You might want to check out whats supported by gallium3d, Ubuntu 10.04 uses it as my older laptop has an ati x1400 in it and has been given a new lease on life with this one.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Felix Miata <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrmazda@earthlink.net">mrmazda@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">On 2010/06/11 11:20 (GMT-0400) <a href="mailto:eddyrobert@infomed.sld.cu">eddyrobert@infomed.sld.cu</a> composed:<br>
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> Hello, I am a new user of linux, specially I use ubuntu 10.04. I think it is one of the<br>
> best linux distributions, but i have a serious problem with the recongnition of my video<br>
> chipset and the 3d.<br>
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> My board is an asus p4bp-mx with a microprocessor celeron D 2.13 Mghz and 1 GB of ram and<br>
> the video card is an onboard intel i845G<br></div></blockquote><div><br>i845G is the integrated chipset the Video adapter will read something like I845GM/L or GL ( various models ). <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> The specific problem is that in this case ubuntu as well as any other linux distribution<br>
> is using the driver i915 by default and that prevents me from using the 3d effects or any<br></div></blockquote><div><br>i915 is the Xorg driver for this one, it incorporates all Intel chipsets for video. What might help is an output from your Xorg log to see what its currently doing.<br>
<br>You may need to manually enable dri/dri2 manually to enable 3D support, a quick google shows this may cause instability also seems ymmv.<br><br>Nige<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> program or game that requeires that.<br>
> Is there any way I can have the 3d effects working? , since in windows 7 the 3d works ok,<br>
> what can i do to have them work on Ubuntu 10.04 32 bits.<br>
> I am not an expert in this kind of matters so i hope you can help me with this.<br>
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</div>I have multiple systems with i845G video. As I understand it, most FOSS Intel<br>
driver manpower actually comes from Intel, which has chosen to limit effort<br>
keeping older chipsets working as Xorg technology evolves, in large part due<br>
to lack of working systems available with old chips to perform development work.<br>
<br>
In contrast to Windows, for which drivers once written will continue to work,<br>
drivers for Xorg need to be adapted to its evolutionary changes. Unless<br>
people with older hardware step up with manpower to do the adaptation, people<br>
using older chips will need to stick with older Xorg versions that had<br>
working drivers for the old er chips. Released versions of the latest drivers<br>
for i845G do work as they once did (2D only), just not with the evolutionary<br>
bling (3D) that didn't exist when i845G was a contemporary design.<br></blockquote><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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IOW, if you want modern bling, and cannot assist the Intel developers in<br>
getting your old video chip to work, you need modern hardware. Many<br>
motherboards with i845G onboard also came with an AGP video card slot to<br>
enable bling for those who must have it. Even a PCI video card can suffice<br>
for those who just have to have their bling. As for me, 2D is good enough.<br>
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