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Urfaust

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 164

Problem with Intel GMA X4500HD

Hi,

recently I tried to play Duke Nukem 3D, so I installed eduke32 from AUR. Everything worked fine but then I read about the Hi-Res Texture Pack. After downloading and installing the game menu looks like this:

http://omploader.org/vMnlyOQ

O_O

I don't know much about this UXA, KMS, whatelse things so I hope any of you guys knows what is going on. Never had problems with the graphics card before (though I am not really a "gamer"). I have xf86-video-intel installed, other games like TeeWorlds or jDoom work. glxgears also works.

lspci |grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

Any ideas?
Thx in advance!

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Problem with Intel GMA X4500HD

With respect to kernel mode setting (KMS) you may want to look into the wiki

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Int … Setting.29

I have an Intel card too and my experience is that KMS is necessary for the card to work properly with the new xorg-server 1.7 and kernel 2.6.31. I choose the early start method, were "i915.modeset=1" is added to the kernel line and "intel_agp i915" to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (don't forget to "mkinitcpio -p kernel26" after that) and it works really nice.
The good thing with that method is that it is easily disabled, even on the boot prompt, by setting "i915.modeset=0".

Urfaust

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 164

Re: Problem with Intel GMA X4500HD

Thanks, I've read about it but I was not aware that this is needed for playing (OpenGL?) games. I'll give it a try.

EDIT: Enabled KMS but the problem remains.

Last edited by Urfaust (2009-12-11 17:49:09)

Urfaust

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 164

Re: Problem with Intel GMA X4500HD

Other ideas?
AstroMenace isn't working, too. I just get a blank screen but it worked some months ago....
TeeWorlds and Hedgewars are running!?

I just don't know where to look at...:/

Urfaust

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 164

Re: Problem with Intel GMA X4500HD

So I renamed my xorg.conf. I am using KMS right now with no xorg.conf and it still is not working.
glxgears is running and when is close the window with the cogwheels I get:

glxgears 
XIO:  fatal IO error 22 (Invalid argument) on X server ":0.0"
      after 5562 requests (5559 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

glxinfo |grep "direct rendering"
direct rendering: Yes

I found threads in other forums but all these infos seem to be deprecated (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_GMA_X4500HD#Driver_status for example). Am I the only one with this problem?

Last edited by Urfaust (2009-12-19 12:52:54)