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#1 2005-07-08 20:21:50

iggy
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From: Germany, L.E. - Leipzig
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no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

hello!

i got a laptop with centrino-system. the chipset is the i855gm. when i start x and do a glxinfo it says "direct rendering: no".
also no sound is playing in games (tuxracer, suptertux). xmms and vlc or other programs can play sounds.
i had a crash a few days ago, so i have to reinstall arch. before that all runs fine, direct rendering and sound in tuxracer.

Here are the important lines of my xorg.conf:

Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Section "Device"
 Driver "i810"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
 Mode 0666
EndSection

modules: i915, drm loaded successfully

xorg 11R6.8.2-3
kernel26 2.6.12.2-1

i have added myself to the audio, optical and video group.


why i have no direct rendering? whats the problem? any ideas?
plz help...

thx iggy
(sorry for my english)


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#2 2005-07-09 01:32:54

iphitus
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

https://iphitus.no-ip.org/configs/xorg.conf

there's my xorg.conf, I have the same graphics as you.

Check to see if root has direct rendering too and make sure you pacman -Syu

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#3 2005-07-09 12:40:52

iggy
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

system is updated.

direct rendering for root? how to make it? is dri not automaticly activated for root?


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#4 2005-07-10 02:51:42

Cerebral
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

iphitus wrote:

https://iphitus.no-ip.org/configs/xorg.conf

there's my xorg.conf, I have the same graphics as you.

Check to see if root has direct rendering too and make sure you pacman -Syu

iphitus: Similar problem, I just installed the cko2 kernel from community and the ati-drivers there, and now I don't get direct rendering either - except root does get it.  What might be the problem here?

-=edit=- I just realized, might this be because of kernel 2.6.12?

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#5 2005-07-10 03:27:59

iphitus
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

If root gets it, but user doesnt, check your Xconfig and make sure you have the dri section in it.

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#6 2005-07-10 03:34:34

Cerebral
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

ip: thanks for the quick reply, but I just found out that, for some reason, after I installed the ati-drivers package, almost every directory it installed a file to ended up chmodded 700, removing all access to anyone but root.  I thought I'd fixed them all, but a couple (specifically, /usr/X11R6/modules/lib/dri/ *facepalm*) slipped past me.  I chmodded 'em back to 755, and I'm all good now.  Sorry to take your time.

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#7 2005-07-11 18:20:15

iggy
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From: Germany, L.E. - Leipzig
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

still no luck! why? ive done all what to do to activate direct rendering.

can it be a bug of the new kernel and/or xorg?

please help me...


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#8 2005-07-11 20:37:07

Pierre
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

You have installed xorg from testing. Turn back to the current version "xorg 11R6.8.2-2". I have the same problem; I have also written a bug-report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/?do=details&id=2917

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#9 2005-07-12 22:29:48

iggy
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From: Germany, L.E. - Leipzig
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

ok, thanks, problem solved.

other problem: direct rendering yes - glxgears more frames - over 1000, but tuxracer and others have the same bad performance!!! sad

any ideas?


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#10 2005-07-13 08:48:16

LB06
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Registered: 2003-10-29
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

iggy wrote:

ok, thanks, problem solved.

other problem: direct rendering yes - glxgears more frames - over 1000, but tuxracer and others have the same bad performance!!! sad

any ideas?

I've had exactly the same problems while using Arch & Ubuntu. After some installs I had very bad performance, while sometimes performance was more than adequate in tux. Both on the same laptop with a i855GM w/ DRI.

Fortunately, this install is one with good OpenGL performance, but I stil haven't figured out what the cause is of this weird behavior.

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#11 2005-07-13 16:41:37

iggy
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From: Germany, L.E. - Leipzig
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Posts: 367

Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

what's up?!?! so i have to reinstall system?! oh no! sad


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#12 2005-07-13 19:24:26

LB06
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

iggy wrote:

what's up?!?! so i have to reinstall system?! oh no! sad

No, I did not say so. I said that some installs work, while others don't. Probably it is some setting that I sometimes do right and sometimes not smile. It's very well possible that it won't work for you at all.

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#13 2005-07-14 06:12:53

iggy
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

ok! so it is our mission to find out the missing or wrong setting! someone has an idea?


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#14 2005-07-15 16:42:34

JGC
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Re: no direct rendering, but why? (centrino - i855gm)

Why would you build from source if we supply a perfect working package in current? The testing version is broken for Intel cards at this moment, the same as ubuntu is, as we used their patches for it.

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