On Friday 27 March 2009 10:17:49 wolfgang.lieb...@siemens.com wrote: > Hi, > I've a (somewhat new) computer with an intel Q35 chipset graphics. > Until yesterday I ran the stable xorg-x11 version, with USE=dri and > USE=opengl enabled. > BUT as soon as I started a program which wanted to do something with > OpenGL (like google earth, amarok with openGL use flag, or just > glxgears), > the xorg-xserver crashed. Absolutely reliably. > > I found a comment about the incomplete support for openGL/dri for i915 > graphic cards in the stable xorg driver, so I upgraded to xorg-x11 7.4 > (with a whole lot of unmasking). > > Now I don't get a crash, BUT still dri don't work (didn't work earlier > on, too - but I have no traces). > > I've loaded the drm module with debug=1, and found the syslog messages > (snipped): > [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5 > and > > [drm:i915_initialize] *ERROR* can not ioremap virtual address for ring > buffer > > In Xorg.0.log I found following warnings and errors: > (WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB > and > (EE) intel(0): I830 Dma Initialization Failed > > I've tried both XAA and EXA - didn't change a thing. > > I've upgraded to 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 - no change. > xdriinfo says: > $xdriinfo > Screen 0: not direct rendering capable. > > BUT: > > $ glxinfo > name of display: :0.0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > > direct rendering: Yes > > What can I do now? > What is going on here??? > > Puzzled, > Wolfgang
I'm not an x11 guru (also strugglimg with x from time to time), but if I understand well, there are important things in last kernels to support intel cards (mesa and kernel must be in sync some way).
