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Posted: Feb. 03 2007,10:29 QUOTE
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I think we people with Intel915GM integrated graphics in our laptops need  XOrg6.9+ to stand a chance of getting graphics acceleration.

I think I read somewhere that 855patch/855wrap might get this working with XFree86
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Posted: Feb. 03 2007,19:53 QUOTE
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Anyway, my point in posting this was to say that I remember reading that some systems require X to be built with setuid root. That was xfree86, but i guess it might still apply here.

This is just me guessing, though, as usual. Thought it might apply.

The makefile/build scripts automatically sets setuid.  I even set it manually just to make sure.

However, the problem is due to the console/vt devices in dsl, which I have no real experience with.  (Fails trying to open it, with Permission Denied)
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Posted: Feb. 04 2007,11:19 QUOTE
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855patch/855wrap might get this working with XFree86


If you can dig this up I'd be grateful. The drivers for 915 from  http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ require XOrg6.9RC1  or later to compile - if there's another way ...

BTW that site has statically-linked precompiled binaries for XOrg - I installed them on fedora core 4 so I could build the 915 drivers and get graphics acceleration/direct rendering (fc4 only ever supplied Xorg6.8).

I tried these static binaries on dsl a while ago but didn't seem to run - glibc problem I think. Might work on dsl-n though ??
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Posted: Feb. 04 2007,12:05 QUOTE
Unfortunately, searching on 855patch AND xfree86 AND 915 didn't turn up the article I was thinking of.

I think the 915GM chip has the same problem as the 855GM chip I have, in that the BIOS cannot tell the X-Window manager how much RAM to allocate for graphics.

You could try booting DSL in terminal mode and trying to run 855patch and 855wrap (they are posted in the modules section of the DSL repository) - they will come back with a message about whether your chipset is supported and if you need to use patch or wrap.

If 855patch or 855wrap work then you may be able to get graphics acceleration using XFree86.unc and the i810 and dri modules - it works for me.
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Posted: Feb. 04 2007,16:54 QUOTE
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I think the 915GM chip has the same problem as the 855GM chip I have, in that the BIOS cannot tell the X-Window manager how much RAM to allocate for graphics.
But does it work when you specify it explicity in the xconfig?
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