoughts as to where to begin debugging this?

alanic · Post by **alanic** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:41 am

You should post your xorg.conf, I'm pretty sure you should be able to overcome this with editing xorg.conf. I have the same device as you do and some lines I have are:

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Section "Module"
        Load    "dri"
        Load    "glx"
EndSection


Section "Device"
        Option          "NoAccel"       "false"
        Option          "DRI"           "true"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Option          "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode    0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option          "Composite"   "Enable"
EndSection

(clipped irrelevant lines in sections)

db_404 · Post by **db_404** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:51 am

Yes - here's the conf - like I said, this was working until the upgrade, and I made no changes to the config file, so I would imagine that it would still work.

Relevant sections are:

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Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore"
        #InputDevice    "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        Option         "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group 0
        Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "i810"
        VendorName  "Intel Corp."
        BoardName   "82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device"
        VideoRam    67108864
        Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
        Option      "DRI" "true"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

alanic · Post by **alanic** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:14 am

I think you may need to remove the load "glcore" line in modules. edit: if it's actually there of course:)

db_404 · Post by **db_404** » Fri May 18, 2007 2:23 pm

OK - so replying to my own post.

Seems removing the line:

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VideoRam    67108864

Solved at least part of the problem - DRI now loads OK, an glxinfo reports it as working. However Beryl is still a no go as I get screen corruption (mostly of gtk menus on mouse over).

vespaman · Post by **vespaman** » Sat May 19, 2007 1:58 pm

However Beryl is still a no go as I get screen corruption (mostly of gtk menus on mouse over).

This is where I am since a week with my laptop! Well, even worse; after starting beryl, I get mostly empty windows, a resize makes them show as the ought to, but they don't seem to get any input from keyboard and sometimes mouse presses.

Tried also Compiz, but that gives me other (similar) problems.

So, if you (did?) find any solution to this... ...share please!

Edit: 855 chipset on the laptop, 2.6.21 gentoo r1.

Edit2: Thanks to this thead http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-55 ... beryl.html I'm allright now!
It seams xf86-video-i810-2.0.0 is not compatible with Beryl at this point, downgrading did it for me!

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Sun May 20, 2007 11:58 pm

Set VIDEO_CARDS="i810" in /etc/make.conf and emerge x11-drm