3d hw accel on intel i810 ... the never ending story

[Oliver Fromme]

I'm sorry for the late reply, I don't read this list very
often.  But better late than never.  ;-)

Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco at giovannelli.it> wrote:
 > Now I ask a thing before I am driving crazy. Is there someone that is
 > succesfully using the i915drm kernel module, i.e :
 > 
 > device          agp
 > device          drm
 > device          i915drm
 > 
 > and is able to have opengl accel working ?

Yes, it works on my notebook.  Actually I don't need opengl
because I'm not a 3D killer game player, and I think those
3D opengl screensaver modes are a waste of battery power.
But I tried to get 3D acceleration working anyway, just out
of curiosity.  :-)

I'm using RELENG_6 (about 6 weeks old), with the agp and
drm sources copied from a CURRENT source tree (8 weeks old).
Maybe those got MFCed to RELENG_6 in the meanwhile, I don't
know (I think Eric Anholt was planning to do that, but I'm
not 100% sure).  But back than I had to copy those -current
sources over.

Other than that, I use Xorg 6.9 and the standard dri and
opengl packages.  No special patches or anything.

I plan to update my notebook to a newer RELENG_6 soon
(maybe next weekend) and try to see whether it now works
without the -current bits.

Best regards
   Oliver

PS:  This is from my boot output:

agp0: <Intel 82915GM (915GM GMCH) SVGA controller> port 0x1800-0x1807 mem 0xb0080000-0xb00fffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xb0000000-0xb003ffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: detected 7932k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 256M
drmsub0: <Intel i915GM>: (child of agp_i810.c) on agp0
info: [drm] AGP at 0xb0080000 0MB
info: [drm] Initialized i915 1.2.0 20041217

For complete dmesg output and Xorg.log, please see here:
http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/dmesg/centaur/

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