DRI for Intel 855GM

[Stefano Papini]

Hi Bryan,
many thanks for sharing. I've read some perofrmance
issue on new 6.9.0, so I was a bit conservative in
upgrading...

Stefano

--- Bryan Whitmore <f1maybach at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have success on an i915GM using the i810 DRI kit
> from
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/ on top of an
> updated FC4
> installation.  I use 6.8.2 from livna via yum
> update.
> 
> I get acceleration on one display (glxgears ~1200
> fps at 4% cpu), and no
> acceleration on the 2nd display (~700 fps at 100%
> cpu).  I have seen reports
> of up to 1400 fps with this chipset, but your milage
> may vary.
> 
> The intel driver snapshots from the freedesktop.org
> site are packaged with
> an installer, which will build and link the
> kernel-mode modules required for
> direct rendering support.  I only have experience
> doing this on Fedora, so I
> couldn't tell you what is required on other
> distributions.
> 
> I have attached my xorg.conf file, which is not
> pretty but it does work as
> described (on my Dell d610 w/Fedora FC4).  Perhaps
> this will be some help.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bryan
> 
> On 1/17/06, Stefano Papini
> <stefano_papini2003 at yahoo.it> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > sorry for dumb question, but can anybody confirm
> me
> > that DRI for intel 855GM is not supported on
> 6.8.2,
> > and i have to upgrade to 6.9.0/7.0???
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Stefano
> >
> >
> >
> >
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